Alumni
Startup Founders, Fortune 500 CEOs and Wildcats for Life
U of A Electrical and Computer Engineering graduates transformed the semiconductor, energy and defense industries in the 20th century. Now alumni are pioneering cloud data storage and security, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence.
Whether your college years involved writing code for room-size analog computers in the Old Engineering Building, designing nanoantennas for biomedical devices in an ECE lab, or operating self-driving cars outside Old Main, you are a valued member of the department’s vast network of accomplished and influential alumni.
You are executives at Microsoft, Intel and Cisco and program managers at Lockheed Martin, Texas Instruments and NASA. You are inventors and entrepreneurs whose startups have spurred economic growth in Arizona, the Silicon Valley and beyond. And you are researchers, professors and administrators guiding students at major universities.
Thank you for your contributions to the department, college, university, industry, and indeed, to the world.
Providing Energy for the Masses
ECE alums Susan Gray, president & CEO,
Tucson Electric Power/UNS Energy Corp. and
Mike Hummel, general manager & CEO of the Salt River Project
Engineers Breakfast 2021
ECE alum Susan Gray, president & CEO,
Tucson Electric Power/UNS Energy Corp.
Alumni Highlight
Continuing a Tradition
Susan Gray, a 1996 electrical engineering graduate, currently serves as CEO of UNS Energy, the parent company of Tucson Electric Power. Gray filled the position following another UA College of Engineering graduate.
"It’s a great privilege to lead a company that means so much to so many people."
