Dr. Stephen C. Hayden MBS Diamond Product Technical Manager

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Education:

BS, University of Washington, Physics
PhD, The Pennsylvania State University, Physics

Experience:

Dr. Hayden joined GE in 1975. His first assignments were in GE’s Space Division designing crystal growth experiments to fly in NASA’s long duration flight program. He transferred to Specialty Materials department, now GE Superabrasives, in 1976. Since then, he has held a variety of positions in R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing and Marketing. He started as an Application Engineer for Borazon* CBN, became Manager of Compacts Process Development and then Operations Manager of GE’s Dublin, Ireland, facility. He has also served as Quality Manager, Application Development Manager and Manager of MBS Diamond Engineering. He has been in his current position since 1996.

Dr. Hayden has authored or co-authored numerous publications, primarily internal GE, and has been granted several patents.

Technical interests:

Currently Dr. Hayden is actively engaged in better understanding the mechanisms by which saw diamond cuts. The results of this work will be better diamond products for better diamond tools.

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