Infrastructure for Integrated Electronics Design and Manufacturing
Research Activities
Awarded NIST’s Rosa Award for outstanding contributions to the development of meaningful and significant engineering, scientific, or documentary standards for the IIEDM Project’s work on the IPC 1752 standard, Sept. 2006. IPC 1752 Material Declaration Management was done in conjunction with IPC and iNEMI to help the electronics industry comply with the European Union’s Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive.
Invited talk on Material Declarations at the MEP National Conference in
Taught several classes “Implementing Electronic Material Data Exchange” for the IPC RoHS Summer School series.
Chaired the Product Lifecycle Information Management working group for the development of the iNEMI 2006 Road mapping effort.
Invited talk “Software Interoperability Enabler of Emerging Technologies” at the Technology Market Research Council (TMRC) Spring Conference in Baltimore, MD, May 2005.
Developed a software translator tool that converts Gerber board layout files to IPC 2581 (OffSpring) format and back again.
“Next Generation Simulation-based Design Technologies for Electronics Product Realization” presented at PDE 2005 (The 7th NASA-ESA Workshop on Product Data Exchange).
Chaired the IEC Technical Committee (TC) 93 (Design Automation) Working Groups 3 (Product Data Exchange), 5 (Conformance Testing), and 6 (Data Dictionaries).