ECE Lab Pros and ECE Makers Summit

Shawn Jordan
Associate Professor
Arizona State University

Shawn Jordan is an associate professor of engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches context-centered electrical engineering and embedded systems design courses, and studies the use of context and storytelling in both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an National Science Foundation (NSF) Early CAREER Award entitled “CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and “Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments grant “Additive Innovation: An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking.” He was named one of ASEE PRISM’s “20 Faculty Under 40” in 2014, and received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Obama in 2017. Jordan co-developed the STEAM Labs™ program to engage middle and high school students in learning science, technology, engineering, arts, and math concepts through designing and building chain reaction machines. He founded and led teams to two collegiate Rube Goldberg Machine Contest national championships, and has appeared on many TV shows (including Modern Marvels on The History Channel and Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC) and a movie with his chain reaction machines. He serves on the Board of the i.d.e.a. Museum in Mesa, AZ, and worked as a behind-the scenes engineer for season 3 of the PBS engineering design reality TV show "Design Squad." He also held the Guinness World Record for the largest number of steps – 125 – in a working Rube Goldberg machine.

Leslie Birch
Lab Coordinator
University of Pennsylvania

Arduino has been Leslie’s passion ever since she attended a workshop with Leah Buechley, inventor of the first stitchable Arduino. She has shared her love of microcontrollers designing projects for Adafruit, creating responsive art, and teaching at universities, libraries and makerspaces. Leslie is most known for wearable tech and her favorite project is the ISS Pin— an image of Earth surrounded by a neopixel ring that makes light patterns when the International Space Station does a flyby. At Detkin she handles hardware orders, wrangles websites, occasionally assists classes and spreads the news about student projects. Leslie is working on her master’s degree in environmental studies, hoping to use her knowledge of sensors to help conservation efforts.

 

  Zachary Conley
Student
Arizona State University

Bio to come.

  Hisham Hamada
Student
Penn State University

Penn State undergrad studying Physics. I took Introductory circuits pre-COVID, during the breakout, and during full Remote sessions

  Omar Raymundo
Student
Duke University

Omar Raymundo is an undergraduate senior studying Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. He serves as a laboratory teaching assistant for ECE110L: Fundamentals of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He leads undergraduates through remote and in-person laboratory instruction.

 

  Clint Cole
Real Digital

Real Digital produces Xilinx FPGA-based circuit boards and related educational materials to allow electrical and computer engineering students to work remotely, at a time and place of their choosing, without any loss of depth or coverage. Clint started Real Digital in 2018 to continue bringing the best design technologies directly to student desktops. Prior to Real Digital, Clint founded Digilent in 2000, and served as CEO and CTO until 2017 (National Instruments purchased Digilent in 2013). Clint began his career as a design engineer for Hewlett-Packard and later as a research engineer for Physio-control. In 1991, Clint co-founded the medical device company Heartstream (now a part of Philips), where he served as the lead designer on the world’s first public AED. Clint has been a faculty member at Washington State University since 1997, where he continues to teach a variety of digital design and microprocessor courses.

  Noah Schmitz
Director of University Development for the Americas
Keysight Technologies

Noah graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Oklahoma with a BS in Engineering Physics and holds an MS degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. His technical articles have been published in EE Times, Wireless Systems Design, Microwave Products Digest, and Electrical Design News China. With deep application knowledge in the areas of wireless communications, power and energy, and optical electronics, he has been invited to speak at technical symposia including Semicon Singapore, Test and Measurement World Korea, and the European Space Agency Power Conference. Noah is a lifelong learner passionate about education and committed to empowering the next generation of engineers, scientists, and research professionals. His academic accolades include selection as a National Merit Scholar, the Most Outstanding Graduate of the OU College of Engineering, and a member of the PE-ET University Top 10 Honor Society.

  YC Wang
Director, Global Academic Program
Digi-Key

Director of the Global Academic Program at Digi-Key Electronics. Y.C. has a broad view of the industry having worked in many roles including applications engineering, sales, marketing, and management. He is a fan of the Maker movement and is a strong proponent of experiential engineering now used in many engineering departments across the country. Even before 2020, he has been brainstorming better ways to support distant and hybrid teaching methods and is keen to share his ideas with the academic community.

 

 

  Shawn Jordan
Associate Professor
Arizona State University

Bio to come.

