DASEA Fall 2003 Speakers Summary

Here is a summary of the speakers in Fall 2003.

Fall 2003 Speakers Profiles

1.

Don Chiu, a Master of Mechanical Engineering. Don worked for Boeing, and participated in part of the design of a plane. He also talked about his experience working with other engineerers. Don now works for a company called Agilent Technology.

2.

Mairead Stackpoole, PhD of Material Science, came and gave our members a speech. Mairead Stackpoole grew up in a small town in Ireland. After high school she went to college and got her undergraduate degree in Materials Science and Engineering. During her undergrad she went on a nine month Co-op at The Boeing Company in Seattle working at Boeing Materials Technology processing composite materials for the aerospace industry. She attended graduate school at The University of Washington and got her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering. While at the University of Washington, she had the opportunity to intern at Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (a DOE facility in Washington state). She currently works for ELORET Corp, as an on site contractor at NASA Ames Research Center. She works on upgrades and development of Thermal Protection Systems (TPS).

3.

Chen Ting, graduated at University of Taiwan with a Bachelor degree in Chemistry. After that, He then went to University of Chicago and got a PhD Degree in Chemistry. Later, he worked at Lock Heed Martin Missile and Space. Today, Chen is retired, but he is still working on electronic books with people in Taiwan. During the meeting, Chen showed us a circuit uses two stacks his company designed and the fourth programming language he participated in developing. He also discussed about the effect of Vitamin C to human health with our club members.

4.

-Name: Jay Feldman
-PhD in Chemistry from U.C. Berkeley – researched in inorganic chemistry
-Undergraduate work at U.C. Irvine – researched in lanthanide chemistry
-Currently works as a contractor for NASA/Ames – Thermal Protection System Branch
-Admitted by MIT, CalTech, Northwestern University for postgraduate study.

5.

Name: Grant Jian Guo
Education:
-Stanford University, CA
-M.S. Management Science and Engineering
-Research Assistantship at Business School and Medical School
-University of New Mexico, NM
-M.A. Mathematical Science
-Teaching Assistantship
-Nanjing University; Nanjing Institute of Techonology
-B.S. Electrical Engineering
-First class honor, represent school for national mathematics competition during freshman year
Experience:
-Current Sanmina-SCI: High Tech Manufacturing, Program Manager, Full time
-2001 Google.com: Search Engine, Data analyst, Contract
-2000 Mindcrossing.com, E-Commerce Application company
-Product Marketing, Internship
International Experience:
-1996, 1997 Inventec Corporation, An Electronics manufacturer and software developer
-Position 1 – Quality Engineer;
-Position 2 – Product Promotion Manager