Dr. David Niño
Faculty Director, MIT Professional Education Technology Leadership Program
Senior Lecturer in the Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program

David Niño, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer in the Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program, where he teaches leadership for graduate engineering students. He is strongly committed to the development of leadership among engineers and other professionals in technology. He is a founding officer of the Engineering Leadership Development Division of the American Society of Engineering Education and is active in national efforts to advance the academic field of engineering leadership.

Prior to MIT, Dr. Niño was a faculty member in the schools of engineering and business at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He was director of Rice’s university-wide program in leadership development and later played a leading role in designing and establishing the university’s first four-year academic certificate in engineering leadership. He also organized a premier international conference on engineering leadership, which garnered participation from the President of the National Academy of Engineering, 28 universities, and leading engineering companies such as Boeing, NASA, and Shell.