Alumni Spotlights
Claude Shannon
BS EE and Math 1936
Father of Information Theory


Larry Page
BSE CE 1995
Co-founder of Google


Paul Debevec
BSE CE 1992
Maker of Movie Magic



Tony Fadell
BSE CE 1991
Inventor of the iPod
Founder of Nest Labs



Garlin Gilchrist
BSE CE and CS 2005
Lieutenant Governor
of the State of Michigan


Thomas Knoll
BSE Physics 1982; MSE CICE 1984
Inventor of Photoshop



Dr. Willie Hobbs Moore
First African American woman at U-M to earn
a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering (’58 and ’61).



Babak Parviz
MSE PhD EE ’97 ’01; also MS Physics ’97
Led development of Google Glass


Meera Sampath
PhD EE:S 1995
Helped kickstart Xerox’s Indian Innovation Hub
and was an early leader of their work in that country.





