Mechanical Engineering Faculty Profile:

Ephraim Suhir
Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering, UC Santa Cruz

Physical design, reliability and packaging of micro- and optoelectronic systems; materials engineering; applied probability; predictive modeling; nano-materials and nano-engineering; fiber-optic systems; shock and vibration analyses; thermal stresses; thin films; bonded joints.

(831) 459-5453 | SuhirE@aol.com | UC Santa Cruz

Scientific and Professional Membership
Dr. Suhir is Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (ret), Basic Research, Physical Sciences and Engineering Research Division, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ. Currently he is on the faculty of the EE Dept., University of California at Santa Cruz, and is Visiting Professor, Dept. of Mech. Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Suhir is Fellow of five leading professional societies: the Institute of Physics (IOP), the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE). Dr. Suhir is co-founder of the ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging and served as its Technical Editor for eight years (1993-2001). He has authored about 300 technical publications (papers, book chapters, books, patents), including monographs "Structural Analysis of Microelectronic and Fiber Optic Systems", Van-Nostrand, 1991 and "Applied Probability for Engineers and Scientists", McGraw-Hill, 1997. Dr. Suhir is Member-at-Large of the IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB), New Technologies Directions Committee (NTDC) and Chairman of its Group on Portable Information Devices.

Honors and Awards
Dr. Suhir received numerous distinguished service and professional awards. Some of his recent awards are:

• 2004 ASME Worcester Read Warner Medal for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering through a series of papers in Mechanical, Microelectronic, and Optoelectronic Engineering, which established a new discipline known as the Structural Analysis of Microelectronic and Photonic Systems;
• 2001 IMAPS John A. Wagnon Technical Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to the technical knowledge of the microelectronics, optoelectronics, and packaging industry;
• 2000 IEEE-CPMT Outstanding Sustained Technical Contribution Award for outstanding, sustained and continuing contributions to the technologies in fields encompassed by the CPMT Society;
• 2000 SPE International Engineering/Technology (Fred O. Conley) Award for outstanding pioneering and continuing contributions to plastics engineering; and
• 1999 ASME and Pi-Tau-Sigma Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to mechanical engineering.

Recent Papers
T. Mirer, D. Ingman, E. Suhir, "Reliability Improvement through Nano-Particle-Material-Based Fiber Structures", Optical Fiber Technology, v. 13, 2007,pp.27-31.

E.Suhir, "Interfacial Thermal Stresses in a Bi-Material Assembly with a Low-Yield-Stress Bonding Layer", Journal of Physics D: Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 14, 2006, pp.1421-1432.

Yuan Xu, Yi Zhang, Ephraim Suhir, and Xinwei Wang, " Thermal Properties of Carbon Nanotube Array for Integrated Circuits Cooling," Journal of Applied Physics, 100, 074302, 2006.

Yi Zhang, Yuan Xu and Ephraim Suhir, "Effect of Rapid Thermal Annealing (RTA) on Thermal Properties of Carbon Nanofibre (CNF) Arrays", Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics ,39, 2006, pp.4878-4885.

Yi Zhang, Yuan Xu and Ephraim Suhir, "Effective Young's Modulus of Carbon Nanofiber Array" Journal of Materials Research, vol.21, No.11, Nov. 2006.

Yi Zhang, Ephraim Suhir, Yuan Xu, and Claire Gu, " Bonding Strength of Carbon Nanofiber Array to Its Substrate", Journal of Materials Research, vol. 21, No.11, Nov.2006

E. Suhir, "Fiber Optics Structural Mechanics, and a New Generation of Nano-Technology Based Optical Fiber Cladding and Coating", Invited talk at the Photonics West Conf., and SPIE Publication, 2006

Patents
D. Ingman and E.Suhir, "Optical Fiber with Nano-Particle Overclad", US Patent, #7,162,138 B2, 2007

D. Ingman and E.Suhir, "Optical Fiber with Nano-Particle Cladding", US Patent, #7,162,137 B2, 2007

E. Suhir, "Coated Optical Glass Fiber", US Patent #6,647,195, 2003.

E.Suhir, "Optical Fiber Interconnects Having Offset Ends with Reduced Tensile Strength and Fabrication Method", US Patent #6,606,434, 2003

E. Suhir, "Bi-Material Assembly Adhesively Bonded at the Ends and Fabrication Method", US Patent #6,460, 753, 2002

E. Suhir, "Strain Free Planar Optical Waveguides", US Patent #6,389,209, 2002

E. Suhir, "Apparatus and Method for Thermostatic Compensation of Temperature Sensitive Devices", US Patent #6,337,932, 2002

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