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Aerospace and Semiconductor Equipment Industry

Kurt Zimmermann

AMSE ENGINEERING PANEL DISCUSSION

kurt.zimmermann@kla-tencor.com

KLA-Tencor.com

October 20, 2013

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Background

Education BS – Engineering Mechanics,

Physics and Mathematics, University of Wisconsin – Madison

MS – Aerospace Engineering, UCLA

PhD – Mechanical Engineering, UCLA

Work McDonnell Douglas Space

Station Division – technical staff

JPL – Funded PhD research, technical staff

Ultratech Stepper – Semiconductor Lithography, systems engineer

KLA-Tencor – Semiconductor Inspection, program manager

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Experiences and Learning

McDonnell Douglas Heads up display for MMU

JPL: System Identification

Ultratech: Lithography

KLA-Tencor: Inspection

• Teamwork • Excitement for the work

• Learning technology is fun

• Working with smart people is fun

• All of the above

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Derek Iwamoto

AMSE ENGINEERING PANEL DISCUSSION

diwamoto@apple.com

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Background

Born and raised in Hawaii Graduated Hawaii Baptist Academy BSEE Rice University, Houston, TX MSEE Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan Worked for Motorola in Japan, Europe,

and Austin, TX Joined Apple in 1999 Senior hardware engineer at Apple

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What do I do?

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What do I do?

Computers

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What do I do?

Boards

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What do I do?

Chips

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Peter Swenson

AMSE ENGINEERING PANEL DISCUSSION

peterswenson@formedpolymer.com

www.formedpolymer.com

October 20, 2013

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Background

Undergraduate Education: BSME (Mechanical Engineering), Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Graduate Education: MBA (Business Administration), Santa Clara University

Current Employer: Formed Polymer Solutions Job Title: President

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What I Do

Develop and manufacture custom plastic components for medical devices

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Software Engineering Cloud and Big Data

Randy Petersen BSISM

AMSE ENGINEERING PANEL DISCUSSION

petersen.randy@gmail.com

www.exar.com

October 20th 2013

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Who is Randy Petersen

Grew up in Silicon Valley. United States Army Honor Guard Washington D.C. BSISM University of San Francisco. Early employee number 30 at Apple Computer. Consultant and Contract Software Developer for Sun Micro Systems, HP, SGI,NET,

SonicWall, and others Linux based Storage Appliance Architect for surveillance security startup company Intransa. Currently employed at Exar Corporation Fremont California Data Compress and Encryption Application Engineering and Development in Java PHP C and C++. Linux Operating System Internals Kernel and Driver Development. Currently working in Cloud Computing Model for HDFS Hadoop Storage Compression. Handling Unstructured Data, The Google File System and Hadoop File System. Processing Big Data, Ingesting , mapping it, reducing it, indexing and storing it redundantly. Where is this all going and how can todays software engineering students tool up and

position themselves. Where might the jobs be when I graduate from university.