Sharon L. Wood is an American structural engineer who was formerly[1] executive vice president and provost of the University of Texas at Austin.
[3][4] Her accomplishments as dean include significantly increasing the number of women both among the faculty of the school and in its students.
[5] She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 "for design of reinforced concrete structures and associated seismic instrumentation for extreme loadings and environments".
[7] She is also a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, which gave her their Alfred Noble Prize in 1993[8] and their Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) Award in Education in 2018.
[5] Hart Energy and their Oil and Gas Investor magazine gave Wood their Pinnacle Award in 2020.