Industrial and Professional Advising Council

The Industrial and Professional Advisory Council (IPAC) is a select group of alumni from industry, government agencies, and academia who advise the department on academic issues and on current trends and future directions in engineering. The council meets regularly with EECS faculty and students to receive an update on the department, undergraduate and graduate programs and research activities.

If you are interested in finding out how your company can strategically partner with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, please contact our director, Thomas La Porta at tlp@cse.psu.edu.

CSE IPAC Members

• Jason Armstrong, SID Security Education Academic Liasison (SEAL) to Penn State, NSA Security
• Katie Barrett, retired, Software Development Manager, IBM
• Donald Chavey, retired, Independent IT Consultant, IBM
• Eric Gayle, Silicon Development, Google
• David Hurry, Director of Applied Data Science, Merck
• Igor Jablokov, Entrepreneur in Residence, Blacksone EN
• Amy Purdy, Director of Power Storage, IBM
• Shishpal Rawat, Director of Business Enabling Programs, Design Technology Solutions and Intel Capital
• Rose Schooler, VP, Intel’s Internet of Things, Strategy and Technology Office
• Eric Stahre, President and CEO, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Molecular Imaging and Computed Tomography (CT), GE Healthcare
• Jan Uhrich, Chief Delivery Officer, Sutherland Global Services

EE IPAC Members

• Don Carretta, retired, Executive Director-Network, Verizon Wireless
• Stephanie De Garay, Industry Team Lead, Rockwell Automation Inc.
• Thomas Hartman, President, LB&A Consulting Group
• Scott Morris, Deputy Director of Division of Preparedness and Response, U.S. NRC
• Raymond Sharp, Director, Software & Digital Technologies
• John Shavinsky, Chief Operating Officer, Intrepid Aviation Management, LLC
• Jamie Steffie, Engineering Project Leader, Lutron Electronics