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{{Short description|American academic administrator}}
{{BLP sources|date=June 2017}}
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| title               = [[University President|President]] of [[Olin College of Engineering]]
| term_start          = 1999
| term_end            = June 30, 2020
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| birth_name          = Richard Keith Miller
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| education           = [[University of California, Davis]] ([[B.S.|BS]])<br>[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] ([[M.S.|MS]])<br>[[California Institute of Technology]] ([[PhD]])
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  | fields            = [[Mechanical engineering]]
  | workplaces        = [[University of California, Santa Barbara]]<br>[[University of Southern California]]<br>[[University of Iowa]]<br>[[Olin College of Engineering]]
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  | thesis_title      = The Steady-State Response of Multidegree-of-Freedom Systems with a Spatially Localized Nonlinearity
  | thesis_url        = https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:03052014-104111406
  | thesis_year       = 1976
  | doctoral_advisor  = {{Ill|Wilfred D. Iwan|de}}
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  | awards            = [[Bernard M. Gordon Prize]] (2013)}}
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'''Richard Keith Miller''' is an American engineer who was the founding president of [[Olin College]] since 1999. He stepped down from his role as president on June 30, 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Olin College President Rick Miller Plans to Step Down {{!}} Olin College|url=http://www.olin.edu/news-events/2019/olin-college-president-rick-miller-plans-step-down/|website=www.olin.edu|access-date=2020-05-23}}</ref> His successor will be [[Gilda Barabino]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Olin College of Engineering Names Dr. Gilda Barabino as Its Second President {{!}} Olin College|url=http://www.olin.edu/news-events/2020/olin-college-engineering-names-dr-gilda-barabino-its-second-president/|website=www.olin.edu|access-date=2020-05-23}}</ref> dean of [[Grove School of Engineering]]. Previously, Miller was dean of the College of Engineering and a professor at the [[University of Iowa]].
Miller received a B.S. in [[aerospace engineering]] in 1971 from the [[University of California, Davis]] and an M.S. degree in [[mechanical engineering]] from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in 1972. In 1976, he received a Ph.D. in [[applied mechanics]] from the [[California Institute of Technology]].<ref> {{ cite web | url=http://www.olin.edu/about/board-trustees/president%E2%80%99s-biography/ | title=President's Bio | publisher=Olin College of Engineering | accessdate=October 8, 2013}} </ref>{{Better source|reason=Primary|date=June 2017}}

In 2012, Miller was elected a member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]] for establishing a new paradigm for undergraduate engineering education and establishment of Olin College.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.olin.edu/about/board-trustees/president%E2%80%99s-biography/ Olin bio]
* [http://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/Directory20412/56110.aspx National Academy of Engineering member page]

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