Alumni Resources

Mission Statement

The Mission of the Alumni Advisory Board is to provide critical and supportive advice to assist the UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in enhancing its leadership role in education and research. The Board helps foster a sense of community among the Department’s Alumni, and helps promote, through academic, professional, and social events, improved interaction with the Alumni and excellence in the Department’s educational programs and objectives. The Board also assists in promoting the achievements of distinguished Alumni, the achievements of the Department and assists in fundraising efforts for student scholarships and fellowships.

Alumni News

Distinguished Professor Asad M Madni elected Life Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and the Royal Society of Arts.

Distinguished UCLA Engineer Elected to National Inventors Hall of Fame.

IEEE-HKN Asad, Gowhartaj, and Jamal Madni Scholarship

Distinguished Professor Asad M Madni awarded the 2023 IEEE-USA George F. McClure Citation of Honor

Distinguished Adjunct Professor Asad M. Madni awarded the 2024 John Fritz Medal

Renowned Engineer and Double Bruin Asad Madni Delivers Commencement Speech

Professor Asad M. Madni Awarded the 2022 Elmer A. Sperry Award

Distinguished Adjunct Professor Asad Madni Awarded Prince Philip Medal

Professor Asad M. Madni Honored by Washington Academy of Sciences, Tufts University and Tau Beta Pi

Professor Asad M. Madni to Receive Honorary Doctor of Engineering Degree (D.Eng.) from Tufts University and serve as Commencement Speaker for its School of Engineering

UCLA Engineering Faculty and Alumnus Asad Madni Receives IEEE’s Highest Honor

IEEE Sensors Council Awards Professor Asad Madni 2021 Advanced Technical Achievement Award

UCLA Engineering Alumnus on Equity for LGBTQ+ in STEM

Canadian Academy of Engineering Elects Professor Asad Madni International Fellow

Distinguished Professor Asad M Madni Awarded “Hind Rattan” Award by the NRI Welfare Society of India

UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Elected to the UK Royal Academy of Engineering

UCLA Samueli Alumni Elected to National Academy of Engineering

Distinguished Professor Asad M Madni Awarded IEEE AESS 2020 Industrial Innovation Award

Distinguished Adjunct Professor Asad M Madni Awarded Royal Aeronautical Society’s (RAeS) Highest Honor

Distinguished Adjunct Professor, Asad M. Madni, has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA)

Distinguished Adjunct Professor Asad M. Madni Honored by Marquis Who’s Who

Distinguished Adjunct Professor Asad M Madni was the Invited Keynote Speaker at TECHLAV 2019

IEEE-HKN Honor Society Names Top Award for Asad M. Madni, Visionary Leader and Pioneer

Prof. Asad Madni Presents the 2018 NAE Gordon Prize to Prof. Paul Yock of Stanford University

Distinguished Adjunct Professor Asad M Madni was the Invited Keynote Speaker and Panelist at the NAE Grand Challenges Scholars Program Workshop and the Grand Challenges Symposium in Hong Kong

IEEE Names Distinguished Adjunct Professor Asad Madni as Recipient of the 2019 IEEE Frederik Philips Award

Professor Asad Madni Invited as Distinguished Leader by the Presidents of the NAS, NAE & NAM on Capitol Hill

Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran to receive the 2018 IEEE Circuits and Systems Industrial Pioneer Award

Dr. Asad Madni Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite

Distinguished Adjunct Professor Asad M Madni was the Invited Keynote Speaker at the 2018 IEEE IESES Conference

Dr. Dan Goebel has been appointed JPL Fellow

Like Father, Like Son

Distinguished Adjunct Professor Asad M. Madni has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (UK)

Distinguished Adjunct Professor Asad M. Madni has been awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samman Gold Medal

Dr. John Staudhammer 1932 – 2017

Dr. Shri Narayanan and Dr. Dan M. Goebel have been elected NAI Fellows

2017 IEEE Fellows

Maryam Rofougaran: Transforming Wireless Technology

Leo and Jonathan

Michael A. Jensen appointed the dean of BYU’s College of Engineering

Confirming Einstein: Q&A with LIGO Scientist and EE Alum Richard Savage

Adjunct Professor Dan Goebel is the 2016 winner of UCLA Engineering’s Professional Achievement Award

Photos

2021 Alumni Advisory Board Meeting
03/11/2021 Alumni Advisory Board Meeting

01/13/2020 Alumni Advisory Board Meeting
01/13/2020 Alumni Advisory Board Meeting

10/23/2018 Jenny Ji, who graduated in 2006, was recently promoted to the rank of Major in the USAF. She is now Chief, GPS Launch Integration and Operations, at the US Air Force Base in El Segundo. She also recently spent six months in Afghanistan.
Jenny Ji with rocket Jenny Ji with Military ColleaguesJenny Ji, who graduated in 2006, was recently promoted to the rank of Major in the USAF. She is now Chief, GPS Launch Integration and Operations, at the US Air Force Base in El Segundo. She also recently spent six months in Afghanistan.

4/18/2018 Barry Barish, C. D. Mote, Jr., Ming Hsieh, Kip Thorne, Marcia McNutt, Asad M Madni, Victor J. Dzau, Norm Augustine and Michael Rosbash
4/18/2018 Barry Barish, C. D. Mote, Jr., Ming Hsieh, Kip Thorne, Marcia McNutt, Asad M Madni, Victor J. Dzau, Norm Augustine and Michael Rosbash
4/18/2018 With-Michael-Young-second-from-left-2017-Nobel-Laureate-Physiology-and-Medicine
4/18/2018 With-Michael-Young-second-from-left-2017-Nobel-Laureate-Physiology-and-Medicine
4/18/2018 With-Kip-Thorne-2017-Nobel-Laureate-Physics
4/18/2018 With-Kip-Thorne-2017-Nobel-Laureate-Physics

4/18/2018 With-Michael-Rosbash-2017-Nobel-Laureate-Physiology-and-Medicine
4/18/2018 With-Michael-Rosbash-2017-Nobel-Laureate-Physiology-and-Medicine
4/18/2018 With-Joachim-Frank-2017-Nobel-Laureate-Chemistry
4/18/2018 With-Joachim-Frank-2017-Nobel-Laureate-Chemistry
4/18/2018 With-Barry-Barish-2017-Nobel-Laureate-Physics
4/18/2018 With-Barry-Barish-2017-Nobel-Laureate-Physics

4/18/2018 With-Adam-Riess-seond-from-left-2011-Nobel-Laureate-Physics
4/18/2018 With-Adam-Riess-seond-from-left-2011-Nobel-Laureate-Physics
10/17/16 Annual AAB Meeting
10/17/16 Annual AAB Meeting
11/8/13 Alumni Advisory Board – Fall 2013 Meeting
11/8/13 Alumni Advisory Board – Fall 2013 Meeting

10/25/13 Sharon Hong Receives a plaque of appreciation for three years of dedicated service to the board.
10/25/13 Sharon Hong Receives a plaque of appreciation for three years of dedicated service to the board.
12/11/03 Inaugural meeting
12/11/03 Inaugural meeting