Silicon Valley Engineering Council, Hall of Fame Inductees 2020:

Dr.-Freidoon-Barez

Dr. Freidoon Barez

San Jose State University

Professor & Department Chair

Dr. Barez is a leader, aggressive participant to technology, an innovator, an entrepreneur, a high-tech company founder, a distinguished educator, and a mentor to young aspiring engineers. Following earning a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California in Berkeley at the age of 25, he started his career in Silicon Valley.

Advancement in storage device technology has enabled ever more functional and affordable storage devices, with dramatic impact on virtually every aspect of life in modern society. The key to continual improvements in storage device density has been the invention and development of advanced technologies in high density rotating disk file storage systems. Dr. Barez, designed, developed and manufactured a variety of products for data storage disk drive industry, in particular, design of the unique servo clock heads to increase disk file storage.

Ajit-Manocha

Ajit Manocha

President & CEO, SEMI

Throughout his career spanning four decades, Ajit Manocha has been a pioneer, business leader, and champion of industry collaboration as a critical means of advancing technology for societal and economic prosperity. He has been adept at forming strong partnerships with customers, suppliers, governments and communities for these efforts.

Ajit began his career as a research scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he was granted over a dozen patents related to semiconductor manufacturing processes that served as the foundation for modern microelectronics manufacturing. He went on to hold senior worldwide operations leadership roles at Philips Semiconductors (NXP) and Spansion before serving as President and CEO at GLOBALFOUNDRIES and SEMI. He has served on the boards of SEMI, SIA and GSA..

SVEC member Organizations:

IEEE CS (IEEE Computer Society)
ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers)
IEEE SSCS (IEEE Solid State Circuit Society)
IEEE CIS (IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
SWE East Bay chapter
ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
ASMI (Santa Clara Valley Chapter, ASM International)
EAA (Electric Auto Association)
NorthCal AIChE (Leading organization of Chemical Engineering Professionals)

SVEC Application Forms & Links:

Application for SVEC Education Award: 2020

SVEC Keeper of the Flame Award for Teachers

https://www.svec.org/events/keeper-of-the-flame

Link to SVEC Engineers Week Banquet 2020 Flyer

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Link to the SVEC Engineers Week Banquet 2020 sponsorship level document:

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Council Officers for 2019/2020:

President: Yllka Masada (IEEE, IEEE CS, IEEE CIS, IEEE RAS, IEEE CNSV)
Vice President: Mojtaba SharifZadeh (IEEE, IEEE SSCS, IEEE CS)
Secretary – TBD
Treasurer: Mojtaba SharifZadeh (Acting)
Director: Mehran Nekuii (IEEE CIS)
Director: Rose-Margaret Itua, Ph.D (IEEE, IEEE CS, SWE East Bay)
Director: John Tintinalli (SAE)
Director – Dr. Bahram Fatemi, ASME
Director – TBD

Hall Of Fame Members

Ms. Celeste Volz Ford (2011)
Dr. Terry E. Shoup (2011)
Mr. Chandrakant D. Patel (2014)
Robert E. Berry (2009)
Ms. Jane G. Evans (1999)
Dr. J. Patrick Kennedy (2012)
Mr. Richard J. Elkus, Jr. (2010)

Mr. William (Bill) J. Adams (1998)
Ms. Mary G. Ross (1992)
Mr. Steven G. Wozniak (2004)
Dr. David Patterson (2005)
Mr. Steve L. Poizner (2014)
Dr. Jay D. Pinson (1998)
Meyya Meyyappan, Ph.D. (2009)

Meyya Meyyappan, Ph.D. (2009)
Dr. David Patterson (2005)
Mr. Steve L. Poizner (2014)
Dr. Jay D. Pinson (1998)
Ms. Esther Williams (1991)
Dr. Paul R. Gray (2015)
Dr. Sam David Haddad (2012)
Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang, Ph.D. (2009)
Dr. Mohammad Humayon Qayoumi (2015)
Jimmy Kazuhiro Omura, Ph.D. (2009)

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