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
- Provide and access resources for the department, to include serving as a fund-raising body
- Help recruit practitioners to support faculty’s needs for adjunct instruction
- Serve as industry contacts for faculty
- Promote industry support for internship programs
- Support department research activities
- Serve as a lobby group for civil engineering education causes
Membership
The board shall consist of professionals from all pertinent Civil & Environmental Engineering disciplines with experience in the public and private sector. At the advice of the department faculty, twelve members were selected and were appointed by the Chair of the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department for a three year term (renewable).
Meetings
The advisory board will meet a minimum of twice per year, for about one day each time. Prior to each meeting, the Chair of the Advisory Board in close consultation with the Chair of the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department will issue an agenda for distribution to all board members and the Civil & Environmental Engineering faculty.
Advisory Board Members
Amy Blomeke, P.E., GeoEngineers USA ablomeke@geoeengineers.com
Anthony Coviello, P.E., S.E., Iron Engineering tony@iron-eng.com
John Durant, Ph.D., Tufts University john.durant@tufts.edu
Todd Fratzel, P.E., United Construction Corp. Todd@unitedconstruction.com
Marya Gorczya, P.E., Haley & Aldrich mgorczyca@haleyaldrich.com
Geoffrey Grant, P.E., Brown and Caldwell Ggrant@brwncald.com
Charles Head, P.E., P.G, Sanborn Head & Associates chead@sanbornhead.com
Dana Humphrey, Ph.D., P.E., University of Maine danah@maine.edu
Cynthia Klevens, P.E., NHDES Drinking Water & Groundwater Bureau, Cynthia.klevens@des.nh.gov
Tiffany Knapp, P.E., MPA King County Wastewater Treatment Div. taknapp@gmail.com
Gary Lemay, P.E., Gary.S.Lemay@usace.army.mil.
Matthew Low, P.E., Hoyle Tanner & Associates mlow@hoyletanner.com
Denise Markow, P.E., I-95 Corridor Coalition dmarkow@i95coalition.org
Duncan Mellor, P.E., Tighe & Bond DCMellor@tighebond.com
James Mihelcic, Ph.D., University of South Florida jm41@usf.edu
Kathy Murtagh, P.E., Massachusetts Water Resources Authority kathy.murtagh@mwra.com
Charles Pierce, Ph.D., University of South Carolina PIERCEC@cec.sc.edu
Keith Pratt, P.E. Underwood Engineers, Inc. kpratt@underwoodengineers.com
Stephen Ransom, Ransom Consulting Engineers & Scientists sransom@ransomenv.com
Charles Russo, P.E., Consulting Engineer, CJRussoPE@gmail.com
Lynne Santos, P.E., Trinity Consultants lasantos@trinityconsultants.com
Leah Stanton, P.E., Weston & Sampson stantonl@wseinc.com
Laura Thompson, Ph.D., Sappi Fine Paper N. America
Jody Trunfio, The Engineering Corp. jtrunfio@theengineeringcorp.com
Michael Wimsatt, NHDES Waste Management Div. Michael.Wimsatt@des.nh.gov