Boston Chapter Activities

Boston IEEE/CPMT Meeting Notes for 2003 and 2004
by Dan Bauks Chapter Chair (dzbauks@aol.com) (978-692-1559)

The Boston CPMT chapter usually has 6 to 8 meetings a year with
meetings held the third Tuesday of the month at the Sun Computer
East Campus complex in Burlington, MA. (See www.ieee-boston.org
for monthly meeting details) Some recent meetings included:

2/25/03 "Liquid Crystal Tunable Filters" by John Noto -
Scientific Solutions; No. Chelmsford, MA (Picture)
3/24/03 "Semiconductor Polymer Design for Low-Cost Plastic Transistors"
by Dr. Beng Ong, Xerox Research Centre of Canada
4/22/03 "High Density Packaging" by Dominique Numakuba
of DKN Research - Haverhill, MA
6/10/03 "IEEE/CPMT One Day Symposium" at Nepcon-East
Bayside Exposition Center; South Boston, MA
9/30/03 "Polymer Flip-Chip Assembly" by James Clayton, President
Polymer Assembly Technology; Billerica, MA
10/23/03 "Lab on Chip Drug Screening Technology" by Dr. Colin
Brenan, President. BioTrove Inc. Woburn, MA
11/11/03 "Automation Machinery for Flip-Chip Component
Assembly" by Peter Cronin of Newport Corporation;
No. Billerica, MA
12/16/03 "Direct Wafer Bonding" by Ken Turner of
MIT - Cambridge, MA.

The Boston CPMT local chapter will also again be presenting a free Educational
Program at the IEEE ELECTRO 2004 Conference to be held May 5th during
the Nepcon-East Show at the Boston Hynes Center. (See www.nepcon.com
and click on Nepcon-East Show and Electro Program)

Topics to include Flip-Chip Assembly, Laser Machining, Wi-Fi Manufacturing
and Patent Licensing in Electronic Manufacturing.

Picture Captions:

Dan Bauks & Jim Clayton of PAT (9/30/03 meeting)
Dan Bauks & Colin Brenan of BioTrove (10/23/03 meeting)
Dan Bauks & Peter Cronin of MRSI (11/11/03 meeting)