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Alumni

Startup Founders, Fortune 500 CEOs and Wildcats for Life

UA 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.

 

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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 Highlights

Preparing for an Industry Career

Robert McBride, 2005 ECE PhD alum, now works as a senior principal systems engineer at Raytheon Missiles & Defense.

The course content has direct application to creating solutions to engineering design problems. I have a whole suite of tools that I developed as a student that I rely on repeatedly.

Working to Help the World

Mike Hummel, 1982 electrical engineering graduate, now helps provide water and power to more than a million Arizonans as the CEO of the Salt River Project.

Engineering causes you to think about how you address a problem, and how you really define a problem before you try to solve it. That’s so fundamental to the engineering discipline, it's really fundamental to what we do as CEOs, or, in fact, what we do in life.

Starting, Selling and Starting Companies

Sunil Kishen, MS 1991, came to the UA from his homeland in India. Now he works in Silicon Valley transferring vast quantities of proprietary information for clients from their networks to the cloud. After his Sheer Networks startup was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2005, he held leadership posts there and at Intel before starting Aviatrix Systems in 2015.

I feel I started my life in Tucson, and I could not have had a better landing in America.

Catalyzing Regional Biotech Growth

Patrick Marcus, BS 1996, whose sculptures featuring solar-powered light decorate the country, harnessed the power of his UA undergraduate degree and 2006 PhD in biomedical engineering to found a Tucson-based startup that makes medical devices. Named Tucson’s Man of the Year in 2014, Marcus works tirelessly with business and academic groups to support other entrepreneurs.

Local startups must build relationships with engineering students early on. We can’t afford not to be closely involved with the University.
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