Dr. András E. Vladár is the leader of Scanning Electron Microscope Metrology Project at the Nano–Scale Metrology Group of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He holds M.S. (1977) and Ph.D. (1984) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary. Until 1991 he worked as a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Technical Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.  Dr. Vladár is an expert in scanning electron microscope (SEM) critical dimension (CD) metrology; he has developed several metrology systems based on SEMs. Prior to joining NIST in 1999, he was a member of the technical staff of Hewlett–Packard ULSI Research Laboratory and primarily worked on accurate, fast and effective dimensional measurement methods for 100 nm silicon integrated circuit technology. At Hewlett–Packard he established sound metrology methods, procedures and practices that significantly improved the speed and quality of dimensional measurements, surface inspection and film thickness measurements in the Class 1 integrated circuit fabrication facility. He identified the main sources of measurement errors and developed several successful methods to eliminate many of them.

Dr. Vladár is the member and key contributor to the work of the Advanced Metrology Advisory Group of International SEMATECH (ISMT). This group is the only body of experts in the world that deals with the special issues of dimensional metrology for the leading integrated circuit manufacturing. Dr. Vladár had been instrumental in the development of new methods to deduce the shape of integrated circuit structures from top–down view images through modeling and library–based measurement techniques. Several researchers and CD–SEM tool manufacturers are now implementing this idea. He has advocated the need for the development of a document that can foster the faster development of better SEMs, and especially the so–called critical dimension CD–SEMs. He has also played an important role in the development of standardized metrology procedures for the semiconductor community as a whole through authoring multiple sections in the measurement guidelines described in the Unified Advanced CD–SEM Specification published by ISMT.

Dr. Vladár as the leader of the SEM Metrology Project is the scientific manager for the development and renewal effort of the metrology SEM. This specialized tool is currently undergoing major improvements in hardware and measurement control software. Additionally, for standard calibration purposes, a new scanning electron microscope-based, best-in-the-world dimensional measurement system is being designed. This instrument is planned to be used in the NIST Advanced Measurement Laboratory (AML).

Bea Sennewald's Senior Vice President of HDR Architecture and HDR’s principal in London. She joined HDR in 1983. Her work has focused on research, high technology and industrial applications. She has designed over six million square feet of space for corporate, academic and government research facilities, including physical sciences, computer sciences, communications, biology, materials science, microelectronics, and toxicology. She is an expert at specialized requirements, including clean room technology, temperature and vibration control and electromagnetic shielding.

Ms. Sennewald was a contributing author for the Handbook of Laboratory Design, has published frequently in Architecture, Architectural Technology, Specifications, and R&D. She is a regular speaker at conferences.

She was also an advisor to the National Institutes of Health for laboratory design standards.

She was the design director for the Advanced Measurement Laboratories for NIST in Gaithersburg and Boulder. Her recent work includes projects in England, France, Germany and the Netherlands.

Ms Sennewald received a Master of Architecture degree (magna cum laude) from the University of Oregon.

Bob has over 40 years experience in making sensitive measurements and managing related projects, mainly at Keithley Instruments, the leading manufacturer of very sensitive electronic measuring instruments. He has designed the most sensitive Ammeter and Voltmeter commercially available, advised many scientists on difficult measurement problems and worked with Scientists and Architects to design nanotechnology buildings.

Dr. Teague is Chief of the Manufacturing Metrology Division in the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

At NIST since 1972, Dr. Teague has designed, constructed, and used precision instrumentation for ultra-high accuracy dimensional metrology of surfaces and micrometer to nanometer-scale features. Beginning with his metal-vacuum-metal tunneling work in the 1970's, he continued to work with such precision instrumentation as scanning tunneling microscopes, atomic force microscopes, displacement and phase-measuring interferometry, stylus instruments, flexure stages, and light scattering apparatus. Because the laboratory and building environments were always factors in the ultimate performance of these instruments, the subject of this workshop has been an ongoing topic of great interest.

Dr. Teague is a member of the American Society for Precision Engineering, has served twice as the Society's President, and is a fellow of the UK Institute of Physics. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Nanotechnology for ten years and is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the journal. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a PhD in physics from the University of North Texas. He has authored or coauthored 70 papers, has presented 50 invited talks in the technical fields described, and jointly with colleagues, has six patents. Dr. Teague has received the Gold Medal, Silver Medal, and Allen V. Astin Measurement Science Award from the Department of Commerce, the Kilby International Award by the Kilby Awards Foundation, and an IR-100 Industrial Research and Development Award for his work.

