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F. E. Johnson (A´13, F´31) has been appointed dean of the college of engineering of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Since 1935 dean of the college of engineering of the University of Missouri, Dean Johnson was born May 27, 1885, at LeRoy, Mich., and received the degrees of bachelor of arts (1906) and electrical engineer (1909) at the University of Wisconsin. Following a period of employment in substation construction work in the western part of the United States and Canada, he was appointed instructor in electrical engineering at The Rice Institute, Houston, Texas, in 1912. Dean Johnson was appointed instructor in electrical engineering at the University of Kansas in 1915, and became successively assistant professor, associate professor, and professor of electrical engineering. In 1928 he was appointed head of the department of electrical engineering; however, he resigned in the same year to become head of the department of electrical engineering at Iowa State College, Ames. A director of the Institute, Dean Johnson has served during the year just ending as a member of the Institute´s committee on education, electrical machinery, and membership; and as chairman of the committee on student branches. He is Institute representative on the Engineers´ Council for Professional Development.