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SIA STAFF : Chuck Fraust

Charles L. (Chuck) Fraust is Director, Environment, Health and Safety for the Semiconductor Industry Association a position he has held since 1999. Up until the time he joined SIA, he was a Senior Staff Engineer for Lucent Technologies, Microelectronics Group, serving in the capacity of Corporate Consultant and lead Microelectronics Environmental Health Engineer. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the Cooper Union and his M.S. and Ph.D in Environmental Health Engineering from Northwestern University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania and a Certified Industrial Hygienist.

Dr. Fraust’s professional career started with Western Electric in 1968 at their semiconductor manufacturing facility in Allentown, Pennsylvania working on issues related to product contamination. He was subsequently tasked with developing EHS programs for the Allentown Works. Chuck stayed with the Allentown facility through its transition to AT&T Technologies, AT&T Microelectronics, and the Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group. He left Lucent Technologies shortly before Agere Systems was spun off.

Dr. Fraust represented Lucent Technologies on the Semiconductor Industry Association's Environment, Safety and Health Committees and chaired numerous industry committees in this capacity. He was the Lucent Technologies ES&H representative to SEMATECH and International SEMATECH and is a former ES&H Council Chair. Additionally, he serves as a representative, and former chair, of the SIA contingent to the World Semiconductor Council ESH Taskforce. He currently is chair of the WSC ESH Taskforce PFC Working Group. Additionally, Dr. Fraust is a member of the Domestic Technical Working Group for the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors. He is also a member of the Industrial Advisory Board for the NSF/SRC Engineering Research Center for Environmentally Benign Semiconductor Manufacturing.

In 1994, Dr. Fraust was named the Lehigh Valley Professional Engineer of the Year and, subsequently, the Pennsylvania Professional Engineer of the Year in 1995. He has been a longtime Northampton County appointee to the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission having served as past chair of the Commission and past chair of the Environment Committee.

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