30th Anniversary Events
In addition to established annual traditions, as part of the 30th Anniversary, new events and programs for ECS Alumni are in store in Fall 2025 and Spring 2026.
ECS Research & Technology Symposium
Monday, April 13, 2026
2:00 - 5:30 pm
Hurd Welcome Center
Resources and Activities
- View Anniversary Events Photo Galleries on the ECS Facebook page
- Share a memory/photo/video
- Purchase a 30th Anniversary ornament to support the Dean’s Scholars Scholarship
- Give to ECS Priority Funds
- Help Facilitate a Regional ECS Event in your area
- Introduce Baylor and ECS to Prospective Students (virtual tours, campus visits, ECS tours)
- Sign up to mentor an ECS Student
- Listen or Read this 2004 interview of former Dean James Bargainer by Byron Newberry, part of an engineering education project for Baylor's Institute of Oral History
- Watch this 2010 video featuring Ben Kelley, Don Gaitros, James Bargainer and Kenneth Van Treuren (shared by Dick Campbell, former associate chair of Mechanical Engineering)
- Get nostalgic with the Baylor Roundup digital archive
- Search your era in The Baylor Lariat digital archive
- Find classmates in the Alumni and Friends Directory
- Update your contact info in the Baylor University Directory
Oct. 31, 2025
On Friday, October 31, Brunch with the Dean will take place at the Rogers Building from 10 to 11:30 AM.
10:00 - 11:30 am
Rogers Building
Oct. 31, 2025
In this interactive lecture given by Keith Schubert, Ph.D., attendees will learn to use generative AI to make a simulated DC motor and a data-driven Digital Twin that can learn its behavior and be used to detect problems. No RSVP required.
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Rogers 312
Oct. 31, 2025
In the afternoon from 3 to 5 p.m., head over to Dr Pepper Hour at the Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative (BRIC) for some fun, innovation, and fellowship.
3:00 - 5:00 pm
Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative (BRIC)
Nov. 1, 2025
On Saturday morning during the Baylor Homecoming Parade, find the ECS Watch Party Tent near Carroll Library (5th St. and Speight).
7:00 - 9:30 am
ECS Watch Party Tent near Carroll Library (5th St. and Speight)
Nov. 13, 2025
Celebrating those honored with an ECS Alumni & Friends Award. By invitation only. This is an ECS 30th Anniversary event.
6:00 - 8:00 pm
President's Suite, McLane Stadium
Nov. 14, 2025
Location: Cashion 311"Large Language Models, Model Collapse, and the Conservation of Information".Abstract: Do Large Language Models (LLMs) think and reason? Are they perpetual information machines, producing endless coherent and correct text from finite training data? We explore how LLMs work and whether they produce rational thought and endless information. We show how theoretical considerations and experimental results from philosophy, statistics, information theory, and machine learning argue against the thesis that LLMs are rational, information-generating entities.
12:15 - 1:15 pm