James Donald Meindl (April 20, 1933 – June 7, 2020) was director of the Joseph M. Pettit Microelectronics Research Center and the Marcus Nanotechnology Research Center and Pettit Chair Professor of Microelectronics at the Georgia Institute of Technology in

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. He won the 2006 IEEE Medal of Honor "for pioneering contributions to microelectronics, including low power, biomedical, physical limits and on-chip interconnect networks.”

Education

He received his

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and

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degrees in Electrical Engineering from

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in 1955, 1956 and 1958 respectively.

Career

From 1965 to 1967, he was the founding Director of the Integrated Electronics Division at the

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Electronics Laboratories. In 1967 he was appointed John M. Fluke Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University before becoming vice provost of research. He went on to serve as Associate Dean for Research in the School of Engineering; Director of the Center for Integrated Systems; and was the founding Director of the Integrated Circuits Laboratory. He was appointed Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1986 and served in there until 1993. Meindl's fellowships include the

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and the AAAS and he was elected a member of the

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in 1978. He is also a co-founder of Telesensory Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of electronic reading aids for the blind. Meindl also served on the board of directors of

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and

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and previously of Stratex Networks.

Notable students

Among his more than 80 doctoral studentsJames D. Meindl overview with an ordered list of all of his PHD students
Digest of James D. Meindl Retirement Party, Stanford University, Oct, 2016
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, William R. Brody, president of

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

, Levy Gerzberg, founder of

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founder of

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, Jim Plummer, dean of engineering at Stanford University,

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, President of

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, Richard Swanson, founder of SunPower Corporation, Steve Combs, founder of

Maxim Integrated Products Maxim Integrated, a subsidiary of Analog Devices, designs, manufactures, and sells analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for the automotive, industrial, communications, consumer, and computing markets. Maxim's product portfolio includes p ...

, Nicky Lu, founder of Etron Technology and

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, professor at Stanford University.

References

External links

Georgia Institute of Technology profile
* James D. Meindl, "The Wizard of Watts, IEEE Spectrum, May 31, 2006. https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/design/wizard-of-watts {{DEFAULTSORT:Meindl, James D. 1933 births 2020 deaths IEEE Medal of Honor recipients Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering alumni Georgia Tech faculty Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Stanford University faculty