We had good ECTC conference. The attendance at our breakfast TC-5 meeting was better than expected in spite of the economic conditions. The minutes of the TC-5 meeting is given below.
1. The meeting was held on May 28, 2003 -- 7:00 to 8:00 AM.
3. I presented the status of TC-5 Committee.
4. There was a discussion on the conferences that TC-5 is co-sponsoring. In the recent past, TC-5 has been sponsoring three conferences every year:
a) Materials Conference in Atlanta
b) Polytronic in Europe
c) Electronic Materials & Packaging (EMAP) Conference in Asia
5. According to Jim Morris, Materials conference traditionally held in Atlanta every year, did not have any compelling reason to be held there. His recommendation was to have this conference rotate every year between a city on east coast and on west coast. This meeting should probably tied to a university with strong packaging program. The committee decided that:
a) Next year (2004) meeting should continue to be held in Atlanta right after nano Workshop organized by Rao at GaTech. The advantage will be that the conference attendance will be favorably affected by this arrangement. Also, there is already a contract in place with the hotel and if it is violated then there could be a severe penalty to IEEE-CPMT. The conflict of interest between the workshop and conference does not arise because both meetings are co-sponsored by the same organizations, namely IEEE-CPMT and Ga Tech. The committee suggestion was to give significant discount in registration fees to the attendees attending both workshop and conference. For example, registration fees will be $300 if meeting is attended or $400 if both are attended. To save cost, the food (lunch) should not be served. Since next year meeting is in uptown Atlanta next to several good restaurants, this should not be a big problem for the attendees. However, whether to serve food or not will depend on the hotel contract that is in place.
b) Materials conference in 2005 should move to Irvine, CA, a west coast city. The conference will be tied to packaging group at U of Cal, Irvine. C. C. lee representing U of Cal, Irvine agreed with the arrangement.
6. Polytronic Conference in 2003 will be held in Montreaux, France.
In 2004, it will be held in Portland , OR provided Polytronics
Steering Committee approves it.
7. EMAP will be held in Singapore in 2003 without IEEE-CPMT sponsorship.
8. Rajen will renew the dialogue with Purdue to see if they would like to market their CINDAS Materials Database for a low price of around $200 or so.
9. We applaud Sridhar Canumalla's help in keeping the web page up-to-date. Due to recent change in his computer hardware, Sridhar's password to our web page does not work. He will call Paul Wesling (408) 252-9051 to work out the password issues with TC-5 web page. Subsequently, he will update the web page.
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Thanks
Rajen Chanchani, Chair