Papers are sought in the following tracks: assembly, business, components, emerging technologies, PCB technology and process control.

Three-hundred-word abstracts are due Apr. 24.

SMTAI offers three awards: Best of Conference Presentation, Best of Proceedings Paper and Best International Paper.

Proposals are also solicited for educational courses related to SMT, advanced packaging and electronics manufacturing. Course length may be half- or full-day. These proposals must be submitted by Mar. 27.

Paper manuscripts and course workbooks are due July 31. Papers should be 6-15 pages and describe significant results from experiments, emphasize new techniques, or contain technical, economic or appropriate test data. Presentation materials and papers must be original, unpublished and non-commercial.

Fore more details, visit www.smta.org/smtai/call_for_papers.cfm.