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The Author:
Dennis Dauenhauer |
With diligence for anything but school work I managed
to graduate in the lower half of the 1964 Lemont, Illinois Hill School
class of less than a hundred people. I attended North Central College in
Naperville, IL until I was asked to leave for conduct inappropriate for
the college (something was inappropriate about consuming alcoholic beverages
at a religious college.)
I worked as an iron worker in Chicago on several high
rise construction jobs. I worked in the steel mill in Lemont, Ceco Steel.
Finally, since I had a low draft number (some of you may remember the Vietnam
draft number days) I enlisted in the Marine Corps and went to San Diego.
The Marines has a way of making converts to a more disciplined life style.
After three years, nine months and twenty-three days (thirteen months in
Vietnam) I left the Corps a Staff Sergeant with a different perspective
for a formal education. I graduated second in the class from the University
of Illinois with a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
I was hired by Fairchild Semiconductor and entered a cooperative MBA program
between Fairchild and the University of Santa Clara. While the Marine Corps
experience served me well at National Semiconductor it is the MBA I received
from the University of Santa Clara that has best served me since.
The companies, people and universities I reference are
either places I have visited or people I have know over my twenty years
in the sensor business.
Market Information: non captive
Pressure or Acceleration
Sensing independent of technology.
1998
Companies: Sales $50 to $100 Million
Data Instruments
Kavlico
Motorola AIEG
Texas Instruments
Companies: Sales $25 to
$50 Million
Honeywell Microswitch
IC Sensors
Lucas: Schaevitz & Novasensors
Motorola Semiconductor
Sensonor
Sensotec
Setra
Companies: Sales $10 to
$25 Million
Analog Devices
Keller
Kulite
Sensym
Companies: Sales less than
$10 Million
Aktiv-Electronic
Copal
Dresser
Exar-Silicon Microstructures
Foxboro ICT
Fujikura
Iskra
ISS
Microsensors China
Measurement Specialities
PSI Tronics
Sensortechnics
Sentir
Span
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