Oct 25th, 2007

SPEAKER: Joseph L. A. Hughes, Ph.D

TIME: 6:00 PM EST

Professor Hughes received his B.S.E.E. degree from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1979, and his M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 1980 and 1986, respectively. Dr. Hughes has been faculty member at Georgia Tech since 1986. He specialized in the area of integrated circuit design and testing. He has been chair and program coordinator of the computer engineering program and in 1997 was appointed Associate Chair.

Professor Hughes is the 2007 President of the IEEE Education Society, Fellow of the IEEE and ASEE, received the Outstanding Service Award at Georgia Tech in 1998, and received the ECE Distinguished Educator Award from the ECE Division of ASEE in 2005.

For more information about this Technical Session please contact Jairo H. Garcia at:

jairo_garcia@ieee.org

Georgia Tech

Van Leer EE Building

Room W218

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SPEAKER: Alisha A. Waller, Ph.D

TIME: Social at 6:00 PM; Program at 6:30 PM

Dr. Waller graduated from Georgia Tech in Industrial Engineering and holds a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Operations Research, with a minor in Mathematics and Science Education, from Cornell University. In 1999, Dr. Waller received the Distinguished Service Award from the Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). She has also received the Helen Plants Award for best non-traditional session at the Frontiers in Education Conference three different times. For the last two years she worked for the Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE) of the National Academy of Engineering, guiding the development of the web portal, the Annals of Research on Engineering Education (AREE), where she was Managing Editor. Dr. Waller has over fifteen years of experience in conducting faculty development workshops. Her research interests center around gender and race in education, research methodologies and processes, and post-structural theory-in-practice.

For more information Contact:

Jairo H. Garcia
jairo_garcia@ieee.org

Georgia Tech

Van Leer EE Building

Room W218

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