Dr. Elsass' primary responsibility is for materials process and development. His experience includes design and assembly of material deposition tools as well as device fabrication in a cleanroom environment. Prior to his doctorate work, he obtained industrial research, development, and project management experience at the Dayton Power and Light Company from 1993-96, serving as a materials engineer and manager of the materials characterization lab where he performed failure analysis and research on new materials. His duties also included recommending and incorporating new technologies in an electric power generating station, and serving as project manager for contract work. He is co-founder of Agile Materials and Technologies, Inc. He received a BS degree in materials science and engineering from Purdue University in 1993, and his PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara in the Materials Engineering Department in 2001. His doctorate research involved growth and optimization electrical properties in novel semiconductor materials.