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Past Conferences

A listing of all past UGIM conferences and the sponsoring host locations.

2014 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2012 University of California, Berkeley - San Francisco, CA

2010 Purdue University - West Lafayette, IN

2008 University of Louisville - Louisville, KY

2006 San Jose State University - San Jose, CA

2003 Boise State University - Boise, Idaho

2001 Virginia Commonwealth University - Richmond, VA

1999 University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN

1997 Rochester Institute of Technology - Rochester, NY

1995 UT Austin - Austin, TX

1993 Research Triangle Park - Raleigh, NC

1991 Florida Institute of Technology - Melbourne, FL

1989 Massachusetts Microelecronics Center - Marlborough, MA

1987 Rochester Institute of Technology - Rochester, NY

1985 Auburn University - Auburn, AL

1983 Texas A&M - College Station, TX

1981 Mississippi State University - Starkville, MS

1979 Texas Tech University - Lubbock, TX

1977 University of South Florida - Tampa, FL

1975 University of Cincinnati - Cincinnati, OH

History of UGIM

A history of UGIM by Rob Pearson. Rochester Institute of Technology.

A picture of Cavemen captioned with

The First University Government Industry Microelectronics Symposium - 1975

Obligatory mention of Moore’s “law”

Why 1975? How many Microelectronics labs and programs existed in 1975 and how long had they been around?

Big business, need for trained people! In 1967 integrated circuit production exceeded $500M per year.

2nd UGIM 1977. University of South Florida.

3rd UGIM 1979. Texas Tech University.

The purpose of the Symposium.

Table of contents from a presentation at UGIM.

Table of contents of a paper on microlithography.

Meanwhile at RIT in 1979. Images of cavemen with outdated cleanroom equipment.

4th UGIM 1981. Mississippi State.

Highlighting of symposium committee from 1981.

Description of the events of the 4th UGIM with a picture of an old riverboat.

5th UGIM 1983. Texas A&M.

Image of the proceedings from UGIM 1983.

6th UGIM 1985. Auburn University. Image of Richard Jaeger and the proceedings.

7th UGIM 1987. Rochester Institute of Technology.

Registration for IEEE members in 1987 was $105.

8th UGIM 1989. Marlborough Mass.

Map of Massachusetts marking all cleanroom sites in the state.

The RIT crew invade M2C.

Images of the Marlborough fabrication building.

What is the lesson here? How many of you remember M2C?

9th UGIM 1991. Florida Institute of Technology.

10th UGIM 1993. Research Triangle Park.

11th UGIM 1995. University of Texas - Austin.

Image of committee for UGIM 1995 at Lake Travis.

12th UGIM 1997. Rochester Institute of Technology.

13th UGIM 1999. University of Minnesota.

14th UGIM 2001. Virginia Commonwealth University.

Images of Jefferson Hotel where participants of UGIM 2001 stayed.

15th UGIM 2003. Boise State University.

Image of Steven Parke and the Baque Festival.

UGIM 2005 is cancelled. Didn't like

15th UGIM 2006. San Jose State University.

16th UGIM 2008. University of Louisville.

Images of participants from UGIM 16 at 4th Street Live in Louisville.

17th UGIM 2010. Purdue University. Images of Birck Nanotechnology Center.

Image of the steering committee meeting at Purdue in 2010.

Images of UGIM 2010 and Purdue.

18th UGIM 2012. University of California, Berkeley. Image of Marvell Nano-fabrication Lab.

Image of steering committee meeting at Berkeley in 2012.

The mascot challenge begins. Images of Ritchie the Tiger, the Cardinal Bird, and Oski the Bear.

Image of the torch being passed to Harvard for UGIM 2014.

Previous Sponsors

UGIM 2012

axt
ClassOne Equipment
firstnano
finetech
Integrated Engineering Services
OAI

Oxford Instruments
Pivotal Systems
Plasma-Therm
SP3 Diamond Technologies
Tousimis
Tystar
Wafab

UGIM 2010

Indiana Economic Development Corporation
Process Solutions
HDR
Oerlikon

Hurt J. Lesker Company
Keithley
Oxford Instruments
Vileda Professional
AGI

UGIM 2008

JST Manufacturing
Signatone

Wright Brothers, Inc.
KY EPSCoR
University of Louisville