[3] He rose quickly to become director of the lab and Associate Dean of Engineering at Stanford under Joseph M.

[4] In 1969, Grace took a position at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as the head of the Center for Engineering Research.

[3] He accepted the directorship of the Engineering Experiment Station at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1976, succeeding Maurice W. Long and interim director Thomas E. Stelson.

Grace was instrumental in the name change of the Engineering Experiment Station to the Georgia Tech Research Institute in 1984.

[2] Grace retired in 1992 in order to care for his wife, Joan, who had a degenerative muscle disease.