Faculty Labor Management Committee Members
Dr. Alp is the Dean of the College of Engineering, Technology, and Management at Oregon Institute of Technology (Oregon Tech). She joined Oregon Tech in January 2024, coming from the Pennsylvania College of Technology where she served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost. Prior to this, she held the position of Dean at the Bailey College of Engineering and Technology at Indiana State University from 2018 to 2022 and was Associate Dean and Professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga from 1999 to 2018.
Dr. Alp holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Management and a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, along with a Ph.D. in Engineering Management from the University of Missouri-Rolla. She is a prolific scholar with over 100 publications and has secured more than $50 million in grants and gifts throughout her career. Dr. Alp has extensive experience in online education and has successfully elevated several programs to achieve national rankings. She has also developed and significantly expanded several new programs, including Construction Management, Mechatronics Engineering Technology, Data Science, and Computational Science, leading to their exponential growth.
Her contributions to STEM have been recognized through multiple awards in teaching, research, service, and diversity, underscoring her impact as a female leader in the field. Furthermore, Dr. Alp has been honored as a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Management. She is a licensed Professional Engineer and serves as a Program Evaluator for the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) and Middle State Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE).
Vice President, OT-AAUP
I joined the faculty of Oregon Tech in 2014, and since then I’ve been busy teaching a variety of classes in writing and rhetoric, including first-year composition, public speaking, technical writing, and professional writing. Since the beginning of the pandemic, I’ve been increasingly interested in the rhetoric of health and medicine, and my research now focuses on medical charting as technical communication as well as ableism in public health policies.
I view clear writing, speaking, and thinking as central to the success of both technical and communication professionals, and I have devoted my professional life to the teaching and practice of writing; after earning both my master’s and doctorate in rhetoric, I have spent the entirety of my teaching career teaching writing and public speaking to STEM students, first at Carnegie Mellon and then at Oregon Tech.
So, while my path to teaching writing may look a little different from the ‘typical’ English prof—the child and grandchild of engineers and science majors, I grew up preferring math to English, and in college, I majored in philosophy and never took a writing class—this seemingly unconventional background has been a great asset to me in my many years teaching rhetoric and writing to STEM students.
Dr. C.J. Riley is a registered professional engineer (OR) and professor of civil engineering at Oregon Tech. He completed his Ph.D. at Colorado State University in structural mechanics and has two years of experience in bridge design, rating, and software development for transportation structures with the Wyoming Department of Transportation. He is the graduate program director and advisor to the ASCE-AGC (American Society of Civil Engineers and Associated General Contractors) Student Chapter. Dr. Riley is active with the American Society for Engineering Education. He studies and lives engineering education and loves lighting up a classroom with hands-on demonstrations and relevant case studies that bring theory to life. You're most likely to find him out shaking local bridges with his students to quantify structural health or testing large-scale structural components in the structures lab.
