BANNOCKBURN, IL — Steve Pudles led a long list of executives and engineers feted by IPC during its annual trade show last week.

The trade group cited Pudles, president of API Defense USA, for 20 years' of contributions and leadership, specifically his cofounding of the IPC EMS Council, leadership on the IPC board of directors and in certification activities.

Awards were also presented to individuals who made significant contributions to IPC and the industry through work on standards committees.

For leadership and exceptional contributions to several IPC programs and committees, Rajesh Kumar, DDi Corp., and Michael Moisan, TTM Technologies, were honored with Special Recognition Awards for their work with the IPC DoD Task Force, the IPC DoD Roadmap, and the E-20 IPC Intellectual Property Committee that developed IPC-1071, Best Industry Practices for Intellectual Property Protection in Printed Board Manufacturing.

Honored with Distinguished Committee Service Awards for their work on IPC-1071 were: Wallace Ables, Dell; Kevin Arledge, Motorola Solutions; Blaine Davis, Scientech; George Dudnikov, Founder Technology Group; Joe Fjelstad, Verdant Electronics; Dennis Fritz, SAIC; James Fuller, Endicott Interconnect Technologies; Roy Keen, Rockwell Collins; Bruce Kline, Mayo Clinic; Ben Lee, Cisco; Matthew McQueen, NSWC Crane; Jos Purvis, Cisco; Gary Roper, Roper Resources; Al Wasserzug, Vulcan Flex Circuit; and Mikel Williams, DDi.

For outstanding contributions to the development of DVD-74C, ESD Control for Electronics Assembly, Lynda Holland, Hunter Technology, was given a Special Recognition Award.

For the 5-22AS, Space Electronic Assemblies J-STD-001 Addendum Task Group that developed J-STD-001ES, Space Applications Electronic Hardware Addendum to IPC-J-STD-001E, Kathy Johnston, Raytheon, and Garry McGuire, NASA, were honored with Committee Leadership Awards. IPC 5-22AS committee members who received Distinguished Committee Service Awards were: James Blanche and Charles Gamble, NASA; Thomas Carroll, Boeing; Robert Cooke and Anthony Wong, NASA; Daniel Foster, Defense Acquisition; Matt Garrett, Phonon; Dr. Reza Ghaffarian, Kim Phillips and Alan Young, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Hue Green and Michael Green, Lockheed Martin; Ronald Hebden, Honeywell; Robert Humphrey and Jeannette Plante, NASA; Joseph Kane, BAE Systems; Leo Lambert, EPTAC; Dominic LaPinta, United Space Alliance; Lisa Maciolek, David Nelson and Bill Ortloff, Raytheon; George Millman and Leticia Vasquez, Raytheon; Barry Morris and Debbie Wade, Advanced Rework Technology – A.R.T.; Doug Rogers, Harris; Bill Strachan, ASTA – Portsmouth University; Mel Parrish, STI; Teresa Rowe, AAI; Richard Rumas, Honeywell Canada; Patricia Scott, STI Electronics; Blen Talbot, L-3 Communications; and Jonathon Vermillion, Ball Aerospace & Technologies. In addition, Blanche, Cooke, Foster, Hebden, McGuire, Rowe and Scott were also presented with Special Recognition Awards for their contributions to the development of the J-STD-001ES, Space Addendum Certification Program.

For the 7-31FS, Space Electronic Assemblies IPC/WHMA-A-620 Addendum Task Group that developed IPC/WHMA-A-620AS, Space Applications Electronic Hardware Addendum to IPC/WHMA-A-620A, Garry McGuire, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and Randy McNutt, Northrop Grumman, were presented with Committee Leadership Awards. IPC 7-31FS committee members recognized with Distinguished Committee Service Awards were: James Blanche Charles Gamble, Robert Humphrey, Jeannette Plante, Robert Cooke, and Anthony Wong, NASA; Dan Foster, Defense Acquisition Inc.; Matt Garrett, Phonon; Richard Rumas and Ronald Hebden, Honeywell; Kathy Johnston, Lisa Maciolek, George Millman, Gregory Rohrbacher and Leticia Vasquez, Raytheon; Dominic LaPinta, United Space Alliance;  Barry Morris and Debbie Wade, Advanced Rework Technology – A.R.T; Mel Parrish and Patricia Scott, STI Electronics, Inc.; Teresa Rowe, AAI; Blen Talbot, L-3 Communications; Jonathon Vermillion, Ball Aerospace & Technologies; and Alan Young, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

For the IPC 6-10d SMT Attachment Reliability Test Methods Task Group that developed the recently released IPC-9708, Test Methods for Characterization of Printed Board Assembly Pad Cratering, Werner Engelmaier, Engelmaier Associates, and Dr. Reza Ghaffarian, Jet Propulsion Laboratory were honored with Committee Leadership Awards. IPC 6-10d committee members who received Distinguished Committee Service Awards were: Jennifer Burlingame, Cisco; Nicole Butel, Avago; Dr. Stephen Clark, formerly with Nordson Dage; Marie Cole, IBM; Todd Embree; Edward Kelley, Isola; Jeff Kennedy, Celestica; Keith Newman, Oracle; Brian Roggeman, Universal Instruments; and Dr. Dongji Xie, NVidia. Special Recognition Awards were presented to Mudasir Ahmad, Cisco Systems, and Satish Parupalli, Intel, for leadership in coordinating development of IPC-9708.

For the 5-21h Bottom Termination Components Task Group that developed IPC-7093, Design and Assembly Process Implementation for Bottom Termination SMT Components, Ray Prasad, Ray Prasad Consultancy Group, and Vern Solberg, Solberg Technical Consulting, were honored with Committee Leadership Awards. Recognized with Distinguished Committee Service Awards were: Richard Arnold and Dr. Stanton Rak, Continental Automotive Systems; Dr. Raiyomand Aspandiar, Intel; Dr. Bev Christian, Research in Motion; Werner Engelmaier, Engelmaier Associates; Joe Fjelstad, Verdant Electronics; David Hillman, Rockwell Collins; Bruce Hughes, U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Command; William Kunkle, MET Associates; Jack Olson, Caterpillar; Richard Otte, PROMEX Industries;  Rob Rowland, RadiSys; Jeff Shubrooks, Raytheon; Bill Werner, Trimble Navigation; Bob Wettermann, BEST Inc.; Bob Willis, The SMART Group; and Linda Woody, Lockheed Martin.