Luke of Turgeon Engineering

Biography:

Dr. Turgeon spent his entire career from 1964 to the present dealing with computing machines in one way or another. In the summer of 1964, he joined the United States Air Force (USAF) and after completing basic training attended personnel training that entailed the automation of personnel records on to IBM cardboard cards.

In 1968 he was accepted as a full-time student in the electrical engineering department at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass obtaining a BSEE in 1971. Following his graduation, he was granted a research assistantship to pursue a master’s degree, which entailed the modeling and computer simulation of electrical signals propagating in plasma environments. Following his master’s degree in 1972, he received further teaching research funding to pursue dc-dc power converters reliability. The study entailed the modeling and computer simulations of switching solid-state devices that included non-isothermal behavior and p-n junction breakdowns, which occur when switching inductive loads. In 1977 he was granted a PhD in EE and published the results.

In 1977 he received an assistant professorship in the EE department at the Univ. of South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. In the 1979 he resigned and joined AT&T Bell Labs in Reading, Pa. that involved the modeling and design of bipolar integrated circuits. In 1987 he resigned and founded Turgeon Engineering Inc. that still exists. At Turgeon Engineering with the assistance of numerous employees he continued in modeling, design, and simulation for AT&T as well as numerous other companies and when the Reading plant closed, the fabrication was transferred to other factories such as Northrup Grumman, TI, ELMOS, and TSMC.

Dr. Turgeon is the author of 2 recently published books in his History of Computing Devices series.