The Sweet Briar College Engineering Advisory Board includes distinguished leaders from industry and academia. The board provides the program with planning support related to partnerships with industry, student internships, employment, recruiting, curriculum and fundraising.
The current board consists of the committed individuals listed below.
Sara Abbe
Engineering Unit Manager, Babcock & Wilcox
H | Lynchburg, Va.
Bob Bailey
Executive Director, Center for Advanced Engineering and Research (CAER)
H | Lynchburg, Va.
L | LinkedIn Profile
Bobbi Ann M. Carroll
Senior Director of Automotive Partnerships, SiriusXM Satellite Radio
H | Detroit, Mich.
L | LinkedIn Profile
Suzan M. Jagger
President, Jagger Advisory
H | Litchfield, Conn.
L | LinkedIn Profile
Ron Kander
Executive Dean, Philadelphia University, Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce
H | Philadelphia, Pa.
L | LinkedIn Profile
Mary Kasarda
Associate Professor, Virginia Tech, Mechanical Engineering Department
H | Blacksburg, Va.
Thom Keehan
Founder & Managing Partner, Enterprise Kaizen
H | Milwaukee, Wis.
L | LinkedIn Profile
Sarah Lightbody ’12
Managing Consultant, Watson Internet of Things, IBM
H | Washington, D.C.
L | LinkedIn Profile
Megan Lucas
CEO and Chief Economic Development Officer, Lynchburg Regional Business Alliance
H | Lynchburg, Va.
Leo Obrst
Principal AI Scientist, Information Semantics, MITRE
H | Washington, D.C.
L | LinkedIn Profile
Christina (Johnson) Pappas ’08
Graduate Student, University of Virginia, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Christina is the first student to earn a B.S. in engineering science from Sweet Briar College.
H | Charlottesville, Va.
Finis Southworth
Retired CTO, AREVA
H | Amherst, Va.
L | LinkedIn Profile
Tom Spangenberg
Business Unit Director, BW Integrated Systems
H | Lynchburg, Va.
L | LinkedIn Profile
Michael Staton
Senior – Principal Engineering / QA Manager, NovaTech
H | Lynchburg, Va.
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Ric Woerner
Senior Project Engineer, Glad Manufacturing Company
H | Amherst, Va.
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David Wood
Director of Technology, Ephox + TinyMCE
H | Brisbane, Australia
L | LinkedIn Profile