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DIY with TI: Solar powered boombox
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What happens when you take inspiration from an outdoor festival in the Nevada desert that focuses on self-expression and self-reliance? If you are a DIYer who works at TI, you get a solar powered waterproof boombox. “I figured if I can build a boombox that can actually run off solar that would...
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Jun 18, 2013
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Mentoring At TI: Rafael Lizardi, Vice President and TI Corporate Controller
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Rafael Lizardi says his road from Captain in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to Vice President and Corporate Controller at TI was paved by mentors who helped him every step of the way. “Mentors are tremendously important. You are able to step back from the day-to-day and get advice on some...
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Jun 13, 2013
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DIY with TI: Beagle Brew Home-Brew Kit
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The American Homebrewers Association says there are more than 1 million homebrewers in the U.S., and TI product engineer Trevor Hubbard can be counted as one of them. TI recently asked TIers to show off their DIY projects using TI parts, and the self-proclaimed beer enthusiast couldn’t wait to...
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Jun 11, 2013
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Mentoring at TI: One Design Engineer Shares Her Story
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Buyue Zhang has been both the mentor and the mentee in her six years of working at TI. Zhang says she sees mentorship as an important part of her growth at TI and believes TI offers a unique environment where mentorship is encouraged. She feels there are people at TI who genuinely care about her well...
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Jun 7, 2013
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DIY With TI: TIers Come Up With Their Best Inventions Using TI Products
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TI asked employees to show off their best and most unique uses for TI products at the DIY with TI event on May 24. Sure enough, they did not disappoint – using products from across TI’s different product lines to create such unique inventions as a home beer brewing kit, 3-D LED coffee table...
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Jun 4, 2013
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Bike to work day around the TI world
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Friday, May 17 was “National Bike To Work Day” in the United States, and thousands of TIers in America and across the world decided to hop on two wheels for their morning commute. Scroll through this story to see TIers in action. TIer Josh Rendon stops for a quick photo op on the TI...
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May 31, 2013
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How to succeed at TI by really trying
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Miller Adair has had quite the meteoric rise through the ranks at TI. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and an M.B.A. He signed on with TI in the MCU MSP430™ product line and six years later, at the young age of 30, is now the general manager of the Sitara™...
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May 28, 2013
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A family that competes together, stays together
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Some families consider ‘quality family time’ to be a day at the park. Or popping popcorn and renting a movie. Or a trek to the zoo. But for the Moutinho family in Maine, ‘quality family time’ means building robots and winning competitions. It all began when the daughter of...
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May 23, 2013
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Xiaolin Lu First TIer Named Co-Chair of Jonsson School’s IAB
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Texas Instruments’ founders made history when they created UT Dallas decades ago. One of our own made history again recently. Xiaolin Lu, TI’s smart grid R&D manager, became the first TI employee to be appointed co-chair of the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science Industrial...
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May 14, 2013
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Take Ten: Q&A with Karthik Vasanth, General Manager for TI's Medical and High Reliability Business
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May 7, 2013
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TI Analog Design Engineer Wins Innovator of the Year Award
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TI analog design engineer, Yogesh Ramadass, was “ One to Watch ” back in January and has definitely earned that distinction. Ramadass has just been named Innovator of the Year in UBM’s 2013 Annual Creativity in Electronics Awards ( UBM ACE Awards ) for the energy harvesting work he’s...
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May 2, 2013
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Meet the unexpected man behind the marketing: TI’s Brad Ruzicka
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He’s an engineer – turned university campus inspirer. TI worldwide university marketing manager Brad Ruzicka’s path to his current position at TI follows an unlikely route. When Ruzicka was young, he had a passion for science and math. Math, science and technology magnet programs...
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Apr 22, 2013
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TIer Don Shaver is a tireless advocate for Power Line Communications standardization. For that, he just nabbed an IEEE award.
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“You are the recipient of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Power Line Communications 2013 TC-PLC Inter-disciplinary Research and Application Award,” the email read. The recipient: TIer Don Shaver, who is so humble, he nearly deleted the email before reading it – he was pleasantly...
