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We welcome you to Silicon Valley, the home of the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the Components, Packaging & Manufacturing Technology Society! We're quite active, with a regular series of Monthly Evening Meetings, a new series of Luncheon Meetings, and a rich choice of technical and professional skills courses.

Upcoming IEEE/CPMT Society Events In the Santa Clara Valley
(Print out and post/circulate)
Monthly Technical Meetings:
(everyone is welcome!)
Technical/Skills/Management Short Courses:
Meetings for 2008:

* "High Performance Modules on Copper Substrates" Peter Salmon, VP, Salmon Technologies, LLC -- Dinner Wednesday, May 14.

* "Semiconductor Manufacturing and Test Trends" Dr. Erik Volkerink, Verigy -- Lunch Thursday, May 22.

* "Thermal Stress Modeling in Electronic and Photonic Engineering: Is FEA the Only Tool?" Dr. Ephraim Suhir, CPMT Society Distinguished Lecturer; Bell Laboratories (ret) -- Dinner Wednesday, June 11.

Downloadable Slides from Recent Talks (most recent last)

"Sustainable Information Technology Ecosystem" Chandrakant Patel, Hewlett Packard Laboratories (1.6 MB PDF)
"Bridging the Gap Between 'Nano' and 'Just-Plain-Miniature' High Volume Print Forming" Arthur L. Chait, EoPlex Technologies (2.5 MB PDF)
"The Rocky Marriage of Technology and Quality" Dan Donahoe, Exponent (300 kB PDF)
"Package, Assembly and Thermal Challenges of Future Microprocessors" Raj Masters, Advanced Micro Devices (500 kB PDF)
"iNEMI Roadmap Overview" Jim McElroy, iNEMI (600 kB PDF) and "iNEMI Board Assembly Roadmap" Dongkai Shangguan (200 kB PDF)
"Optoelectronics Technology: New and Exciting Markets in Consumer and Entertainment" Michael Lebby, President and CEO, Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) (2.2 MB PDF)
"A New Perspective on Electronic Product Reliability" Prof. Michael Pecht, University of Maryland (1.6 MB PDF)

Other Slides from Past Talks: See the CPMT Members-Only website.

Professional Skills Development and Management Classes:

Transitioning from Individual Contributor to Manager [more]
- May 13 at TIBCO Software, Palo Alto
Mastering Your Presentation Skills [more]
- May 21-22 at TIBCO Software, Palo Alto
Influential Communication [more]
- June 10 at TIBCO Software, Palo Alto
Agile Project Management [more]
- June 17 at TIBCO Software, Palo Alto
Management Essentials [more]
- July 9-10 at TIBCO Software, Palo Alto
Budgeting Essentials [more]
- July 9 at Synopsys, Mountain View
Preparing Technical Content for Presentations [more]
- July 24 at Synopsys, Mountain View
Influential Communication [more]
- August 5 at Synopsys, Mountain View
Interviewing and Hiring the Best Talent [more]
- August 12 at TIBCO Software, Palo Alto

Contact Sue Smith, our course registrar, to receive the Course Flyer in the mail, and to be added to our email notification list for other Spring/Summer classes.

See our listing of Past Meetings and Courses.
[Place yourself on our email distribution list or send a request to Paul Wesling.]


Ideas for Future Meetings?
Do you have an idea for a presentation on a topic in our technical-interest area? You can review the Guidelines for CPMT Chapter Speakers (10 kB PDF). Please contact one of the members of our Program Committee with your proposal:
Harvey Miller, Program Chair, Dinner Meetings
Sandra Winkler, Program co-Chair, Luncheon Meetings
Ed Aoki, Program co-Chair, Luncheon Meetings
Design Issues:
(vacant): Chip/package co-design, signal integrity
Mark Montrose: EMC and safety

Components Issues:
(vacant): embedded pasives design & fabrication

Packaging Issues:
John Jackson: Flip Chip and CSP
Allen Earman: Novalux
Bill Chen: IC packaging/materials
(vacant): 3D, high-density
Ephraim Suhir: nano and opto packaging
Phil Marcoux: Wafer Level Packaging and Packaging for MEMs
(vacant): Sensors packaging (imaging, bio, RFID, etc.)

  Reliability and Qualification Testing:
Ephraim Suhir: product development, life, qualification testing

Manufacturing and Assembly:
(vacant): EMS, DFX and electronic assembly process development
Annette Teng:
Phil Marcoux: business and outsourcing issues
Luu Nguyen: Green Electronics, lead-free/halogen-free

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