Mr. Bechtol is a Senior Vice President and a Professional Associate of HDR and the Electrical Section Manager. He has over 23 year of experience in the planning and design of lighting, power and communication systems for laboratory, institutional, health care and justice facilities.

Mr. Bechtol has designed laboratory electrical systems for the Department of Defense and the Food and Drug Administration. His university laboratory experience includes Johns Hopkins, Duke, UNC and UVA. At the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Measurement Laboratory, Mr. Bechtol developed a power distribution system to provide two sources of clean isolated power to each lab to reduce the effects of power disturbances from adjacent labs and from building equipment including lights, elevators and mechanical equipment. He is currently the lead electrical engineer for the Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center.

Mr. Bechtol received a Bachelor of Architectural Engineering degree from Penn State in 1979. In 1984, he received his Professional Engineer's license. He is a member of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) and the International Association of Electrical Inspectors.

After receiving his BSME degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Ungar worked for three hears on development of second-generation atomic weapons at Sandia Corporation in Albuquerque, NM. There he also attended the University of New Mexico, from where he received his MS degree. Subsequently, he served as instructor in mechanical engineering at New York University while he pursued his doctoral studies. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Engineering Science from NYU in 1957 and then was appointed assistant professor. In 1959 he joined the renowned research and consulting firm of Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc., in Cambridge, MA, where he held several technical and management positions until his retirement from there in 1996 as Chief Consulting Engineer. Since then he has been serving as Chief Engineering Scientist at Acentech Incorporated in Cambridge, MA.

Dr. Ungar is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and served as that society’s President in 1992-93. He is a Life Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and held the chairmanship of its Design Engineering Division in 1978-79. He is a board-certified member of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering, whose presidency he held in 1985, and he is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics.
In addition to having published well over 200 technical papers and more than a dozen chapters in handbooks and monographs, Dr. Ungar has translated and revised the book “Structure-Borne Sound”, which is considered as a classic in its field. He has chaired highly regarded short courses on Vibration Control at the Pennsylvania State University for more than twenty years and has lectured in these and numerous other courses in the US, Sweden, France, Brazil, and Australia.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers awarded him its Per Bruel Gold Medal “for fundamental contributions to noise and vibration control engineering involving structural damping, vibration isolation, and vibrations of complex structures, as applied to aerospace vehicles, ships, machines, and buildings.” The Acoustical Society of America honored him with its Trent-Crede medal “for his important contributions to our understanding of vibrations in complex structures, the effects of structural damping, and the propagation of structure-borne sound.”

Dr. Ungar has consulted on vibrations of numerous high-technology facilities, including nano-mechanics and microbiology laboratories and installations for advanced, optics, and astronomy research. He also has served as consultant on facilities that require high resistance to vibration-related damage or malfunction, including the President’s helicopter hangar and various aircraft test cells. He has pioneered in the development of what has become the standard method for predicting footfall-induced vibrations in buildings that house sensitive devices and has consulted on vibration isolation of instruments, machinery, and entire buildings.

Mr. Amick received a Bachelor of Science in Civil and Architectural Engineering from the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming, a Master of Science. in Structural Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, California and a Master of .Engineering. In Civil Engineering from the University of California in Berkeley, California. Mr. Amick works on problems related to structural and soil dynamics, rail and transportation vibrations, mechanical vibrations, and community or workplace vibrations. He is experienced in signals processing, finite element modeling and many aspects of structural and soil dynamics. Hal Amick has worked extensively in the design of low vibration environments for advanced technology facilities.

Hal Amick joined Colin Gordon & Associates in 1996, after spending eleven years with Bolt Beranek & Newman and Acentech. Prior to 1990, he worked closely with Colin Gordon at BBN. At Colin Gordon & Associates he focuses on the design and maintenance of low-vibration environments for vibration-sensitive facilities used for research, development and production of microelectronics as well as those used for nanotechnology, optics research, advanced physics and bioscience studies. His early consulting work involved a wide variety of structural settings, including nuclear power plant seismic analysis, container crane design, and structural failure analysis. Since 1993 he has served as vibration consultant for design and renovation of laboratories at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Mr. Amick’s selected project experience includes: Advanced Measurement Laboratory (NIST); M. D. Anderson Cancer Research Center; Genentech Hall (Building 24), University of California, San Francisco, Mission Bay Campus;Knudsen Hall West, UCLA; Huntsman Cancer Research Center, University of Utah; California Nano Systems Institute, University of California at Santa Barbara; Birck Nanotechnology Research Center, Purdue University; P-050 Nano Science Research Laboratory, Naval Research Laboratory; and Seagate Research Center.

