University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Vince Poor

Former Princeton dean

UI engineering prof, 1977-90

Erich Elsen

Senior software engineer

Google

Kevin Wise

Senior technical fellow

Boeing

Amr Elnashai

Vice chancellor

University of Houston

Michelle Fraser-Page

Safety engineer

NASA’s Johnson Space Ctr.

Mun Choi

President

U of Missouri system

John Rogers

Bioelectronics pioneer

Held Swanlund chair at UI

Dan Dobberpuhl

UI Engineering HOF

CEO, P.A. Semi, Inc.

April Chou

Co-founder

Zawgyi Children Foundation

Doyeol Ahn

Engineer holds 36 patents

Distinguished Alumni Award

Majdi Abbas

Network engineer

Formerly of Yahoo

Mike Freedman

Chief communications officer

Stanford engineering school

Mike VanBlaricum

Research engineer

‘14 Lou Liay Spirit Award

Saiid Saiidi

Nevada engineering professor

Outstanding Alumni Award

Steve Wise

Systems engineer

Sierra Nevada Corp.

Andy Richardson

Chairman/CEO

Greeley and Hansen

Tim Franklin

Boeing engineer

Aerothermodynamics

Terren Peterson

VP/platform engineering

Capital One

Tom Sun

Software engineer

Twitter

Joe Martinez

Structural design engineer

Boeing

Eduardo Torrealba

Director of engineering

Formlabs

Mike Springer

Chief, executive relations

Philips Healthcare

Paul Mauschbaugh

Analytics director

Caterpillar

Jose Martinez

Cornell professor

Distinguished Alumni Award