Your Board Decides our Future
Fighting the incredibly mild San Diego weather, 29 CPMT Board
of Governor members assembled on February 10th to chart our path
through the exciting but disruptive technologies that are challenging
our areas of industry.
President Rao Tummala
recognized the outstanding progress made in the last 6 months
against our strategic plan but still noticed we are not ready
for the next 10 years of challenge.
1. First, Rao introduced the 6 new elected Members-at-Large: William D Brown - University
of Arkansas, Craig A. Gaw - Motorola, Johan Liu - University of
Chalmers, Ralph Russell - Dominion Virginia Power, John M. Segelken
- ACT Microdevice, C. P. Wong - Georgia Institute of Technology.
2. Volunteers further established CPMT as a global society by
initiating new Chapters and hosting Board members at international
meetings in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan.
3. Align volunteer efforts toward future industry goals: created
new Technical Committees, new plenary sessions at existing meetings,
new focused workshops and meetings (EMAP in Hong Kong, EPTC &
APACK in Singapore, emerging technologies at ECTC), and we have
strengthened ECTC by intermixing officers from CPMT and ECTC.
4. Began offering CPMT web based courses.
5. Student chapters are beginning to get definition.
6. Awarded Global Contributors: Yutaka Tsukada of Japan, Dr. Annette
Teng of Hong Kong, Prof. Andrew Tay of Singapore.
7. Industry report on perception of IEEE/CPMTwas completed by
Ron Gedney.
8. CPMT has 7 new Fellow of the Institute: Evan Davidson, Daniel
De Zutter, Robert Kwasnick, Chin Chung Lee, Wolfgang Menzel, Luu
Nguyen, Herbert Reichl, and David Tuckerman.
However, we must continue to concentrate on "better marketing
on CPMT packaging value added." In particular we must make
engineers recognize that the value they receive at meetings and
through publications comes from CPMT volunteers (Brand recognition).
We must continue to project our vision of the future. As more
functional value is added to our microsystems or chips we must
make sure our Society image is "CPMT makes systems happen."
RalphWyndrum, Director
of IEEE Division I, testified that the IEEE is becoming more effective
and copable of problem area reform during the last year.
1. For example, the TAB finance committee was able to trim $2M
from the proposed IEEE budget and is well along in analyzing another
$14M in investment programs for web infrastructure. These steps
are curbing deficit spending. Another budget success is the revenues
from the first six months of IEEExplore web publication archiving
search engine. Black ink after less than 1 year is success in
any new business.
2. Ephraim Suhir was program chair for "New Technical Direction"
workshop held January 18-19 at Rutger's University. This meeting
resulted in IEEE identifying 11 high growth areas that must be
supported by IEEE to benefit the members. Several areas impact
CPMT: Wireless - which is being scouted by the Communication Society,
Nano-technology, Fiber Optics which will probably be spearheaded
by LEOS, and System on a Chip/Package an obvious expancion of
CPMT advanced package mission. The TAB stance is to address these
11 growth areas we must refocus existing societies and councils
not proliferate organizations.
3, There is a blue ribbon committee planning a revamp of IEEE
working boards to allow nibble response to technology and industry
trends to avoid past problems reached by our ponderousness.
Conclusion: One of the CPMT Transactions must refocus on SOC (or
integrated microsystem) since our Society is the key player with
our broad base of enabling technology.
Paul Wesling presented
a most probable conversion of our Advanced Packaging transaction
to an "SOC/SOP/Microsystem Integration Transaction".
He explained that CAS (Circuits and Systems) and SSC (Solid State
Circuits) may be the natural system level societies to share this
publication. It was decided that Paul would structure this proposal
as a first step to quickly make IEEE a recognized player in this
growth area.
Much discussion was held on the exact name of the effort since
"Microsystems" means MEMs type systems in Europe and
monolithic SOC seems uneconomic for many current applications.
Membership Chair, Ralph
Russell, announced that our membership at the end of year
2000 was 3891 representing a growth of 1.9% over the last year.
This was double the growth of all societies. Perhaps more important,
the participation at our meetings, growth of our chapters, and
submittals to our publications were also increasing world wide;
more active members is better than simply more members.
Albert Puttlitz, Vice
President of Education, reported that five of our Distinguished
Lecturers were very busy last year: Rao Tummala, C. P. Wong, Paul
Wesling, Ephraim Suhir, and Jim Morris. He predicts the demand
for CPMT Lectures will continue growing at Chapters and international
conferences.
