IEEE CPMT announces Pioneering Education Development
Programs
The CPMT Society pioneers a fundamentally new paradigm of educating
the microelectronics community. In contrast to the continuing
education typically achieved by means of short courses, development
of new and innovative educational programs, particularly those
that are based on WEB dissemination, aimed at entirely new ways
of educating undergraduate and graduate students has been instituted.
(We continue to do the traditional very well also. CPMT involved
almost 400 people this year in short courses at its premier conference
of ECTC.) This WEB program is funded by CPMT and NSF and the NSF
involvement is through the Packaging Research Center at Georgia
Tech. The total funding is about $400k and is expected to produce
about 10 new educational programs that can be considered National
Courses in Strategic Microelectronics and Packaging Technologies.
The first three recipients of these awards, each $30K, were Profs.
Bar Cohen of University of Minnesota, Bhavnani of Auburn, and
Joshi of Maryland; Prof. Gary May of Georgia Tech; and Jose Schutt-Aine
of University of Illinois. These programs are expected to lead
to the development of National Courses in Thermal Management,
Virtual Prototyping, and Signal Integrity respectively. For a
more complete report, see Paul Wesling's
Publications Report.
CPMT expects to announce the second set of awards this summer
perhaps to as many as five universities to continue to develop
new and novel educational programs. These new awards will be
based on ten proposals presented by ten different universities
from the US, Europe and Asia at the June ECTC in San Diego.