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).