Dr. Kevan Shafizadeh is the Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) at California State University, Sacramento (“Sacramento State”)”), where leads all academic and student affairs of a college consisting of five academic departments, six undergraduate programs, six graduate programs, three centers, nearly 5,000 students, 85 full-time faculty and staff, and an approximate $12 million annual operating budget. Duties include but are not limited to: budget, personnel, operations, enrollment management, outreach, and advancement.

Dr. Shafizadeh earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Davis. He completed a doctoral degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington, during which time he spent a year helping to teach and develop curriculum in an underserved Seattle public middle school science class. After completing his Ph.D., he returned to UC Davis as a post-doctoral research engineer and instructor.

In 2004, Dr. Shafizadeh joined the faculty at Sacramento State as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, where he headed the transportation engineering area and taught courses in transportation engineering and planning, statistics, and computer applications. In 2009, he was promoted to the position of associate professor and granted tenure. In 2012, he was elected to serve as department chair and was honored by the college with the Outstanding Scholarly and Creative Activity Award. In 2014, he was promoted to the rank of full professor during his term as department chair. He served as an associate dean for the college from 2015 until 2021.

For almost 25 years, Dr. Shafizadeh has been involved in a wide range transportation engineering projects and serves the broader engineering community as a transportation engineering consultant or technical expert on a variety of technical or legal issues. Dr. Shafizadeh is a California state-registered Professional Civil Engineer (P.E.) and Traffic Engineer (T.E.), as well as a nationally-board certified Professional Transportation Planner (PTP) and a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE). Past clients include federal, state, and local government agencies, quasi-government agencies, non-profit organizations, and private entities. In partnership with Sacramento State’s College of Continuing Education (CCE), he served as a technical advisor to both the Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) Center, a Caltrans-funded program administered through Sacramento State, which provides training and technical assistance to local transportation agencies throughout the state, and the Active Transportation Resource Center (ATRC).

Dr. Shafizadeh remains an active member of the broader engineering community. He is fellow with the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), serving on education, safety, and forensics and risk management councils. He is also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and volunteers as civil engineering program evaluator (PEV) for ABET, the nonprofit, non-governmental accreditation body for university engineering programs.

In his spare time, Dr. Shafizadeh still enjoys a wide range of outdoor activities, including playing basketball, bicycling, kayaking, snowboarding, hiking, fly fishing, and swimming. Above all, he enjoys spending time with his family and friends. He is a devoted father who serves as a volunteer basketball coach and is an involved parent at his kids’ local public schools. His wife, Tracy, who is an independent scientific communications consultant in the biotechnology industry, live with their two sons in East Sacramento near the Sacramento State campus.

You are invited to contact Dr. Shafizadeh by sending e-mail to shafizadeh@csus.edu. You can also follow him on Twitter @KevanShafizadeh.