Board of Directors
Linda A. Thurman, MA
Chair
Director for Student Professional Development and Employer Relations
Advisor and Co-Op Coordinator, College of Engineering Student Professional Development
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Charlotte, NC
Telephone: (704) 687-5024
Email: lthurman@charlotte.edu
Shayne McConomy, Ph.D.
Treasurer
Florida A&M University – Florida State University
M.E. Capstone Design Coordinator
Tallahassee, Florida
Telephone: (850) 410-6624
Email: smcconomy@eng.famu.fsu.edu
Shannon O’Donnell
Immediate Past Chair
Project Manager, Siemens Digital Industries Software
Columbia, Missouri
Email: shannon.odonnell@siemens.com
CIP Director and 2025 CIPD ASEE Annual Conference
Associate Professor of Engineering
Magdalini Lagoudas
CIP Director, CIEC Board – CIP Representative
Executive Director, Industry & Nonprofit Partnerships
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843
Telephone: (979) 862-8321
Email: m-lagoudas@tamu.edu
Mahesh Aggarwal, PhD
CIP Director
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Gannon University, MS 30
Erie, PA 16541
Telephone: (814) 504-3253
Email: aggarwal001@gannon.edu
Ed Borbely
CIP Director
Associate Dean, Interdisciplinary Professional Programs
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706
Telephone: (608) 263-0982
Email: borbely@wisc.edu
Jason Bruns, BSME, MBA
CIP Director
Director, Minnesota State Engineering Center of Excellence
Minnesota State University
Mankato, MN 56001
Telephone: (507) 389-1309
Email: Jason.Bruns@mnsu.edu
Martin Margala, PhD
CIP Director and CIEC 2026 Program Chair
Director, School of Computing and Informatics
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, LA 70504-3649
Telephone: (337) 482-1094
Email: martin.margala@louisiana.edu
Paul Mittan, Professor of Practice
CIP Director
Director, Engineering Leadership Development
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
Telephone: (814) 863-9074
Email: paul.mittan@psu.edu
David I. Spang, PhD
CIP Director and CIP Poster Co-Chair for CIEC 2024
Sr. Vice President & Provost
Rowan College at Burlington County
Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054
Telephone: (609) 894-9311 x-1329
Email: dspang@rcbc.edu
Gregg Warnick
CIP Director
Global Executive & Leadership Development, Sr. Program Manager
Micron Technology
Santaquin, UT
Telephone: (801) 602-6044
Email: gwarnick@micron.com
CIP Director
Associate Dean, Engineering
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
Telephone: (919) 515-5440
Email: Linda_Krute@ncsu.edu
CIP Director
Professor and Associate Dean, Costello Endowed Chair in Engineering
Duquene University
Pittsburgh, PA
Telephone: (412) 396-6373
Email: weix2@duq.edu
CIP Director
Associate Teaching Professor
Wichita State University
Wichita, KS
Telephone: (316) 978-5943
Email: adam.lynch@wichita.edu
Telephone: (785) 766-0574
Email: schakrabarti@me.com