Dr. Anagnostopoulos is presently adjunct full professor in the Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston and is a member of the NSF funded Partnership for International Research and Education (PIRE) Lab-on-a-chip project, which is a collaborative teaching and research activity between URI and the Technische Universitat Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.

Previously, he was Research Fellow and member of the Senior Staff at Eastman Kodak Company's Research Laboratories, in Rochester, N.Y., where he worked on CCD Image Sensors and CMOS ASIC's and more recently on MEMS ink jet printheads for high speed digital presses and drop on demand desktop printers. He contributed to the commercialization effort of the ink jet technology he co-invented and was the leader of the research group responsible for the development of advanced MEMS and micro fluidic devices and page wide ink jet print heads and for the integration of CMOS circuits with these MEMS actuators.

Dr. Anagnostopoulos has published over 40 reviewed technical papers and has more than 70 patents issued or pending. He has given numerous invited and tutorial presentations in his areas of expertise and has taught a number of short courses at conferences or in cooperation with the Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Rochester.

Constantine served as Guest Editor and Associate Editor of the Journal of Solid State Circuits and as Guest Editor of the Transactions of Electron Devices. In 1977 he founded the Rochester Chapter of the Electron Devices Society and in 1978 co-founded the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, which he served in all official capacities till 1991.

In 1982-83 he was Chairman of the IEEE Rochester Section and from 1997-99 was chair of IEEE-USA's Precollege Education Committee. As PEC chair, Constantine worked with the IEEE Spectrum editorial staff to publish a special issue (the April 1998 issue of Spectrum) on Technological Literacy in the K-12 grades and co-authored one of the articles. He also collaborated with the EAB Precollege Education Coordinating Committee (PECC) to organize the TLC (Technological Literacy Counts) workshop and served as co-chair of the event. He served as Chair of the IEEE Educational Activities Board’s PECC (Precollege Education Coordinating Committee) and as member of EAB from 2000 to 2002. He helped organize the first Deans’ Summit, which took place on October 1- 2, 2001 in Baltimore. The purpose of the Summit was to bring together Deans of Engineering and Deans of Education to find ways to produce more technologically literate teachers and to improve the teaching skills of future engineering professors. In 2006 and 20007 he was a member of IEEE’s Pre-University Coordinating Committee.

For his engineering and scientific work and his IEEE activities he has received a number of awards either individually or as a member of a team. Some of them are: Selection by Business Week Magazine in 1987 of the 1.4 million pixel true two phase CCD Image Sensor as one of the top100 products; "Best of What's New" award in 1998, for the DCS520 digital camera, by Popular Science magazine; Awarded the 1984 IEEE Centennial and the 2000 IEEE Millennium metals; Selection in 1987 as "Electrical Engineer of the Year" by the Rochester Section of IEEE; Induction into Kodak's "Distinguished Inventor's Gallery" in 1997 and “Elite Inventors Gallery” in 2005; "Team Achievement Award" from Kodak's Scientific Council in 1990 for the design of a "Color Video Chip Set."
In 1999 he was elected Fellow of IEEE for contributions to CCD Imagers and Integrated Circuits for Digital Cameras.

Dr. Anagnostopoulos received his BS degree from Merrimack College, his ScM degree from Brown University and his PhD degree from the University of Rhode Island, all in Electrical Engineering.
He joined Eastman Kodak Company’s Research Laboratories on June 9, 1975 and retired from same on July 31, 2007.

A native of Greece, he became a U.S. citizen in 1975.

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ENGINEERING EDUCATION FOR A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
AND THE EPOCH OF ENGINEERING

Two important changes are profoundly affecting the careers of engineers and scientists. The first is globalization and the second is the rapidly approaching age of engineering.

The education of engineering students will determine whether U.S. engineers, operating in an increasingly competitive and global environment, can find jobs when they graduate, can receive attractive enough salaries to remain in the profession and can maintain the U.S.’s position as the world's technology leader and whether they can provide the leadership that will be required of them in the increasingly technology rich and technology depended societies of the future.

I will discuss changes in curricula that are happening in some U.S. Universities today to address the globalization of manufacturing and research and development and will present some of my own ideas of how engineering education should change to address both globalization and the coming era of engineering and I will invite the audience to engage in a vigorous discussion.

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