Join us for ECE Alumni Awards Weekend as we celebrate the next class of award recipients with events October 24-26. We will host an alumni awardee panel on 10/24, alumni board meeting and alumni awards banquet on 10/25, and an alumni-student football game watch party on 10/26.
Here are the 2024 alumni award recipients:
MARCIA PETERMAN ECE AWARD
Ernie Sammann (BSEE ’72, MS ‘77)
Retired Research Engineer, Materials Research Lab (MRL), University of Illinois
YOUNG ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Heather Dowdy (BSEE ‘06)
Head of Global Product Accessibility, Netflix
Divey Gulati (BS CompE ’09)
President & Co-Founder, ShipBob
Prateek Mittal (MS ’10, PhD ‘12)
Professor, ECE, Princeton University
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD
Bradley D. McCredie (BS CompE ’86, MS ’87, PhD ‘91)
Senior Vice President, AMD
Chin-Chi Teng (MS ‘93, PhD ‘96)
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Cadence Design Systems
Srikanth Thirumalai (MS ’92, PhD ‘96)
Vice President of Engineering, Onboard, Waymo
Interested in joining us? Contact Nikki Slack, ECE advancement, at nslack@illinois.edu.