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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.
Events for 2024
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
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
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
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)
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