Las Vegas Lures CPMT Board of Governors

Yes, 32 intrepid CPMT volunteers pulled themselves out of the Vegas Casinos to meet on Society business for 2 days. Apparently their desire to gamble with technology exceeds their desire to win big at the tables.
President Rao Tummala announced that this 50th ECTC looked like a record setter. Everyone congratulated C. P. Wong on his election to the National Academy of Engineering. In addition, 2 current board members have been appointed as Fellows of IEEE, Phil Garrou of Dow Chemical and James Morris of University of New York.
Rao urged CPMT to build on its strengths:
** Broad technical agenda
** Network to microelectronics world
** Archival Publications
** Career enhancement projects
** Recognition award for member all around the globe
He charged the group with completing strategic work with an eye toward:
** Long term strategy
** Detailed plan for next 2 - 3 year
** Budget requests to fulfill plan
** Identify key leaders for each task

Strategy Team Reports
Ron Gedney: Vision Statement and Marketing -- Our industry is undergoing a sea change. Outsourcing is now predominate. Telecom market is driving CPMT specialties after years of being lead by the computer industry. In addition, software productivity improvements of 17%/ year are now pulling the computer market more than components and packaging. CPMT will sponsor a workshop for industry and sister societies (ED, SSC, LEOS...) to leverage efforts through a joint vision.
Although the silicon wafer roadmap of SIA will, perhaps, run out of road by 2005, CPMT technologies have a long way to go before hitting physical or economic walls.

Ralph Russell: Global Chapters -- showed that in 4 years the number of CPMT chapters have grown by 50%. In addition, we expect to add 4 more chapters/year in the future. Many of these Chapters are in countries with fast growing component and packaging industries.
One strategic task is to encourage a series of student chapters. A long list of universities all around the globe qualify for CPMT attention. A detailed plan is being prepared.

E. Jan Vardaman reported on Conference Strategy. She mentioned that some improvement would occur if we practiced CCC -- conference communication and coordination. One recent week found 4 different CPMT sponsored events.
Strategy: assemble CPMT list of events out several years and merge with existing list of related society events. Push this list to active organizers so coordination is more automatic.
ECTC has again been a paper magnet. One conference strategy is to have an automatic process for the many good overflow papers to be aimed at other appropriate CPMT meetings: IEMT, Packaging workshops, Itherm....
To keep good face-to-face international CPMT coordination a combination of meeting coordination and travel benefits should be considered.

C. P. Wong reported on Student Chapter Strategy. By IEEE rules a student of any technology field can be a member of a CPMT Student Chapter. This is good since most CPMT members started out in school in some area other than EE (mechanical engineering, systems engineering, applied physics....). Our efforts will be focused on 5 - 10 universities with a track record in CPMT fields of interest. Support from Distinguished Lecturers and CPMT Conferences in their locale are two methods of support being considered.

Phil Garrou on CPMT technical strategy. Our technical committees (TCs) will remain the framework of our Society. However some of our TCs are ill-defined and this results in lower volunteer enthusiasm.
First task is to clarify the TC roles. The TC handbook has been upgraded (although about half the TCs are slow on the updating). TCs will have a more visible role in ECTC partly due to Michael McShane insertion of CPMT TC Chairs into the equivalent ECTC selection committees. However, using this position to help choose tutorial and keynote speakers.
We will use the IEEE TIPS tables (Technical Interest Profile) that all members fill out to align existing CPMT. In addition, a phone survey may be conducted since our members are stealthy in their use of CPMT benefits.
Phil strongly suggested that an additional headquarters assignee would help the technical strategy by facilitating transaction article tracing, technical workshop organization, and coordinate with ECTC logistics.

Rao Bonda reported for Award Strategy. CPMT will kick-off a "Senior Member" push. Many Society members qualify for the Senior Status having more than 10 years of technical education and employment, but only a small percentage take the 30 minutes to fill out the web questionnaire and ask a few colleagues to fill out short web forms on their behalf.
In addition, Rao indicates more systematic effort will go into providing "Post Publicity" to our award winners including CPMT Website photos and biographies. Some discussion occurred over several IEEE level awards that are naturals for CPMT members but which we seldom submit nomination.

Al Puttlitz discussed strategic ideas in education. We must educate employers on the value of CEUs (continued education units). Perhaps we could offer a "CPMT certification" for completion of 10 credits worth of CPMT short courses.
A primary task is to convert some time honored short courses into web based modules. We suggest the following as the first:
C. P. Wong's "Polymers for Electron Packaging Materials"
Michael Lebby's "Opto-electronic Devices, Packaging, Communication"
Kanji Otsuka's "System Packaging"
Another approach is to have a few training modules on the CPMT web site for every topics in our transaction index. These tutorials would be free to all our members but would link to more extensive web or CD-ROM based courses by the same CPMT authors that may be fee based (even educators must eat!).

