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School of Engineering External Advisory Board

The UC Merced School of Engineering External Advisory Board (EAB) meets regularly with the Dean of Engineering for the purposes of:

  • Assisting the School of Engineering in developing strategic relationships with the engineering and business communities across the state and beyond.
  • Improving the school’s responsiveness to the needs of the engineering profession and those organizations employing the school’s graduates.
  • Identifying and helping implement development programs necessary to ensure that the school can meet its academic and professional goals into the foreseeable future.

Meet our EAB Members

Tom Blair

Vice President, Corporate Engineering
E&J Gallo Winery

Kent Carey

Keysight Technologies (retired)

Mo Deghani

Chancellor
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Lakshmi Hanspal

Gloria Hoefler

VP Research
Pacific Biosciences

Yan Li

VP of Engineering, Silicon Technology & Manufacture
Western Digital Corporation/SanDisk Corp

Christopher S. Lynch

Dean
UC Riverside | Bourns College of Engineering
Eric McAfee

Eric McAfee

Founder, Chairman and CEO
Aemetis

John A. Miller

Associate Director
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

KRS Murthy

CEO
Proton Equity Global
Spike Naryan

Spike Naryan

Director, IBM Science and Technology
IBM Research – Almaden
Tony Oliveira

Tony Oliveira

Consultant
Oliveira Advisory Services

Bradley W. Scheer

Principal and Registered Patent Attorney
Schwegman, Lundberg, & Woessner, P.A.

Keith Vanderveen

Senior Engineer
Sandia National Laboratories