Dean’s Advisory Board Members
Amy Abouelenein*
(Chemical Engineering ’89)
VP, Innovation, Technology and Quality, EUAU and ASLA
General Mills
James R. Anderson*
(Electrical Engineering '95)
President and CEO
Lattice Semiconductor
Krzysztof Burhardt*
(Electrical Engineering Ph.D. ’71)
Retired Partner
Clotho & Associates
Ronald L. Christenson, Chair Emeritus*
(Mechanical Engineering ’72)
Retired Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Cargill Inc.
Michael Connly*
(Mechanical Engineering ’83)
Retired Chief Information Officer
Optum/United Health Group
Edward Cunnington*
(Business Administration ’70, MBA ’71)
Retired President
Tescom Corp.
John Dexheimer*
(Mathematics ’76)
President
Lightwave Advisors
Sundararajan Dhamotharan*
(Civil Engineering Ph.D. ’79)
Retired Group Chief Executive, Enterprise Client Account Management Program
AECOM
Alec Gallimore
Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering
University of Michigan
Jeffrey A. Gorski*
(Geological Engineering ’83)
Former Chief Operating Officer, Tidewater Marine
Steve Grove
Commissioner
Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development
Robert F. Hartmann*
(Electrical Engineering '65)
Retired
Altera
Bonnie Holub*
(Computer Science M.S. ’87, Ph.D. ’92)
Associate Partner – Business Consulting
Infosys Consulting
Robert W. Hubbard*
(Psychology ’88)
President
Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc.
Ashish K. Khandpur*
(Chemical Engineering Ph.D. ’95)
Group President, Transportation & Electronics
3M
Jane E. Lansing, Chair*
(Civil Engineering ’76)
Retired, Vice President of Marketing
Emerson Automation Solutions
Carol C. Malnati*
(Electrical Engineering '88)
Retired, Vice President of Research and Development, Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure Division
Medtronic
Gary J. Obermiller*
(Mechanical Engineering '72)
Operating Partner
Mill City Capital
Ken Pucel*
(Mechanical Engineering ’89)
Executive Vice President, Global Operations, Engineering and Lean
Polaris Industries Inc.
Florian Schattenmann
Chief Technology Officer and Vice President Research and Development and Innovation
Cargill Inc.
Randall Schiestl*
(Mechanical Engineering '77; M.B.A. '84)
Vice President of Global Innovation
Boston Scientific Corporation
Navjot Singh*
(Ph.D. Chemical Engineering '94)
Senior Partner
McKinsey & Company
Gerald Timm*
(Electrical Engineering ’63, M.S.’65, Ph.D. ’67)
Professor, Urological Surgery
Jeff Wilke
Chairman and Co-founder
Re:Build Manufacturing
Todd Zarfos*
(Electrical Engineering ’85)
Retired Vice President of Engineering
The Boeing Company
* University of Minnesota alumni