ECTC Professional Development Courses

On June 1 at Caesars Palace Las Vegas 292 students took part in 16 professional development courses offered just before the ECTC began. These courses result from the volunteer work of Albert Puttlitz, Rao Bonda, Ronald Scotti and all the instructors. These courses produce about one third of the budget surplus for this meeting, thus providing services for all members. The most popular courses were "Interconnect and Packaging Technologies for 10 and 40 Gbps Telecom and Datacom" taught by Roberto Coccioli and Hassan Hashemi, "Introduction to Nanoscale Packaging and Systems" given by semi-professional golfer Rao Tummala, and "Lead-Free Solders for Robust IC Electronic and Optoelectronic Packaging" with Instructor John Lau.
The CPMT Society is authorized to offer Continuing Education Units (CEUs) by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). CEUs are recognized by employers as a formal measure of participation in self-study, tutorials, symposia and workshops. In addition, the CPMT CEUs can be applied towards "IEEE CPMT Professional Development Certificates" It takes about 50 hours of Professional Development courses to earn this Society Certificate.