- Vice Chancellor for Engineering, The Texas A&M University System
- Dean of Engineering, Texas A&M University
- Director of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
- Harold J. Haynes Dean's Chair in Engineering
- Phone: 979-845-1306
- Email: engineeringvcd@tamu.edu
- Office: Zachry Engineering Education Complex (ZACH), Suite 500
Bio
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Dr. Robert H. Bishop ’79 serves as the vice chancellor and dean of the Texas A&M University College of Engineering and director of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station. Bishop graduated with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in aerospace engineering from Texas A&M before earning his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at Rice University. In 1990, he became a faculty member at The University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, where he later held an endowed position and served as department chair. Bishop served as dean of engineering at Marquette University starting in 2010. In 2014, he was selected to lead The University of South Florida’s College of Engineering before returning to Texas A&M in 2024. As an active researcher and scholar, Bishop is a specialist in the area of systems theory, guidance and control of spacecraft, and navigation and estimation theory with applications across a broad range of aerospace challenges. He has extensive experience working for NASA and the Department of Defense. While at the University of South Florida, he founded a non-profit university direct-support organization focused on applied engineering that was awarded more than $100 million in U.S. Department of Defense contracts.