Founded in 1977, EIT 2.0 evolved its mission in 2021 to focus on our core strengths: to provide creative engineering solutions to electronic manufacturing and to develop innovative technology to support needs in the areas of UV measurement, disinfection, and more. EIT 2.0’s management team has a broad base of experience in the design and production of electronic equipment. Backing up the senior service management team is a strong team of design and manufacturing engineers, technical specialists, program managers, buyers, and support staff.
- 1977
Electronic Instrumentation & Technology (shortened to “EIT”) forms with a focus on Engineering Design and Electronic Manufacturing Service (EMS)
- 1983
EIT Engineers are hired to resolve issues with sensors and instruments used in Low-Power Printed Circuit Board (PCB) machines
- 1984
First release of custom manufactured UV instruments under customer name
- 1986
Introduction of “EIT” branded radiometers for early curing applications, only reporting Joules
- 1987
World’s first profiling UV radiometer (EIT UviMap) provided a graph of Watts as a function of time on thermal paper
- 1994
World’s first simple handheld Four-Band UV Radiometer (Power Puck) introduced with UVA, UVB, UVC and UVV bands, reporting both Joules and Watts
- 1996
Opening of first Authorized Calibration Center in Asia
- 1997
Introduction of MicroCure, the smallest EIT radiometer
- 1998
Introduction of PowerMAP and UV Map Profiling Radiometers with sampling rates up to 2048 Hz and EIT’s PowerView I Software
- 2006
Introduction of Power Puck II and UviCure Plus II, the next generation of EIT radiometers with expanded features
- 2012
Power Puck II Profiler and UviCure Plus II Profiler introduced
- 2016
Introduction of the LEDCure Family to address growing use of LEDs in UV Curing
- 2018
PowerMAP II platform introduced with improved memory, software and size
- 2018
PowerView III software introduced, working with all EIT/EIT2.0 profiling radiometers
- 2019
LEDMAP introduced compatible with PowerMAP platform
- 2021
Introduction of UVKey 254 for Germicidal UV sources
- 2022
EIT 2.0 forms to focus on UV products after the sale of EIT’s EMS business
- 2023
Relocation to temporary facility at Sycolin Road in Leesburg
- 2024
Move to permanent facility at 14001 Innovation Park Lane
- 2026
PK Swain acquires ownership of EIT 2.0 from EIT founder Joe T May in March 2026
- 2026
Authorized Calibration Center opens in India, bringing total number of ACC’s to 10
Joe T. May
Joe T. May is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer, for EIT 2.0, LLC, the company he founded in 1977. Joe, an Electrical Engineering graduate of Virginia Tech and a Professional Engineer, has an extensive background in circuit and instrumentation design. He holds 28 patents in areas ranging from measurement of gasoline octane rating to measurement of ultra-violet energy used in industrial applications. More recently he has been granted two patents in the area of helicopter instrumentation and there are three more pending. Joe has authored and presented numerous technical papers, nationally and internationally, on a variety of technical topics and has participated in a number STEM programs at the high school and university level.
Joe served 20 years as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, where he chaired the Science and Technology Committee and the House Transportation Committee. He also chaired the Joint Commission on Technology and Science. In addition, Joe has written and presented sixteen biographies which document the service and stories of young men from his home area who died in WWll.
Among other awards, Joe was presented with Virginia’s “Lifetime Achievement Award for Industry” in 1996, was named Greater Washington Area Engineer of the Year in 2001, was inducted into the Virginia Tech Academy of Engineering Excellence in 2009, and received the Greater Washington Innovation Award in 2015.
