Industrial Advisory Board
Faculty and Industry Professionals Working Together
The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department's Advisory Board is a group of 26 industry leaders who volunteer their time to support the department. The mission of the Advisory Board is to assist the department in maintaining the excellence of its civil and environmental engineering programs and to encourage the department to continue its commitment to providing its students with "hands-on" engineering education.
The Advisory Board's principal role is to provide advice regarding the civil and environmental engineering program curricula. The Board has also been very successful in the past in securing laboratory donations and raising funds for the two programs. In addition, the Board provides mentoring to those students interested in learning more about the civil and environmental engineering professions.
Since 1999 the Advisory Board has sponsored its own "Professional Advancement Award." Each year, top students in the civil and environmental engineering programs are selected for this award based on scholarship, work experience, professional activities, and community service. Recipients receive a plaque as well as a cash award.
The current Chair of the Advisory Board is Chris Metzger, Vice President of Mott MacDonald.
| NAME | COMPANY |
|---|---|
| Craig Anderson | Anderson Regulatory Solutions, Principal |
| John Blasius | BLS Group LLC, Managing Director |
| Jim Blois | Blois Construction, CEO/President |
| Michael Cannon | Cannon, President |
| Mike Chesney | Transportation Corridor Agencies, Chief Strategy Officer |
| Susanne Cooper | Jensen Design & Survey, Inc., Engineering Manager |
| Richard Dreyer | Holmes Structures, Principal |
| Andrew Fremier | Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Deputy Executive Director, Operations |
| Christy Gabler | North Coast Engineering, Vice President/COO |
| John Gregg | Gregg Dilling & Testing, President |
| Tim Gubbins | California Department of Transportation, District 5 Director |
| Amy Hackney | Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Assoc Principal, Vice President |
| Teresa Herrera | Silicon Valley Clean Water, Asst Manager/Authority Engineer |
| Randell Iwasaki | Contra Costa Transportation Authority, Executive Director |
| Robert Kull | Stratus Environmental, Inc., Principal Engineer |
| Ken Lindberg | Power Engineering Construction, Vice President |
| Jeff Mathieu | Tetra Tech, Vice President and Operations Manager |
| Dale Melville | Provost and Pritchard Consulting Group, Principal Engineer |
| Chris Metzger | Mott MacDonald, Vice President/Area Manager - South Bay |
| Timothy O'Connor | O'Connor Program Management LLC, Managing Partner |
| Cary Ronan | Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, Senior Project Manager |
| Steve Sanders | SAGE Engineers, Inc., President |
| Nate Stong | Rick Engineering, Senior Transportation Engineer |
| Jeffrey Szytel | Water Systems Consulting, Founder & President |
| Vance Truitt | Ashley & Vance Engineering, Inc., President, CEO and Principal Engineer |
| Kari Wagner | Wallace Group, Director of Water Resources |