Olanrewaju I. Akande

Role: UNT Student President
Organization: NSBE

Olanrewaju (Lanre) Akande is a senior majoring in biomedical engineering with a concentration in biomaterials and a minor in math. He is also involved in research with the UNT Ecker Lab with bioactive glasses observing their biocompatibility and antimicrobial properties for orthopedic applications. Lanre has also been the recipient of various departmental and presentation awards. In addition to his academic pursuits, Lanre is serving as the President of UNT’s National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) chapter and hopes to expand the chapter’s reach in the area and increase its impact on members and non-members alike. By the end this school year, he is seeking to have been accepted into a doctorate program to pursue a PhD in biomedical engineering.

Aloysius Attah

Role: Student Faculty Advisor
Company: UNT
Organization: NSBE

Aloysius (Al) Attah is a scholar-practitioner with over thirty years of academic and industry experience. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of North Texas. His academic background includes civil engineering, industrial engineering, and information systems management. Al has been a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) since 1992. He spent 17 years with Boeing supporting the design and manufacture of 737, 747, 757, 767, and 777 airplane programs. In 2007, he founded Macval Associates LLC - an engineering and construction firm based in Dallas, Texas. Al is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE). He was a national president of the Construction Division of IISE. Some of his honors and awards include Industrial Engineer of the year; IISE gold award for leadership; outstanding performance awards from Boeing; teaching excellence honors; and community service awards. Al is inducted into the Golden Key International Honour Society which recognizes high standard of scholastic achievement, and an ethos of integrity, innovation, respect, collaboration, and diversity.

Fernando Ceballos

Role: Corporate Liaison
Company: Pape Dawson
Organization: SHPE

Fernando is a Professional Civil Engineer in Texas and works on commercial land development projects throughout the state as a consultant. As a 2013 graduate from Texas A&M University, Fernando has had an opportunity to work on schools, various commercial sites, apartment complexes, and residential master planned communities. Fernando is also a career coach and host of the Dealing with Life Stuff Podcast. Through his community involvement, he currently serves as the SHPE DFW Chapter President, sits on TREC Young Gun Committee, ASCE National Committee of Pre-College outreach and serves on the Advisory board at a local high school. Fernando was part of the 2017 Coors Light Lideres, 2018 ASCE’s New Faces of Civil Engineering and featured in the 2018 Class of Dallas Weekly’s Millennials to Watch.

Jonathon Cerda

Role: Alumni Liaison
Company: Splunk
Organization: SHPE

Jonathon is a servant leader who is passionate about helping underrepresented communities with STEM enablement. He is currently focusing on helping students that are enrolled in University curriculum and those who are looking to transition from the service industry to a technical career.  Jonathon is an electrical engineer by education with research experience in computer vision and image processing. While attending school he served as the President of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers at UNT. He now works as a solutions engineer on the Virtual Sales Engineering team at Splunk.

Nandika D'Souza

Role: Director
Company: UNT
Organization: UNT-DEEN

Nandika Anne D’Souza is Regents Professor (2015-present) of Mechanical and Energy Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas. She is focused on broadening participation in engineering at various levels. . She has co-authored 6 book chapters, 78 peer reviewed journal and 96 conference proceedings publications. She has received $5.7 M in external research funding. She was recognized as a Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers (one of 307 in the world) in 2013. She received the 2015 Distinguished Engineering Educator Award by the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) based on her efforts to be inclusive. She is a NSBE Life member #310, SWE Life member and Girl Scouts Life member.

Greg Hutton

Role: Corporate Liaison
Company: Verizon
Organization: NSBE

Greg Hutton is a Corporate Technology leader at Verizon responsible for global IP network design, architecture and new technology introduction for Verizon’s VoIP Network & Private Cloud Platform (VCP). Greg is an advocate, mentor and perpetual sponsor for Verizon’s summer intern, campus direct and Verizon Leadership Development Programs (VLDP). He serves on eight (8) NAF advisory boards in Dallas where he’s developed annual Verizon work-based learning (WBL) initiatives, programming and scholarships serving NAF students. Greg is a LIFE Member (#333) of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), an active executive board member of the NSBEDFW Professionals Chapter, Verizon’s Black Resource Association of Verizon Employees (VZ-BRAVE) and Dallas ISD Career and Technology Education Industry Leadership Council (CTE ILC). Greg earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management (KGSM) and a PMP (#233917) from PMI. He has been recognized with numerous Verizon spotlight, service, and leadership awards including two (2) Verizon Credo Awards for leadership excellence in network security & National Academy Foundation (NAF) program development - Verizon’s highest honor. He’s also been recognized nationally as a NAF Advisory Board Champion, NAF Leadership Fellow and the first Verizon graduate of the IT Senior Management Forum (ITSMF) Management Academy. Greg is very well-known, respected within Verizon and the industry at-large for his unwavering passion, collaboration, and service to others. http://linkedin.com/in/greg-hutton-bsee-mba-pmp-002164

Stephanie Ludi

Role: Student Faculty Advisor
Company: UNT
Organization: SWE

Stephanie Ludi is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas.  Dr. Ludi has lead efforts in broadening participation in computing with students at all levels, as well as working with K12 teachers.  She has 55 publications, and has received over $3.6M in external research funding.  She is a Senior Member in IEEE Computer Society, and has received the AccessComputing Capacity Building Award in 2011.