Hal Amick has written and presented many papers and reports, and has published extensively.

Dr. James S. Murday received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Case Western Reserve in 1964, and a Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Cornell in 1970. He joined the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in 1970, led the Surface Chemistry effort from 1975-1987, and has been Superintendent of its Chemistry Division since 1988. From May to August 1997 he served as Acting Director of Research for the Department of Defense, Research and Engineering. He is a member of the American Physical Society, the American Chemical Society and the Materials Research Society; and a fellow of the American Vacuum Society (AVS), and the UK Institute of Physics. For the AVS, he has served as trustee for 1981-1984, director for 1986-1988, representative to the American Institute of Physics Governing Board 1986-1992, president for 1991-93, and representative to the Federation of Materials Societies 1998-present.

His research interest in nanoscience began in 1983 as an Office of Naval Research program officer and continues through the NRL Nanoscience Institute. He has organized numerous International STM/NANO conferences and their proceedings. Under his direction, both the AVS and the International Union for Vacuum Science, Technology and Applications created a Nanometer Science/Technology Division. He is Executive Secretary to the U.S. National Science and Technology Council's Subcommittee on Nanoscale Science Engineering and Technology (NSET) and Director of the National Nanotechnology Coordinating Office.

Since February of 2002, Jeffrey W. Roblee has been with Precitech of Keene, New Hampshire where he holds the position of Vice President of Engineering. Precitech is a world leader in the design and manufacture of ultra precision machine and metrology systems.

From 1977 to 1990, Dr. Roblee held research positions at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. There he developed ultra-precision machine tools and measuring instruments for use in optics fabrication. As part of this work, he was involved in numerous facilities development for these devices. His research work led to a 14 month assignment at Phillips Research Laboratory in The Netherlands in 1986 and then to a research position at Carl Zeiss in Oberkochen, Germany in 1990. As a member of the Optical Process Development Laboratory, he led four projects that improved the fabrication time, precision and finish of optical components by more than a factor of two.

In late 1993 he joined the Optical Engineering Department at Polaroid Corporation in Cambridge, Massachussetts. At Polaroid, Dr. Roblee led a program to develop a laser print head for use in making medical images and other purposes. In 1997 he received Polaroid’s title of Distinguished Engineer and the Engineering Excellence Award from the Optical Society of America in recognition of his work on improving optical fabrication processes. Dr. Roblee was named Technical Director in 1998 with responsibility for three departments in Polaroid R&D: Model Shops, CAD Technology Center and Concept Engineering. In early 2001 he was chosen to lead the Optical Engineering Department as well.

Dr. Roblee holds a number of patents and has written numerous papers on temperature control, machine dynamics, air bearing design, optics fabrication and opto-mechanics. He is currently a member of the American Society of Precision Engineering. Jeffrey W. Roblee has a M.S. and Ph.D., both in mechanical engineering, from the University of California at Berkeley, 1979 and 1985. His B.S.M.E. is from the University of Arkansas, 1978.

Dr. Lawall came to NIST as an NRC postdoctoral fellow in the Laser Cooling and Trapping group in 1995.  Since 1997 he has been a staff member in the Quantum Metrology Group.  His current research work involves ultra-high accuracy laser interferometry with stabilized CW lasers, and frequency combs using mode-locked femtosecond lasers.

Dr. Lawall received his B.S. degree in physics from Stanford University and his PhD in experimental atomic physics from Harvard University.  Prior to starting his PhD work, he spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, where he taught mathematics at the Lycée de Segou and constructed energy-efficient wood stoves.  Following his doctoral degree, he was a Chateaubriand postdoctoral fellow in Paris at the Ecole Normale Superieure, where he was instrumental in laser cooling a three-dimensional gas of atoms to 180 nanoKelvin, the record temperature at that time.

In his spare time Dr. Lawall plays the violin and viola in chamber ensembles and enjoys whitewater kayaking.

