Luu Nguyen Wins Fulbright

Luu Nguyen, Chair of CPMT TC-18 Wafer Level Packaging, has been officially awarded a Fulbright-Nokia Fellowship. The Board of Directors of the Fulbright Center and the Finnish Fulbright Commission reached this decision in late February. Luu Nguyen will work at the Helsinki University of Technology during the Fellowship period. He will give a series of 5 to 6 seminars and a one day workshop based on his on-going work at National Semiconductor as presented through CPMT conferences and publication. He will also be working on lead-free issues and Design-For-Manufacturing of opto-electronic modules. Luu will also use this experience to get more input for his book on Wafer Level Packaging.

The Fulbright Program is the US government flagship exchange activity with other countries. Since its inception in 1946, more than 88,000 U.S. Fulbrighters have studied, taught, or conducted research in 140 countries around the world, and more than 146,000 foreign citizens have come to the U.S. under Fulbright auspices. The competitive awards can be used for research, lecturing, or lecturing/research. The Fulbright Program is administered by the US Department of State. Overseas, the program is administered by binational Fulbright Commissions or by the Public Affairs of the US Embassies. The Presidentially appointed Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board is responsible for the final selection of all Fulbright grantees.

This year, for the first time, Fulbright established the Fulbright-Nokia Fellowship in Electronics, Information, and Telecommunications Technology. It allows an applicant to work with a Finnish host institution from 4 to 9 months in those areas specified.
More information about the Fulbright program can be found at www.iie.org/cies/us_scholars/