
What can you expect once you've earned your UNH ECE degree?
There are over two thousand of our ECE alumni working in such diverse fields as ocean exploration, medical instrumentation, integrated circuit fabrication, development of high speed networking equipment, music synthesis, patent law, and wireless communication systems. A number of our alumni own their own engineering firms, teach at universities and technical institutes, are presidents of corporations, or work as private consultants.

Wildcat Careers posts job openings on a daily basis for graduating students. Alumni can search UNH Connect for online career networking, alumni directory, upcoming events, alumni discounts and services, career mentoring, etc. Alumni may post full, part-time and internship positions using the Wildcat Careers site.
The CEPS Alumni Society is available for CEPS alumni to remain connected to the college, their departments and their professors.
ECE alumni serve on the ECE Industrial Advisory Board along with representatives from industry and academia.
Alumni Stories

Lee Beauregard has worked in the field of biomedical engineering for more than thirty years. Over that time, his career has taken him from academic research to the product development of a wide range of medical instrumentation for both human and animal health care. Today, Lee is the Vice-President of Instrument Development at IDEXX, a $3.6B animal diagnostic healthcare company. Lee oversees the R&D organization responsible for developing a wide suite of diagnostic instruments for veterinarians. In his current role, he is much farther away from the day-to-day design and development work that he did earlier in his career. However, he has found that people leadership has its own set of interesting problems to solve!
Lee’s passion for biomedical career was first ignited when he returned to UNH to get his MSEE in 1992 and worked under Prof. John LaCourse. His thesis focused on developing an instrument to detect the early onset of carpal tunnel syndrome. The underlying principle was based on measuring tactile sensitivity loss in the fingertips. It was through this experience, Lee found that he really enjoyed applying engineering principles to biological systems. (Plus Prof. J’s enthusiasm, support and creativity made the whole experience an extremely positive one!) After completing his MSEE, he attended Boston University and received a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering in 1996. Though enrolled at BU, Lee was fortunate to carry out his research at MIT as a visiting scholar and after graduation remained at MIT as a Post-Doctoral Fellow studying haptic psychophysics.
It was at a job fair at MIT that he landed his first biomedical engineering job in industry. Lee was hired by a startup company, called VTI, that was developing electromagnetic-based image guided surgery system for sinus and spinal surgery. The heart of the technology involved the “GPS” tracking of small magnetic sensors attached to endoscopic surgical instruments. The location of sensors enabled the surgical instrument to be displayed real-time on an MRI or CT scan computer display mounted near the operating room table. Overtime, he became a chief scientist and was an inventor on several patents around the technology. Like many startup companies, there were plenty of up and downs. They work long hours and tackle tough problems to build their product platform. Lee learned a lot about perseverance and creative problem solving on a shoestring budget. Most of all, he loved the challenge of applying cutting edge technology to improve the quality of life for many people. In the end, they developed a very successful product that was used in over half million surgeries around the world by the time VTI was acquired by GE Medical Systems in 2001.
Today, Lee is the Vice President of Instrument Development at IDEXX, a $3.6B animal diagnostic healthcare company. Lee oversees the R&D organization responsible for developing a wide suite of diagnostic instruments for veterinarians. In his current role, he is much farther away from the day-to-day design and development work that he did earlier in his career. However, he has found that people leadership has its own set of interesting problems to solve!
Throughout his entire career, his wife Jean, has been his strongest supporter. They have been married for almost 35 years and have two young adult children. They love to travel far and near. Their family has been to Europe and many places across the United States. When they are not travelling you can often find them cooking and enjoying a nice glass of wine at home.