John Weaver is the Manager of Contamination Control at Delphi Corporation, Delco Electronics Systems. He is responsible for a broad spectrum of contamination control technology, from cleanroom design and construction through all aspects of cleanroom operation. In addition to direct responsibilities within Delphi’s wafer fabs, John provides assistance throughout the corporation and to several universities. He draws on over thirty years of experience in contamination control engineering as well as semiconductor process and device development. John holds two patents, has authored numerous technical papers, tutorials, workshops, and a book on cleanroom design and construction. He works with different organizations on the development of contamination control educational programs and juries technical papers prior to publication. The recipient of multiple contamination control awards, he has worked with several industry committees and is a Principal Member of the NFPA 318 committee, Fire Standard for Cleanrooms. John is a Senior Member of the Institute of Environmental Sciences and President of the Indiana Chapter.

Dr. Stroscio is a physicist in the Electron Physics Group in the Physics Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He joined NIST in 1987 after completing a two year post-doc at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center where he pioneered the development of scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy measurements with Randal M. Feenstra. At NIST his research interests continued in condensed matter physics with an emphasis on nanoscale physics. His research has encompassed areas including MBE growth of metal and semiconductor systems, nanoscale magnetism, superconductivity, and atomic manipulation. Dr. Stroscio has designed and constructed numerous state-of-the-art scanning probe systems to accomplish his research, including most recently, the design and construction of the Nanoscale Physics Facility, which contains one of the most advanced scanning probe systems that operates in ultra-high vacuum, cryogenic, and ultra-high magnetic field environments.

Dr. Stroscio received his PhD degree from Cornell University in the area of surface physics. He has authored or coauthored over 65 publications. Dr. Stroscio has been elected to fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Vacuum Society and he has received the Arthur S. Flemming Award, the Department of Commerce Silver Medal Award, and the Sigma Xi Young Scientist Award for his work at NIST. He has served on numerous committees of the American Vacuum Society, and is serving on the Editorial Board of Review of Scientific Instruments.

Dr Julian B Hunt is a Corporate Director of the National Physical Laboratory, with responsibility for managing NPL scientist's input to the 'design and build' of the new NPL building, the overseeing, management and control of the move from the present NPL buildings to the new building, minimising disruptions to business activities wherever possible, and for optimising the use of both the old and new buildings during this transitional period.

Dr Hunt received a Batchelor of Science in Physics from Queen Mary College, University of London in 1963, and a Ph.D in Nuclear Physics from the same University in 1967. He joined the National Physical Laboratory in 1966, and led the Neutron Metrology Group from 1974 until 1989. He developed a number of different techniques and instruments for the accurate measurement of neutron fluence over the neutron energy range from 1 keV to 6 MeV. During that time he also participated in a number of international comparisons of neutron fluence measurements organised under the auspices of the Bureau des Poids et Mesures (BIPM). From 1989 to 1996 he was responsible for the formulation of the Radiation Dosimetry programme at NPL and for its delivery in order to meet the aims and objectives of the National Measurement Policy Unit of the UK's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI/NMSPU). In 1996 his responsibilities expanded to cover the full extent of the DTI/NMSPU Ionising Radiation Programme, comprising Radiation Dosimetry, Radioactivity and Neutron Measurements. He continued in this role until November 1999 when he join the NPL Executive Board as a Corporate Director with responsibilities for coordinating NPL's input to the design and build of the new NPL building, and to maximising the benefits from occupying first class laboratory facilities.

Dr Hunt has been a member of a number of UK, European and international committees concerned with the specification and characterisation of neutron radiation fields. He has authored or co-authored over 60 papers and has presented more than 30 papers either as invited talks or as research papers, mainly concerned with neutron metrology.

Kamal Hossain is the Director of Science and Technology at the National Physical Laboratory, UK. After obtaining his PhD from Cambridge University, Kamal has been involved in personal research in the high temperature materials field, government policy work in the UK Department of Trade and Industry and various international activities. He has been the Chairman of VAMAS – the leading international initiative in pre-normative R&D in the materials field. He is also a member of the European Commission Advisory Group for the new Framework programme for Research and a Vice President of CEN STAR – the high level Working Group in CEN with the responsibility of improving links between standardisation and research. Currently Kamal is responsible for developing and implementing the Laboratory’s strategy for science. This includes directing the development of programmes and facilities.

