REMINDER!! IEEE Central Coast Event - 25 March "Improving STEM Education in California" - Behrooz Parhami Distinguished Professor UCSB Emeritus

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IEEE Central Coast March 25 Event  Improving STEM Education in California

Location - Rusty’s Pizza ­                                                  

5934 Calle Real, Goleta, CA 93117

6:00 PM – Complimentary Pizza, Salad, Beverage­

6:30 PM – Central Coast Status

6:35 PM – Dr. Behrooz Parhami Presents

Please REGISTER NOW Below and join us on March 25th when Dr. Behrooz Parhami, Distinguished Professor Emeritus UCSB and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, will honor us with his very interesting new talk on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) Education, it's importance, status, and efforts to improve. STEM is of special interest to IEEE as the quality of these subjects will determine the quality of the next generation of Engineers.  Best regards, Ruth Franklin IEEE Central Coast Chair


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  • Rusty's
  • 5934 Calle Real
  • Goleta, California
  • United States 93117
  • Room Number: Event Room
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  • Starts 13 March 2026 11:35 PM UTC
  • Ends 26 March 2026 01:25 AM UTC
  • No Admission Charge

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Dr. Behrooz Parhami of UCSB ECE

Topic:

Improving STEM Education in California

Abstract: 
The umbrella term "Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics" (STEM), and its STEAM variant, where "Arts" is also included to foster holistic and creative design, encompasses fields that play key roles in national and international economic advancement and prosperity. Ever since the onset of the space race in the late 1950s,  there have been growing concerns in the US that other countries are challenging us in terms of the number and quality of their STEM graduates. Therefore, initiatives to improve STEM education have proliferated at the national, state, and local levels. University of California, as the premier system of higher education in the world's fourth largest economy, has been at the forefront of such efforts. In this talk, after introductory remarks on the importance and status of STEM education in general, I will report on UC's latest efforts, as presented at "UC Academic Congress: Math Preparation and STEM Pathways," held virtually on March 9-10, 2026.
 
 

Biography:

Dr. Behrooz Parhami (PhD, UCLA 1973) is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and former Associate Dean for Academic Personnel, College of Engineering, at University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches and does research in computer arithmetic, parallel processing, and dependable computing. A Life Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of IET and British Computer Society, and recipient of several other awards (including a most-cited paper award from J. Parallel & Distributed Computing), he has written six textbooks and more than 300 pre reviewed technical papers. Professionally, he is an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor, serves on journal editorial boards and conference program committees, is passionate about puzzles, outreach efforts, & gender equity, and is active in technical consulting.