Elaine Patricia Scott (born 1957)[1] is an American mechanical engineer and academic administrator, the dean of the Santa Clara University School of Engineering and John M. Sobrato Endowed Professor at Santa Clara University.
Scott's father taught industrial arts (shop) at a high school; her mother was a social worker.
[3] She continued at Michigan State as an assistant professor, jointly appointed in mechanical and agricultural engineering, before moving in 1992 to Virginia Tech as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering.
[3] Shifting to academic administration, in 2001 she became founding director of the Virginia Tech - Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering & Sciences.
In 2006 she moved to the University of Washington Bothell as founding dean of the School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.