Design News -- in partnership with Mouser Electronics -- set out to find the most innovative and influential design engineers. The response was overwhelming. Readers sent us lots of stories of engineers who are creating new trends, making significant impacts on the industry, and creating products that are improving and changing lives.
Click on the image below to read about 13 of our finalists.
Jeff Smoot
Vice president of engineering, CUI Inc.
Smoot plays a critical role in setting the strategy and product development roadmap for the company. One area where he has had an impact is in the development of CUI's AMT capacitive encoder line. He worked tirelessly to bring the proprietary technology to market with the first products, the AMT102 and 103 incremental encoders. He has subsequently led the development of absolute and commutation versions of the AMT.
Click here to read about the winner of our contest, Punya Prakash, and click here to read about the rest of our finalists.
Congrats to the short listed peoples. It seems that more than half of them are from TI. I think its better to limit one entry from each company, rather are many from the same company.
Seems like TI is behind this "contest". Strange that so many of the candidates come from same company. Not that TI is not innovative, rather the opposite, but I am pretty sure there are many others with much more "rising engineering stars".
I see that the Beagleboard is responsible for two of the entries in this list. Ubuntu and Android installs on the board. But, I would like to see a version of Windows get installed on this or some similar board. The more software support, I am sure it would be successful.
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