Advisory Board

The Chemical Engineering program has an advisory board that reviews its policies and curriculum and provides suggestions to possible improvements. The current CME board consists of:

1.         Gary Frashier, Ph D, Chair, President, Principal and Founder, Management Associates, gfrashier@gmail.com

2.         Joe Hegyesi (sep51@gvtc.com)

3.         Neal Vail, Chief Technology Officer, Progenerative Medical, Inc., nvail27@gmail.com

4.         Aleisha Knochenhauer, Director of Environmental Services & Sustainability. USA Rare Earth, LLC, aleisha@satx.rr.com

5.         Dennis Parker, Principal, The Parker Group, drparker46@gmail.com 

6.         Sean Drees, Chief Executive Officer, e9 Treatments, Inc., sdrees@electrolabcontrols.com

7.         Michael MacNaughton, PhD, Vice President, Chemical and Chemical Engineering, Southwest Research Institute, michael.macnaughton@swri.org 

8.         Steve Skarke, Vice President, Kaneka Americas Holding, steve.skarke@utsa.edu

9. Ali Cinar, PhD, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Director of the Engineering Center for Diabetes Research and Education, Hyosung S. R. Cho Endowed Chair in Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, cinar@iit.edu

10. Caleb Watson, UTSA Alum, Graduate student, MIT, caleb.watson378@gmail.com

11. Shayma Toujani Mersani, UTSA Alum, post baccalaureate at UTSA, Shayma.ToujaniMersani@my.utsa.edu

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