Thanks…and Stay Tuned!
Thank you to everyone who entered and voted in this year’s contest. Watch this space for announcement of the finalists who will compete for the $25,000 Grand Prize.
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Judges
Senior Development Design Engineer - Solar Turbines Inc.
San Diego, CA
Subject Matter Expert Grounding Systems
Extra Class Ham Radio Operator
Mater Tool & Diemaker
Controls Lab Mgr.
Engineer Specialist - Caterpillar Inc.
Dunlap, Illinois
Born 05/10/58 Bucharest Romania
Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering - Automotive Engineering
27 years Mechanical Engineering in Automotive and Industrial Equipment design.
Software: ProE, ProMechanica, Maxwell 3D, StarCD, dSpace, Dynasty, 973.
Senior Engineer - Varian Ion Implant
Gloucester, MA
US Navy Fire Control missile radar systems 1977-1983
Varian Ion Implant Systems 1984-2011
Northeastern University Manufacturing engineering degree
Senior Analytical Engineer - Ferno Washington Inc.
Wilmington, OH
Sailesh Tangirala currently works as a Senior Analytical Engineer at Ferno Washington Inc. Sailesh oversees product safety analysis, material selection and product testing/certification departments at Ferno. He has a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from University of Kentucky and is currently pursing MBA at Xavier University in Cincinnati Ohio.
Doctor - Newport
Santa Clara, CA
Education:
PhD, Precision Instrument Engineering, Tianjin University, China, 1996
Professional Experience:
2010 ~ present: Staff Mechanical Engineer, Newport Corp., Santa Clara
2008 ~ 2010: Mechanical consultant on semicondut equipment R & D, Mountain View, CA
2006 ~ 2008: Mechanical Engineer, Tokyo Electron, Santa Clara, CA
2004 ~ 2006: Mechanical Engineer, Frontier Semiconductor, San Jose, CA
2000 ~ 2004: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Riverside, CA
Professional Membership:
Senior Member of IEEE
6 Sigma Master Black Belt - Caterpillar Inc.
Morton, IL
Professional Engineer with BS and MS Industrial Engineering degrees as well as a MBA. Work experience of over 33 years in design, manufacture, safety and environmental needs of industries including aircraft/aerospace, engines/systems/components, and heavy construction equipment. Providing leadership, education, and training of creation and improvement methodologies for new/current products and processes through Lean and 6 Sigma tools and techniques.
Davide Borghi | Technology Specialist | Tetra Pak |
Stuart Brown | Managing Principal | Veryst Engineering, LLC |
Paul S. Buccos | Senior Engineer | Varian Ion Implant |
Paul O. Davis | Senior Platform Engineer | GE Home & Business Solutions |
Tim Garner | Technical Fellow | Delphi |
Parag Gupta | Principal Engineer | Stryker |
Avkash Chauhan | Senior Escalation Engineer | Microsoft Corp. |
Carl Gomes | Senior Mechanical Team Leader | Motorola |
Kenneth Huening | Vice President, Automotive and Military | Maxim Integrated Products |
Michael Jammal | Program Manager | Rockwell Automation |
David Jorde | Senior Development Design Engineer | Solar Turbines, Inc. |
Pierluigi La Montagna | Industrial Designer -- EUR-ERG | Technip Italy S.p.A |
Paul Morgan | Senior Engineer | Micron Technology |
James Lauer | 6 Sigma Master Black Belt | Caterpillar, Inc. |
Anwei Liu | Mechanical Engineer | Newport Corp. |
Kamlesh Pande | Chief Consultant & Adjunct Professor | Forbes Marshall & IIT Bombay |
Paul Rebmann | Team Manager, Mechanical R&D | Nagravision S.A. |
Ralf Reiser | R&D Manager | Mars, Inc. |
Sriram Sambandamurthy | Principal Systems Engineer | MEDRAD, Inc. |
Abraham Si | Director, IC Design | Maxim Integrated Products |
C. Nils Smith | Assistant Vice President | Southwest Research Institute |
Yogesh Soni | Founder & CEO | Mattozetta Technologies |
Sailesh Tangirala | Senior Analytical Engineer | Ferno-Washington, Inc. |
Vladimir Theodorof | Engineer Specialist | Caterpillar, Inc. |
Rich White | Mechanical R&D Engineer | Agilent Technologies |
Ray Yingling | Director, External Alliances | Eastman Kodak Company |
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