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 engineering@sonoma.edu.
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EECS Department, UC Berkeley, CA
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EECS Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Past Lectures
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Sudhir Shrestha | Assistant Professor Engineering Science Department, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA | Smart Sensing Systems and Analysis of Exhaled Breath for Detecting Diseases | |
| Mr. Peter Carlson | Chief Technical Officer HydroPoint Data Systems, CA | How Technology Helps Save the World's Most Valuable Resource | |
| Mr. Mark Baldassari | Director of Codes and Standards Enphase, Petaluma, CA | Photovoltaic Microinverter Systems | |
| Mr. Mohammad Salah | R&D RF Engineer National Instruments, Santa Rosa, CA | Building a Software Defined Radio Application in 7 min | |
| Dr. Erkin Şeker | Assoc. Professor EE Department, UC Davis, Davis, CA | Gold Foams as Advanced Biomedical Device Coatings | |
| Mr. Rob Rowlands | Senior Account Manager Gap Wireless | IoT Testing Challenges | |
| Dr. Dennis Derickson | Chair EE Department, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo | Lidar Solutions Using Vernier-Tuned Distributed Bragg Reflector Lasers | |
| Mr. Richard Halstead | Founder, President, and Chairman Empire Magnetics Inc. | The Humble Electric Motor, Enabling Science and Technology | |
| Dr. Marek Mierzwinski | R&D Engineer Device Model Development, EEsof Division, Keysight Technologies | Practical Aspects of Modeling Complex Analog Behavior in Modern Circuit Simulators | |
| Dr. Yin Ye | Assistant Professor EE Dept, San Francisco State University | Power Electronics, Electric Motor Drives, MACAUTO | |
| Dr. Patrick Pfeffer | Sr. Director of Growth Strategy and Venture Investments Juniper Networks | Why We Invest in Startups | |
| Mr. Chris Stewart | President/COO & Co-Founder Pocket Radar & Invention Planet | Starting a Successful Tech Company | |
| Dr. Birsen Sirkeci-Mergen | Associate Professor EE Dept, San Jose State University | Communication and Signal Processing | |
| Dr. Brendan Hamel-Bissell | Assistant Professor ES Dept, SSU | VCSEL-based Multimode Fiber Optics for Datacenters and Supercomputers | |
| Mr. Patrick Harper | VP & General Manager Technology Supply Chain, Keysight Technologies | Global Technology Supply Chains: What they are and why you need to know about them | |
| Dr. Ahmed Amer | Associate Professor Department of Computer Engineering, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA | Sustainable Storage: Approaches to Efficient and Practical Storage Reliability at Scale | |
| Dr. Soheil Ghiasi | Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Davis, Davis, CA | Image Comprehension on Mobile and Cloud Platforms | |
| Mr. Mark Baldassari | Director of Codes and standards Enphase, Petaluma, CA | Controlling Inverters with Advanced Grid Functions | |
| Mr. Shivakumar Mathapathi | Co-Founder and CTO Dew Mobility, CA | Internet of Things (IoT) based Environmental Monitoring Systems | |
| Mr. Sean Headrick | Founder/CEO AeroTestra, Inc. | UAS - In the Coming Robotic Revolution, The first wave of attack |