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Departmental Safety Committees

Every department in the College of Engineering has a safety committee to help Principal Investigators, their Graduate students and Undergraduate students to learn safe procedures, participate in training classes, establish and follow Standard Operating Procedures and conduct research safely. At least one member of each department committee attends the monthly COESAFE meeting. Another is chosen to be a substitute to the COESAFE meeting whenever the regular member is unable to do so. The Department Chair has been bolded, and Department Substitutes are italicized, with their titles following their names. Any member of any departmental committee can be contacted if a faculty, student or staff person has a question on safety, training, or procedures.

Aerospace Engineering (AERO)
Name Email
Dennis Bernstein, Chair dsbaero@umich.edu
Tom Griffin, Substitute tgriffin@umich.edu
Martin Sichel sichel@umich.edu
Anthony Waas dcw@umich.edu
Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences (AOSS)
Name Email
John Eder, Chair jeder@umich.edu
Charles Edmonson edmonson@umich.edu
John Mansfield - EMAL Liason jfmjfm@umich.edu
Cathy Seay-Ostrowski cathyso@umich.edu
Marti Moon, Substitute mamoon@umich.edu
Biomedical Engineering (BME)
Name Email
Kyle Hollman drkyleh@umich.edu
Jessica Parsons, Substitute jeparsons@umich.edu
Lisa Jones lisaj@umich.edu
Vinod Suresh vinodas@umich.edu
Luis Hernandes-Garcia hernan@umich.edu
Wei Zhong wzhong@umich.edu
Shan Lee eclee@umich.edu
Chemical Engineering (ChemE)
Name Email
Pablo LaValle, Chair pablo@umich.edu
Brian Johnson, Substitute brianj@umich.edu
Johannes Schwank schwank@umich.edu
Claire O'Connor clairem@umich.edu
Harold Eberhart eberhart@umich.edu
Michael A Africa mae@umich.edu
Don Trombley dont@umich.edu
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Name Email
Christian Lastoskie, Chair lastoskie@umich.edu
Tom Yavarski, Substitute recycler@umich.edu
Aline Cotel acotel@umich.edu
Victor Li vcli@umich.edu
Gustavo Parra-Montesinos gjpm@umich.edu
Bob Spence bspence@umich.edu
Computer Aided Engineering Network
Name Email
John Muckler, Chair johnm@umich.edu
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Name Email
Dennis Grimard, Chair lcm@umich.edu
Brian Rice, Substitute brrice@umich.edu
Facilities
Name Email
John Keedy, Chair jakeedy@umich.edu
Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE)
Name Email
Thomas Armstrong, Chair tja@umich.edu
Chris Konrad Chris.Konrad@umich.edu
Jim Foulke jafoulke@umich.edu
Monroe Keyserling wmkeyser@umich.edu
Randy Rabourn, Substitute rrabourn@umich.edu
Jan Shi shihang@umich.edu
Mechanical Engineering (ME)
Name Email
Edgar Meyhofer, Chair meyhofer@umich.edu
Matt Navarre, Substitute mnavarre@umich.edu
Steve Erskine stevee@umich.edu
Lynn Buege buege@umich.edu
Zoran Filipi filipi@umich.edu
Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
Name Email
Keith McIntyre, Chair khm@umich.edu
Kevin Worth, Substitute kworth@umich.edu
Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
Name Email
Hans VanSumeren, Chair vansumer@umich.edu
Joe WIld, Substitute jpwild@umich.edu
Nuclear Engineering / Radiological Sciences (NERS)
Name Email
Mark Perreault, Co-Chair markperr@umich.edu
Rod Ewing, Co-Chair rodewing@umich.edu
Michael Atzmon atzmon@umich.edu
Gary Was gsw@umich.edu
Occupational Safety & Environmental Health (OSEH)
Name Email
Lisa Stowe lstowe@umich.edu
Danielle Sheen, Substitute drsheen@umich.edu