Ken Goldstein, Ph.D.
Phoenix, AZ
Tel 480.767.2400
Fax 480.767.2500
e-mail: keng@cleanroom-consultants.com
Experience
Facilities consulting and teaching with focus on contamination
control planning, design, construction, certification of cleanrooms and
ultra-high purity distribution systems.
Credentials: Texas
A&M University -
Ph.D., Industrial Engineering
MEIE, Industrial Engineering
BSIE, Industrial Engineering
Memberships: Institute of Environmental Sciences
Institute of Industrial Engineers
Highlights:
1997-Pres.
Cleanroom Consultants, Inc. - Scottsdale, AZ
Principal in consulting firm specializing in cleanrooms and
high purity utility systems. Consulting, course development and teaching for
clients located in the US and Asia.
1989-97
Architecture and Engineering Design Firms
Contamination control and project specialist for A&E firms.
Projects involved fab programming, layouts, airflow analyses, UHP gas and DI
water delivery systems, upgrades during production, development and
implementation of construction protocols, etc. Clients included AMD, IBM, DEC,
HP, TI, Allegro MicroSystems, National Semiconductor, Motorola, Kodak, Unitrode,
TEVA Pharmaceutical.
1988-89
Advanced Micro Devices - Austin, TX
Project Manager for design and construction of EE2/EE4
Photolithography expansion, class 1 cleanroom with extremely aggressive
schedule: BOD approval in late August, room certification and tool installation
five months later.
1979-88
Texas Instruments - Dallas, TX - Managed facilities contamination control
group. Certified all new cleanrooms. Qualified vendors of uhp materials.
Exercised quality oversight of cleanroom design and
construction.
Other Experience:
1973-79 Texas A&M University, College
Station, TX - Research and teaching while in graduate school.
1969-73 Mason & Hangar - Silas Mason Company,
Amarillo, TX - Industrial Engineer for prime contractor in the AEC/DOE weapons
production complex.
Partial Listing - Recent Articles, Papers, Presentations:
- "Engineering Thermoplastic Materials for Cleanroom Applications" -
CleanRooms Magazine, October 1990
- "An Overview of Particles in Cleanrooms: Air, Process Gases and Liquids,
Surfaces and Tooling" - tutorial presented at the Fine Particle Society Annual
Meeting '91
- "Evaluation of Proposed Federal Standard 209E" - Journal of the Institute
of Environmental Sciences, September, 1992
- "Use Point Gas Purification - Upgrading The Older Fab" - presented at the
Institute of Environmental Sciences Annual Technical Meeting '92
- Design of Cleanroom Air Flows for Particle Control Using CFD Analysis:
Case Studies" - Particles in Gases and Liquids: Detection, Characterization
and Control, edited by K.L. Mittal, Plenum Press, 1993, p.171-187
- "Integration of Facilities and Microenvironments" - presented at
CleanRooms East '93
- "Equipment Hookup: Costs and Complications" - presented at CleanRooms East
'94
- "Clean Air Knife Drying of Clean Parts" - presented at CleanRooms East '95
and International Halon Alternatives Conference 95
- A Tutorial on IES-RP-012 (Considerations in Cleanroom Design) - presented
at the Institute of Environmental Sciences Annual Technical Meeting '95, '96,
97. Also presented at CleanRooms West '95 and CleanRooms East '95, 96, 97,
98
- "Cleanrooms: Factors to Consider Prior to Design" - Institute of
Environmental Sciences Tutorial Short Courses (one day) - presented in Boston,
Minneapolis, Sunnyvale, Portland (OR) and others being arranged
- "Cleanroom Planning, Design and Construction" - 3 day seminars presented
in Kuala Lumpur and Johore Bahru, Malaysia - January 97
- "The Road Toward Cleanroom Design" - presented at 3C 97, Birmingham,
England, sponsored by the Scottish Society for Contamination Control, February
97
- "Particle Removal Mechanisms" - presented at CleanRooms West97
- "High Purity Facility Distribution Systems" - presented at CleanRooms
West97
- "Overview of Cleanrooms and the Cleanroom Planning Process," "Cleanroom
Mechanical Design Concepts" and "Managing the Design and Construction of
Cleanroom Facilities" - three 2 day seminars presented in Penang, Malaysia -
November 97
- "Cleanroom Project Management" presented at Institute of Environmental
Sciences Annual Technical Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, April 98
- "Cleanrooms: Planning, Design, Construction and Operations" 3 day
seminar sponsored by Hong Kong Productivity Council, Kowloon, Hong Kong, July
98
- "Cleanroom Protocol" presented at CleanRooms/Asia, July 98, Singapore
- "Particles in Cleanrooms" The Journal of
A2C2, July 98