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Alumni Award Lectures

Distinguished Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) alumni who are recipients of an ECE Alumni Award are invited to give a talk when they return to campus. These talks are called ECE Alumni Award Lectures. They tend not to be highly technical.

Upcoming Lectures

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Past Lectures

NOV
10
2023
Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
From Bursley to the Board Room – my journey from UM Engineering to becoming a fortune 500 CEO
Rick Wallace, CEO and President, KLA
3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1200 EECS Building
OCT
27
2023
Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
Those were the days
Olgica Milenkovic, Franklin W. Woeltge Professor of ECE, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1200 EECS Building
OCT
06
2023
Distinguished Lecture | Student Event | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
What’s it like to build a semiconductor startup
Dr. Mo Faisal , President and CEO , Movellus
3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1200 EECS Building
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
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
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
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
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
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)
OCT
25
2019
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
OCT
04
2019
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
OCT
04
2019
Student Event | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
My First Student: My Mother
Dr. Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos, Vice President for Academic Programs and University Relations, Broadcom Foundation
1:30pm – 2:00pm in 1500 EECS Building
OCT
04
2019
Student Event | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
Ready Fire Aim: RE-Wiring My Brain for N=ALL
Karen Fireman
9:30am – 10:30am in 1005 EECS Building
OCT
01
2019
Student Event | Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
Perspectives on Educating Engineers
Dr. Steven McLaughlin, Dean, College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
12:30pm – 1:30pm in 1200 EECS Building
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