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ECEDHA hosts a special workshop prior to the Annual Conference and ECExpo to assist universities in preparing for ABET reviews of their electrical engineering and computer engineering programs.

Workshop attendees have reported significantly better review outcomes for their programs:
— Programs that participate in the workshop have an average of 0 deficiencies and 0.29 weaknesses.
— Programs that participate at least a year before their visit year experience better results than those that wait until the visit year.

If your department is up for review within the next three years, take advantage of this opportunity to learn from experienced reviewers before beginning your preparations. The workshop is open to all electrical and computer engineering department heads and faculty.

ABET Workshop registration is separate from the ECEDHA Annual Conference registration and must be completed in advance. Participants are encouraged to bring any materials they have prepared thus far for discussion and evaluation.

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Facilitators:

Mark Law  Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Director of Honors Program University of Florida

Stephen M. Phillips, Ph.D., P.E. Professor, Electrical Engineering Department Director, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering Arizona State University

“Give us more compute power!”
It’s the rallying cry from virtually every segment on the planet, and it’s changing and challenging the semiconductor industry as never before. From the automotive sector to human wellness to financial services, our world of “smart everything” is now networked, mobile, and under increasing pressure for “secure everything” as well.
Dr. de Geus will examine some of the trends, opportunities, and emerging solutions in this exciting landscape.

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Speaker:
Aart de Geus
Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer
Synopsys

Since co-founding Synopsys in 1986, Dr. Aart de Geus has expanded Synopsys from a start-up synthesis enterprise to a world leader in electronic design automation, silicon IP, and application security testing. He has long been considered one of the world's leading experts on logic synthesis and simulation, having been honored with a plethora of industry awards and frequently keynoting at major industry conferences. Dr. de Geus is active in the business community, serving on the boards of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG), Applied Materials, the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), and the Electronic System Design (ESD) Alliance. His community leadership was formally recognized in 2007 when the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG) awarded him with their “Spirit of the Valley” Lifetime Achievement Award, and then again with the 2011 David Packard Award, Joint Venture Silicon Valley’s highest honor for civic and community service.

The Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering builds engineers and drives technological innovation as the largest engineering school in the nation, at the largest university in the nation. The Fulton Schools embody the intertwined missions focused on academic excellence, student access and research impact that are the foundation of Arizona State University’s model as the new American university. Dean Kyle Squires will share key insights into the challenges and opportunities presented by the new American university model for engineering education, scholarship and research. These will include experiences that inform faculty hiring, curricular innovations, broadening access, research infrastructure and the advantages of operating at scale.

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Speaker:
Kyle Squires, PH.D.
Dean of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
Foundation Professor, mechanical and aerospace engineering
Ph.D., Stanford University

Kyle Squires is the dean of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Appointed in February 2016, Squires previously served as vice and interim dean, as well as the director of the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, one of the six Fulton Schools of Engineering. A professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, Squires holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Washington State University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. Squires’ expertise encompasses computational fluid dynamics, turbulence modeling of both single-phase and multi-phase flows, and high-performance computing.

A formal process was developed to allow students from the SDSU mechanical and electrical engineering programs to work together on multidisciplinary capstone projects. This process has alleviated many of the management challenges experienced on previous multidisciplinary attempts, and the associated projects tend to produce better results than their single-disciplinary counterparts. Students from both programs attend the same course taught by one instructor; this has alleviated most assessment concerns and ensured that both sets of students clearly understand project expectations.
Eligible projects typically originate from an industry sponsor, students volunteer for the project with the understanding that it will require a multidisciplinary team, and the course instructor selects the final team. This ensures that the project teams consist of motivated students who are well matched to the requirements of the projects.
Students on these projects face challenges not typically experienced by their counterparts. Scheduling conflicts often arise between students groups due to the nature of the different programs. Communication between team members from different technical backgrounds often occur. Task management becomes more complex as the number of team members increase. However, students typically overcome these challenges and recognize the educational benefit of experiencing them.

