Officers

Executive Board

Position	Name	Affiliation	Contact
President	Natalia Cardelino	Mercer University	cardelino_nh@mercer.edu
President-Elect	Anna Howard	North Carolina State University	anna_howard@ncsu.edu
Immediate Past President	David Calamas	Georgia Southern University	dcalamas@georgiasouthern.edu
Vice-President of Programs Unit	Simon Ghanat	The Citadel	sghanat@citadel.edu
Vice-President of Awards & Recognition Unit	M.A. Karim	Kennesaw State University	mkarim4@kennesaw.edu
Vice-President of Publications and Promotions Unit	Chuck Margraves	Univeristy of Tennessee Chattanooga	Charles-Margraves@utc.edu
Treasurer	Charles “Chuck” Newhouse	Virginia Military Institute	NewhouseCD@vmi.edu
Secretary	Sally Pardue	Tennessee Tech University	spardue@tntech.edu
Representative for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	Cecelia Wigal	University of Tennessee Chattanooga	cecelia-wigal@utc.edu

Unit Officers

Programs Unit

Position	Name	Affiliation	Contact
Chair	Simon Ghanat	The Citadel	sghanat@citadel.edu
Vice-Chair & Technical Program Chair	Nancy Moore	NC State University	njmoore3@ncsu.edu
Secretary	Adam Barnes	University of Virginia	ab6uy@virginia.edu

Awards and Recognition

Position	Name	Affiliation	Contact
Chair	M.A. Karim	Kennesaw State University	mkarim4@kennesaw.edu
Vice-Chair	Kweku Brown	The Citadel	kbrown16@citadel.edu
Secretary	Laura Moody	Mercer University	moody_le@mercer.edu

Publications and Promotions

Position	Name	Affiliation	Contact
Chair	Chuck Margraves	University of Tennessee Chattanooga	Charles-Margraves@utc.edu
Vice-Chair	Morgan Green	Mississippi State University	green@me.msstate.edu
Secretary	Rami Haddad	Georgia Southern University	rhaddad@georgiasouthern.edu

Appointed Officers

Position	Name	Affiliation	Contact
Paper Management Platform Coordinator	Todd Schweisinger	Clemson University	todds@clemson.edu
Section Website Coordinator	David Calamas	Georgia Southern University	dcalamas@georgiasouthern.edu
Newsletter Editor	Priya Goeser	Georgia Southern University	pgoeser@georgiasouthern.edu
Proceedings Editor	John Brocato	University of Georgia	John.Brocato@uga.edu
Campus Representative Coordinator	Kenneth Ball	George Mason University	ball@gmu.edu
2025 Host Site Coordinator	Morgan Green	Mississippi State University	green@me.msstate.edu

Division Officers

Professional-Interest Divisions

Bio and Chemical Engineering

Position	Name	Affiliation	Email
Chair	John Brocato	University of Georgia	john.brocato@uga.edu
Vice-Chair	Vacant	Vacant	Vacant
Secretary	Vinayak Vijayan	Clemson University	vinayav@clemson.edu

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Position	Name	Affiliation	Email
Chair	M. A. Karim	Kennesaw State University	mkarim4@kennesaw.edu
Vice-Chair	Geoff Knowles	Bryan College	jknowles3910@bryan.edu
Secretary	Adaline Buerck	Mercer University	buerck_am@mercer.edu

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Position	Name	Affiliation	Email
Chair	Eve Klopf	High Point University	eklopf@highpoint.edu
Vice-Chair	Patrick Martin	Virginia Commonwealth University	martinp@vcu.edu
Secretary	Philip Lee	University of Kentucky	philip.lee@uky.edu

Engineering Graphics

Position	Name	Affiliation	Email
Chair	Stephanie Laughton	The Citadel	slaughton@citadel.edu
Vice-Chair	James Righter	The Citadel	jrighter@citadel.edu
Secretary	Sally Pardue	Tenessee Tech University	spardue@tntech.edu

Engineering Technology

Position	Name	Affiliation	Email
Chair	Andy Pardue	Tennessee Technological University	Bpardue@tntech.edu
Vice-Chair	Dimitra Michalaka	The Citadel	dimitra.michalaka@citadel.edu
Secretary	Daniel Wilson	Clemson University	dwilso9@clemson.edu

Industrial Engineering

Position	Name	Affiliation	Email
Chair	Amro Khasawneh	Mercer University	khasawneh_an@mercer.edu
Vice-Chair	Cecelia Wigal	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	Cecelia-Wigal@utc.edu
Secretary	Mazen Hussein	Tennessee Tech University	mhussein@tntech.edu

Mechanical Engineering

Position	Name	Affiliation	Email
Chair	Nancy Moore	NC State University	njmoore3@ncsu.edu
Vice-Chair	Chandan Roy	Mercer University	roy_ck@mercer.edu
Secretary	Felix Ewere	NC State University	Feewere@ncsu.edu

Special-Interest Divisions

Administrative

Position	Name	Affiliation	Email
Chair	Chuck Newhouse	Virginia Military Institute	newhouseCD@VMI.edu
Vice-Chair	Cecelia Wigal	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	Cecelia-Wigal@utc.edu
Secretary	Beth Todd	University of Alabama	btodd@ua.edu

Educational Research and Methods

Position	Name	Affiliation	Email
Chair	Kweku Brown	The Citadel	kbrown16@citadel.edu
Vice-Chair	James Righter	The Citadel	jrighter@citadel.edu
Secretary	Chandan Roy	Mercer University	roy_ck@mercer.edu

Instructional

Position	Name	Affiliation	Email
Chair	Aaron Smith	Mississippi State University	smith@me.msstate.edu
Vice-Chair	Stephanie Laughton	The Citadel	slaughton@citadel.edu
Secretary	Jennifer Brown	University of Georgia	Jsbrown@uga.edu

Pre-College Engineering Education

Position	Name	Affiliation	Email
Chair	Felix Ewere	North Carolina State University	feewere@ncsu.edu
Vice-Chair	Georg Pingen	Union University	gpingen@uu.edu
Secretary	Sarah Bauer	Mercer University	bauer_sk@mercer.edu

Professional Skills

Position	Name	Affiliation	Email
Chair	Stephen Hill	Mercer University	hill_sd@mercer.edu
Vice-Chair	George Prpich	Prpich@virginia.edu	University of Virginia
Secretary	John Aaron Louis Grimes	Mississippi State University	Agrimes@bagley.msstate.edu

Undergraduate Research and Design

Position	Name	Affiliation	Email
Chair	Michael Potter	Michael.Potter@fmarion.edu	Francis Marion University
Vice-Chair	Adam Barnes	University of Virginia	ab6uy@virginia.edu
Secretary	Kumar Yelamarthi	Tennesee Tech University	kyelamarthi@tntech.edu

Host Site Coordinators

Year	Host Site	Coordinator	Email
2025	Mississippi State University	Morgan Green	green@me.msstate.edu
2026	University of Memphis	Daniel Kohn	dekohn@memphis.edu
2027	Virginia Military Institute	Chuck Newhouse	newhouseCD@VMI.edu
2028	University of Georgia	John Brocato	john.brocato@uga.edu