Fred Borgenicht, M.S. (`79) TEAC Chair
Fred Borgenicht earned the B.S. degree in engineering from Trinity College in 1979 and the M.S. degree in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He began his career at Hewlett Packard Medical in 1981, and remained after the company’s restructuring into Agilent, subsequently sold to Philips. He has worked on a wide range of medical products including developing algorithms for the early detection of arrhythmias, cardiac catheter lab monitoring equipment, intensive care monitoring equipment, and currently defibrillators. Mr. Borgenicht has also held a number of positions within research and development, ranging from individual contributor, to senior technical lead, to systems engineer and project manager. He is currently a senior technical lead in the manufacturing organization of Philips Medical.
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Eric Fossum, Ph.D. (`79)
Eric Fossum received the B.S. degree in physics and engineering from Trinity College in 1979 and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Yale University in 1984. As a member of Columbia University’s Electrical Engineering faculty from 1984-1990, he and his students performed research on CCD focal-plane image processing and high speed III-V CCDs. In 1990, Dr. Fossum joined the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and managed JPL’s image sensor and focal-plane technology research and advanced development. He led the invention and development of CMOS active pixel sensor (APS) camera-on-a-chip and subsequent transfer of this technology to US industry. In 1996, Dr. Fossum joined Photobit Corporation as Chief Scientist, a company he helped found in 1995, becoming CEO in 2000. He and his staff commercialized the camera-on-a-chip which has been used in Logitech® and Intel® PC cameras, ultra-low-power sensors enabling the swallowable “pill-camera” and tiny cameras in cell phones, and very-high-speed, high-resolution sensors used for Hollywood special effects such as in “The Mummy Returns” and “Pearl Harbor”. In late 2001 Photobit was acquired by Micron Technology Inc. and Dr. Fossum was named a Senior Micron Fellow. He left Micron in 2003 and is currently Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics at the University of Southern California. He has also served as Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was primary thesis adviser to 12 graduated Ph.D.s and is currently advising one candidate.
Dr. Fossum has published 231 technical papers, holds 56 U.S. patents, and is a Fellow member of the IEEE. He received Yale’s Becton Prize in 1984, the IBM Faculty Development Award in 1984, the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1986, the JPL Lew Allen Award for Excellence in 1992, and the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal in 1996. He was inducted into the US Space Foundation Technology Hall of Fame in 1999. In 2003 he will receive the Photographic Society of America’s highest award, the PSA Progress Medal. He founded the biannual IEEE Workshops on CCDs and Advanced Image Sensors, and the SPIE Conferences on Infrared Readout Electronics. He has served on program committees for the IEDM, ISSCC, and SPIE conferences. He has served as associate editor for IEEE Trans. on VLSI, guest editor for IEEE JSSC, and was Guest Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices Special Issues on Solid-State Image Sensors published in October 1997 and January 2003.
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George S. Logan, M.S. (`91)
George S. Logan earned the Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Trinity College in 1991 and the Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bridgeport in 1995. Currently a Senior Engineer for Aquarion Water Company (AWC), he is responsible for leadership and support roles in all aspects of water utility engineering including transmission and distribution pipeline design and construction, treatment and pumping facility design and construction, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system design and implementation, water supply planning, permitting, distribution system analysis, and water quality/treatment investigations. Mr. Logan is also responsible for supervision of AWC’s Engineering Department land survey, CAD drafting, and design functions. As a project manager for Aquarion Water Company he won the Gold Connecticut Innovation Prize for “BHC’s Use of Technology to Optimize Operation Efficiency and Reduce Labor” in 1997.
During his professional career he has continued to encourage, educate and motivate primarily inner-city youths to focus on their academic careers as a way to develop into productive adult members of society. Some of the activities and organizations he has participated in include the Connecticut Pre-Engineering Program (CPEP), the Bridgeport Mentoring Program (TWIN LEAF/CATCH), and the Annual Minority Youth Business Conference (AMBYESE). Mr. Logan is the former Chairperson of the State of Connecticut African-American Affairs Commission (AAAC) and he is also a member of the Board of Directors for Junior Achievement (JA) of Western Connecticut.