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Organizer & Moderator:

Dennis Peters
Associate Professor and Head
Memorial University Newfoundland

Dennis K. Peters, P.Eng., Ph.D., FEC, SMIEEE is an Associate Professor and Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Memorial University in St. John’s, NL, Canada where he has been a member of Faculty since 1998. He earned the B.Eng. (Electrical) degree at Memorial University in 1990, before going to work in the high-tech industry at Newbridge Networks (now Alcatel) in Ottawa, Ontario. After two years in industry he returned to school, this time at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario where he completed the M.Eng. (Electrical & Computer) in 1995 and Ph.D. (Electrical & Computer Engineering) in 2000. His research involves techniques for design and verification of software and computer systems, with particular focus on high performance computing, simulation, real-time applications and parallel or distributed processing.

Dr. Peters is an active volunteer in the professional engineering community in Canada. He is a former Chair (2014-15) of the Board of Directors of the Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland and Labrador (PEGNL), and serves (2008-present) on the Canadian Engineering Qualifications Board (CEQB), including a term as Chair (2016-18). He was a member (2002-13) of the Registration Committee for PEGNL, including the last 7 years as Chair. He is a member (1999-present) of the executive committee for the Newfoundland and Labrador Section of the IEEE, including a term as Chair and currently serving as Student Branch Counselor. He has participated in accreditation visits for the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) and has served on the organizational committees for local, national and international conferences.

His teaching activity is primarily in the area of software, ranging from introductory programming courses to advanced topics such as software engineering and concurrent programming.

When he can get away from his work, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two children. As weather and schedule permit he enjoys sailing his C&C 30 Sea Plus Plus around the beautiful bays of Newfoundland.

Panelists:

Sid Deliwala Director of Lab Programs University of Pennsylvania Sid Deliwala is the Director of Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE) Labs. He received his BS degree in Computer Engineering from Walchand Institute of Technology, India (1991) and Masters degree from Drexel University in 1994. In addition to his responsibilities of overseeing the lab curriculum in Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, he also holds Lecturer position in ESE and teaches ESE Senior Design (Capstone), Freshmen course in ESE (ESE 111), a school wide available course in hardware hacking (ESE 190) and Summer Academy in Management and Technology Program (m&tsi).

Cory Mettler Lecturer South Dakota State University Cory Mettler has been an Electrical Engineering instructor at South Dakota State University since 2005. During much of that time, he was employed in industry and was acting as an adjunct for the University. He developed and managed a microelectronics division for an R&D firm who specialized in Nondestructive Testing analysis. He also was employed as the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for a consulting firm who specialized in time-domain simulations of distributed generation renewable energy facilities. Today, he leverages his experience managing projects in industry to develop an extremely realistic senior capstone program at SDSU. Cory has also developed or implemented numerous active and experiential learning opportunities in a number of 200- and 300-level electrical engineering courses.

They’re in our homes, our factories, and on our roads. We send them into the furthest reaches of space and into the tiniest vessels of the human body, but what role should ECE as a discipline play in this process? Join us for a panel that focuses on the opportunities and challenges of structuring curricula that embrace the multidisciplinary aspects of robotics while focusing on the unique contributions of electrical and computer engineering. We will discuss the changing landscape of robotics and how different disciplines such as AI, computer science, mechanical engineering, public policy, psychology, and even philosophy play a role in robotics education.

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Organizer:

Magnus Egerstedt Steve W. Chaddick School Chair and Professor Georgia Tech Magnus Egerstedt is the Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, one of the largest programs of its kind in the United States with over 2,500 students and over 110 faculty members. From 2016-2018, Dr. Egerstedt served as the executive director for the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines and held the Julian T. Hightower Chair in Systems and Controls in the School of ECE. He holds secondary appointments in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, the School of Interactive Computing, and the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering. Dr. Egerstedt received the M.S. degree in Engineering Physics and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, the B.A. degree in Philosophy from Stockholm University, and was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Harvard University. He conducts research in the areas of control theory and robotics, with particular focus on control and coordination of complex networks, such as multi-robot systems, mobile sensor networks, and cyber-physical systems.

