The College of Engineering will be under new leadership this fall.

The college announced Andreas Cangellaris its new dean Thursday. Cangellaris will be an interim dean designate until the University Board of Trustees votes on the hiring at its meeting in late July. If approved, he will officially become dean on Aug. 16. Cangellaris will be replacing Michael Bragg, who had been serving as interim dean since July 2012 but will become dean of the University of Washington College of Engineering in July.

“Andreas Cangellaris has shown exemplary leadership as head of his department, in addition to exceptional achievements in education and research,” Provost Ilesanmi Adesida said in a press release. Adesida served as engineering dean from 2005-12. “I am confident that the vision and drive that he will bring as dean will enhance the interdisciplinary scholarship and innovation that characterize the College of Engineering.”

Cangellaris has been the head of the electrical and computer engineering department since 2008 and a part of the Illinois faculty since 1997. Cangellaris earned his doctorate degree in electrical engineering from University of California at Berkeley in 1985 and has been an author or co-author of 250 papers.