Michelle Munson, chief executive officer for Aspera Inc. . Berkley, California, will present “How engineering ( actually ) changes the world — my experience as an inventor, entrepreneur and tech CEO” at Kansas State University.

The event at 3 p.m. Thursday, March 3, is scheduled in 1109 Engineering Hall at K-State. It is part of the College of Engineering’s Eyestone Lecture Series, and is open to the public.

Munson, formerly of Junction City, is a 1996 graduate of Kansas State University in electrical engineering and physics, where she was a Goldwater scholar for achievement in science and mathematics. She was later a Fulbright scholar at Cambridge University where she received a postgraduate diploma in computer science.

She is the co-inventor of Aspera’s fasp transport technology, responsible for overseeing the company’s direction in collaboration with co-founder Serban Simu.

Munson’s lecture will highlight how engineering brings fundamental solutions to scientific and societal “big problems,” focusing on the example of the birth and growth of Aspera’s high-speed transport platform. She will address the origin of the company’s transport technology, the invention of the platform, financial enablement and evolution in an ecosystem of distributed cloud computing, and the explosion of data.