Panelists:

Spring Berman Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Arizona State University  Spring Berman is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and graduate faculty in Computer Science and Exploration Systems Design at Arizona State University (ASU). At ASU, she is Associate Director of the Center for Human, Artificial Intelligence, and Robot Teaming (CHART), a center within the Global Security Initiative, and director of the Autonomous Collective Systems Laboratory. Her research focuses on control and estimation strategies that enable swarms of resource-constrained robots to reliably perform tasks in unknown environments with limited data and communication. She is a recipient of the 2016 ONR Young Investigator Award and the 2014 DARPA Young Faculty Award. Before joining ASU, she was a postdoctoral researcher in Computer Science at Harvard University. She received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S.E. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University.

Mark Easley University Marketing Manager Texas Instruments Mark Easley is a University Marketing Manager at Texas Instruments with seven years of experience in embedded systems. The TI University Program is committed to engineering student success and supporting institutions of higher learning that are training the next generation of makers and creators. TI is actively assisting universities with electrical and computer engineering curriculum enhancements, courseware support, electronics workshops to improve student engagement and outcomes, and supporting the accelerating trend of online and accessible technical education through open online courses and training resources.

 

George Pappas
UPS Foundation Professor and Chair
University of Pennsylvania

George J. Pappas is the UPS Foundation Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a secondary appointment in the Departments of Computer and Information Sciences, and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. He is member of the GRASP Lab and the PRECISE Center. He has previously served as the Deputy Dean for Research in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. His research focuses on control theory and in particular, hybrid systems, embedded systems, hierarchical and distributed control systems, with applications to unmanned aerial vehicles, distributed robotics, green buildings, and biomolecular networks. He is a Fellow of IEEE, and has received various awards such as the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize, the George S. Axelby Award, the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award, the National Science Foundation PECASE, and the George H. Heilmeier Faculty Excellence Award.

Organizers:

Tony Maciejewski
Professor and Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Colorado State University

Panelists:

Ashfaq Khokhar
Department Chair
Iowa State University

Luke Lester
Roanoke Electric Steel Professor & Department Head
Virginia Tech

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Organizers and Panelists:

John Harris
Department Chair
University of Florida

Aaron Hawkins
Professor and Chair
Brigham Young University

Kishore Karnane
Product Management Director
Cadence Design Systems

Truong Nguyen
Professor and Chair
University of California, San Diego

Doug Phillips
Marketing Director
Texas Instruments

Makerspaces provide opportunities for hands-on learning, creation and innovation where students are inspired and put ideas into practice. The process of conception, discovery, experimentation, discussion, creation, test, iteration and collaboration prepare students for challenges they will face in industry and inspires an appreciation of the need for lifelong learning. This session (presentations followed by a panel discussion and Q&A) will highlight different models for connecting ECE curriculum and extracurricular activities to Makerspaces at five different universities. Examples include Makerspaces with ECE classes scheduled in them, Makerspaces without classes scheduled but with student assignments, and Makerspaces that focus on student extracurricular activities. The session will bring diverse perspectives from ECE chairs, a Maker Movement researcher, and a lab manager from both ECE and general engineering departments at:

Arizona State University
Bucknell University
University of Illinois
University of New Haven
University of Pennsylvania

Organizer:

Casey Smith
Associate Professor of Engineering in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Casey Smith is the Senior Instructional Lab Coordinator in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He manages 20 instructional labs spanning the ECE department curriculum including the ECE Open Lab, a creative makerspace for students across campus. Prior to joining the department in 2014 he was the Senior Design Engineer at Opal Kelly Inc. and a Research Engineer at the University of Chicago Engineering Center. Casey has a BS and MS from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

Engineering students become well-equipped with key theories, equations and knowledge during their time in classes, but experiential learning promotes questioning and conceptualizing based on their experience in a lab setting. The interactive nature of problem solving in teaching labs provide great opportunities for promoting creativity and innovation in real-world practical problems. The roundtable will encourage participants with variety of experience to exchange and promote strategies to enhance student’s strengths in promoting innovation, and creativity in ECE teaching labs

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The three panelists will share their views on the current status and future directions of AI, real-time learning and decision.

