Since 2012, the following friends of Human Centered Design & Engineering delivered a graduation address at the annual HCDE Graduation & Awards ceremony.
- 2022 Dimeji Onafuwa, Co-founder, Common Cause Collective; UX Research Lead, Microsoft
- 2021 Julie Zhou, Author of The Making of a Manager; Former VP Design at Facebook
- 2020 Phil Spencer, EVP of Gaming and Xbox at Microsoft
- 2019 Brenda Laurel, video game design trailblazer, author, and virtual reality pioneer
- 2018 Sara Zewde, landscape designer, urbanist, and public artist
- 2017 Jerrod Larson, UX Manager, Qualtrics
- 2016 Mary Czerwinski, Research Manager of Visualization and Interaction Research, Microsoft Research
- 2015 Kelly Franznick, Co-founder, Blink UX
- 2014 Jenny Blackburn, Director, Voice Shopping, Amazon
- 2013 Michael Berg, Senior UX Researcher, Amazon
- 2012 Matt Shobe, Chief Experience Officer, Mighty AI