{"72805":{"#nid":"72805","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Meindl Named Director of Tech\u0027s Nanotech Center","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s newly formed Nanotechnology Research Center, which recently received a $15 million commitment from the Marcus Foundation for a new building, has named Dr. James Meindl as its founding director.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMeindl, director of Tech\u0027s Pettit Microelectronics Research Center and the recent winner of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Medal of Honor, will lead the center\u0027s efforts to fuse multiple scientific disciplines in pursuit of breakthrough nanotechnologies.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The most important economic event of the past half century has been the information revolution. Its principal driver has been the ubiquitous silicon microchip, which marvelously engages nanotechnology. Future breakthroughs comparable to the microchip in their impact may be possible through a fusion of discoveries in physical and biological science and engineering enabled by nanotechnology. The Georgia Tech Nanotechnology Research Center will be the first research center in the U.S. to focus primarily on this exciting and inspiring fusion,\u0022 Meindl said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring his career as a scientist, educator and high-level technology executive, Meindl logged a string of exceptional technical accomplishments. Early in his career, he developed micropower integrated circuits for portable military equipment at the Army Signal Corps R\u0026amp;D Laboratories in Fort Monmouth, N.J. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELater at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., he created low-power integrated circuits and sensors for a portable electronic reading aid for the blind, miniature wireless radio telemetry systems for biomedical research, and non-invasive ultrasonic imaging and blood-flow measurement systems. He was the founding director of the Integrated Circuits Laboratory and a founding co-director of Stanford\u0027s Center for Integrated Systems, a model for university and industry cooperative research in microelectronics. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom 1986 to 1993, Meindl was senior vice president for academic affairs and provost of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., where he oversaw all teaching and research. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe joined Georgia Tech in 1993 and was appointed director of its Microelectronic Research Center in 1996. In 1998, he became the founding director of the Interconnect Focus Center, leading a team of more than 60 faculty members from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford, Rensselaer, The State University of New York, Albany and Georgia Tech in partnership with industry and government. His research at Georgia Tech includes exploring solutions to problems that arise from trying to interconnect billions of transistors within a tiny chip. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAn IEEE Life Fellow, Meindl is the recipient of the Benjamin Garver Lamme Medal of the American Association for Engineering Education, the J.J. Ebers Award of the IEEE Electron Devices Society, the IEEE Education Medal and the IEEE Solid State Circuits Award. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds bachelor\u0027s, master\u0027s and doctoral degrees, all in electrical engineering, from the Carnegie Institute of Technology at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u0027s newly formed Nanotechnology Research Center has named Dr. James Meindl as its founding director.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"James Meindl will head the new nanotech center"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2006-07-10 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:42","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-07-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-07-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"72806":{"id":"72806","type":"image","title":"James Meindl","body":null,"created":"1449177962","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:26:02","changed":"1475894665","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:25"}},"media_ids":["72806"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.nano.gatech.edu\/","title":"Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at Georgia Tech"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}