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The money was used to help establish a new laboratory to teach about computers that interface with instruments and various sensors/transducers. The laboratory will help users program a PC to take data either from a detector/transducer (light, temperature, pressure, voltage, current) or from a test instrument.
Xandex is a Petaluma-based semiconductor test instrument manufacturer and is a national leader in manufacturing inkers used in marking semiconductor chips.
"The idea was to put together a laboratory that would help us make the faculty more familiar with the technology," said Dr. Saeid Rahimi, dean of the School of Natural Sciences, who commented on the value of the donation.
Rahimi said that there will be workshops to teach the professors how to use the equipment to log in and analyze data and to program instruments. The information will then be brought into the classroom to teach students how to use the equipment.
Xandex CEO Kamran Shamsavari, who facilitated the donation, is a member of the North Bay Technology Roundtable and has been very active in the educational activities of the group.
"Mr. Shamsavari is quite concerned about the hi-tech educational needs of the North Bay and is willing to do something about it," Rahimi said.
Xandex's donation is one of many that have been made over the past few years from local hi-tech companies to subsidize this new Masters program at Sonoma State University.
For further information contact:
Dr. Saied Rahimi, Dean of the School of Natural Sciences,
(707) 664-2169
saeid.rahimi@sonoma.edu
Kamran Shamsavari, Xandex CEO, (707) 763-7799
PHOTO CAPTION:
Xandex CEO Kamran Shamsavari (center) presents a check to SSU President Ruben Arminana (left) and Dr. Saeid Rahimi, Dean of the School of Natural Sciences at Sonoma State University.
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