1948
Mr. Black is born in Kansas City, Missouri to Wilbur Charles and Frances Nichols Black.
1971
Mr. Black receives a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas.
1972
Mr. Black receives a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
1972
Mr. Black becomes a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey.
1977
Mr. Black becomes an Associate, Senior Associate, and then Staff engineer at IBM in Boulder, Colorado. He serves here until 1984.
1982
Mr. Black serves as a scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts of America.
1984
Mr. Black is promoted to an Advisory engineer at IBM in Kingston, New York.
1986
Mr. Black serves as a guest lecturer for a course on analog circuit design at Ulster County Community College.
1990
Mr. Black becomes an IBM Kingston/Poughkeepsie site representative to corporate wide power design seminar series. He presents technical papers at eight seminars over the next three years.
1993
Mr. Black is appointed Section Head of the Offline Applications Group for National Semiconductor in Santa Clara, California.
1993
Mr. Black serves as a workshop panelist at the High Frequency Power Conversion Conference.
1996
Mr. Black becomes manager of the Power Conversion Department at Sun Microsystems in Menlo Park, California. During tenure, he was chair of a corporate power architecture group (Power Systems Strategic Working Group).
2004
Mr. Black becomes manager of the Discrete Applications Department at Fairchild Semiconductor.
2004
Mr. Black serves as a panelist at the Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition.
2007
Mr. Black writes a paper for PESC2007, “Impact of Source Inductance on Synchronous Buck Regulator FET Shoot Through Performance.”
2013
Mr. Black presents a paper at IMAPS 2013 titled, “A Detailed Analysis of How Power Stage and Power Clip Products Achieve Optimized Power Density.”
2014
Mr. Black retires as an electrical engineer.