College committees and programs

2026-27 committee and program membership

Archival committee rosters (CalNet login required)
Chair of the College of Engineering Faculty: Mary Scott
Secretary of the College of Engineering Faculty: M. Reza Alam

Standing committees

ABET Committee

Co-chair: Clark Nguyen (EDO)
Co-chair: Matt Sherburne (EDO)
Shareena Samson (EDO)
Arpad Horvath (CEE)
Laura Hirschfield (ChemEng)
Anil Aswani (IEOR)
Mary Scott (MSE)
Van Carey (ME)
Igor Jovanovic (NE)
Ana Claudia Arias (ECE/EECS)
Panos Papadopoulos (Aero)
Vicky Garcia (Aero)
Mark Stacey (Env Eng/CEE)

COE Council on Inclusive Excellence

Chair: Rebecca Abergel (Associate Dean for IE)
Clark Nguyen (Ex-Officio)
Oscar Dubon (Ex-Officio)
Chaniqua L. Butscher (EDO)
Lizzie Hager-Bernard (EDO)
Marvin Lopez (EDO)
Meltem Erol (EDO)
Chris Anderson (BioE)
Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos (CEE)
Armando Fox (EECS – CS)
Somayeh Sojoudi (EECS – EE)
Rhonda Righter (IEOR)
Jie Yao (MSE)
Reza Alam (ME)
Peter Hosemann (NE)
Kaylan Piovesan Toussaint (Student Rep)
Linda Ruby Perez (Student Rep)

Engineering Ethics & Social Responsibility

Co-Chair: Zakaria Al Balushi (MSE)
Co-Chair: Dorian Liepmann (BioE)
Reza Alam (ME)
Joshua Apte (CEE)
Clark Nguyen (COE), Ex-Officio
Rhonda Righter (IEOR)
Jaijeet Roychowdhury (EECS)
Raluca Scarlat (NE)
Sarah Yang (COE), Ex-Officio

Graduate Study

Chair: Shawn Shadden (ME)
Clark Nguyen (Ex-Officio)
Meltem Erol (ESS (admin))
Niren Murthy (BIOE)
Baoxia Mi (CEE)
James O’Brien (EECS)
Paul Grigas (IEOR)
Rayne (Xiaoyu) Zheng (MSE)
Bethany Goldblum (NE)
Ilan Adler (Grad Council Faculty)
Sreedurga Cherukamalli (Student)

Undergraduate Admissions

Chair: Oscar Dubón (Assoc Dean for Students)
Clark Nguyen (EAD)
Marvin Lopez (ESS (admin))
Shareena Samson (ESS)
Joey Wong (ESS)
Gerard Mariott (BioE)
Evan Variano (CEE)
Satish Rao (EECS – CS)
Sayeef Salahuddin (EECS – EE)
Anil Aswani (IEOR)
Ken Kamrin (ME)
Ting Xu (MSE)
Raluca O. Scarlat (NE)
Santhusha Mudannayaka (Student Rep)
Thomas Rogers (Student Rep)

Undergraduate Study

Chair: Michael Cassidy (CEE)
Oscar Dubón (Ex-Officio)
Shareena Samson (ESS (admin))
Ian Holmes (BioE)
Dimitrios Konstantinidis (CEE)
Tina Katopodes Chow (CEE – EnvEng)
Dan Garcia (EECS)
Gopala Anumanchipalli (EECS – ECE)
Ken Kamrin (EngSci Chair)
Anil Aswani (IEOR)
Hayden Taylor (ME)
Mary Scott (MSE)
Raluca Scarlat (NE)
Asma Kazmi (BCNM)
Laura Hirschfield (ChemEng)
Eric Paulos (Jacobs)
Jennifer Mangold (Fung)
Rahil Pasha (Student Rep)
William Anderson (Student Rep)
Peggy Pei-Yu Chao (Student Rep)
2 Undergraduate Students TBD

Interdisciplinary studies committees and programs

Aerospace

Chair: Panos Papadopoulos (Aero)
Mark Asta (Ex-Officio)
Derfogail Delcassian (BioE)
Raja Sengupta (CEE)
Behcet Acikmese (EECS, ME)
Victoria Coleman (EECS, ME)
Chiwei Yan (IEOR)
Scott McCormack (MSE)
Michael Sangid (ME)
Karl van Bibber (NE)
Joelle Frechette (CBE)
Mark Mueller (Ex-Officio)

Applied Science and Technology

Chair: Jie Yao (MSE)
Adam Arkin (BIOE)
Michael Zuerch (CHEM)
Boubacar Kante (EECS)
Javad Lavaei (IEOR)
Kyriakos Komvopoulos (ME)
Carl Schroeder (NE)
Na Ji (PHYS)

Art, Technology and Culture

Chair: Ken Goldberg (IEOR)
Gerard Marriott (BIOE)
Eric Paulos (EECS)
Phillip Messersmith (MSE)
Daniel Siefman (NE)

Engineering Science

Chair: Ken Kamrin (EngSci)
Robert Harley (CEE)
David Sedlak (CEE)
Ana Claudia Arias (EECS)
Babak Ayazifar (EECS)
Boubacar Kante (EECS)
Javad Lavaei (IEOR)
Massimiliano Fratoni (NE)
Feng Wang (Physics)
Michael Crommie (Physics)

Ocean Engineering

Chair: Simo Makiharju (ME)
Evan Variano (CEE)
Mohammed Reza Alam (ME)

Ad hoc committees

Jaehne Endowment Committee

Chair: Simo Makiharju (ME)
James Rector (CEE)
Simo Makiharju (ME)

Jane Lewis Award Committee

Chair: Fiona Doyle (MSE)
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi (CEE)
Kenichi Soga (CEE)
Dimitrios Zekkos (CEE)
Gerbrand Ceder (MSE)
Kristin Persson (MSE)
Karl van Bibber (NE)