Mike Hazas
Electrical Engineering
Class of 1998

Mike Hazas attended St. Xavier High School in his hometown of Louisville, KY. At Rose-Hulman he majored in electrical engineering, with minors in computer science and English literature. Graduating from Rose in 1998, he was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Although he was accepted into PhD programs at Boston University, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and Columbia University, he chose to undertake his graduate study at the University of Cambridge, England. Mike obtained his master's (1999) and PhD (2003) degrees there in signal processing and sensor systems. He then moved to Lancaster University in the northwest of England to work as a postdoctoral researcher, and since 2005 has been an Academic Fellow and Lecturer there. He teaches classes on computer architecture and embedded systems, and is thesis advisor for several PhD students. In 2005, Mike also served as Visiting Faculty at Intel Research, Cambridge.

"What Rose-Hulman did for me"

Rose-Hulman's well-rounded academic excellence positioned me perfectly as a competitive applicant for graduate school programs and fellowships, and prepared me well for the rigour of graduate study. Students and faculty alike at Rose-Hulman encouraged me to hold my work to a high standard, and this has stuck with me ever since. Most significantly, the unparalleled educational environment at Rose and the caring, individual attention the professors give to students are what have done the most for me. I found the life and learning experience at Rose immensely rewarding and satisfying; this inspired me to pursue a career in academia, so that I might play a small part in providing such an experience to others. As I strive to make my teaching the best I can, almost daily I find myself thinking, "How would my profs at Rose-Hulman have taught this?"