Dr. Gary S. May, Dean of Georgia Tech's College of Engineering, was designated as Doctor Honoris Causa of Engineering by the Board of Directors of the Universidad Latina de Panama and received this honorary degree on October 7, 2011. This prestigious award recognizes Dr. May for his "outstanding contribution to mankind in the fields of microelectronics and computer-aided manufacturing of integrated circuits." The Universidad Latina de Panama will host a ceremony to honor Dr. May in October. 

Dr. May was named dean of the College of Engineering on July 2, 1011. He had served as chair of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech for six years. Dr. May joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty at Georgia Tech in 1991 as a member of the School's microelectronics group. His research is in the field of computer-aided manufacturing of integrated circuits. He was a National Science Foundation "National Young Investigator" (1993-98) and was Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing (1997-2001). He has authored over 200 articles and technical presentations in the area of IC computer-aided manufacturing. In 2001, he was named Motorola Foundation Professor, and was appointed associate chair for Faculty Development.

Dr. May was a National Science Foundation and an AT&T Bell Laboratories graduate fellow, and has worked as a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. He is a member of the National Advisory Board of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). His research interests include monitoring, modeling, simulation, control and diagnosis of semiconductor fabrication processes, integrated circuit design for manufacturability, integrated circuit yield modeling, and computer-enhanced education.