Richard H. Heist

About Richard H. Heist

Richard H. Heist, Ph.D. Dr. Heist is currently serving as Provost at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, MI. Prior to his current position, he served as Interim Dean of Engineering at Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT. In August 2016 he retired as the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He currently holds the honorific title of Senior Vice President, Emeritus, Academic Affairs and Research, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Prior to Embry-Riddle, Dr. Heist served for seven years as the Dean of the School of Engineering at Manhattan College in Riverdale, NY, where he also was Professor of Engineering and Director of the Nucleation Laboratory. Before joining Manhattan College, he spent 26 years at the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y, where he was the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies for the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, as well as a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Center for Nucleation Research. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Rochester, he spent three years as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Chemistry Department at the University of California, Los Angeles working with Professor Howard Reiss. Dr. Heist has a solid record of research and scholarship in nucleation, nucleation-related phenomena, cavitation, aerosols and other ultrafine particles, rare earth ion solid state chemistry, and educational applications of microcomputers. In addition, he has received numerous awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching. He holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University, where his research advisor was Professor Francis K. Fong and his thesis research was in the fields of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics, and a B.A. from Catawba College, where he majored in Chemistry and minored in Physics.

Experience

1. Interim Provost

   Lawrence Technological University

   Jan 2023 — Present · Southfield, MI, US

Education

• Purdue University

  Ph.D.

  1967 — 1971

• Catawba College

  Bachelor of Arts - BA

  1963 — 1967