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Welcome to Engineering Spotlight, each month The SMART Group web site will feature video views from selected specialists in the world of assembly and soldering. If you have a suggestion or would like to contribute to this section of the site please let us know technical@smartgroup.org

This month we hear from Jennie S Hwang, on the subject of lead-free soldering alloys and what is happening in the move to alternatives alloys with the move away from the traditional tin/lead eutectic solders.

In a career spanning two and a half decades, she has participated and contributed to commerce, technology, and academia in electronic materials & SMT manufacturing. Jennie has worked in both corporate and entrepreneurial worlds, having founded two entrepreneurial businesses. In the meantime, she has authored over 120 publications, including the sole-authorship of several high-tech books published by McGraw-Hill, as well as with U.K. and Japanese publishers in cutting edge technologies. Jennie is shortly to release a brand new book on lead-free soldering which will be reviewed on the SMART Group web site shortly.

Next month we hear from Dieter Bergman of the IPC in the USA.