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Organizers:

Kishan Baheti
Program Director
National Science Foundation

Kishan Baheti is a Program Director for EPCN Program in the ECCS Division at the National Science Foundation, which he joined in 1989 and where he has advanced several important initiatives. More recently, he has been involved in the initiatives of CPS, NRI, and the science of learning. His PhD training is in the area of control theory where he has made notable contributions at GE Corporate Research to the control of jet engines, computer-aided control design, vision-based robotics, and Kalman filtering. He has served as a member of the CSS Board of Governors and as Awards Chair for the American Automatic Control Council (AACC). He received the Distinguished Member Award from the IEEE CSS and the Outstanding Leadership and Service Award from the ECEDHA. He is a Fellow of both IEEE and AAAS.

Zhihua Qu
Professor and Chair
University of Central Florida

Zhihua Qu has been with University of Central Florida since 1990 and currently is the Pegasus Professor and Chair of ECE Department as well as the SAIC Endowed Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science. His areas of expertise are systems and nonlinear control, with applications to energy and power systems, autonomous vehicles and robotics. His most recent work focuses upon cooperative control and plug-and-play operation of networked and autonomous systems, distributed optimization and game algorithms, and resilient and intelligent networks. He received a service award from the ECEDHA. He is a Fellow of both IEEE and AAAS.

Panelists:

Rene Vidal  Herschel Seder Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Director of the Mathematical Institute   for Data Science  Johns Hopkins University Rene Vidal is the Herschel Seder Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the Inaugural Director of the Mathematical Institute for Data Science at The Johns Hopkins University. He has secondary appointments in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. He is also a faculty member in the Center for Imaging Science (CIS), the Institute for Computational Medicine (ICM) and the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR). Vidal's research focuses on the development of theory and algorithms for the analysis of complex high-dimensional datasets such as images, videos, time-series and biomedical data. His current major research focus is understanding the mathematical foundations of deep learning and its applications in computer vision and biomedical data science. His lab has pioneered the development of methods for dimensionality reduction and clustering, such as Generalized Principal Component Analysis and Sparse Subspace Clustering, and their applications to face recognition, object recognition, motion segmentation and action recognition. His lab creates new technologies for a variety of biomedical applications, including detection, classification and tracking of blood cells in holographic images, classification of embryonic cardio-myocytes in optical images, and assessment of surgical skill in surgical videos.

Pradeep Dubey  Intel Fellow and Director of Parallel Computing Lab (PCL)  Intel Labs Pradeep Dubey is an Intel Fellow and Director of Parallel Computing Lab (PCL), part of Intel Labs. His expertise covers AI and society, audio/speech, autonomous driving, computer vision, and parallel computing. His research focus is computer architectures to efficiently handle new compute- and data-intensive application paradigms for the future computing environment. He holds over 36 patents, has published over 100 technical papers, won the Intel Achievement Award in 2012 for Breakthrough Parallel Computing Research, and was honored with Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award from Purdue University in 2014. Pradeep received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Pursue University in 1991. From 1991-2001, he was a research staff at IBM. Since 2001, he has been with Intel Labs. He is a Fellow of IEEE.

Animashree Anandkumar
Bren Professor, Microsoft and Sloan Fellow
Computing and Mathematical Science, California Institute of Technology

Animashree (Anima) Anandkumar is the Bren professor at Caltech CMS department and a director of machine learning research at NVIDIA. Her research spans both theoretical and practical aspects of machine learning. In particular, she has spearheaded research in tensor-algebraic methods, large-scale learning, deep learning, probabilistic models, and non-convex optimization. Anima is the recipient of several awards such as the Alfred. P. Sloan Fellowship, NSF Career Award, Young investigator awards from the Air Force and Army research offices, Faculty fellowships from Microsoft, Google and Adobe, and several best paper awards. She is the youngest named professor at Caltech, the highest honor bestowed to an individual faculty. She is part of the World Economic Forum's Expert Network consisting of leading experts from academia, business, government, and the media. She has been featured in documentaries by PBS, KPCC, wired magazine, and in articles by MIT Technology review, Forbes, Yourstory, O’Reilly media, and so on. Anima received her B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras in 2004 and her PhD from Cornell University in 2009. She was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT from 2009 to 2010, visiting researcher at Microsoft Research New England in 2012 and 2014, assistant professor at U.C. Irvine between 2010 and 2016, associate professor at U.C. Irvine between 2016 and 2017, and a principal scientist at Amazon Web Services between 2016 and 2018.

