Ben G. Streetman is the former dean of the

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at the

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. He earned a

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in electrical engineering from Texas in 1966, and became a professor there in 1982. He founded the university's Microelectronics Research Center and holds the Dula D. Cockrell Centennial Chair Emeritus in Engineering. Streetman is a member of the

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and the

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. He is a fellow of the

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(IEEE) and the Electrochemical Society. He was awarded the

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in 1989. Streetman's academic focus is on

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materials and devices. He is the co-author of ''Solid State Electronic Devices'', along with Dr.

Sanjay Banerjee Sanjay Banerjee is an American engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, Microelectronics Research Center, and director of the Southwest Academy of Nanoelectronics (SWAN) — one of three such centers in the United States funded by the Semi ...

, and author of over 290 articles. Streetman helped start a workshop on

molecular-beam epitaxy Molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) is an epitaxy method for thin-film deposition of single crystals. MBE is widely used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices, including transistors. MBE is used to make diodes and MOSFETs (MOS field-effect transis ...

(MBE), which is now an annual conference known as NAMBE (North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy).

References

External links

Faculty Profile
at UT Faculty Bios
University of Texas MBE group
{{DEFAULTSORT:Streetman, Ben G. Living people American electrical engineers Cockrell School of Engineering alumni University of Texas at Austin faculty Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Year of birth missing (living people)