Faculty & Staff

The Electrical Engineering department is comprised of faculty dedicated to refining the ever-changing body of knowledge specified by basic engineering principles and modern high-technology developments. The support staff is likewise dedicated to providing student assistance as well as technical support of the faculty. The Electrical Engineering faculty is primarily comprised of tenured and tenure-track full-time professors. Additional academic and curricular support is provided by emeritus faculty members and high-quality lecturers.

The focus of Cal Poly Electrical Engineering faculty members is two-fold. First, faculty members combine their considerable industrial and research experience with current projects to offer students an educational experience based in a modern context. The varied faculty interests are evident by the number and quality of projects they develop and supervise. Second, faculty members are dedicated to on-going improvements to the Electrical Engineering curriculum commensurate with technological advancements and to convey current engineering knowledge and practice.

Faculty Interest List

Faculty

Samuel O. Agbo Professor 20-310 805-756-1528
Bill L. Ahlgren Associate Professor 20-213 805-756-2309
Dean Y. Arakaki Associate Professor 20-302 805-756-2625
David B. Braun Professor 20-304 805-756-1464
Jerome R. Breitenbach Professor 20-312 805-756-5710
Michael M. Cirovic Professor 20-203 805-756-2316
Fred W. DePiero Professor 13-216 805-756-2917
Dennis Derickson Assistant Professor 20-319 805-756-7584
James G. Harris Professor 20-305 805-756-5708
Xiaomin Jin Assistant Professor 20-315 805-756-7046
Albert Liddicoat Professor 20-215A 805-756-5217
Art MacCarley Department Chair 20-200 805 756 2781
Bryan Mealy Assistant Professor 20-300 805-756-2300
Ahmad Nafisi Professor 20-317 805-756-1514
John Y. Oliver Assistant Professor 20-215 805-756-2781
Wayne Pilkington Assistant Professor, Graduate Coordinator 20-204 805-756-5431
John A. Saghri Associate Professor 20-303 805-756-1462
Ali O. Shaban Professor 20-306 805-756-2918
Lynne Slivovsky Associate Professor 20-313 805-756-5383
Cheng Sun Professor 20-316 805-756-2004
Taufik Associate Professor 20-301 805-756-2318
Xiao-Hua (Helen) Yu Associate Professor 20-311 805-756-2441
Jane Zhang Assistant Professor 20-307 805-756-7528

Adjunct Faculty

Silvia Liddicoat Adjunct Faculty 20-214 805-756-6455

Lecturers

Kurt Behpour 20-136A 805-756-2781
Mostafa Chinichian Lecturer 20-205 805-756-2149
Ron Eisworth 20-118A 805-756-1324
Jeffrey Gerfen Lecturer 07-06 805-756-2990
Gary Perks Lecturer 20-208 805-756-1463
John Tucker 20-118A 805-756-5711

Teaching Associates

Arief Hernadi Teaching Associate 20-136B 805-756-2781
F Iannce Teaching Associate 20-136B 805-756-2781
Curtis Nelson Graduate Teaching Associate
Timothy Ogilvie Graduate Teaching Associate
Jonathan Paolucci Graduate Teaching Associate

Faculty Emeritus

Richard Dickey
Saul Goldberg
Gary Granneman Professor Emeritus 20-136A 805-756-2925
Michael Hawes Professor Emeritus 20-136a 805-756-1330
William Horton
Martin E. Kaliski Professor Emeritus
Wayne McMorran
Shien-yi Meng
Mahmood Nahvi Professor Emeritus 20-318 805-756-2308
Richard Sandige Professor Emeritus 20-136A 805-756-1208
Shyama C. Tandon Professor Emeritus 20-309 805-756-5709
Donley Winger
Michael T. Wollman Professor Emeritus 20-308 805-756-2007

Staff

Tom Agayoff Network Analyst 20-106 805-756-2550
Jaime Carmo Electronic Technician 20-106 805-756-2647
Yvonne Lynch Administrative Coordinator 20-200 805-756-2781
Lani Woods Administrative Analyst 20-200 805-756-6320