Jan 31, 2012 - Claremont, Calif. -

Malcolm Lewis ’67 was appointed chair of the Harvey Mudd College Board of Trustees during the board’s Jan. 28, 2012 meeting. He is the first alumnus in the College’s history to serve as board chair.

Lewis, who, in 1973, became the first alumnus to join the Board, will succeed retiring Chair William Mingst. Lewis will lead the 36-member board which directs the policies and funds of the College.

”I am deeply honored to be elected to serve Harvey Mudd College in this way,” Lewis said.  “The College is at the apex of its development in its 55-year history, and I am tremendously excited to work with President Klawe, the Board and the College community to implement our strategic vision.”

Lewis is founder of Constructive Technologies Group, Inc. (CTG), which recently merged with The Cadmus Group, Inc., where he will serve as senior vice president.  Lewis is an internationally recognized expert in the design of energy-efficient buildings. He served as a board member of the U.S. Green Building Council from 1997 to 2002, as chairman of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Technical and Scientific Advisory Committee from 2001 to 2009, and currently serves as chairman of the LEED Technical Committee.  In 2011, Lewis was named a LEED Fellow in the inaugural class of fellows.

Lewis has led more than 150 LEED-certified projects and served as the engineer of record for more than 25 million square feet of new construction and renovation projects for the public and private sectors. He has overseen sustainable design projects at a number of colleges and universities, and was the driving force behind the LEED certification of HMC’s Sontag Residence Hall and Hoch-Shanahan Dining Commons.

He has taught architects, engineers and city planners about sustainability, building comfort and efficiency.  He has developed and delivered on-line training on energy efficiency and sustainability for multiple clients.

At HMC, Lewis spoke about the energy crisis at the 2003 Nelson Speaker Series and about sustainability for the HMC 50th Anniversary Conference. He also served as the keynote speaker for Mudd Design Workshop VII, which focused on “Sustaining Sustainable Design.”

In 2008, Lewis and his wife, Cynthia, endowed the Patton and Claire Lewis Fellowship in Engineering Professional Practice, which gives students the opportunity to be mentored by professional engineers in academia and industry.  The fellowship is named in honor of his mother, Claire, and his father, Patton Lewis, a former HMC faculty member and professional engineer.

In 2009, the HMC Alumni Association Board of Governors honored Lewis with its Lifetime Recognition Award.

Founded in 1955, Harvey Mudd College, a member of The Claremont Colleges consortium, is one of the premier engineering, mathematics and science colleges in the nation. Slightly more than 750 HMC undergraduates work closely with 83 full-time faculty to earn the bachelor of science degree in the fields of biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics and interdisciplinary majors that cross these disciplines. An innovative summer research program engages students in funded research each year, and the College is the originator of the Clinic Program, in which outside sponsors utilize the innovation and insight of students to solve real-world problems. HMC educates engineers, scientists and mathematicians who become leaders in their fields and have a clear understanding of the impact their work has on society.