Dr. Len Trombetta earned a B.S. in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1976, and a Ph.D. in Physics from Lehigh University in 1984. His Ph.D. dissertation was the result of research done at the Army Research Laboratory, Fort Monmouth, NJ, where he worked from 1981 until 1986. He joined the UH faculty in 1986 and is currently an Associate Professor. Dr. Trombetta enjoys teaching courses in electronics and solid state device physics. His research is on the electrical properties of semiconductors, and of insulators used in the fabrication of semiconductor devices. He is the ABET coordinator for ECE programs.