STEVE LYLE
Steve Lyle is the director of engineering workforce development and university marketing
for Texas Instruments. Steve’s responsibilities include the development and execution of
TI’s robotics competition strategy and marketing efforts, the oversight of worldwide
university collaboration among recruiting, research and marketing activities, as well as
penetrating university curriculum with TI technology around the world. He also serves on
the Texas Instruments PAC Board of Directors. He holds double degrees from Western
Kentucky University in information technology and office administration and is a graduate
of the Human Resource Strategic Leadership course at the University of Michigan and the
Strategic Negotiations course at Harvard.
Steve serves as a member of the UT Dallas Industry Advisory Council to the School of
Engineering and is a former member of the UT Dallas School of Management Industry
Advisory Board of which he chaired from 2006-2008. He is a member of the UT Dallas
Development Board, a member of the board of directors for the Dallas County Community
College District Foundation and a member of the Texas Higher Education Strategic Planning
Committee. He is also a former member of the board of directors for the Texas Business
and Education Coalition.
Steve has had a long history of working with education/academia and universities having
served on Texas Tech University’s (TTU) Management Information Science (MIS) Advisory
Board, having served as a faculty affiliate in TTU’s College of Business, as a member of the
Southern Methodist University (SMU) Career Development Advisory Board, and as the WW
Staffing Director for TI working with a host of universities.
Steve has been with TI for almost 35 years. Having started out as a software/applications
programmer/developer he has served in various leadership capacities across multiple
organizations such as IT, Quality, HR and Marketing. He is a US Army veteran and received
the Bronze Star during the first Gulf War. He is also the author of “The Power of Being
Yourself: Navigating Corporate America when you are a Minority”.