ASU is a large academic institution that is ultimately governed by the Arizona Board of Regents. Learn more below about the ASU and Fulton Schools faculty governance.
Faculty governance
ASU and Fulton Schools committees and other governance information
Fulton Schools committees and councils
Description
Shall assist School Directors in matters involving development of research initiatives, research portfolios, identify equipment needs and development of quad charts for centers. Shall interface with FSE Deans Office in identifying and prioritizing research initiatives, serve on university reviews, evaluate emerging centers, understand and help allocate research support and identify faculty expertise across the Schools. Shall interface with OKED on Limited Submission reviews. Shall build Capacity of faculty who understand the research enterprise in FSE/ASU. The committee shall consist of one tenured, or tenure-track, faculty member from each school within the FSE.
Members
SCAI
Gail-Joon Ahn
SBHSE
Vikram Kodibagkar
SEMTE
Matthew Green
ECEE
Umberto Celano
SSEBE
Anca Delgado
MSN
Wenlong Zhang
TPS
Erin Chiou
Chair: Zachary Holman
Contact: Zachary Holman [email protected]
Description
Shall advise the Dean in personnel matters involving promotions, tenure and retention of faculty. The Council shall consist of two tenured faculty representatives from each School within the FSE. The members of the Council are either directly elected by the faculty of their School, or appointed by an elected body, such as the unit’s Personnel Committee. At least one representative of each School should hold the rank of full professor. Alternatively, at least seven members of the Council must hold the rank of full professor. Only a full professor may serve as chair. A member shall not vote on personnel matters involving a member of her/his academic unit. Only full professors may vote on cases of promotion to the rank of full professor. Chairs/Associate Directors/Directors and Assistant/Associate/Vice Deans are not eligible for membership on this council.
Members
SBHSE
Jit Muthuswamy
Chris Buneo
Daniel Rivera
Pedro Peralta
ECEE
Dragica Vasileska
Andreas Spanias
MSN
Chao Ma
Mostafa Yourdkhani
SSEBE
Kristen Parrish
Morteza Abbaszadegan
SCAI
Rong Pan
Sandeep Gupta
Ajay Bansal (Spring 2026)
SEMTE
Daniel Rivera
Pedro Peralta
TPS
Brooke Coley
Nathan Johnson
ASA
Ryan Meuth (Spring 2027)
Contact: Maggie Olson [email protected]
Description
The Dean’s Academic Professional Advisory Council shall advise the Dean on personnel matters involving promotions, continuing status, and retention of academic professionals (as defined in ACD 505-03). A member shall not vote on personnel matters involving a member of the unit in which she/he is employed. The Council shall consist of three academic professionals elected by the academic professionals of the Fulton Schools of Engineering. The council only is convened when a need arises.
Members
The council only is convened when a need arises.
Contact: Maggie Olson [email protected]
The Inclusive Excellence Faculty Advisory Council (IFAC) serves as the primary faculty/committee input to the Fulton Schools Dean concerning policy considerations related to inclusive excellence. As directed by the dean, this may include policy review of current policies and benchmarking of policies within or beyond ASU. It also organizes an Inclusive-Excellence Distinguished Seminar / Workshop, which is expected to serve both as a formal award / recognition for the invited speaker(s) and as an opportunity to advance Inclusive Excellence within the Fulton Schools through the sharing of best practices.
Meet the Inclusive Excellence Faculty Advisory Council.
Contact: Jennifer Bekki [email protected]
Description
The committee is charged with providing the FSE Dean’s Academic Integrity Office with academic integrity feedback. To serve as a pool of members in which panels will be developed in order to conduct student academic integrity hearing appeals. To serve as information conduits within their schools to disseminate and encourage academic integrity best practices.
Membership consists of 15 FSE faculty members appointed annually, for a one-year term, by the Dean’s office (or designee): Additionally, full-time ASU students, who have received an academic integrity policy orientation, will be appointed to serve alongside faculty members on academic integrity appeal hearing boards. Once oriented students may participate on this committee until graduation. Faculty members from the FSE Academic Standards Committee will serve as ex officio members.
The Academic Integrity Officer will coordinate with the Vice Dean to (re)appoint faculty members to this committee in August of each academic year. The Academic Integrity Officer will appoint student membership onto the committee.
Under this charge, if a suitable hearing panel cannot be assembled from the Academic Integrity Committee regular membership or from the ex officio membership the Dean’s office may develop academic integrity hearing appeal panels from any full-time student and any regular member of the FSE faculty assembly.
Members
Ahmed Ewaisha
Alexandra Mehlhase
Ayca Tuzmen
Christina Carrasquilla
Daniel Frank
Deborah Prewitt
Eric Bishop
Erik Trickel
Faye Tayadon
James McDonald
Joshua Wilbur
Kangping Chen
Ming Zhao
Nicolo Michelusi
Soumya Indela
Tessa Etzioni
Zhihua Wang
Zahra Sadri-Moshkenani
Contact: Karen Lund-Dennison, [email protected]
Description
Shall advise the Dean, and the Executive Committee, in matters concerning the enforcement and interpretation of the FSE academic standards as stated in the University catalogs and in FSE policies.The Committee will also recommend to the Dean and the Executive Committee policies and procedures related to scholarships, honors, internships and awards. The Committee shall consist of two faculty members from each of the Schools within the FSE. Faculty representatives must be members of the AFSE. The Dean’s designee for academic and student affairs shall serve as an member of the Committee.
