GROVE CITY, Pa. – Grove City College will welcome the 2009 Albert A. Hopeman Jr. Lecturer in Science and Engineering at 7 p.m. April 1 in Sticht Lecture Hall of the Hall of Arts and Letters. Technology leader Bob Colwell will address students, faculty and guests on “Engineering Lessons from the Pittsburgh Steelers.”

Colwell was Intel’s chief IA32 (Pentium) microprocessor architect from 1992 to 2000 and managed the IA32 architecture group at Intel’s Hillsboro, Ore., facility through the P6 and Pentium 4 projects. He was named the Eckert-Mauchly award winner for 2005 and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 “for contributions to turning novel computer architecture concepts into viable, cutting-edge commercial processors.”

Also named an Intel Fellow in 1996 and an IEEE Fellow in 2006, Colwell was a CPU architect at VLIW minisupercomputer pioneer Multiflow Computer; a hardware design engineer at workstation vendor Perq Systems; and a member of technical staff at Bell Labs. He has published many technical papers and journal articles, is inventor or co-inventor on 40 patents, and has participated in numerous panel sessions and invited talks.

Colwell is also the perspectives editor for IEEE Computer Magazine, wrote the At Random column from 2002 to 2005 and is the author of “The Pentium Chronicles,” a behind-the-scenes look at modern microprocessor design. He is currently an independent consultant. Colwell holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and a master’s and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.

The annual Albert A. Hopeman Jr. Lecture in Science and Engineering is sponsored by the Grove City College Alumni Association and named in honor and memory of Albert A. Hopeman Jr., chairman of the Grove City College Board of Trustees from 1972 to 1998.