Paul D. Franzon is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University . He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide , Adelaide , Australia in 1988. He has also worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, DSTO Australia, Australia Telecom and two companies he cofounded, Communica and LightSpin Technologies. His current interests center on the technology and design of complex systems incorporating VLSI, MEMS, advanced packaging and molecular electronics. Application areas currently being explored include novel advanced packaging structures, Network Processors, SOI baseband radio circuit design for deep space, on-chip inductor and inductance issues, RF MEMS, and moleware circuits and characterization. He has lead several major efforts and published over 120 papers in these areas. In 1993 he received an NSF Young Investigators Award, in 2001 was selected to join the NCSU Academy of Outstanding Teachers, in 2003, selected as a Distinguished Alumni Professor, and in 2005 won the Alcoa award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.