Civil Engineering
Advisory Board for Civil Engineering
Current Members
Tony Akel, Akel Engineering Group, Inc.
Heather Bashian, Provost & Pritchard
Kassy Chauhan, SWRCB
Todd Goolkasian, Cornerstone
Neva Popenoe, ASCE President
Mike Leonardo, FCTA
Randall Morrison, City of Fresno
Walt Plachta, CEI Engineering
Mark Reitz, AECOM
Luke Serpa, City of Clovis
Moammad Alimi, County of Fresno
Debbie Campbell, FMFCD
Mark Der Matoian, Caltrans
Amer Hussain, Geosyntec Consultants
Michael Jundt, Associated Design & Engineering
Susana Maciel, ACEC Outreach
Esteban Pauli, Pauli Engi.
Rick Ransom (Chair), Brooks-Ransom Associates
Bill Stretch, Fresno Irrigation District
Civil Engineering Program Advisory Board
The mission of the Advisory Board is to assist the Civil Engineering Program achieve its academic mission. The advisory board is comprised of practitioners from consulting firms and government agencies committed to academic excellence in undergraduate and graduate education. Following are some of the primary roles of the advisory board:
- Advise faculty on desired program outcomes, learning objectives, and other educational issues, as constituents representing the community of employers of graduates
- Provide advice on the needs of, and trends within, engineering practice
- facilitate cooperation among individual businesses, community, governmental groups, professional organizations, practicing professionals, and the students and faculty of the program
- Help recruit practitioners to support faculty’s needs for adjunct instruction
- Serve as industry contacts for faculty
- Serve as a lobby group for civil engineering education causes
Membership
The board shall consist of professionals from pertinent Civil Engineering disciplines with experience in the public and private sector. Members are selected and appointed by the Chair of the Civil Engineering Department for a three-year term (renewable).
Meetings
The advisory board meets four times per year (twice every semester). Prior to each meeting, the Chair of the Advisory Board in close consultation with the Chair of the Civil Engineering Department will issue an agenda for distribution to all board members and the Civil Engineering faculty.
