Short bio of Jim Bender, BSEE 1976 MSE 1977
Guest speaker for ECE400, Fall 2013
Jim Bender is a graduate of Purdue University, receiving his BSEE in 1976 and MSE in 1977 and is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas. Following internship and full time employment with Underwriters Laboratories in product safety compliance, Jim joined Texas Instruments in 1979 and his 33 year career at TI includes quality and product safety management including leading TI’s subcontracted semiconductor assembly/test quality function for 7 Asia based countries.
He is currently the Director of WW Product Regulatory Compliance, a key assignment that ties directly to today’s subject, “Ethics in Engineering”, and making “right” choices when faced with profit conflict.
