Meet The Team
President and Principal Engineer – Eberhard Bamberg PhD is a
part-time member of the research faculty in the
Department of Mechanical Engineering
at the University of Utah and the director of the
Precision Design Laboratory.
He received his MSc from Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom, in
1993, and his Dipl-Ing from the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Germany, in 1996 in mechanical engineering. He earned his PhD from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000 in the area of precision
design. Dr. Bamberg has taught several courses in the area of design and
manufacturing, and his research interests include precision engineering,
novel micro- and mesolevel manufacturing technologies, nontraditional
machining techniques for semiconductors, and optical instrumentation. He
has graduated over 30 Masters and PhD students and published more than
40 technical articles in the area of design and manufacturing. Based on
his research he also has 4 issued and 7 pending US Patents. He serves as
a reviewer for various funding agencies as well as numerous scientific
journals in the areas of design and manufacturing.
Principal Engineer - David Bennett is a senior engineer with a
range of experience in mechanical, electrical, and controls design. As a
partner in a research and development company David served as the VP of
product development. Products developed included precision nano
positioning stages for semiconductor inspection and for R&D of next
generation organic transistors. Other products included multi-axis
assembly equipment for the photonics market. As an independent
contractor he developed a fully automated ultra-high precision
laboratory grade machine for qualifying digital variable reluctance
sensors used in the automotive industry. Prior to this, David worked for
a large OEM machine builder. There he gained valuable experience in
working with electro-mechanical systems. He developed state-machine
controls and operator interfaces. He developed an algorithm that greatly
improved servo response for large hydraulic equipment. While employed at
General Dynamics he developed self correcting 6-DOF force feedback
robotic algorithms which were implemented into fully automated drilling
and routing work cells. David received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
from Brigham Young University in 1989 with emphasis in controls.
Principal Engineer - Steve Sorensen PhD received his doctorate
in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University in 1989.
He specialized in manufacturing technologies and robotics. From
1989-1991 he was an associate professor at BYU. He then co-founded
Cimetrix Inc., a supplier of manufacturing software to OEMs of automated
manufacturing equipment were he served as Chief Technical Officer.
In this capacity he developed products and provided consulting services
with companies such as Fuji Machine, Philips/Assembleon, Universal
Instruments, Seiko Robotics, Yamaha, Siemens, GM, and Motorola. He
left Cimetrix in 2005 when he purchased Newonics Inc.
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