Auguste El-Kareh

AUGUSTE B. EL-KAREH, Ph.D.

5736 North Bonita Drive

Tucson, Arizona 85704

Tel: (520) 887-3341

e-mail [email protected]

For over a decade, Dr. El-Kareh was on the faculty at the University of Houston, where he occupied a variety of positions including Professor of Electrical Engineering, Director of the Electron and X-Ray Optics Laboratory, and Associate Dean of the College of Engineering. He had the final signature on M.Sc. theses and Ph.D. dissertations and final approval of research proposals to the government and industry. While on the faculty at the University of Houston, Dr. El-Kareh served as a consultant to the government and to a number of major corporations, including General Electric, Xerox, IBM, Honeywell, Burroughs, Hughes Research Laboratory, Zenith, and Vought Corporation, in projects involving electron beam technology. In his work as a consultant, he has developed electron guns, electron lenses, and complete electron optical systems currently used by various corporations, particularly for electron beam lithography and electron beam memory, and has received a number of patents for those devices (all of which are owned by the corporations for which the patented devices were developed). Dr. El-Kareh designed a Vidicon which was used to take some of the first pictures of Mars.

Prior to joining the University of Houston, Dr. El-Kareh was a faculty member at Syracuse University, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. El-Kareh has coauthored three books (two with his wife on electron beam technology) and published numerous articles in technical journals. He has edited several publications of scientific papers presented at international conferences of authorities in the field of electron beam technology and has served as chairman of two such meetings. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is listed in American Men of Science. Dr. El-Kareh was educated at the University of London and at the University of Delft in the Netherlands. He received the Diplom Ingenieur and Doctor of Applied Sciences degrees from the University of Delft. He is a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Dr. El-Kareh is the founder of Alcedo, a company specializing in the design and manufacture of electron beam testers used to test printed circuit boards, multichip modules and flat panel displays. The company has now ceased its operations. Prior to that, between 1981 and 1989, Dr. El-Kareh was President and a Director of Rexotech, formerly ABEK Scientific. The number of employees increased from 2 to approximately 175 from 1981 till 1989. The company had four locations in California, Colorado, Texas and New Jersey. Most of the products were related to the semiconductor industry, primarily mask-making using electron beams and photolithography. In addition, the company had a small R & D group in electron beam technology related to semiconductor instrumentation, high vacuum devices and wafer inspection. That company was sold to Dupont.