The moderator and three panelists will share their views on the impacts of big data, AI and machine learning on research and education in their ECE/EECS/ECS departments. Of particular interest is the curriculum development to meet the evolving workforce needs.

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Organizers:

Radhakisan S. Baheti
Program Director
National Science Foundation

Kishan Baheti is a Program Director for EPCN Program in the ECCS Division at the National Science Foundation, which he joined in 1989 and where he has advanced several important initiatives. More recently, he has been involved in the initiatives of CPS, NRI, and the science of learning. His PhD training is in the area of control theory where he has made notable contributions at GE Corporate Research to the control of jet engines, computer-aided control design, vision-based robotics, and Kalman filtering. He has served as a member of the CSS Board of Governors and as Awards Chair for the American Automatic Control Council (AACC). He received the Distinguished Member Award from the IEEE CSS and the Outstanding Leadership and Service Award from the ECEDHA. He is a Fellow of both IEEE and AAAS.

Zhihua Qu
Professor and Chair
University of Central Florida

Zhihua Qu has been with University of Central Florida since 1990 and currently is the Pegasus Professor and Chair of ECE Department as well as the SAIC Endowed Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science. His areas of expertise are systems and nonlinear control, with applications to energy and power systems, autonomous vehicles and robotics. His most recent work focuses upon cooperative control and plug-and-play operation of networked and autonomous systems, distributed optimization and game algorithms, and resilient and intelligent networks. He received a service award from the ECEDHA. He is a Fellow of both IEEE and AAAS.

Panelists:

Pramod P. Khargonekar
University of California, Irvine

Pramod P. Khargonekar is the Vice Chancellor for Research and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. An expert in control systems engineering, Dr. Khargonekar has served in a variety of administrative roles in academia and federal funding agencies. Most recently, he served as Assistant Director for Engineering at the National Science Foundation (2013-2016), and as Deputy Director for Technology at the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA–E, 2012–13). From 2001 through 2009 he was the Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Florida. from 1997 to 2001, he was Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and also held the position of Claude E. Shannon Professor of Engineering Science at University of Michigan. Khargonekar’s current interests include systems and control theory, machine learning, and applications to smart electric grid and neural engineering. He has authored more than 300 journal and conference publications. He has been recognized as a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher. He is a recipient of the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the American Automatic Control Council’s Donald Eckman Award, the Japan Society for Promotion of Science fellowships, the IEEE W. R. G. Baker Prize Award, the IEEE George Axelby Award, the American Automatic Control Council’s Hugo Schuck Award, and the Distinguished Alumnus and Distinguished Service Awards from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is a Fellow of IEEE and IFAC. At the University of Michigan, he received the Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship.

George J. Pappas
University of Pennsylvania

George J. Pappas is the Joseph Moore Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a secondary appointment in the Departments of Computer and Information Sciences, and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. He is member of the GRASP Lab and the PRECISE Center. He has previously served as the Deputy Dean for Research in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. His research focuses on control theory and in particular, hybrid systems, embedded systems, hierarchical and distributed control systems, with applications to unmanned aerial vehicles, distributed robotics, green buildings, and biomolecular networks. He is a Fellow of IEEE, and has received various awards such as the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize, the George S. Axelby Award, the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award, the National Science Foundation PECASE, and the George H. Heilmeier Faculty Excellence Award.

Mingyan Liu
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Mingyan Liu is a Professor and the Peter and Evelyn Fuss Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research interest lies in optimal resource allocation, sequential decision theory, online and machine learning, performance modeling, analysis, and design of large-scale, decentralized, stochastic and networked systems, using tools including stochastic control, optimization, game theory and mechanism design. Her most recent research activities involve sequential learning, modeling and mining of large scale Internet measurement data concerning cyber security, and incentive mechanisms for inter-dependent security games. Currently, she leads a MURI team on networks that drive strategic interactions and decision making. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, and has received several awards such as 2002 NSF CAREER Award, the University of Michigan Elizabeth C. Crosby Research Award in 2003 and 2014, the 2010 EECS Department Outstanding Achievement Award, the 2015 College of Engineering Excellence in Education Award, the 2017 College of Engineering Excellence in Service Award, and 2018 Distinguished University Innovator Award.

