BANNOCKBURN, IL – IPC presented Special Recognition, Distinguished Committee Leadership and Distinguished Committee Service awards at its trade show this week.

The awards were presented to individuals who have made significant contributions to IPC and the electronics industry.

Special Recognition award recipients were Marg Drouin, Cirtronics Corp.; Mike Freda, Sun Microsystems; Mike Bryant, BGF Industries and Silvio Bertling, Neltec; Kathy Johnston, Raytheon Missile Systems; Daniel Foster, Defense Acquisition, and Jeannette Plante, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Distinguished Committee Leadership awards went to Antonio Senese of Panasonic Electric Works and Douglas Sober of Kaneka Texas Corp.; George Milad, Uyemura International Corp. and Gerard O’Brien, Solderability Testing & Solutions; Michael Jouppi, Lockheed Martin; Hue Green, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., and Garry McGuire, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.

Distinguished Committee Service awards were presented to Michael Beauchesne of Amphenol Printed Circuits; Silvio Bertling of Neltec; Tracy Cai, Guangdong Shengyi Sci. Tech; Terry Fischer, Hitachi Chemical Co.; Robert Hearn, Dow Chemical; Douglas Leys, Nelco Products; Rolland Savage, High Performance Copper Foil; Crystal Vanderpan, Underwriters Laboratories; Daniel Welch, Arlon MED; Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell Inc. Air Transport Systems and Karl Sauter, Sun Microsystems for their contributions to IPC-4101C, Specification for Base Materials for Rigid and Multilayer Printed Boards.

Other recipients included Dr. Martin Bayes, Dow Electronic Materials; Elizabeth Benedetto, H-P; Trevor Bowers, Adtran; Donald Gudeczauskas, Uyemura International Corp.; David Hillman, Rockwell Collins; Helen Holder, H-P; James Kenny, Enthone Inc. - Cookson Electronics; Karl Sauter, Sun Microsystems Inc.; Dr. Polina Snugovsky, Celestica Canada and Karl Wengeroth, Enthone Inc. - Cookson Electronics for their contributions to IPC-4553A, Specification for Immersion Silver Plating for Printed Boards.

Recognized for IPC-2152, Standard for Determining Current Carrying Capacity in Printed Board Design were Byron Case, L-3 Communications; Don Dupriest, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control; Gary Ferrari, FTG Circuits; Michael Green, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company; Michael Miller, NSWC Crane; Jack Olson, Caterpillar; William Ortloff, Raytheon, and Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell Inc. Air Transport Systems.  

James Blanche, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; Robert Cooke, NASA Johnson Space Center; Michael Engler, The Aerospace Corp.; Charles Gamble, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; Ronald Hebden, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Robert Humphrey, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Norma Moss, L-3 Communications; David Nelson, Lisa Maciolek and William Ortloff of Raytheon; Doug Rogers, Harris Corp., GCSD; Richard Rumas, Honeywell Canada; Blen Talbot, L-3 Communications; Anthony Wong, NASA Johnson Space Center, and Alan Young, Jet Propulsion Laboratory were recognized for their contributions to the development of J-STD-001DS Revision A, Space Applications Electronic Hardware Addendum to J-STD-001D.

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