Paul Wesling Bio

Email: p.wesling@ieee.org

Topics: Origins of Silicon Valley and the Electronics Packaging Society; the IEEE/SEMI/ASME Heterogeneous Integration Roadmap and how to use it (as editor for the 2019 Roadmap).

 

Past IEEE SF Bay Area Communications Director and Webmaster, and Life Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE

Paul Wesling received his BS in electrical engineering and his MS in materials science from Stanford University.  Following assignments at GTE/Lenkurt Electric, ISS/Sperry-Univac, Datapoint Peripheral Products (VP - Product Integrity), and Amdahl (mainframe testing), he joined Tandem Computers in Cupertino (now part of Hewlett Packard) in 1985.  He designed several multi-chip module prototypes, did thermal modeling and testing, managed Tandem's Distinguished Lectures series, and organized a number of advanced technology courses for his Division and also for the IEEE.  He managed a grant from the National Science Foundation for the development of electronics packaging multimedia educational modules.  Paul retired from HP in 2001, and then served for 10 years as the Communications Director for the IEEE’s S.F. Bay Area Council and editor of the e-GRID, where he was known as “Mr. IEEE”.  He has observed the Silicon Valley for decades as an engineer, executive, resident, and educator.  He gives his IEEE DL lectures at universities, conferences and meetings around the world on the origins of Silicon Valley and its lessons for other tech hubs.

As vice president of publications from 1985 through 2008, he supervised four archival journals and a newsletter for IEEE’s Electronics Packaging Society (EPS).  He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and received the IEEE Centennial Medal, the Board's Distinguished Service award, the Society Contribution Award, the IEEE's Third Millennium Medal, and the Society President’s Recognition Award.  He has organized over 500 courses for the local IEEE chapter in the Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley), many of them held at Stanford University (and, more recently, at Silicon Valley company facilities).  An Eagle Scout, he served as scoutmaster of his local Boy Scout Troop for 15 years, was Advisor of a High-Adventure Crew, and enjoys backpacking, fly fishing, guitar and amateur radio (call sign: KM6LH).