Robert Giasolli currently serves as MANCEF's VP of the Americas.

Mr. Giasolli is a microsystem and manufacturing engineer with 10 years of executive experience and 19 years of engineering experience. He has product development and design experience developing RF/Optical, Sensor, Biomedical and MEMS modules. He has successfully developed multiple high technology, electromechanical products in high-volume manufacturing and startup environments.

MANCEF Contributions

Mr. Giasolli is the current VP of Americas and an active member of the MANCEF Executive Board, and has been instrumental in establishing the MANCEF Education Committee.

Robert serves as the Education Committee Co-Chair and encourages corporate and government relationships around Educational products and enabling MANCEF to be in a position to sell the Worlds best Nanotechnology educational products.

Robert co-wrote many of the chapters for both the series of the International Micro Nano Roadmap and was co-editor of the 2nd Edition.

Robert is also assisting the effort to develop a new International MNT Workforce Development chapter for the 3rd Edition of the MANCEF International Micro Nano Roadmap.

Education

Robert acquired his BS in Applied Physics from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1998. After several years of work including teaching primary school in Hawaii he returned to his own schooling to achieve an MS in Manufacturing Systems Engineering with an emphasis in micro and nano Engineering from Louisiana Tech University.

Career

After leaving academia for industry, he has served as a consultant, lead designer, and project engineer for numerous products spanning optical, RF, biomedical, and software enabling patent portfolio growth. He was a Solutions Architect in charge of numerous foundries and projects in Asia and North America while employed by Coventor. He is an entrepreneur that has co-founded a series of innovative companies including WiSpry, a telecommunications company, In-home Service Professionals, a nation-wide window covering installation logistics company, Educate For Tomorrow, developing products to teach advance sciences through products that include software gaming components, and most recently Innovasc, an innovative biotech start-up designing a new generation of intravascular devices.

The direction of vocational education, understanding teaching strategies that work, and establishing standards to aid in accreditation are also important to Robert. To support efforts in these areas he sits on several educational focused boards and advisory committees including Purdue Discovery Learning Center as an external advisory board member, and Central New Mexico's Southwest Center for Microsystems Education also as an external advisory board member. In addition, Robert is a sitting committee member for the Orthodontic Review Committee of the Commission on dental Accreditation.