Please join us to celebrate the 2020 Illinois ECE alumni award recipients! We will host our awardees virtually for an alumni panel on Thursday, October 1 at 4:00 p.m. (CDT).
Here are the 2020 recipients:
Marcia Peterman ECE Award
Phillip Lachman (BSEE '04) - Senior Business Development Manager, ClearMotion, Inc.
Young Alumni Achievement Award
Aadeel Akhtar (MS '16) - CEO and Founder, PSYONIC
Pierre Martin (PhD '10) - CTO, Beacon
Akshay Naheta (BSEE '03) - Senior VP for Investments, SoftBank Group
Distinguished Alumni Award
Gale Beanblossom (MS '82) - Retired Senior Electrical Engineering Skills Manager, The Boeing Company
Yusuf Leblebici (PhD '91) - President, Sabanci University
William D. O'Brien, Jr. (BSEE '66, MS '68, PhD '70) - Emeritus Faculty, Illinois ECE
Yong Rui (PhD '99) - Corporate CTO and Senior VP, Lenovo Group
Jack Trautman (BSEE '72) - Retired Senior VP, Agilent Technologies
Join us in Virtual Grainger Auditorium to learn about their experiences from their time in ECE and their paths into their current fields.
Be sure to register!
