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Fall 2026 EE Colloquia

The colloquium [course number EE500] will be held from 1:25 – 2:35 p.m. every Friday (except during Thanksgiving Break) in Chambers Building 108 beginning September 4.

Following each colloquium, students enrolled in EE500 must complete a questionnaire. A template for the questionnaire will be posted in Canvas for you to download and use. You have one week after each seminar to complete and submit the questionnaire.

To pass and receive credit for EE500, enrolled students should attend all colloquia and submit at least 11 questionnaires. Request for absence due to University-related activities or health reasons should be submitted to the instructor at least a week [for a University-related activity] before the colloquium or as soon as possible for health reasons.

Important to note: One of the colloquia is the SARI required colloquium [scheduled for September 25] that all EE students must attend to fulfill the SARI requirement for EE degree completion.

Contact Lisa Timko at 814-863-7294 or lmg183@psu.edu for more information on the SARI requirement for degree completion.

For all matters related to EE500 course, please contact Prof. I. C. Khoo at ick1@psu.edu and consult the information on EE500 given in Canvas.

Colloquium Dates and Presentation Schedule

September 4

Speaker: Prof. Sawyer D. Campbell [Electrical and Computer Engineering, Penn State]

Title: Inverse-Design of RF and Optical Meta-Devices using Optimization and Artificial Intelligence

September 11

Speaker: Prof. Kausik Chowdhury [Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tniversity of Texas at Austin]

Title:  TBD

September 18

Speaker: TBD

Title: TBD

September 25 | SARI Colloquium

Speaker: Dr. Bono Shih [Rock Ethics Institute and the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education, Penn State]

Title: What Is AI, What Is Ethics, and What Is AI Ethics? A Hands-On Scoping Review for Aspiring Engineers

October 2

Speaker: Prof. Wenshian Cai [School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech]

Title: TBD

October 9| Distinguished Electrical Engineering Colloquium

Speaker: Prof. Stephen Y. Chou [Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University]

Title: TBD

October 16

Speaker: Prof. Elyse Rosenbaum [Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign]

Title: TBD

October 24

Speaker: TBD

Title: TBD

October 30

Speaker: Prof. Manimaran Govindarasu [Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University]

Title: TBD

November 6

Speaker: Prof. Premjeet Chahal [Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University]

Title: TBD

November 13

Speaker: TBD

Title: TBD

November 20

Speaker: Prof. Shiwen Mao [Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University]

Title: TBD

December 4

Speaker: TBD

Title: TBD

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The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science was created in the spring of 2015 to allow greater access to courses offered by both departments for undergraduate and graduate students in exciting collaborative research fields.

We offer B.S. degrees in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering and data science and graduate degrees (master's degrees and Ph.D.'s) in electrical engineering and computer science and engineering. EECS focuses on the convergence of technologies and disciplines to meet today’s industrial demands.