Teaching Professor
Materials Science and Engineering

Graduated with Ph.D.from Northwestern University in 1987. Worked as senior process engineer from 1988 – 1993 at Digital Equipment Corporation.

Joined Ames Lab as research scientist at the Microelectronics Research Center in 1993. Joined Materials Science & Engineering

Department at ISU in 1997 as an Assistant Professor. Worked as a senior process development engineer at Micron Technologies in 2001 during a

leave of absence from ISU. Became a lecturer in 2003 and was promoted to senior lecturer in 2010.

• Ph.D. Materials Science & Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1987
• B.S. Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1981

• Electronic properties of materials
• Solid state physics