CPMT Applauds its Finest

With a crowd of almost 700 people on hand to celebrate, the CPMT Society honored its top peers for their distinguished performances in technical excellence and dedication to the Society at the CMPT Society sponsored luncheon at the 55th Electronics Components and Technology Conference (ECTC) in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

Phil Garrou, CPMT Society president, along with N. Rao Bonda (awards chair), Marsha Tickman (executive director) and Society officers and Board of Governor members, presented the awards.

"The CPMT Society is proud to recognize these individuals for helping to further technology in our fields of interest and, at the same time, helping to strengthen the Society," said Bonda,

Honored at this year's luncheon:

· Prof. James E. Morris (Portland State University, Portland, Ore., USA) - The David Feldman Outstanding Contribution Award - for his exceptional service to IEEE and CPMT Society in various leadership roles and for his pioneering work in electrically conductive adhesives. An IEEE Fellow, Morris has served in many CPMT Society leadership positions over the years, including as an associate editor in adhesives for the IEEE Transactions on Component and Packaging Technologies.

· Prof. I. Charles Ume (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga., USA) - Outstanding Sustained Technical Contribution Award - for his contributions to thermomechanical reliability in electronic packaging. His inventions are helping to improve the quality and reliability of packaged microelectronic and electronic packaging products and pulp and paper products. He is an IEEE Fellow and serves as associate publisher of the IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies.

· Prof. Tseung-Yuen Tseng (Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan) - Exceptional Technical Achievement Award - for his contributions to the applied technology and basic science in electronic ceramics, in particular to ceramic capacitors. His technical contributions have been documented in technical journal and conference papers, as well as several patents and book chapters. He invented the first base metal Z5U dielectric formulation adopted by the Philip Company and brought it into large-scale commercial use.

· Ms. Lara J. Martin (Motorola, Plantation, Fla., USA) - Outstanding Young Engineer Award for her contributions to electronic product development, manufacturing and reliability and for supporting CPMT Society activities and conferences. In the past five years, Lara has contributed publications to a dozen industry journals and conferences, as well as PC Fab magazine. At Motorola, Lara has made significant contributions to development and implementation of a new product reliability system based on next generation statistics. Lara holds two patents with another pending.

Paul Wesling, Vice President of Publications, presented best paper awards:

The 2004 IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies Best Paper Award was for the article titled, "Characterization of Hygroscopic Swelling Behavior of Mold Compounds and Plastic Packages" - Published in the September 2004 issue, authored by Eric Stellrecht (DRS Technologies, USA), Bongtae Han (University of Maryland, USA), Michael G. Pecht (University of Maryland, USA)

The 2004 IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging Best Paper Award was for the article, "Design of Integrated Low Noise Amplifiers (LNA) Using Embedded Passives in Organic Substrates" - published in the February 2004 issue Vinu Govind, Sidharth Dalmia, Madhavan Swaminathan (All authors from the Georgia Instituite of Technology, USA)

And finally, the 2004 IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging Commendable Paper award was presented for the article titled, "The SOP for Miniaturized, Mixed-Signal Computing, Communication, and Consumer Systems of the Next Decade" - published in the May 2004 issue. It's large team of author includes Rao R.Tummala, Madhavan Swaminathan, Manos M Tentzeris, Joy Laskar, Gee-Kung Chang, Suresh Sitaraman, David Keezer, Daniel Giudotti, Zhaoran Huang, Kyutae Lim, Lixi Wan, Swapan K. Bhattacharya, Venkatesh Sundaram, Fuhan Liu, P. Markondeya Raj (All authors from the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

The Society's global chapters are a crucial link to the local communities. The 2005 Chapter of the Year Award went to West Ukraine Chapter, and the 2005 Student Chapter of the Year Award went to the University of Arkansas. Chris Thomason, Vice President; Matt Kelley, Secretary; and Colin Furrow, Treasurer were on hand to accept from the University of Arkansas.

The Society was also lucky to have two of our newest IEEE Fellows on hand. Phil Garrou presented certificates to Paul Wesling and Bill Brown, Strategic Director for Student Programs.

One award not presented at the luncheon was the Electronics Manufacturing Technology Award. The winner of that award is Dr. Robert C. Pfahl, Jr. (International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI), Herdon, Va., USA) - for developing new manufacturing processes, reducing the environmental impact of electronic manufacturing processes and fostering collaboration within the manufacturing technology community. Dr. Pfahl led and edited the first National Electronics Manufacturing Technology Roadmaps in 1994, and in 1996 helped champion the formation of the National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (NEMI). Pfahl will receive the award at the International Electronics Manufacturing Technology (IEMT) Symposium, 11-13 July 2005 - held in conjunction with SEMICON West in San Francisco, California USA.

Do you have a colleague deserving of recognition? Visit www.cpmt.org/awards for nominations information and awards criteria.

-- submitted by Kristine Martin