Spring 2007: Dr. Alex Hills to lecture on How Engineers Make a Difference
by Kathleen McCoy |
The UAA School of Engineering hosts professor, inventor and engineering executive
The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) hosts Dr. Alex Hills as part of the Ralph
& Betty George Engineering Ethics Speaker Series on Wednesday, March 14 at 7 p.m.
in the UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 307.
Hills' lecture, entitled "How Engineers Make a Difference," will discuss how engineers,
technology professionals and students are contributing to their local communities
and to developing nations around the world.
Hills is a professor, inventor and engineering executive who has lectured and done
consulting work in many foreign countries. Dr. Hills is Distinguished Service Professor
at Carnegie Mellon University, where he and his team created the vision for the technology
we now call "Wi-Fi." He also holds the title of Profesor Extraordinario at the Universidad
Austral de Chile, and he heads Alex Hills Associates, a small consulting company based
in Palmer, Alaska.
An Alaskan with an extensive record of public service, Dr. Hills lived in the Alaska
bush for seven years, where, during the 1970s, he was deeply involved in developing
the state's broadcast and telecommunications networks. He has served as Alaska's
Deputy Commissioner of Administration and chief telecommunications official and the
University of Alaska's chief information officer. He is currently a member of the
University of Alaska College of Fellows, a member of the UAA School of Engineering
Advisory Board, a board member of the American Red Cross Alaska Chapter, a member
of the Greater Palmer Chamber of Commerce, and Chief Scientist of Helium Networks,
Inc.
Dr. Hills is also a valued supporter of UAA through the Dr. Alex Hills Engineering
Research Award. This competitive award, administered by the Office of Undergraduate
Research and Scholarship, supports an undergraduate engineering research project showing
exceptional merit.
The School of Engineering is the recipient of a generous bequest establishing an endowment
that will fund the ongoing Ralph & Betty George Engineering Ethics Speaker Series,
which is designed to enhance ethical practices in engineering.
The speaker series will help raise public awareness of UAA's engineering program,
enhance the UAA School of Engineering's reputation, imbue students with critical ethical
decision making skills, and improve ethical practices within the industry. The ethical
engineers who graduate from UAA will become ethical leaders in our local, state and
national communities, and in the engineering community, as well.
This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information on UAA's School of Engineering and Dr. Alex Hills' upcoming lecture, contact 786-1900 or www.engr.uaa.alaska.edu.
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