Members
SBHSE
Bradley Greger
Vincent Pizziconi
ECEE
Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou
Mariana Bertoni
MSN
Xiangfan Chen
Ehsan Dehghan-Niri
SSEBE
Tiezheng Tong
Barry Kutz
SCAI
Cheryl Jennings
Rida Bazzi
SEMTE
Gokul Pathikonda
Jian Li
TPS
Jason Bronowitz
Ayan Mallik
Contact: Karen Lund-Dennison [email protected]
Description
The Curriculum Committee shall consider all proposals involving curricular changes or additions within the FSE, and make recommendations to the Dean and the Executive Committee regarding their disposition. General curricular proposals may originate with the Dean or with the faculty in a particular School within the FSE. Proposals involving a specific academic program must originate from within the faculty of that program. The Committee shall meet at least three times each semester, unless otherwise agreed upon by a majority of the committee members. Items referred to the Committee must be considered at its next scheduled meeting. The Committee membership shall consist of two faculty members from each of the Schools within the FSE, and a student representative selected by the ASASU senators of the FSE. The faculty representatives must be members of the AFSE and have at least 20% of their assigned duties allocated to teaching in each of the previous three years. The Dean’s designee for academic and student affairs and a representative of the Maricopa Community College District shall serve as ex officio members of the Committee.
Members
SBHSE
Apollo Arquiza
Deborah Keller
ECEE
Richard King
Yu Yao
MSN
Xiangfan Chen
Troy McDaniel
SSEBE
Giuseppe Mascaro
Richard Standage
SCAI
Dan McCarville
Yoshi Kobayashi
SEMTE
Wonmo Kang
Ronald Calhoun
TPS
Asmaa Elbadrawy
Steve Cho
Contact: Sergio Quiros [email protected]
Description
Shall consider any matters relating to faculty development and the improvement of instruction, including teaching evaluation and selection of awardees for the teaching awards in the FSE. Their recommendations shall be reported to the Dean, the Executive Committee, and the AFSE. The Committee membership shall consist of one faculty member from each School within the FSE, and a student representative selected by the ASASU senators from the FSE. The faculty representatives must be members of the AFSE and have at least 20% of their assigned duties allocated to teaching in each of the previous three years.
Members
SBHSE
Brent Vernon
ECEE
Arindam Sanyal
MSN
Bruno Azeredo
SSEBE
Keith Hjelmstad
SCAI
Janaka Balasooriya
SEMTE
Yang Jiao
TPS
Medha Dalal
Contact: Veronica Handorf [email protected]
Description
The Committee on Review shall assist faculty members and academic professionals in resolving differences over personnel matters· within the purview of the FSE, including performance evaluation. The Committee shall not consider appeals of recommendations made by the Dean’s Advisory Council but shall consider situations for which no regular channels for appeal exist, or after all normal appeal procedures within the FSE have been exhausted. The Committee shall use non-adversarial, factfinding procedures, and will report its findings and its recommendations to the Dean. The committee shall also consider policies and procedures relating to student organizations, safety, welfare, and rights. The Committee membership shall consist of one tenured faculty member from each of the Schools in the FSE and an academic professional selected by the Dean’s Academic Professional Advisory Council. If the Council is not in place at the time when a member is to be selected, then the academic professional representative will be elected by the academic professionals of the FSE through e-mail ballot conducted by the Secretary of the AFSE.
Members
The council only is convened when a need arises.
Contact: Maggie Olson [email protected]
Description
Reviews applications for sabbatical leave and makes recommendations to the Dean. The Committee shall consist of one faculty representative from each school within the FSE. The faculty representatives must be members of the AFSE.
Members
SBHSE
Thurmon Lockhart
ECEE
Zhaoyang (Frank) Fan
MSN
Dhruv Bhate
SSEBE
Michael Mamlouk
SCAI
Stephen Yau
SEMTE
Yi Ren
TPS
Pavlos Mikellides
Contact: Kelli Kreger [email protected]
Description
Shall provide advice and recommendations to the Dean, as representatives of the individual schools within FSE. The executive committee is part of the Fulton Schools Faculty Assembly.
Meet the executive committee members
Contact: Kelli Haren [email protected]
Description
Facilitates the integration of new engineering faculty into ASU by fostering a culture of collaboration and community.
Members
SCAI
Hasti Seifi
Hua Wei
ECEE
Nick Rolston
Arindam Sanyal
SBHSE
Asif Salekin
Feng Yan
Linqin Mu
TPS
Qiaoning Carol Zhang
Cameron Rennacker
SSEBE
Matthew Landsman
Ricardo Eiris
Shiva Pooladvand
MSN
Shenghan Guo
Hyunwoong Ko
ASA
Ayca Tuzmen
Jared Schoepf
Alicia Baumann
Learn more about NFAC
Contact: Kelli Kreger [email protected]
ASU Committees
In addition to Fulton Schools committees, there are ASU committees which serve the university in an advisory, policy-making, or hearing role for the continued advancement of the institution.
To learn more, see the full list of ASU committees on the Provost’s website.