RONALD J. GUTMANN

Ronald J. Gutmann  received the B.E.E. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in 1962, the M.E.E. degree from New York University, New York, NY, 1964, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrophysics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1970.
 

From 1962 to 1966, he was a Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he worked on the development of microwave components and systems for radar applications. From 1966 to 1970, he was at Lockheed Electronics Company, where he worked on beam-steering and beam-forming techniques for phased arrays, as well as at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and at the Rensselaer Research Corporation, developing novel semiconductor control devices. Since 1970 Dr. Gutmann has been on the faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he is currently a Professor in the Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department with teaching and research activities in the areas of semiconductor devices, monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) technology, and thin-film interconnection technology. He has authored approximately three hundred technical papers in these and related fields and is a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions in microwave semiconductor technology. He has coauthored three books on IC interconnect technology - Chemical-Mechanical Planarization of Microelectronics Materials (Wiley 1997), Copper-Fundamentals for Microelectronic Applications (Wiley, 2000), and Chemical-Mechanical Polishing of Low Dielectric Constant Polymers and Organosilicate Glasses (Kluwer 2002). His current research activities are in three-dimensional (3D) IC technology platforms, multilevel interconnect technology, thermophotovoltaic devices, thin-film packaging, silicon carbide (SiC) devices, and wireless communications technology.
 

Dr. Gutmann was a NASA-ASEE Fellow in 1977, at Johnson Space Center; a visiting member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories in 1979, and a Visiting Scientist at M/A-Com in 1985. From May 1981 to August 1983 he served as Program Director of the Solid State and Microstructures Engineering Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF), where he chaired the Interagency Electronics Committee, administered small business innovative research (SBIR) programs in microelectronics, served on the Technical Activities Board of the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), and had administrative responsibility for the National Nanofabrication Facility. From 1989 to 1994 he served as Director of the Rensselaer Center for Integrated Electronics, an interdisciplinary research and education center involving 50 faculty with programs in electronic materials, processing techniques, semiconductor devices, characterization techniques and IC design.  Dr. Gutmann has served on a number of university boards, including SEMATECH and the SRC. He has received both the Rensselaer Alumni Association Outstanding Faculty Award (1990) and the Rensselaer William H. Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award (2000).