Professor, Dartmouth College, Senior Technologist
Ron is currently an Instructional Professor at Dartmouth College, a Senior Technologist at Indium Corporation and a Consultant with ITM. Prior to these assignments, he had over thirty years experience in electronic and optoelectronic packaging and assembly at IBM, Universal Instruments and Cookson Electronics.
He has authored or edited 7 books on science, electronics, and optoelectronics and numerous technical papers and authored articles for Scientific American. Dr. Lasky holds numerous patent disclosures and is the developer of the several new concepts in SMT processing software relating to cost estimating, line balancing and process optimization. He is the co-creator of engineering certification exams in electronic assembly and the Director of Dartmouth’s Lean Six Sigma Program. Ron was awarded the Surface Mount Technology Association’s Founder’s Award in 2003 and SMTA’s Member of Technical Distinction Award in 2021.
He owns four earned degrees, including a Ph.D. from Cornell University in Materials Science. Ron is also a New York State licensed professional engineer and a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt.