Topic: New and Emerging Technologies in Electronics

Emerging technologies have often been the cornerstone to periods of significant economic expansion. From the advent of the integrated circuit to its culmination in Moore's Law, the future directions of electronics will play a key role in the next economic expansion. This presentation will discuss several emerging technologies in the electronic industry including an industry perspective of what's next in advanced electronics, a snapshot of emerging technologies impacting our industry, emerging material technologies, advances in automotive electronics, smart electronics based on MEMS and microsensor technology, and biomedical and molecular electronics.

Speaker: Dan Baldwin, Engent:

Dr. Daniel F. Baldwin is a founder of Engent, Inc.- Enabling Next Generation Technologies providing enabling manufacturing services and process technologies in the areas of microelectronics, flip chip, optoelectronics, and MEMS. He is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and was formerly the Vice President of the Advanced Assembly Technology Division of Siemens Electronic Assembly Systems. He received his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, has eleven years of experience in the electronics manufacturing and polymer processing industries, seven U.S. Patents, and over 200 scholarly publications. He is concurrently the President of the SMTA.