Alumni Profiles
We would like to reach out to all Electrical Engineering Graduates of SDSU to tell your story! If you would like to submit a profile of your professional accomplishments to be shared on this site we would love to hear from you.
Please contact the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering via phone (619) 594-7013 and leave a message with a phone number to call you back at or feel free to drop by in-person to the Engineering building, room 426.
The information we would like:
- Name
- Year of Graduation
- Program of Graduation
- Title
- Employer
- Summary of your Professional Accomplishments (up to 250 words)
- Photo you wish to include
Profiles
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Jose L. Agraz, Ph.D. |
My career expands for over 20 years beginning as an electronic technician to a researcher
in biomedical devices. I hold 5 patents and 13 publications, ranging from hardware
such as; biometrics, piezoelectric motors, imaging, to software in music modulation
for enhance learning. Currently, I work for Intel as a product development engineer.
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Peggy ('85) and Eric Johnson ('86) |
Johnsons Make Gift to Endow fred harris Chair in DSP
We are pleased to announce that Peggy (BSEE 1985) and Eric Johnson (MSEE 1986) have made a $3,100,000 gift to name and endow the fred harris Chair in Digital Signal Processing (DSP).
Professor Emeritus fred harris started his more than 50 year career at SDSU in 1967 teaching DSP and Communication Systems courses. He is internationally renowned in Electrical Engineering and holds over 35 patents on digital receiver and DSP technology. He is the co-inventor of the Blackman-Harris Window.
Peggy is CEO of Magic Leap, a spatial computing company. Eric is an angel investor. They met at SDSU. Grateful for their SDSU education, fred’s inspiration and life-long friendship, they made the naming gift in his honor.
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Joe E. Kiani, ('84 & '88) |
Joe E. Kiani, founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Masimo Corporation, a publicly held (since
2007) global medical technology company, immigrated to the U.S. from Iran as a child of poverty to become a billionaire!
In 1984, Joe earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and in 1988 his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at San Diego State University. He was also the 2005 Monty Awardee. SDSU's Monty Award honors alumni who have made significant contributions to San Diego State University, the San Diego community or California, nationally or internationally, and is presented to one distinguished alumnus/alumna from each college annually.
Now, Joe Kiani is the cover story on the 2022 Forbes 400 magazine. To read the entire article, click on Meet the Iranian Immigrant Who Became a Covid MedTec Billionaire, written by Kerry A. Dolan, Forbes Staff.
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Reena Roy |
Reena Roy graduated with her Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering degree
in 2010 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, San Diego State
University. She has been with San Diego Gas & Electric for 12 years as their senior
engineer.
Click SDG&E Engineers Week Employee Spotlight: Reen Roy to read the article.