Gary Shade is a Senior Staff Failure Analysis Engineer with Insight Analytical Labs in Colorado Springs, CO where he performs failure analysis on PCB assemblies and semiconductor devices. He was the president of the Electronic Device Failure Analysis Society from 2006-2008 and is an expert in the field of Photoemission […]
Scientists turned Engineers
Absolutely! “If you have a good science education then the world is your oyster, and you can do almost anything.” – Tanja Beshear, physicist working in industry ‘Turning Science into Things People Need,’ is a project exploring scientists who chose a career in industry instead of the ‘traditional’ academic path. […]
Can a Scientist Find a Rewarding Career in Industry?
Ashok Balakrishnan is the Director of Product Development at Enablence Technologies in Kanata, Ontario. Ashok was a co-founder of Enablence Inc., and is a co-inventor on the key patents that define Enablence’s proprietary technology. He has extensive product development and commercialization expertise spanning several markets, including spectroscopy, telecommunications, and biophotonics. […]
Ashok Balakrishnan, Director of Product Development at Enablence Technologies
As I’ve been talking to people for this book, there are many common themes that are emerging. One very common theme has to do with what motivated people to move from academia into the private sector. Nearly everyone says that they wanted to make a tangible difference in the world […]
It’s about being able to shape the world…
Stuart MacCormack is a Mergers & Acquisitions Program Manager at JDSU in Milpitas, CA. He has a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. in physics from The University of Southampton in the United Kingdom where he specialized in nonlinear optics. After graduate school he continued research in this area through a post-doc […]
