James Morris Bio

Topics: Electrically conductive adhesives; Electronics packaging; Nanotechnologies

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Jim Morris is an ECE Professor Emeritus at Portland State University, Oregon, and an IEEE Life Fellow. He founded the Institute for Electronics Packaging Research (which became the Integrated Electronics Engineering Center) at SUNY-Binghamton and served as EE/ECE Department Chair there and at Portland State. He has B.Sc. (1965) and M.Sc.(hons) degrees (1967) in Physics from the University of Auckland, NZ, and a Ph.D. in EE from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa degree by Bucharest Polytechnic University in 2015. Jim has served the IEEE Electronics Packaging Society (EPS,) including when it was CPMT, as Treasurer (1991-1997,) BoG member (1996-1998), VP for Conferences (1998-2003,) Distinguished Lecturer (2000- ,) CPMT-Transactions Associate-Editor (1998- ,) the EPS IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) representative (2007-2012,) etc., and won the 2005 CPMT David Feldman Outstanding Contribution Award. He was General Conference Chair of Adhesives in Electronics (1998,) Advanced Packaging Materials (2001,) and Polytronic (2004,) along with other conference organizing roles, e.g., ECTC Program Committees and the ISSE Steering Committee (2001-2024.) He has co-authored one book on electronics packaging reliability and edited five more, including two (2008, 2018) on nanopackaging, and co-edited two on nanoelectronics. He served as the NTC Awards Chair (2008-2012,) Conferences VP (2013-204,) Finance VP (2015-2018,) President-Elect (2019,) President (2020-2021,) Past-President (2022-2023,) and the Fellows Search Committee Chair (2024- .) He established the Nanotechnology Council Nanopackaging TC, which also functions as the EPS Nanotechnology TC, contributes to IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine, chaired NANO 2011 and 2020, and NMDC 2018, and was Program Chair for NMDC 2023. His research interests have ranged from isotropic conductive adhesives, nanopackaging, nanoelectronics simulation, and discontinuous thin metal films to automotive engine control. He is actively involved in international engineering education and NTC chapter development. Locally, he founded or co-founded the Oregon Chapters of the IEEE Education Society, EPS and NTC. He has had numerous international visiting appointments, most notably with Nokia-Fulbright (Finland,) Erskine (N.Z.) and Royal Academy of Engineering (U.K.) Fellowships. Jim has taught continuously for 59 years, mainly online to China most recently, and published 63 journal papers, 107 refereed conference papers, 33 book chapters, and one patent, plus ~80 other conference presentations.