Teaching Activities

Educational Projects and Community Service

Created and currently direct the National Coalition for Recruiting Electrical and Computer Engineering Students, Spring, 2002 to present.
Coach for First Lego League team, South Bend Hebrew Day School, 2001-02.
Presented workshop as part of NSF Bits-to-Chips program entitled, "From Bits-to-Chips: Curriculum Development in Microelectronics Design and Fabrication, and Emerging Technologies," July 23-27, 2001 at the University of Notre Dame (P.I. with J. Brockman, P. Kogge, and G. Snider.)
Advisor to the student high school Electrical Engineering Education Outreach program, 1994- 2000.
Member of Indiana Electronics Manufacturers' Association Mobile Electronics Manufacturing Line Program, 1997.
Director of Junior design course and senior capstone design projects for AlliedSignal, Bayer, Hughes, Tellabs, Army Research Laboratory, General Motors Onstar, and Whirlpool, 1996 to 2001.
Member of Board of Directors, Sinai Synagogue, South Bend, IN, 1995-1998.
Faculty advisor for student chapter of IEEE, 1991-1997.

Courses Introduced to Notre Dame

Vacuum Technology for Microelectronics (1-credit) (graduate level)
Scanning Electron Microscopy and Electron Beam Lithography (1-credit) (graduate level)
Nanolithography Technology (1-credit) (graduate level)
Advanced IC Fabrication Techniques (graduate level) (Coordinator, with G. L. Snider, P. Fay, A. C. Seabaugh, D. C. Hall)
Frontiers in Microelectronics Systems (senior and graduate level) (Coordinator, with G. L. Snider, P. M. Kogge, J. B. Brockman)
Technology for the 21st Century, coordinator (one-credit Freshman seminar course on engineering careers)
Submicron Fabrication Techniques (graduate level)
VLSI Fabrication Techniques (graduate level)
Integrated Circuits Processing Laboratory (senior and graduate level)

Additional Courses Taught

Electrical Engineering Design (Junior and Senior levels)
Electronics I (Sophomore level)
Electrophysics I (Junior level)
Analog Integrated Circuits (Senior level)

Ph.D. Dissertations in Progress

"Integrated Inductive Coupling Systems for MEMS Powering," Jie Wu, expected Spring, 2003.
"Fabrication of Molecular Electronics Arrays," Qingling Hang, expected Spring, 2003.
"Advanced Electron Beam Lithography and Resolution Study of E-Beam Resists," Wenchuang Hu, expected Spring, 2003.
"Novel MEMS Fluidics Pumps," Jie Su, expected Spring, 2004.
"Novel MEMS Fluidics Channels and Valves," Heng Yang, expected Spring, 2004.
"Leadless QCA Systems Based on Metal Tunnel Junctions," Minjun Yan, expected Spring, 2004.
"Design and Fabrication of Nanometer Magnet Architectures," Alexandra Imre, (co-advised with W. Porod) expected Spring, 2005.
"Design and Fabrication of Nanomagnetic Input and Output Structures," Ling Zhou, expected Spring, 2005.

Masters Theses Completed

"Fabrication of a High Diodicity Check Valve," Heng Yang, Fall, 2002.
Single Electron Transistor Made by Electron Beam Lithography and Three-Angle Evaporation," Minjun Yan, Fall, 2002.
"Investigation of Micropumps for Pumping Blood," Jie Su, Fall, 2002.
"Improved Treatment Method for Parkinson’s Tremors," Sheilendra Dubhashi, Spring, 2002.
"Electron Beam Nanolithography of Contamination Resist and OTS SAMs," Qingling Hang, Spring, 2001.
"Sub-10-nm Structure Fabrication by Field Emission SEM Nanolithography System," Wenchuang Hu, Spring, 2001.
"Development of 3-Micron Poly-Gate CMOS Process at Notre Dame," Jun Qian, Spring, 1999.
"A Tunable Analog VLSI Network for Preserving Discontinuities in One-Dimensional Signals," Hazim M. Zayed, Fall, 1993.
"A Novel Method for Producing Nanofabricated Quantum Structures in Silicon Inversion Layers," Brad Campbell, Fall, 1993.
"Characteristics of MOS Capacitors Fabricated Using Electron Beam Lithography," Renu Kamath, Summer, 1992.
"Ultra-Short Gate GaAs MESFETs Fabricated by Electron Beam Lithography," Greg Bazán, Spring, 1991.
"Single Electron Tunneling in an Array of Quantum Dots," Steven Koester, Spring, 1991.
"The Design of an Electron Beam Lithography System Based on a Scanning Electron Microscope," John N. Monteiro, Spring, 1990.

