Industrial Advisory Board

The Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) is a fun group of talented and experienced engineering professionals who are serious about ECE education. Serving as advocates for the department, board members provide input regarding curriculum plans, foster mutually beneficial collaborations, and participate in events and activities to benefit the department.

Want to Get Involved with the IAB?

Contact Andrea Leland, industrial relations coordinator, for more information.

IAB Membership:

		ACS Power Jon Grooters Sales Director jon.grooters@acspower.com				Advanced Energy Josh Pankratz Director of Strategic Development for AMP
		Ampt Fernando Tomasel VP of Engineering ftomasel@ampt.com				Avaya Communications Mike Stiles Engineering Manager mastiles@avaya.com
		Ball Aerospace Torie Hadel RF Engineer vhadel@ball.com Jacob Sauer Director of Advanced Systems Technology jsauer@ball.com				BlackHorse Solutions Jason Fritz Principal Engineer jpfritz@ieee.org
		Broadcom Jason Gentry jason.gentry@broadcom.com Steven Martin steven.martin@broadcom.com				Cardinal Peak John Nichols Business Development Manager
		Engineers Without Borders Veronica Cavallaro Chief Operations Officer veronica.cavallaro@ewb-usa.org				Hewlett Packard Enterprise Jim Greener jim.greener@hpe.com Scott Makinen scott.makinen@gmail.com
		Idaho National Laboratory Manish Mohanpurkar Scientist				Intel Orhan Norman Engineering Manager orhan.norman@intel.com
		Jeppesen Greg Nuccio Greg.Nuccio@jeppesen.com				Keysight Technologies Kin Chan Director of ASIC Design Center kin_chan@keysight.com Chuck Duey Hardware R&D Engineer charles.duey@keysight.com Alan Wang Senior Program Manager alan.wang@keysight.com
		Lockheed Martin Lynda Allen Chief Engineer lynda.j.allen@lmco.com				Medtronic Todd Hansell Site Quality Director for Medtronic Neurosurgery robert.hansell@medtronic.com Jeannine Looney SWQA & Test Engineering Manager jeannine.looney@covidien.com
		Microsoft Randy Crane Senior Hardware Design Engineer rcrane@microsoft.com				National Renewable Energy Lab Rob Hovsapian Research Advisor Rob.Hovsapian@nrel.gov
		Northrop Grumman Patrick Strausbaugh Fellow, Chief Engineer Patrick.Strausbaugh@ngc.com				Propel Labs Susan Hunter Senior Optical Engineer susanh@propel-labs.com
		Tasterra Consulting, LLC Richard Toftness rtoftness@gmail.com				Teledyne-e2v Kurt Rentel North American Business Development Manager
		The Group, Inc. Tim Ash Broker Associate Partner tash@thegroupinc.com				U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Dr. Abbie Watnik Research Scientist
		Wolf Robotics / Lincoln Electric Dan Spieker Manager of Software R&D dan_spieker@lincolnelectric.com				Woodward Industrial Controls Steve Pacheco Application Engineer steve.pacheco@woodward.com
		Xilinx, Inc. Colin Baldwin Senior Director colin@xilinx.com

Engineering Consultants: Dave Christie, Dave Newman, Chuck Quire