SEMICON West 2016

Belle Wei
Professor
San Jose State


For more than a quarter century, Dr. Belle Wei has assumed an expanding range of leadership positions at the California State University system, that include the service as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at California State University, Chico and a decade of service as the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering's Don Beall Dean of Engineering at San José State University (SJSU). Currently, she is Carolyn Guidry Chair in Engineering Education and Innovative Learning at SJSU. Dr. Wei has advanced a dynamic and successful agenda to promote student success, foster inclusive excellence, bolster STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education, and champion sustainability programs, all within a framework of interdisciplinary, global-scale thinking. Dr. Wei has collaborated with leaders across the nation and around the world to advance this educational and sustainability agenda. She served on the Engineering Deans Council’s Executive Board of American Society for Engineering Education in 2009-2012, and chaired its Diversity Committee. She spoke before U.S. Congress in 2006 about the “Innovation Agenda,” contributing to the 2007 America COMPETES Act, and she is a founding board member of the U.S.-China Green Energy Council. In 2012 she received a White House invitation to participate in the "10,000 Engineers Initiative” of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Dr. Wei received her bachelor’s degree in Biophysics from U.C. Berkeley, her M.S. degree in Engineering from Harvard, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley.

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