Awards to CPMT Members at ECTC

(Pictures thanks to Kristine Martin, Potomac Communications Group)

Gathering of many of the award winners honored at the CPMT Luncheon: Ravindhar Kaw, Herbert Reichl, Christine Kallmayer, Rao Tummala, Li Li, Avram Bar-Cohen, Mr. Skipor for Robert Galvin, and C.P. Wong.

On May 30th the annual CPMT Luncheon was held during the ECTC conference. About 900 engineers attended. This occasion was used to give volunteers some well-deserved awards and recognition.
President Rao Tummala presented Mr. Skipor The Special Presidential Recognition Plaque awarded to Robert W. Galvan "for sustained support to the CPMT Society and the Electronic Components and Technology Conference, for establishing the Motorola/IEEE CPMT Society Graduate Fellowship for Research on Electronic Packaging, and for promoting graduate-level education."


Vice President Paul Wesling is giving Suresh Sitaraman of Georgia Tech the Best Paper Award for the Transactions paper "Interfacial Fracture Toughness for Delamination Growth Prediction in a Novel Peripheral Array Package."


Outstanding Sustained Technical Contribution Award was earned by Prof. Avram Bar-Cohen of University of Maryland. His contributions to thermal design, modeling and analysis including ebullient and liquid-phase cooling.


Li Li of Motorola won the Outstanding Young Engineer Award for her contributions to flip chip interconnect bumping materials and process development and embedded passive design and implementation in radio frequency modules.


Prof. C. P. Wong of Georgia Tech deserved the Exceptional Technical Achievement Award for his pioneering work in polymeric materials for electronics packaging applications and for his introduction and development of silicon gels to achieve reliability without hermeticity.


The David Feldman Outstanding Contribution Award was given in recognition of the technical leadership and outstanding contributions to the microelectronics packaging industry by Professor Herbert Reichl .