2024-2025 Committee Assignments & Service Roles

BS Program Committee
Oversees curriculum, including preparation for ABET application; helps problem solve emergent issues; nominates BS students for awards; Oversees Data Science minor courses.

• Chair: Brock Craft
  ​Members: 
  • Arpita B.
  • Alanna Daniels
  • Tyler Fox
  • Charlotte Lee
  • Alan Marks
  • Meghan Oxley
  • Kathleen Rascon
  • David Ribes 

MS/UCD Program Committee
Oversees curriculum; helps problem solve emergent issues; nominates MS students for awards.

• Co-Chairs: Daniela Rosner & Mark Zachry
  ​Members:
  • Gary Hsieh
  • Cayla Key
  • Alex Llapitan
  • David McDonald
  • Kathleen Rascon

PhD Oversight Committee
Oversees curriculum; helps problem solve emergent issues; nominates PhD students for awards.

• Chair: Sean Munson (September - January), Kate Starbird (January - June)
  ​Members:
  • Sucheta Ghoshal
  • Charlotte Lee
  • Nadya Peek
  • Kathleen Rascon

Infrastructure Committee
Monitoring and occasional updating of the space policy; Makes recommendations on updates to space assignments and investment of space improvement; Makes recommendations about department safety updates; Makes decisions on technology investment and development of department makerspaces.

• Chair: Nadya Peek
  ​Members:
  • Katya Cherukumilli
  • Brock Craft
  • Mark Haselkorn
  • Summer Parkes
  • Scott Rivers
  • Alanna Daniels
  • Jane Skau
  • Jennifer Turns

Research & Scholarship Committee
Identifies and implements strategies for promoting and supporting research and scholarship within HCDE; Plans HCDE Distinguished Lecture; Contributes to Research Discussion Seminar.

• Co-Chairs: Gary Hsieh & Charlotte Lee
  ​Members:
  • Sayamindu Dasgupta
  • Shana Hirsch
  • Kate Starbird
  • Crystal Welliver

Faculty Support Committee
Oversees execution of faculty mentoring plan; Reviews the peer teaching evaluation policy; Runs the annual merit review sessions; Nominates faculty for awards; Reviews Merit Review and Promotion & Tenure criteria/process as needed.

• Chair: Sean Munson
  ​Members:
  • Cindy Atman
  • Tyler Fox
  • Stacia Green
  • Julie Kientz
  • Jennifer Turns
  • Mark Zachry

Diversity Committee
Monitors diversity statistics in department; Monitors departmental culture; Engages in projects to support student, faculty, and staff diversity. Elected position(s).

• Chair: Daniela Rosner
  ​Members:
  • Ana Pinto da Silva
  • Alex Llapitan
  • Kathleen Rascon
  • Jane Skau

External Partnerships Committee
Oversee and strategizes on external engagements. Includes contributing to External Advisory Board agenda, liasoning with Alumni Leadership Board. Makes recommendations for Mikey Award and Graduation Speaker.

• Chair: Beth Kolko
  ​Members:
  • Melissa Ewing
  • Leah Findlater
  • Leah Pistorius
  • Daniela Rosner
  • Kate Starbird
  • Mark Zachry

Outreach Committee
Oversee and strategize on department outreach activities, including Engineering Discovery Days, K-12 outreach activities, Broadening participation in research.

• ​Chair: Arpita B
  Members:
  • Katya Cherukumilli
  • Sayamindu Dasgupta
  • Melissa Ewing
  • Beth Kolko
  • Dion Tzortzis