An outside perspective is essential to maintaining the relevancy of ECE programs to its alumni and corporate constituencies. The ECE Advisory Board, composed of mostly alumni industry representatives, provides this external assessment during its formal, biannual meetings and throughout the year. The Board is chaired by Steve W. Chaddick. 

Board Members for 2017

Moises N. Abadi
Liberty Technologies Corporation
San Francisco, Panama

Chaouki Abdallah
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM

Behrooz Abdi
InvenSense, Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA

Antonio R. Alvarez
Aptina Imaging
San Jose, CA

Fred Anochie
Cox Communications
Atlanta, GA

Keefe E. Bohannan
Keysight Technologies, Inc.
Canton, GA

Steve W. Chaddick
Ridgewood Advisors, LLC
Atlanta, GA

Mel Coker
AT&T Corporation
Dallas, TX

James DeBardelaben
IvySys Technologies, LLC
Arlington, VA

Gina DeSimone (Retired)
The Boeing Company
Atlanta, GA

H. Allen Ecker (Retired)
Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.
Atlanta, GA

Paul Emerson
Texas Instruments, Inc.
Dallas, TX

Holmes J. Hawkins III, Esq.
King & Spalding
Atlanta, GA

Larry Heck
Samsung
Mountain View, CA

Shigefumi “Shige” Honjo
Nest
Santa Cruz, CA

Amol Joshi
Oregon State University
Salem, OR

John D. Lanza
Foley & Lardner LLP
Boston, MA

Allen L. Lindsay
Harris Corporation
Melbourne, FL

Fernando Mujica
Apple, Inc.
Cupertino, CA

Ragnar-Miguel Myhrer
Accenture
Atlanta, GA

Keith C. Ogboenyiya
Texas Instruments, Inc.
Dallas, TX

Randall E. Poliner
Antares Capital Corporation
Melbourne, FL

Sheryl Prucka
Park City, UT

Thomas J. Quigley
Quigley Family Foundation
Franklin, NC

Thomas Sapitowicz
Inglett & Stubbs
Smyrna, GA

Leslie Sibert
Southern Company
Atlanta, GA

Robert Stargel, Jr.
Retired
Roswell, GA

Jim Stratigos
Cognosos, Inc.
Atlanta, GA

Meade Sutterfield
Atlanta, GA

Alek Szlam
Szlam Enterprises, Inc.
Alpharetta, GA

Michael R. Tinskey
Ford Motor Company
Dearborn, MI