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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 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 2010/2011:

* "Design of High Density & 3D Packaging: Tools and Knowledge" Thomas Tarter, Package Science Services LLC -- lunch Thursday, September 23

* "All-Silicon System with Nano-Packaging: Highest Functionality, Lowest Cost, Smallest Size" Prof. Rao Tummala, Founding Director, NSF Packaging Research Center, Georgia Tech -- dinner Tuesday, October 12

* "Good Things Come in Small Packages" Sandra Winkler, New Venture Research -- lunch Thursday, October 28

* "Embedded Passives: Packaging Paradigm of the Future?" Jason Ferguson, Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center -- dinner Wednesday, November 10

Downloadable Slides from Recent Talks (most recent last)

"Winner Take All: How Competitiveness Shapes the Fate of Nations", Richard J. Elkus, Jr. (100 kB PDF)
"Integrated RF-CMOS MEMS Solutions for Mobile Terminals", Jeffrey L. Hilbert, President, WiSpry, Inc. (750 kB PDF)
"3D IC Integration: The Next Generation of Electronics", "Bill" Bottoms, Chairman, Third Millennium Test Solutions (1.6 MB PDF)
Other Slides from Past Talks: See the CPMT Members-Only website.

Upcoming Conferences sponsored by our Chapter

* IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC) at the Clement Hotel, Monterey -- October 12-15, 2010

Upcoming Technical Courses:

* "Computational Electronics: From Semi-Classical to Quantum Transport Modeling" Prof. Dragica Vasileska, Arizona State University -- at Clement Hotel (Monterey), Tuesday, October 12.

* "(Topic to be determined)" Prof. Rao Tummala, Georgia Tech -- Biltmore Hotel (Santa Clara), Tuesday, October 12, 3:30 - 5:30 PM.

Professional Skills Development and Management Classes:

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 fall classes.

Preparing Presentations to Decision Makers [more]
- September 16 at TIBCO Software, Palo Alto
Precision Questioning and Answering [more]
- September 21 at Synopsys, Mountain View
Virtual Teams: Working Together Apart [more]
- October 12 at Trimble Navigation, Palo Alto
5 Habits of Intentional Leadership [more]
- October 14-15 at TIBCO Software, Palo Alto

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 our officers or any of the members of our Program Committee with your proposal:
Officers:
Chapter Chair: Ed Aoki, Agilent Technologies, Retired
Vice Chair: Mudasir Ahmad, Cisco Systems
Secretary: Dongji Xie, Flextronics
Treasurer: Elizabeth Logan
Program Co-Chairs:
Dinner Meetings: Harvey Miller, InfraFocus, and Azmat Malik
Lunch Meetings: Sandra Winkler and Tom Tarter
Program Support:
A/V Support: Tom Tarter
Dinner Meetings: Janis Karklins
Lunch Meetings: Peng Su, Cisco Systems
Publicity: Paul Wesling

Design Issues:
Oscar MahinFallah: EMC

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

Packaging Issues:
John Jackson: Flip Chip and CSP
Allen Earman: Lakeland Photonics
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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