Alpha Industries elects Dr. Charles A. Zraket to the board of directors.WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 1995--Alpha Industries Inc. (AMEX Symbol: AHA) today announced the election of Dr. Charles A. Zraket to the board of directors increasing the number of directors from five to six. Zraket is a trustee and prior president and chief executive officer of the MITRE MITRE - [not an acronym but a company name] many mistakenly believe the letters stand for Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research & Engineering MITRE - Missile Test and Readiness Equipment Corp., a not-for-profit systems engineering and research corporation. Zraket spend more than 30 years at MITRE in various executive management and technical positions. Zraket is currently a trustee of Northeastern University Northeastern University, at Boston, Mass.; coeducational; founded 1898 as a program within the Boston YMCA, inc. 1916, university status 1922, fully independent of the YMCA 1948. It is noted for its cooperative education plan combining classroom work, internships, and practicums. The university's graduate programs include those in business, computer science, pharmacy, communications, education, engineering, law, and social sciences., Beth Israel Hospital and the Hudson Institute, and chairman of the Computer Museum Some Keyboard! A boy has fun on the giant keyboard in the Boston Museum's Walk-Through Computer that opened at the end of 1995. (Image by FAYFOTO/John Rich; courtesy of The Computer Museum See Computer Museum. History Center.)  The Largest Graphics Board in the World Visitors explored the ceiling-high audio/video board inside the same exhibit as above.. He is also a director of the Aspect Medical Systems Corp. and the Wyman-Gordon Corp., and a retired director of the Bank of Boston and Boston Edison. Zraket's numerous memberships and affiliations include the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Council of Foreign Relations. He holds a B.S.E.E. from Northeastern University, and S.M.E.E. from M.I.T., and an honorary doctorate of engineering from Northeastern University. Serving the needs of a broad range of commercial and defense markets, Alpha is a world-leading manufacturer of microwave and millimeter-wave monolithic integrated circuits (MMICs), advanced microwave ceramic devices, dielectric resonator 1. an instrument used to intensify sounds. 2. an electric circuit in which oscillations of a certain frequency are set up by oscillations of the same frequency in another circuit. filters and subassemblies and semiconductor devices. Alpha is a supplier to all the major commercial wireless markets including cellular telephone and personal communications systems/networks (PCS/PCN). CONTACT: Alpha Industries, Woburn David J. Aldrich, 617/935-5150 |
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