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Colloquium Lectures Tuesdays Engineering Hall room 136 2:00 - 3:00 pM Reception to follow Engineering Hall  Room 136 3:00 - 3:20 pM All Lectures Open to the Public Professional Development Lectures only for Graduate Students

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Fall 2025

• August 26: General Introduction, goals, and expectations 
• September 2: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Getting Hired ("In the door")
• September 9: Dr. Winston Zhang
  Title: TBD
• September 16: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: CRITICAL leadership/soft skills – THE key to differentiation
• September 23: TBD
• September 30: TBD
• October 7: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Corporate Org Structures and Critical Operating Mechanisms
• October 14: TBD
• October 21: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Project Teams & Processes - Basics
• October 28: Mr. Rick Stegehuis
  Title: TBD
• November 4: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Project Teams & Processes - Realities & Pitfalls
• November 11: TBD
• November 18: TBD
• November 25: TBD
• December 2: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Managing your career and life & employee eval processes

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Speakers from Previous Semesters

Spring 2025

• January 14: General Introduction, goals, and expectations 
• January 21: Cancelled due to weather conditions.
• January 28: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Key professional traits & actions
• February 4: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: People management & navigating different management styles
• February 11: Dr. Majeed Hayat, Professor and Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù
  Title: Understanding Cascading Failures in Modern Power Grids - A Markov-chain Approach
• February 18: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Innovation & startups - realities & funding proposal tips
• February 25: Pizza & Social Hour
• March 4: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano
  Guest: Mr. Cherik Bulkes (GE Research Manager and Entrepreneur) returns
• March 18: Dr. Xiaoli Ma, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, UWM-Milwaukee
  Title: Crystalline microporous membranes for PFAS removal and gas separation
• March 25: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Conflict resolution techniques (new module)
• April 1: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Corp Finance primer & course summary / feedback, Q&A
• April 8: No colloquium.
• April 15: Mr. Rich Niemiec, CIO of Viscosity North America, Oracle ACE Director
  Title: Exceptional Leadership: Be the Uncommon Leader!
• April 22: Mr. Chris Lambrou, CIO of Metro MLS, Chair of IEEE Milwaukee section, An IEEE Magnetics Milwaukee Chapter Event
  Title: Discover the Value of IEEE Milwaukee Section Membership – Join One of the Largest International Professional Associations!
• April 29: No colloquium.

Fall 2024

• August 27: General Introduction, goals, and expectations 
• September 3: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Getting hired ("In the door")
• September 10: Dr. Ahmad Al-Zahrani, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù
  Title: Optimized Design of High-Efficiency Interleaved Boost Converters for Renewable Energy Systems
• September 17: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Critical leadership/soft skills - The key to differentiation
• September 24: Mr. Armin Ebrahimian, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù
  Title: Mastering the Art of the Three-Minute Thesis: Crafting the Perfect Pitch for 3MT, Fast Pitches, and Self-Promotion
• October 1: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Corporate Org Structures and Critical Operating Mechanisms
• October 8: Dr. Francesco Sorrentino, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico
  Title: State-Dependent Communication Enhances Network Synchronization
• October 15: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Project Teams & Processes - Basics
• October 22: No colloquium.
• October 29: Mr. Chuck Romenesko, Mr. Brian Ott, Dr. Sina Vahid and Dr. Waqar Khan, Miller Electric Mfg. LLC Team
  Title: Electrical and Computer Engineering Applications in Welding
• November 5: NextGen Data and Automation Conference (NDAC) 2024
• November 12: Mr. Mark G. Solveson, Ansys, IEEE Magnetics Milwaukee Chapter Event
  Title: Simulation for Today's Engineers - Topics in Electromagnetics
• November 19: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Project Teams & Processes - Realities & Pitfalls
• November 26: Pizza & Social Hour
• December 3: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Managing your career and life & employee eval processes