Organizer:

Michael Devetsikiotis
Professor and Chair
University of New Mexico

Michael Devetsikiotis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. He received the Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1988, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, in 1990 and 1993, respectively.

In 1993 he joined the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. He became a tenure track Assistant Professor in 1996, and an Associate Professor and Department Associate Chair in 1998.

Michael returned to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State as an Associate Professor in October 2000, and became a Professor in 2006. He served as the coordinator of the Masters of Science in Computer Networking until 2011, when he became the ECE Director of Graduate Programs, managing one of the largest graduate ECE programs in the country with over 800 students.

In July 2016, Michael joined the University of New Mexico as a Professor, and the Chair of the ECE Department in the School of Engineering. His research work has resulted in 40 refereed journal articles, 139 refereed conference papers, and 61 invited presentations, in the area of design and performance evaluation of telecommunication networks, complex socio-technical and cyber-physical systems, and smart grid communications. In 2017 he was inducted to the NC State ECE Alumni Hall of Fame.

Michael joined the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers as a student member in 1985, and he became an IEEE Fellow in 2012. He has served as Chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee Communication Systems Integration and Modeling, and as a member of the IEEE ComSoc Education Board. Between 2008 and 2011 he was an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer.

He has also served as an Associate or Area Editor of several publications of the IEEE and the ACM; and as technical program committee Chair and in other roles for numerous conferences. He served as Chair of the GITC, the technical steering committee for ICC and Globecom, the flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society. In the summer of 2016, he was one of the instructors at the 2nd IEEE ComSoc Summer School, in Trento, Italy. In July 2017, he organized the 3d IEEE ComSoc Summer School, held at UNM, in Albuquerque, NM.

Featured Speaker:

David White
Director Cyber Security and Mission Computing: Chief Information Security Officer
Sandia Labs

As the Director of National Security Programs, Program Management Office, Dr. David R. White is responsible for overseeing the delivery of major national security programs for the US government. These programs range from cyber-security to missile defense to micro-electronics work. David also serves as the Deputy Associate Laboratories Director for National Security Programs to assist in the above functions.

Previously, David served as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), where he was responsible for identifying, developing, implementing, and maintaining processes across the enterprise to reduce information and information technology security risks. As Director of the Cyber Security and Mission Computing Center, he also led Sandia’s cyber security, high performance computing, and mission software engineering efforts. Prior to his role as CISO he served in increasing roles of leadership in areas of cyber security, information systems, software engineering, and data analytics and visualization.

David received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Engineering from Brigham Young University, and his Ph.D. in Engineering with an emphasis on Computational Geometry and Computation Mechanics from Carnegie Mellon University. In 2013, David was named a National Security Fellow by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Panelists:

Todd V. Krueger
Senior Cyber Security Engineer, Manufacturing and Enterprise Systems
Northrop Grumman

Mr. Krueger is a decorated US Navy Veteran and has 34 years in the Computer Science Field. Mr. Krueger is a Senior Cyber Security Engineer with a focus and Manufacturing Systems (Automation), Additive Manufacturing, Tooling, Internet Of Things (IOT) and Industrial Internet OF Things (IIOT), digital thread, reality (Mixed, Virtual, Extended, Augmented) devices and all software being used in the Manufacturing Environment. As part of his job, he must understand the complexities and has programmed firmware for robotic systems and redesigned Slicing and Printer Specifications to .1mm for Additive Manufacturing. He works with industry leading vendors to improve slicing engines, incorporate security requirements into applications and ARM hosted Additive Manufacturing Servers embedded in products.

Recent educational accomplishments in the study of Cyber Forensics by completing the SANS 408, and Aerospace Project management at CALTECH.

