September 27, 2005,

Talk by Dr. Mark Pinto, Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA .

Rm 250 Light Engineering, 11 am

Title: " Silicon Process Directions in the Nanoelectronics Era ".

For decades the scalability of MOS technology has fostered continual improvements in almost every dimension of electronic products. However at ~130nm, VLSI has neared a variety of limits threatening numerous compromises. In response the industry has returned to a state more like the 1970s where new directions in materials, processes and devices are being intensively evaluated. However the complexity of the challenge today is many orders of magnitude higher, e.g. controlling atomic thickness over billions of components, while the economic pressures, both on R&D expense as well as time to yield, are driving a new industry landscape. This presentation explores key technology challenges and reviews some of the main industry directions – many times across traditional R&D boundaries – that will enable the pervasive growth in semiconductor end application content promised by the nanoelectronics era.

Dr. Mark R. Pinto is the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, New Business and New Products Group at Applied Materials where he is responsible for Applied’s technology direction, its advanced R&D programs and for developing new business opportunities. His group also includes Applied’s flat panel display equipment group, as well as the Maydan Technology Center , the focal point for Applied’s activities associated with integrated silicon processes. Previously Dr. Pinto spent 19 years with Bell Laboratories and the Lucent Microelectronics Group, later to become Agere Systems. His most recent responsibilities included serving as Agere’s Chief Technical Officer and also as Vice President and General Manager of networking IC businesses. Dr. Pinto previously spent 12 years in Bell Labs Research where he was named a Bell Labs Fellow for his work on semiconductor devices. Dr. Pinto received BS degrees from Rensselear, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 journal and professional conference papers and has nine patents. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE and has served as an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at Yale University.

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October 15, 2005

The first day of the Business Course for the E-Team Students by Prof. Gerrit Wolf at 10:30 AM in Room 250 Light Engineering Building.

Course Syllabus

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November 4, 2005

Dr. Errol Arkilic, a program manager in the SBIR/STTR program at NSF where he focuses on IT and Security Technologies. He will talk about an emerging SBIR grant program focused on supporting new business opportunities.

Dr. Errol Arkilic joined The National Science Foundation in October ’03. He is one of ten program managers in the SBIR/STTR program at NSF where he focuses on IT and Security Technologies. Before joining NSF, he was President and CEO of StrataGent Life Sciences – a venture-backed startup in San Francisco Bay area. Prior to StrataGent, Errol was President of Phasyn, Inc. (a developer of packaging technologies for optical components) and Manager of Product Engineering at Redwood Microsystems, both in the Bay area. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT.

This talk is jointly sponsored By the Sensor Consortium and Stony Brook Technology Transfer and Licensing Department.

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The last day of the Business Course for the E-Team Students by Prof. Gerrit Wolf for the fall semester.

The classes will resume in February.

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December 16, 2005,

Talk by Donna Tumminello, Assistant Director of the Stony Brook Technology Licensing Office.

Title: "Intellectual Property Protection and Commercialization".

Donna's talk will feature "How-To" on protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) , valuation of IPR and capitalizing on IPR. Elements of a license agreement will be discussed.

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December 19, 2005

Jim Lynch, Business Development Manager, Emerging Business Group, Agilent Technologies

Agilent is a major company with 20,000 employees that provides core electronic and bio-analytical measurement tools to advance the electronics, communications, life science research, environmental and petrochemical industries.

Jim will come from Connecticut and begin by giving a presentation (*Room 250 at 10:00am*) about how his company works with universities, which includes collaborative research, equipment donations, internships, etc.

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February 4, 2006

The first day of the spring semester Business Course for the E-Team Students by Prof. Gerrit Wolf at 10:30 AM in Room 250 Light Engineering Building.

Course Syllabus

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February 17, 2006

Savio S. Chan, President and CEO, US China Partners.

Mr. Chan will discuss how to do business in China . The topics will include manufacturing products, timing market entry, risks and more.

Savio S. Chan is President and Chief Executive Officer of US China Partners Inc., a privately held business development firm specializing in Market Entry, Strategic Sourcing and Marketing Development in China for U.S. companies. Savio also facilitates local and c ross -border joint ventures among leading Chinese multinationals as well as Fortune 1000 companies. Formerly, Chan served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Technology Training Solutions (TTS). He oversaw the daily and long-term operation of the company he established in 1996 which had grown in a remarkably short time to be recognized as one of the premier and fastest-growing Microsoft Certified Technical Education Centers in the New York tri-state areas. TTS was selected by the National Minority Business Council to receive the Outstanding Minority Business Award.

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March 4, 2006

Spring semester monthly meeting of the E-Team Students with Prof. Gerrit Wolf at 10:30 AM in Room 250 Light Engineering Building. The first version of the business plan is due.

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April 1, 2006

One-Day Course for Entrepreneurial Engineers, offered by the New York-New Jersey Chapter of ASM International.The course is jointly sponsored by Sensor CAT <http://www.sensorcat.sunysb.edu/>
and Sensor Consortium <http://www.ee.sunysb.edu/sensorconsortium/>

The instructor is Dr. Edward R. Buchanan, Chairman of the NY-NJ Chapter of the ASM.
Time: 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Place: Engineering Building Room 143 at Stony Brook University.
The synopsis of the course is outlined below.

/How Engineers Can Start and Manage Their Own Business /

8:00 - 8:30 AM; Registration and introduction

8:30 - 9:25 AM; Lecture 1;

The Fundamentals of Starting a Business. Factors leading to success and failure of a business. The
characteristics of successful entrepreneurs. The characteristics of successful companies. Case histories of several engineers who have
started successful businesses. How to maximize the chances for success of a new business.

9:30-10:25 AM; Lecture 2;

How to Get Started. Some types of businesses an engineer can start. Should you start a business from scratch or buy a business?  What kind of business should you buy? How do you evaluate a business for sale?

10:30-11:25 AM; Lecture 3;

Financing a Business. Sources of funding for your business. Self-funding, grants, friends and family, bank loans, SBA loans, angel investors, venture capitalists, SBIRs, state and municipality-assisted funding.  What to look for and what not to do.

11:30-12:25 PM; Lecture 4;

Preparing a Business Plan and Marketing Your Product. How to write a business plan and how to follow it.  How to successfully market your product. How to reach your market.

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April 1 , 2006

Spring semester monthly Saturday meeting of the E-Team Students with Prof. Gerrit Wolf. A corrected version of the business plan is due.

Note different time and location: Harriman 304, at the top the stairs in Harriman Hall from 10 to 12 AM. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________

April 29 , 2006

Pre-Competition meeting of the E-Team Students with Prof. Gerrit Wolf. Technical presentations should be ready for presentation prior to the business presentattion. Final versions of the business plan will be presented.

Time: 10:30AM

Place Rm 401 Wang Center.

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May 3 , 2006

The Sensor Consortium E-Team Project Business Plans are due for submission to the judges.

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May 21 , 2006

The Pre-Composition Technical Project Presentations

Time: 10: 30 AM

Place Rm 250, Light Engineering Building.

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May 24 , 2006

The joined DARE/Sensor Consortium Project Competition

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: Rm 301 Wang Center.

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