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Graduate Announcements > College of Engineering, Physics, and Computing > Advisory Councils

Advisory Councils

Biomedical Engineering Advisory Council

Diane R. Bienek, Ph.D.	American Dental Association Science & Research Institute
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

Civil and Environmental Engineering Advisory Council

Sassan Aflaki. Ph.D., PE, PMP, ENV SP	Project Manager, District Department of Transportation, Washington, DC
Jon Ellen	Vice-President Davis Construction, Rockville, MD
kevin H. Goudarzi	Structural Engineering, EFI Global, Columbia, MD
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
Daniel Murphy	Assistant Superintendent at Architect of the Capitol, Washington DC
Arash Parham	Director, Clark Foundations
Melissa Prelewicz	Associate Executive Director, American Association of Engineering Societies, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA
Nina Rodriguez, Ph.D., PE, PMP, LEED, AP	Production Operations/Division Director, National Nuclear Security Administration (NSSA), Washington DC
Jeffrey Seltzer	Deputy Director, Natural Resources Administration, DOEE
Ali Shakeri	Project Manager, Infrastructure Project Management Division, District Department of Transportation (DDOT), Washington DC
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

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisory Council

Hamidzadeh Babak, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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
Jose R. Latimer, Ph.D.	Executive for Homeland Protection Mission Area, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD
Joe Logue	Chief Executive Office of Two Six Technologies, Arlington, VA
Chang-Tien Lu, Ph.D.	Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech University, Arlington, VA
Dana Moore	Principal Software Engineer, Leidos, Columbia, MD
Jude R. Nitsche	Nitsche and Associates LLC, Arlington, VA
Scott E. Stickels	CTO, Applied Physical Sciences Corporation, Alexandria, VA
Harold Szu, Ph.D.	Distinguished Retired Scientist, Night Vision Lab, Ft. Belvoir, VA
Donald C. Wunsch	Mary Finley Missouri Distinguished Professor and Inaugural Director
Badri Younes	Kummer Institute Center for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems at Missouri University of Science and Technology and Director of the Applied Computational Intelligence Laboratory (Missouri S&T)

Mechanical Engineering Advisory Council

Tareq Alosh	Associate Intellectual Property Litigation, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
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
Jenna Gietl	Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager, NSWC Carderock
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