 

 

  Leslie Birch
Lab Coordinator
University of Pennsylvania

Arduino has been Leslie’s passion ever since she attended a workshop with Leah Buechley, inventor of the first stitchable Arduino. She has shared her love of microcontrollers designing projects for Adafruit, creating responsive art, and teaching at universities, libraries and makerspaces. Leslie is most known for wearable tech and her favorite project is the ISS Pin— an image of Earth surrounded by a neopixel ring that makes light patterns when the International Space Station does a flyby. At Detkin she handles hardware orders, wrangles websites, occasionally assists classes and spreads the news about student projects. Leslie is working on her master’s degree in environmental studies, hoping to use her knowledge of sensors to help conservation efforts.

  Alan Feinerman
Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago

Dr. Feinerman is an Associate Professor at UIC in the Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bioengineering, Civil and Materials Engineering, and Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Departments in the College of Engineering and the Urology department in the College of Medicine. He in investigating inexpensive and High-R value vacuum insulation panels and cryopreservation. He is the undergraduate laboratory coordinator in ECE. He is working on an assortment of new medical devices to reduce medical expenses.

  Ali Golbazi
Department Chair
University of New Haven

Ali Golbazi is the chair of the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science department at the University of New Haven. Ali is also the BSEE program coordinator and oversees the mandatory student internship program. He teaches courses in graduate and undergraduate programs. Ali also serves as the Director of the Project Lead The Way (PLTW) at the university. PLTW is the leading STEM curriculum for High schools and middle schools in Connecticut. Ali is a member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).

  Casey Latham
University Program Manager
PathWave Software Solutions (formerly EEsof EDA)
Keysight Technologies

Casey Latham currently serves as the University Program Manager for PathWave Software Solutions (formerly EEsof EDA). In his current role, Casey creates partnerships with professors and universities around the world to develop industry-ready students. As part of this effort, Casey helps professors supplement their courses with lab guides, curriculum, and virtual workspaces. Prior to his current role, Casey served as a field engineer covering both commercial accounts and universities. On the education side, Casey worked with electrical engineering departments and student organizations to hold workshops and seminars to help students connect their classroom knowledge with real-world applications. Casey received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Baylor University. He performed research into frequency-agile radar and dynamic spectrum sharing.

 

 

  Richard Bankhead
Innovator in Residence
Lecturer
Seattle University

After working 10 years as a process engineer in the pulp and paper industry, I transitioned to teaching in the Washington State community college system. After teaching part time for a couple of years, I moved to Highline College to run the transfer engineering program. In 2017, I transitioned to Seattle University to help launch the Innovation Lab, a makerspace in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. At Seattle University I also teach our Physical Computing with Python course and our third-year lab sequence.

  Ramsin Khoshabeh
ECE Makerspace Director
University of California, San Diego

Dr. Khoshabeh received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the ECE department at UC San Diego. He completed his PhD in 2012, specializing in computer vision and machine learning for medical applications. He currently serves as the Director of the ECE Makerspace at UC San Diego. In addition to overseeing all operations of the lab, Ramsin also teaches numerous experientially-focused courses covering topics such as electronics prototyping, wearable medical sensors, Python programming, full-stack development, real-time signal processing, machine learning and vision, human-centered product engineering, and agile business planning and system design. He received the Teacher of the Year award in 2018. Prior to entering the workforce at UC San Diego, Ramsin was part of several technology startups and has consulted on computer vision, machine learning, signal processing, and blockchain projects. Dr. Khoshabeh holds two patents in video processing and one in adaptive nonlinear signal processing.

Joseph Young
Assistant Teaching Professor, ECE
Rice University

Dr. Joseph Young is an assistant teaching professor in electrical and computer engineering at Rice University. Dr. Young oversees the master's in electrical and computer engineering (MECE) capstone projects with a particular focus on wireless communications and computer engineering projects. Dr. Young also performs general advising for the MECE program as well as undergraduate teaching for sophomore circuits labs.

  Nicholas Hosein
PhD Candidatee
University of California, Davis

Nicholas Hosein is a PhD candidate at University of California, Davis (UC Davis) and is working on applying his experiences in entrepreneurship, engineering and social dynamics to improve STEM education. He has his MS from UC Davis in artificial intelligence and algorithms design for low power embedded systems and his BS from University of California, Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His contributions to education also include designing and launching a cross disciplinary course in Internet-of-Things startups