EDFAS Overview
EDFAS Overview
EDFAS Overview
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<strong>EDFAS</strong> <strong>Overview</strong><br />
October, 2001<br />
• Mission<br />
• Structure<br />
• Member Benefits<br />
• Board of Directors<br />
• Committees<br />
– Event<br />
– Education<br />
– Membership<br />
– Publications<br />
– EDFA<br />
– Website<br />
– Nominations
Mission Statement<br />
The Electronic Device Failure Analysis Society (<strong>EDFAS</strong>)<br />
fosters education and communication in the failure analysis<br />
community, working for technology advancement and the<br />
improved performance and reliability of devices and<br />
materials for the electronic industry. The <strong>EDFAS</strong> Board<br />
and Committees work in concert to meet the needs of its<br />
growing membership base.
Structure<br />
• <strong>EDFAS</strong> is an affiliate society of ASM<br />
– <strong>EDFAS</strong> governed by a Board of Directors<br />
– <strong>EDFAS</strong> president reports to ASM Trustees<br />
• ASM membership is NOT required for <strong>EDFAS</strong><br />
members<br />
– only ASM affiliate society with this option<br />
– membership included with ISTFA registration<br />
• Committees used to implement <strong>EDFAS</strong> programs<br />
– Event, Education, Membership, Website, EDFA,<br />
Publications, Nominations
Member Benefits<br />
• Subscription to the society's magazine, Electronic Device<br />
Failure (EDFA, formally EDFAN)<br />
• <strong>EDFAS</strong> website and email discussion group, which helps<br />
members to share with other members<br />
• Special pricing when registering for the ISTFA conference<br />
and exposition in the future<br />
• Members-only Discounts and savings on publications,<br />
software, and educational courses<br />
• Personal service opportunities<br />
– through <strong>EDFAS</strong> committees
<strong>EDFAS</strong> Board<br />
• President: Ed Cole, Sandia<br />
• Past President: Larry Wagner, Texas Instruments<br />
• Vice President: Dick Ross, IBM<br />
• Secretary: Gary Shade, Intel<br />
• At Large Members<br />
– Dan Barton, Sandia<br />
– Christian Boit, Infineon<br />
– Sandra Delgado, Accurel<br />
– Jim Erickson, Boeing<br />
– Glen Gilfeather, AMD<br />
– Jacob Phang, NUS<br />
• Executive Director: Peg Weir, ASM
• Successes<br />
Events<br />
– ISTFA remains excellent annual flagship event<br />
– on-line abstract submission for streamlining<br />
– all electronic conference and seminar presentations<br />
– coordination of “Best Paper Exchange Program” with IPFA (Singapore)<br />
– 2000 (26th) ISTFA in Bellevue (Seattle), WA – best attended ISTFA yet<br />
• Opportunities<br />
– co-sponsorships with other relevant events and organizations<br />
– additional events to target new/existing profile areas<br />
• Issues/Challenges<br />
– continues to subsidize the majority of other <strong>EDFAS</strong> activities<br />
– 2001 economy may effect attendance
• Successes<br />
Education<br />
– Two day ISTFA Seminars continued popularity<br />
– Regional Seminars on AFM and FIB<br />
• Opportunities<br />
– remains primary product opportunity<br />
• Issues/Challenges<br />
– development of new offerings for education<br />
– the economy
• Successes<br />
Membership<br />
– goal of 1,000 members by year-end 2000 reached (following ISTFA)<br />
– initiating industry champions program<br />
– photo contest for ISTFA 2001<br />
• Opportunities<br />
– growth via new profile areas<br />
– member recognition<br />
• Issues/Challenges<br />
– providing value (services) vs. membership cost<br />
– membership retention<br />
– membership growth in existing profile areas<br />
– membership fluctuation with ISTFA cycle
• Successes<br />
Publications<br />
– 2001 Desk Reference Supplement published in time for ISTFA ’01<br />
– ISTFA Proceedings – on-line manuscript submission to streamline<br />
production<br />
• Opportunities<br />
– expanding advertising base to help positive financial performance<br />
– FA literature is limited<br />
• Issues/Challenges<br />
– consideration of electronic delivery<br />
– Desk Reference published every three years; continued off-year updates<br />
– expanding opportunities for other types of material
• Successes<br />
Website - www.<strong>EDFAS</strong>.org<br />
– Website updated in spring of 2001<br />
– all paper submissions by electronic means<br />
– Web Discussion Group; (40% of <strong>EDFAS</strong> members w/emails) in the<br />
group<br />
• Opportunities<br />
– committee considering additional enhancements<br />
– vendors interest in ad space<br />
• Issues/Challenges<br />
– limited resources to help expedite
• Successes<br />
EDFA Magazine<br />
– Quarterly newsletter converted to a magazine for November 01<br />
– popular publication with a diverse mixture of FA related topics and<br />
forums<br />
– new features added as benefit to the FA community<br />
• Opportunities<br />
– non-conference forum for communication to the FA community<br />
– power education tool<br />
• Issues/Challenges<br />
– significant, continued effort required<br />
– limited time for key individuals
• Successes<br />
Nominations<br />
– new committee formed, recommendations in progress<br />
• Opportunities<br />
– greater recognition for outstanding <strong>EDFAS</strong> members<br />
– voice on the direction and development of ASM and <strong>EDFAS</strong> activities<br />
• Issues/Challenges<br />
– locating qualified individuals who can accept the time commitments<br />
– new <strong>EDFAS</strong> society (3 years old), some qualified candidates do not have<br />
the 5+ year minimum of ASM membership for consideration of certain<br />
awards
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