Resume

Walter Michael Kwapien

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Morgantown, WV, 26501

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Education:

ICS (International Correspondence School), Scranton Pennsylvania 18515.

Studied the Physics of Heat and Light and off course drafting. Spring of 1974-spring of 1976

NYU-Studied Physics and Calculus. Fall 1976. Including Experimental College Physics. Working 60 hour week, had to stop after a month or two.

B.S. Physics, (cum laude), Member of Sigma PI Sigma Physics Honor Society, Deans List. 3 and years. January 1977 to May 1980. Also studied Organic Chemistry, Sat in on Physical Chemistry.

Summer Intern 1980, Texas Instruments, Sherman TX. Worked as a process engineer with silicon growth pullers. (Turning raw silicon into a preferred crystalline structure, making wafers out of the crystalline silicon cylinder.

Master of Science North Carolina State University., GPA 3.4/4.0 Electrical Engineering. Dec. 1983

-Major field of study: Solid State Electronics and Device Physics.

-Minor field of study: Electromagnetics, Optics, Microwave Engineering, Circuit Design (Analog and Digital)

-Interdepartmental minor fields: Math, Physics.

Fall 1986 Taught Modern Physics, Marist College,

Poughkeepsie, NY.

Spring 2007. Instructor Electricity and Magnetism. Studied Computer Architecture and VLSI design.

5/84-8/88 IBM East Fishkill and Yorktown Heights NY (R&D) Bipolar Transistor, Schottky Barrier Diode, Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor and Field Effect Transistor Development

(GaAs and Silicon and Silicon Germanium). Long and short wavelength solid state Lasers.

Spice and ASTAP (Advanced Statistical Analysis Program.) Fall 1986, Instructor, Semiconductor, Semiconductor Physics and Applications Course, IBM East Fishkill NY.

9/88 to 10/92. IBM Endicott NY. Fiber Optic (Fifty Kilometer data links) We started at 200 megabits and were at 1.4 Gigabits by the end. IBM sold the optics program for 25,000,000 dollars. Spring 2007 SUNY Binghamton. Instructor Applied Electro- Magnetics. Studied Computer Architecture and VLSI Design. 1/2012-9/2014 WVU Physics Department. Working on my master’s degree.

Publications:

M.A.Littlejohn, W.M. Kwapien, T.H. Glisson and J.R. Hauser,

“Effects of band bending on real space transfer in GaAs/AlGaAs layered heterostructures” J. Vac. Sci. Technology B 1983 page 445. (Using a Monte Carlo model)

(we studied all 3 valance and 5 valance Heterostructures with this Monte Carlo simulation program)

R.A. Kiehl, M.A.Scontras,D.J. Widiger, and W.M. Kwapien,

“The potential of Complimentary Heterostructure FET IC.,s, Transactions. On Electron Devices, Dec. 1987 PP. 2412-2421.