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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)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

ECE Distinguished Seminar Series

Enhancing learning and inclusivity in Electrical Engineering

Prof. Susan Lord, Chair and Professor, Integrated Engineering; Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of San Diego

1:30pm – 2:30pm in 1200 EECS Building

ECE Distinguished Seminar Series | WIMS Seminar

45 Years of MEMS Start-up Companies

Dr. Kurt Petersen, Co-Chair of HardTech Group at Silicon Valley Band of Angels, 2019 IEEE Medal of Honor Recipient

1:30pm – 2:30pm in 1500 EECS Building

Student Event | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar

Leading through High Performance Technology

Richard Bergman , Executive Vice President, Computing and Graphics Business Group, AMD

1:00pm – 2:00pm in 1500 EECS Building

Student Event | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar

How to prepare to work on the next Xbox, Kinect, Hololens, or Quantum Computer.

Dawson Yee, System Engineer – Azure Hardware, Quantum Computing, Microsoft

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 1303 EECS Building

Student Event | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar

My First Student: My Mother

Dr. Nicolaos G. Alexoploulos , Vice President for Academic Programs and University Relations, Broadcom Foundation

1:30pm – 2:00pm in 1500 EECS Building

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