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Susan M. Miller, Ph.D. (`83)
Susan M. Miller received a B.S. degree in 1983 from Trinity College, Hartford, CT, with majors in Engineering, Computer Coordinate with Engineering, and Mathematics. In her senior year, Susan was a President’s Fellow, awarded for outstanding achievement in the major along with evidence of wide-ranging intellectual interests. She received a Sc.M. degree in 1985 and a Ph.D. in 1988 from Brown University. In 1988, Susan joined AT&T Bell Laboratories as a Member of the Technical Staff, which in 1996 became Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs Innovations. From 1988 until 1994, she specified the design of real-time, multi-processor systems to be used in military intelligence gathering applications. From 1994 until 2001, she worked in the wire-line business specifying the design of the HFC-2000 Broadband Access System (a hybrid fiber coax system for voice and video on demand) and the AnyMedia™ Access System (a next generation digital loop carrier for voice and data), where she was promoted to Technical Manager in 1996. From 2001 until the present, Susan has been in the wireless business Open Innovations Laboratory where she has had responsibilities as a program manager for Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) for base station applications. Currently she is responsible for front end engineering (Requirements and Architecture) for base station channel elements.
Susan has received 4 Bell Laboratories President’s Awards. In 1997, she was recognized by Trinity College with a Century of Engineering Special Recognition Citation for uncommon professional achievement. From 1998 until the present, Susan has been a member of the Trinity Engineering Advisory Committee (TEAC), providing guidance to the engineering program.
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Ted Moise, Ph.D. (`87)
Ted is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX) and currently works as a program manager within TI’s Silicon Technology Development organization. He is leading TI’s embedded ferroelectric memory program which has recently demonstrated the highest-density ferroelectric memory. Prior to working on ferroelectric memory, Ted developed high-speed optical and electronic III-V devices for application within TI’s defense electronics group.
Ted has been awarded 28 patents with more than 20 applications pending. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 papers in refereed journals. He chaired the 2004 SRC conference on alternative memory technologies held at Stanford University, and he served as a session chair for the 1999 MRS conference and as the conference chair for the 1996 Quantum Well Physics Symposium. He was co-author of a presentation that earned the best paper award at the 1996 GaAs Manufacturing Technology Conference. He has given numerous invited lectures including presentations at the 2002 Nikkei conference, the 2003 Stanford lecture series, and the Integrated Ferroelectrics conference. From 1994-1998 Ted was also an adjunct Professor of Physics at SMU where he taught modern physics and statistical mechanics.
Ted earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1992 where he was awarded the outstanding graduate research prize from the Department of Engineering and Applied Science. His graduate work was supported by fellowships from IBM and Hughes Aircraft. Ted received his B.S. degree (1987) from Trinity College in Hartford, CT where he completed a double major in Engineering and Physics. He served as chairman of the Trinity Engineering Advisory Committee from 2002-2004, and he received an Engineering Alumni Award in 1987.
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Rudolph A. Montgelas (`75)
Rudy is currently Product Management Group Director of Connectivity and Cable Management in the Marketing Department of Hubbell Premise Wiring in Stonington, CT. He has worked for Hubbell for approximately nine years. Prior to that, he held positions at Ensign-Bickford Optics, GTE, Dukane, Belden Wire and Cable, and IBM. Rudy has over twenty-five years of experience in fiber optic connector, cable, and component product development for IBM. He has also worked in software development. Rudy holds a B.S. in Engineering (`75) from Trinity College in Hartford, CT and an M.S.E.E. from the University of Texas at Austin (80’) and has eleven patents in the field of fiber optics.
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Morton K. Pearson, M.S., P.E.
Mort is one of five Mechanical Design Technical Discipline Chiefs for Pratt & Whitney, responsible for the aftermarket engineering business segment, insuring that mechanical design practitioners, tools, and processes produce superior mechanical solutions. His team maintains the mechanical design system and works closely with other United Technologies organizations to assure that best practices and experience are captured and used, and that tools, practices and processes are common, where applicable. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Connecticut in 1974 and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Hartford in 1982. Mort joined Pratt & Whitney in 1974 as an analytical engineer following a tour in the US Air Force on C-130 aircraft. Mort is a member off the National Society of Professional Engineers, and the SAE Aerospace Council.
