Steven L. Crouch
Director of St. Anthony Falls Laboratory 1993-1995

Dr. Crouch received bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in mineral engineering from the University of Minnesota (in 1966, 1967, and 1970, respectively). He began his career as a research officer with the Mining Research Laboratory of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa in 1968. In 1970 he joined the University of Minnesota faculty as an assistant professor in what is now the Department of Civil Engineering. From 1987 to 1997 he served as head of that department and in 1997 became the college's associate dean for finance and planning.

Crouch holds the Theodore W. Bennett Chair in Mining Engineering and Rock Mechanics. He was named dean of the Institute of Technology in January 2005.