Keynote Speaker: Dr. Lance C. Pérez
Monday, May 15, 2017
Dr. Lance C. Pérez
Dean of College of Engineering, University of Nebraska-LincolnDr. Lance C. Pérez began serving as interim dean of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering in July 2016. An experienced academic and campus leader, Pérez previously was associate vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of graduate studies at the university. He has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he is a tenured full professor, since 1996.
In his previous administrative positions, Pérez was responsible for faculty and leadership development, promotion and tenure, instructional technology and classroom facilities improvements, and graduate education. He has led the implementation of $30M of improvements to the academic facilities and played a pivotal role in Nebraska’s entry into the Big Ten’s Committee on Institutional Cooperation.
As a faculty member, he has won several teaching awards and has been the principal investigator or co-principal investigator on over $15M of federally funded research. His research interests include signal and information processing, engineering education and faculty leadership development. From 2008-10, Pérez was a program director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation.
He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.