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ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
ECE Department Colloquia and Seminars
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ECE Distinguished Seminar Series is proud to present:

Friday, October 30, 2009, 1:30 p.m., Dreese Lab 113, Marlin Thurston Auditorium
One Engineer's 50 Year Professional Journey
by Stanley E. Harrison

Sponsored by: The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Abstract: Mr. Harrison will speak about his professional, technical, general leadership and executive management experiences as related to his governance and line management roles in the public and private sectors including higher education. He will identify characteristics which he found common to each phase of his career including a person’s uncompromising professionalism and integrity; share examples of engineering principles and how he found ways to use these in the understanding and application to other professional disciplines; share his views on a multi-dimensional life relative to keeping family, career, service to others, and philanthropy in balance; and share his experiences on the continued fast pace of change relative to the globalization of technology, education, business, and friendships and acquaintances.

The understanding of the above and their combined importance to one engineer’s professional life and his willingness to continue to be educated started here in the ECE Department at OSU.

Bio: Mr. Harrison retired from his executive position as President and Chief Operating Officer of the BDM Corporation, a Northern Virginia-based knowledge company, in the fall of 1988. Mr. Harrison is Dean Emeritus of the Harry F. Byrd, Jr. School of Business at Shenandoah University, Winchester, Virginia. Mr. Harrison served as Chairman and President of The Potomac Foundation from 1988-1994, a non-profit corporation in Fairfax, Virginia, dedicated to the advancement of knowledge in science and technology, education, social development, and defense. He is a nationally recognized defense industry executive and has over four decades of experience in building and managing large organizations. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio. He holds a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University, Honorary Doctorate Degrees from The Ohio State University and Shenandoah University, Honorary Professorships from two universities in China. He has received academic, business and service awards and is a Member and Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International. He was a founding member of the Board of the Washington Airports Task Force, serving from 1983 to 1993, and served as its Chairman from 1996 to 2008. Mr. Harrison is a licensed private pilot.

Previous Talks:

The Interplay of Theory and Technology in the Communication Sciences, Prof. Robert Gallager, October 16, 2009 (abstract)

OFDMA for Mobile Broadband Wireless Communications (abstract)

Boundary Control of PDEs and Applications to Flows and Flexible Structures (abstract)

Adventures in Three-Dimensional Face Recognition (abstract)

Fingerprints: Proving Ground for Pattern Recognition (abstract)

Impact of GPS Modernization and Galileo on Aviation (abstract)

Training, Feedback, and Information Exchange in Wireless Systems (abstract)

Collective Motion in Engineered and Natural Multi-Agent Systems (abstract)

On Securing Networked Real-Time Embedded Systems (abstract)

Symmetric Function Computation in Sensor Networks (abstract)

Power Electronics and the Growing Energy Revolution: The How of Alternative and Sustainable Energy (abstract)

Metamaterials, Shrinking Circuit Elements, and Nanooptics

ECE Department Colloquia and Seminars:

Previous Talks:

Adaptive Inter-Vehiclular Communication Protocols and Realistic Simulations Models, Falko Dressler, Ph.D., October 2, 2009, (abstract)

Novel Architectures and Algorithms for Adaptive Scheduling and Routing in Wireless Networks (abstract)

Rapid Scanning Optical MEMS Devices and their Biomedical Imaging Applications (abstract)

Optimized Zero Tracking and Disturbance Rejecting Controllers: The Generalized PID Controller (abstract)

Robust Maximum Principle and its Applications to LQ-Differential Games and Stochastic Control (abstract)

Optimal Noise Filtering in the Chemotactic Response of E. coli (abstract)

Slightly Frequency-Shifted Reference Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Radio (abstract)

Automotive Applications of Neural Networks (abstract)

On Scalable Transmission Algorithms with Data-loss Tolerance and QoS Guarantees in Wireless Ad-hoc or Sensor Networks (abstract)

Computer Vision Activities at Sabanci University (abstract)

Automotive Telematics and Networking - Opportunities and Challenges (abstract)

Methods and Applications of Time-Varying Spectral Analysis (abstract)

Biclustering in Genomics (abstract)

Informational Seminar about the NSF GK-12 Graduate Fellowship Program (abstract)

Design and Test of Defect-Tolerant Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (abstract)

The State-of-the-Art in Electron Beam Lithography and Future Challenges (abstract)

Hacking with Megawats: Threats to Power Grid Security via Networked Control (abstract)

IEEE EDS/LEOS Distinguished Seminar Series:

Previous Talks:

MOSCAP's and MOSFET's on III-V Channel Materials with Si, Ge and SiGe Interface Passivation Layer (abstract)

Physics and Technology of Nanocrystalline Silicon for Solar Energy Conversion (abstract

Beyond Scaling - Teaching the Old Dog some New Tricks! (abstract)

Nanoscale Transistors: The Ultimate MOSFET and Beyond (abstract)

Nanotechnology Opportunities in the Silicon CMOS World (abstract)

Innovations in Light-Emitting Diodes for Solid-State and Smart Lighting Applications (abstract)

IEEE AP/MTT Seminar Series:

Previous Talks:

Beamforming for Wideband Phased Arrays: Time and Frequency Considerations (abstract)

IPS Lab Seminar Series:

Previous Talks:

Phase Transitions in Wireless Multi-hop Networks eStadium: A Large-Scale Testbed for Research and Applications in Wireless Systems and ApplicationsWaveform Design for Radar Imaging (abstract)

(Modeling Wireless Sensor Networks (abstract)