President Message
December 2000
I am happy to report that our Society is making outstanding progress on all our strategic fronts. Some of these are included in this newsletter.
1. Globalization Began
Our Society is well on its way to becoming a truly global Society. I just came from a tour of the Far East with a delegation to Hong Kong headed by Dr Al Puttlitz, our VP of Education and to Singapore headed by Paul Wesling, our VP of Publications. Independently, Dr. Phil Garrou headed the delegation to Japan. Each of these delegations involved a team of people from BoG and served a variety of functions, working closely with either the conference Chair or a local CPMT Chapter Chair. They promoted the Society, signed up new members, exposed educational programs of the Society, chaired technical sessions and helped select the best technical papers of the conference. These delegations were received with enthusiasm by local leaders and started the CPMT's globalization process by traveling to foreign chapter locations.
2. Global Awards Began
The second item that I would like to touch upon is the recognition Society members are receiving for their contributions.
Jack Kilby of TI Wins Nobel Prize
We now have a Nobel Prize winner in our membership. If you recall,
Jack Kilby of TI won this most prestigious prize for his achievements
in silicon planar technology.
NAE
Additionally, we now have three members of the National Academy
of Engineering: Prof. CP Wong, Jack Kilby and myself.
IEEE Fellows
Our Society has also done well with IEEE Fellow selections. The
CPMT Society contributions of our members have resulted in the
past selection of 112 IEEE Fellows.
Eight new IEEE Fellows for this year are: Evan E. Davidson
of IBM, Daniel De Zutter of University of Ghent, Robert
F. Kwasnick of General Electric Medical Systems, Chin Chung
Lee from University of California- Irvine, Wolfgang S.
Menzel from University of Ulm - Germany, Luu T. Nguyen
of National Semiconductor, Herbert G. Reichl from Technical
University of Berlin - Germany, and David Tuckerman (former
CPMTer in MCMs) at CMEA Ventures.
Special Global Recognition for Three Outstanding Leaders
§ Yutaka Tsukada of IBM Japan was recognized for his
lifetime contributions at Hong Kong's EMAP conference. I had the
opportunity to present Tsukada with a plaque for his pioneering
contributions to both microvia technology and direct flip chip
attach to organic board with underfill developments. In citing
the contribution, I indicated that while Hitachi pioneered the
underfill technology for use with ceramic technology in 1984,
it was Tsukada who pioneered the use of underfill with organic
boards in 1986. Today, these are the hottest technologies and
Tsukada had the foresight.
§ Dr. Annette Teng of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology was recognized for her outstanding leadership as the CPMT Chapter Chair of Hong Kong. Under her leadership, the chapter became very active in running workshops, tutorials and the first EMAP conference.
§ Prof. Andrew Tay of National University of Singapore received recognition for his outstanding Singapore Chapter leadership. Dr. Tay's active role in attending the BoG meetings, participating in web-based course selections and initiating the EPTC conference in 1997 were all cited.
3. New Global Chapters Formed
Our globalization strategy under the leadership of Ralph Russell is shaping up well. During the last 12 months, we have either formed or are in the process of forming new chapters in Switzerland, Greece, Israel, France, and Malaysia among others. Additionally, I had the opportunity to inaugurate the newest Chapter in Penang, Malaysia on December 5, 2000 along with Prof. Seetharamu of University Science of Malaysia (Chapter Chair).
4. Student Chapters Began
Thanks to Prof. Bill Brown, Strategic Program Director for Student Programs, our student chapter program is beginning to shape. Dr Annette Teng formed the first student Chapter in Hong King and Prof. Seetharamu did the same in Penang, Malaysia.
--CPMT President Rao Tummala, Georgia Institute of Technology