C.P. Wong Wins 2008 TEEM Award

The award is given annually to an individual in recognition of extraordinary dedication and innovation in setting new or higher levels of achievement in electronics manufacturing.

SME's Electronics Manufacturing Tech Group, originally established in 1985 as the Association for Electronics Manufacturing, comprises a membership of industry practitioners, vendors and academics providing educational leadership and promoting the exchange of information in electronics manufacturing. The Electronics Manufacturing Tech Group is part of SME’s Automated Manufacturing & Assembly Community.

According to John Pan, PhD, 2008 TEEM selection committee chairman, "Dr. Wong has contributed significantly through both research and teaching to the fields of polymeric materials, materials reaction mechanism, IC packaging, in particular, hermetic equivalent plastic packaging processes, interfacial adhesions, PWB, SMT assembly and components reliability. He was elected an AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellow, the most prestigious award bestowed by Bell Labs, for his fundamental contributions to low-cost, high performance plastic packaging of semiconductors. He holds over 46 U.S. patents and numerous international patents, has published over 500 technical papers, delivered 400 presentations, and received numerous honors and awards including being elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2000. The TEEM Award committee unanimously selected Dr. Wong for 2008 SME TEEM Award winner."

C.P. Wong is the Charles Smithgall Institute Endowed Chair and Regents’ Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Wong joined Georgia Tech in 1996 as a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering and as a research director of the NSF Packaging Research Center. During his graduate studies at Penn State, Wong synthesized the first known lanthanide and actinide porphyrin complexes, a breakthrough in metalloporphyrin chemistry. After his post-doctoral fellowship with Nobel Laureate Professor Henry Taube at Stanford University, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1977 as a member of the technical staff. He became a senior member of the technical staff in 1982 and a distinguished member of the technical staff in 1987. In 1992, he was elected an AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellow for his fundamental contributions to low-cost, high-performance plastic packaging of semiconductors. During his 19 years at Bell Labs, he led many technical teams with team member up to 30-40 technical staff and managers to define many AT&T R&D and its telecom products activities as team leaders and program managers. These efforts also led to many achievements at AT&T and Bell Labs. Though most of the work at Bell Labs is proprietary, Wong managed to patent and publish some of his work in open literature, but most of his work remained in internal reports.

His research interests lie in the fields of polymeric materials, materials reaction mechanism, IC packaging, in particular, hermetic equivalent plastic packaging processes, interfacial adhesions, PWB, SMT assembly and components reliability. He is one of the pioneers in demonstrating the use of silicone gel as a device encapsulant to achieve reliability without hermeticity in plastic IC packaging.

Wong has received many national and international awards. He holds more than 46 U.S. patents, numerous international patents, has published more than 500 technical papers and delivered 400 presentations. Wong is a Fellow of IEEE, AIC and AT&T Bell Labs. In 2004, he was elected the 2004 Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award for his outstanding contributions in teaching, research and service to GT and all the technical communities; named holder of the Charles Smithgall Institute Endowed Chair in 2005; he was elected the Outstanding PhD thesis advisor at GT in 2006; the IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Field Award (hails as Father of the Modern Semiconductor Packaging); the 2007 Sigma Xi M. Ferst Award as an outstanding educator; and the 2007 Taiwanese Pan Wen Yuan Foundation Outstanding Research Award on semiconductor research. Wong has a BS from Purdue University and a PhD from Pennsylvania State University.

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