IEC - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President / Morgan State University
- Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Electrical and Computer
Dr. Craig J. Scott currently serves as Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr School of Engineering at Morgan State University. He has also served as Interim Dean of the School of Engineering since 2018 and as the Chair of the Departm ent of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 2007. He was instrumental in establishing the department as one of the nation's first fully online electrical engineering programs. He also directed and guided his faculty in developing a strategic vision for research and education and in designing Morgan's first state-of-the-art facilities in cyber engineering and visual analytics. Under his leadership, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been consistently ranked as the number one producer of African American electrical engineering graduates in the Nation. He is currently serving as the President of the Inclusive Engineering Consortium (IEC). The IEC is a consortium of HBCU electrical engineering departments operating as a ‘super department". Dr. Scott is a recipient of the ECEDHA Diversity Award and has been named a NASA/ASEE Fellow and Army Science Board Nominee. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Howard University, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Howard University.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer
- Vice President / North Carolina a & T State University
Dr. John C. Kelly, Jr. is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware. Dr. Kelly's research interests include hardware security in cyber-physical systems and embedded systems security. He also contributes to research on engineering education, enhanced retention of underrepresented minorities in engineering, and hands-on learning techniques.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Executive Professor
- Secretary and Treasurer / Prairie View a & M University
Dr. Mohamed Chouikha is a Executive Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Prairie View A&M University. He received his M.S. and PhD. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado-Boulder. Dr. Chouikha research interests include hardware security, cybersecurity machine learning and multimedia signal processing and communications for secure networks, among other areas. He also focuses on enhancing recruitment and retention of underrepresented minorities in the STEM areas in general, engineering in particular.
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- Member - at - Large / Virginia State University
- Professor and Chair of the Department of Engineering at Virginia
Dr. Pamela Leigh-Mack is Professor and Chair of the Department of Engineering at Virginia State University (VSU). She has served as Dean of the School of Engineering, Science, and Technology at VSU and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Morgan State University. Dr. Leigh-Mack received a BS degree in mathematics from Virginia Union University, BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering (EE) from Howard University, and a PhD in EE from the University of Delaware. She also worked in industry for the General Electric Space Systems Division.
Among her professional affiliations are ASEE, IEEE and SWE. She has been an ABET Program Evaluator for many years, reviewing programs nationally and internationally; currently serves on the Virginia STEM Education Commission, appointed by Governor Ralph Northam; and is a Board Member-at-Large of the Inclusive Engineering Consortium. Dr. Leigh-Mack received the ASEE Electrical and Computer Engineering Division Distinguished Educator Award; NACME Alumni Award; U.S. Black Engineer Women of Color in Technology Education Award; and the Morgan State University Dr. Iva G. Jones Medallion Mantle, for exceptional achievement in teaching, scholarship, and leadership, to name some. She has a strong interest in STEM education including retention; accreditation and assessment issues; pedagogical innovations; and diversity in engineering, particularly women.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Emeritus Professor in the Department of Electrical, Compu
- Program Officer / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Kenneth Connor is an emeritus professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) where he taught courses on electromagnetics, electronics and instrumentation, plasma physics, electric power, and general engineering. His research involves plasma physics, electromagnetics, photonics, biomedical sensors, engineering education, diversity in the engineering workforce, and technology enhanced learning. He learned problem solving from his father (who ran a gray iron foundry), his mother (a nurse) and grandparents (dairy farmers). He has had the great good fortune to always work with amazing people, most recently the members and leadership of the Inclusive Engineering Consortium (IEC) from HBCU and HSI ECE programs and the faculty, staff and students of the Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications (LESA) ERC, where he was Education Director until his retirement in 2018. He was RPI ECSE Department Head from 2001 to 2008 and served on the board of the ECE Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) from 2003 to 2008. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE.
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- ECEDHA Representative / University of Texas Austin
Mark Smith received his B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Tech in electrical engineering. He started his academic career in 1985 at Georgia Tech as a faculty member in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), where he remained for the next 18 years. In January 2003, he joined Purdue University as head of the School of ECE, and six years later was appointed dean of the Purdue University Graduate School. In August 2017, he joined The University of Texas at Austin as senior vice provost for academic affairs and dean of the Graduate School.
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- Member - at - Large / University of Texas El Paso
Miguel Velez-Reyes received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM), in 1985, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1988, and 1992, respectively. He was with the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez 1992-2012. Since August 2012, he is Professor and Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has held Faculty Internship Positions with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Air Force Research Laboratories, and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. His teaching and research interests are in signal and sensor analytics, information extraction from dynamic systems using remote or minimally intrusive sensing, hyperspectral remote sensing, and data-driven science and engineering. He has over 160 publications in journals and conference proceedings and has contributed to three books. He was the Director of the Institute for Research in Integrative Systems and Engineering (IRISE) at UPRM and Associate Director of the NSF Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems a NSF Engineering Research Center led by Northeastern University. He was director for the UPRM Tropical Center for Earth and Space Studies, a NASA University Research Center. In 1997, Dr. Velez-Reyes was one of 60 recipients from across the United States and its territories of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the White House. In 2005, Dr. Velez-Reyes was inducted in the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Puerto Rico. In 2010, Dr. Velez-Reyes was elected Fellow of SPIE for his contributions to hyperspectral image processing. He is the chair of the SPIE Conference on Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery. He is a senior member of the IEEE where he has held many posts such as president of the IEEE Western Puerto Rico Section, and Latin America representative to the IEEE PELS AdCom. He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies.
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- Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seattle University
Shiny Abraham is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seattle University. She received the B.E. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Visveswaraiah Technological University (VTU), India in 2007 and Ph.D. from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA in 2012. Her research interests span the areas of Wireless Communication, Internet of Things (IoT), Optimization using Game Theory, and Engineering Education Research. She is a member of the IEEE and ASEE, a technical program committee member for IEEE Globecom, ICC, ICCCN and VTC conferences, and a reviewer for several international journals and conferences.
Job Titles:
- Director of Corporate Relations