Where are ECE alumni making an impact?

ECE ILLINOIS alumni make an impact in countless ways every day, across the world. Many alumni work as engineers, but others are business leaders, sales people, lawyers, military personnel, and teachers. Here are just a few of our distinguished alumni who are making an impact:

Alfred Cho (BSEE ’60, MSEE ’61, PhD ’68)
Vice President (retired)
Semiconductor Research Laboratory
Bell Laboratories

Katie Davis (BSEE ’87)
Executive Director of Strategy
Identify and Passport Service
British Government

Nick Holonyak Jr. (BSEE ’50, MSEE ’51, PhD ’54)
Professor
ECE ILLINOIS

Kanti Jain (MSEE ’70, PhD ’75)
Professor
ECE ILLINOIS

Dirk Meyer (BSEE ’83)
CEO
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

Jordan Plofsky (BSEE ’83)
Vice President of Marketing
Altera Corporation

Steve Sample (BSEE ’62, MSEE ’63, PhD ’65)
President
University of Southern California

Larry Weber (BSEE ’69, MSEE ’71, PhD ’75)
President (retired)
Plasmaco (a subsidiary of Panasonic)

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