Oct. 21, 2014 Speaker: Brian Keating, UCSD – Beginnings of Time

Going to the ends of the earth to glimpse the beginnings of time, Professor Brian Keating is an astrophysicist with UCSD’s Department of Physics. He and his team of 17 students, and postdocs develop instrumentation to study the early universe at radio-, microwave- and infrared wavelengths.

He is the author of over 100 scientific publications and holds a U.S. Patent. Brian Keating received his B.S. from Case Western Reserve University and his Ph.D. from Brown University in 2000. He did postdoctoral research at Stanford University and was an NSF Postdoctoral  Fellow at Caltech before coming to UCSD in 2004. He received the 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers at the White House from President Bush for a telescope he developed at the U.S. South Pole Research Station.

Professor Keating c0-leads a collaboration operating the POLARBEAR telescope in the Atacama Desert of Chile. He is also a private pilot with single and multi-engine instrument ratings.

August 26, 2014 Speaker: Chell Roberts, Dean, USD, One Billion & Change

Chell A. Roberts, PhD, is the founding dean of the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering at the University of San Diego. He assumed his duties in July of 2013.

Before joining USD, Roberts served as the executive dean of the College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University, where he was responsible for designing innovative curricular programs. Roberts’ designs included the iProjects program, recognized by the national Academy of Engineering as one of 29 programs in the United States that are exemplars of authentic engineering practice embedded in a university program. While at Arizona State University, Roberts also had the opportunity to design an engineering program from a clean slate based on the study of best models of undergraduate engineering programs in the world.

Prior to his tenure at USD, Dr. Roberts was active in the development of engineering capacity programs in Vietnam. Working on several grants, he developed and led the Deans Institute for training deans on the development of strategic plans, the use of collaboration techniques, and in the leadership and management of colleges and schools. Roberts further developed training programs on pedagogy and teaching for international engineering faculty.

Roberts has been active in service to the broader engineering education community. He has served on the SEEK 16 National K-12 Framework Committee, the Arizona Department of Education K-12 Standards Committee, and the Arizona State Department of Education Engineering Pathways Committee. He has held positions of leadership on the Board of Directors, Society of Computer Simulation, as the chair of the ASEE Multidisciplinary Engineering Division, as a member of the ASEE ABET Board, and is active as an ABET evaluator.

Dr. Roberts has numerous professional publications and grants in the areas of engineering education, discrete event control languages and architectures, and in accessibility analysis for automated process planning. Chell Roberts received a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Virginia Tech and an MS Industrial Engineering degree and BA Mathematics degree from the University of Utah

 

July 15, 2014 Speaker: Nicole Matthews – Your Assumptions About Gen Y & Social Media Are All Wrong!

Nicole R. Matthews, CSEP, is Founder & Lifestyle Architect of The Henley Company, LLC. a global event, travel and lifestyle concierge firm. With the belief that life should be experienced in a big way, Nicole set out to create a company focused on helping clients to live the life they want and to produce the experiences they want to remember….and Tweet about!

The Henley Company offers comprehensive event production, as well as manages the busy lives of executives and their families. Her recent international projects include the 2012 London Olympics, the 2013 Super Bowl & FIFA Confederation Cup in Brazil, and most recently the 2014 Sochi Olympics.  This Summer, Nicole’s first book, Permission – Stop Competing & Start Creating Your Own Opportunities will be published.