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Brian Pitts, B.S. (`94)
Brian Pitts is a member of Trinity College’s class of 1994 and holds a BS in Engineering. Currently, Brian is a Consulting Systems Engineer with Cisco Systems in the Boston area focusing on pre-sales design and deployment of large-scale IP networks, caching, and video streaming technologies for Fortune 500 companies. During his six years at Cisco, Brian has served as an account Systems Engineer and a Systems Engineering Manager. In October of 2000, Brian attained the industry certification of CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert). Before joining Cisco in 1998, Brian was a consultant at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) focusing on network and data center design and implementations.
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Jon Reynolds, Ph.D. (`59)
Jon A. Reynolds, Brig Gen, USAF (Ret) is a graduate of Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, where he earned a BS in Engineering and USAF commission in 1959. His military service after pilot training included initial assignments in fighter operations flying F-100 and F-105 type aircraft. He participated in various unit deployments, including the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, and assignments in East and Southeast Asia. He was assigned as an Advisor to a Vietnamese Infantry Division during 1963-1964. On a second tour he was shot down over North Vietnam on November 28, 1965 and spent the following seven years as a prisoner of war. Upon repatriation in February 1973, he undertook graduate study (Ph.D. from Duke University) with follow-on assignment to the Department of History of the US Air Force Academy. In this capacity he chaired the Academy’s World and Area Studies and Military History programs. Additional USAF assignments included politico-military affairs officer in Headquarters, US Air Force, and the faculty of the National Defense University. He was subsequently assigned as Defense and Air Attaché to the People's Republic of China from April 1984 to January 1988. During this period he was also senior US Military Representative in China and simultaneously served as head of the US security assistance effort in Beijing. As such, he was responsible for managing nearly $1B in military assistance programs to China and was the first westerner in the modern era to fly Chinese fighter aircraft. He was senior military assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force from January 1988 to August 1989. From then until September 1990, he was assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency as Deputy Director for the US Defense Attaché System.
Dr. Reynolds joined Raytheon in October 1990 as Vice President for International Technology Programs, responsible for chemical weapons destruction at the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Destruction Site. In November 1993 he was appointed President Raytheon China Company and relocated with his family to Beijing in June 1994 as Raytheon’s Chief Representative in China. In this position he was responsible for all Raytheon sales/operations in China, Hong Kong, and Mongolia. He returned to the United States in November 1999 and is currently a consultant for China projects.
General Reynolds’ military decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal and the Silver Star with Oak Leaf Clusters. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Air and Space Museum. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Delaware and the Trinity College Engineering Advisory Committee.
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Eric Rosow, M.S. (`86)
Eric graduated from Trinity College with a B.S. in Engineering in 1986. He received the M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Hartford Graduate Center/RPI in 1988.
He was Director of Biomedical Engineering at Hartford Hospital, responsible for its medical technology program, strategic technology planning, and biomedical research. Eric is a co-founder of Premise Development Corporation, a Hartford-based software company that creates award-winning, software applications for the healthcare industry.
Among his professional affiliations are memberships in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, the Data Warehouse Institute, the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), the American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE), and the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).
Eric has been recognized by several organizations for his pioneering work in virtual instrumentation including: AAMI’s Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology’s Outstanding Management and Technology Paper, the AAMI Clinical/Biomedical Engineering Achievement Award, and National Instrument’s “Best in Category” and “Best Overall” application of Virtual Instrumentation, and the American College of Clinical Engineering’s Professional Achievement Award. Rosow has also served as a member of the US Olympic Committee's Sports Equipment and Technology Committee (SETC) and was a former world-class rower with several national titles - a Pan American Games gold medal, and a fourth place at the World Rowing Championships to his credit. Recently, Eric co-authored a book called Virtual Bio-Instrumentation: Biomedical, Clinical, and Healthcare Applications in LabVIEW.
