Office of the Dean
Directs all administrative and academic activities for the college.
Address: 456 ZEC
Mail Stop: 2000
Lindsay Hammill
Director of Industry Partnerships
- Office Address: 458J ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-4001
- Email:
lindsay@tennessee.edu
Amanda Middleton
Special Programs Coordinator
- Office Address: 458A ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-7636
- Email:
amanda@utk.edu
Carrie Zitzman
Administrative Specialist III
- Office Address: 458Q ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-7637
- Email:
carriez@utk.edu
Office of Academic and Student Services
Provides leadership and direction for the college’s students and their concerns, including information and guidance regarding the college’s undergraduate and graduate degree programs and activities. Also oversees advising, scholarships, outreach and engagement, international programs, diversity programs, and the college’s engineering fundamentals and honors programs.
Address: 456 ZEC
Mail Stop: 2011
Ozlem Kilic
Associate Dean | Profile
- Office Address: 458E ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-2454
- Email:
okilic@utk.edu
Shelby Bacon
Administrative Specialist II
- Office Address: 458D ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-2454
- Email:
sbacon6@utk.edu
Angela McCarter
Administrative Specialist II
- Office Address: 458F ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-0533
- Email:
amccarte@utk.edu
Office of Student Success
Anne Skutnik
Director of Student Success
- Office Address: 162C ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-9401
- Email:
askutnik@utk.edu
Keely Algya
Student Success Coordinator
- Office Address: 165 ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-1981
- Email:
kalgya@utk.edu
Maggie Keene
Student Success Recruiter
- Office Address: 176 ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-4964
- Email:
maggie@utk.edu
Office of Women Engineers
From outreach to the advancement of women in engineering, the Office of Women Engineers provides young girls and women with connections to resources, support, mentoring, and engaging academic and professional programs to define their possibilities within engineering.
Jalonda Thompson
Director of Women in Engineering
- Office Address: 168 ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-9146
- Email:
jalondat@utk.edu
Engineering Advising Office
Provides holistic academic program planning services to undergraduate students, and manages orientation activities and materials for the college.
Address: 160 ZEC
Mail Stop: 2031
Sonja Burk
Student Success Advisor | Department of Biosystems Engineering
- Office Address: 108 Biosystems Engineering & Soil Sciences Building
- Email:
sburk@tennessee.edu
Kerri Cline
Senior Advisor | Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
- Office Address: 436 Dougherty Bldg.
- Phone: 865-974-2351
- Email:
kcline4@utk.edu
JeNai Davis
Advisor | Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Office Address: 323 John Tickle Bldg
- Phone: 865-974-0724
- Email:
ldavi148@utk.edu
Rachel Duncan
Advisor | Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Office Address: 525F John Tickle Bldg.
- Phone: 865-974-7651
- Email:
rdunca16@utk.edu
Devon Graham
Administrative Specialist III
- Office Address: 160 ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-4008
- Email:
dgraha20@utk.edu
Roger Gray
Senior Advisor | Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, & Biomedical Engineering
- Office Address: 316 A Dougherty Bldg.
- Phone: 865-974-7665
- Email:
rgray17@utk.edu
Jennifer Hartwig
Senior Advisor | Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, & Biomedical Engineering
- Office Address: 316 A Dougherty Bldg.
- Phone: 865-974-7243
- Email:
jmontgo1@utk.edu
Amanda Lovelace
Senior Advisor | Department of Nuclear Engineering
- Office Address: 240 ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-8240
- Email:
alovela4@utk.edu
Joanna Rathbone
Senior Advisor | Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
- Office Address: 401 B Min Kao Bldg.
- Phone: 865-974-9147
- Email:
jrathbone@utk.edu
Mike Taylor
Master Advisor | Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
- Office Address: 401 A Min Kao Bldg.
- Phone: 865-974-3510
- Email:
mtaylor1@utk.edu
Jacob Working
Advisor | Department of Materials Science & Engineering
- Office Address: 401 Ferris Hall
- Phone: 865-974-8202
- Email:
jworking@utk.edu
Office of Engineering Communications
Promotes the people and activities of the college and its departments to all audiences through a variety of print and digital pieces and platforms, recruitment, marketing, strategic communications planning, media relations, and social media efforts.
