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]
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.