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Longtime STCC Professor and Department Head to Address Graduates
Professor Zahi ‘Zee’ Haddad ’80, Professor of Engineering and Chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Department, will present the keynote address at the 59th STCC Commencement ceremony. He will also be presented with the 2026 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award for over four decades of teaching and college service at STCC.
In January 1978, Haddad, while working a series of part-time jobs, enrolled in ESL classes at STCC before entering the College’s Engineering Transfer program. Earning his Associate degree from STCC, he went on to complete his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from what is now Western New England University, as well as an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Being Commencement Keynote represents a full-circle moment: “This is home,” he said. “These people here are my family." Read Zee's full story.
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