Address: 456 ZEC
Mail Stop: 2003
Kevin Bogle
Communications Specialist
- Office Address: 457A ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-9149
- Email:
kbogle@utk.edu
Randall Brown
Writer, Photographer, Social Media Coordinator
- Office Address: 456S ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-0533
- Email:
rbrown73@utk.edu
Andy Gallaher
Assistant Director
- Office Address: 456D ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-8577
- Email:
agallaher@utk.edu
David Goddard
Senior Media Relations Coordinator
- Office Address: 456T ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-0683
- Email:
david.goddard@utk.edu
Brittney VanDeventer
Web Designer-Developer
- Office Address: 457A ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-9176
- Email:
bvandeventer@utk.edu
Office of Engineering Development
Initiates, coordinates, and implements philanthropy to support and enhance college initiatives including scholarships, recruiting and retaining students, sustaining outstanding research, and continuing to improve the college’s technology and infrastructure.
Address: 456 ZEC
Mail Stop: 2012
Michelle Geller
Senior Director | Office of Gift Planning
- Office Address: 615 Andy Holt Tower
- Phone: 865-974-4661
- Email:
mageller@utfi.org
Kathleen Kim-Baker
Assistant Director of Stewardship and Donor Relations
- Office Address: 456L ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-2788
- Email:
kbaker25@utk.edu
Stephanie Eastman Vozar
Director of Corporate Philanthropy
- Office Address: 600D Andy Holt Tower
- Phone: 810-845-4149
- Email:
svozar@utk.edu
Office of Engineering Diversity Programs
Enables the successful recruitment, retention, graduation, and professional advancement of students from underrepresented and underserved populations (UUP) including historically underrepresented populations (HUP), women, and first-generation engineering students.
Address: 164 ZEC
Mail Stop: 2030
Engineering Diversity Programs
Jeremy Kirk
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Office Address: 458M ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-1897
- Email:
jkirk14@utk.edu
Travis Griffin
Fred D. Brown, Jr. Director
- Office Address: 162B ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-1956
- Email:
travisg@utk.edu
Gabrielle Richards
Administrative Specialist
- Office Address: 162 ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-0625
- Email:
gricha15@utk.edu
First-Year Programs
Cook Grand Challenge Honors Program
Provides greater intellectual challenges and broader educational experiences for qualified undergraduate students through service-learning, research, global experiences, entrepreneurship, and interdisciplinary coursework to prepare them to become highly competitive graduates and be more successful in addressing the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Address: 363 ZEC
Mail Stop: 2032
engage Engineering Fundamentals Program
Prepares first-year students with the fundamental knowledge needed to thrive as an engineering student through innovative, collaborative, team-based projects and experiences to find solutions to engineering problems.
Address: 260 ZEC
Mail Stop: 202
Rachel Ellestad
Program Director, engage Engineering Fundamentals Program
- Office Address: 260 ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-9810
- Email:
rellestad@utk.edu
Kevin Kit
Director, Cook Grand Challenge Honors Program
- Office Address: 363B ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-9874
- Email:
kkit@utk.edu
Michael Allen
Academic Support Specialist III
- Office Address: S007 Perkins
- Phone: 865-974-9810
- Email:
mallen41@utk.edu
Courtney Faber
Lecturer and Research Assistant Professor
- Office Address: 363C ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-9810
- Email:
cfaber2@utk.edu
Nathan Hicks
Lecturer and Research Assistant Professor
- Office Address: 260D ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-9810
- Email:
nhicks7@utk.edu
Cheryl Huskey
Administrative Specialist
- Office Address: 260 ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-9810
- Email:
chuskey1@utk.edu
Jessica Jeffers
Honors Coordinator
- Office Address: 363A ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-8983
- Email:
jgreene@utk.edu
Darren Maczka
Lecturer, Research Assistant Professor
- Office Address: 260C ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-9810
- Email:
dmaczka@utk.edu
Eric McCave
Lecturer, Research Assistant Professor
- Office Address: 363E ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-9810
- Email:
emccave@utk.edu
Will Schleter
Distinguished Lecturer
- Office Address: 260F ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-9810
- Email:
wschleter@utk.edu
Office of Engineering Professional Practice
Manages the college’s cooperative education (co-op) and internship programs to help undergraduate students find paid, structured, educationally relevant experiences with industry and government laboratory partners.
