{"id":2375,"date":"2025-07-11T18:32:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T18:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/engineering-new\/?page_id=2375"},"modified":"2025-12-09T22:43:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:43:29","slug":"about-dr-mayfield","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/engineering\/about-dr-mayfield\/","title":{"rendered":"About Dr. MayField"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top card-and-text has-tarleton-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e0c65e34e98090d8d8c44e6ec6fe6923\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 38%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-tarleton-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3164f210df96b94b927c922613183fdc\">Dr. Dwain Mayfield<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"body-text\">Following approval from The Texas A&amp;M University System Board of Regents, Tarleton State University celebrates the naming of its College of Engineering in honor of longtime benefactor, Distinguished Alumnus and retired Lockheed Martin executive Dr. A. Dwain Mayfield. This is Tarleton\u2019s first academic college named for an individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"body-text\">Dr. Mayfield\u2019s insightful vision and generous giving enable Tarleton\u2019s engineering graduates to strengthen communities, fast-track discoveries and explore the never-been-dones \u2014 and not just to earn a degree, but because our regional economy and quality of life depend on it. Texas is among the top 10 states with a growing need for highly skilled engineering and computer science graduates, and the Mayfield College of Engineering is a pipeline to supply them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"body-text\">Dr. Mayfield played a major role in the success of the F-16 fighter jet as an engineer at Fort Worth\u2019s General Dynamics (now Lockheed Martin), advancing to Vice President for Program Development and leading worldwide marketing for the F-16 before his retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"body-text\">He earned an associate degree at Tarleton \u2014 long before there was an engineering degree program \u2014 then his bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in civil engineering from Texas A&amp;M University and a master\u2019s in business administration from TCU. 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