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Kendra Sharp

Kendra Vail Sharp is an American engineer. Since March 2025, Sharp serves as the dean of the School of Engineering at Santa Clara University. Prior to this leadership appointment, Sharp was a professor of mechanical engineering and the Richard and Gretchen Evans Professor in Humanitarian Engineering at Oregon State University College of Engineering.

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Alma mater
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (BS, PhD) University of Cambridge (MPhil) University of California, Berkeley (MS)
Discipline
Mechanical Engineering
Institutions
Oregon State University · National Science Foundation
Sub-discipline
Experimental Fluid Mechanics

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Kendra Sharp

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Kendra Sharp → National Science Foundation, Oregon State University
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Kendra Sharp → University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (BS, PhD) University of Cambridge (MPhil) University of California, Berkeley (MS)
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Kendra SharpDisciplineMechanical Engineering1.00infobox
Kendra SharpInstitutionsOregon State University1.00infobox
Kendra SharpInstitutionsNational Science Foundation1.00infobox
Kendra SharpSub-disciplineExperimental Fluid Mechanics1.00infobox
Kendra Sharprelated to External linksGoogle Scholar0.60section

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