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College of Engineering and Engineering Technology Faculty and Staff Directory

Leadership

Name Title Phone Email Office
Dave Grewell, Ph.D. Dean 815-753-2256 dgrewell@niu.edu EB 321B
Mansour Tahernezhadi, Ph.D. Senior Associate Dean and Professor 815-753-1279 mtaherne@niu.edu EB 321E
Reinaldo J. Moraga, Ph.D. Associate Dean and Associate Professor 815-753-8048 rmoraga@niu.edu  EB 126

Dean's Office

Name Title Phone Email Office
Dave Grewell, Ph.D. Dean 815-753-2256 dgrewell@niu.edu EB 321B
Matt Baron Director, Marketing and Communications 815-753-0815 mbaron@niu.edu EB 308
Greg Kleinprinz Lab Mechanic 815-753-5079 gkleinprinz@niu.edu EB 278
Emilie Larson Administrative Assistant 815-753-1313 elarson13@niu.edu   EB 321
Carol McFarland McKee, M.S. Ed. Assistant Director Business Services 815-753-0126 cmcfarlandmckee@niu.edu EB 331B
Mike Reynolds Lab Manager 815-753-2278 mreynolds@niu.edu EB 252

Computer Operations Team

Name Title Phone Email Office
Mei Chen Computer Systems Manager 815-753-9978
mchen@niu.edu EB 110
Rana Sanyal IT Support Associate 815-753-1267 rsanyal2@niu.edu EB 114

Office of the Associate Dean - Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Outreach and Diversity

Name Title Phone Email Office
Reinaldo J. Moraga, Ph.D. Associate Dean 815-753-8048 rmoraga@niu.edu  EB 126
Mark Pietrowski, Ed.D. Director, Central Advising Office 815-753-8024 pietrowski@niu.edu EB 134
Gary Smith Director, Outreach and Diversity 815-753-1690 gsmith8@niu.edu EB 306

Office of the Associate Dean - Research and Graduate Programs

Name Title Phone Email Office
Mansour Tahernezhadi, Ph.D. Senior Associate Dean and Professor 815-753-1279 mtaherne@niu.edu EB 321E

Central Advising Office

Second and third-year students are assigned to advisors by the first letter of their last name unless they are undecided in engineering:

Name Title Phone Email Office
Mark Pietrowski, Ed.D. Director (undecided in engineering) 815-753-8024 pietrowski@niu.edu EB 134
Julia Hoelzer , M.S.Ed. Academic Advisor (last names A-Gr) 815-753-8024 jhoelzer2@niu.edu EB 138
Rachel Lower , MSW Academic Advisor (last names P-Z) 815-753-8024 rlower@niu.edu EB 140
Megan Pitner , M.S.Ed Academic Advisor (last names: Gs-O) 815-753-8024 mmpitner@niu.edu EB 142

Electrical Engineering

Name Title Phone Email Office
Donald S. Zinger, Ph.D. Interim Chair and Professor 815-753-0540 dzinger@niu.edu EB 336
Ibrahim Abdel-Motaleb, Ph.D. Visiting Professor 815-753-8570 ibrahim@niu.edu EB 200
Vinay Budhraja, Ph.D. Assistant Professor 815-753-9974 vbudhraja@niu.edu EB 350
Justin Cathey Lab Instructor 815-753-5805 jcathey1@niu.edu  EB 337
Veysel Demir, Ph.D. Associate Professor 815-753-8039 vdemir@niu.edu EB 352
Farzin Ferdowsi, Ph.D. Associate Professor 815-753-3963 hferdowsi@niu.edu EB 348
Benedito Fonseca, Ph.D. Associate Professor 815-753-0557 bfonseca@niu.edu EB 344
Reza Hashemian, Ph.D. Visiting Professor 815-753-9930 reza@niu.edu  EB 302
Venumadhav Korampally, Ph.D. Professor 815-753-9247 vkorampally@niu.edu EB 340
Emilie Larson Administrative Assistant 815-753-1313 elarson13@niu.edu EB 321
Lichuan Liu, Ph.D. Director of Biomedical Engineering and Professor 815-753-9937 liu@niu.edu EB 342
Mansour Tahernezhadi, Ph.D. Senior Associate Dean and Professor 815-753-1279 mtaherne@niu.edu EB 321E

