The Engineering Undergraduate Student Affairs office provides a full range of academic counseling services to undergraduate students in our 11 Engineering majors and 2 Engineering minors as well as advising for students interested in changing their major into Engineering.
Students are not assigned to specific academic counselors and are free to see any available counselor or Peer Advisors (by appointment or on a walk-in basis) during the office’s open hours.
Engineering Undergraduate Student Affairs
Christy King
Associate Director
Undergraduate Student Affairs
Email: clking@uci.edu
Christy primarily advises Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering majors.
Maggie Anderson
Academic Counselor
Undergraduate Student Affairs
Email: mhanders@uci.edu
Maggie primarily advises Aerospace Engineering.
Cesar Barrios
Academic Counselor
Undergraduate Student Affairs
Email: c.barrios@uci.edu
Cesar primarily advises Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Engineering.
Erica Juarez
Academic Counselor
Undergraduate Student Affairs
Email: erica.juarez@uci.edu
Erica primarily advises Chemical Engineering.
Mitzi Orme
Academic Counselor
Undergraduate Student Affairs
Email: ormem@uci.edu
Mitzi primarily advises Mechanical Engineering.
Ushma Patel
Academic Counselor
Undergraduate Student Affairs
Email: upatel@uci.edu
Ushma primarily advises Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering: Premedical, Materials Science and Engineering & Campuswide Honors Collegium students.
Andrea Varon
Academic Counselor
Undergraduate Student Affairs
Email: avaron@uci.edu
Andrea primarily advises Computer Engineering & Computer Science & Engineering.
All Academic Counselors are equipped to advise any major within the School of Engineering. You are not required to meet with your major’s designated counselor.
Faculty Undergraduate Program Advisors
When to contact faculty advisors?
Career prospects, differences of engineering majors, and research.
What to NOT ask faculty advisors?
Change of major, degree progress, schedule of classes, clearing prerequisites, plan of study, clearing holds, and many more!
| Faculty Program Advisor | Major | |
| Jacquie Huynh | Aerospace Engineering | huynhlj@uci.edu |
| Christine King | Biomedical Engineering | kingce@uci.edu |
| Christine King | Biomedical Engineering: Premedical | kingce@uci.edu |
| Elizabeth L Read | Chemical Engineering | elread@uci.edu |
| Michael McNally | Civil Engineering | mmcnally@uci.edu |
| Salma Elmalaki | Computer Engineering | salma.elmalaki@uci.edu |
| Quoc-Viet Dang | Computer Science and Engineering | qpdang@uci.edu |
| Syed Jafar | Electrical Engineering | syed@uci.edu |
| Diego Rosso | Environmental Engineering | bidui@uci.edu |
| David Copp | Mechanical Engineering | dcopp@uci.edu |
| Shen Dillon | Material Science and Engineering | sdillon1@uci.edu |