Robert W. Dutton is an American electrical engineer. At

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, he is the Robert and Barbara Kleist Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus. Dutton also served as the undergraduate advisor for Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering, succeeded by John M. Pauly. Dutton's research interests include the process of integrated circuits fabrication, and circuit and device design and technology. In 1991, Dutton was elected a member of the

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for pioneering contributions to the development of computer-aided modeling of semiconductor devices and fabrication processes.

Education

Dutton attended

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for his BS (1966), MS (1967), and

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(1970). Dutton came to Stanford in 1971.

Career

Dutton's research combined fabricating requirements with material sensitivities. His team developed software to characterize the various permutations. The software resulting from Dutton's research; SUPREM, (Stanford University Process Engineering Models) and PISCES (Poisson and Continuity Equation Solver), were adopted by industry.Kaufman Award
sd-alliance.org He founded Technology Modeling Associates (TMA), the first Technology CAD company. TMA was bought by Avant! Corp in 1997. TMA's President and CEO was Roy Jewell.

Recognition

IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal In 2002, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) added a new award to its already existing program of awards. Each year, one or more nominees are honored with a medal in the name of Jun-ichi Nishizawa, considered to be the ' ...

(2025) *

Phil Kaufman Award The Phil Kaufman Award for Distinguished Contributions to EDA honors individuals for their impact on electronic design by their contributions to electronic design automation (EDA). It was established in 1994 by the EDA Consortium (now the Electr ...

, Electronic Design Automation Consortium (2006) *

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(SIA) University Researcher Award (2005) and University Leadership Award (2005) * IEEE Jack A. Morton Award (1996) * Member of the

1991 *

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

for Natural Sciences (1988) * IEEE J. J. Ebers Award (1987)

Publications

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References

External links

Stanford profile, Robert Dutton
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dutton, Robert Year of birth missing (living people) Living people UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni Stanford University School of Engineering faculty Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering faculty