UNM Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics and Astronomy Steve Brueck has been named as a member of the NM Business Weekly’s 2009 Who’s Who in Technology in the category of Technologists. This is the first time the NM Business Weekly has organized a Who's Who in Technology event.
Photo: Steve Brueck
The categories are Entrepreneurs, who create technology companies; Facilitators, who help create connections that lead teach companies to success; Investors, who provide the money to fund innovation; Technologists, who create the innovations; and Corporate, leaders of entities that have created tech jobs on a large scale in New Mexico.
Brueck has been associated with UNM and the Center for High Technology Materials since 1986. He heads a team that is preparing the celebrate the 25th anniversary of CHTM. Brueck holds a number of patents in the area of optical lithography.
Cheryl Willman, director and CEO of the UNM Cancer Center was also named in the category of Technologists. Willman’s research is in the area of childhood leukemia. She has led development of the UNM Cancer Research and Treatment Center.
Also named by the NM Business Weekly are UNM alumni; Lem Hunter, founder of Mechtronics and Vibrant, Inc. who was named in the Entrepreneur category and Jim McNally of Applied Technology Associates who was named in the Technologists category. Both graduated from the UNM School of Engineering.
Media contact: Karen Wentworth (505) 277-5627;kwent2@unm.edu
Posted by kwentworth at July 29, 2009 09:50 AM