David L. Dickensheets, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Background
Dr. Dickensheets joined the Montana State ECE faculty in 1997. He received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1997 under the mentorship of Professor Gordon Kino in the Ginzton Laboratory.
A native of the rural west, Dr. Dickensheets received the BSEE degree from the University of
Colorado in 1985 and the MSEE degree from the University of Washington in 1988. From
1988 until 1991 he worked as a design engineer for the Hewlett-Packard Company in
its Medical Products Division in Andover, MA, performing low-noise analog circuit
design for cardiac ultrasound imagers.
Dr. Dickensheets' research interests include MEMS and MOEMS (acronyms for micro{-opto}-electro-mechanical
systems), active and adaptive optics, optical microscopy and spectroscopy of tissues,
and the application of microfabrication techniques to develop miniature imaging instruments
for biological research, health care and industry. He teaches courses in the areas
of circuits and electronics, signals and systems, electromagnetic fields and optics.
Dr. Dickensheets is the Director of MONT, the Montana Nanotechnology Facility, a shared-use
facility where students and researchers from both academia and industry can perform
microdevice and nanotechnology research and development. MONT is part of the NSF supported
NNCI National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure program.
Dr. Dickensheets has published over 80 papers and three book chapters related to optical instrumentation and MEMS, and has been granted 14 patents. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS and MOEMS, and has chaired several SPIE conferences on MOEMS and Miniaturized Systems. Dr. Dickensheets is a Fellow of SPIE, a senior member of IEEE, and a member of OSA.