Dr. James Woodward is an aeronautical engineer, professor, and past chancellor of University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Upon receiving his degree he taught as an Associate Professor of Engineering Mechanics at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
[1] In 1968 Woodward moved his family back down south and began teaching at North Carolina State University.
In 1969 he accepted a tenured position at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he would eventually serve as the Dean of the School of Engineering and the Senior Vice President.
In 2009 the UNC System asked Woodward to be the Interim Chancellor of NC State University.