Electrical and Systems Engineering
Jan Van der Spiegel, Symposium Chair
Location: Singh Center for Nanotechnology’s Glandt Forum Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2025 Time: 8:30am – 12:00pm (light breakfast served at 8:00am) Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/91545711837
8:00am- Continental Breakfast
8:30am- Welcome – Derrick Pitts, Chief Astronomer, The Franklin Institute
8:35am – Opening remarks from David Meaney, Senior Associate Dean of Penn Engineering
8:40am – Remarks from Mark Allen, Department Chair of Electrical and Systems Engineering
8:50am – Cherie Kagan, University of Pennsylvania, Colloidal Semiconductor Quantum Dots: From Science to Technology
9:10am – Marc Miskin, University of Pennsylvania, Microscopic robots that sense, think, act, and compute
9:30am – Troy Olsson, University of Pennsylvania, Will the Next Generation of Radio Frequency (RF) Filters Be Tunable?
9:50am – Coffee Break
10:05am – Kensall Wise, University of Michigan, “Kurt Petersen: Tribute to a Visionary and Friend,” Symposium celebrating forty years since the paper “Silicon as a Mechanical Material:” the Impact of MicroElectroMechanical Systems
10:35am – Alissa Fitzgerald, A.M. Fitzgerald & Associates, LLC, Kurt Peterson’s Impact on Decades of MEMS Research, Products and Industry
11:05am – Introducing Kurt Petersen by Jan Van der Spiegel, Symposium Chair
11:10am – Kurt Peterson, Band of Angels, 50 Years in MEMS
