The College of Engineering Student Advisory Council provides a student perspective on policy, planning, student programming, and budgeting matters for the College of Engineering. The Council meets with the College of Engineering leadership twice a quarter throughout the academic year. The Chair of COESAC works closely with College of Engineering leadership to plan discussion topics for the meetings.

In 2020-2021, examples of key agenda topics include:

• College of Engineering budget
• Direct to college programming
• Student access to clubs and competition groups
• Administrative processes
• DEI work in the CoE
• The new IEB building
• Syllabus standards
• Engineering fundamentals
• College standards on grading
• Academic integrity and cheating

20–21 Student Advisory Council membership and structure

Members

Major	Name/position	Year
Aeronautics & Astronautics	Caleigh Stagnone	Sophomore
Bioengineering	Avi Matarasso	PhD
Bioengineering	Katherine Zhang, CEP rep	Senior
Civil Engineering	Gabby Greco	Senior (Post-Bac)
Chemical Engineering	Cole Wilkinson	Senior
Chemical Engineering	Hawley Helmbrecht	PhD
Computer Engineering	Eric Fan	Senior
Electrical Engineering	Eugene Seubert, Vice Chair	Junior
Electrical Engineering	Augusto Millevolte	PhD
Human Centered Design & Engineering	Vishaka Nirmal	Senior
Industrial Engineering	William Matney	Junior
Industrial Engineering	Nick Terry, CEP rep	PhD
Mechanical Engineering	Carlos Sama	Senior
Mechanical Engineering	Lynda Brady	PhD
Materials Science & Engineering	Renjie Song, Chair	Senior
Engineering Undeclared (ENGRUD)	Samantha Boczek, ASUW Liaison	Freshman
AISES	Vacant
NSBE	Vacant
SHPE	Maryam Sanchez	Junior
SWE	Claudia Valenta	Junior

How seats are apportioned

• 11 undergraduate students (one from each of the 11 engineering departments)
• Five at-large graduate students
• One representative each from COE affinity groups: American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES); National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE); Society of Professional Hispanic Engineers (SHPE); and Society of Women Engineers (SWE)

Council positions

• Chair (selected from within the Council membership)
• Vice Chair (selected from within the Council membership; will serve as Chair the following year)
• ASUW Liaison (appointed by the ASUW Director of University Affairs)
• GPSS Liaison

Diversity

The ideal membership of the committee represents students from all backgrounds. Council members represent the College of Engineering and bring viewpoints and perspectives including the voices of women; Black, indigenous, and people of color; gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer; low-income; first generation; transfer; residential and non-residential students; Registered Student Organization (RSO) members, and other groups.

Meeting schedule for 2021