Dean’s Office Team

Responsibilities of the Dean include providing vision and leadership in directing, coordinating, integrating, and balancing the College’s teaching, research, and outreach missions. The Dean consults with faculty and administrators to provide overall strategic planning, program development, and continuous quality improvement of curriculum and instruction; resource acquisition and management (including budget preparation and supervision), space and facilities planning, and personnel administration (appointments, development, retention). The Dean represents the College within the University System; the academic and business communities and advocates for the College at local, regional, and national levels.

Contact

Office of the Dean
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
College of Engineering and Information Technology
1000 Hilltop Circle
Information Technology & Engineering, Room 217
Baltimore, MD 21250

Phone: 410-455-3270
Fax: 410-455-3559
Email: coeit@umbc.edu

	Keith J Bowman Dean Information Technology & Engineering, Room 217	kjb@umbc.edu 410-455-3270
	Amy Heckhaus Manager, Chief of Staff Information Technology & Engineering, Room 217	heckhaus@umbc.edu 410-455-3978
	Erin Lavik Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Development and Professor Information Technology & Engineering, Room 217F	elavik@umbc.edu
	Donique Lewis Executive Administrative Assistant II Information Technology & Engineering	djlewis@umbc.edu 410-455-3270
Karen D. Mattingly Coordinator Information Technology & Engineering, Room 217I		mattingly@umbc.edu 410-455-3303
	Helena Mentis Associate Dean for Academic Programs & Learning and Associate Professor Information Technology & Engineering, Room 217A	mentis@umbc.edu 410-455-3967
	Maria Sanchez Director of Education & Outreach and Professor of the Practice Information Technology & Engineering, Room 217H	msanchez@umbc.edu 410-455-6324

Finance & Shared Services Center

	Michael Palmer Assistant Dean of Finance and Director of Shared Services Center Information Technology & Engineering, Room 217G	mpalmer@umbc.edu 410-455-5603
	Lindita Dietzen Assistant Director, FP&A Information Technology & Engineering, Room 207	lindietz@umbc.edu 410-455-4711
	Gina Fischer Assistant Director, SRT Information Technology & Engineering, Room 216	ginam@umbc.edu 410-455-5575
	Kathy Suess Assistant Director, BOT Engineering, Room ENGR 202	kathy@umbc.edu 410-455-1775

Undergraduate Student Services

	Catherine Bielawski Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Student Services Information Technology & Engineering, Room 206	bielawsk@umbc.edu 410-455-1641
	Josh Abrams Assistant Director & Academic Advisor Information Technology & Engineering, Room 202	josh.abrams@umbc.edu 410-455-3096
	Emily Abrams-Stephens Assistant Director & Academic Advisor Information Technology & Engineering, Room 205	eastephe@umbc.edu 410-455-3096
	Anne Arey Assistant Director & Academic Advisor Information Technology & Engineering, Room ITE 203	annearey@umbc.edu 410-455-3096
Kim Casimbon Academic Advisor, Computer Science at The Universities at Shady Grove		kcasim1@umbc.edu
	Krista Wallace Transfer Success Advisor Information Technology & Engineering, Room 204	kriswall@umbc.edu 410-455-3293

Engineering and Computing Education Program

Mark Berczynski Lecturer Information Technology & Engineering, Room 218		mb15@umbc.edu
	Megean Garvin Director of Research and Assessment, Maryland Center for Computing Education	mgarvin@umbc.edu 443-243-0509
Toby Gouker Lecturer and Engineering Management, Systems Engineering, and Technical Management Acting Graduate Program Director Information Technology & Engineering, Room 218		tgouker@umbc.edu 410-455-0616
Danyelle Ireland Assistant Research Professor Information Technology & Engineering, Room 425C		direland@umbc.edu 410-455-3109
Dianne O'Grady-Cunniff Director, Maryland Center for Computing Education Off Campus		dianne@umbc.edu 301-445-2795
	Maria Sanchez Director of Education & Outreach and Professor of the Practice Information Technology & Engineering, Room 217H	msanchez@umbc.edu 410-455-6324

Chemical, Biochemical & Environmental Engineering

Department Chair

Mark Marten

Professor and Department Chair

Engineering, Room 314

marten@umbc.edu

410-455-3439

Department Staff Contact

Fabiola Attime

Program Management Specialist

Engineering, Room 314

fattime@umbc.edu

410-455-3400

Academic Program Contacts

	Mariajose Castellanos Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Program Director Engineering, Room 319	mariajose@umbc.edu 410-455-8151
	Jennie Leach Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director Engineering, Room 320	jleach@umbc.edu 410-455-8152

Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Department Chair

Anupam Joshi

Professor and Department Chair

Information Technology & Engineering, Room 325

joshi@umbc.edu

410-455-2733

Associate Chair

Mohamed Younis

Professor and Associate Chair

Information Technology & Engineering, Room 318

younis@cs.umbc.edu

410-455-3968

Department Staff Contact

Rebecca Dongarra

Academic Affairs Manager

Information Technology & Engineering

dongarra@umbc.edu

410-455-3065

Academic Program Contacts

	Jeremy Dixon Senior Lecturer and Computer Science Undergraduate Program Director Information Technology & Engineering, Room 325J	jdixon@umbc.edu 410-455-8866
Richard Forno Senior Lecturer, Cybersecurity Graduate Program Director & Assistant Director, UMBC Center for Cybersecurity Information Technology & Engineering, Room 325A		rforno@umbc.edu 410-455-3788
	Jeannette Kartchner Lecturer, Associate Undergraduate Program Director, UMBC Computer Science Program at The Universities at Shady Grove Information Technology & Engineering, Room 226	jkartch@umbc.edu 410-455-8944
	Charles Nicholas Professor and Computer Science Graduate Program Director Information Technology & Engineering, Room 356	nicholas@umbc.edu 410-455-2594
Chintan Patel Associate Professor and Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering Graduate Program Director Information Technology & Engineering, Room ITE 322		cpatel2@umbc.edu 410-455-3963
Ryan Robucci Associate Professor and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Program Director Unknown, Room ITE319		robucci@umbc.edu 410-455-3549
	Ergun Simsek Professor of the Practice and Data Science Graduate Program Director Information Technology & Engineering, Room 325-K	simsek@umbc.edu 410-455-3540

Information Systems

Department Chair

Vandana Janeja

Professor and Interim Department Chair - Information Systems

Information Technology & Engineering, Room 4104556238

vjaneja@umbc.edu

410-455-6238

Associate Chair

Zhiyuan Chen

Associate Professor and Associate Chair

Information Technology & Engineering, Room 404J

zhchen@umbc.edu

410-455-8833

Liaison for Programmatic Innovation

George Karabatis

Associate Professor and Liaison for Programmatic Innovation

Information Technology & Engineering, Room 404K

georgek@umbc.edu

410-455-3940

Department Staff Contact

Lina Chung

Academic Affairs Manager

Information Technology & Engineering, Room 404I

lchung2@umbc.edu

410-455-3795

Academic Program Contacts

Anita Komlodi Associate Professor and Online Information Systems Graduate Program Director Information Technology & Engineering, Room 434/404L		komlodi@umbc.edu 410-455-3212
	Ravi Kuber Associate Professor and Human-Centered Computing Graduate Program Director Information Technology & Engineering, Room 435	rkuber@umbc.edu 410-455-3268
Shimei Pan Assistant Professor and Heath Information Technology Interim Graduate Program Director		shimei@umbc.edu
	Nirmalya Roy Associate Professor and Information Systems Graduate Program Director Information Technology & Engineering, Room ITE 421	nroy@umbc.edu 410-455-3182
Sreedevi Sampath Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director Information Technology & Engineering, Room 403		sampath@umbc.edu 410-455-8845
Richard Sponaugle Senior Lecturer and Associate Undergraduate Program Director Information Technology & Engineering, Room 409		rspona1@umbc.edu 410-455-1850

Mechanical Engineering

Department Chair

Ruey-Hung Chen

Professor and Department Chair

Engineering, Room 210B

chenrh@umbc.edu

410-455-3313

Department Staff Contact

Diane Zeenny Ghorayeb

Program Management Specialist

Engineering, Room 210C

dianezg@umbc.edu

410-455-2652

Academic Program Contacts

Ronghui Ma Associate Professor and Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Program Director Engineering, Room 215		roma@umbc.edu 410-465-1965
Carlos Romero-Talamas Associate Professor and Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program Director Engineering, Room 212		romero@umbc.edu 410-455-8049

Centers

Yelena Yesha Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics (CARTA) - Center Director Information Technology & Engineering, Room 335		yeyesha@umbc.edu 410-455-3542
	Govind Rao Center for Advanced Sensor Technology (CAST) - Center Director Technology Research Center, Room 252A	grao@umbc.edu 410-455-3415
	Claire Welty Center for Urban Environment Research & Education (CUERE) - Center Director Technology Research Center, Room 102	weltyc@umbc.edu 410-455-1766
	Anupam Joshi Center for Cybersecurity (Cybersecurity) - Center Director Information Technology & Engineering, Room 325	joshi@umbc.edu 410-455-2733
	Carolyn Seaman Center for Women in Technology (CWIT) and Associate Professor of Information Systems - Interim Director Information Technology & Engineering, Room 404B	cseaman@umbc.edu 410-455-3937

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