Dr. Gerald M. Borsuk, superintendent
of the Naval Research Laboratory's Electronics Science and Technology
Division, is the recipient Frederik Philips Award. This award
is presented annually by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) to recognize
outstanding accomplishments in the management of research and
development resulting in effective innovation in the electrical
and electronics industry. The award is sponsored by Philips Royal
Electronics. Dr. Borsuk received the award on February 7, 2000.
Dr. Borsuk was recognized for his "managerial and technical
leadership in directing the creation and transition of new materials
and devices into electronic systems."
As superintendent of NRL's Electronics
Science and Technology Division, Dr. Borsuk is responsible for
the in-house execution of a multi-disciplinary program of basic
and applied research into electronic materials and structures,
solid state devices, vacuum electronics, and circuits. He is
also responsible for the coordination of the Electronics Science
and Technology Program at NRL. Dr. Borsuk serves as the Office
of Naval Research representative for electronics basic research
planning to the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He was the
Navy Deputy Program Manager and Technical Director for the now
completed DARPA/Tri-Service MIMIC and MAFET programs. He is the
Department of Defense representative to Category 3 (Electronics)
in the post-COCOM Wassenaar Arrangement. He has also recently
served as the DoD representative to the President's National
Science and Technology Council's Electronic Materials Working
Group.
Dr. Borsuk joined the ITT Electro-Physics
Laboratory in Columbia, Maryland, as a staff physicist in 1973,
where he worked on the application of charge coupled devices
for imaging and signal processing. In 1976, he joined the Westinghouse
Advanced Technology Laboratory in Baltimore, Maryland, developing
advanced silicon VLSI integrated circuits and performing device
physics research. He headed the Westinghouse VHSIC effort in
advanced sub-micron VLSI device technology. Dr. Borsuk was the
department manager of Solid State Sciences at the Advanced Technology
Laboratory when he left Westinghouse in 1983 to join NRL as the
superintendent of the Electronics Science and Technology
Division.
Dr. Borsuk earned his Ph.D. in
physics from Georgetown University in 1973. He is a Fellow of
the IEEE, a member of the American Physical Society, a member
of the AVS, a member of the Sigma Xi, and the Navy's Deputy Member
to the Advisory Group on Electron Devices (AGED). He has 36 technical
publications and seven patents. He has served on technical panels
for conferences and numerous government panels. Dr. Borsuk received
an IR-100 Award for his work on high speed CCDs and a Presidential
Rank Meritorious Senior Executive Award. Dr. Borsuk also serves
on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Proceedings.
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