Noel MacDonald is Fred Kavli Professor of MEMS Technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he holds faculty appointments in the departments of Materials and Mechanical and Environmental Engineering. A member of National Academy of Engineering, Professor MacDonald specializes in the area of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). He is widely recognized for his contributions to the development of the Scanning Auger Microprobe and for micromachined micro-Instruments. Before coming to UCSB, MacDonald was on the faculty at Cornell, and more recently, served as Director of the Federal Microsystems Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Professor MacDonald holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a PMD Certificate from Harvard University.

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