Dr. John Judge was recently appointed as Dean of Engineering at the Catholic University of America, where he has been a faculty member in Mechanical Engineering for the past 13 years. Prior to that, he held a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at the Naval Research Laboratory. Dr. Judge earned his Bachelor of Science at Cornell University (1996) and his Master of Science (1998) and Ph.D. (2002) from the University of Michigan. His expertise is in vibration and dynamics of complex systems, in particular near-periodic structures such as mistuned turbomachinery stages and arrays of micromechanical resonators used for signal processing or ultrasensitive mass detection. He has also conducted research in seismic/acoustic detection of landmines and improvised explosives, acoustic imaging and acoustic propagation, and experimental characterization of structures and systems using acoustics and vibration measurements. His work has been funded by the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Office, the U.S. Department of State, and a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. He has won several awards for teaching including the Catholic University of America Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence. He is a fellow of the ASME.