Michigan Engineering Alumni Board

• Ken Alfano IOE ’00
• Nicholas Capicotto ISD MEng ’11
• Brian Castillo ME ’98
• Yuk Chun Chiu ChE ’00, MEng ’01
• Rich Cooper CEE ’91
• Scott Dewicki AERO ’90
• Vazir Fatehi IOE ’10
• Janice Falzon IOE ’99
• Kevin Fok ChE ’96
• Richard Furness ME ’87, PhD ME ’92
• Matthew Gerow ME ’12, MSE ME ’13
• Hannah Goldberg EE ’03, MS EE ’04
• Ira Goldberg ME ’12
• Angela Harris ChE ’03, MSE ChE ’08
• Jonathan Holbert NAME ’14, MSE NAME ’15
• Jessica Jones MSE AERO ’13, PhD ’17
• Jeff Klass ECE ’97
• Jasmine LaFlore AERO ’15
• Tom Kilavos ME ’95
• Melissa Koob CEE ’96
• Deborah Mielewski ChE ’86, PhD ChE ’98
• Beth McBride Earth Systems ’12
• Tom Maslyk CSE ’80
• Janeta Nikolovski Munie ChE ’95, M.S. BME ’96, Ph.D. BME ’02
• Furqan Nazeeri AERO ’94
• Chris Peltz ECE ’92
• Will Roberts IOE ’21
• Chandra Shukla IOE ’18
• Andy Swiecki ME ’92
• Jeff Sweitzer IOE ’03
• Kim Weninger ChE ’94

Subcommittee Chairs – Janice Falzon & Nicholas Capicotto

The goal of the Membership Committee is to facilitate the nomination, selection, onboarding, and off-boarding process of Board members. This group will help to ensure the Board represents the entire alumni body and is actively engaged.

Members are expected to attend at least one meeting a year and quarterly conference calls as a minimum. Also, all members are to serve on at least one committee, which will meet independently of the full board to fulfill its goals; these meetings are generally teleconferences. Members must cover their own travel expenses.

Subcommittee Chairs – Melissa Koob & Scott Siegmund

The goal of this committee is to help students make informed decisions when declaring their majors. To that end, the committee will support the many initiatives currently underway at the College of Engineering to educate undeclared students about each of the departments.  

Subcommittee Chair – Jeff Klass

Experiential learning opportunities have been described as important in higher-education contexts for many years as these opportunities have been linked to better career placement and recruitment and retention efforts. Experiential learning opportunities have also been identified as a key pedagogical feature of engineering education as noted in the recent MIT report – The Global State of the Art in Engineering Education and others. This emphasis may stem from experiential education’s alignment with engineering design education efforts, its potential to support the development of professional competencies, or its ability to produce more innovative, career-ready engineers.

This committee’s goals are to:

• Support efforts connected to professional competencies development
• Expand and update alumni profiles on the Immersed website.
• Professional competency development through mentoring opportunities, and advice on the implementation of a professional competencies app (Spire).

Subcommittee Chair – Kim Weninger (MEAB Chair)

This committee’s goal is to integrate the MEAB’s work into the College’s visions and mission and to sustain that focus at all times. This subcommittee is comprised of all MEAB officers and subcommittee chairs.

Subcommittee Chair – Chris Herringshaw

This committee’s goal is to recognize outstanding alumni achievements. Early each calendar year, the committee will oversee the advertising for nominations, the process for collecting and reviewing nominations, and the preparations needed for the awards ceremony.