Industrial Advisory Board

Industrial Advisory Board

As part of our process for continuously improving our programs and the quality of our graduates, we regularly meet with our alumni and members of local industry for advising. The objectives of ECE’s Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) are to provide feedback on strengths and weaknesses of recent graduates from our B.S. and M.S. programs, advise the faculty on how to best prepare our students for engineering careers, provide opportunities for students to apply for engineering positions and internships, promote our students and advocate our programs to the engineering companies within the region, and to provide program feedback as part of our continuous improvement and ABET accreditation processes.

Our IAB membership includes representation from many companies in the Portland region that hire graduates from our programs and develop technologies that include electrical and computer engineering. Our pool of advisors work at all levels from individual contributor to CEO of companies.

 

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Intel logo
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Metron logo
Portland General Electrical logo
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Current IAB Members

  Member Company and Title
  Ron Press Siemens, Director of Technology Enablement 
  Sarala Paliwal Siemens, Senior Engineering Director
  Kyle Kohne BPA, Manager, Communications and Grid Modeling/Transmission Student Development Program
  Alexander Stewart BPA, Senior Engineer
  Ed Godshalk Redpoint Microwave LLC, Owner
  Rodney Jenkins Intel
  Tom Garrison (PSU BS Graduate 1994) Intel, VP, General Manager
  Lauren Krueger (PSU BS Graduate 2013) PE Interface Engineering Inc., Associate/Senior Electrical Engineer
  John Gebbie (PSU PhD Graduate 2014) Metron, Director of Advanced Mathematics Applications
  Derrick Harris PGE, Manager Distribution Planning
  Andrew Gao (PSU BS Graduate 2013) Power Engineers, Project Engineer