Terri Fiez retired after serving for seven years as Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at 麻豆影院 (CU 麻豆影院).听She oversaw significant growth in the research and the entrepreneurial enterprise.听The Association of Public and Land Grant University (APLU) awarded CU 麻豆影院 the 2021 Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Technology-Based Economic Development听Award.听CU 麻豆影院 is also a co-lead for a new NSF I-Corps Hub in the Western Region with USC and UCLA.
Prior to 2015, Fiez was Director of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University.听In 2008 she co-founded a solar electronics startup company (Azuray Technologies), raised venture capital funding and took a leave of absence to build the company.听She was bitten by the startup bug and seeks to seed entrepreneurial experiences for students and faculty.听Fiez鈥檚 research focuses on analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits and innovative education experiences. She has published over 150 conference and journal papers, advised 85 MS听and PhD听students.
She received the NSF Young Investigator Award, 2006听IEEE Educational Activities Board鈥檚 Innovative Education Award, the 2016 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award and the 2017 IEEE Education Society Harriett B. Rigas Award.听Fiez is a Fellow of IEEE and of the National Academy of Inventors.