Allan Clemow

Retired, Director of Admissions
Tufts University

Allan Clemow, recently retired at Director of Admissions at Tufts University. He holds an unusual combination of dual roles at the university. A Mechanical Engineer by education, he had been a member of the faculty in the School of Engineering at Tufts since the late 1960's. His teaching responsibilities and research have centered on design education and product design.

He began working with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions in the 1970's to increase the numbers of secondary school students who were applying to and enrolling in the School of Engineering. Since that time Clemow has had increasing responsibility in the Tufts admissions effort while all during that time maintaining a presence in the classroom in engineering as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

Clemow has many years of experience working in admissions and unique experience working with potential engineering candidates and seeing the transition from high school senior to admissions candidate to university student.