Engineering Science Advisory Board (ESAB)

The local industries, businesses and community support and collaborate with the department in fulfilling its educational mission through an Engineering Science Advisory Board (ESAB). The mission of the ESAB is to advise and assist the Engineering Science Department in achieving excellence in teaching, research and development, promoting technology education in the North Bay region of San Francisco area at all educational levels and enhancing interaction and collaboration with the local industries, businesses and community.

The ES Advisory Board helps the ES Department plan and launch new degree programs such as a program in the area of biotechnology. Periodically, the Board will advise the ES Department regarding its future directions, educational needs of the industry, foster collaboration between academia and local industries to enhance R&D efforts, and other similar tasks of mutual interest. The following tables list the current members of ESAB.

Members of the ES Advisory Board
Company Name Position
Agilent Technologies Mark Pierpoint VP
Agilent Technologies Kenn Wildnauer Business Technology Manager
Alcatel David Carballal CEO, Petaluma Division
Bookham Technology Mark Kozlowski Director, Product Development
Buck Institute for Age Research Remi Gross VP
Calix Networks Tim Church Director, DV&T
Dilithium Networks Unmesh Mehta VP, Worldwide Engineering
Economic Development Board/SC Ben Stone Executive Director
Kaiser Permanente SR Bob Schultz Physician in Chief
Kaiser Permanente SR Judy Coffey Senior VP
L-3 Sonoma EO Che Voight President
Sonoma Mountain Business Cluster Michael Newell Executive Director
Santa Rosa Junior College Robert Agrella President
Department of Education/SC Carl Wong Superintendent
Symmetricom John Dutil VP
Teknovus Ed Boyd VP, Engineering
Tellabs Jim Sackman VP & CTO
Community Members
  Ajaib Bhadare  
  Tom Corker  
  Jerry Gladstone  
Sonoma State
  Saeid Rahimi Dean, School of Science & Technology
  Jagan Agrawal Chairman, ES Department

 

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