Advisory Councils

Biomedical Engineering Advisory Council

Barbara Bregman, Ph.D. Professor, Georgetown University, Department of Neuroscience, Washington, DC
Kevin Cleary, Ph.D. Technical Director, Bioengineering Initiative, The Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC
Diane L. Damiano, Ph.D. Chief, Functional & Applied Biomechanics Section, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Joel B. Myklebust, Ph.D. Deputy Director, Office of Science & Engineering Laboratories, FDA, Silver Spring, MD
Diane R. Bienek, Ph.D. American Dental Association Science and Research Institute, MD

Civil and Environmental Engineering Advisory Council

Dan Herrema, Ph.D. Vice-president, Limnotech, Washington, DC
Hamid Karimi, Ph.D. Deputy Director, Natural Resources Administration, Department of Energy & Environment, Government of the District of Columbia
Dennis McCahill, Ph.D. Retired
Arash Parham Director, Clark Foundations
Melissa Prelewicz Associate Executive Director, American Association of Engineering Societies, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA
Jeffrey Seltzer Deputy Director, Natural Resources Administration, DOEE
Heather Shinn Vice-president, Pearsons, Washington, DC
Scott Stewart Principal, SKandA Structural Engineers, Washington, DC
Gene VanDyck, Ph.D. General Dynamics
William (Bill) Whiting Vice President, The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., Washington DCsenior
Daniel Murphy Architect of the Capital

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisory Council

Ramesh Bharadwaj, Ph.D. Senior Software Technology Researcher, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Tarek El- Ghazawi, Ph.D. Professor, IEEE Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
Hamidzadeh Babak, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Chang-Tien Lu, Ph.D. Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech University, Arlington, VA
Jose R. Latimer, Ph.D. Executive for Homeland Protection Mission Area, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD
Harold Szu, Ph.D. Distinguished Retired Scientist, Night Vision Lab, Ft. Belvoir, VA
Scott E. Stickels CTO, Applied Physical Sciences Corporation, Alexandria, VA
Jude R. Nitsche Nitsche and Associates LLC, Arlington, VA

Mechanical Engineering Advisory Council

Joseph T. (Tim) Arcano, Jr., Ph.D. Technical Director (Retired), Naval Surface Warfare Center/Carderock; Senior Vice President, Engineering and Technology at Link Technologies, Inc., Washington, DC
Gil Crouse, Ph.D. Chief Engineer for Advanced Aircraft Development, Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing Co., Manassas, VA
David Didion, Ph.D. Retired NIST Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Port Republic, MD
Terry DuBois, Ph.D. US Army Communications, Electronics, Research, Development and Engineering Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
Peter Herdic, Ph.D. Sr. Scientist, Naval Research Laboratories, Washington, DC
Don Marlowe Standards Administrator (Retired), Science and Health Communication, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, MD
Peter McKibbin IRAD/Special Projects Manager, Phoenix International Holdings, Inc., Largo, MD
Steven Russell, Ph.D. Project Manager, Ship Systems Engineering, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA
Jaclyn A. Schade Registered Patent Agent, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, McLean, VA
Stephen Wilson Principal Analyst, NTI Corporation; Deputy Director (Retired), Ship Signature Department, NSWC - Carderock, West Bethesda, MD