Homecoming Highlights
Oct. 21, 2024
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October 18, 2024
College of Engineering's 61st Annual Engineers Breakfast
Distinguished Citizen awardee: Stanley Stachowiak
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BS electrical engineering, 1984
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Senior engineering manager, Cirrus Logic, retired
ECE Homecoming Alumni Event
Distinguished Alumni awardees:
Susan Gray
- President and CEO, Tucson Electric Power, UniSource Energy Services, and UNS Energy Corporation
- BS, electrical engineering, University of Arizona, 1996
- MBA, business administration, University of Arizona, 2001
- Nominated by Hal S. Tharp, associate department head and associate professor
Mariappan S. Nadar
- Senior director of research, Siemens Healthineers
- MS, electrical and computer engineering, University of Arizona, 1990
- Advisor: Abhijit Mahalanobis, associate professor
- Thesis: "Hybrid phase-only matched filter for optical pattern recognition"
- PhD, electrical and computer engineering, University of Arizona, 1995
- Advisor: Bobby R. Hunt, professor emeritus
- Dissertation: "Minimum cross-entropy formulations in image super-resolution"
- Nominated by: Ali Bilgin, professor and Michael Marcellin, Regents Professor
ECE-GO!
Luncheon attendees took part in "ECE-GO!" - a bingo game created by Hal S. Tharp and artificial intelligence. The winners included:
- 1st place - Karrie C. Hazwezwe, alumna, BS, electrical engineering, University of Arizona, 2010
- 2nd place - Ashlee Diggles, undergraduate student
- 3rd place - Noel Teku, graduate student