President 

                        
Dr. Lewis N. Walker 

Lewis N. Walker has served as president and CEO of Lawrence Technological University since July 1, 2006, following five months of service as interim president.

Walker joined Lawrence Tech in 1994 as provost, the University’s chief academic officer. In 2003 he was appointed to the additional role of executive vice president, adding oversight of student services and business activities.

Walker holds three degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia, including the Ph.D. in electrical engineering. A registered professional engineer, he was involved as principal investigator or investigator of numerous research contracts and has organized and presented many short courses and seminars on power system protection and power system dispatch operations. He also helped develop systems to communicate with deeply submerged submarines anywhere in the world.

Walker came to Lawrence Tech from the University of Hartford, which he had joined in 1982 as dean of engineering and professor of electrical engineering, and later also served as special assistant to the president. He has published more than 50 technical papers and has lectured in Brazil, India, Malaysia, Taiwan, and several European countries.

Walker serves as a director of the Detroit Economic Club, the Engineering Society of Detroit, and the Skyline Club of Southfield. He serves on the executive board of the Detroit Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. In 2008 he was appointed by the governor to Michigan's Higher Education Facilities Commission.

He has served as secretary of the board of directors of the Plastics Learning Center, a director of the Southeast Michigan Alliance for Manufacturing, and the Workforce Development Board of Oakland County.  

Earlier, he was president of the Connecticut Society of Professional Engineers, and vice president from the northeast of the National Society of Professional Engineers. He also served as a director of the Greater Hartford Chamber of Commerce; as director of the American Society of Engineering Education and as chairman of the Zone 1 Board of ASEE; and as a director of the Connecticut Pre-Engineering program.

A native of Missouri, Walker and his wife, Nancy, have five children and three grandchildren. One of their sons is a Lawrence Tech alumnus.