CPMT Award Luncheon

IEEE Field
President Phil Garrou presided over the June 2 ECTC Award Ceremony. First IEEE President W. Cleon Anderson announced Yutaka Tsukada now of Kyocera as the winner of the prestigious IEEE Field Award for the Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology.
Yutaka Tsukada work was centered on high density, chip bump mounted, low cost printer wiring board development which is now used in most consumer electronics.

Society Awards
All the annual CPMT Society Award winners were recognized.
**Prof. James E. Morris of Portland State University won the "David Feldman Outstanding Contributions Award" for electrically conductive adhesive work and Society leadership roles.
**I. Charles Ume of Georgia institute of Technologies was recognized for contributions to thermomechanical packaging reliability with the "Outstanding Sustained Technical Contribution Award."
**Robert C. Pfahl of iNEMI received the "Electronics Manufacturing Technology Award" for process, environmental and industrial collaboration advancement.
**Tseug-Yuen Tseng of Chiao-Tung University accepted the "Exceptional Technical Achievement Award for electronic ceramics advances.
**Lara J. Martin of Motorola was named the "Outstanding Young Engineer Award" winner for product development and Society activities.

Chapters
The West Ukraine Chapter received the 2005 Chapter of the Year Award, and the University of Arkansas locked up the Student Chapter 2005 Award. Students Matt Kelly, Coln Furrow, and Chris Thompson received the award from President Phil Garrou

Transactions
Vice President Paul Wesling awarded three 2004 transaction Papers.
**The transaction of Components and Packaging best paper award went to "Characterization of Hygroscopic Swelling behavior of Mold Compounds and Plastic Packages" by University of Maryland and DRS Technologies. Bongtae Han of U of Maryland accepted.
**The best paper in the 2004 Transaction on Advanced Packaging was "Design of Integrated Low Noise Amplifiers Using Embedded Passives in Organic Substrates by Georgia Institute of Technology. Vinu Govind and Madhavan Swaminathan accepted.
**The 2004 Commendable Paper Award went to "The SOP for Miniaturized, Mixed-Signal Computing, Communication, and Consumer Systems of the Next Decade" by a gang of 15 from Georgia Institute of Technology. A large percentage of the audience accepted the award.

Fellows
Paul B. Wesling and William D. Brown were given the official plagues for achieving Fellow grade within the IEEE. In Picture: Paul, Phil, Bill, and Cleon.