Awards 2003 Director of FENA Focus Center Professor K.L. Wang was named Director of a new multimillion dollar research center to be led by UCLA. The Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics (FENA) Focus Center is part of an initiative by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), the industry's largest trade association, and the U.S. Department of Defense to expand semiconductor research at universities. Semiconductor Research Corporation Inventor Award Awarded to Prof. Wang every year between 1989-1994 and 1996-1998 1996 Semiconductor Research Corporation Technical Excellency Award Prof. Kang L. Wang, along with Dr. Xinyu Zheng, Dr. Timothy K. Carns, Mr. Martin O. Tanner and Mr. Shawn G. Thomas, received the SRC Technical Excellence Award for 1995 (awarded in June 1996) for their research as documented in the paper, "Properties and Device Applications of Si-based Quantum Structures". 1991 J.H. Ahlers Achievement Award 1987-88 Guggenheim Fellow Award  from the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, Germany