UT Engineering Dean Ben Streetman founded the Microelectronics Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin, which now boasts 14 endowed chairs and is one of the top facilities in the country. He helped to persuade MCC and Sematech to establish their high-tech headquarters in Austin. He has won numerous awards for his teaching and research, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and serves on several prestigious boards in industry and government. His book Solid State Electronic Devices is used throughout the world in four languages. Ben G. Streetman has arrived as a national presence in university engineering circles.

So how did a boy from Mineola get from there to here?

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