President's Message

How can IEEE CPMT help you?

Many ways. But first you must become or renew your CPMT membership.

CPMT is a premier global Society within IEEE Family with focus on materials, processes, electrical and thermomechanical modeling and simulation,opto, RF and digital Systems technologies, area array, SMT and CSP Packaging, advanced board, electrical testing, advanced boards and reliability technologies, among others.----In other words, the entire Systems Packaging.
How do we do that? We do some of these through more than 30 conferences and workshops around the world throughout the year. Some we do through professional development courses which are more than a dozen in number. Others we do through Plenary and Emerging Technology sessions at various conferences such as ECTC.

Please Register Now for ECTC to be held in Orlando, Florida, May 28-June 3, 2001

If you want to attend one conference in Microsystems Packaging that covers it all, it is Our ECTC conference. This year it will be held in Orlando Florida, from May 28-June 3,2001. It is important that you register before the end of April to make sure you have the guaranteed and convenient arrangements.

Please Don't cut back on ECTC Attendance Due to Economic Slowdown

There is always the tendency to want to cut back in extra-company programs to save money. But that is a mistake. It amounts to cutting back on your R& D when you need most. Where else, in one trip, can one see all the latest in all the system technologies and meet all the global players from US, Japan, Korea ,Taiwan and the rest of the Far East and from throughout Europe? Where else can you see such emerging technologies as RF Packaging other than in Emerging Technical sessions? Where else can you see the breadth of optoelectronics and their packaging other than at ECTC? Where else can you see the latest and hottest technologies
presented by the global experts other than in Plenary Sessions at ECTC? Where else can you see the discussion comparing and contrasting System-on Chip (SOC) with System-on-Package ( SOP)-- that seems to be the deciding our future in systems Technologies?

But CPMT is more than Technical Conferences and Workshops. It is Education and Publications, Creating Courses to serve the world and producing the best archival Publications.

The society became the focal point for development of new education materials for web-based education. These new education courses are being created by our global academic community on such topics as Signal integrity, Thermal management,Virtual thin film laboratory, Sensors among others. When finished, we expect these to be available as modules for use on the web. In publications, The society offers four archival publications such as: Advanced Packaging, Semiconductor Manufacturing, Components and Packaging Technology, and Electronics Packaging Manufacturing.

We Need your Feedback
Most importantly,we need your feedback. Please tell us how the Society can help each and everyone of you.Tell us how we can improve the existing programs and tell us what new programs you would like to see us invest in. Please communicate this to me or to Marsha@ ieee.org

Hope to see you all in Orlando, Florida

Rao R Tummala,
President of CPMT Society