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BOURNS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Ph.D., Master’s and Bachelor’s degree candidates
June 15, 2015 | 6:00 p.m. | Presiding: Paul D’Anieri, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
The Grand Marshal – Jose Wudka, Chair, Riverside Division of the Academic Senate
The Student Marshal – Richard Socrates Stinnett II, B.S., Electrical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude
The Degree Candidates
The UCR Pipe Band
The Faculty Marshal – Huinan Liu, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
The Faculty of the University
The Official Party
PROGRAM
The National Anthem
University Welcome
Alumni Salute
Student Commencement Address
Commencement Address
Conferral of Degrees
Jericha Viduya, undergraduate student, Biology
Kim A. Wilcox, Chancellor
Barbara Kerr ’68, Director, UCR Alumni Association Board of Directors
Russell Perry, B.S., Electrical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude
Susan Hackwood, Founding Dean, UCR College of Engineering and
Professor of Electrical Engineering; Executive Director, California
Council on Science and Technology (CCST)
Chancellor Wilcox
Reza Abbaschian, Dean, Bourns College of Engineering
Introduction of the Graduates
Mark Matsumoto, Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies
Chinya Ravishankar, Associate Dean, Student Academic Affairs
Baccalaureate Tassel-Turning
The Alma Mater
Jason Ramirez, B.S., Chemical Engineering
Jericha Viduya
RECESSION
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COMMENCEMENT 2015
Bourns Hall
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
STUDENT SPEAKER
SUSAN HACKWOOD
RUSSELL PERRY
Susan Hackwood is executive director
of the California Council on Science and
Technology (CCST), and Professor of
Electrical Engineering at UCR. She received a Ph.D. in Solid State
Ionics in 1979 from DeMontfort University, UK, at age 24. Before
joining academia, she worked at AT&T Bell Labs, where she
invented and named the electrowetting effect, now used in many
micro devices. In 1984 she joined UCSB as Professor of Electrical
and Computer Engineering.
In 1990, Dr. Hackwood became the founding Dean of the Bourns
College of Engineering at UCR, and the first woman dean of a
major research university in the U.S. She holds seven patents, is
a Fellow of the IEEE and the AAAS, and holds honorary degrees
from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Ph.D.) and DeMontfort
University, UK (D.Sc.).
While earning his undergraduate
degree in Electrical Engineering, Perry
was involved in numerous student
organizations and activities on campus. In addition to serving
as chair of the IEEE, he was a member of the Honors Program,
Tau Beta Phi and IEEE’s Eta Kappa Nu. His commitment to
diversity pushed him to work in multi-cultural and inter-major environments while on campus, a move that will prove
essential for success in our globalized society. Perry has been
accepted into the graduate program at Meggitt PLC, a global
engineering group specializing in extreme environment components and smart sub-systems for aerospace, defense and energy
markets, where he will complete a three-year accelerated international leadership program. Following his work at Meggitt,
he plans to return to academia and continue his education.
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