Annette graduated with a B.S.E.E degree from UNH in 2015 and is currently a Substation Operations Supervisor and department head at Eversource Energy NH (https://www.eversource.com/content/nh). Annette’s team consists of engineers, analysts, an environmental technician, and a lab tester; together, they help ensure the safe operation of substation equipment, proper disposal of equipment retired, and safety of electrical workers in the field. The team also responds during storm events to help keep the public safe from fallen wires and repair customer connections to the power grid.
Annette is appreciative of the collaboration that UNH and Eversource have had over the years, stating: “I interned with PSNH, now Eversource, for two years during my undergrad studies at UNH. While there, I fell in love with the variety of indoor and outdoor work as well as the satisfaction of being able to help customers during storm events when they need us the most. I knew when I graduated that I wanted to continue working in the power industry, and I was lucky enough to graduate at a time when Eversource had just launched their first ‘cohort’ program. I had been working with the UNH CEPS Career Center, and they contacted me as soon as they heard about this opportunity.
This program would allow folks who were newer to the industry to experience different positions within the company while training for their ultimate position, which in this case was supervision. Additional cohort programs were launched the following year and have become one of Eversource’s signature programs. I left Eversource as an intern to finish my degree and, with UNH’s help, returned as a supervisor cohort trainee. It was a really cool opportunity!”
“I’ve been working with Eversource for 7 years now and have remained active in the UNH community, giving back and helping the next generation of engineers. Professor Messner has invited me as a guest lecturer for his ECE 401 class almost every year since I’ve graduated, which I always enjoy! I also represent Eversource by talking to students at many of the CEPS Career Fairs. I love to help students learn more about the power industry, assist with resumes, provide career advice, or even schedule a visit so they can experience some of what we do firsthand.”
In her spare time, Annette enjoys watching Star Trek, driving around New England, and exploring Lake
Massabesic.

I graduated from UNH with a BS degree in Physics in 1986, and decided to pursue my interest in electrical engineering in the MS ECE degree program. Right after graduating with a MS ECE degree in 1989, I moved out to California to work in Silicon Valley. My first job was at Verbatim/Kodak as a Test Engineer working on the development of a magneto-optical disk drive. Since this time, my career has had a focus on data storage. I have enjoyed being responsible for everything from servo control firmware, electronics design, test and development software tools, to mechanical design and prototyping.
I’ve also had the fortune to receive patents for ten inventions developed while working at various companies. I joined the startup company Zentek in 1991 as one of the first five employees. We designed the electronics and firmware for an optical disk drive. I worked at SyQuest Technology for 4 years starting in 1993. SyQuest designed and manufactured removable media disk drives, and I was responsible for servo control firmware and test software development. The founder of SyQuest started a new venture in 1997, and I left SyQuest to lead the servo control development at Castlewood Systems. The company produced removable media disk drives and disk cartridges.
In 2002, I was part of a group of five who started a new company RioSpring/GSMagicStor, designing high capacity small form factor disk drives, where I built and led the servo engineering team. The company designed and manufactured 4.4GByte 1 inch disk drives. It’s amazing to think back and realize that this product was actually competitive with flash memory at the time. I joined TDK Headway Technologies in 2007. Headway designs and manufactures read/write heads for disk drives. Our group developed testing hardware, electronics, firmware and software for head parametric testing. TDK has business areas beyond heads for disk drives, so I was also having fun working on firmware and software for battery management systems, MEMs optical scanners, and micro-fluidic cell processing.
In 2017 I left TDK to start my own contract engineering business. I’ve been working on high-speed measurement electronics and battery management hardware and software. I feel very fortunate to have had an interesting and fun working life. I often think back about my time at UNH and how that experience is an important part of my whole journey. I’ve been married to my wonderful wife Cara for 28 years. We have a son Joseph and grandson Ricky. In 2015 we completed building a house, barn and workshop in the foothills east of San Jose where we keep horses, goats, chickens, rabbits, cats and a dog. I also enjoy working on electronics projects when I have a chance. I have an interest in sensing and measurement devices, and recently completed building a water well depth sounder, a scanning-tunneling microscope and a proton precession magnetometer. I just can’t stop engineering.

