Engineering Spotlight

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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 Dr. Richard K. Ulrich on the subject of embedded components and the potential for this technology. Richard has recently published a book on the subject “Integrated Passive Component Technology from Wiley International Publications.

Richard has been a professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Arkansas since 1987 and, prior to that, a packaging research engineer for Texas Instruments. He is a NEMI roadmap board member, a past chairman of the Dielectric Science and Technology Division of the Electrochemical Society, a guest editor for integrated passives at IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging, and a former member of editorial board of High Density Interconnect magazine. He is the author of numerous articles, presentations, book chapters, and short courses in the material science aspects of microelectronic fabrication, particularly integrated passives and reliability science.

2003

To view December's spotlight with Bob Willis, click here
To view November's spotlight with Joe Felty, click here
To view October's spotlight with Bob Willis, click here
To view September's spotlight with Gordon Davey, click here
To view August's spotlight with David Bernard, click here
To view July's spotlight with Helmut Leicht, click here
To view June's spotlight with Alan Brewin, click here
To view May's spotlight with Jim Morris of Cookson Electronics, click here
To view April's spotlight with Alan Brewin, click here
To view March's spotlight with Chris Hunt, click here
To view February's spotlight with Bruce Moloznik, click here
To view January's spotlight with Walt Custer, click here

2002
To view December's spotlight with Michael Weinhold, click here
To view October's spotlight with Bob Willis, click here
To view September's spotlight with David Bergman, click here
To view August's spotlight with Dr Laura Turbini, click here
To view July's spotlight with Karl Seelig of AIM, click here
To view March's Spotlight with Simon Hawkins of Metcal, click here
To view January's Spotlight with Alan Rae of Cookson, click here
2001
To view December's Spotlight with Kamran Firooz, click here
To view November's Spotlight with Dr Bill Kenyon, click here
To view October's Spotlight with Phil Zarrow, click here
To view September's Spotlight with Eli Westerlaken, click here
To view August's Spotlight with Bob Willis, click here
To view July's Spotlight with Alan Hobby , click here
To view June's Spotlight with Peter Grundy , click here
To view May's Spotlight with Dieter Bergman , click here
To view April's Spotlight with Jennie S Hwang, click here.