Faculty and Staff
Faculty & Staff
Faculty & Staff
Mohsen Kivy | Professor and Department Chair
Email: mbeyrama@calpoly.edu
Phone: (805) 756-1357
Office: Building 41A, Room 230 (Inside the department office, Room 229)
Office Hours: Wednesdays 9:30 - 11:00 AM
Research & Teaching Interests: Developing crystalline materials by combination of experiments and computational simulations. Integrating modeling and simulation approaches throughout MATE curriculum.
Trevor Harding | Professor
Email: tharding@calpoly.edu
Phone: (805) 756-7163
Office: Building 41A-226
Office Hours: Wednesdays 3:00 - 4:00 PM; Fridays 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Research & Teaching Interests: Renewable and/or biodegradable bio-plastics, Optimizing product design to minimize environmental impact, Fracture and failure analysis, and Introductory materials engineering
Jean Lee | Associate Professor
Email: jlee473@calpoly.edu
Phone: (805) 756-6571
Office: Building 13, Room 227
Office Hours: Mondays 9:00 - 9:50 AM; Tuesdays 1:20 - 3:00 PM; Wednesdays 3:10 - 4:00 PM
(Office hours will be held in the Bldg. 13 courtyard)
Research & Teaching Interests: Nanomaterials and Environmental Sustainability
Joel Galos | Assistant Professor 
Email: jgalos@calpoly.edu
Phone: (805) 756-6426
Office: Building 41A, Room 224
Office Hours (Drop-In): Mondays 10:30 - 11:30 AM & 2:00 - 3:00 PM; Wednesdays 2:00 - 3:00 PM; Fridays 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Research & Teaching Interests: The design, characterization, and optimization of multifunctional engineering materials, especially polymer composites and multi-material hybrids.
Nicole Johnson-Glauch | Assistant Professor
Email: njohns66@calpoly.edu
Phone: (805) 756-6634 Ext. 2
Office: Building 41A, Room 225 / Building 192, Room 320
Office Hours (Drop-In): Wednesdays 9:00 -11:00 AM, Building 41A, Room 225
Private 30-Minute Advising Appointment: Thursdays 12:00 - 4:30 PM, Building 192, Room 320.
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Research & Teaching Interests: First Year Engineering Student Success, Curriculum Analytics and Its Impact on Students' Career Readiness and Developing Multidisciplinary Engineering Labs and Design Projects for K-12 Outreach
Seamus Jones | Assistant Professor
Email: sjones97@calpoly.edu
Phone: (805) 756-0731
Office: Building 41A, Room 221
Office Hours: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays 1:00 - 2:00 PM
Research & Teaching Interests: Energy storage, Ionic Materials, Membranes, Carbon Capture
Kareesa Kron | Assistant Professor
Email: kkron@calpoly.edu
Phone: (805) 756-6634
Office: 41A - 124
Office Hours: Mondays 1-2 PM; Thursdays 11 AM - 12 PM; Fridays 10 AM - 12 PM
Research & Teaching Interests: Organic photo-redox catalysis, machine learning computational analysis materials, accessibility, active learning
Thale Smith | Assistant Professor
Email: tsmith50@calpoly.edu
Phone: (805) 756-0699
Office: Building 41A, Room 227
Office Hours: Not teaching this semester
Research & Teaching Interests: Advanced metallurgical technologies, materials structure-property relationships in extreme environments, quantitative microstructural characterization.
Jerry Anzalone | Lecturer
Email: janzalon@calpoly.edu
Phone: (805) 756-1844
Office: Building 92M, Room C105
Office Hours:
Research & Teaching Interests:
Roger Benham | Lecturer
Email: rbenham@calpoly.edu
Phone: (805) 756-1270
Office: Building 92M, Room A105
Office Hours: Not teaching this semester
Research and Teaching Interests: Corrosion Engineering
Karla Carichner | Lecturer
Email: kcarichn@calpoly.edu
Phone: (805) 756-1180
Office: Building 92M, Room A103
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00 - 11:50 AM, or by appointment
Research & Teaching Interests: Basic introduction to materials, ceramics/glass, product design
Nahmoon Kim| Lecturer
Email: nkim113@calpoly.edu
Phone: (805) 756-1846
Office: Building 92M, Room C106
Office Hours: Wednesdays 12:00–1:00 PM; Fridays 11:00 AM–1:00 PM
Research & Teaching Interests: Computational Materials Modeling and Simulation, Materials for Energy and Sustainability, Equitable Teaching, Instructional Scaffolding, and Curriculum-to-Career Connections
Christine Kurtz | Lecturer
Email: cghent@calpoly.edu
Phone: (805) 756-1845
Office: Building 92M, Room C106
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Research & Teaching Interests: Automotive Noise and Vibration Research, Root Cause Analysis, Systems Integration & Diagnostics.
Brad Roberts | Lecturer
Email: brober37@calpoly.edu
Phone:
Office: Building 92M, Room A105
Office Hours: (Drop-In) Mondays 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM; Friday, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Zoom : Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Research & Teaching Interests: Magnetism & Spintronics, Innovation Programs & Entrepreneurship
Eric Beaton | Instructional Technician & Lecturer
Email: erbeaton@calpoly.edu
Phone: (805) 756-2518 | Cell: (805) 704-2897
Office: Building 41B, Room 142
Office Hours: Mon, Wed: 5:00 PM -6:00 PM, Building 35 (Library), just outside room 217C
Research & Teaching Interests: Basic introduction to materials
Allison Marcus | Administrative Coordinator
Email: almarcus@calpoly.edu
Phone: (805) 756-2568
Office: Building 41A, Room 229
Office Hours: Monday - Thursday 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Student Assistants:
Adva Harel | Natalie Elliott-Cisneros | Nicholas Walter
Email: mate@calpoly.edu
Phone: (805) 756-2568
Office: Building 41A, Room 229
