Eleanor M. Kwong

25780 SW Canyon Creek Road, #C102
Wilsonville, OR 97070
(503) 454-0101
engineeringchichiri@yahoo.com


Objective:    
 To obtain a fun and challenging full time job as a device or process engineer

Education:    
 University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Institute of Technology (Fall 2002-Spring 2004)
  * Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering
  * Cumulative GPA of 3.433/4.000 (31 hours of coursework)
 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Fall 1997-Spring 2002) 
  * Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering 
  * International Minor in Japanese
  * Computer Science Minor
  * Cumulative GPA of 3.213/4.000 (157 hours of coursework)
 Kanazawa Institute of Technology (Summer 2000) 
  * Participated in an intensive six week Japanese exchange program with a technology focus
  * Gave a ten minute oral presentation in Japanese on JIS encoding

Publications:  
 E. Kai, T. Pan, and B. Ziaie, "A Robust Low-Cost PDMS Peristaltic Micropump with Magnetic Drive", appeared in 
  Solid-State Senor, Actuator, and Microsystems Workshop, Hilton Head, USA, 2004. 
 T. Pan, E. Kai, M. Stay, V. Barocas, and B. Ziaie, "A Magnetically Driven PDMS Peristaltic Micropump", to appear in 26th 
  Annual International Conference IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Francisco, USA, 2004.

Projects:  
 Research (for Masters Plan B Project) under Associate Professor Babak Ziaie
 A Robust Low-Cost PDMS Peristaltic Micropump with Magnetic Drive (June 2003-May 2004)
  * Designed, created, and tested a silicone elastomer micropump with permanent magnet drive
  * Resulted in above publications
 Research (for Senior Design Project) under Professor Ilesanmi Adesida
 InP and InAlAs Etching for III-V Transistor Applications (November 2001-May 2002)
  * Determined the etch rates of InP over InAlAs and vice versa in various acids
 Accumulator Project (for Large Scale Integrated Circuit Design course) (Fall 2001)
  * Worked with 2 people to design, lay out in IC Station, and simulate using HSPICE an 500MHz accumulator with minimum 
    power dissipation

Experience: 
 ARRL (American Radio Relay League) Newington, CT
 Web Page Maintenance (http://www.arrl.org/) (Summer 1999)
  * Redesigned the Technical Information Services and the Public Relations Department pages

UMn Courses:
 Semiconductor Properties and Devices I
 Semiconductor Properties and Devices II
 Physical Principles of Thin Film Technology
 Microelectronic Fabrication
 Sensors and Transducers (MEMS)

UIUC Courses:
 Solid State Electronic Devices
 Atomic Physics and Quantum Theory
 Large Scale Integrated Circuit Design
 Theory and Fabrication of Integrated Circuit Devices
 Introduction to VLSI System Design

Skills:  
 Computer Languages
  * Intel x86 assembly, C++, JAVA, HTML, VHDL, Verilog
 Languages
  * English (native), Japanese (advanced)
 Software
  * Cadence Virtuoso, PSPICE, Synopsys HSPICE, Mentor Graphics IC Station, Matlab

Activities:   
 Active member of the IEEE University of Minnesota branch (Fall 2002-Spring 2004)
  * Member of the Job Fair Committee
 Japanese Animation Club 
 President (Fall 2000-Spring 2002)
  * Administrated club mailing list and weekly club meetings of 100-200 members
  * Organized all club events and activities
 Tape Librarian (Spring 1998-Fall 2000)
  * Administrated and maintained tape library consisting of over 200 VHS tapes using Microsoft Excel
  * Organized T-Shirt fundraiser