Madden Mengwasser

Role: Alumni Liaison
Company: Schneider Electric
Organization: SWE

Madden Mengwasser is an Energy Engineer II with the Energy Performance Contract Group out of Schneider Electric’s Energy and Sustainability Services division. Since graduating Magna Cum Laude from the University of North Texas in 2016 with her Mechanical and Engineering degree and Mathematics minor, she has worked on over 15 Investment Grade Audits and saved her K-12 school district and city customers over $8.4M in lifecycle savings through various energy conservation measures and efficiency upgrades. She is a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) and registered Professional Engineer (PE) in the state of California. She currently serves as a Board Member and Student Chapter Liaison with the North Texas Association of Energy Engineers (NTAEE).

Christopher Miles

Role: Alumni Liaison
Company: Lockheed Martin
Organization: NSBE

Christopher Kirk Miles Jr is a Research Scientist in the Integrated Fighter Group Program at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. At the University of North Texas, Chris earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical and Energy Engineering (2017) and a Master of Business Administration in Information Technology (2019) while representing the university as a member of the football team. He also serves as the College Initiatives Chairman for the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics National Society of Black Engineers Chapter. He is passionate about empowering underrepresented groups in engineering to cultivate and demonstrate excellence at all levels in the same way he was empowered at The University of North Texas.

Jordan Rider

Role: UNT Student President
Organization: SWE

Jordan Rider is a junior majoring in Mechanical and Energy Engineering with a minor in Mathematics at the University of North Texas. She is the President of UNT’s Society of Women Engineers chapter and is invested in promoting women in STEM. She has been a part of this organization since 2020 and has always strived to be as involved as possible. She values cooperation from her fellow officers and she is dedicated to maintaining the core values of the organization while improving the experience for their members.

Humberto Romero

Role: UNT Student President
Organization: SHPE

Humberto Romero graduated from UNT in December 2020 with a bachelor’s in electrical Engineering. He is currently pursuing a Master's in Electrical Engineering with expected graduation date of May 2023. When he graduates, he plans to seek a job as a FPGA Design Engineer or an Embedded Systems Engineer and hopefully stays in the DFW area. He was born in California, but lived all his childhood in Torreon, Mexico. He moved to Texas when he was 13 years old and had to face a language barrier at first. He overcame this obstacle with a lot of support from teachers and friends, which is why he believes now is his turn to empower the Hispanic community through community outreach and professional development for the chapter members. He wants to let them know that if he could do it they can do it as well.

Hector R Siller

Role: Student Faculty Advisor
Company: UNT
Organization: SHPE

Hector R Siller is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He is an enthusiast educator and researcher in manufacturing engineering, with experience in management of academic programs. He holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and a M.Sc. in Manufacturing Systems from Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico, and holds a Ph.D. in Innovation in Product and Process Engineering from University Jaume I in Spain. Before his appointment at UNT, he served as Research Professor, and  Program Director of Automotive Engineering (2011-2014) and Manufacturing Systems (2014-2017)  at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Tecnologico de Monterrey), Mexico. He is author of more than 40 journal publications and leads the lab of Digital Manufacturing.

Sammy Zellner

Role: Corporate Liaison
Company: Texas Instruments
Organization: SWE

Sammy Zellner is an Equipment and Process Engineer at Texas Instruments in Dallas, TX. Before starting her career in June 2019, she attended the University of North Texas (UNT) and earned both her B. S. and M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Sammy has actively been involved in SWE since 2014, and she served as the UNT section event coordinator in FY16 and section president from FY17-18. She was also a FY17 SWE Future Leader for Region C. Currently, Sammy is serving her fourth term as the Dallas SWE Secretary. Sammy’s favorite part of SWE is the sense of community and leadership opportunities that the organization provides.

Ozioma Ozigbo

Role: UNT Student President (2021-2022)
Organization: SWE

Laura Lujan

Role: UNT Student President (2020-2021)
Organization: SHPE

Nancy Umuhoza Nshuti

Role: UNT Student President (2020-2021)
Organization: NSBE

Jessica Rider

Role: UNT Student President (2020-2021)
Organization: SWE

Michele Rodgers

Role: Corporate Liaison (2020-2021)
Company: Paccar
Organization: SWE