BANNOCKBURN, IL – IPC presented Committee Leadership, Special Recognition and Distinguished Committee Service Awards to individuals who made significant contributions to IPC and the industry in the development of electronics manufacturing standards.

For leadership of the 3-11 Laminate/Prepreg Materials Subcommittee that developed IPC-4101D, Specification for Base Materials for Rigid and Multilayer Boards, Tony Senese, Panasonic Electric Works, and Doug Sober, Shengyi Technology Co., were honored with a Committee Leadership Award.

Earning Distinguished Committee Service Awards for contributions to IPC-4101D were Michael Beauchesne, Amphenol Printed Circuits; Tracy Cai, Shengyi Technology Co.; Terry Fischer, Hitachi Chemical Co. America; Robert Hearn, Dow Chemical USA; Stan Heltzel, European Space Agency; Philip Henault, Boeing; Doug Leys, Nelco Products; William Ortloff, Raytheon; Karl Sauter, Oracle America; Rolland Savage, High Performance Copper Foil; David Sommervold, The Bergquist Company, Prescott; Crystal Vanderpan, UL, and Dan Welch, Arlon Materials for Electronics.

For leadership of the 5-22a J-STD-001 Task Group that developed IPC-STD-001F, Requirements for Soldered Electrical and Electronic Assemblies, Teresa Rowe, currently with IPC, and Daniel Foster, Missile Defense Agency, each earned a Committee Leadership Award.

For contributions to IPC J-STD-001F, Jennifer Day, US Army Aviation & Missile Command; Constantino Gonzalez, ACME Training & Consulting, and Kathy Johnston, Raytheon Missile Systems, earned Special Recognition Awards.

For contributions to IPC J-STD-001F, James Blanche, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; David Carlton, US Army Aviation & Missile Command; Robert Cooke, NASA Johnson Space Center; Lauren Cohen, Continental Automotive Systems; James Daggett, Raytheon; Charles Gamble, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; Gary Latta, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; Lisa Maciolek, Raytheon; Doris McGee, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, and Garry McGuire, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, received Distinguished Committee Service Awards.

Leaders of the 7-31b IPC-A-610 Task Group that developed IPC-A-610F, Acceptability of Electronic Assemblies, Jennifer Day, US Army Aviation & Missile Command; Constantino Gonzalez, ACME Training & Consulting, and Kathy Johnston, Raytheon Missile Systems, received Committee Leadership Awards.

For contributions to IPC-A-610F, Daniel Foster, Missile Defense Agency and Teresa Rowe, currently with IPC, each received a Special Recognition Award.

For contributions to IPC-A-610F, Ken Moore, Omni Training; Anitha Sinkfield, Delphi Electronics and Safety, and Rainer Taube, Taube Electronic, received Distinguished Committee Service Awards.

For contributions to both IPC J-STD-001F and IPC-A-610F, Special Recognition Awards were presented to Elizabeth Benedetto, Hewlett-Packard; David Decker, Samtec; Bert El-Bakri, Inovar; Cynthia Gomez, Continental Temic; Omar Karin Hernandez, Flextronics Manufacturing Mex; Paula Jackson, Raytheon, UK; Joseph Kane, BAE Systems Platform Solutions; Douglas Pauls, Rockwell Collins; Kristen Troxel, Hewlett-Packard; Debbie Wade, Advanced Rework Technology – ART, and Linda Woody, Lockheed Martin Missile & Fire Control.

Honored with Distinguished Committee Service Awards for contributions to both IPC J-STD-001 and IPC-A-610F were David Adams, Rockwell Collins; Floyd Bertagnolli, STM – Service to Mankind; Gerald Leslie Bogert, Bechtel Plant Machinery; Casimir Budzinski, Safari Circuits; Calette Chamness, US Army Aviation & Missile Command; Nancy Chism, Flextronics; Dorothy Cornell, Blackfox Training Institute; Miguel Dominguez, Continental Temic; Ron Fonsaer, PIEK International Education Centre; Robert Fornefeld, L-3 Communications; Stephen Fribbins, Fribbins Training Services; Gaston Hidalgo, Samsung Telecommunications  America; David Hillman, Rockwell Collins; Shelley Holt, L-3 Communications; Bruce Hughes, AMRDEC MS&T EPPT; Greg Hurst, RSI; Patrick Kane, Raytheon System Technology; Sean Keating, Amphenol Limited (UK); Vijay Kumar, Lockheed Martin Missile & Fire Control; Leo Lambert, EPTAC; Israel  Martinez, Continental Automotive Nogales; John Mastorides, Honeywell Aerospace; Randy McNutt, Northrop Grumman.; George Millman, Raytheon Missile Systems; Mary Muller, Crane Aerospace & Electronics; David Nelson, Raytheon; William Ortloff, Raytheon; Gregg Owens, Space Exploration Technologies; Agnieszka Ozarowski, BAE Systems; Mel Parrish, STI Electronics; Helena Pasquito, EPTAC; Sam Polk, Lockheed Martin Missile & Fire Control; Guy Ramsey, R & D Assembly; Doug Rogers; Richard Rumas, Honeywell Canada; Patricia Scott, STI Electronics; Jose Servin, Continental Temic; Adam Stanczak, Molex; Zenaida Valianu, Celestica; Sharon Ventress, US Army Aviation & Missile Command; Jonathon Vermillion, Ball Aerospace & Technologies; John Vickers, Advanced Rework Technology – ART, and Neil Wolford, Logic PD.

For contributions to IPC-8701, Final Acceptance Criteria Standard for PV Modules-Final Module Assembly, Jim Garner, 2BG Solar and Dennis Willie, Flextronics International, earned Distinguished Committee Service Awards.