Nathan Pinhas
September 2008
1. Personal details
Date & Place of Birth:
Marital Status:
14 August 1951 , Israel
Married + 5
Work Address: P.O Box 9001, Beersheva, Isreal 84190
08-6568841
E-mail:
Home Address:
Home Tel:
Bosmat 17, P.O. Box 80, Metar, Israel 85025
08-6518180
2. Education
2006
1977
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University - Negev (BGU). Thesis
1989
Title: " Transmission, Reflection and Thermal Emission Properties of Gratings Structures "
M.Sc. Electrical & Computer Engineering, BGU
Thesis Title: " Effect of vacuum and
γ
irradiation on Photo transistors and
imaging
B.Sc. Electrical & Computer Engineering, BGU
Professional Certifications Earned
2003 Certified Quality Engineer - CQE (US certification) .
3. Employment
2008 – present
Electronics
1977 – 2008
Sami Shamoon Colledge of Engneering (SCE), Head of the Electrical and
Department
Nuclear Research Center – Negev (NRCN)
1999 - 2000 Sabbatical Year, Curtin University, Perth, Austeralia
Research activities: “On-Line Condition Monitoring of Power Transformers"
1986 –1987 BGU, Lecturer
4. Professional Activities
ƒ Industrial:
2004 – present Director of Quality and Productivity, NRCN
2001 – 2003 Projects manager and consultant, NRCN
1995 – 1999 Research and maintenance manager, NRCN
1987 – 1994 Control systems Dept. Supervisor, NRCN
1977 – 1987 Control systems engineer, NRCN
1971 – 1973 Lecturer, Israeli Air Forces
ƒ Academic:
2008 – present Head of the Electrical and Electronics Department, SCE
1985 – 1986 Lecturer, Industrial Control Systems I and II, BGU
1999 – 2000 Associated research member, Curtin University, Perth, Austeralia.
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5. Educational Activities
Courses taught
1. Industrial Control Systems (to Mechanical Engineering students), BGU
2. Quality Management (to Quality managers and engineers), NRCN
3. Metrology and mesurement systems (Israeli Air Forces)
6. Scientific Publications
[1] S.Hava and , “Optical and Electrical Properties induced in Phototransistors and Imaging CCD by Vacuum Gamma Irradiation”, Symposium on OE/Aerospace Sensing and Dual use Photonics, April 1995
Orlando FL.
[2] N. Pinhas , J. L. Hullett and S. M. Islam, “On-Line Condition Monitoring of Power Transformers using the Cross Correlations technique with Pseudo Random Sequences: Theory, Simulation and implementation principles”, Curtin University of Technology, February 1999
[3] N. Pinhas , Syed Islam and John Hullett, “On The Development of Transfer Function Method for Fault
Identification in Large Power Transformers on load”, IEEE/CIEDP 15-18 October 2000 Canada.
[4] Syed Islam, and John Hullett, “Effect of Load Current on Frequency Response Signatures of
Power Transformers”, CIGRE symposium, 3-7 September 2001 Australia.
[5] S. Hava and N. Pinhas "Optical properties tuning of quantum-well lasers and photodiodes through γ ray irradiation", Radiation Physics and Chemistry, Vol. 63 Issues 3-6, pp. 629-631, March 2002
[6] N. Pinhas and S. Hava, “Thermal emission from undoped and degenerated silicon structure and from metallic grating structure, Journal of Materials Science – Materials in Electronics, Vol. 14, pp. 781-782,
2003.
[7] N. Pinhas and S. Hava, “Infrared emission from silicon and metallic lamellar grating”, Proc. of SPIE, vol.
5118, pp. 628, 2003.
[8] N. Pinhas , M. Auslender, S. Hava and A. Cohen-Nov, “Experimental study of Infrared emission from periodic microcavities”, Proc. of SPIE, vol. 5360, pp. 40-43, 2004.
[9] N. Pinhas , M. Auslender, S. Hava and A. Cohen-Nov, “Theoretical and Experimental study of Infrared reflection transmission and thermal emission from lamellar grating”, Proc. of SPIE, vol. 5360, pp. 34-39,
2004.
[10] M. Auslender, A. Bargil, N. Pinhas , S. Hava and A. Cohen-Nov, “Multi-layered grating diffraction,
®
environment,”, Proc. of SPIE, 5349, pp. 463graphical user interfaced simulation toolbox in the MATLAB
473, 2004
[11] S. Hava, N. Pinhas , M. Auslender, L. Faraone, and A. Cohen-Nov, “Optical spectral properties of periodic micro and nanostructures in Si and GaAs", Proc. Of SPIE "Smart Materials, Nano-, and Micro-
Smart Systems" conference ,December 2004 Sydney.
[12] S. Hava, N. Pinhas , M. Auslender, and A. Cohen-Nov, “Optical spectral properties of periodic micro and nanostructures in Si and GaAs", Proc. Of SPIE 5649, 746-750, 2005.
[13] N. Pinhas , M. Auslender and S. Hava, "Infrared Thermal Emission, Reflection and Transmission of
GaAs Periodic Microstructures", Optical Review Vol. 14 No. 6 (2007), 365-367
[14] M. Auslender, J. Ivry, N. Pinhas and S. Hava, "Optical properties of silica opal templates in the infrared and visible", Optical Materials Vol.30 (2008) 1735–1738
7. Participation in Conferences and Seminars
A. Conferences
ƒ ASQ 2008 World Conference on Quality and Improvement. Houston, TX, (May 2008)
ƒ 23rd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), (Dec. 2007), Miami
Beach, Florida, USA. IEEE Computer Society 2007.
ƒ 5th International Conference on Optics-photonics Design & Fabrication "ODF'06 ", (Dec.
2006) Nara, Japan.
ƒ 2nd Annual Lean Six Sigma symposium, WBCF Dallas, TX, (Nov. 2005)
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ƒ SPIE Microtechnologies for the New Millennium, Maspalomas, G. Canarias, Spain, (May
2003).
ƒ Spent Fuel Management Seminar XXII, Washington, DC, (January 2003).
ƒ 12th International School on Condensed Matter Physics, "Modern Trends in Condensed
Matter Science and Technology" Varna, Bulgaria, (Sep. 2002)
ƒ CSI 28th Annual Computer Security Conference Washington D.C., (Oct. 2001).
ƒ 10th conference on information & knowladge atlanta (Nov. 2001)
ƒ ACM CIKM 2001 10th International Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management, Atlanta, Georgia USA. (Nov. 2001)
B. Courses
ƒ Mistake Proofing ASQ, 3 days, Houston TX USA, (May 2008)
ƒ Introduction to the Balanced Scorcard, 3 days, Washington D.C., (Dec. 2007)
ƒ QMS Lead Auditor, IRCA/nqa, 5 days, Tel-Aviv, (Apr. 2006)
ƒ Guide to Process Imperovement and change, 4 days, Washington D.C., (Jan. 2004)
ƒ Quality Engineering, (CQE), ASQ , ALD/Tel-Aviv, 30 days, (2003)
8. Synopsis of Research a) Research Interest : properties of grating and microstructures structures, Effects of radiation on the
Devices, Control systems, Quality management, Peformance management,. b) Application Areas : Optoelectronic Devices, Industrial control systems, Management systems.
9. Present Academic Activities
ƒ Quality management in industry and in Education.
ƒ IR optical properties of grating and microstructures structures and grating-based optical components.
ƒ Effects of gamma radiation on the optical and electrical properties of optoelectronic Devices.
10. Professional Memberships
IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ASQ American Society of Quality
(Divisions: Design & Construction, Education, Measurement, Quality man
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