Larry Allard obtained all three of his degrees at the University of Michigan in the Materials Science and Engineering Dept. He started his EM career in 1963 as a sophomore at the U of M, working as a research assistant in the High Temperature Metallurgy group, where he studied microstructures of stainless steel and nickle-based superalloys to characterize creep-rupture failure mechanisms. In 1969, he joined the Materials Characterization group at the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant, where he worked on materials problems related to uranium isotope separation for two years before returning to Michigan to help establish the university’s Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory. After working in the chemical industry for American Cyanamid Company in Stamford, CT for 2 years, in late 1986 he returned to Oak Ridge, and is now a Distinguished Research Staff Member in DOE's High Temperature Materials Laboratory, a National User Facility located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His current research involves studies of structural ceramics, ion-implantation for surface modification, nanophase composite materials, catalytic materials, and instrumental developments involving electron holography, digital imaging and remote instrument operation. He is the author or co-author of more than 170 journal articles, and has co-edited several conference proceeding and books, including the first definitive textbook on electron holography, “Introduction to Electron Holography,” published by Plenum/Kluwer in 1999.

During his career, Mr. Vitale has held senior technical management positions with Booz • Allen & Hamilton in Washington, D.C., National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in New York City, UNISYS in New York and Mercury Middle East in the United Kingdom and Kuwait. As President of a biomedical research and development company, he invented and designed a battery powered, portable, microprocessor controlled electrocardiograph (ECG) monitor called the VitaScope. Mr. Vitale has a B.S.E.E. in electrical engineering from the University of Florida and a B.S./BA in biochemistry and medieval history from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has an inactive Top Secret clearance and published numerous EMF articles and technical papers.

Mr. Jamison is a Vice President with HDR focused on advanced technology facilities. He is a registered Professional Engineer with more than 20 years of experience in the design and management of projects for state-of-the-art technically advanced facilities. After graduating from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Mr. Jamison has spent his career developing the technical design expertise in Mechanical and HVAC systems, as well as Process and Piping for semiconductor facilities, microelectronics facilities, laboratories, research facilities, manufacturing, data centers, and offices and other projects for corporate, governmental and educational clients. He also has construction experience in cleanroom fabrication, cleanroom protocol and tool installation, and has managed numerous design projects including major tool ramps, fab renovations and greenfield fabs.

Dr. Mark L. Schattenburg is a Principal Research Scientist in the MIT Center for Space Research.  He is Director of the Space Nanotechnology Laboratory, Associate Director of the NanoStructures Laboratory and Senior Research Affiliate with the Microsystems Technology Laboratories.  His principal work has been in the area of micro/nanofabrication technology, optical and x-ray interferometry, x-ray, electron-beam and other advanced lithographies, nanometrology, x-ray optics and instrumentation, x-ray astronomy, high-resolution x-ray spectroscopy, and space physics instrumentation utilizing nanotechnology.  His research group is a world leader in nanometrology research.  His lab has also developed nanotechnology for a number of NASA missions and advanced lithography technology that has been licensed to numerous semiconductor manufacturers around the world.  He sits on the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Electron, Ion and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, serving as Program Chair in 2003.

Mr. Stephens leads the semiconductor and Industrial power quality group at EPRI PEAC Corporation. He works extensively on resolving power quality problems in all industrial sectors including semiconductor manufacturing. As the project engineer, Mr. Stephens led the EPRI Task 24 research that helped foster the SEMI F47 standard. He participated in the SEMI power quality standards task force from its inception to the end of the effort and the passage of the SEMI F42, F47, F49, and F50 standards. He has over fourteen years of professional experience including instrumentation and control systems engineering and power quality solutions. His design experience includes instrumentation specification, control system integration, and equipment installation and startup. In 1995, his research into computer tolerance of electrical disturbances helped to inform the revised CBEMA curve for voltage tolerance of information technology equipment. A Registered Professional Engineer, Mr. Stephens received a B.S.E.E. from the University of Tennessee. He has participated in or directed power quality related work for Alcatel, Applied Materials, ASM Europe, Axcelis, Carrier, CFM Technologies, Confidential Sites (Singapore), CTI, Dunham-Bush, ESI, Exxon Mobil Chemical, Ford Electronics, FSI International, GE Glass, Genentech, GM, Hewlett Packard, IBM, International Rectifier, KLA-Tencor, Lambda EMI, LSI Logic, LWD, Motorola, Novellus, Philips Semiconductor, PP&G Industries, Pratt & Whitney, Reliability, Inc., Rudolph Technologies, Schlumberger, SEMATECH, Sony Picture Tube Manufacturing, Sony Semiconductor, Square D, ST Microelectronics, SVG Lithography, SVG Thermco, Tokyo Electron, Toyota, Trane, Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc., Winbond, and York.

