David VandeLinde

David VadeLinde was an American electrical engineer who was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick from 2001 to 2006.

After growing up in St. Albans, West Virginia, where he played football, David attended Carnegie Mellon University on a Hertz Fellowship. This school, “Carnegie Tech” at the time, would not have been within reach for him without the scholarship, and instead he likely would have gone to Rutgers on a football scholarship. Instead, from 1960-1964, he studied electrical engineering and received his bachelor’s in the field.

David’s career brought him to the position of dean of the engineering faculty at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He then moved to the UK to serve as Vice-Chancellor for nine years at the University of Bath. He then moved to the University of Warwick where he saw the school through five years of fast growth.