Address: 161 ZEC
Mail Stop: 2008
Engineering Professional Practice
Suzanne Sawicki
Senior Coordinator
- Office Address: 161C ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-5323
- Email:
ssawicki@utk.edu
Wanda Turpin
Administrative Specialist
- Office Address: 161 ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-5323
- Email:
wturpin@utk.edu
Office of Faculty Affairs and Engagement
Provides leadership and direction for the college’s tenure and promotion processes, faculty hiring, faculty mentoring and retention, the faculty annual review process, and peer reviews of teaching. Also assists the university with the selection and recruitment of Governor’s Chairs and the management of the faculty and staff awards processes for the college and campus.
Address: 456 ZEC
Mail Stop: 2000
Alex Brown
Administrative Specialist III
- Office Address: 458K ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-3608
- Email:
abenson9@utk.edu
Office of Finance and Administration
Directs and coordinates all fiscal activities of the college and monitors and coordinates all human resources activities and certain facility improvements and capital equipment acquisition.
Address: 219 Perkins Hall
Mail Stop: 2010
Garrett Payne
Financial Analyst
- Office Address: 219 Perkins
- Phone: 865-974-3798
- Email:
gpayne11@utk.edu
Linda Watson
Accounting Coordinator I
- Office Address: 219 Perkins
- Phone: 865-974-0558
- Email:
lwatso16@utk.edu
Laura Yoder
Assistant Budget Director
- Office Address: 219 Perkins
- Phone: 865-974-7382
- Email:
lyoder@utk.edu
Integrated Engineering Design
Shapes the role of interdisciplinary student design and innovation projects, manages college resources and facilities for design projects, and serves as the outward-looking face of student design and project work for the college’s external partners.
Address: 260 Zeanah Engineering Complex
Mail Stop: 2020
Keith Stanfill
Edwards Assistant Dean | Profile
- Office Address: G178A ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-9810
- Email:
stanfill@utk.edu
Thanh (Tom) Duong
Academic Support Specialist III
- Office Address: G167 ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-3582
- Email:
tduong3@utk.edu
IT Support
Provides college administration and staff with desktop support for email, storage, printing, software, and remote desktop services.
Address: 457 ZEC
Mail Stop: 2250
College IT Support
Drew Schneider
Senior IT Technician
- Office Address: 457B ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-9962
- Email:
coedean@utk.edu
Engineering Research Office
A difference maker for accelerating and diversifying faculty funding success through providing research development and proposal support for a great variety of agencies and foundations. Also responsible for strategy, research advancement, resource allocation, and the administration of issues related to funding for facilities, research grants, and technology for the college.
Address: 456 ZEC
Mail Stop: 2000
William M. Dunne
Associate Dean | Profile
- Office Address: 458P ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-5321
- Email:
wdunne@utk.edu
Kiley Compton
Research Coordinator
- Office Address: 457C ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-8854
- Email:
kcompto1@utk.edu
Elizabeth Hebert
Research Coordinator
- Office Address: 456N ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-8593
- Email:
hebert@utk.edu
Jada R. Huskey
Research Director | Proposal Support
- Office Address: 458C ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-8360
- Email:
jhuskey4@utk.edu
Missy McDonald
Research Coordinator | Proposal Support
- Office Address: 457D ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-9092
- Email:
mjm@utk.edu
Harry Richards
Research & Proposal Development Coordinator
- Office Address: 456P ZEC
- Phone: 865-974-6312
- Email:
harry@utk.edu