Merrill Palmer presented our present and future budget situation. Our successful meetings and publications plus fiscal discipline for the last 4 years have resulted in a healthy financial reserve. CPMT exceeds the minimum $0.5M required by IEEE (40% of last annual budget).
We have established new investment expenses in year 2000 but nothing that growing revenues would not cover:
$65K to complete the 9 CD-ROM Transaction set
$35K for Global Chapter Chair meeting at ECTC
$22K for 50th Society Anniversary celebration
$13K for CPMT history pamphlet
The one possible disruptive expense would be headquarters asking for about 10%/year of our reserves to pay for their undisciplined (but well intended) expenditures.
None-the-less, future budgets see member dues as fixed, member publication fees also fixed, and non-member fees going up about 5%/ year to bring them in-line with other societies.

Dennis Olsen reported on the 50 year celebration project. The Component/ Packaging history booklet has been printed and will be mailed shortly to our members. Other aspects of the celebration were unveiled at the ECTC including a display of electronic assemblies from before printed wiring boards, a gathering of all ECTC general chairs and CPMT Presidents, and one heck of an attendee reception party.

Other proposals passed:
1. Up to $30K used to develop 3 web courses for CPMT web pages
2. Approval of joint conferences
* Materials conference joint with PRC (Georgia Tech) and IMAPS
* Spring seminar on International Electronics Technology - a central European educational conference of long standing accomplishments.
* IEMT October 2 - 3 in Santa Clara collocated with a packaging equipment show
* Support for Berlin Chkapter's involvement in MicroMat
* VP Conferences to withhold Poly01 approval until clarity on last conference is reached.
Change position title from "International Relations" to "Global Relations"

Paul Wesling reported on Publications. The CPMT transactions from 1950 through last year are now on 9 CD-ROMS and have shipped to all those that preordered. Approximately 1000 of these remain with Marsha Tickman at IEEE headquarters; order form is on the CPMT web site.
Approximately 200 people are on our web newsletter notification list. That is, they find out automatically when the new web newsletter is posted. This means at least 6% of our members have made it to the 21st century -- more than most groups of engineers. See www.cpmt.org to sign up.
Paul is looking for people to carve off some volunteer tasks. Volunteer should know some HTML, FTP, your way around servers (streaming, mirroring, on-line meeting software), ISP capability, and be able to write simple instructions for those that don't live this stuff.
1. Conference webmaster (gather list of all meetings of interest to members)
2. Consultant to TC, Chapter, and educational modules webmasters.

Ralph Russell reported that we have 3385 members as of April 2000. This is a slight decrease from last year due to the following trends.
1. Manufacturing is migrating from OEM to electronic manufacturing services
2. CPMT traditional field of interest jobs disappearing from North America (64% membership)
3. Engineering and support staff being cut in industry (so few left with longer term vision)
4. Jobs migrating to lower wage countries (IEEE is a luxury)
Today our members are: 62% USA, 18% Europe, 16% Asia, 2% South America, 2% Canada.

Chapter of the 1999 year is West Ukraine which is chaired by Dr. Mykhoylo I. Andriychuk. A new CPMT chapter has been approved in Switzerland. Formation activity exists in Greece, India, France, Israel, Mexico, Spain, and Ireland.

Koji Nihei gave a report on Japan activities. There are 252 CPMT chapter members in Japan. They most often meet in 4 different geographic branch regions. The Tokyo Chapter has a new address:
IEEE Tokyo Chapter Secretariat
Tsukasa Bldg. 8F
6-2, Nishi-Shinbashi 3-chome
Minato-ku, Tokyo 105

The Tokyo chapter has new leadership
* Noboni Ichinose -- Chair
* Akira Okamoto -- Vice Chair
* Nobuo Iwase -- Secretary
* Kaoru Hashimoto -- Treasurer

The Winter 2000 Workshop was held January 24-26 with 120 attendees. This successful meeting will from now on be called "System Packaging Workshop - Japan." Next year the IEMT/IMC will be at the Tokyo Ryutsu Center from April 18 - 20.

The BOG nomination process has begun. Any member can get on the ballot by obtaining 25 CPMT member signatures (send to Marsha Tickman, see page 2 for contact info). Much tactical discussion was held on how best to encourage nominees that represent all our geographic areas through the Board.