Rao Bonda developed
a new Award application form to make it easier for all of us to
nominate our fellow CPMTers.
John Segelken, new awards chair, described a new CPMT award
for "outstanding technical advance" that is being proposed
to IEEE. He also pushed for the existing award monetary value
to be increased, many to $2500. In addition, he proposed settling
aside $10K for "spot" rewards for the many volunteers
that put on meetings and assemble our publications. All awards
will be accompanied with more publicity so the glow lasts longer.
Phil Garrou, Vice President
of Technology, stressed that there were different reasons for
the different TCs. We must strongly support each of them to be
active and remain connected with CPMT. One current emphasis is
to up-date each TC web page so that current information is available
to lure web site visitor into participation.
Bill Brown, Director
of Student Activities, reported on progress in supporting students
in CPMT chapters. These efforts are being helped by Klaus-Jurgen
Wolter in Europe and Y. C. Chau in Asia. To date 8 Universities
have shown strong interest in a program. Currently there are 220
CPMT student members scattered at 73 Universities. This global
dispersion sparked a discussion of creating a "virtual"
CPMT student chapter. This may help prevent budding packaging/component
experts from feeling like "ugly ducklings".
Ron Gedney, acting
as strategic program director, reported on a survey of packaging
industry leaders that he performed at a recent packaging trade
show. The basic result was that officers of companies were aware
of IEEE but were not members. They also had little name recognition
of CPMT. They did, however, want professional societies help their
engineers with conferences, courses, networking, lobbying, and
publications. We supply all that but have no brand recognition.
Merrill Palmer, Treasurer,
reported that the net surplus in our year 2000 budget appeared
to be $260K. Our long term investments only broke even last year
because of the dismal U. S. stock market last year. The 2001 budget
is currently 41.62M and is aimed to break even, but already the
hordes of unbudgeted requests are beginning to sneak up on the
Board of Governors. In addition, we budgeted for $237K of new
initiatives to refocus our members on the future. For the 2002
budget, Merrill suggests each initiative have an "intended
value" clearly stated, an explanation on how this activity
is the best way to get there, and how the progress can be measured.
The travel reimbursement policy for BOG full-vote members was
explained and approved.
Marsha Tickman, Executive Director, mentioned that a phone link
system that allows members to join meetings at a distance was
being tested by IEEE headquarters and would be spun out to societies
soon. This would allow committee members who can not travel to
readily participate. Paul Wesling mentioned he was establishing
web asymmetric discussion group on hot CPMT topics. Both these
communication methods should attract more volunteers in the mix
of CPMT activities.
James Morris, Vice
President of Conferences, mentioned the sharp increase in International
meetings being initiated by overseas Chapters and other groups
needed CPMT involvement. This is a great opportunity to help the
globalization goal for CPMT but is also stressing the existing
Board and TC support structure. Various changes were discussed.
It was also mentioned that InterPack was set again for Hawaii
but this time it was scheduled during high tourist season so we
should warn our members that it may already be too late to make
flight and hotel reservations. Jim mentioned that CPMT had been
fined on slowness of closing a few meetings before the 12 month
cut-off.
Paul Wesling, Vice President
Publications, explained that the peer review system for Transaction
article submittals is in place and is beginning to make a difference.
Now everyone can use the web to trace where an article is along
the review process and avoid the "dark hole effect."
The CPMT IEEE Press book sales are going well, particularly the
Bill Brown volumes on MCMs. The NEMI co-sponsored book is on schedule.
The next CPMT Board of Governors meeting will be held before ECTC
in Orlando Florida on May 28th. After that the plan is for a meeting
in Germany about November 10th, 2001. Contact Marsha Tickman if
you plan to attend as an observer.
-- submitted from notes on napkins, Dave Palmer
Pictures at Board of Governors Meeting -- It Takes a whole Board to Raise a Society:
C. P. Wong, Ralph Russell, Jim Morris
Jim Steele, Jan Vardaman, Al Puttlitz, and Ralph Wyndrum
Rao Bonda, John Stafford, Jim Morris, Jan Vardaman
Bill Brown, Craig Gaw, Corey Koehler
John Segelken, Walt Trybula, Jim Steele
Lunch table and the business continues
Anthony Chan and Al Puttlitz confer in hallway
Walt Trybula, Ralph Russell, and Jim Steele