Faculty Guidance

Faculty Guidance and Mentoring supports students with technical elective advice, senior year degree options, and future steps forward into their chosen career path. Faculty Guidance is designed to complement Academic Advising and provide more technical-based guidance on courses, technical area emphasis, career paths, industry, and graduate school.

All ECE students are required to meet with a Faculty Advisor once per academic year to facilitate degree progress and support future planning. The ECE Hold is applied to all ECE student accounts to help manage the program. Please see the Frequently Asked Questions page for more information on departmental holds.

Faculty Guides can help with range of academic, industry, research, and career questions including:

Exploring different technical areas within ECE
Selecting technical elective courses
Linking technical electives to future career plans
Value of a specific degree emphasis or specialization
Areas of future growth within ECE

Exploring companies and industries
Gaining research opportunities within the ECE Department
Exploring academic research versus working in industry
Discussing graduate study options
Learning about application process for MS & PhD programs

Schedule an appointment with an ECE Faculty Guide

Seniors are required to attend an appointment in the fall term, and juniors are required to attend an appointment in the spring term. However, all ECE students are welcome to make an appointment anytime you would like to get faculty input. The Faculty Guides are here to help undergraduates and can be of great assistance with more technical discussions as well as questions about research or grad school.

Professor Andy Lamperski

Specialty Areas: Electrical Engineering, Control Systems, Optimization, Neural Engineering and Robotics

Faculty guidance hours: Mondays 11:00AM - 12:00PM and Fridays 11:00AM - 12:00PM

Scheduling link: http://andy.appointments.umn.edu

Email: alampers@umn.edu

Professor Jeong-Hyun Cho

Specialty Areas: Nanotechnology, 3D Devices, Microelectronic Devices

Faculty guidance hours: Fridays 10:30AM - 12:30PM

Scheduling link: http://JeongC.appointments.umn.edu

Email: jcho@umn.edu

Professor Sarah Swisher

Specialty Areas: Semiconductor materials and devices; nanocrystal synthesis and characterization; flexible electronics; biomedical devices

Faculty guidance hours: times vary by week, check schedule

Scheduling link: http://swisher.appointments.umn.edu

Email: sswisher@umn.edu

Professor Kevin Cao

Specialty Areas: VLSI design, AI hardware, Energy efficient computing, and Nanoelectronic integration.

Faculty guidance hours: Tuesdays, 1:30 to 3:00 pm

Scheduling link: http://KevinCao.appointments.umn.edu

Email: yucao@umn.edu

Professor James Leger: Please see DUGS page to schedule an appointment

Specialty and Research Areas: Modern Optics including Lasers, Fiber Optics, Image Science, Diffraction and Medical Optics. Queries related to these areas and more are encouraged!

You should get reminder notifications to attend your appointments. Please let ecessoa@umn.edu know if you do not!

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