WUT Colloquium Lecture - Dr. Joseph Monkowski

Dr. Joseph Monkowski is founder, president, and chief technical officer (CTO) of Pivotal Systems Corporation, a leading supplier of in situ monitoring and process control technology for the semiconductor industry.  
Dr. Monkowski started his career in 1979 as a professor of electrical engineering at Penn State University, where he carried out research on semiconductor devices and device processing.  He then left the University and in 1986 co-founded Monkowski-Rhine, Inc. (MRI), a semiconductor equipment company, where he was President and CEO.  At MRI, Dr. Monkowski and his team designed and built an advanced, patented, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system, which in 1991 won the R&D 100 Award.  
In 1989, MRI was successfully sold to Lam Research Corporation, one of the world’s leading semiconductor equipment companies.  Dr. Monkowski became executive vice president (EVP) and CTO of Lam Research.  Under his leadership, Lam developed and commercialized its transformer-coupled plasma (TCP) plasma etch system, which was instrumental in growing Lam’s market share from 14% in 1989 to 30% in 1993, making it the worldwide market share leader.  In 1998, he joined Advanced Energy Industries, where, as senior vice president (SVP) of Business Development, he created and led the company’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A) strategy to expand the company’s product portfolio and position the company as a market leader in the semiconductor subsystems space. 
In 2003, Dr. Monkowski founded Pivotal Systems Corporation, and in 2004, obtained the first round of venture capital funding.  In 2011, one of Pivotal Systems products won the R&D 100 Award.  Today, Pivotal Systems is selling its products to the world’s leading semiconductor device and semiconductor equipment companies, including Samsung, Intel, Applied Materials, and Lam Research.
Dr. Monkowski has a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Materials Science, all from Penn State.

The lecture will be held on 11 June 2015 at 4:15 pm, lecture hall no. 134 (WUT Main Building).

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