External Advisory Council
External Advisory Council
The External Advisory Council [EAC] is a group of industry representatives and corporate leaders who meet every semester on campus to advise and support the department in best preparing chemical engineering students to enter a competitive workforce.
Key Objectives
- Update faculty about technical, business and professional needs of industry and government
- Improve research by presenting current and future industry trends
- Advise the department of the latest professional skills expected of graduates
- Listen to direct feedback from students about curriculum and university operating procedures to best inform and guide department leaders
- Assist recruitment of outstanding undergraduate and graduate students
- Contribute networking, training and employment opportunities for students and recent graduates
- Help obtain necessary resources, both financial and intellectual, to meet department needs
- Provide corporate checks and balances for the department’s management of operations
Current Members
| Name | Position and Company |
| Guillermo Antonio Ameer | Professor – Northwestern University |
| Angela Archon | Board of Directors – Switch, Inc.; CommonSpirit Health |
| Sean Arnold | VP, Oil and Gas Sales – C3.ai |
| Jose Bayardo | Senior Vice President and CFO – National Oilwell Varco |
| Jack Broodo | Business President, Feedstocks and Energy – Dow Chemical |
| Stephanie Bryant | Professor, Director, Materials Science & Engineering Program - University of Colorado Boulder |
| Manny Cano | Team Lead, Process Development - Shell |
| Jason Cheung | Executive Director, Preformulation, Pharmeceutical Sciences – Merck |
| Toni Crawford | Senior Manager, Engineering Standards – Enterprise Products |
| Javier Cuellar | Director, Energy Trading – BASF |
| Tejuana Edmond | Regional Director, Americas - Fluid Catalytic Cracking/Refining Catalysts - BASF Corporation |
| Daniel Horne | LEAD Representative; Regional Sales Manager – Hach Company |
| Corley Hutton | Director SQA and Strategic Planning, Process Systems and Solutions – Emerson Process Management |
| Raj Krishnan | Partner and Managing Director – Accenture |
| Ryan Kudva – Chair | Joint Interest Coordinator, US Production – ExxonMobil |
| Julie Lambert | OCM Lead, ERP Transformation Project – Phillips 66 |
| Amanda Lewis | Director, BioProcess Technology, Global Manufacturing Operations - Bristol Myers Squibb |
| Kimberly Markiewicz | Vice President of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion – DuPont |
| Patrick Nonhof | Co-founder & Managing Partner – Provenance Consulting |
| Bill Preston | President and Chief Operating Officer – KP Engineering |
| Shravanthi Reddy | CEO – ClearSight |
| Jeff Reilly | Consultant |
| Juny Sridhara | President – Archimedes Finance |
| David Woods | Global Intermediates Planning Manager - ExxonMobil |
Meetings
Last meeting: April 9, 2021
Next meeting: April 28 and 29, 2022
Location: AT&T Conference Center and CPE Building
