Regional Contributions Award
Nomination Period Now Open for 2023 Awards
September 15, 2022 - January 21, 2023
- Purpose:
- To recognize significant and outstanding leadership and contributions to the growth and impact of EPS programs and activities at the Region level. Maximum of one award annually from each Region/Groups of Regions (3 awards): Regions 1-7 & 9; Region 8; and Region 10.
- Award:
- US$1,000 and Certficate
- Basis for Judging:
- Demonstrated service and leadership in areas that may include but are not limited to Chapter activities, Conference/Workshop activities, Membership Development, Student Programs and Technical Activities. The respective EPS Regional Advisory Committees will receive nominations, evaluate candidates, select a candidate(s), and present candidate(s) to EPS Awards Committee for review and approval.
- Eligibility:
- Recipient must have been a member of IEEE and EPS for at least the past three years and renewed for the year of the Award.
2022 RECIPIENTS
Regions 1 - 7 & 9
Rajen Murugan
Texas Instruments, Inc., USA
For founding the EPS Dallas Chapter and demonstrating exemplary leadership and sustained technical contributions in enabling and promoting EPS and IEEE programs and activities in the Dallas Section and Region 5.
Region 8
Rolf Aschenbrenner
Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration, Germany
For contributions in strengthening electronics packaging and systems integration in Europe through technical leadership, conferences and active engagement with local technical communities.
Region 10
Masahiro Aoyagi
Kumamoto University, Japan
For contribution to enhance collaboration in Region 10, especially between Japan and Singapore and achievement to develop 3D LSI chip stacking technology with TSVs and micro-bumps.
PAST RECIPIENTS
2021 Region 10
Ranjan Rajoo
For growing R10 flagship conference EPTC through strategic partnerships with the entire microelectronics supply chain, and for contributions to Singapore EPS.
2020 Regions 1-7 & 9
Seungbae Park
For outstanding contributions to promote the Electronics Packaging Symposium, and unique Industry-Academia Consortium for Smart Electronics Manufacturing research & education into Industry 4.0 initiatives.
2020 Region 8
Thomas Zerna
For his commitment and role in establishing the ESTC conference, and for his contributions to the EPS Germany chapter.
2020 Region 10
Kishio Yokouchi
For his commitment and role in establishing the ESTC conference, and for his contributions to the EPS Germany chapter.
2019 Region 10
Shaw Fong Wong
For outstanding and sustained leadership contributions to the IEEE/EPS Malaysia Chapter and to significantly engage and promote close collaboration within R10 technical activities.
2018 Regions 1-6, 7 & 9
Annette Teng
For sustained contributions to the Santa Clara Valley Chapter and continued support of Chapter activities.
2018 Region 8
Gilles Poupon
For outstanding and sustained contributions and leadership in regional activities, such as organization of international conferences and workshops, active volunteering in technical committees, and leading the EPS French chapter to one of the most active chapters in the region.
2018 Region 10
Yoshitaka Fukuoka
For contributions to establish an international Japanese conference on electronic packaging and to provide the latest packaging technology information in Japan, to the world.
2017 Region 10
Shen-Li Fu
For contributions to the development of the IEEE EPS Taipei Chapter and the successful establishment of a professional interactive platform among the chapters in Region 10, through international conferences.
2016 Region 8
Zsolt Illyefalvi-Vitéz
For outstanding contributions in promoting electronic packaging and IEEE EPS networking activities in East Europe and Region 8, including founding the ISSE - International Spring Seminar on Electronics Technology and establishing and developing the IEEE EPS Hungary-Romania Joint Chapter.
2016 Rgegion 10
Yasuhiro Ando
For contributions to the reconstruction and activation of the CPMT Japan Chapter as Vice Chair and Chair, and leadership in electronics and photonics packaging technologies development in Japan.
2015 Region 8
Paul Svasta
For sustained contributions to electronic packaging technology and education and to IEEE EPS activities in Region 8, through leadership in the CPMT Joint Hungary and Romania Chapter, and for establishing the IEEE SIITMEC conference and student TIE competition.
2015 Region 10
Arun Chandrasekhar
For significant contributions to CPMT activities in Region 10, through establishing and leading the CPMT Bangalore Chapter, while simultaneously organizing and chairing IEEE EDAPS 2014.
2014 Regions 1-6, 7 & 9
Sam Karikalan
For founding the CPMT Orange County Chapter and providing strong leadership in Chapter and conference development and management.
2014 Region 8
Klaus-Jürgen Wolter
For significant contributions to the training and development of future CPMT scientists and engineers in Region 8 as General Chair, International Spring Seminar on Electronics Technology (ISSE), 2002-2012 and establishing and developing the Electronics Packaging Lab (AVT),Technical University of Dresden to become the largest university electronic packaging research and training center in Germany.