William Robert Ferrante (March 9, 1928 – June 14, 2014) was an American educator and college administrator who served for five decades as a professor of mechanical engineering, and administrator at the University of Rhode Island, who was named twice as acting president in 1977 and 1983.
He earned his BS in electrical engineering from Rhode Island State College in 1949, and MS in applied mathematics in 1919 at Brown University.
[1][2] After a brief career beginning in 1962 as a professional engineer with Boeing in Seattle, Washington and with Allis-Chalmers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a brief stint teaching engineering at Virginia Tech, he joined the faculty at the University of Rhode Island in the Department of Mechanical Engineering where he remained for forty years.
He also served as dean of the graduate school and chair of the Faculty Senate.
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