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Engineering a Better Tomorrow

College Welcome

The First Year Engineering Program hosts an annual College of Engineering Welcome event that features our Dean of the College of Engineering and a keynote speaker, typically an NC State engineering alumnus.

The 9th annual College of Engineering Welcome is scheduled for Thursday, August 20, 2009, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m., at the McKimmon Center. Tom McPherson (BSEE '76, MSEE '77), managing member of Cluny Aviation LLC, will present the keynote address.

Tom McPherson
McPherson

A 2004 Distinguished Engineering Alumnus, McPherson is an entrepreneur who has founded and led several successful high-tech companies resulting in one initial public offering and two mergers. Some of the companies that Tom helped establish and make successful include Picture Element Limited, Network Equipment Technologies, Rapid City Communications, Hatteras Networks and most recently Cognio, which he sold last fall to Cisco. He also has held executive positions at Hughes Network Systems, Bay Networks and Nortel. McPherson serves on the NC State Engineering Foundation Board of Directors and established the McPherson Family Distinguished Professorship in support of the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program in 2001.

The 9th annual College of Engineering Welcome is sponsored by Comscope.

Our Keynote Speakers:

Steve Angel 2008
Steve Angel (CE '77)
Chairman, President & CEO
Praxair
Lee Mazzocchi 2007
Lee Mazzocchi (CE '90)
Vice President
Progress Energy
2006
Scot Wingo (ECE '92)
President and CEO
ChannelAdvisor Corporation
Gayle Lanier 2005
Gayle Lanier (IE '82)
Vice President
Nortel
Tim E. Scronce 2004
Tim E. Scronce (IE '87)
President
Blue Rhino
Ross Lampe, Jr. 2003
Ross Lampe, Jr. (IE '77)
President
SMD Software, Inc.
Barbara H. Mulkey 2002
Barbara H. Mulkey (CE '77)
CEO
Mulkey Engineers & Consultants
Marshall Brain 2001
Marshall Brain (CSC '89)
Founder
HowStuffWorks.com
 
 
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