Workshop #1 - Advanced NanoManufacturing
Workshop #1: Advanced NanoManufacturing: Driving Tomorrow’s Products to Market
Tuesday, November 13
1:00 – 5:00 PM

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS — TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 (INCLUDES NETWORKING RECEPTION ON TUESDAY EVENING ONLY)
Workshop #1 Registration Fee: $255
From semiconductors to medical devices to optics, the need for novel manufacturing techniques at the nanoscale is growing. Major investments have been made through federal dollars in university research centers and corporate product development to create the next generation of tools, processes, and know-how that will drive tomorrow’s products into the market. It is critical for companies that are evaluating their product plans to understand what opportunities are coming in the short and long-term to increase innovation and competitiveness. Items to be included in the workshop include:
  • Learn about leading edge manufacturing technologies and the applications they can enable
  • Understand how reliability, repeatability, and scale factor into the development of new equipment and processes
  • How characterization and metrology play a critical role in the product manufacturing cycle and what new tools and processes will be needed
  • What critical challenges nanomanufacturing faces and different approaches to solving these problems
    • SPEAKERS:

    Placid M. Ferreira
    Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor of Mechanical Science
    and Engineering & Director, Nano-CEMMS
    University of Illinois at Urbana — Champaign

    Dr. Placid M. Ferreira is the Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering at Illinois. He is also the director of the Center for Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems (Nano-CEMMS), an NSF-sponsored Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center. He graduated with a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University in 1987, M.Tech (Mechanical) from IIT Bombay, 1982 and B.E. (Mechanical) from the University of Bombay in 1980. He has been on the faculty at Illinois since 1987, serving as the associate head for graduate programs and research from 1999 to 2002. Professor Ferreira’s research and teaching interests are in the area of industrial automation and include computer-controlled machine tools, nanopositioning and metrology, nanofabrication process development, computational geometry and solid modeling with applications to automated process planning, and the discrete-event control of large-scale flexibly automated systems.

    Joey L. Mead, Ph.D.,
    Professor, Deputy Director, NSF NSEC The Center for High-rate
    Nanomanufacturing, Department of Plastics Engineering
    University of Massachusetts Lowell
    Joey L. Mead received her S.B. in chemistry from MIT (1981) and her Ph.D. in Polymers from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering from MIT (1986). She worked for over 10 years as a Materials Engineer for the Army Research Laboratory in Watertown, MA. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Plastics Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the Deputy Director of the NSF Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing. Her research interests include nanomanufacturing of polymeric materials, structure-properties of polymers, elastomers, and thermoplastic elastomers.
    S.V. Sreenivasan
    Associate Professor, Thornton Centennial Fellow in Engineering
    The University of Texas at Arlington

    Dr. S.V. Sreenivasan’s specializes in developing analytical and experimental tools for understanding kinematics and dynamics of complex mechanical systems. His specific research interests include the study of nano-resolution lithography, flexure-based microand nano-precision machines, precision optical systems, and real-time nano-resolution optical sensor architectures. He also has ongoing research in the areas of robotic devices for unstructured environments and biomechanical modeling. In October 2001, he co-founded Molecular Imprints Inc., a company to commercialize semiconductor equipment technology developed at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Sreenivasan is a faculty member of the Biomechanical Engineering and Manufacturing & Design programs of the Mechanical Engineering Department. He has served on the Cockrell School of Engineering faculty since 1994 and has published numerous technical articles and reports.
    Craig Prater
    Chief Technologist & Veeco Fellow
    Veeco Metrology Inc.

    Dr. Craig Prater has developed nanoscale metrology instrumentation for over 19 years. Prior to joining Veeco in 1992, he collaborated with Veeco (then Digital Instruments) in the development of the first commercial AFM. Dr. Prater led the Veeco team that developed the automatic probe exchange and the Dimension 9000 automated atomic force microscope (AFM), both of which enabled widespread use of AFMs in semiconductor and data storage fabrication facilities around the world. Today, Veeco has over 7,000 research instruments installed in universities and nanoscience centers worldwide and over 300 automated systems in production environments. Dr. Prater has co-authored over twenty papers in the field of probe microscopy and has eight issued patents. Dr. Prater is also the Veeco’s principal investigator on a on a 3-year, $13M NIST ATP supported project to develop quantitative nanomechanical measurements based on an atomic force microscopy in collaboration with The Dow Chemical Company. Dr. Prater received a B.S. in Physics, summa cum laude, from Texas A&M University in 1987 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1992.