Charles "Chuck" Marstiller Vest (September 9, 1941 – December 12, 2013) was an American mechanical engineer and academic administrator.

He served as president of the National Academy of Engineering from 2007 to 2013, the 15th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1990 to 2004, 7th provost of the University of Michigan from 1989 to 1990, and the 11th dean of the University of Michigan College of Engineering from 1986 to 1989.

[3] Vest received a Bachelor of Science with a major in mechanical engineering from West Virginia University in 1963.

[11] On February 6, 2004, he was appointed to the Iraq Intelligence Commission by President George W. Bush.

Vest was a member of the USA Science and Engineering Festival's advisory board.