Faculty & Staff

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Faculty

DEAN NIEUSMA

EDS Department Head and Associate Professor
GRLA 201
303.273.3322
nieusma@mines.edu

CHELSEA SALINAS

EDS Assistant Department Head and Teaching Professor
GRLA 203
303.384.2290
csalinas@mines.edu

YOSEF ALLAM

Director of Cornerstone Design and Teaching Professor
GRLA 205
303.384.2044
yallam@mines.edu

CINDY ATHANASIOU

Teaching Assistant Professor
GRLA 122
303.273.3593
cathanasiou@mines.edu

DONNA BODEAU

Professor of Practice
GRLA 122
dbodeau@mines.edu

JACK BRINGARDNER

Director of Education Innovation and Teaching Associate Professor

GRLA 207
303.384.2440

jack.bringardner@mines.edu

DUNCAN DAVIS-HALL

Teaching Assistant Professor
GRLA 122
303.384.2779

duncan.davis-hall@mines.edu

GARRETT ERICKSON

Professor of Practice
GRLA 122
gerickso@mines.edu

ALINA HANDOREAN

Teaching Professor Joint Appointment, Civil and Environmental Engineering
GRLA 217
303.273.3592
ahandorean@mines.edu

MARIE STETTLER KLEINE

Assistant Professor
GRLA 219
303.273.3462

mkleine@mines.edu

JUAN LUCENA

Director of Humanitarian Engineering Undergraduate Programs and Professor
GRLA 222
303.273.3564

jlucena@mines.edu

MIRNA MATTJIK

Teaching Associate Professor
GRLA 211
303.273.3010

mmattjik@mines.edu

Kevin Moore

KEVIN MOORE

Executive Director, Humanitarian Engineering
Director, Department of Engineering, Design, and Society
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering

GRLA 225
303.273.3898

kmoore@mines.edu

Mark Orrs

MARK ORRS

Teaching Associate Professor
GRLA 224
303.273.3704

orrs@mines.edu

ELIZABETH REDDY

Assistant Professor Joint Appointment, Geophysics
GRLA 221
503.810.2267
reddy@mines.edu

Sid Saleh

Director of McNeil Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Teaching Associate Professor
Engineering Annex 814 15th Ave, Suite 103
shsaleh@mines.edu

MICHAEL SHEPPARD

Teaching Assistant Professor
GRLA 204
msheppard@mines.edu

JESSICA SMITH

Professor
GRLA 220
303.273.3944

jmsmith@mines.edu

ANTONIE VANDENBERGE

Professor of Practice
GRLA 122
303.273.3593
atvandenberge@mines.edu

Aubrey Wigner

Teaching Assistant Professor
GRLA 206
awigner@mines.edu

KATE YOUMANS

Teaching Associate Professor and Presidential Faculty Fellow for Diversity, Inclusion & Access (DIA)
WISEM House
303.384.2237

kyoumans@mines.edu

Staff

BECKY BUSCHKE

Program Assistant
GRLA 200
303.384.2754
rbuschke@mines.edu

LEAH FITZGERALD

Stakeholder Relations Manager
GRLA 212
leahfitzgerald@mines.edu

KIRSTEN KELLY

Capstone Administration Assistant
GRLA 212
303.384.2723
kkelly@mines.edu

KIM WALKER

Department Manager
GRLA 202
303.273.3593
kwwalker@mines.edu

Adjunct Faculty

HAMID ALAMIN

Cornerstone Adjunct Faculty
aalamin@mines.edu

SUE ANDERSON

Cornerstone and Capstone Adjunct Faculty
sanderson@mines.edu

JOEL BACH

Adjunct Faculty
jmbach@mines.edu

JAMES BESEDA

Capstone Adjunct Faculty
jbeseda@mines.edu

LAURA CRISMAN

Adjunct Faculty
lcrisman@mines.edu

MIKE DAVIS

Adjunct Faculty
mcdavis@mines.edu

MICHELLE FISHER

Adjunct Faculty
michelle.fisher@mines.edu

MARK FLORIDA

Cornerstone and Capstone Adjunct Faculty
mflorida@mines.edu

HEATHER GOETSCH

Capstone Adjunct Faculty
hgoetsch@mines.edu

CARLOS GONCALVES

Adjunct Faculty
cgoncalves@mines.edu

ROXANN HAYES

Capstone Adjunct Faculty
rohayes@mines.edu

CARA JUERGENSEN

Cornerstone Adjunct Faculty
carajuergensen@mines.edu

PATRICIA LITTMAN

Cornerstone Adjunct Faculty
plittman@mines.edu

ROBERT REEVES

Capstone Adjunct Faculty
robertreeves@mines.edu

LISA WOODWARD

Capstone Adjunct Faculty
lisawoodward@mines.edu

ANDREW PIOTROWSKI

Adjunct Faculty
piotrowski@mines.edu

GREG PROULX

Adjunct Faculty
gproulx@mines.edu

KIRSTIN SMITH

Adjunct Faculty
kristin.smith@mines.edu

MEGAN TIDD

Adjunct Faculty
megantidd@mines.edu

AMY ZHANG

Adjunct Faculty
amy.zhang@mines.edu

Affiliate Faculty 

Stephanie Claussen

STEPHANIE CLAUSSEN

Research Professor
303.273.3650
sclausse@mines.edu

Stephanie Claussen

ELLEN MORRIS

Professional V-University Program Leader
303.384.6299
ellen.morris@nrel.gov

Vivian Underhill

Postdoctoral Researcher
vivian.underhill@mines.edu