President's Message
Another very successful BOG meeting and ECTC in Orlando.
I 'm happy to tell you that we had a very successful
BOG and ECTC conference last week in Orlando, Florida.
The BOG (Board of Governors) tackled the problems of finances
and budgets. In spite of IEEE's massive charges to our CPMT Society,
the Board has come up with a budget in excess of $500K to drive
our strategic initiatives. As a result, we have funded marketing
and promotion, International chapters, Faculty Fellowships to
develop four more courses this year and next, distinguished lectures,
student programs, awards and others. I'm also very happy to tell
you that your Board voted to proceed with funding of a Field award
in Microsystems Packaging. This should help tremendously in publicizing
what "Packaging" is and what our society does in this
area. This award will help obtain international attention to CPMT.
Congratulations to all our Awardees
Congratulations to John Stafford for the David Feldman Award, George Harman for Sustained Technical Achievement award, Charlie Lee for Young Engineer of the year award, and Singapore and Hong Kong Chapters as the best Chapters . We had unprecedented number of IEEE Fellows-a total of eight from CPMT Membership. They include Evan E. Davidson of IBM, Daniel De Zutter from University of Ghent, Robert Forrest Kwasnick of General Electric Medical Systems, Chin Chung Lee from University of California Irvine, Wolfgang S. Menzel from University of Ulm in Germany, Luu T. Nguyen of National Semiconductor, Herbert Georg Reichl from Technical University of Berlin, and David B. Tuckerman of CMEA Venture.
ECTC continues as the flagship conference of CPMT Society
The ECTC has been a great success in spite
of the economic downturn. The total number of attendees were 900
from 23 countries. A total of 400 participated in short courses.
The total number of papers presented was 450 .The attendees seem
to like the quality of papers and the global network that ECTC
provides.
I would like to thank the organizing committee of ECTC under the
leadership of Pete Slota. Start your plans to attend next years
May ECTC in San Diego, this is one of the easiest ways of maximizing
your benefits from CPMT.