Spring 2024

• January 16: General Introduction, goals, and expectations 
• January 23: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Key Professional Traits & Actions
• January 30: Ph.D. club social for graduate students.
• February 6: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: People management & managing up 
• February 13: Dr. Sandra Boetcher, Mechanical Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL
  Title:  Shifting the Paradigm of Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage Systems via Additive Manufacturing

• February 20: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Innovation and startups - the pitfalls and realities
• February 27: Dr. Majeed Hayat, Professor and Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù
  Title: A Probabilistic Model to Predict the Impact of Rare and Colossal Interference in HPC Systems
• March 5: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Mr. Cherik Bulkes (GE Research Manager and Entrepreneur)
• March 19:Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Covid and recent changes - Impacts to professional success
• March 26: No colloquim.
• April 2: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Corporate Finance and Investments - Implications for your role
• April 9: Dr. Priya Deshpande, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù
  Title: AI Solutions for a Variety of High-Impact Problems in the Healthcare Domain

• April 16: Dr. Raymonde Uy, Physician Informaticist, National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)
  Title: TechQuity in Action: Applied Clinical & Public Heath Informatics Approaches Advancing Health Equity in Community Health Centers

• April 23: Dr. Payman Zarkesh-Ha, Director, Center for High Technology Materials, and ECE, University of New Mexico
  Title: Future of Semiconductors: A Co-Design Approach in Materials, Devices, and Systems

• April 30: Ph.D. club social for graduate students.

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Fall 2023:

• August 29:  General introduction, goals, and expectations for graduate students
• September 5: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Getting Hired - "In the door"
• September 12: Ph.D. Club Social for Graduate Students
• September 19: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: CRITICAL leadership/soft skills - The key to differentiation
• September 26: Khan M. Siddiqui, M.D. Chief Executive Officer, HOPPR of Hyperfine, Inc. Title: Imagination is the Beginning of Creatioin
• October 3: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Corporate Org. Structures and Critical Operating Mechanisms
• ** Friday - October 6**  Professor Sergio N. Torres, Electrical Engineering Dept., Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile, Title: Infrared Light-Field Imaging System Free  of  Fixed-Pattern Noise
• October 10: No colloquium.
• October 17: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Project Teams & Processes - Basics
• October 24: Dr. Ayman EL-Refaie, ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù, Werner Endowed Chair Professor of the EECE Department. Title: Energy Conversion for a Sustainable Future Revived Role of Power and Energy
• October 31: Ph.D. Club Matinee Movie "Knifes Out"
• November 7: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Project Teams & Processes - Realities & Pitfalls
• November 14: Mr. Gary Gordhamer, Managing Principal Consultant and Oracle ACE Pro, Viscosity North America. Title: Database Past, Present, and Future: A Look at Computer Industry Trends and the Bidirectional Effects of Oracle
• November 21: No colloquim.
• November 28: Mr. Mark A. Juds, Chief Engineer MAJ Engineering, LLC New Berlin, WI, Title: Practical Magnetic Design . . . Where is Leakage Flux? Why are Materials Magnetic?  
• December 5: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Managing your career and life & employee evaluation processes

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Spring 2023

• January 17: Orientation for graduate students only
• January 24: Dr. Pankaz Das, Sr. Data Scientist at GE Healthcare, Title: Mitigating Cascading Failures in Power Grids via Markov Decision based Load-shedding
• January 31: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano Topic: Summary of Fall Semester – Critical Takeaways & Discussion
• February 14: Ph.D. Club Social for Graduate Students
• February 21: Professional Development - Dr. Jennifer Black, GE Healthcare, Topic: Technical Team Leadership, a Leader's Perspective
• February 28: Mr. Mutain Zhuang, EECE doctoral graduate student, Title: EECE Computer Cluster
• March 7: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano Topic: People Management – a New Leader’s Guide
• March 14: Spring Break
• March 21: Dr. James Richie, ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù, Associale Professor and Associate Chair of the EECE Department, Title: Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering 
• March 28: Mr. Morris Panner, President of Intelerad Medical Systems, Title: Best of Both Worlds – aligning academic and industry research and in the process maybe even start your own company. 
• April 4: Professional Development - Mr. Michael Washburn, GECH Chief Engineer Ultrasound Business, Topic: The Technical Career Path – thoughts and Q&A, 
• April 11: Dr. Thomas Jahns, Grainger Emeritus Professor of Power Electronics and Electrical Machines WEMPEC, UW – Madison. Title: "The Promising Future of Integrated Motor Drives in Tomorrow’s E-Mobility Applications"
• April 18: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Startups & translational research - the process and realities
• April 25: Professor Mahshid Rahnamay Naeini, University of South Florida, Title: Energy Data Analytics through the Lens of Graph Signal Processing
• May 2: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano, Topic: Corporate finance basics and Course Summary, Q&A

