Kathleen A. Kramer is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego in California. She worked to develop new engineering programs as a founding member of the faculty and eventually became the chair of electrical engineering, then serving as Director of Engineering (2004-2013), providing academic leadership for all of the university\u2019s engineering programs. Her teaching interests are in the areas of signal processing, mechatronics and robotics, and communication systems.<\/p>\n
She has also been a member of technical staff at several companies, including ViaSat, Hewlett Packard, and Bell Communications Research. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) and is a past vice president of the society. She is a Fellow of ABET, and a leader in the development of accreditation criteria for cyber security, mechatronics & robotics, and graduate programs.<\/p>\n
Kathleen served on the IEEE Board of Directors as IEEE Secretary and chair of Governance and IEEE Region 6 (Western USA) Director. She was also chair of the 2023 IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Innovating Funding Models.<\/p>\n
She received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering magna cum laude with a second major in physics from Loyola Marymount University, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":13768,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13766","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/13766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/13766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14156,"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/13766\/revisions\/14156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slide2open.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}