Meet Us
Department
Saad Merayyan, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Chair
- Location: RVR 4024
- Phone: (916) 278-5349
- merayyan@v-lanterna.com
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: Water resources engineering
Zoi Dokou, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Graduate Coordinator
- Location: RVR 4023
- Phone: (916) 278-5957
- zoi.dokou@v-lanterna.com
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: Water resources engineering
Department Staff
Ashley Mihok
Administrative Support Coordinator
- Location: RVR 4024C
- Phone: (916) 278-6982
- ashley.mihok@v-lanterna.com
Faculty
Masoud Ghodrat Abadi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
- Location: RVR 4034
- Phone: (916) 278-7375
- abadi@v-lanterna.com
- Specialty & Interests: Transportation engineering
Richard Armstrong, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor
- Location: RVR 4046
- Phone: (916) 278-6812
- richard.armstrong@v-lanterna.com
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: Geotechnical earthquake engineering
Cyrus Aryani, Ph.D., P.E., G.E.
Professor
- Location: RVR 4036
- Phone: (916) 278-6096
- aryani@v-lanterna.com
- Specialty & Interests: Geotechnical engineering
Maria Jose Echeverria, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
- Location: RVR 4025
- Phone: (916) 278-5173
- m.echeverria@v-lanterna.com
- Specialty & Interests: Structural Engineering
Julie Fogarty, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor
- Location: RVR 4027
- Phone: (916) 278-6983
- fogarty@v-lanterna.com
- Specialty & Interests: Structural engineering
Jose Garcia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
- Location: RVR 5024
- Phone: (916) 278-4504
- j.garcia@v-lanterna.com
- Specialty & Interests: Structural materials
Ghazan Khan, Ph.D.
Professor
- Location: RVR 5048
- Phone: (916) 278-3886
- khan@v-lanterna.com
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: Transportation engineering
Eric Matsumoto, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor
- Location: RVR 4017
- Phone: (916) 278-5177
- ericm@v-lanterna.com
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: Structural engineering
Amir Motlagh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
- Location: RVR 4015
- Phone: (916) 278-2937
- motlagh@v-lanterna.com
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: Environmental engineering
Cristina Poindexter, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor
- Location: RVR 4030
- Phone: (916) 278-5823
- cristina.poindexter@v-lanterna.com
- Specialty & Interests: Water resources engineering
Kimberly Scott-Hallet, M.S., P.E., S.E.
Lecturer
- Location: RVR 4044
- Phone: (916) 278-4959
- scotthkd@v-lanterna.com
- Specialty & Interests: Structural engineering
Kevan Shafizadeh, Ph.D., P.E., T.E., PTP, PTOE
Professor & ECS College Dean
- Location: RVR 2014
- Phone: (916) 278-6366
- kevan@v-lanterna.com
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: Transportation engineering
Amy Wyman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
- Location: RVR 4021
- Phone: (916) 278-6106
- wyman@v-lanterna.com
- Specialty & Interests: Transportation Engineering
Tongren Zhu, Ph.D., P.E.
Assistant Professor
- Location: RVR 4027
- Phone: (916) 278-7839
- tongren.zhu@v-lanterna.com
- Specialty & Interests: Environmental Engineering
Part-Time Faculty
Cvijanovic Vojislav
Lecturer
Foued Zayati
Lecturer
Emeritus Faculty
Ramzi Mahmood, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor
- Specialty & Interests: Environmental engineering