Paul B. Wesling
Received the IEEE Fellow award in 2004 for contributions to multimedia education development within the IC packaging.
Paul Wesling
led the CPMT Society Santa Clara Valley Chapter to prominence
as
one of the leading chapters in the world. He served as treasurer,
Chair, and
Chapter Advisor; instituted and ran a short course program beginning
in 1970
that has consistently been financially successful, with over $100K/year
in gross
revenues and $15K in surplus each year; organized leading edge
topics such as
disk drive design, microprocessor programming, reliability, and
project
management, with attendances up to 700, at low Member pricing;
recruited and
trained instructors; taught other Sections/Chapters how to replicate
these at
an IEEE Sections Congress and at local Section Officer Training
sessions. He
served as CPMT Society Secretary and Newsletter Editor before
assuming the
position of Vice President of Publications (1985-present; grew
the CPMT
Transactions from 450 pages into three journals with over 1,800
pages and a net
revenue contribution of over $350K/year; developed Society conference
publications to a revenue contribution of over $200K/year; and
brought the
Society from <$250K reserves to over $3M in 10 years. He founded
the
International Electronics Manufacturing Technology (IEMT) Symposium,
and
produced its Proceedings for many years; served as General Chair
and host of
for the VLSI Packaging Workshop.
He published a series of papers on multimedia education, presented
keynote
talks worldwide as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer on this topic,
managed a NSF
grant for the creation of multimedia training modules and virtual
labs in the
discipline of electronics packaging and manufacturing for worldwide
use. He
helped plan the Sloan Foundation-funded IEEE USA video on college-student
career
advising, and appeared in it. He is the Chair of the Packaging
Education
program subcommittee for the ECTC. He was awarded the IEEE Centennial
Award
(1984), Chapter Man of the Year (1985), CPMT Contribution Award
(1986), Board of
Governors Distinguished Service Award (1991), and the IEEE Third
Millenium Medal
(2000).