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NEMI Announces Banquet Speakers for 10th Anniversary Roadmap Celebration
June 4, 2004 |Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
Herndon, Va. — The National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (NEMI) is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its electronics manufacturing roadmap with a special banquet the evening of June 22 at NEMI headquarters here.
Featured speakers are Mauro Walker, chairman emeritus of NEMI, speaking on the NEMI legacy, and Iwona Turlik, Ph.D., corporate vice president for Motorola and director of the company's Physical Realization Research Center, who will discuss innovation through nanotechnology.
The NEMI roadmap identifies emerging and disruptive technologies and prioritizing industry R&D funding. With the globalization of the 2004 roadmap, the next "edition" will be even more important as a tool for identifying technology gaps and possible solutions for an increasingly global industry, according to NEMI.
Walker was instrumental in the organization of NEMI and served as the consortium's founding chairman. He retired from Motorola in 1998, where he was senior vice president and director of manufacturing, responsible for corporate-level manufacturing technology, automation, manufacturing systems and manufacturing cooperation.
Walker has had a long career of accomplishment in the advancement of electronic manufacturing and manufacturing technology in industry, academia and professional societies. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on the topic of U.S. manufacturing competitiveness. He is a recipient of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers' (IEEE's) Special Manufacturing Technology Award and the Society for Manufacturing Engineers' (SME's) Total Excellence in Electronic Manufacturing Award. Walker is an IEEE fellow and founder of the IEEE International Manufacturing Technology Symposium. He was instrumental in the formation of the MIT Leaders for Manufacturing program, as well the Georgia Tech and University of Illinois Manufacturing Research Centers.
Turlik has worked in the electronics industry and academia for more than two decades. She has been with Motorola since 1994 and is currently corporate vice president and director of the Motorola Physical Realization Research Center. She previously was director of Motorola's Corporate Manufacturing Research Center.
Turlik received her M.S. degree in electrical engineering and her Ph.D. in technical science from the Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland, where she started her professional career as a tenured faculty member. She has worked with Bell Northern Research and MCNC and was a tenured professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She was named one of the 10 most influential people in the PCB industry by PC FAB magazine and ATOMIC29 (2001-2002), and is an IEEE fellow. Turlik is a member of the NEMI Board of Directors and serves on the advisory boards of several colleges and universities.
The first roadmap, published in December 1994, was spearheaded by Walker and Lance Glasser, then director of the Electronics Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). These two individuals helped organize the National Electronics Manufacturing Framework Committee, a group of 200 individuals from industry, government and academia, to study the challenges facing the nation in electronics manufacturing and to develop technology roadmaps and policy options with which to address these challenges. The resulting roadmap was published by the American Electronics Association (now AeA) and the Electronic Industries Association (EIA, now the Electronic Industries Alliance). NEMI was incorporated the following year (1995), and the consortium has published a roadmap every other year since 1994. The 2004 roadmap currently is in development.
Today, several roadmaps anticipate what lies ahead for the electronics industry. Most of these roadmaps provide detailed information about only one segment of the industry, such as semiconductors (International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors) or interconnection substrates (IPC roadmap). The NEMI roadmap is the only one that integrates the viewpoints of all the various sectors of the industry as a whole, considering how each area will impact the others and anticipating the effects on electronics manufacturing overall.
The 10th anniversary banquet begins with a reception at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 22, followed by dinner at 6:30. The roadmap workshop, which will review year-to-date progress on the 2004 NEMI Roadmap and solicit feedback and input from workshop participants, is scheduled for 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, June 23. All meetings will take place at NEMI headquarters in the Virginia Center for Innovative Technology (2214 Rock Hill Road), near Dulles Airport.
The workshop registration fee is $200 for non-members and $100 for members. This fee includes attendance at the banquet, participation in the workshop (including lunch and breaks), a CD of workshop presentations and the 2004 NEMI Roadmap CD when published. (Cost of the roadmap for non-members is usually $250.)
For workshop agenda, registration information, and details about hotels and transportation, visit www.nemi.org/roadmapping/june_TWG.html.
The National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative's mission is to assure leadership of the global electronics manufacturing supply chain. For more information, visit www.nemi.org.