We invite you to participate in the lecture Critical Thinking and Engineering Education - What can educators do to help engineering students develop the skills they will need to solve emerging problems? on Wednesday, May 23rd, 17:15 in the hall Galija, Remisens Hotel Admira. This keynote speaker is partially supported by the IEEE Education Society Distinguished Lecturer Program.

Leslie Martinich provides education and training to engineers and technology leaders around the world.  She is passionate about helping engineers and technology leaders become more effective and their companies to better compete. She has worked in technology companies for more than 30 years, and was one of the architects of RPC, Remote Procedure Call technology, allowing for what is today cloud-based computing. She publishes regularly in the IEEE Engineering Management Review and was the 2012 IEEE-USA Congressional Fellow for Science and Technology Policy.

She has been active on several boards and is currently the Chair of IEEE’s Awards Board P&P Committee, and the past Chair of the IEEE Central Texas Section, encompassing Austin and San Antonio. She is also on the Board of Directors of Austin Shakespeare and is a volunteer for Hospice Austin. She has a Master’s Degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin.