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SEP
22
2023
Distinguished Lecture | Student Event | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
Fabless, From Startup to Beyond IPO
Dr. Curtis Ling, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer , MaxLinear
3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1200 EECS Building
APR
10
2023
Distinguished Lecture | Gilleo Lectureship
Launching the Webb Telescope: Managing Global Teams In Turbulent Times
Gregory Robinson, 33-Year Veteran of NASA, Former Director, James Webb Space Telescope, TIME Magazine 100 Most Influential People of 2022, Columbia University Faculty
3:30pm – 4:30pm in Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center
MAR
29
2023
Distinguished Lecture
Cybersecurity and Risk Management: From Data to Policy
Mingyan Liu , Peter and Evelyn Fuss Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering
3:00pm – 4:00pm in Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (3rd floor)
FEB
23
2023
Alumni | ECE Willie Hobbs Moore Distinguished Alumni Lecture
Engineering – The Joy of Journey
Christopher Rutledge, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Verizon
3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1311 EECS Building
JAN
31
2023
Women in Computing | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
Fireside chat with Dr. Ruba Borno
Dr. Ruba Borno , Vice President, Worldwide Channels & Alliances, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
2:00pm – 2:45pm in Remote/Virtual
NOV
17
2022
Distinguished Lecture | Student Event
A Recent History of Integrated Circuits: Bottlenecks and Breakthroughs
Dennis Sylvester, Edward S. Davidson Collegiate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
3:30pm – 4:30pm in Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (3rd floor)
NOV
04
2022
Distinguished Lecture | Women in Computing | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
Sensing and Interconnect Technologies for Communications and Ecology, and Nanomedicine Applications
Rhonda Franklin, McKnight Presidential Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Abbott Professor for Innovative Education in the Institute for Engineering and Medicine, University of Minnesota
3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1200 EECS Building
OCT
28
2022
Distinguished Lecture | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
Engineering is Logical. Life Isn’t
Vikram Verma, Board Member, Advisor and Recovering CEO
3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1200 EECS Building
OCT
25
2022
Distinguished Lecture
From analog to digital and back again
Michael Flynn, Fawwaz T. Ulaby Collegiate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
3:30pm – 4:30pm in Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (3rd floor)
OCT
07
2022
Distinguished Lecture | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
An engineer’s journey from Motor City to Capitol Hill
Tanya Das, Associate Director of Energy Innovation, The Bipartisan Policy Center
3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1200 EECS Building
SEP
23
2022
Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
My Journey in electrifying the world’s most popular truck
Linda Zhang, Chief Engineer, All-Electric F-150 Lightning, Ford Motor Company
3:00pm – 4:00pm in Chesebrough Auditorium, Chrysler Center
MAY
20
2022
Distinguished Lecture | ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
Electromagnetic Metasurfaces for Wavefront Manipulation and Antenna Beamforming
George V. Eleftheriades, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
2:00pm – 3:00pm in 1200 EECS Building
MAY
06
2022
ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
Electronics 5.0: New Materials and Devices for Edge Intelligence
Tomás Palacios, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:30pm – 3:30pm in Remote/Virtual
APR
01
2022
Women in Computing | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
A Perspective on Microelectronics Technology
Katherine Herrick, Director, Advanced Enabling Technology, Raytheon Technologies
3:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual
MAR
11
2022
Distinguished Lecture | ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
Rethinking General Anesthesia
Dr. Emery Brown, Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and of Computational Neuroscience, MIT
2:00pm – 3:00pm in Remote/Virtual
NOV
04
2021
Distinguished Lecture | Alumni | ECE Distinguished Seminar Series | ECE Willie Hobbs Moore Distinguished Alumni Lecture
An electrical engineer’s guide to research and development at Corning Incorporated
Dr. Donnell Walton, Director, Corning Technology Center—Silicon Valley
3:00pm – 4:00pm
OCT
22
2021
Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
My Journey in Enabling 100M+ Intelligent Things
Dr. Scott Hanson, Chief Technology Officer, Founder, Ambiq
11:00am – 12:00pm in Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (3rd floor)
OCT
01
2021
Distinguished Lecture | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
Active Data Collection, Hypothesis Testing, and Learning
Dr. Tara Javidi, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego
3:00pm – 4:00pm in Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (3rd floor)
MAR
04
2021
Distinguished Lecture
Optical Frequency Combs
Steven Cundiff, Harrison M. Randall Collegiate Professorship in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Michigan
4:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual
MAR
16
2020
Distinguished Lecture | RADLAB Seminar
Low Phase Noise Signal Generation Utilising Oscillators, Resonators & Filters and Atomic Clocks
Dr. Jeremy Everard, Professor of Electronics, University of York
5:00pm – 6:30pm in Remote/Virtual
MAR
12
2020
Distinguished Lecture | Alumni | ECE Willie Hobbs Moore Distinguished Alumni Lecture
Resonant Infrared, Matrix-Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation: Enabling Hybrid Thin Films for Optoelectronics
Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts, Jeffrey N. Vinik Professor Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University
1:30pm – 2:30pm in Remote/Virtual
FEB
28
2020
Distinguished Lecture | ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
Control of electromagnetic fields for energy applications
Prof. Shanhui Fan, Professor, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
11:00am – 12:00pm in 1200 EECS Building
FEB
27
2020
Distinguished Lecture
Henry Russel Lecture: Carbon vs. carbon dioxide: Using carbon-based (organic) electronics for a more sustainable planet
Stephen Forrest, Peter A. Franken Distinguished University Professor; Paul G. Goebel Professor of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
4:30pm – 5:30pm in Rackham 4th floor Amphitheater
FEB
06
2020
Distinguished Lecture
Computing in Millimeters
David Blaauw, Kensall D. Wise Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, EECS-ECE
4:30pm – 6:00pm in Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (3rd floor)
JAN
17
2020
Distinguished Lecture | ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
Electronics in the Brain – Literally
Prof. Arto Nurmikko, L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Engineering and Physics, Brown University
1:30pm – 2:30pm in Gerald R. Ford Library
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