EVENTS OF 2023

Anne Kiremidjian, PhD Villanova University’s College of Engineering is pleased to announce its 2023 Distinguished Lecture, featuring Anne Kiremidjian, PhD, the C.L. Peck, Class of 1906 Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. The lecture will take place at 2 p.m. Friday, March 31, at the Inn at Villanova. Registration will open in early February.
Ward Lecture Michel W. Barsoum, PhD, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University, will deliver the 2023 Patrick J. Cunningham Jr. and Susan Ward ’80 Endowed Lecture in Engineering, hosted by the College of Engineering. The lecture, which is open to the Villanova University community, will be held at 5 p.m. March 24 in the Villanova Room at the Connelly Center. No registration is necessary, and all first-year Engineering students are required to attend.
Energy Access Workshop This two-day workshop brings together engineering educators that engage undergraduate students in curricular, co-curricular, or extra-curricular humanitarian engineering (HE) activities that are centered on electricity access. The overarching goal of the workshop is to enhance and expand undergraduate engineering courses and activities on electricity access.
Ward Lecture, 10/20 “Skin-Like Electronics for the Human Body” will be delivered by Professor John A. Rogers, Querrey Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Northwestern University. Professor Roger’s talk will address key advances in the field of biocompatible electronics and highlight two devices that recently launched from his lab.
Dr. Feng Jiao, 10/26 CBE Speaker and Guest Lecturer Dr. Feng Jiao will speak on how, as our society faces the pressing challenges of climate change and global warming, driven in part by increasing atmospheric CO2 levels, reducing CO2 emissions has become a critical mission in the pursuit of a sustainable future.
My Journey in Silicon Valley, 11/29 Rob Csongor '83 EE, one of the original employees of NVIDIA, will provide reflections on his career in business and technology and the evolution of NVIDIA, from a startup with no products and zero revenue focused on graphics for video games, to a world leader powering the AI revolution.

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