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Lectures & Workshops

Engineering Lecture Series

Each spring and fall, the Engineering Department at SSU presents a series of colloquia on a wide range of engineering topics and trend of technologies. The talks are generally very high-level and designed for the general audience. The Engineering Colloquium was established in Fall 2006 and was initially sponsored by former Agilent Technologies (now Keysight Technologies) and local industries.

Days & Dates: First and Third Thursday of every month
Zoom ID:
https://SonomaState.zoom.us/j/87287592076, Passcode: 2009A
and/or Cerent Engineering Science Complex, Salazar Hall 2009A, Campus Map
Lecture: 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. including Q &A

Attendance is open to students, faculty and staff of SSU and other members of the community, in general. A parking permit is required to park on campus, and is available for $5.00 at machines in the parking lots. Talks are otherwise free.

For more information, please contact the Engineering Department at (707) 664-2030 or [email protected].

4
SEP
Roger Nichols
Roger, It’s Just Test Equipment
Mr. Roger Nichols

Retired Engineering Manager of Keysight Technologies

18
SEP
Department of Engineering
Optical filters for free-space optical communications applications
Mr. Andy Hulse

Principal Engineer, Research and Development, Viavi Solutions, Inc.

2
OCT
Department of Engineering
A Brief History of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Mahmoud Noorchashm

Retired MTS, AT&T Bell Laboratories

Past Lectures

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Mr. Mohit Bhoite Senior Hardware Engineer at Particle in San Francisco Connected Sculptures: Building Internet-Enabled Free-Form Circuits
Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy Emeritus Prof. of CIS at University of Pennsylvania & NEC Distinguished Emeritus Prof. of EECS at UC Berkeley Robotics at the University of Pennsylvania from Birth to Maturity: A Review of 30 Years of Research
Dr. Stella Yu EECS Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Unscripted Grounded Visual Learning
Dr. Alane Suhr EECS Department, UC Berkeley, CA Interactive Language Agents: Training, Evaluation, and Interface
Mr. Ian Furniss Senior Payload Systems Engineer at Astranis Space Technologies, San Francisco, CA Performance at The Core: Geostationary Satellite Payloads
Dr. Jan Verspecht Intrapreneur at Keysight Technologies Radical Innovations in RF and Microwave Instrumentation
Dr. Bharat Bhushan Academy Professor The Ohio State University Lessons from Nature: Bioinspired Mechanically Durable and Self-healing Superliquiphilic/phobic Surfaces
Dr. Roya Salek Shahrezaie Assistant Professor CS Department, Sonoma State University Socially-Aware Navigation for Robots in Public Spaces
Dr. Robert Lee Bruce Retired Designing a Bandpass Filter with Network Synthesis
Ms. Chelsi Wieland Lead R&D Microwave Hardware Engineer Keysight Technologies, Santa Rosa, CA RF & Microwave Engineering: Perspectives of a Hardware Engineer
Mr. Roger Nickols 6G Program Manager Keysight Technologies, Santa Rosa, CA The Coming 6th Generation of Mobile Wireless (Fall 2024)
Dr. Hashem Nehrir IEEE Life Fellow and Emeritus Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Montana State University Microgrid-Based Smart Grids: Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things for Improved Resilience/Self-Healing
Ian Furniss Hardware R&D Engineer Keysight Technologies, Santa Rosa, CA Satellite communications Basics: From Orbits to Modulation (2024)
Dr. Peng Li Professor ECE Department, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA Spiking Neural Networks: Learning Algorithms and Hardware Acceleration
Dr. Ali Adibi Professor School of ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Design and Knowledge Discovery in Nanophotonics
Mr. Mark Baldassari Director, Codes and Standards Enphase Energy, CA Photovoltaic Microinverters and Energy Storage Systems, 2024
Dr. Clayton Crocker Technical Business Development Lead Quantum Engineering Solutions (QES), Keysight Technologies, CA Engineering Challenges in Quantum Computing
Mr. Roger Nichols 6G Program Manager Keysight Technologies, Santa Rosa, CA The Coming 6th Generation (6G) of Mobile Wireless
Dr. Alex Stameroff Operating Manager Signal Conditioning and Subsystems, Keysight Technologies, Santa Rosa, CA A Highly Linear Distributed Amplifier Using Ultra-wideband Intermodulation Feedforward Linearization
Dr. Anca Dragan Associate Professor EECS Department, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA AI Alignment and RLHF: What we've accomplished, what we've learned, and what's missing!