Faculty & staff
- Dr. Henry A. McGee Jr.
Founding dean, dean emeritus and professor - E-mail: hmcgee@vcu.edu
- Phone: (804) 828-3636
- Fax: (804) 828-3846
- Address
- 601 West Main Street, Room 434
- P.O. Box 843028
- Richmond, Virginia 23284-3028
About
As founding dean of engineering, Henry McGee led the joint VCU/Virginia Tech project to bring quality engineering education to the metro Richmond area. McGee was educated in chemical engineering and in theoretical chemistry at Georgia Tech and the University of Wisconsin. His professional work in teaching and in research over the intervening years has reflected his dual interest in both science and engineering. He is a scientist, an engineer, a teacher, an administrator and a small-business man. He was on the faculty of Virginia Tech for 23 years, including 10 years as head of the Department of Chemical Engineering.
Immediately before coming to VCU, McGee had served a three-year visiting appointment as a division director at the National Science Foundation. There he was responsible for a portfolio of research support in chemical and mechanical engineering at universities across the U.S. that annually totaled about $40 million. While at NSF, he created a new research program on environmentally conscience manufacuring that was the first such program of federal support for what is now called green engineering.
He frequently is invited to speak before professional groups, and he has published dozens of technical papers in the scientific literature. His most recent book, “Molecular Engineering,” was published in 1991. McGee has received many honors and awards. He was selected as one of 5 founding inductees into the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni at Georgia Tech and later selected to the Engineering Hall of Fame at Georgia Tech.