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Harvey F. Silverman, Ph.D. (`65)
Harvey Silverman graduated with B.S. and B.S.E. degrees from Trinity College in 1965 and 1966. He attended graduate school at Brown University and received the Sc.M. in 1968 and Ph.D. in 1971. In 1970 he joined the research staff at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights NY. While there he initially worked on satellite image processing and computer performance before becoming a founding member of the speech recognition group. From 1976-1980, he managed a group that was building speech recognition hardware.
In 1980 Dr. Silverman became a full professor at Brown University and was charged with the development of a computer engineering discipline within electrical engineering. His research work was in the areas of speech recognition, architectures for digital signal processing and speech processing, and arrays of microphones. In July 1991, Professor Silverman became Dean of Engineering at Brown and served in this capacity until 1998. He continues as Professor of Electrical Sciences and Computer Engineering and focuses much of his current work in the area of microphone arrays. Since 1980, Professor Silverman has been the advisor to 23 PhD’s.
Professor Silverman was made a Fellow of the IEEE in 1996 and he has served as a consultant for many companies. He was a Charter Trustee of Trinity College from 1994-2003. He has been a member of the Trinity Engineering Advisory Committee since its inception in 1992, and was the General Chairman of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing in 1977. He was also the Chair and a member of the IEEE ASSP Society’s Technical Committee on Digital Signal Processing from 1972 to 1983.
Dr. Silverman has over 150 archival journal and conference papers to date. In 1997 he received an Outstanding Engineering Alumni Certificate from Trinity College, in 1984 an IEEE Centennial Medal Award, in 1980 an IEEE ASSP Society Meritorious Service Award, and several patent and research awards while at IBM.
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Nhon Trinh (`04) Student Representative
Nhon received the B.S. degree in Engineering with honors and the B.S. in Mathematics from Trinity College in 2004. He served as the Engineering Department’s President’s Fellow, representing Engineering, in his senior year. He currently attends Brown University, working toward his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering. At Trinity, he served on Professor Ahlgren’s Trinity College Robot Team. Nhon’s work focused on the control and vision systems of ALVIN, an outdoor robot capable of navigating an obstacle course. Trinh was also a research assistant in Professor Ning’s Digital Signal Processing Lab, working on an apnea detection project and developing a vision system for robots using FPGA, for which he received a grant from Connecticut Space Grant College Consortium. His current research interest is in computer vision, focusing on modeling 2D and 3D shapes. Trinh is a member of the Pi Mu Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa Honor Societies.
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Deborah M. Vernon, Ph.D. (`95) TEAC Vice-Chair
Deborah M. Vernon, Ph.D. is a Technology Specialist in the Patent Law and Intellectual Property Practice Groups at Proskauer Rose LLP. Dr. Vernon received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Trinity College in 1995, the Ph.D. in Materials Science Engineering from Brown University in 2001 and the J.D. degree from Suffolk University in 2005. Dr. Vernon’s doctorial thesis research concentrated on processing and analyzing ceramic materials. While at Brown University, she developed new processing techniques for controlling grain growth during densification of nanophase ceramic compacts using chemical vapor infiltration and liquid phase infiltration techniques.
Dr. Vernon assists clients in obtaining and enforcing intellectual property rights both in the U.S. and abroad. She has experience in the technology fields of superconductors, photovoltaics, ceramics, thin film technology, nanophase materials, medical devices, and mechanical engineering. Dr. Vernon is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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David K. Ware, Esq.
Dave is Vice President and Counsel for Pratt & Whitney Military Engines, specializing in general corporate and business law, commercial and government contracts, merger and acquisition transactions, litigation management, export/import matters, and labor and employment law matters. He also manages the Legal Department and Contracts Department. He previously was Vice President-Counsel for United Technologies Automotive, and was Counsel and General Counsel for Norden Systems. Dave earned a B.A. in Political Science from Amherst College in 1973 and the J.D. (with honors) from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1976, and served as an Associate Editor of The Connecticut Law Review from 1974-1976. He has made several presentations on the topic of business ethics to Engineering students at Trinity College and Brown University. Dave also serves on the Board of Connecticut Radio Information System, a non-profit organization that broadcasts news and information throughout Connecticut for the blind and sight-impared.
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