HKN Chapters are closely tied with their host Department and share many of the same goals and objectives. Successful Chapters and Departments leverage these commonalities for mutual benefit, including building and growing a sense of community within the Department, promoting research and graduate studies, improving educational outcomes for all students through tutoring and mentoring, and facilitating alumni engagement and development activities. Departments of all sizes can benefit from the participation of an active HKN Chapter. This session will explore a few key examples and will enable attendees to share their own successes. Department representatives may also seek assistance in chartering an HKN Chapter or in establishing a new purposeful direction with an existing Chapter.
Moderator:
Michael Benson
PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Michael L. Benson is a PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan’s Radiation Laboratory and a research scientist at Maxar. He is a co-advisor to the Beta Epsilon Chapter of HKN, was the IEEE-HKN Student Governor in 2017 and 2018, and has served as the IEEE-HKN Governor for Regions 3 and 4 since 2019. He additionally serves as the chair of the IEEE-HKN Membership & Chapters Committee. His research interests include multi-modal remote sensing and environmental modeling.
Panelist:
Jaimie Davis
Shapter President
Florida Polytechnic University
Jaimie Davis received his A.A. degree from Florida SouthWestern State College, Fort Myers, FL in 2018, and will receive his B.S.E.E. degree from Florida Polytechnic University, Lakeland, FL in 2021. He is the President of the IEEE-HKN Mu Omega Chapter. His interests include deregulated power grids with renewable energy, sensor fusion utilizing Kalman filter variants, and control system design using AVR microcontrollers. He is currently employed with Florida Polytechnic University's research assistant program and the Florida Department of Transportation's Traffic System Management and Operation team. He has also enjoyed designing wearable biotechnology for dancers in Lakeland to integrate STEM into the Arts since 2019.
Panelist:
Ashfaq Khokhar
Department Chair
Iowa State University
Ashfaq Khokhar began his appointment as the Palmer Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering in January 2017. Khokhar was previously chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology since 2013. Before that, he was a professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Khokhar was named an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer (IEEE) Fellow in 2009. Khokhar’s research centers on context-aware wireless networks, computational biology, health care data mining, content-based multimedia modeling, retrieval and multimedia communication and high-performance algorithms. He is considered a leading expert in the area of high-performance solutions for multimedia applications, especially those that are data or communication intensive. He has contributed to five edited volumes and co-authored nine book chapters, 53 publications in archival journals, and 158 refereed conference papers. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the United States Army, the Department of Homeland Security and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Khokhar earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore, Pakistan; his master’s degree in computer engineering from Syracuse University; and his Ph.D. in computer engineering from the University of Southern California.
Panelist:
Katie Brinker
Nu Chapter/HKN Board
Iowa State University
Katelyn Brinker is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Iowa State University with the support of a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF/NSTGRO). She graduated from Missouri S&T with bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering in 2017 and with a master’s in electrical engineering in 2019. She was inducted into IEEE-HKN in Spring of 2016 to the Gamma Theta Chapter at Missouri S&T and has since served as a chapter president, IEEE student branch president, IEEE-HKN Student Governor, and Undergraduate and Graduate Representative to the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society AdCom. She is also the 2017 recipient of the IEEE-HKN Outstanding Student Award.
Panelist:
James Worthington
Chapter Officer
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Panelist:
Mohammed-Baasim Rohan
Chapter Officer
Georgia Tech
Panelist:
Pei-Cheng Ku
ECE Associate Chair
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Panelist:
Tom Gaylord
Regents Professor; Julius Brown Chair Professor
Georgia Tech
Dr. Gaylord received the B.S. in physics and the M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Rice University. He came to Georgia Tech in 1972. Dr. Gaylord was instrumental in the founding and development of the optics educational and research programs in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. This includes the development of the Optical Engineering, Integrated Optics, Modulation, Diffractive and Crystal Optics, and Optoelectronics: Materials, Processes, and Devices courses, the development of optics research programs, and the development of research and instructional laboratory facilities. Dr. Gaylord is the author of over 300 technical journal publications and 25 patents in the areas of optics, optoelectronics, and semiconductor devices.