{"id":2915,"date":"2022-10-02T00:11:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T05:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ewb\/?page_id=2915"},"modified":"2025-11-05T19:56:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:56:46","slug":"meet-our-mentors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ewb\/meet-our-mentors\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Our Mentors"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Aidoo, PhD – Faculty Advisor
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Dr. Adioo is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rose-Hulman, specializing in structures.\u00a0 He has been involved with EWB-RHIT for close to two decades, traveling abroad with the club on many occasions especially to his home country of Ghana, and providing technical support on many of our projects.<\/p>\n

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John Gardner, PhD – Faculty Advisor<\/h3>\n

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Dr. Gardner is a Professor of Spanish at Rose-Hulman.\u00a0 He has been involved with the club for well over a decade, traveling abroad on the majority of our trips to Spanish speaking countries where he serves as our translator.\u00a0 He very much involved in guiding the club on a day-to-day basis, supporting the students in whatever way is needed.<\/p>\n

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Kyle Kershaw, PE, PhD – Faculty Mentor<\/h3>\n

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Dr. Kershaw is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and the Roland E. Hutchins Endowed Chair in Civil Engineering at Rose-Hulman.\u00a0 He has been involved with the club for close to a decade, serving as a valuable resource both when traveling and on geotechnical related topics.<\/p>\n

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Jed Holt, PE – Responsible Engineer In Charge<\/h3>\n

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Jed is a 1970 graduate of Rose-Hulman and serves as our Responsible Engineer in Charge, meaning that he must sign off on all of our designs.\u00a0 He has been involved with the chapter for close to a decade and has been an extremely valuable resource both when traveling and providing technical expertise both on the engineering and construction side of things.\u00a0 He built a career in the construction industry working his way up to becoming the President of Bowen Engineering.<\/p>\n

Michelle Black, PE, – Technical Mentor<\/h3>\n

Michelle is one of our technical mentors that specializes in seismic design. She has assisted extensively with the design of our seismic force restraining system. She is a senior project engineer at Martin\/Martin Consulting Engineers.<\/p>\n

Thomas Frankie, PhD, PE, SE – Technical Mentor<\/h3>\n

\"\"Dr. Frankie joined our team in 2022 as a Technical Mentor for our chapter.\u00a0 He is a senior associate at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. with an extensive skill set in nondestructive evaluation, structural analysis, and repair and rehabilitation of concrete structures.<\/p>\n

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Jacquelyn Miller, EIT – Technical Mentor<\/h3>\n

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Jacquelyn is a 2020 graduate of Rose-Hulman with a degree in civil engineering.\u00a0 After being extensively involved as a student serving in numerous leadership roles, she recently rejoined the team as a mentor to share her expertise in structures.\u00a0 She currently works as a design engineer at Schaefer.<\/p>\n

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Liam Sawyer, PE – Technical Mentor<\/h3>\n

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Liam is one of our technical mentors.\u00a0 He has been involved with the club for close to five years, both traveling with us, and providing us technical guidance on our projects.\u00a0 He is a project manager at Kimley Horn where his specially is Land Development.<\/p>\n

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Roger Ward, PE – Technical Mentor<\/h3>\n

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Roger is a 1971 Rose-Hulman graduate.\u00a0 He is very extensively involved in Engineers Without Borders as a member of the Indianapolis Professional chapter, as a mentor for several student chapters, and is an International Community Program Reviewer.\u00a0 He has been involved with our chapter for well over a decade serving as the Responsible Engineer In Charge on our last project. Professionally Roger is the CEO of Roger Ward Engineering, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Aidoo, PhD – Faculty Advisor Dr. Adioo is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rose-Hulman, specializing in structures.\u00a0 He has been involved with EWB-RHIT for close to two decades, traveling abroad with the club on many occasions especially to his home country of Ghana, and providing technical support on many of our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16713,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2915","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ewb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ewb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ewb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ewb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16713"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ewb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ewb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4423,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ewb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2915\/revisions\/4423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ewb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}