Congratulations to Amit Kumar, Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, and his wife on the birth of their son, Pragnay (pictured), on December 6, 2019. Heather Shipley, Burzik Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, and her husband welcomed their baby girl, Emily Joy, on January 5, 2020. Congratulations!

Nehal Abu-Lail is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering. Please tell us about yourself.I am a female from Nazareth, Palestine, the eldest of six siblings, five girls all of whom are engineers and a boy who is an applied mathematician. My father was an Arabic teacher and my mom

Congratulations to Chris Combs, Dee Howard Endowed Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department, on the birth of his daughter, Norah, on January 4, 2020! 

Mehdi Shadaram is the Interim Chair for the COE Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and the Briscoe Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Please tell us about yourself.After finishing my undergraduate degree in electrical engineering, I immigrated to the US in 1977 in order to continue my education. After receiving my

Marivel Guerrero is the Business Service Center Manager for the College of Engineering’s Business Service Center. Please tell us about yourself.I grew up in San Antonio, graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School, and received my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from The University of the Incarnate Word. I have the BEST parents. I have a son, who

Carlos Velez is the new Program Coordinator for Outreach and Diversity in the College of Engineering’s Student Success Center. His role is to assist in the retention, persistence, and graduation of College of Engineering students while also supporting the recruitment of underrepresented student populations. Carlos previously worked at Northwest Vista College and Texas A&M-San Antonio