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Department of Mechanical Engineering

Victor M. Bright

Alvah and Harriet Hovlid Professor and Department Chair
(303) 735-1734
Victor.Bright@Colorado.EDU
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Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992
  • M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1989
  • B.S. Electrical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, University of Colorado at Denver, 1986

Professional Recognition

  • Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Work, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2007-2008
  • Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Dec. 2007
  • Outstanding Graduate Educator Award, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, U. of Colo, Boulder, 2006-2007
  • Alvah M. and Harriet O. Hovlid Professor, July 2007.
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member, June 2007
  • Outstanding Research Award, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Univ. Colo - Boulder, 2004-2005.
  • Meritorious Paper Award – Government Microcircuit Applications & Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech), March 15-18, 2004, Monterey, CA.
  • Best Paper Honorable Mention - IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging, Year 2003.
  • Two Best Papers of Session Awards, 35th Int. Symp. Microelectron.(IMAPS), 4-6 Sept. 2002, Denver, CO.
  • Best Student Paper Award, 35th Int. Symp. on Microelectron. (IMAPS), 4-6 Sept. 2002, Denver, CO.
  • Best Paper of the MCM’98 - International Conference and Exhibition on Multichip Modules and High Density Packaging, Denver, CO, April 15-17, 1998.
  • Best Paper of Session Award at the MCM’98 - International Conference and Exhibition on Multichip Modules and High Density Packaging, Denver, CO, April 15-17, 1998.
  • R.F. Bunshah Best Paper Award at the 1996 Intl. Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films.

Dr. Bright is the Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering & Applied Science, University of Colorado at Boulder. Prior to joining the University of Colorado, he was a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio (6/92-12/97). During 2004 he was a Visiting Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich), Switzerland. Prof. Bright's research activities include micro- and nano-electro-mechanical systems, silicon micromachining, microsensors/ microactuators, opto-electronics, optical, magnetic and RF microsystems, atomic-layer deposited materials, ceramic MEMS, MEMS reliability, and MEMS packaging. His teaching activities include manufacturing of MEMS, sensor/actuator design, and microsystem integration and packaging. Dr. Bright has served on the Executive Committee of the ASME MEMS Division, on the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE MEMS 2000 through 2006 conferences, and as the General Co-Chair for the IEEE MEMS 2005. Dr. Bright also served on the Technical Program Committee for the Transducers'03 and IEEE/LEOS Optical MEMS 2003 through 2005. He has taught a Short Course on MEMS Packaging at Transducers'03 and Transducers '05. Dr. Bright is an author of over 70 archived journal articles in the fields of MEMS, NEMS and microsystems.