Cymer-Fest hosted by Center for Control Systems and Dynamics (CCSD) - 17 Jan 2007

The largest UCSD alumni-founded company, Cymer, founded by MAE alumni Bob Akins and Rick Sandstrom, was hosted on UCSD campus on January 17 for a high profile seminar and job fair where one of the co-founders, Rick Sandstrom, introduced Cymer to graduate students in control and photonics, and the recent MAE control PhD and Cymer engineer Wayne Dunstan spoke about the working environment in Cymer and about numerous controls problems in excimer lasers. Cymer was present with much of its senior management including its President Ed Brown, who participated with Sandstrom, Dunstan, and VP Danny Brown, in a panel discussion moderated by CCSD and MAE Professor Bob Bitmead, who holds a Cymer endowed chair. The presentation was followed by a reception which included over a dozen engineers from Cymer and 82 graduate students who discussed research and internship opportunities.