Ph.D Dissertations Completed

"Experimental Demonstrations of Quantum-dot Cellular Automata: Basic Cell, Binary Wire and Logic Gates," Islamshah Amlani, Spring, 1999.
"A Feasibility Study of a Gallium Arsenide Based Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata," Greg Bazán, Spring, 1998.
"Reliability of Ultra-narrow Metal Interconnects," Richard Frankovic, Fall, 1996.
"Experimental Investigation of DC Crosstalk Between Superconducting Interconnects Defined by High Resolution Electron Beam Lithography," Xiaokang Huang, Fall, 1994.

Undergraduate Projects Directed

"Comparison of Modeling Packages for MEMS Development," Gregory Skony, Fall, 2000.
"Calibration of Semiconductor Measurement Equipment," Jeffery Joseph, Summer, 2000 (REU supported by NSF).
"Fabrication Procedures for CMOS Microprocessor," Patrick Arthurs, Summer, 1999 (REU supported by NSF).
"Design and Fabrication of 2D Molecular Sieve for DNA Separation," Jonathan Ziebarth and Brian Smith, Summer, 1998 (REU supported by NSF).
"Ion Implantation for Ohmic Contacts," Thomas McCarthy and Darcie Tutin, Spring, 1996-1998.
"Ion Implantation for Ohmic Contacts," Thomas McCarthy, Spring, 1996.
"Design and Fabrication of Capacitors for Testing with the Keithley Model 82 C-V Measurement System," Chris Martino, Spring, 1994.
"Investigation of Sodium Contamination in Oxides," Alvin Ilarina, Fall, 1993.
"Design of a Photolithographic Mask Set for a Microfabricated Electrohydrodynamic Pump," Anne Haban, Fall, 1993.
"Fabrication of Micromotors," William Driscoll, Fall, 1993.
"Fabrication of Custom Wafer for Capacitance-Voltage Testing," Jay Millar, Spring, 1993.
"Advanced C-V Measurements on the Keithley Model 82," Chris Martino, Spring, 1993.
"Rapid Thermal Processing," James Shiely, Fall, 1992 and Spring, 1993.
"Conversion of L-Edit IC Layout Files to Electron Beam Lithography System Format," Chakthorn Sukapanpotharam, Summer, 1992.
"An Introduction to Statistical Design Procedures for High Contrast Resist Developers," Christine Brodowski, Spring, 1992.
"Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition," Christopher J. Uhas, Spring, 1992.
"Implementing a Plot Function for Electron Beam Lithography," Robert T. Topel, Spring, 1992.
"Design of Pulsed DC Test for Electromigration Failure in Ultra-Narrow Interconnects," Patrick Bednarz, Spring, 1992.
"Design of a Local Area Network," Stephen P. McGinnis, Spring, 1992.
"Techniques for High Resolution Photomasks," Stephen McGinnis, Fall, 1991.
"Conversion of an ISI-60A Scanning Electron Microscope to an Electron Beam Lithography System," Patrick Fay, Spring, 1991.
"Reconditioning of a JEOL JSM-35 Scanning Electron Microscope and Applications to Integrated Circuit Analysis," Keith Harber, Spring, 1991.
"Crystal Frame Store and Modifications for Amray 1400 SEM," Patrick N. Fay, Spring, 1990.
"Integrating a GCA Mann 3000 and a GCA Mann 3696 to an IBM XT System and Vivid CAD Software Package," Victor C. Huynh, Fall, 1989.
"The GCA 3696 Photorepeater," Sean P. McKenna, Fall, 1989.
"Optical Lithography with a Cobilt CA-800 Mask Aligner," Terrence P. McGuigan, Fall, 1989.
"Investigation of Wafer Cleaning Procedures Using a Wettability Goniometer," David N. Lewis, Spring, 1989.
"Fabrication of MOS Capacitors," Anthony J. Deliberato, Fall, 1988.
"Capacitance-Voltage Measurements of MOS Structures," Shawn J. Gaffney, Fall, 1988.
"Projection Lithography with a Perkin-Elmer 210 Aligner," Craig A. Waller, Fall, 1988.