Advisory Boards

Warren Bergquist
Cofounder & President
Apex Structural Engineering

Rebecca Cortez
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Union College

Derrick Dean
Professor and Director
Biomedical Engineering
Alabama State University 

Raffaella De Vita
Professor and Associate Department Head
Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics
Virginia Tech 

Josh Dustin
Structures Transition CTT Leader
BR&T Structures Technology
The Boeing Company

Eric Jensen
Chief Executive Officer 
ICEYE US

Tyler Jensen
Studio Leader, High Performance Buildings
Stantec Consulting Services

William King
Professor
Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Andrew Lehrer 
Project Executive
Skender

Brian E. Mitchell
Senior Principal Engineer (CFD & Methods)
GE Aerospace Research

Polly Shrewsbury
Founder and Principal
Tall Poppy Ventures

Aditya Vasan
Member of Technical Staff
Tacit AI

Robert Wagner
Associate Laboratory Director
Energy Science and Technology
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Student Advisory Board (SAB) meetings, which are open to all students in the department and hosted by Pi Tau Sigma, are held twice a year in October and March.