Robert H. Dennard
Two EDS members won 2001 IEEE Medals. Dr. Robert H. Dennard won the IEEE Edison Medal and Dr. Kurt E. Petersen won the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal.
Robert H. Dennard |
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In his remarkable career at IBM, Dr. Robert H. Dennard has played a key role in two of the most groundbreaking innovations of the microelectronics industry. His work on the one-transistor memory cell led the way to readily available, inexpensive, high-density memory, which has transformed the industry. Further, the principles he helped to develop for scaling MOSFET devices are so ubiquitous that they are now commonly referred to simply as "the scaling laws."
Dr. Dennard joined the IBM Research Division in 1958, where his early experience included the study of new devices and circuits for logic and memory applications, and the development of advanced data communication techniques. Since joining the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, in Yorktown Heights, NY, in 1963, he has been involved in microelectronics research and development. His primary work there has been in MOSFETs and integrated digital circuits that use them. His accomplishments include pioneering the dynamic RAM memory cell used in most computers today, and playing a key role in the development of the concept of MOSFET scaling. He has held many titles at IBM, and is currently an IBM Fellow in the Silicon Technology Department. He has been issued 26 U.S. patents, and has 77 published technical papers or articles to his name.
Robert H. Dennard was born in Terrell, TX, in 1932. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, in 1954 and 1956, respectively. He earned a Ph.D. from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, PA, in 1958. A Fellow of the IEEE, Dr. Dennard has earned dozens of awards and honors including the National Medal of Technology from President Reagan for his work on the one-transistor dynamic memory cell. He was also elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Dennard received the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award, the IRI Achievement Award from the Industrial Research Institute, and the Harvey Prize from Technion, Haifa, Israel. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and is a member of the American Philosophical Society.
Kurt E. Petersen |
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Dr. Kurt E. Petersen has been instrumental in establishing the promising field of MEMS, from early conceptual ideas to finished system designs. He has also founded three of the key companies of the field.
Dr. Petersen's seminal review paper, "Silicon as a Mechanical Material" appeared in the May 1982 issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE, and is credited with inspiring widespread research in a field that has already delivered impressive results, and holds great promise for the future. This paper is still regarded as required reading for anyone entering this area of study. In addition, he initiated and led the development and commercial implementation of several crucial MEMS processing technologies.
In 1982, he co-founded Transensory Devices, and in 1985 he co-founded Lucas NovaSensor. These companies developed pressure sensors and accelerometers, which were widely used in the medical and automotive industries, and inspired other MEMS-based business and research that followed. More recently, he founded Cepheid, a developer of integrated bioanalytical test systems, where he is President, Chief Operating Officer, and Director.
Kurt E. Petersen was born on February 13, 1948 in San Francisco, CA. He obtained a B.S. cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1970, and a Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975, both in Electrical Engineering. He joined the IBM Research Division in San Jose, CA, as a research staff member in 1975, where he initiated his groundbreaking work.
Dr. Petersen is a Fellow of the IEEE, and has been a key force behind a number of Institute activities related to MEMS. He has served on numerous technical program committees as well as Chairman of the Solid-State Sensors and Actuators Workshop and Chairman of the first International Conference on MEMS. He is invited frequently to speak on the subject of MEMS and, particularly, the commercialization of MEMS.
A member of Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi, he has won many honors, including an award for the "Year's Best R&D" from R&D Magazine, the "Best New Product of the Year" from Design News Magazine. He holds more than 22 patents and has published more than 100 technical papers.
Kurt Petersen and his wife, Carol, reside in Fremont, CA. He has two children, Scott, a software guru at Adobe Microsystems, and Brett, a molecular biologist soon to attend medical school. His outside interests include travel, cosmology, and skiing.
Mitra Dutta |
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Dr. Mitra Dutta – IEEE Fellow and EDS Member – has been selected as the year 2000 recipient of the IEEE-USA Harry Diamond Award. Dr. Dutta, the only woman receiving this award in its 51-year history, was cited as follows:
The official presentation of the IEEE-USA Harry Diamond Award to Dr. Dutta will take place at the IEEE-USA PACE Conference in Tampa, FL, during the Awards Ceremony on Saturday evening, April 28, 2001. Her citation as well as the citations (and names) of all other Harry Diamond Award recipients are at http://www.ieeeusa.org/AWARDS/diamond.html .
Dr. Mitra Dutta received a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in physics (first class honors) from the University of Delhi. She then spent three years on the faculty at the College of Arts, Science and Technology in Kingston, Jamaica, as well as lecturing part-time at the Physics Department of the University of the West Indies. She received her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cincinnati, OH, following which she was a research associate at Purdue University and at City College, NY, as well as a visiting scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. She then worked at the Electronics Technology and Devices Laboratory (ETDL), Fort Monmouth, which was incorporated into the Army Research Laboratory, first as team leader for the optoelectronics team, then as branch chief and finally as director of the physics division. After moving the laboratory to Adelphi, MD, she joined the Electronics Division of the Army Research Office (ARO). After a short time in ARO's Electronics Division, she was appointed as Associate Director of ARO's Engineering Sciences Directorate and assumed the duty of leading ARO's electronics program. Dr. Dutta recently assumed a Senior Executive Service position of ARO's Director of Research and Technology Integration, which entails duty as the deputy director of ARO; ARO is now a component of the US Army Research Laboratory.
She has over one hundred and sixty refereed publications, one hundred and seventy conference presentations, ten book chapters, edited two books, and has had twenty-four US patents issued. She is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, an IEEE Fellow, and a member of the American Physical Society. She has received the IEEE Harry Diamond Memorial Award in 2000, the Army R&D Achievement Awards in 1990, 1992 and 1994, the ETDL Harold Jacobs' Award in 1991, one of the ten outstanding AMC Personnel of the Year Award in 1992, led the team that won the prestigious Paul A. Siple Memorial Award (First Prize) at the 19th Army Science Conference held in Orlando, FL, in June 1994, and was elected one of the twenty Fellows of Army Research Laboratory. She is an Adjunct Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics Departments of North Carolina State University, an Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has had adjunct appointments at the Electrical Engineering Departments of Rutgers University and the University of Maryland.
Mike Stroscio
Army Research Office
Triangle Park, NC