Biography

EPHRAIM SUHIR is Research Professor with the Portland State University, Portland, OR, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is also CEO of the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) ERS Co. in Los Altos CA. Dr. Suhir received a PhD in applied mechanics and mathematics from Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. Dr. Suhir is Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE) and the Int. Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS); Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Physics (UK), and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE). He is also Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and Foreign Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Engineering, Ukraine (Ephraim was born in this country). Dr. Suhir has authored 400+ publications (patents, books, book chapters, technical papers in archival journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings, articles in trade magazines), presented numerous keynote and invited talks and taught courses worldwide, and received many professional awards, including the 1996 Bell Labs Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) Award (Ephraim was for about twenty years with the Basic Research area of Bell labs in Murray Hill, NJ) and the 2004 ASME Worcester Read Warner Medal for “outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering”. He is the third “Russian American”, after Stephen Timoshenko and Igor Sikorsky, who received this prestigious award. Dr. Suhir published two monographs (“Structural Analysis of Electronic and Fiber Optic Systems”, Van-Nostrand, 1991, and “Applied Probability for Engineers and Scientists”, McGraw-Hill, 1997), and many edited and co-edited books. Dr. Suhir’s major area of research is mechanical behavior and reliability of electronics and photonics materials, packages and systems. Several years ago he started to apply his background and skills in applied math also to human psychology related situations, when human’s and equipment’s performances contribute jointly to the outcome of an aerospace, military or another mission or an extraordinary situation, when human’s role is as critical, as the reliability of materials and systems. Dr. Suhir’s CRC monograph “Human-in-the-Loop: Probabilistic Evaluation of the Outcome of an Aerospace Mission” will appear shortly.

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Research Interest

Materials Science and Engineering, Applied Mechanics, Composite and “Smart” Materials and Systems,  Solder Materials and Solder Joint Interconnections in Electronic and Optical Engineering, Polymeric Materials in Electronics and Photonics,