Auburn University
Samuel Ginn College of Engineering
The Samuel Ginn Distinguished Lecture Series
The Samuel Ginn Lecture Series, founded in 2005, brings distinguished leaders from the academic and business communities to campus to interact with faculty and students. Lectures cover subjects such as engineering, education, entrepreneurship, global engineering issues, and engineering and business leadership.
Auburn engineering alumnus and wireless engineering pioneer Samuel Ginn in 1999 donated $25 million to Auburn University with the goal of advancing his alma mater into the ranks of the nation's top wireless engineering research and teaching institutions.
Ginn's long career paralleled the development of the wireless industry and included leadership positions at AT&T, Pacific Bell, and the Pacific Telesis Group before he founded AirTouch Communications. After the firm merged with Vodafone to form Vodafone AirTouch, Ginn served as chairman until retiring in 2000.
Ginn is a Sloan fellow at Stanford University's School of Business, an overseer at the Hoover Institute in Palo Alto, California and a member of the Auburn University Board of Trustees.
- The Samuel Ginn Distinguished Lecture Series
- Biofuel Issues: Energy, Environment and Economics
- Increasing Flexibility in Automotive Powertrains: Technologies and Manufacturing
- MRI: From Anatomy to Function and From Men to Mice
- An Insider's View of Technology Transfer at Stanford University
- Engineering Education and the Challenges of the 21st Century
- Responsible Citizenship in a Technological Society
- A Process Systems Engineering Approach for Managing the Complexity in Chemical Product-Process Design
- Auburn University Samuel Ginn College of Engineering
- Auburn University, AL 36849
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