Sixty six members honored at 2002 IPC annual meeting

Sixty six members honored at 2002 IPC annual meeting

Keywords: IPC

IPC – Association Connecting Electronics Industries^®honored 66 members at the 2002 IPC annual meeting, held from 3-7 November in New Orleans, LA, for their contributions to IPC and the electronics interconnect industry.

Dr Aroon Tungare, Motorola, was honored with the IPC President’s Award,which is given to members who have exhibited ongoing leadership in IPC and have made significant contributions to the association and the electronics interconnect industry. Tungare was awarded for his significant efforts as member and past chairman of the IPC Printed Circuits Expo Technical Program Committee and active participation in the Long Range Planning Committee and numerous standard committees.

IPC also presented seven Special Recognition Awards, which are presented to individuals who have made a recent exceptional contribution to an IPC program. The following were honored at this year’s IPC annual meeting.

• Thomas G. Farrell, Underwriters Labs, for his completion of the silver migration test requirement revision in UL796.

• Donald P. Cullen, MacDermid Inc., for his leadership of the ad hocIPC group that revised the silver migration test requirement in UL796.

• Blen F. Talbot, L-3 Communications, and Sharon T. Ventress, US Army Aviation and Missile Command, for their leadership of IPC-HDBK-610 Task Group 7-31 g.

• Dr William Kenyon, Global Centre for Process Change Inc., for his significant leadership in the release of IPC-SA.

• Sharon Goudie, Dow Corning Corp., and Fonda Wu, Raytheon Electronic Systems,for their extraordinary efforts and dedication as co-chairs of the IPC-HDBK-830 conformal coating handbook task group.