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:
Research & Teaching Interests: Developing various materials (e.g. alloys and ceramics) by studying their microstructures and properties using multiscale computational materials engineering. 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 bioplastics, 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:
Please contact Prof. Lee at jlee473@calpoly.edu to schedule a meeting with her.
Joel Galos | Assistant Professor
Email: jgalos@calpoly.edu
Phone: (805) 756-6426
Office: Building 41A, Room 224
Office Hours:
Drop-In Office Hours:
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 Office Hours:
Wednesdays 9-11 AM, Building 41A, Room 225
Private 30-Minute Advising Appointment:
Thursdays 12-4:30 PM, Building 41A, Room 225.
Sign up for an appointment using this link.
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:
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:
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:
Research and Teaching Interests: My area of specialty is Corrosion Engineering. This is my fourth year of teaching Mate 425 Corrosion Engineering at Cal Poly. I have 38 years of experience working in the field of corrosion engineering.
Karla Carichner | Lecturer
Email: kcarichn@calpoly.edu
Phone: (805) 756-1180
Office: Building 92M, Room A103
Office Hours:
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:
Research & Teaching Interests:
Christine Kurtz | Lecturer
Email: cghent@calpoly.edu
Phone: (805) 756-1845
Office: Building 92M, Room C106
Office Hours:
Research & Teaching Interests: Professor Kurtz has a background as an Automotive Reseach and Development Engineer focusing on Noise and Vibration.
Brad Roberts | Lecturer
Email: brober37@calpoly.edu
Phone:
Office: Building 92M, Room A105
Office Hours:
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:
Research & Teaching Interests:
Allison Marcus | Administrative Coordinator
Email: almarcus@calpoly.edu
Phone: (805) 756-6439
Office: Building 41A, Room 229
Office Hours:
Monday - Friday: 8:00 am - 2:30 pm
Student Assistants:
Adva Harel | Natalie Elliott-Cisneros | Nicholas Walter
Office: Building 41A, Room 229
