During the ten years in industry, he worked on MOS/MNOS VLSI technology, wafer scale integration, Ultra-fast optical spectroscopy, nonlinear optics of semiconductors and organic polymers, integrated optics and optoelectronic devices.
Harry L. ("Nick") Tredennick is an American manager, inventor, VLSI design engineer and author who was involved in the development for Motorola's MC68000 and for IBM's Micro/370 microprocessors.
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, was one amongst the top 10 institutes apart from Indian Institutes of Technology, chosen for funding under Special Manpower Development Program in the field of VLSI.