Advising

Mission statement

Academic Advising exists to affirm and empower students. To enhance our students’ experiences, Wayne State University Advisors are committed to collaborating with our diverse local and global campus community. We provide equitable opportunities for every student and maximize student success through continuous professional development. Our advising fosters students’ sense of belonging, autonomy, awareness, and self-advocacy. 

Vision statement 

To be a renowned leader in accessible, comprehensive, and holistic academic advising for a diverse student body.

Engineering advising services

Advisors in the College of Engineering are available to help guide students through a successful academic experience. Students and advisors work together to set goals, develop academic plans, and process registration and other administrative tasks. Moreover, advisors provide encouragement and support as well as an outlet to discuss career aspirations, address concerns, and ask important questions.

Students are assigned to an academic advisor based on their major or area of interest. It is recommended that students declare a major as early as possible and meet with their designated advisor on a regular basis. Current or admitted students can schedule appointments with their advisor at stars.wayne.edu.

Graduate program coordinators can answer questions about admissions requirements or the graduate program application process.


Undergraduate advisors

Department Undergraduate faculty advisor
Biomedical Engineering

Namrata Murthy

Chemical Engineering

Tracy Fahl Castle

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Elizabeth Hill

Computer Science

Damon Lee - Computer Science Student Last Name A-F
Michael Williams - Computer Science Student Last Name G-M
Colleen McKenney - Computer Science Student Last Name N-Z
Gail Evans - Information Technology

Electrical and Computer Engineering Kate Rendi
EOS Program

Casey Rue

Engineering Technology

Andrew McKinney

Industrial and Systems Engineering 

Gail Evans (Academic Advisor)
Evrim Dalkiran (Faculty Advisor)

Mechanical Engineering

Keith Wadley

Graduate advisors

Department Graduate faculty advisor
Alternative Energy Technology (M.S.) Mohsen Ayoobi
Artificial Intelligence (M.S.) Dongziao Zhu (CS)
Yanchao Liu (ISE)
Nabil Sarhan (ECE)
Biomedical Engineering (M.S. and Ph.D.) Harini Sundararaghavan
Chemical Engineering (M.S. and Ph.D.) Carolyn Harris
Civil Engineering (M.S. and Ph.D.) Shawn McElmurry
Computer Engineering (M.S. and Ph.D.) Ivan Avrutsky
Computer Science (M.S. and Ph.D.) Dongxiao Zhu
Data Science and Business Analytics (M.S.) Ratna Babu Chinnam (ISE - Analytics)
Ming Dong (CS - Computing)
Electrical Engineering (M.S. and Ph.D.) Ivan Avrutsky
Electric-drive Vehicle Engineering (M.S.) Leela Arava
Engineering Management (M.S.) Alper Murat
Engineering Technology (M.S.) Ece Yaprak
Environmental and Sustainability Engineering (M.S.) Bill Shuster
Global Executive Track (GET) (Ph.D.) Ratna Babu Chinnam
Industrial and Systems Engineering (Ph.D.) Qingyu Yang
Industrial Engineering (M.S.) Jeremy Rickli
Manufacturing Engineering (M.S.) Jeremy Rickli
Materials Science (M.S. and Ph.D.) Carolyn Harris
Mechanical Engineering (M.S.) Leela Arava
Professional Engineering Management Master's Program (EMMP) (M.S.) Alper Murat
Robotics (M.S.) Ece Yaprak (ET)
Abhilash Pandya (ECE)
Zheng Dong (CS)
Semiconductor Engineering (online M.S.) Gozde Tutuncuoglu
Systems Engineering (online M.S.) Stephen Rapp

Graduate program coordinators

Graduate program coordinators can help answer questions about admissions requirements or the graduate program application process.

Coordinator Graduate programs Graduate programs
Rob Carlson AET (grad certificate)
AET (M.S.)
Advanced Analytics and Data Computing
Biomedical Engineering (M.S. and Ph.D.)
Chemical Engineering (M.S. and Ph.D.)
Civil Engineering (M.S. and Ph.D.)
Data Science and Business Analytics (M.S.)

Electric-drive Vehicle Engineering (grad certificate)
Electric-drive Vehicle Engineering (M.S.)Engineering Technology (M.S.)
Environmental and Sustainability Engineering (M.S.)
Materials Science and Engineering (M.S. and Ph.D.)
Mechanical Engineering (M.S. and Ph.D.)
Mobility (grad certificate)
Robotics (M.S.)

Beth Madigan Artificial Intelligence (M.S.)
Computer Engineering (M.S. and Ph.D.)
Computer Science (M.S. and Ph.D.)
Electrical Engineering (M.S. and Ph.D.)
Engineering Management (M.S.)
Industrial and Systems Engineering (M.S.)
Manufacturing Engineering (M.S.)