Professor Scott R. White is the Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1985 and a master’s degree from Washington University, St. Louis, in 1987; both in mechanical engineering. In 1990, he received a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Penn State.

He came to the Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at the University of Illinois as an assistant professor in 1990. Professor White also holds appointments in the Departments of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Materials Science and Engineering. In 2000, he joined the faculty of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology where he leads the Autonomic Materials Group bringing together students and faculty from a broad cross-section of scientific and engineering disciplines.