Fall 2022

• August 30: Orientation for graduate students only 
• September 6: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano
• September 13: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano
• September 20: Dr. Majeed Hayat, Methods for Application-Specific Computational and Compressive Spectral Imaging: Sense Only what is Needed to Answer your Questions"
• September 27: Dr. Richard Lukas, Milwaukee Tool "When Bad Things Happen to Good Models"  Pitfalls in Bringing ML to the Real World
• October 4: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano
• October 11: -No colloquium 
• October 18: No colloquium 
• October 25: Dr. Priya Deshpande, Assistant Professor, ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù, "Machine Learning and Healthcare Data Interoperability" 
• November 1: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano
• November 8: Dr. Peng Fang, Assistant Professor, U of MN-Duluth, "Ultra-high Efficiency Power Conversion Technology for Wide Voltage Range Applications"
• November 15: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano
• November 22: Dr. Manil Maskey, NASA, Sr. Research Scientist, " A Comprehensive Agenda for Data Science at NASA Science Mission Directorate"
• November 29: TBD
• December 6: Professional Development - Mr. Charles Giordano

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Spring 2022

• January 25: General introduction, goals and expectations - M. Hayat
• February 1: Professional Development - Mr. C. Giordano
• February 8:  Mr. Chad Pahnke, Partner, Patent Attorney, McAndrews, Held & Malloy
• February 15:  Dr. Richard Povinelli, ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù
• February 22:  Dr. Majeed Hayat, ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù
• March 1:  Professional Development - Mr. C. Giordano
• March 8: Professional Development - Mr. C. Giordano
• March 22:  Dr. Paul Song, GE Healthcare
• March 29: Professional Development - Mr. C. Giordano
• April 5: Mr. Clay Norrbom, Juhl Energy
• April 12:  Dr. Dan Ionel, University of Kentucky
• April 19:  Professional Development - Mr. C. Giordano
• April 26:  Dr. Mushu Li, University of Waterloo, Ontario Canada
• May 3:  Professional Development - Mr. C. Giordano
• May 10:  Dr. Payman Zarkesh-Ha, Professor, ECE, University of New Mexico

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Fall 2021 

•  November 30: Dr. Bradley M. Ratliff, Associate Professor, The University of Dayton
  "Design, Analysis, and Demosaicing Consideration for Improved Snapshot Imaging Polarimeters"
• November 9: Dr. Ashfaq Khokhar, Professor and Palmer Department Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
  "The Role of Engineering in Building the Next Generation of Smart Healthcare Systems"
• October 26: Dr. Philipe Ambrozio-Dias, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, "Towards Generalizable, Scalable and Explainable AI Methods for Satellite Imagery Analysis"
• October 19: Dr. Asad Azemi, Professor and Department Chair UW-Platteville
  "Can Innovativeness and Entrepreneurship be Measured?" 
• October 12:  Dr. Nan Chen, Assistant Professor, Tennessee Tech University
  "Electric Vehicle Battery State Monitoring via Magnetic Sensing"

• October 5: Andrew Bochman, Senior Grid Strategist, Idaho National Laboratory (INL) National and Homeland Security directorate and Andrew Ohrt, Resilience Practice Area Lead, West Yost Associates, Duluth, MN, "How to Kill Your Company: Cyber Security Engineering for National Defense, Water Utilities, and Grid Utilities"   

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