Spring 2025 EE Colloquia
For Enrolled Students:
There will be 13 colloquia including 1 SARI colloquium. All colloquia will be held at 1:25 p.m. on Friday [except 3/14 due to Spring Break] in Hammond Bldg. 220, beginning on 1/24/2025 and ending on 4/25/2025.
Following each colloquium, you have to complete a questionnaire. A template for the questionnaire will be posted on Canvas for you to download and use. You have one week after each seminar to complete and submit the questionnaire.
In order to pass and receive credit for the course, you must attend all colloquia and submit at least 11 questionnaires.
Please note: You MUST attend the SARI required colloquium [Date to be determined] to fulfill the SARI requirement for EE degree completion. Contact Lisa Timko[Tel: 814-863-7294; email: lmg183@psu.edu] for more information on the degree requirements.
For all matters related to the EE500 course, please contact Prof. I. C. Khoo at email: ick1@psu.edu
Colloquium Dates and Presentations
Jan. 24, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Tom J. Jackson [Department of Electrical Engineering, Penn State]
Title: On Being a Graduate Student
Jan. 31, 2025
Speaker: Prof. Ram Narayanan [Department of Electrical Engineering, Penn State]
Title: Human Detection and Characterization through Barriers
Feb. 7, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Wooram Lee [Department of Electrical Engineering, Penn State]
Title: RFIC design innovation for silicon-based D-band phased arrays
Feb. 14, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Pedro Lopes [QuEra Computing Inc]
Title: QuEra: advancing quantum computing with neutral atoms
Feb. 21, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Eric Bryerton [Virginia Diodes, Inc.]
Title: Terahertz Test and Measurement: On Earth and Elsewhere
Feb. 28, 2025 Distinguished Electrical Engineering Colloquium
Speaker: Prof. John Rogers [Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering - Northwestern University]
Title: Transient Electronics – From Bioelectronic Medicines to Environmental Monitors
Mar. 7, 2025
Speaker: Prof. Joan M. Redwing [Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering, Penn State]
Title: Epitaxial growth of 2D semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides – An enabling technology for large area devices
Mar. 21, 2025
Speaker: Mr. Dorsey Houtz [Founder and Former President & CEO, Avail Technologies, Inc.]
Title: Entrepreneurship, what does it truly mean, and what’s required to be successful
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Mar. 28, 2025 SARI Colloquium
Speaker: Prof. Tim Kane [Electrical Engineering Department, Penn State]
Title: You can’t spell Engineering Ethics without EE
Apr. 4, 2025 Distinguished Electrical Engineering Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Timothy J. Bunning [Chief Technology Officer - Air Force Research Laboratory]
Title: My ‘day job’ and my ‘weekend job’. The Air Force Research Laboratory 101 and Soft-Matter Dynamic Optical Research
Apr. 11, 2025
Speaker: Professor Maryam Saeedifard [Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology]
Title: DC Grids: Key Drivers in the Future of Power Systems
Apr. 18, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Sudipto Chakraborty [IBM T. J. Watson Research Center]
Title: Challenges and opportunities for ultra-low power design for quantum computing applications
Apr. 25, 2025 Raj and Jeanette Mittra Distinguished Lecture
Speaker: Prof. Shanhui Fan [Joseph and Hon Mai Goodman Professor - School of Engineering, Stanford University]
Title: Opportunities of photonics at nanoscale
EE Colloquia Archives:
- Spring 2025
- Fall 2024
- Spring 2024
- Fall 2023
- Spring 2023
- Fall 2022
- Spring 2022
- Fall 2021
- Spring 2021
- Fall 2020
- Spring 2020
- Fall 2019
- Spring 2019
- Fall 2018
