Industrial Advisory Board

Faculty and Industry Professionals Working Together

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department's Advisory Board is a group of thirty industry leaders who volunteer their time to support the department. The current membership roster lists IAB members and their affiliated corporations (below). 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 a "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	Solar Turbines, EHS Director
Robert Bilbro	Bilbro Group Northwest, Inc., President
John Blasius	BLS Group LLC, Managing Director
Jim Blois	Blois Construction, CEO/President
Michael Cannon	Cannon, President
Frank Cechini	Cechini Transportation Management Services, Transportation Operations/ITS Engineer
Mike Chesney	Transportation Corridor Agencies, Chief Strategy Officer
Susanne Cooper	Jensen Design & Survey, Inc., Engineering Manager
Richard Dreyer	Holmes Culley Structural Engineers, 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