CPMT Announces 3 PRC/NSF Faculty Fellowships on Education
Three faculty Fellowships, the first of their kind for CPMT Society, were announced by Paul Wesling, the Chairman of PRC/NSF Fellowships Committee at the recent ECTC Conference. These Fellowships are meant to enhance and prepare globally-competitive engineers in Electronic Packaging worldwide, and are funded by both the PRC at Georgia Tech as part of it’s NSF ERC mission and the CPMT society. The total money awarded over the next three years is about $400K.
The first awardees of these Fellowships are:
1. Yogendra Joshi (University of Maryland), Avram Bar-Cohen (University of Minnesota), and Sushil Bhavnani (Auburn University) -- "A National Course on Thermal Design of Electronic Products: Recent Experiences and a Proposal."
2. Gary May (Georgia Institute of Technology) -- "Teaching Electronics Packaging Education Using Interactive Multimedia."
3. Jose Shutt-Aine (University of Illinois) -- "Packaging Education in the 21st Century."
Each award is $30K and the awardees are expected to develop educational programs to be shared nationally and internationally so as to promote Packaging Education globally.
-- submitted by Rao Tummala, CPMT Tech VP