James D. Plummer

John M. Fluke Professor of Electrical Engineering, former Dean (1999 - 2014), School of Engineering. While Dean, he was heavily involved in changing engineering education to produce graduates with a broad set of technical, entrepreneurial and innovation skills. One of the principal developers of SUPREM, the most widely used silicon process modeling computer program. Major contributions include physically based models for diffusion, ion implementation, oxidation, and transient phenomena. Developed, with his students, new semiconductor devices including the IGBT, thyristor memory cells, IMOS devices and new versions of high-voltage devices and integrated circuits technologies.