Governance

Faculty governance

ASU and Fulton Schools committees and other governance information

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.

Engineering Bylaws

The Engineering Bylaws govern the operation of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU.

Any updates to the bylaws take place through the activities of the Fulton Schools Faculty Assembly.

Assembly of the Fulton Schools of Engineering (AFSE)

The AFSE consists of all faculty who hold a tenured or tenure-track position in the Fulton Schools.

The Executive Committee provides guidance to the dean and feedback to the faculty on governance.

University Senate

The University Senate is the representative body of the Arizona State University Academic Assembly.

All tenured and tenure-eligible faculty, academic professionals, and full-time contract faculty are members.

Fulton Schools committees and councils

Members of ASU and Fulton Schools committees and councils serve the college and university in an advisory, process-making, or hearing role for the continued innovation and progression of the institution.

Learn more about the responsibilities of the Fulton Schools committees and view membership of each in the toggles below.

Considering serving on a committee? Know that an appointment ends on August 15. Inquiries concerning this roster may be directed to [email protected].

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

Paulo Shakarian

SBHSE

Sarah Stabenfelt

SEMTE

Seth Tongay

ECEE

Umberto Celano

SSEBE

Matt Frasier

MSN

Wenlong Zhang

TPS

TBD

Chair: Zachary Holman

Contact: Stacy Esposito [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

Christopher Buneo

Thurmon Lockhart

ECEE

Dragica Vasileska

Andreas Spanias

MSN

Xiangyang Dong

Wenlong Zhang (Fall 2024)

Chao Ma (Spring 2025)

SSEBE

Morteza Abbaszadegan

Kenn Sullivan

SCAI

Sandeep Gupta

Andrea Richa

Yinong Chen (Spring 2025)

Ajay Bansal (Spring 2025)

SEMTE

Daniel Rivera

Jagannathan Rajagopalan

TPS

Abdel Mayyas

Changho Nam (Fall 2024)

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. It also organizes an Inclusive-Excellence Distinguished Seminar / Workshop, which is expected serve both as 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.

Members

Kristen Parrish

Dina Verdín

Deana Delp

Jessica Weaver

Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola

Robert Atkinson

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

Alicia Baumann

Eric Bishop

Mackenzie Boyer

Christina Carrasquilla

Steve Cho

Tessa Etzioni

Soumya Indela

Srinivas Kosaraju

Christopher Lawrence

Ryan Meuth

Vijay Suthar

Faye Tayadon

Amy Trowbridge

Zihuang Wang

Chad Westover

Joshua Wilbur

Haolin Zhu

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

Christopher Buneo

Shaopeng Wang

ECEE

Mariana Bertoni

Michael Goryll

MSN

Xiangfan Chen

Ehsan Dehghan-Niri

SSEBE

Udaya Halabe

Barry Kutz

SCAI

Rida Bazzi

Cheryl Jennings

SEMTE

Kang-Ping Chen

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

Marco Santello

ECEE

Jennifer Kitchen

Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola

MSN

Troy McDaniel

Dhruv Bhate

SSEBE

Giuseppe Mascaro

Richard Standage

SCAI

Yoshi Kobayashi

Kevin Gary (Fall 2024)

SEMTE

Wonmo Kang

Ronald Calhoun

TPS

Asmaa Elbadrawy

Steve Cho

Students

Abhirup Vijay Gunakar

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

James Aberle

MSN

Bruno Azeredo

SSEBE

Keith Hjelmstad

SCAI

Ted Pavlic

SEMTE

Yang Jiao

TPS

Medha Dalal

Students

TBA

Contact: Maggie Olson [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

Barbara Smith

ECEE

Zhaoyang Fan

MSN

Mostafa Yourdkhani

SSEBE

Mike Mamlouk

SCAI

Hessam Sarjoughian

SEMTE

Gokul Pathikonda

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.

Learn more about NFAC

Contact: Kelli Kreger [email protected]

Brickyard building, which houses the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
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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.