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CompanyAbout A.M. Fitzgerald & AssociatesFounded in 2003, A.M. Fitzgerald & Associates provides technical consulting services to clients ranging from one-person start-ups to companies in the Fortune 500. A.M. Fitzgerald & Associates is a member of the MEMS Industry Group. Team
Alissa M. Fitzgerald, Founder and Managing MemberDr. Fitzgerald has over 13 years of hands-on experience in MEMS design and fabrication and has developed over a dozen distinct MEMS devices, such as piezoresistive cantilevers, ultrasound transducers, and microcalorimeters, for applications as broad as implantable medical devices to spacecraft sensors. She is an expert on reliability of brittle materials and finite element analysis for MEMS devices, and continues to conduct research in those areas. She has previously been employed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Orbital Sciences Corporation, Sigpro, and Sensant Corporation (acquired by Siemens). Dr. Fitzgerald received her bachelor and master degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her doctorate from Stanford University, all in the discipline of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Dr. Fitzgerald has numerous journal publications, holds two patents, and is a frequent lecturer at Stanford University and local professional group meetings. Dr. Fitzgerald is the Director of the MIT Club of N. California Semiconductor Entrepreneurship Program. Benjamin W. Chui, Consulting AssociateDr. Chui has extensive experience in micro-device design and prototyping. He has worked in various settings including an optical MEMS startup company (Lightconnect, Inc.), a corporate research lab (IBM Almaden Research Center), and a university research center (Institute of Microtechnology, Neuchatel, Switzerland). In his work with IBM, he designed and fabricated microcantilevers which were used to measure single electron spins for research that was subsequently published in Nature. He has been consulting since early 2005, and has particular experience in the development of atomic force microscope (AFM) cantilevers and piezoresistive devices. Dr. Chui graduated from Stanford University with a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and has published one book and numerous papers on MEMS-related subjects. Brent M. Huigens, AssociateMr. Huigens has a diverse background in microsystems fabrication and characterization and has held recent positions with Johnson & Johnson and Olympus Microsystems America. He has experience in the fabrication of CMOS devices and cantilever architectures, as well as the characterization of micro-actuators. Mr. Huigens has worked with shape memory alloys (SMA) for MEMS applications, test and characterization systems for micromirror devices, and on the mechanical reliability of micro-electrostatic devices. He holds a B.S. in Materials Engineering and a M.S. in Biomedical Microsystems from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. David M. Pierce, AssociateDr. Pierce has a strong foundation in computational mechanics, finite element methods, applied mathematics and the associated programming/software to support work in these areas. He has worked extensively with Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) on engineering research. Most recently, he developed a fatigue life prediction methodology for lead-free solder alloy interconnects in electronic packaging working with SNL. He has also worked as an engineering consultant with several companies and as a design engineer and analyst for Rosemount, Inc. in Minnesota. Dr. Pierce received his B.S. from the University of Minnesota – Minneapolis, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in Mechanical Engineering. He has numerous journal publications and holds one patent. Carolyn D. White, AssociateDr. White's expertise is in the mechanics of materials as applied to MEMS design, fabrication, and evaluation. Specific experience includes design and reliability optimization, electrostatic and piezoelectric resonators, and processing of thin film piezoelectric and magnetic materials. Dr. White has been employed by Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and has numerous publications. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. |
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