Dr. Seth Bates
Biographical Information
Phone 408 924-3227
IS Bldg. rm. 111
E-mail: seth.bates@sjsu.edu

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photo taken at Morgan's Coffee Shop, Monterey, August 2006
Seth is wearing his hand-painted "Life is a Crabaret" shirt.

Vita Brevis (sic)

HS Diploma, The Putney School, Putney, Vermont, 1966

BA in Philosophy and Biology, Univ. Calif. San Diego, Revelle College, 1976
Political Philosophy and Vertebrate Biology

MA Industrial Arts, SJSU, 1978 
Technology Education and Education in Materials Technology

Ph.D. in Industrial Technology, University of Northern Iowa, 1981
Specializing in Materials Analysis and Selection

Certified Manufacturing Technologist, Society of Manufacturing Engineers

Certified Senior Industrial Technologist, National Association of Industrial Technology

Dr. Bates is chair and professor in the Department of Aviation and Technology, and specializes in Industrial Materials Technology and in Computer-Integrated Manufacturing.  He has worked in industry (Applied Materials, 2000 and 2001, and Chamberlain Manufacturing Corp., 1981) as an advanced manufacturing methods engineer, and is the owner of Teknos Computer Services, providing computing and networking consulting to business and industry in the Monterey and Santa Clara Valley areas, providing computer network design and installation, computer training, management, and development.  Dr. Bates also ran a university bus service, and was an executive chef, in the San Diego area.

Seth is currently President of CITEA and CITEA Foundation and serves as EList editor and web site manager for CITEA (www.citea.org).  He also has been conference coordinator for the 1988 NAIT National Convention, and the 2003 and 2005 CITEA Conferences, which were held at San Jose State University.

SME Educator of the Year for 1999-2000, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Seattle, Washington, September, 2000
Outstanding Industrial Technology Professor of 1999, National Association of Industrial Technology, Panama City Beach, November, 1999
WESTEC University Challenge competitions at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, awards for senior class projects:
     2003 -- Second Prize.  The Home Machinist's Rotary Table
     2000 -- Grand Prize.  The Grasshopper Off-Road Wheelchair
     1999 -- First Place.  The Go-Kart Racer
     1997 -- Grand Prize.  The Shock-Lock Off-Road Bicycle suspension system
     1996 -- Third Prize.  The Rack Lobster Bicycle Rack system for pickups and vans
     1995 -- First Place.  The Rocket Launcher - an education toy for high school science and technology classes.

Personal

Wife Tania, son Seth, and daughter Heidi live in Monterey in the trees with lots of animals.  I loves singing, skiing, fly fishing, classical, western, and jazz music, and photography. Addicted to radio talk shows and epic science fiction.

Computer-Integrated Manufacturing:  located in Engineering Room E-101-103
PC-based Ethernet computer network, state-of-the-art computer workstations, computer software for manufacturing-related tasks including computer-aided design, computer-aided manufacturing, numerical control programming, numerical control machining including milling (several CNC mills), measurement (CMM), and robotics.

Materials Testing and Analysis:  located in Engineering Room E-105
The Department shares the Engineering College Basic Materials Laboratory, which includes a full range of destructive and non-destructive test equipment, environmental conditioning and heat treatment capabilities, and metallography and other microscopy capability.

Dr. Bates provides consultation and workshops in computer and networking technologies, Computer-Integrated Manufacturing for smaller companies and start-ups, materials testing and analysis, problem solving for manufacturing production, and software tools for manufacturing. 

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