He received formal training starting as early as High School with Computer Programming, Computer Aided Drafting, and additional skills like Machine Shop which 3 decades later are utilized in Cyber Security Engineering over Manufacturing. At the start of his Naval Career he attended College at NTC San Diego Data Processing ‘A’ class School and continued his higher learning as part of military education required for advancement in the Computer Science Field. He served 6 years in the US Navy, including combat in the Iran Iraq war. He was responsible for the first data center link between US Navy Ships and Naval Supply Center and Facilitated the connectivity of Naval Supply Systems from San Diego California to Alameda California.

At Northrop Grumman he held positions in Software Engineering, Database Architecture, System Engineering, and Information Security where all his previous skillsets are utilized to their full potential. He has been published as a coauthor for Big Data Analytics for Cyber Security with Mike Lefler an NGC Technical Fellow.

He served on the Board of Directors and was CTO for International Med-Care where he designed systems for provider lookups both Cloud Based and Telephony. He also filled the position of Director of Information System and Software Development at Earnware where he led multiple teams to create Multilevel marketing tools for Cloud Hosting and Telephony.

He owned 2earn Consulting where he designed a call center system for remote CSRs in the mortgage industry by rerouting calls and pushing screens to their home system. For Response Analytics, he developed an algorithm using multiple risk variables to determine feasibility of Sort Term ARM Loan refinance against a national database.

JV Rajendran
Assistant Professor of ECE
Texas A&M University

JV Rajendran is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Texas A&M University. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at UT Dallas. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at New York University in August 2015. His research interests include hardware security and computer security.
His research has won the NSF CAREER Award in 2017, the ACM SIGDA Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in 2017, and the Alexander Hessel Award for the Best Ph.D. Dissertation in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at NYU in 2016. His research has won three Student Paper Awards, four ACM Student Research Competition Awards, and a Service Recognition Award from Intel.
He co-organizes and co-founded Hack@DAC, a student security competition co-located with DAC, and FOSTER, a workshop on hardware security. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.

Jeff Snyder
Founder CyberStratos LLC

Jeff Snyder is the Founder of CyberStratos LLC, a firm that focuses on Cyber strategy consulting, opportunity pipeline and business development, and Cyber mergers and acquisitions.

During the past 20 years, Snyder has held increasingly responsible positions involving strategic planning, business development, operations and M&A activities with a variety of high-technology firms. Prior to founding CyberStratos, Snyder was vice president of Cyber programs at Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN). During his 8 years at Raytheon, Snyder was instrumental in leading the firm’s Cyber growth strategy and close to a $4B investment in building a portfolio of Cyber capabilities, technologies and products.

Prior to Raytheon, he was vice president of Cyber Programs for CUBIC Corporation. There he formed Cubic Cyber Solutions, Inc., and led an initial cyber acquisition to launch the new subsidiary. 

J. Sukarno Mertoguno
Program Officer
Cyber Security Software
Office of Naval Research

Dr. J. Sukarno Mertoguno manages basic and applied sience research in cyber security and complex software for The Office of Naval Research (ONR). Before joining ONR he worked as a system & chip architect and an entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley, where he has worked on various chips and systems, such as embedded processors, switching fabric, network processors, and various other hardware accelerators, including TCP/IP, NFS, mobile anti-malware, etc. He received a Ph.D. In electrical engineering from SUNY-Binghamton. He also has background in Theoretical Physics.

Renewable energy is rapidly expanding in its penetration into the energy grid due to continued reductions in the price of renewable energy technologies as well as increasing interest by consumers in clean energy sources. There are numerous challenges and opportunities in this growing sector of the economy. In particular, innovation and education are two major drivers for this energy transition. Here we address the future workforce needs of the renewable energy economy in terms of education and training in general in the energy sector. We also address the role that innovation plays in continuing to evolve the critical technologies needed for the future energy system.

Organizer:

Stephen Goodnick
Professor
Arizona State University

Stephen M. Goodnick is a professor of electrical engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and the deputy director of ASU Lightworks in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability.

He received his doctoral degree in electrical engineering from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, in 1983. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Modena, Italy, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow with the Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, in 1985 and 1986, respectively. He served as Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering with Arizona State University, Tempe, from 1996 to 2005. He served as associate vice president for research for Arizona State University from 2006 to 2008, and presently serves as deputy director of ASU Lightworks, and is Hans Fischer Senior Fellow with the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Technical University of Munich.

