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Yael Nemirovsky

Yael Nemirovsky is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Yael Nemirovsky rather than just read about it. In short: Yael Nemirovsky (Hebrew: יעל נמירובסקי; born July 21, 1944) is an Israeli chemist and electrical engineer known for her research in microelectromechanical systems and microoptoelectromechanical systems. She is a professor emerita of electrical engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

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Reference excerpt

Yael Nemirovsky (Hebrew: יעל נמירובסקי; born July 21, 1944) is an Israeli chemist and electrical engineer known for her research in microelectromechanical systems and microoptoelectromechanical systems. She is a professor emerita of electrical engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Education and career Nemirovsky was born on July 21, 1944, in Haifa, then part of Mandatory Palestine. She studied chemistry at the Technion, earning a bachelor's degree in 1966 and completing her Ph.D. in 1971. She became a research scientist at Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, also taking an adjunct lecturer position at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where she began working in electrical engineering, on topics including surface acoustic wave devices and optoelectronics. After working at Rafael from 1972 to 1980, she returned to academia in 1980, as a senior lecturer in electrical engineering at the Technion. She became an associate professor in 1985 and a full professor in 2011. She retired from the Technion as professor emerita in 2013, and from 2012 to 2015 headed the department of electrical engineering at Kinneret College. She was the founder of BlueBird Optical MEMS Inc., its president from 2001 to 2002, and its chief scientist from 2002 to 2005. Since 2014 she has been chief scientist of TODOS Technologies Ltd., a spin-off from the Technion developing CMOS-based infrared sensors.

Recognition Nemirovsky was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 1999, "for contributions to compound semiconductor devices and technology". She is also a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Yael Nemirovsky

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Yael Nemirovsky ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Yael Nemirovsky

In research: Yael Nemirovsky appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Yael Nemirovsky in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Yael Nemirovsky is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1944 births, 20th-century Israeli engineers, 20th-century Israeli women engineers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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