CPMT Awards Announced
On behalf of the IEEE CPMT Awards Committee, I am pleased to announce the winners of the following CPMT awards for the year 2000:

David Feldman Outstanding Contribution Award:
Dr. John Lau of Express Packaging Systems, Inc. for his serv-ice to various CPMT activities over the years and for his contri-butions to electronic packaging technology.

Outstanding Sustained Technical Contributions Award:
Dr. Ephraim Suhir of Lucent Technologies, Inc. for his pio-neering work in Materials and Mechanical Engineering related to microelectronics and fiber-optics structures, and for his con-tributions to CPMT conferences and activities.

Electronic Manufacturing Technology Award:
Dr. Rama Shukla of Intel Corporation for his leadership and technical direction in the development and high yield manufac-turing of flip chip packages using organic substrate technology for Intel's microprocessors family.

Outstanding Young Engineer Award:
Mr. Matt Schwiebert of Agilent Technologies for his contri-butions to the development and manufacturing of electronic packaging assembly processes within Hewlett-Packard and Ag-ilent Technologies, and for his contributions to CPMT confer-ences.

These awards will be presented to them during the 50th ECTC in Las Vegas (May 22-24, 2000) at the CPMT luncheon.
On behalf of the CPMT Society, I thank the people who have submitted nominations for these awards. I also thank the mem-bers of the Award Committee for reviewing the nominations and selecting the winners for the year 2000, and Marsha Tickman for her help in the awards process.
Rao Bonda, Chair CPMT Awards Committee