Michael Gendreau received his Baccalaureate in Physics from the University of California (Santa Cruz) and M.A. from Mills College in Composition (Electronic Music and Recording Media). Gendreau has been with Colin Gordon & Associates since 1993, where he currently serves as President and Senior Consultant. Prior to joining Colin Gordon & Associates, he was employed for three years as a vibration and acoustic engineer with Response Dynamics of Oakland, California. He specializes in facility interior vibration and noise control (including the analysis of HVAC and building mechanical systems); structural dynamic testing; machinery vibration isolation; room acoustics; environmental noise studies using computer models; and site studies, including the measurement of environmental vibration and noise, interpretation of local noise regulations and building noise and vibration design criteria; and preparation of environmental impact and design feasibility reports. He is a Board Certified Member of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering, and a member of the Society for Experimental Mechanics, Acoustical Society of America, and the Audio Engineering Society. He has managed and/or acted as a technical resource for a variety of projects related to research, nanotechnology, and semiconductor production. His clients have included Intel (U.S., Europe, Israel), Motorola, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC), Stanford University, and the University of California at San Francisco. Current or recent nanotechnology projects include National Nano Devices Laboratories (Taiwan), LBNL Molecular Foundry (California), Center for Integrated Nanotechnology Core Facility (Arizona), AZ Biodesign Institute (Arizona), National Physical Laboratory Advanced Measurement Laboratory (UK), Argonne National Laboratories Center for Nanoscale Materials (Illinois), and others.

In his over 30 years of experience Mr. Somin has gained a comprehensive understanding of Master Planning, Programming, Laboratory Design Development (Program Drawings), Construction Techniques and Construction Documents. His administrative and design experience with a broad spectrum of laboratory types, as well as a keen awareness of professional performance standards, assures the creativity, coordination and the attention to detail required to meet the high standards of all EWA projects.

As Principal, Mr. Somin has completed projects for Industry and Universities alike. Dedicated to research and teaching, these facilities encompass various disciplines including Biology, Chemistry, Pharmaceutics, Medicine, Engineering, Metrology, Nanotechnology, Animal Facilities, Electronics and many more.

As either Principal or Project Manager, Mr. Somin has participated in many of EWA's most highly acclaimed state-of-the-art facilities including the following award winning Research & Development Magazine Lab of the Year Competition projects: Ciba-Geigy Pharmaceutical Life Sciences Building, Armour Research Center, Aerospace Corporation Ivan A. Getting Laboratories, and the Squibb Institute for Medical Research. Mr. Somin has served on the Space Planning Advisory Board for a large International Pharmaceutical Company, and continues to lecture at numerous research symposiums.

Michael Somin received his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Illinois in 1962. Prior to joining Earl Walls Associates in 1966, Mr. Somin served as Project Architect on many Educational and Commercial projects for Holabird & Root Architects in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Somin holds an Architect's license in numerous states, and is a current member of the American Institute of Architects and NCARB.

Currently, Mr. Somin is working on projects for the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; University of Alaska, Anchorage; Manchester College; Pomona College at Claremont; and the Nano Science Laboratory for the United States Navy.

Ralph Morrison graduated in Physics from Cal Tech and received his MS in EE from the University of Southern California. In his early career he designed and manufactured instrumentation for the aerospace industry. This gave him an understanding of how to process very low-level signals over very long distances and maintain signal integrity. This led to his first book in 1967 on grounding and shielding. His physics backsground led him into teaching and consulting in all aspects of interference. He has written 10 books all on the subjects of grounding, interference and signal processing.
His latest book, titled The Fields of Electronics, shows the reader how to use conductor geometry to contain and limit interference. His full biography is listed at his web site: RalphMorrison.com

Mr. Horning received a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Engineering from California State Polytechnic College in San Luis Obispo, California. He then joined Northrop Aircraft where he designed vibration test equipment and conducted vibration tests on aircraft components. He then joined Thiokol Chemical Corporation where he participated in the design of a large vibration test facility for large rocket motors.

Mr. Horning joined Barry Controls in 1964 where he first worked with low natural frequency passive pneumatic vibration isolation systems for vibration test equipment.  He then worked on the design and application of pneumatic isolation systems for the isolation of precision laboratory and measuring equipment from seismic level floor vibration. Applications included laboratory equipment such as electron microscopes, atomic force microscopes; measuring equipment such as coordinate measuring machines of all types; and microelectronic manufacturing equipment such as steppers.   He was later involved in the development and application of an electro-pneumatic active vibration control system and a stiff piezo based active vibration control system.

