Stacey M. Breitenbach, Assistant Dean

College of Engineering

Dawn Sirois, Academic Advisor (part-time)

Maria Sklar, Academic Advisor
Greg Roldan, Academic Advisor

Kim Marsalek, Academic Advisor
Peer Advisors: Lucas, Kyle, Owen, Kaitlin

Faculty Advisors
Each student is assigned a faculty advisor within his/her major. Faculty advisors are responsible for providing technical advice. Student course scheduling, course content questions, and career planning are usually done by the faculty advisors. Students seeking information about graduate schools, coop's, and future jobs should contact their faculty advisor.

Advising Center Staff
The Advising Center is responsible for providing administrative advice to all College of Engineering undergraduate students. The monitoring of academic and administrative progress is done within the Advising Center. Most student-related forms (such as curriculum substitution forms, withdrawal forms, and change of major forms) are processed in the Advising Center. The Assistant Dean has signature authority to sign for advisor, department chair, and dean (although, some forms are routed for department review). Student course scheduling is done in the Advising Center for new students to Cal Poly, but due to the large number of undergraduate engineering students it is recommended that students contact their faculty advisor for scheduling assistance. The majority of the general education and breadth questions and interpretation of transfer credit are done in the Advising Center after the Evaluation's office has provided the initial evaluation.

The Advising Center maintains working folders on each student. These folders, in conjunction with the student database, are used for general advising purposes that include: checking progress toward the student's major, monitoring the student's major grade point average, verifying satisfaction of the Graduation Writing Requirement and U.S. Cultural Pluralism requirement, and pre-graduation completion checks. The Advising Center has past and present flowcharts and curriculum sheets for all engineering majors. The Advising Center staff is trained to respond to most questions regarding university, college, and department policies and procedures. Otherwise, referrals to the appropriate offices will be made.