Scandinavian CPMT

Building on a base of 12 members in Denmark, 43 in Norway, and 58 in Sweden a Joint Scandinavian CPMT Chapter was formed in 2001. In addition to leaders in each country, the Board of Governors provided help through Rolf Aschenbrenner, C.P. Wong, Jim Morris, Ephraim Suhir, and Johan Liu.

A series of CPMT workshops were held in Sweden with a number of invited technical speakers from around the world including USA. In addition, a series of packaging seminars were started which have an email invitation sent to all Scandinavian members. Another step taken to activate CPMT was the creation of a student chapter in Sweden. The Scandinavian members have also been active supporters of the CPMT Polytronics meetings through its many different manifestations.

The year 2002 will see increased coordination with the Finish CPMT Chapter and other North Europe members. One possible focus will be an CPMT/IEMT European Conference in 2003. In addition, CPMT can encourage more growth in Europe by holding some Board of Governor events and having plenty of global volunteer presence at Scandinavian and other European CPMT events.

-- taken from presentation of Johan Liu, Sweden