CHAPTER NEWS

REGION 10 CHAPTER ACTIVITY ROUND-UP

submitted by Dr. P. B. Parikh

· Dr. Lih-Shan Chen of Taipei CPMT Chapter has reported the chapter having organized a talk on the "Thermal-Fatigue Life Prediction of Electronic and Optoelectronic Lead-Free Interconnects" at Kaohsiung, Taiwan on June 13, 2004. In addition to the IEEE/CPMT Taipei Chapter members, they expect many non-members at Kaohsiung also to attend this interesting talk.

CPMT Taipei Chapter will also co-organize an international symposium and Exhibition on Electronic Packaging at Kaohsiung, Taiwan on April 21-24, 2005.

· As reported by Dr. K N Seetharamu, the CPMT Malaysia Chapter has planned two technical lectures in the month of June 2004. The first one will be on 9th June with the title, " MEMS and their Application" and the second one has been scheduled on 23rd June 2004 on "Photonics: A light introduction". Both these technical talks will be delivered by Prof K N Seetharamu, the chapter chair at Seminar Room, Engineering Campus.

· Dr. Cheung Yiu Ming, Ken of Hong Kong Chapter has reported that the chapter successfully launched two technical workshops in April 2004. The first one was by Dr. Chuck Bauer on 21st April with "Three Dimensional Packaging, Interconnection & Assembly for Microelectronics Miniaturization" as the topic. The second workshop on "Wire Bonding in Microelectronics" was led by George G. Harman on 30th April 2004.

The chapter has further arranged two technical workshops in June 2004 as under:
(i) Dr. Michael Pecht, "Monitoring the Health (Reliability) of Products" on 9 June 2004.
(ii) Dr. John H. Lau, "Impact of Lead-Free on Electronic and Optoelectronic Packaging and their SMT assembly" on 15 June 2004.

The chapter has also planned a workshop given by Professor Johan Liu from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden in July and one other given by Professor Kuo-Ning Chiang from ERSO/ITRI and National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan in August.

The student activities for the Hong Kong chapter are:
(i) An exhibit booth from CPMT Hong Kong Student Chapter at ECTC 2004.
(ii) A Student Symposium in June 2004.

· The India Council CPMT Chapter had planned to co-organise a technical talk on "Recent Advances in Microelectronics - Packaging" and a half-day workshop on "SMT Production Technologies" with IEEE Bombay section and SMTA- India Chapter in April 2004. The same had to be postponed because of preoccupation of the faculty and also the student members because of the academic year ending examinations. These programs are now planned for June 2004.

Meanwhile, our Chapter Vice-Chairman, Dr. Shankara Prasad, and our executive committee members, Dr. Maneesh Dhingra and Mr. I. M. Rao have expressed active interest in the chapter's activity and we look forward to a spurt in the CPMT India Chapter.