Intel's Dr. Eugene Meieran spoke on "Innovation Challenges for the 21st Century"

  Listen to Eugene Meieran present "Innovation Challenges for the 21st Century "

When:  Wednesday, January 24, 2007 from 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where:  Ross School of Business, Room E1540

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Eugene Meieran, Senior Intel Fellow, presented a talk entitled "Innovation Challenges for the 21st Century" at 5:00 p.m. January 24 in room E1540 of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

Summary:
The 20th century was truly remarkable in terms of the inventions and innovations that shaped today’s civilization; the automobile, airplane, telephone, computer, clean water delivery, refrigeration, etc. all contributed to the betterment of human standards of living. The 21st century will have equally daunting and perhaps more significant challenges to even maintain, much less improve society. And with the “flattening of the world” through the ubiquitous availability of deep knowledge via the Internet, competitive organizations, companies and even nations will need to be even more innovative and inventive, if we are to match, much less surpass the greatness of the 20th century achievements. In this talk, Dr. Meieran showed how we can cope with this massive responsibility, by encouraging and being much more supportive of innovative ideas and people, and focusing both on the emerging pressing problems as well as opportunities.

About Gene Meieran
Gene Meieran received his B.S. Degree in Metallurgy from Purdue University in 1959 and his Doctor’s degree in Material’s Science from MIT in 1963. He joined Fairchild Semiconductor R&D in 1963, specializing in analysis and characterization of semiconductor device materials, and joined Intel in 1973 as Manager of Package Development, In 1985, he was appointed as Intel, second Fellow, He was named Senior Intel Fellow in 2003, a position he now holds.

He has worked in the fields of materials analysis and characterization, Statistical Process Control and advanced manufacturing strategy development in Intel's Technology Manufacturing Engineering group. In particular, he is now working on knowledge management, collaboration and innovation technologies and capabilities, to leverage Intel’s vast corporate knowledge base to help individuals and teams make better, faster and more effective decisions.

Gene taught courses at the University of California, Berkeley and at Stanford University, and has given seminars and invited talks to numerous domestic and international universities around the world. He has about 60 technical papers, and was been awarded three international awards based on his work in semiconductor device technology. He served as Director of Research for MIT’s Leaders for Manufacturing program from 1993 to 2000.

He has been the Intel judge for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for 12 years. He is on the Board of Advisors for the Materials Engineering Department at Purdue, the Dean’s Board of Advisors at the University of New Mexico, and has served in equivalent capacities at Lawrence Berkeley Labs and at the University of California. In 1987, Purdue University elected him as Distinguished Engineering Alumni and in 2001, the Purdue Band named Gene as All American Band Alumni of the Year. In 1998, Dr. Meieran was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and in 2004 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate Degree from Purdue University. He has served on several National Academy committees and industrial committees and councils.

Gene plays the flute and is an traveler. He currently resides in Phoenix, AZ, with his wife, Rosalind, a ceramic sculptress. His daughter Sharon is doing Emergency Room residency in Portland, and son Andrew is doing building redevelopment in Los Angeles and is making movies.

This event is presented by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations and sponsored by the Ford Motor Company.
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