Joseph L. Cecchi
Noribachi Advisor
Dean of the School of Engineering, University of New Mexico

Joseph L. Cecchi is Dean of the School of Engineering and Professor of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering at the University of New Mexico (UNM). He also is Chairman of the Board of the Science and Technology Corporation, UNM's technology transfer organization. Previously, Joseph was at Princeton University where he held joint appointments in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, and was Director of Princeton's Graduate Program in Plasma Science and Technology. Prior, he held a concurrent appointment as director of the New Jersey SEMATECH Center of Excellence for Plasma Etching. Joseph has authored more than 100 research publications in semiconductor manufacturing, plasma engineering, and materials technology and is an inventor on seven U.S. patents. He has served on the Advisory Council to the Program in Plasma Physics at Princeton University, and on the Semiconductor Industry Association International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors Committee. He is a member of the Engineering Deans Council (EDC) of the American Society for Engineering Education, and serves as a Director of the EDC Executive Board. Joseph received his bachelor's degree in physics from Knox College, and his Masters and Ph.D in physics from Harvard University.