IEEE-HKN Pathways to Industry

Panel of successful entrepreneurs will share insights on “What it takes to succeed and how to tell your story.”

Lani Powell
Bio Tera 

Courtney Powell
Ace Applications, LLC

Sharing the passion of invention and creating new things, things that can solve a problem or create a better experience where there once was the status quo. Engineers can make the world a better place and make people happy and even mystified through the gift of design. Moderator:

Daniel Joseph
Principle Special Effects Designer and Illusion Development
Walt Disney Imagineering

Teams working independently

Humans find solace and safety at their home. Engineers can find solace and safety at their technical home. This session will address all of the benefits of your technical home, IEEE. You will be pleasantly surprised at all of the support and assistance that IEEE offers!

James Conrad
President
IEEE-USA 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In this session we will discuss the decisions you will make as you transition into your profession. What should be in the offer letter? What considerations must be made for budgeting, planning? What additional strategies will impact your immediate and long-term financial future?

Speaker:

Kristen Prewitt
The Prewitt Group
Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc

Our panel will provide perspectives and advice on the paths they choose. Is there an advantage to going directly from undergraduate to graduate school, or to gaining work experience before graduate school? Our industry and university experts will share their thoughts.

Moderator:

Charlotte Blair
Lead Application Engineer
ANSYS

Panelists:

Marcus Ray
Qorvo

Marcus Ray has been with Qorvo since 2007 and is a Senior Member of Technical Staff. He manages an EDA applications engineering team that provides support to internal design groups. Before joining Qorvo, Marcus worked for Motorola/Freescale for over 9 years in Tempe, Arizona where he did numerical device simulation for both FETs and HBTs. Marcus holds a Bachelor and Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara with emphasis in device physics and processing. He is an inventor or co-inventor on 5 patents related to GaAs FETs, HBTs and RF circuits.

Salim Chaouqi
Qorvo

Eduardo Rojas
Embry Riddle University

Dr. Rojas earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of South Florida, all in Electrical Engineering; in 2014 and 2017, respectively. He joined the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2017 where he is currently an assistant professor. His research interests are in the area of microwave/mm-wave circuit and antenna applications of additive manufacturing; and RFID for wireless sensing. He is the Director of ERAU’s Wireless Devices and Electromagnetics Laboratory (WIDE Lab www.wide-lab.com). Rojas was the recipient of a CAREER Award from The National Science Foundation in 2019. Dr. Rojas has more than 30 peer-reviewed publications, and he is a reviewer for the IEEE MTT-S Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques and Proceedings of the IEEE, among other prestigious journals. He has 4 US patents and 3 active US patent applications. He is member of the IEEE MTT-S Technical Committee 24 and the RTCA SC-236 committee for Standards for Wireless Avionics Intra-Communication System (WAIC) within 4200-4400 MHz.

To improve your effectiveness, you need to identify and create communication channels and uncover your individual style and motivation as well as the traits and behaviors that can hold you back or propel you forward in your career (pre-work required).

Speaker:

Carolyn Andrews
President
Inspired Leaders Now

Carolyn is passionate about the power of inspiration! She knows that inspired people are engaged, productive and successful in any endeavor they undertake. She believes that the best way to get and stay inspired is to build strong and lasting relationships with people who have positive and supportive attitudes and believe in gratitude and abundance. Her mission is to help others learn and grow in every area of life through inspiration, amazing relationships and strong leadership skills, 

 Carolyn is a certified business and executive coach, an international speaker and best-selling author. She is also an experienced senior level corporate executive with extensive global experience in technology, risk management and marketing. She loves working with business owners and corporate executives to guide them in finding success by achieving their goals, excelling in their field and inspiring others.

 

Industry Leaders discuss what essential skills, strategies and vision you will need to develop to meet the next generation of products, systems and services

Speakers:

Doug Baney
Keysight Technologies 

Dr. Doug Baney is the Corporate Director of Education at Keysight Technologies, where he oversees global university relations for Keysight. Doug worked as an R&D millimeter wave engineer in Hewlett-Packard’s Signal Analysis Division, and later in HP Laboratories, Agilent Laboratories, and Keysight Laboratories following company splits. He has extensive experience in the field of microwaves and photonics, and has conducted research in the areas of millimeter-wave amplifiers and mixers, optical amplifier gain, optical noise figure, spectral-hole burning and upconversion ZBLAN fiber visible lasers. Many of the optical amplifier test methods he developed are in use globally today for production test of optical amplifiers used to transmit internet signals. Doug led the research team that developed the first high-volume commercial laser-based mouse. As a labs research director, he oversaw coherent optical transmission test, 5G OTA CATR test, photonic integrated circuit development and measurement, and test automation software for Keysight’s Pathways. He has authored over 70 refereed publications and holds a similar number of patents. He earned his Ph.D. from ParisTech, Paris, France, MSEE from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a BSEE from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He served as General Co-Chair of OFC, General Co-chair of OAA conference, OSA OFC Budget Committee, Tyndall Award Committee, and is a member of HKN-Epsilon Phi and a Fellow of the IEEE.

 

Doug Phillips
Director of University Marketing
Texas Instruments 

Doug Phillips is the director of university marketing for Texas Instruments. In this role, he manages a global team of marketers in India, China, the U.S. and in Europe to collaborate with university faculty and administrators on engineering curriculum to ensure today’s students are well-equipped for industry.

 

 

 

 

 L3Harris 

Mathworks

Lead Application Engineer
ANSYS

Your professional career will be filled with negotiations – goal setting, performance evaluations, salary improvements, budgets, staffing, and much more. Here you will learn about the elements of negotiations – tactics, preparation, negotiating -- and will see examples of how they happen. These will apply to your personal life as well. With good negotiating skills, you can get what you need.

Speakers:

Dennis Leitterman
Consultant
Business Development Manager
HP (Retired)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ed Rezek
2020 President
IEEE-HKN