Richard M. White

Richard Manning White is an electrical engineer and a professor emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences [1] at UC Berkeley and a Co-Founding Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC).[2] He and Richard S. Muller funded the BSAC in 1986. They received 2013 IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal for pioneering innovation and leadership in MEMS technology.[3] Professor White is known for inventing the Interdigital Transducer (IDT) and for his surface acoustic wave work, he received the 2003 Rayleigh Award.[4] He received the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award in 1986.[5]

Richard M. White
NationalityUnited States
Alma materHarvard University
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical Engineering, MEMS, Ultrasonic
InstitutionsUC Berkeley, BSAC
Notable studentsAmit Lal

He researched microwave devices at General Electric while at Harvard before he obtained a Ph.D from the college. Professor White is IEEE's Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

References
  1. "Faculty Profile".
  2. "BSAC".
  3. "IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal" (PDF).
  4. "IEEE Rayleigh Award".
  5. "IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award".
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