This weekend, more than 1,800 students celebrated their graduation from Michigan Engineering. Commencement Exercises were held on Sunday, April 29, 2012 in Rackham Auditorium (for graduate students) and Hill Auditorium (for undergrads). The ceremonies included remarks by the dean in addition to student speakers and a special keynote speaker. This year's keynote speaker was Steve Mollenkopf (MSE EE '93), president and chief operating officer for Qualcomm. Alumni class representatives from past years were also on hand to congratulate graduates. Images from the engineering ceremonies are included at the bottom of this page.

Full length videos of both ceremonies are below. If you would like to purchase a DVD copy of either commencement ceremony video, ordering information is available on the Engineering Graduation website pages.

In addition, the University of Michigan saw an estimated 45,000 people at its university-wide commencement ceremony, which included speeches from:

• Selected Student Speaker: NERS Graduate Julia Brennan
• Main Speaker: CNN Chief Medical Correspondent and U-M graduate Sanjay Gupta
• U-M President Mary Sue Coleman

About the Engineering Commencement speaker

Steve Mollenkopf (MSE EE '93) serves as president and chief operating officer of Qualcomm, leading the company’s business operations, product and worldwide sales groups. In this role, Mollenkopf continues to serve as president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT). He also is a member of Qualcomm’s Executive Committee, helping to drive Qualcomm’s overall global strategy.

Since 2008, Mollenkopf has led QCT and served as executive vice president and group president of Qualcomm, driving growth and providing critical technical and operational leadership. QCT, the company’s semiconductor business, is the world’s largest wireless chip supplier and fabless semiconductor company, in terms of revenue.

Mollenkopf joined Qualcomm in 1994 as an engineer before joining the QCT team in 1999. Serving in various capacities within QCT, including senior vice
president of the Cellular Products Group, he played a central role in developing QCT’s roadmap and led the development and commercialization of the 3GPP
family of air interface technologies.

A published IEEE author, Mollenkopf holds patents in areas such as power estimation and measurement, multi-standard transmitter system and wireless communication transceiver technology. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Semiconductor Industry Association, and serves as a board member, on the Board Executive Committee and on the CEO Council for the Global Semiconductor Alliance.

Mollenkopf holds two electrical engineering degrees: a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech and a master of science in electrical
engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.