Jim Plummer was born in Toronto, Canada, and educated in the United States.
[1] Plummer completed his BS in electrical engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1966.
Stanford's Integrated Circuits Lab (ICL) was revamped to accommodate microchip fabrication and research, opening a new facility in 1984 under the directorship of James D. Meindl.
[5][6][4][7] From 1993 to 1996, Plummer was senior associate dean of Stanford University School of Engineering.
[10] During his time as dean, the percentage of engineering undergraduates increased from 20% to 35% of the student body.