AIAA SF, P.O. Box 1548, Mountain View, CA 94042-1548
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AIAA SF, P.O. Box 1548, Mountain View, CA 94042-1548 |
Thursday, April 29, 2010; 6:30pm-9:30pm
Michaels at Shoreline, Mountain View
Harry J. Levinson
Manager / Sr. Fellow
GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA
In response to Sputnik, significant structural changes were made to the American system of public education. Until that point in time, America’s public schools produced the most creative and competent engineers in the world, as well as the workforce for the world’s dominant economy. Rather than improve education, these post-Sputnik changes have led to a half-century of decline in our schools. Today, in order to fill the need for engineers, America’s high-technology companies have become dependent on other countries to provide the prerequisite K-12 education. Several generations of American students are now deficient in the intellectual foundation necessary for learning advanced mathematics, physics, and engineering. As a consequence, most of the graduate students now studying these subjects in America’s top research universities received their K-12 education outside the United States. Declines in student performance have led to the adoption of a long parade of educational fads, each typically worse than the one it replaced, offsetting any potential benefit of an increased amount of spending on education. Concomitantly, the success of pedagogical methods used in other countries is largely being ignored. If this state of affairs is not rapidly reversed, it will not be long before American high-technology industries can no longer be sustained.
Dr. Harry J. Levinson is a Senior Fellow and manager of GLOBALFOUNDRIES’s Strategic Lithography Technology Department, which is responsible for advanced lithographic research and development. Dr. Levinson has long had an interest in education, teaching numerous short courses, and he is the author of two widely-used text books, Lithography Process Control and Principles of Lithography. He started his career in Bipolar Memory Development at AMD, then spent some time at Sierra Semiconductor and IBM, before returning to AMD – now GLOBALFOUNDRIES – in 1994. During the course of his career, Dr. Levinson has applied lithography to many different technologies, including memories, the manufacturing of applications-specific integrated circuits, thin film heads for magnetic recording, flash memories and advanced logic. He holds over 40 United States patents. Dr. Levinson is an SPIE Fellow and chairs the SPIE Publications Committee. He has a BS in engineering from Cornell University and a PhD in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Registration and no-host cocktails at 6:30 pm;
buffet dinner at 7:00 pm;
program starts at 7:30 pm;
program ends at 9:30 pm.
This meeting is open to the general public.
For more information about this meeting, contact Sylvee Walenczewski
Michael's at Shoreline
2960 N Shoreline Blvd
Mountain View, CA,94043
650-962-1014
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-->Registration and no-host cocktails at 6:30 pm;
buffet dinner at 7:00 pm;
program starts at 7:30 pm;
program ends at 9:30 pm.
This meeting is open to the general public.