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Apr 19, 2013
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TIer Sam Ciani is an EOP Employee of the Year
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TI Sherman wafer manufacturing facility manager Sam Ciani oversees more than 580 employees, managing the equipment, schedules and people who support the manufacturing facility. Outside of TI, he is an active community advocate. Ciani has just been recognized for these professional achievements, community...
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Apr 15, 2013
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No Limits: Talking with Chengdu-based IT manager Melody Liu
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Melody Liu wanted to be a scientist. A scientist, that is, until high school. Influenced by his parents’ own engineering careers and his to-the-T personality (“I like the attitude of doing things precisely and correctly,” he says), he switched his tracks and decided to become an engineer...
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Apr 2, 2013
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TI is opening a shiny new engineering lab at UC Berkeley. We get the details from TI chief technology officer Ahmad Bahai.
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In just two weeks, TI and the University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering open the doors to a state-of the-art engineering lab and hacker/maker lounge that will provide a hands-on, dynamic learning environment for more than 1,000 students yearly. It’s the result of a $2.2 million...
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Mar 28, 2013
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Do you have a brand? We all do. That’s the message TI’s John Fullilove is sharing.
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John Fullilove laughs when he reminisces about his first National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) convention. “My roommates and I just hopped in the car and showed up. It’s kind of scary – we didn’t really know what to do,” he says. “I was overwhelmed by all of the...
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Mar 26, 2013
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Mentorship and commitment to STEM earns TI’s Melendy Lovett a Maura Award
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She’s known among her peers as one with a steadfast commitment to advancing women and girls in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields (she has mentored more than 100 girls). She’s president of TI’s Education Technology unit, leading a global business focused on driving...
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Mar 22, 2013
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No Limits: Kyle Flessner, TI’s vice president of worldwide semiconductor quality and packaging
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Kyle Flessner was checking out an engineering job fair at Texas A&M University (where he was earning his master’s degree in statistics) and was getting dismissed at the very mention of “statistics.” No one was interested in a statistician. No one, that is, until he got to the...
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Mar 21, 2013
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It’s National Nutrition Month. We’re in on it.
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It’s National Nutrition Month. Instantly think of salad greens, fruit and glasses of milk? So did we. But TI’s wellness programs – ramped up during this time of year – go far beyond making sure there’s a balanced mix in the cafeteria (though, if you were wondering –...
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Mar 21, 2013
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One to Watch: TI Volunteer Fern Yoon
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TI analog applications engineer Fern Yoon has always been curious about how things work. As a child, she enjoyed taking apart electronic devices and putting them back together in her family's home in Malaysia. She recently turned this innate curiosity into a passion for helping children through United...
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Mar 15, 2013
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Brain power: TIer leads youths to robotics competition
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TI engineer Rachel Moore is a proud, self-described “nerd.” The test engineer in TI’s Multi-Cell Battery Charge Management (MBCM) group, who we covered in this story, has always been interested in math and science. While at Texas Tech University, she spent three summers working as...
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Mar 14, 2013
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Behind the Blogger: We talk to Bruce Trump, mentor and the voice of The Signal
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His blog, The Signal , tops the charts of TI’s 23 E2E (engineer to engineer) Community of blogs. His posts garner thousands of views every month. Basically, he stands in the No. 1 spot in TI’s public blog world. The man behind the magic? Bruce Trump, a Tucson, Arizona-based TIer who uses...
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Feb 28, 2013
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She’s inspiring both intern and professional female engineers: TI vice president Cecelia Smith leads Society of Women Engineers lunch
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Engineers are the solution – people who make a real impact in the world by finding ways to solve everyday problems. This mantra was the motto for the 2013 Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Region C Conference held in Dallas earlier this month. One of the women who helped get this message across...
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Feb 22, 2013
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One to Watch: TI test engineer Gregory Duperon
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“I’ve always believed that you can do good while also doing well,” says TI test engineer Gregory Duperon. A first-generation college student (who proudly received his bachelor's and master’s degrees from Georgia Tech), Duperon is not only a skilled TI test engineer, he’s...
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Feb 21, 2013
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