As Provost and Executive Vice President of Oregon State University, Sabah Randhawa oversees OSU’s 11 academic colleges, the Graduate School, the OSU Extension Service, the University Honors College and OSU Extended Campus.

Before taking on the interim provost and executive vice president position, Randhawa served as vice provost for academic affairs. He has been a faculty member at OSU for more than 20 years — much of it in the College of Engineering, where he headed the department of industrial and manufacturing engineering from 1993 to 1999. Randhawa was associate dean of engineering for two years before being named vice provost.

Randhawa is a 1976 chemical engineering graduate of the University of Engineering and Technology in Pakistan. He also has a master’s degree from OSU, and a doctorate from Arizona State University — both in industrial engineering.