Former Dean of Engineering and Technology at Alabama A&M University, Arthur J. Bond, died on Dec. 30, 2012. He was 73.

The engineering building at the University was named after him in 2010 for his immense contribution to the University.

Bond retired from the university in 1996.

Before serving as a dean at the A&M University, he worked in private firms and also served as a faculty at Tuskegee University in 1989. He took over as dean in 1992.

Bond served a brief stint in the army before returning to Purdue University in West Lafayette to complete his undergraduate, graduate and doctorate programs. He then served as an assistant professor at the university and then went on to become associate professor at Purdue University-Calumet.

During his college days at Purdue, he urged the management to welcome more blacks and women for the engineering programs.

Bond was the founding adviser of National Society of Black Engineers at Purdue University in 1975.

He is survived by his wife, Carolyn Marie Duvall Bond, sisters Carolyn (Walter) Reynolds, Allison Bond and brother Julius (Sandy) Bond.