Engineering Technology

Name Title Phone Email Office
Mohammad Saadeh, Ph.D. Department Chair 815-753-3608 msaadeh@niu.edu SG 203
Abul K. M. Azad, Ph.D. Professor 815-753-0386 aazad@niu.edu SH 103A
Liping Guo, Ph.D. Professor 815-753-1350 lguo@niu.edu SH 203C
Theodore J. Hogan, Ph.D., CIH Associate Professor 815-753-9912 thogan2@niu.edu SG 211C
Lorri Marshall Office Administrator 815-753-8269 lmarshall@niu.edu SG 203
Kevin B. Martin, Ph.D. Associate Professor 815-753-1345 kbmartin@niu.edu SH 101
Jonathon Merritt Instructor 815-753-5004 jmerritt@niu.edu SH 203E
William J. Mills, Ph.D., CIH Associate Professor 815-753-5366 wmills11@niu.edu SG 211C
Shanthi Muthuswamy, Ph.D. Professor 815-753-4155 smuthuswamy@niu.edu SH 206
Charles Ruetsche Instructor 815-753-5363 cruetsche@niu.edu SH B05C
Shun Takai, Ph.D. Associate Professor 815-753-0185 stakai@niu.edu SG 300
Mahdi Vaezi, Ph.D. Associate Professor 815-753-9941 mvaezi@niu.edu SH 103B

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Name Title Phone Email Office
Purushothaman (Purush) Damodaran, Ph.D. Interim Chair and Professor 815-753-3172 pdamodaran@niu.edu EB 246
Ehsan Asoudegi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor 815-753-9973 easoudegi@niu.edu EB 238
James Bailey, J.D. Instructor 309-231-0840 jbailey@niiu.edu  N/A
Shi-Jie (Gary) Chen, Ph.D. Professor 815-753-1221 garychen@niu.edu EB 234
Niechen Chen, Ph.D. Associate Professor 815-753-7144 nchen@niu.edu EB 250
Joseph Cross, M.S. Instructor 847-809-0961   jcross2@niu.edu  N/A
Omar A. Ghrayeb, Ph.D. Professor 815-753-0494 oghrayeb@niu.edu EB 321B
Jaejin Hwang, Ph.D. Associate Professor 815-753-9980 jhwang3@niu.edu EB 242
Murali Krishnamurthi, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor N/A mkrishna@niu.edu EB 244
Tracy Mereness Office Manager 815-753-1282 tmereness@niu.edu EB 230
Reinaldo J. Moraga, Ph.D. Associate Dean and Associate Professor 815-753-8048 rmoraga@niu.edu EB 232
Christine Nguyen, Ph.D. Associate Professor 815-753-6748 cnguyen@niu.edu EB 236
Ziteng Wang, Ph.D. Associate Professor 815-753-9971 zwang3@niu.edu EB 240
Jake Young, M.S. Instructor 815-508-3074   jyoung13@niu.edu  N/A

Mechanical Engineering

Name Title Phone Email Office
Tariq Shamim, Ph.D. Professor and Department Chair 815-753-9964 tshamim@niu.edu EB 226A
Sachit Butail, Ph.D. Associate Professor 815-753-9987 sbutail@niu.edu EB 148
Kyu Taek Cho, Ph.D. Associate Professor 815-753-3346 kcho@niu.edu EB 202
Brianno D. Coller, Ph.D. Professor and Undergraduate Director 815-753-9944 bcoller@niu.edu EB 214
Jenn-Terng Gau, Ph.D. Professor and Graduate Director 815-753-1261 jgau@niu.edu EB 218
Hyung Jin Jung, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering N/A

hjung1@niu.edu

 EB 346
Beatrice Kooken Office Manager 815-753-9979 bkooken1@niu.edu EB 226
Milivoje Kostic, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor N/A N/A N/A
Eric M. Lee, Ph.D. Assistant Professor 815-753-1288 elee3@niu.edu  EB 104
Peter Lin, Ph.D. Visiting Professor 630-428-1194 plin2@niu.edu  EB 312
Yueh-Jaw (YJ) Lin, Ph.D. Professor and Director of Mechatronics Engineering 815-753-9970 ylin1@niu.edu EB 316
Nicholas A. Pohlman, Ph.D. Professor 815-753-9913 npohlman@niu.edu EB 216
Ji-Chul Ryu, Ph.D. Associate Professor 815-753-9035 jryu@niu.edu EB 210
Iman Salehinia, Ph.D. Associate Professor 815-753-9965 isalehinia@niu.edu EB 212
Bobby Sinko, Ph.D. Assistant Professor 815-753-9975 rsinko@niu.edu EB 208
Sahar Vahabzadeh, Ph.D. Associate Professor 815-753-9379 svahabzadeh@niu.edu EB 120
Ting Xia, Ph.D. Associate Professor 815-753-1298 txia@niu.edu EB 314
Bo Zhang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor 815-753-0641 bzhang@niu.edu EB 116

NIU Engineering at RVC

Name Title Email
Biermann, Anthony, M.Sc. Adjunct Instructor abiermann@niu.edu 
Larson, Steve, M. Sc. Adjunct Instructor slarson3@niu.edu 
Malkawi, Ghazi, Ph.D. Instructor, Program Advisor

gmalkawi@niu.edu 
Salem, Raed, Ph.D. Adjunct Instructor rsalem1@niu.edu
Zandi, Ben, Ph.D. Adjunct Instructor bzandi@niu.edu

Contact Us

College of Engineering and Engineering Technology
Engineering Building
590 Garden Rd, DeKalb, IL
815-753-2256
ceet@niu.edu