This month, Robert Childs, vacuum engineer and technical supervisor of the Alcator vacuum laboratory in MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, begins his term as president-elect of AVS: The Science & Technology Society. He succeeds Dawn A. Bonnell and will become president of the society in 2004.
“I am looking forward to continuing my 20-plus years of service to the AVS,” said Childs, “and would like the society to continue its efforts to bring back the involvement of the equipment manufacturers to help shape the future of the AVS. They were the ones that helped start the society almost 50 years ago and need to be better represented in the successes we, as a very diverse society, are enjoying today.”
Childs served in the US Air Force before joining MIT, where he has spent the past 33 years. Starting with work as an electronic technician in what is now...