Mr. Horning joined TMC in 1998 where he continued with the development and application of active vibration control systems for precision equipment.  He often uses seismic accelerometers or geophones and a Dynamic Signal Analyzer to determine the vibration environment and to measure the isolation provided by a passive or active vibration isolation system.

Dr. Treado is a Mechanical Engineer in the Building Environment Division, involved inlaboratory and field testing, along with computer an analytical studies, related to building thermal and energy performance. He first came to the Center for Building Technology as a summer student in 1973, and returned following graduation in 1974. His current research activities include developing and refining test procedures for lighting and plumbing equipment in support of the DOE Appliance Standards program. He also developed and executed a detailed evaluation of the NIST ATL Temperature Control Module, including verification of thermal conditions and control system performance. His research activities include lighting and HVAC system performance, lighting test procedures, the measurement and modeling of the interactions between lighting and HVAC systems, and illumination conditions and task visibility. He has developed, built and operated a test facility for studying the interactions and illumination conditions, and a laboratory for lighting component interactions.

Other research activities have involved the role and impact of fenestration on building energy performance. He has developed and operated the NBS Daylight Laboratory to evaluate the daylighting effects of fenestration systems, and dynamic sky conditions. He has developed a state-of-the-art automated microcomputer data acquisition and analysis system, which is used to process a large array of measurement parameters on a continuos basis, and designed and built a window calorimeter. The NBS Daylight Availability Database has been published based on these measurement data. In carrying out his duties as project leader, he prepares proposals, develops the experimental plans, designs, constructs and installs experimental apparatus and equipment, collects, reduces and analyzes data, and prepares technical reports describing the results. The results of his technical work have been incorporated into IES recommended practices for daylighting design, GSA guidelines for solar shading system utilization and ASHRAE standards for measurement of the solar-optical properties of materials, as well as the ASHRAE Handbook of Fundamentals, and the IES Lighting Handbook.

He has presented the results of his work to national organizations
such as ASHRAE and the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), and has
published over 50 papers in the technical literature. He is a member of IES and participates on the IES Daylighting Committee and Testing Procedures Committee, and is an associate member of ASHRAE, and a member of TC 4.5 Fenestration Committee. He was awarded the Taylor Technical Talent Award for outstanding applications paper by IES in 1992, and the 1995 Crosby Field Award for the best ASHRAE paper published in 1994.

Tim Loughran is Managing Partner for AdvanceTEC, LLC in Richmond, VA. AdvanceTEC is a design/build firm specializing in the construction of cleanrooms, wafer fabs, and process systems for the microelectronics and semiconductor industries. Tim was formerly the Manager of Design/Build Services for Performance Contracting, Inc. and Division Manager for the Cleanroom Engineering Division of Cleanroom Products. He has over 20 years experience in the cleanroom industry and has published papers on numerous subjects including Clean Packaging Technology, Fan Filter Evaluation, Air Shower Performance, Retrofitting Cleanrooms, and Design/Build Cleanroom Specification and Proposal Evaluation. He is a frequent contributor to CleanRooms Magazine and speaker at the CleanRooms conferences, and former president of his local chapter of the IEST.

Todd Snouffer is the Deputy Project Manager for the construction of NIST’s new Advanced Measurement Laboratory (AML) and, since 1993, has seen the project through its planning, design, procurement, and construction stages. As the Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative for the Architect/Engineer design and consulting services contracts for NIST major facilities programs, he has gained invaluable insight into advanced technology research facilities. Mr. Snouffer’s knowledge of the NIST facilities infrastructure and scientific community has enabled him to provide a highly technical approach to meeting the stringent demands of NIST’s most technologically advanced scientific programs.

In his current position, Mr. Snouffer provides detailed technical oversight in such diverse areas as advanced temperature control systems, vibration isolation, laboratory HVAC and plumbing systems, fire protection, building commissioning, and storm water management. In 1996, Mr. Snouffer led a team of contract and Government personnel in the development of the NIST Temperature Control Research Project, laying the groundwork for the 48 High Accuracy Controls laboratories currently being installed in the AML facility.

Mr. Snouffer received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from George Washington University in 1991. He is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Maryland.