Dr. Irving Pressley McPhail
Honorary Doctor of Engineering

A native of Harlem, Dr. Irving Pressley McPhail is the sixth president and CEO of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME). Upon assuming the position in 2009, Dr. McPhail articulated a vision for NACME and wide-ranging expectations for necessary changes in education and political institutions to help maintain American competitiveness in a global economy, stating "Increasing the number of underrepresented minority engineering students is not only the right thing to do, but an economic imperative."

He earned an academic scholarship to Cornell University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in development sociology. He holds a master's degree in reading from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He was a National Fellowships Fund Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his doctorate in reading/language arts.

Dr. McPhail served as chancellor of The Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), one of Maryland's largest and most powerful higher education providers, from 1998 to 2005. Under his leadership, CCBC successfully reorganized from three separate community colleges into a single, multi-campus, public college that has benefitted people, families and businesses in the region.

Dr. McPhail also served as president of St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley and president of LeMoyne-Owen College. He has held senior tenured faculty appointments at Morgan State University, Delaware State University, LeMoyne-Owen College and Pace University, and served for one year as chief operating officer of the Baltimore City Public Schools.

Dr. McPhail currently serves on the board of directors and the executive committee of the National Council on Black American Affairs/Northeast Region, an affiliate council of the American Association of Community Colleges, and the board of directors of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Education Foundation. He is a founding member of the National Engineers Week Foundation Diversity Council.

He is married to Dr. Christine Johnson McPhail, managing principal of The McPhail Group LLC, a global higher education consulting practice. McPhail is the father of Dr. Kamilah McPhail McKissick, a board certified clinical psychologist, and the grandfather of Connor Pressley McKissick.

Fnu Maheshdeep
B.S., Electrical Engineering & M.S., Computer Science (G.P.A.: 4.0 in both majors)

Lawrence Chiarelli, J.D.
Interim Department Head, Civil Engineering

(Given by the Polytechnic Institute Alumni Association)

Gisselle Cunningham
Computer Engineering

De Gao
Civil Engineering

Michael Hailemariam
Chemical & Biological Engineering

Jinxiu Li
Computer Science

Kaloyan Marinov
Mathematics

(Given by the Polytechnic Institute Alumni Association)

Mario W. Cardullo '57 BME '59 MME
NYU-Poly Board of Trustees

Michael H. Kappaz '70 B.S.
NYU-Poly Board of Trustees