Gene Meieran received his BS degree from Purdue University, in 1959, and his ScD degrees from MIT in 1963, in the field of Material Science.
He joined Fairchild Semiconductor R&D in Palo Alto, CA in 1963, responsible for the materials analysis laboratories. He specialized in the characterization and analysis of semiconductor device materials.
He joined Intel in 1973 as Manager of Package Development. In 1977, he joined the Quality and Reliability Staff, with responsibility for Intel materials technology, the Analysis Laboratory, and for key elements of the wafer fab .In 1985, he was appointed as Intel Fellow, the second in the company's history and a Intel Sr. Fellow in 2003.. He has been working on developing advanced manufacturing strategy development in Intel's Technology Manufacturing Engineering group.
He has published about 50 papers in the fields of SPC, materials analysis, process and product reliability, and manufacturing technology development and has been awarded three international awards based on technical talks. Gene founded the Electronic Materials Symposium which since 1973, sponsors an annual meeting to discuss materials and processing technology for the semiconductor industry. He is the Chair for the Ross Tucker Memorial Awards Committee, which for the past 29 years has donated cash awards to San Francisco Bay-area university graduate students.
Gene has been on the Scientific and Education Advisory Board for Lawrence Berkeley Labs, the Advisory Boards for the Department of Electrical Engineering/Computer Science at UC Berkeley, and is currently on the Board of Advisors for the Materials Science Department at Purdue University and the Board of Visitors at the University of New Mexico, and on the Advisory Board for the Ford Design Institute. He was appointed as Director for Research for the MIT Leaders For Manufacturing Program in 1993, a position he held until 2001. He has served on numerous government and industry panels dealing with manufacturing technology and policy issues, such as the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Education Foundation and the SRC Factory Systems Board. For three years, he was the American judge at the European Union Science Fair, and has been the Intel judge for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for 10 years.
In 1987, Purdue University elected him as Distinguished Engineering Alumni, in 1998 Dr. Meieran was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and in 2000 was named as Purdue University All American Band Alum of the Year.
Gene is a zealous collector of mineral specimens from around the world, and has played the flute in various symphonic bands.