The CPMT Society Announces its 2002 Award Winners

Top honors… best of the best… first rate. Each year, the IEEE Components Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Society (CPMT) honors its peers through a prestigious Awards Program. Individuals, teams and chapters are recognized for their technical excellence, achievement, leadership and service. The Society is pleased to announce the following CPMT Society award winners for 2002.

· The David Feldman Outstanding Contribution Award - Prof. Herbert Reichl (Fraunhofer IZM, Germany) for his technical leadership and outstanding contributions to the microelectronics packaging industry. He is the Head of the Research Center for Microperipheric Technologies-System Integration, TU Berlin, and founded and directs the Fraunhofer IZM. In addition, he is active in various CPMT Society-sponsored conferences and workshops. Prof. Reichl is an IEEE Fellow and considered to be one of the premier leaders in electronics packaging education and technology in the European community.

· Outstanding Sustained Technical Contribution Award - Prof. Avram Bar-Cohen (University of Maryland, USA) for his contributions to thermal design, modeling and analysis and for original research on ebullient and liquid-phase cooling. An IEEE Fellow since 1993, Prof. Bar-Cohen serves as Editor-In-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Components & Packaging Technologies and is an elected member of the CPMT Society Board of Governors. He is also known for achievements outside his particular job, such as mentoring a group of Russian thermal engineers in Siberia - visiting them, developing sponsorships so they could attend conferences and helping to edit technical papers.

· Electronics Manufacturing Technology Award - Mr. Scott Kulicke (Chairman and CEO, Kulicke & Soffa, USA) for his leadership and vision in transforming Kulicke & Soffa from a premier wire-bonding supplier to a global leader in semiconductor interconnecting technologies. He was the founding Chairman of SEMI/SEMATECH, Inc., an organization of semiconductor equipment and materials suppliers supporting the goals of SEMATECH (the consortium of U.S. semiconductor manufacturers and the U.S. Government for manufacturing competitiveness) and served as Chairman of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Technical Advisory Committee on Semiconductors.

· Exceptional Technical Achievement Award - Prof. C.P. Wong (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) for his pioneering work in polymeric materials for electronics packaging applications and for the introduction and development of silicon gels to achieve reliability without hermeticity in plastic IC packaging. He is considered a world-renowned expert in the research and development of polymeric materials in electronics packaging. Prof. Wong is an IEEE Fellow, an elected member to the Board of Governors and former President of the CPMT Society. In addition, he is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, which is considered one of the highest honors one can receive in the industry.

· Outstanding Young Engineer Award - There was such phenomenal talent in this category that two co-recipients were chosen to share the award. (Shown in alphabetical order)

Ms. Christine Kallmayer (Fraunhofer IZM, Germany) for her contributions to various packaging technologies including Au-Sn solder interconnections and flex-based packages and for her active participation in technical conferences sponsored by the CPMT Society.

Dr. Li Li (Motorola, Inc., USA) for her contributions to flip chip interconnect bumping materials and process development and embedded passive design and implementation in RF modules, and for her service to the CPMT society via conferences and IEEE transactions.

The awards will be presented at the 52nd Electronics Components & Technology Conference (ECTC) in San Diego, California, USA, during the CPMT Society luncheon. The exception is the Electronics Manufacturing Technology Award, which will be presented at the International Electronics Manufacturing Technology (IEMT) Symposium and SEMICON West 2002 in San Jose, California, USA, July 17-19.

Congratulations to all of the winners.

For more information about the CPMT Society Awards Program, please contact:
Rao Bonda, Ph.D.
Chair, Awards Program
Phone: +1 480 413 6121
Fax: +1 480 413 4511
email: rao.bonda@motorola.com