Professionally, he served as president (2012-2013) of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council, and served as president of IEEE Eta Kappa Nu Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society Board of Governors, 2011-2012.

Some of his main research contributions include analysis of surface roughness at the Si/SiO2 interface, Monte Carlo simulation of ultrafast carrier relaxation in quantum confined systems, global modeling of high frequency and energy conversion devices, full-band simulation of semiconductor devices, transport in nanostructures, and fabrication and characterization of nanoscale semiconductor devices. He has published over 400 journal articles, books, book chapters, and conference proceeding, and is a fellow of IEEE (2004) for contributions to carrier transport fundamentals and semiconductor devices. 

Panelists:

Charlie Gay
Director 
U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Solar Energy Technologies Office

Dr. Charlie Gay is the director of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office. In this position, he leads a team that is dedicated to early-stage research and development of solar technologies, with a focus on how they contribute to supporting the reliability, resilience, and security of the U.S. electric grid.
Charlie is an internationally recognized pioneer in photovoltaics. After starting his career in 1975 designing solar power system components for communications satellites at Spectrolab, Inc, he later joined ARCO Solar, where he established the research and development program and led the commercialization of crystalline silicon and thin film technologies.
In 1990, he became president and chief operating officer of Siemens Solar Industries, and from 1994 to 1997, he served as director of DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory. In 1997, he was named president and chief executive officer of ASE Americas, Inc., and from 2001 to 2005 served as founding chairman of the technical advisory board at SunPower Corporation. He joined Applied Materials in 2006 as corporate vice president and general manager of the Solar Business Group. He served as president of Applied Solar and chairman of the Applied Solar Council from 2009-2013. As president, Charlie was responsible for positioning applied materials and its solar efforts with important stakeholders in the energy industry, technical community and governments around the world.
He earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside and was elected a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2013. He established the Greenstar Foundation in 1997 to demonstrate an economically sustainable model that delivers solar power and internet access for health, education and microenterprise projects to developing world villages. 

Christiana Honsberg
Director of Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies (QESST)
NSF Engineering Research Center

Christiana Honsberg joined the electrical engineering faculty in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering in 2008. She is currently the Director of Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies (QESST), a NSF Engineering Research Center. Professor Honsberg is most notable for advanced PV concepts ranging from the development of a generalized thermodynamic theory for determining efficiency limits of solar cells, to making seminal advances in the understanding of intermediate band, interband and quantum well approaches. She received her bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from University of Delaware in 1986, 1989, and 1992, respectively, all in electrical engineering. Before joining the ASU faculty, Honsberg was an associate professor and director for the high performance solar power program at the University of Delaware. She currently holds one patent in the U.S., Japan, and Europe; three patents are pending.

Kelly Simmons-Potter
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Optical Sciences,
and Materials Science and Engineering
University of Arizona

Dr. Kelly Simmons-Potter is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Optical Sciences, and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. Dr. Simmons-Potter received her B.S. in Physics in 1986 from Florida State University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in 1990 and 1994 respectively in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona. In addition, she served as a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Universite de Rennes (France), and the Naval Research Laboratories between 1985 and 1990. Dr. Simmons-Potter spent nearly 10 years at Sandia National Laboratories, from 1994 to 2003, ending in the position of Principal Member of Technical Staff and Project Manager for Advanced Optical Technologies. In 2003, she left Sandia Labs to return to academia at the U.A. Dr. Simmons-Potter is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, Director of the Arizona Research Institute for Solar Energy (AzRISE), and is the current Vice-Chair of the Hardened Electronics and Radiation Technology (HEART) Society. She is the co-author of three text books in the field of optics, has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications, has delivered more than 100 scholarly presentations, and holds several patents. Her research focuses on photovoltaic and energy systems degradation and resiliency, radiation-hardened optics, and photosensitive materials and devices. In addition, Dr. Simmons-Potter is currently co-developing an initiative at the U.A. to address food, energy, and water challenges faced by indigenous communities under an NSF NRT grant.