Susan Hughes graduated from UNH nearly 30 years ago. During her time at UNH, Susan enjoyed her courses in Control Theory, Communication Systems, and DSP. She worked in the Robotics Lab with Prof. Filson Glanz on various projects. Her thesis advisor was Prof. Gordon Kraft and her Master’s Thesis was entitled “Approximate Non-linear Optimal Control using CMAC Neural Networks”. This consisted of a new approach to dynamic programming she developed to solve second order discrete-time optimization problems without a prior knowledge of system dynamics demonstrated on a highly non-linear pneumatic arm.
After graduation, Susan joined AT&T/Bell Laboratories as a circuit designer. Her first job consisted of writing code to perform unit testing on Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) hardware. Shortly thereafter, Susan’s first significant hardware design consisted of a 576x576 156Mb/s (Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) Bandwidth Manager Switch. Susan quickly became immersed with things like PCB component placement, choosing dielectric materials to go with her PCB stack up. Indeed, Susan’s circuit design was a key component of AT&T’s Bandwidth Manager system. UNH Alum Kevin Major also worked at AT&T and collaborated with Susan on a test strategy for this product.
Susan then embarked on ASIC design. Susan became part of a team designing of a 3 million gate SONET ASIC. Shortly thereafter, Susan was promoted to the “dark side” and became a Technical Manager, which had a whole set of different challenges including staff assignments, performance review and salary administration, coordination between groups on overall staff plan and direction of ASIC/FPGA community. During the early2000’s the telecommunications industry imploded coincident with Susan becoming a mom to Tyler.
Susan eased back into the workforce and found her passion with teaching. She started as an Adjunct Professor at New Hampshire Technical Institute teaching Electric Circuits I, Digital Fundamentals, and Advanced Digital Electronics. Currently, Susan is the department chair of Engineering and Computing Sciences and Program Coordinator of the Electronic Engineering Technology and Computer Engineering Technology associate degree programs at Nashua Community College and enjoys teaching in addition to her other responsibilities. In May2023, Susan won the prestigious “Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence”. Susan is currently working with the UNH ECE department on transfer pathways.
Susan is married to Mark Hughes, who also has a master’s degree in electrical engineering and indeed they met in graduate school. Mark and Susan have been married for 27years and their son is completing his senior year studying to be a meteorologist at Penn State. They all enjoy travelling and had a wonderful trip to Italy last year. When not working or travelling, they enjoy spending time in Hampton, NH and spending a good deal of time at the beach.

It has been nearly 30 years since Mark Hughes graduated from UNH. During his time at UNH, Mark had the opportunity to learn about fiber optics working under Prof. Allen Drake and authored a paper entitled “A Fiber Optic Turbidimeter/Nephelometer”, which was presented a paper at the 18th IEEE Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference. In graduate school, Mark’s thesis consisted of designing a fiber optic chemical sensor that measured pH by leveraging a bifurcated fiber optic bundle measuring light reflected from a chemical polymer membrane whose optical properties changed in the presence of hydrogen ions.
After graduation, Mark built on his fiber optic skills when he joined AT&T. He designed and programmed automated test equipment (ATE) to test some of the first designs that incorporated Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM), which increased telecommunications bandwidth dramatically. After years of designing ATE, needing a new challenge, Mark transferred over to the Bell Laboratories design side of the business to design circuit cards and backplanes. The telecommunications industry imploded in the early 2000s, forcing Mark to look elsewhere for work. Mark joined Raytheon and gained a passion for the defense industry and finds great meaning in using his skills to support our nation’s war fighters. Mark was a member of a design team that designed a distributed digital receiver exciter for the Taiwan Surveillance Radar Program (SRP). One of Mark’s proudest moments was being named Engineering Fellow and Hardware Chief Engineer for the AN/TPY-2 Radar system. Mark spent a good deal of time over the years at White Sands Missile Range, selling off multiple AN/TPY-2 Radars to the Missile Defense Agency. Note the AN/TPY-2Radar is the brains of the THAAD weapon system that was just recently deployed to defend Israel. Eventually, Mark transitioned to more of a leadership role and became the Program Manager for the AN/PY-2 Radar and subsequent Program Director managing what is a $3.5B portfolio of radars sold both internationally and domestically.
Currently, Mark works in a leadership role as the Director of Programs for R2S. R2S is a joint venture technology company formed by Raytheon Technologies and the Israeli-based Rafael Advanced Defense Systems to build the first Iron Dome Missile System and the Sky Hunter Interceptor (US version of the Iron Dome Tamir interceptor) outside of Israel in the US. The venture will build Iron Dome systems, the Tamir interceptor and launcher, and the SkyHunter interceptor, capable of intercepting cruise missiles, unmanned aircraft, rockets, artillery, mortars, and other threats. Mark is married to Susan Anagnost Hughes who also has a master’s degree in electrical engineering. They met in graduate school and have a son who is completing his senior year at Penn State. Mark has also been an Industrial Advisory Board Member (IAB) since 2004.