MENU 
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
There are no events currently scheduled.
Past Lectures
NOV
07
2024
Alumni | Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
Cancer Screening For All – An Electrical Engineer’s Approach
Mehdi Hatamian, CEO, 2Pi-Sigma Corporation
NOV
01
2024
Alumni | Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
An Engineer’s Journey: Exploring Earth, Mars, and Beyond, Together
Dr. Mariko Burgin, President, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS)
SEP
18
2024
Alumni | Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
Engineering Education for the 2030s and Beyond
Dean Leo Kempel, Dennis P. Nyquist Endowed Professor of Electromagnetics and Dean of the College of Engineering, Michigan State University
SEP
13
2024
Alumni | Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
Engineering Community: Cooperating at scale, from Motown to Tik Tok…to ChatGPT
David Tarver, Founder and Board President, Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative
FEB
02
2024
Alumni | Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar | RADLAB Seminar
Sensing and Interconnect Technologies for Diverse Applications- Communications, Ecology, and Nanomedicine
Rhonda Franklin , McKnight Presidential Professor of Electrical Engineering; Abbott Professor of Innovative Education in the Institute for Engineering and Medicine, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
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
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
OCT
06
2023
Alumni | Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar | Student Event
What’s it like to build a semiconductor startup
Dr. Mo Faisal , President and CEO , Movellus
SEP
22
2023
Alumni | Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar | Student Event
Fabless, From Startup to Beyond IPO
Dr. Curtis Ling, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer , MaxLinear
JAN
31
2023
Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
Fireside chat with Dr. Ruba Borno
Dr. Ruba Borno , Vice President, Worldwide Channels & Alliances, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
OCT
28
2022
Alumni | Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
Engineering is Logical. Life Isn’t
Vikram Verma, Board Member, Advisor and Recovering CEO
OCT
07
2022
Alumni | Distinguished Lecture | 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
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
APR
01
2022
Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
A Perspective on Microelectronics Technology
Katherine Herrick, Director, Advanced Enabling Technology, Raytheon Technologies
OCT
22
2021
Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
My Journey in Enabling 100M+ Intelligent Things
Dr. Scott Hanson, Chief Technology Officer, Founder, Ambiq
OCT
01
2021
Alumni | Distinguished Lecture | ECE Alumni Award Seminar
Active Data Collection, Hypothesis Testing, and Learning
Dr. Tara Javidi, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego
OCT
25
2019
Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar | Student Event
Leading through High Performance Technology
Richard Bergman , Executive Vice President, Computing and Graphics Business Group, AMD
OCT
04
2019
Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar | Student Event
How to prepare to work on the next Xbox, Kinect, Hololens, or Quantum Computer.
Dawson Yee, System Engineer – Azure Hardware, Quantum Computing, Microsoft
OCT
04
2019
Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar | Student Event
My First Student: My Mother
Dr. Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos, Vice President for Academic Programs and University Relations, Broadcom Foundation
OCT
04
2019
Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar | Student Event
Ready Fire Aim: RE-Wiring My Brain for N=ALL
Karen Fireman, Fireman & Associates
OCT
01
2019
Alumni | ECE Alumni Award Seminar | Student Event
Perspectives on Educating Engineers
Dr. Steven McLaughlin, Dean, College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology