2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Dr. Kenneth A Connor http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4216-763X Inclusive Engineering Consortium & Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [biography]

   Kenneth Connor is Program Officer at the Inclusive Engineering Consortium (IEC), whose mission is to enable MSI ECE programs to produce more and better prepared graduates from groups that have been historically underrepresented in ECE careers. He is also an emeritus professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) where he taught courses on electromagnetics, electronics and instrumentation, plasma physics, electric power, and general engineering. His research involves plasma physics, electromagnetics, photonics, biomedical sensors, engineering education, diversity in the engineering workforce, and technology enhanced learning. He learned problem solving from his father (who ran a gray iron foundry), his mother (a nurse) and grandparents (dairy farmers). He has had the great good fortune to always work with amazing people, most recently the members and leadership of the IEC from HBCU, HSI, and TCU ECE programs and the faculty, staff and students of the Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications (LESA) ERC, where he was Education Director until his retirement in 2018. He was RPI ECSE Department Head from 2001 to 2008 and served on the board of the ECE Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) from 2003 to 2008. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE.

2. Dr. Mohamed F. Chouikha Prairie View A&M University [biography]

   Dr. Mohamed Chouikha is a professor and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Howard University. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado–Boulder. Dr. Chouikha’s research inte

3. Dr. John C. Kelly Jr. North Carolina A&T State University [biography]

   Dr. John C. Kelly, Jr. is interim chair and associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina A and T State University. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware. Dr. Kelly's research includes engineering education and cyber-physical systems' security.

4. Dr. Pamela Leigh-Mack Virginia State University [biography]

   Dr. Pamela Leigh-Mack is Professor and Chair of the Department of Engineering at Virginia State University. She received the B.S. degree in Mathematics from Virginia Union University, B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering (EE) from Howard U

5. Dr. Barry J. Sullivan Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Heads Assn [biography]

   Barry J. Sullivan is Director of Program Development for the Inclusive Engineering Consortium. His 40-year career includes significant experience as a researcher, educator, and executive in industry, academia, and the non-profit sector. He has developed

6. Dr. Stephen M Goodnick Arizona State University
7. Prof. Miguel Velez-Reyes http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6983-7250 University of Texas at El Paso [biography]

   Dr. Miguel Velez-Reyes is the George W. Edwards/El Paso Electric Distinguished Professor in Engineering and Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Dr. Velez-Reyes is a first generation in college student who received the BSEE degree from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM), in 1985, and the MSEE, the Electrical Eng. D., and the PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1988, 1988, and 1992 respectively. He is a leading researcher and educator in multi/hyperspectral remote sensing, and sensor and signal analytics for non-intrusive monitoring. His work is presented in over 160 publications in journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings, and has supervised over 55 post-doctoral, doctoral and master students. Dr. Velez-Reyes has been principal investigator or co-principal investigator in grants and contracts totaling over $25M. He chairs the SPIE Conference on Algorithms, Technologies and Applications for Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging. His technical achievements and service to the community have been recognized with the distinction of Fellow of SPIE (The International Society for Optics and Photonics) for his contributions to hyperspectral image processing, and Fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Puerto Rico. In 1997, he was one of 60 recipients from across the United States and its territories of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the White House. He received the IEEE Walter Fee Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 1999. In addition to being ECE department chair, he is engaged in important leadership roles as UTEP Campus Coordinator for the NOAA Center for Earth Systems Science and Remote Sensing Technology led by City College of New York and was interim director of the UTEP Regional Cyber for Energy Security Center. He was a member of the faculty at the Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM) from 1992 to 2012. He was the Founding Director of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM) Institute for Research in Integrative Systems and Engineering (IRISE) and was Associate Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) led by Northeastern University. He was also UPRM campus coordinator for the Center for Power Electronic Systems (CPES) a NSF ERC led by Virginia Tech. He was director of the UPRM Tropical Center for Earth and Space Studies (TCESS), a NASA University Research Center, and Director of the UPRM Laboratory for Applied Remote Sensing and Image Processing (LARSIP). Dr. Velez-Reyes is a strong advocate on promoting access to excellent higher education to all students particularly those from socioeconomically disadvantage backgrounds and underrepresented populations. He is a board member of the Inclusive Engineering Consortium and is actively engaged in initiatives that promote diversity equity and inclusion in engineering education. He has held faculty research-internship positions with Air Force Research Laboratories, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Furthermore, he is a member of the Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. He is a life member of SHPE and SACNAS, and Senior Member of IEEE. He is a member of ASEE, and AGU.

8. Michelle Klein Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Heads Assoc.
9. Prof. Truong Nguyen http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5022-063X University of California, San Diego [biography]

   Truong Nguyen is a Distinguished Professor at UCSD. His current research interests are video processing and machine learning algorithms with applications in health monitoring/diagnosis and 3D modeling. He received the IEEE Signal Processing Paper Award

10. Prof. Petru Andrei Florida A&M University; Florida State University [biography]

    Dr. Petru Andrei is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Florida A&M University and Florida Stat University (FAMU-FSU) College of Engineering. He is the FSU campus education director for the NSF-ERC Future Renewable El

11. Prof. Shayla Sawyer
12. Dr. Esther T. Ososanya University of the District of Columbia [biography]

    Dr. Esther T. Ososanya is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of the District of Columbia. During her career, Dr. Ososanya has worked for private industry as a circuit development engineer. Her expertise is in the areas of VLSI ASIC design and Embedded Systems design.

13. David Zubia University of Texas at El Paso
14. Milford Muskett

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