COE Adds Four New Advisory Council Members
Michael D. Burke, Michael J. Burke, Ben Streetman and Philip Howlett joined the advisory council of the College of Engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio.
“The support of our advisory council is essential to the success of the College,” said Mauli Agrawal, dean of the College of Engineering. “We count on the council to help direct and support our growth, and we work with its members to raise awareness of the wonderful achievements of our students, faculty and alumni. Our advisory council members are our biggest fans and most trusted advisors. I am delighted that four outstanding leaders in their respective fields have agreed to join the council.”
Michael D. Burke is the founder and chair of the San Antonio Clean Technology Forum and president of MDB Capital Ventures, a private equity investment and management consulting firm. Prior to that, Burke was the director, president and CEO of EOTT Energy Corporation, a $12 billion NYSE corporation and the largest marketer and transporter of crude oil in North America. Burke’s professional career includes tenure at Tesoro Petroleum Corp. and Texas Eastern Corp., among others.
Michael J. Burke is a retired manufacturing professional, whose experience includes 13 years with Kinetic Concepts Inc (KCI) as senior vice president of manufacturing, quality, global supply chain, and research and development and 25 years with Sterling Drug. At the latter, he served in multiple capacities, including four years as its Hong Kong / China general manager.
Ben Streetman is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and holds the Dula D. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering. Streetman was dean of the Cockrell School of Engineering from 1996-2008 and was the founding director of its Microelectronics Research Center. His teaching and research interests center on semiconductor materials and devices. He is the author of the book “Solid State Electronic Devices,” which has been translated into Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Polish, and he has authored more than 290 scholarly articles. Streetman is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Philip Howlett, an undergraduate alumnus of UTSA’s program in civil engineering, is a mobility engineer at the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). Howlett is also an associate member of Professional Engineers in Government and serves as a San Antonio district liaison for VIA’s new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system.
Other advisory council members for the College of Engineering include:
- H. Norman Abramson, Southwest Research Institute (emeritus)
- Wayne Alexander, AT&T
- Bruce Barshop, Barshop Ventures LLC
- Steve Bartley, CPS Energy
- Stephanie Chandler, Jackson Walker LLP
- Jeffrey Clarke, Dell Inc.
- Samuel Dawson, Pape-Dawson Engineers Inc.
- Walter Downing, Southwest Research Institute
- Antonio Gonzalez, Boeing Aerospace
- Stephen Graham, San Antonio River Authority
- Scott Gray, J.M. Waller Associates Inc.
- Roger Hemminghaus, CTS Corp. (emeritus)
- James Henry, Standard Aero San Antonio Inc.
- Randy Holman, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- Bradley Hunt, Wilson, Hughey & Yarbrough LLC
- Lissa Martinez, Martinez & Hughes (emeritus)
- Victor Mieres, National Instruments Corp.
- John Monday, AT&T Services
- Kelley Neumann, San Antonio Water System
- Gabriele Niederauer, Entrigue Surgical Inc.
- Hon. Louis Rowe, Goetting & Associates Inc. (emeritus)
- Joe Sanchez, Air Intelligence Agency
- Chris Schultz, Raba-Kistner Consultants Inc.
- G.P. Singh, Karta Technologies Foundation
- David Spencer, Mandelbrot Ventures Inc.
- Klaus Weiswurm, Instruments Technology Machinery
- Thomas Wendorf, HNTB
