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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’s engineering programs. Her teaching interests are in the areas of signal processing, mechatronics and robotics, and communication systems.

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. 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. 

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.

Maike is a member of the IEEE Standard Association Board of Governors and the IEEE SSIT Board of Governors. She chairs the IEEE Planet Positive 2030 Initiative, the IEEE P7800[TM] Standards Working Group: Recommended Practice for Addressing Sustainability, Environmental Stewardship and Climate Change Challenges in Professional Practice, and the Green Hydrogen IEEE SA Industry Connections Program. She is a co-chair, IEEE Future Directions SusTech Initiative. 

Maike is a longtime advocate for sustainable development and for the deployment and use of technology that is ‘sustainable by design’ to achieve a long-term healthy planetary biosphere. Her areas of interest and expertise span diverse technical areas from ICT, energy, and water to advanced manufacturing. 

She is managing director, R&D, at a start-up company, Carbovate Development, and Adjunct Research Professor, Western University, Canada. Maike’s career spans academia and industry in Canada, USA and Germany.  She is/has been serving on numerous Boards of Directors and Committees, including IEEE and the Canadian Standards Council Steering Committee of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Governance Standardization Collaborative.