Anwar Chitayat

Anwar Chitayat (born August 21, 1927) is the founder and former CEO/Chairman of Anorad Corp, a company which was acquired in 1998 by Rockwell Automation. His engineering work was accredited by SEMI in 2000. In 1997, Chitayat was awarded "Entrepreneur of the Year" by Ernst and Young, and in 2009 he was inducted to Long Island Hall of Fame for his contributions to science and technology.

Anwar Chitayat
Born	21 August 1927 Baghdad, Iraq
Alma mater	New York University Tandon School of Engineering
Spouse(s)	Deanna, Constance, Ann
Children	5 (Mara, Aimee, Duri, Adrienne and Olivia)
Parents	Khadoory Chitayat (father) Khatoon Aboody (mother)

Chitayat's work is focused on Linear motor technology and High performance positioning systems ^[s6]. Ford Motor Company held 10% shares at Anorad to promote their "Factory of the Future" with High Velocity Machine Tools (HVM), which was followed up by Chrysler.

FORTUNE Cover Page Photo, November 25, 1996

Education

• B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, University of Denver
• B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, University of Denver
• M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, (now Polytechnic Institute of New York University)

Anorad Corporation

Anwar founded the Anorad Corporation in 1972 in his basement in Plainview, Long Island. Anorad is an acronym that stands for "Anwar's Own Research And Development".

Notable patents and discoveries

One of the Anorad machines

High speed with high precision manufacturing

Anwar's discoveries in linear motor technology and its high performance positioning systems applications attracted global interest from hundreds of industrial technology manufacturers, including Fortune 500 companies.

Nanotechnology and laser interferometers

Anwar held more than thirty patents in the field of measurement and manufacturing of very small components and geometries, including those as small as a nanometer. The small size required the development of new technologies using interferometry for measurement, nano positioning motors, and stages. The Interferometer manufactured and measured semiconductors by using the wavelength of light as a measuring stick. Length and angles were measured with small fractions of laser light waves.^{[s1][s2][s3][s10]}

Anwar was working on nanotechnology since the 1960s, when this kind of small devices had no practical value. Later on, they were needed for the manufacture of microprocessors and semiconductors, and now they serve as a basis of computers, phones and other electronic products.^[s6]

Fiber optics

Anwar was awarded 4 patents for use of fiber optics for imaging, including techniques for image enhancement. One of these systems was used in the Apollo Program to monitor the rocket engines. The optical lenses were placed in the environment of the rocket, and the fiber optics transmitted the images remotely to the human monitors and camera.

Satellite and star trackers

Anwar's first invention was a light modulating scanner, which enabled Kollsman Instruments to manufacture a star tracking system to be used in moonlit conditions, twilight, and daylight. This daylight star tracker was used to navigate airplanes and ships to determine their precise location, by using the latitude and longitude of the stars. This system is now obsolete due to the introduction of GPS.

Family life

Personal

Anwar was born August 21, 1927, in Baghdad Iraq and raised with six brothers and sisters in a low-income household. At the age of 16, he obtained the highest score in Iraq in its final exam, which was given to all high schools each year. He was awarded a scholarship to come to the US to study Mechanical Engineering. He obtained two simultaneous B.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Denver in 1951. He also obtained an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1952, now New York University Tandon School of Engineering. In 1952, Anwar joined the US Army for two years and was stationed in Alaska where he serviced the US Due Line. Anwar became a US citizen shortly after leaving the US Army.

Anwar was married three times. He has two daughters with his first wife Deanna: Mara and Aimee. Deanna Chitayat holds a PhD in Experimental Psychology and served as a Dean of Hofstra University.

Sources

1.Chitayat, Anwar (January 1964). "The Utilization of Krypton & LASER Interferometers for Photographic Mansuration". Photo-Optical Data Reduction. 2: 9. Bibcode:1964SPIE....2....9C.
2.Chitayat, Anwar (September 1964). "The Utilization Of Krypton And Laser Interferometers For Photographic Mansuration". Proceedings of the SPIE. Photo-Optical Data Reduction. 2: 89–99. Bibcode:1964SPIE....2...89C. doi:10.1117/12.970698. S2CID 121697092.
3.Sweet, AR.; Chitayat, A. (June 1, 1967). "RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF A PROTOTYPE LASER POINT MARKING INSTRUMENT". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
4.Chitayat, Anwar (May 18, 1998). "Linear Motors Come Into Their Own" Design News
5.Chitayat, Anwar ( Volume 11,1987) " Linear Motors Provide Fast and Precise Motion" official proceedings of the international motor conference
6.Chitayat, Anwar (July 3–5, 1994). "Nanometer X-Y positioning states for scanning and stepping" Proceedings Of The International Symposium On Manufacturing
7.Chitayat, Anwar (March 6–12, 2009) "Long Island technology hall of fame" Long Island Business News
8.Paul Schreiber (September 14, 1967) "Watching Over We The People" Newsday
9.Brown, Stewart F (November 25, 1996) "The Fast New World Of Flat Motors" Fortune
10.Chitayat, Anwar (June 1967). "Review of recent applications of laser interferometers in automatic checkout correction and control". IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 3 (6): 263. Bibcode:1967IJQE....3..263C. doi:10.1109/JQE.1967.1074509.