C4 TECHNOLOGIES PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATES

Prof. Richard Farris
Prof. Farris is Distinguished University Professor and is Head of the Polymer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts. He also holds appointments as adjunct professor of Civil Engineering and Chemical Engineering. For 11 years he was Co-Principle Investigator of the Center for the University of Massachusetts-Industry Research in Polymers, (CUMIRP), which today is the oldest NSF University-Industry Center in America and has over 40 industrial partners. His teaching and research have focused on the development of a fundamental understanding of the physical and mechanical behavior of polymeric materials using the classical continuum methods of experimental mechanics, physics and thermodynamics. His research group is recognized for the development of a number of unique instruments and characterization techniques. He specializes in exploring the behavior of solid polymers and composites, with a strong emphasis on fibers and coatings.

His industrial experience includes working at Aerojet General where he was a Senior Engineering Specialist. His work at Aerojet focused on the physical and mechanical behavior of solid propellant materials. Also at Aerojet, he supervised a group dedicated to developing analysis methods and test equipment for mechanical property determinations. Prof. Farris is an expert on problems of polymer mechanical properties and instrumentation for thermal-mechanical property measurements. During his tenure at UMass 45 students have earned their Ph.D. under his guidance. He has an active and prolific research group of doctoral students, has published over 250 refereed papers and holds 13 patents.

Jean-Claude Chastang
Jean-Claude is an optical scientist who is highly skilled in optical engineering and instrumentation particularly regarding applications in semiconductor manufacturing and new product research and development. He has experience in the area of optical system design including: component characteristics, computer simulations, imaging, polarization, illumination, mounting, fixturing and alignment. He has patented a highly innovative oblique viewing microscope which is in wide use for inspection purposes in the microelectronic industry as well as a system for corneal sculpting using lasers to correct visual errors such as myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism.

He has worked at two French national laboratories, the Itek Corporation (now Raytheon) and with IBM, in France at the Paris Scientific Center and in the U.S. at the T.J. Watson Research Center for 24 years, in various areas of optics (instrumentation, metrology, photolithography and ophthalmology). His present activities are still in optics (optical design and engineering) but also now include computer graphics and CAD as these are, of course, new means of obtaining images (and are also very useful for the practice of optics). J.C. Chastang received his higher education in France where he obtained the “Ingenieur-Opticien” Diploma from the Institute of Optics of the University of Paris. He holds 7 optics related US patents. He received from IBM an Outstanding Invention Award as well 4 Invention Plateaus Awards . He is the author of 32 publications in various scholarly journals, all optics related. He is a member of SPIE, ACM (SIGGRAPH) and IEEE.

Dr. Richard Spriggs
Dr. Spriggs is the former Director of the New York State Center for Advanced Ceramic TEchnology at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He also serves as the Director of Sponsored Research. Dr. Spriggs is a consulting associate to C4 Technologies on matters relating to ceramic materials.

He holds a B.S. degree in Ceramics from The Pennsylvania State University, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Ceramic Engineering from the University of Ilinois. Prior to joining the Alfred Faculty in 1987, he served 9 years as a senior staff officer and staff director of the National Research Council at the National Academy of Sciences. Prior to that, he spent 16 years at Lehigh University, where he initiated the ceramics program and later served as Vice President for Administration. Earlier industrial research experience was at AVCO Corporation and Ferro Corporation.

In addition to academic administration and project management, his interests include correlations among processing, structure and properties of dense ceramics, hot pressing of ceramics and self-propagating high-temperature synthesis. He is author or co-author of over 100 research papers in his field as well as, three U.S. patents.

A Fellow, Past President, and Distinguished Life Member of The American Ceramic Society (ACerS), he is a member of the Basic Science, Engineering Ceramics and Electronics Divisions, The Ceramic Educatoinal Council and the National Institute of Ceramic Engineers. Dr. Spriggs has received numerous honors and awards for his contributions to ceramic science, technology and education, including the Ross Coffin Purdy Award of ACerS. He has also been elected to membership in the International Academy of Ceramics, where he has served as a trustee since 1988, and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Dr. David Anschel
Dr. Anschel is a Director at C4 Technologies. He is skilled in supercomputing applications and using Cray X-MP supercomputers and Sun Workstations. His work has received support from the Department of Energy at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA. Dr. Anschel has received funding from the National Science Foundation Japan Program for assignment to the Japanese National Institute of Neuroscience, Tokyo, Japan, and is actively involved in NASA sponsored work at the John F. Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, FL.

Dolores Gilbert
Dolores is an officer of the C4 Technologies Company. She is Secretary of the Corporation and also carries out assignments in Conference Marketing and Coordination and editing promotional marketing material.

Judith Finley
Judith is responsible for Technical Information Acquisitions at C4 Technologies. She is a librarian and technical information specialist. She is also responsible for and assists in the writing, design and editing of promotional marketing material for C4. Judith also assists on client projects as business information coordinator and in searching patent and corporate information databases. Her education includes a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois.

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