Philip M Anderson

DR. PHILIP M. ANDERSON has been a director of Carpenter since 2007 and is a member of Carpenter's Corporate Governance, Human Resources and Science and Technology Committees. Dr. Anderson is a professor of physics at Ramapo College of New Jersey, where he has taught since 1990. He holds more than 100 foreign and 34 U.S. patents, and was named Inventor of the Year by the New Jersey Inventor's Hall of Fame in 2001. He also is a respected consultant on technical and intellectual property on new technology and product development for Fortune 100 companies, with particular emphasis on security systems, medical devices, sensors, magnetics, acoustics and materials. Prior to teaching, he was founder, president and chief executive officer of Identitech Corp., 1986-1988; and new venture manager and senior research physicist at Allied Corp. (now Honeywell Corp.) from 1979-1986. Dr. Anderson received his B.S. in physics in 1970 from Widener University, M.S. degrees in both physics and electrical engineering from Drexel University in June 1977, and a Ph.D. in physics from Drexel in 1979. He served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force and National Guard from 1970-1975. He is a former director of Aerco International and Sigma-Netics. From 1997-2001, he was a member of the Peer Review Board of the U.S. Army's ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal.