Honoring Dr. Lynn Fuller

When the history of Microelectronic Engineering is written, there will be a long chapter devoted to Dr. Lynn Fuller. Dr. Fuller completed his BS and MSEE degrees at RIT in 1970 and 1973. He joined the electrical engineering faculty in 1970, and made RIT's first transistors in 1978 teaching a senior level professional elective course in semiconductor devices. That course, along with Dr. Fuller's dedication, led to the launch of RIT's program in Microelectronic Engineering. At that time, no other university in the world had attempted to educate undergraduate students in the area of micro-e.  Dr. Fuller was given founding responsibility for the development and implementation of the program, funding and creation of the laboratory facility, and development of the graduate programs in micro-e, including the creation of the RIT Microsystems Ph.D. Program. 

Please share your thoughts about Lynn as an educator, mentor, advisor, and colleague. Your tribute will appear on this site and will be shared directly with him. You may upload your memories in written form in the form below. You may also upload a photo.

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Kevin Sackett

Senior Director of Advancement, Engineering

Development

University Advancement

kmsdar@rit.edu

585-475-6711

The Dr. Lynn Fuller Endowed Scholarship is intended to honor Lynn’s contributions to RIT, the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, and especially the generations of students who benefited from the Microelectronic Engineering program that he helped create. This fund will support undergraduate and graduate students within the Microelectronic Engineering program. Students will experience not only the courses and “hands-on” lab activities initiated by Dr. Fuller, but will be prepared with the necessary tools to become future leaders in the microelectronics industry.