Dean’s Message

Welcome to the 2020 Silicon Valley Women in Engineering Conference! All of us in the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering at San José State University, are honored to be your hosts.

You are well on your way to getting the education you need to be skilled and ethical engineers. The world needs you to take your seat at the table! Every new technology destined to be used by a globally diverse population such as ours must be envisioned, designed, and created by an equally diverse group of engineers; and that includes you.

Your presence at this conference means that you have made a commitment to listening, sharing, and learning. I also encourage you to build and expand on your own support network. Meet at least three people you don’t know at this conference, share your stories and contact information, and make specific plans to meet up again, outside of this conference.

Finally, I’d like to express my deepest thanks to all of the sponsors, faculty, students, and support staff who help to make this conference possible. We very much appreciate your contributions.

Enjoy the conference!

Sheryl Ehrman
Don Beall Dean
Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering
San José State University

Sponsors

Title Sponsor

Mark and Carolyn Guidry Women in Engineering Program Fund

Carolyn Guidry (1937-2009) was born in Mississippi and spent her childhood in the Deep South. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at Louisiana State University in 1959. One week after graduation, she married Mark Guidry (1937-2020), a fellow electrical engineering major she met at LSU. Carolyn began her career at Boeing, but soon put her career on hold and devoted 20 years to raising their three children. She returned to school and earned her Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from SJSU in 1979. She joined Hewlett-Packard and was directly responsible for the development of a new flexible interconnect cable and the microcode for a new computer.

In partnership with Mark, Carolyn founded two successful companies in semiconductor design software and semiconductor product development. Both companies were later acquired and became leaders in their respective fields. After the second company was acquired by Integrated Circuit Systems in 1993, she founded the Mark and Carolyn Guidry Foundation and managed all aspects of the organization. She received an Award of Distinction from SJSU Davidson College of Engineering in 2006. Both she and Mark were inducted into the LSU College of Engineering Hall of Distinction in 2001.

Mark was a Louisiana native. After receiving his BSEE from LSU, he took a position at Boeing. He subsequently earned an MSEE from University of Washington and a Ph.D. from Iowa State University. He taught at LSU, where he conducted research in semiconductor technology, laser technology and radio wave propagation. Prior to founding their companies, Mark worked at Fairchild Semiconductor in Palo Alto, a small San Diego company and Texas Instruments in Houston.

All three of Carolyn and Mark’s children graduated with degrees in engineering. The Guidry family strongly believes in the power of education and the importance of developing engineering education in the U.S. for what lies ahead. The Mark and Carolyn Guidry Foundation has been a long-time leader in supporting women in engineering at SJSU. Its commitment and on-going support have made the Silicon Valley Women in Engineering program a model of success for educating new woman innovators regionally and nationally.

Champion Sponsors

Cisco

75 billion devices are expected to be connected to the Internet by 2025. Each device includes sensors that collect data, interact with the environment, and communicate over a network. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of these connected devices. These smart, connected devices generate data that IoT applications use to aggregate, analyze, and deliver insight, which helps drive more informed decisions and actions.

The Cisco IoT portfolio provides an integrated architecture of hardware, software, and security offerings to safely and securely connect our world.

Come visit Cisco at the Innovation Showcase, where we will be showing how the connectivity behind the scenes impacts your everyday life. The demo brings out the different aspects of the Cisco IoT portfolio to connect and monitor devices across connectivity types, and to manage the extraction of data in a secure fashion.

Google

With the Google Assistant, you can enjoy entertainment, find answers, manage everyday tasks, and easily control smart home devices–all with your voice. Listen to your favorite song, find a delicious brownie recipe, or check your commute to work. Or, prepare for movie night by dimming the lights and streaming the latest blockbuster. The Google Assistant can also help in situations where you may not speak the local language with interpreter mode. Today’s demonstration will give insight into how the Google Assistant is always learning and improving to help get things done faster and easier on the go, the car, and at home.

NETGEAR

NETGEAR Walkthrough and Summer Internship Program

Since 1996, NETGEAR® (NASDAQ: NTGR) has been the innovative leader in connecting the world to the internet with advanced networking technologies for homes, businesses, and service providers around the world. As staying connected has become more important than ever, NETGEAR delivers award-winning network solutions for remote work, distance learning, UHD streaming, online game play and more. By enabling people to collaborate and connect to a world of information and entertainment, NETGEAR is dedicated to providing a range of connected solutions from easy-to-use high-performance Orbi Mesh WiFi systems, the Nighthawk portfolio of WiFi routers, cable modems and mobile wireless, cloud-based subscription services for enhanced control and security, to smart networking products and video over Ethernet for Pro AV applications.

TSMC

TSMC Career Talk Sessions

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited engages in the computer aided design, manufacture, packaging, testing, sale, and marketing of integrated circuits and other semiconductor devices. The company is also involved in the research, development, design, manufacture, and sale of solid-state lighting devices and related applications products and systems, and renewable energy and efficiency related technologies and products, as well as manufactures masks. In addition, it provides customer and technical support services; and sells and markets solar related products. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited operates in Taiwan, the United States, Asia, and internationally. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

TSMC North America is the sales and service organization for the world’s largest semiconductor foundry with headquarters based in Taiwan. TSMC NA works with customers in the technology business that manufactures and sells products that run on our chips and cutting-edge technology.

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