AEC Milestones

Jeffrey Concordia (Intel)/ Richard Ruiz (Toshiba)/ Arceli Gade (Astec) AEC Officers

The Association of Semiconductors and Electronics Manufacturing Engineers of the Philippines (ASEMEP) – Electro Static Discharge Council (AEC) has created another set of milestones during this 2^nd Quarter of 2006.

These milestones had been recognized during the ASEMEP ESD Council’s Awards Night last June 16, 2006 at the Palms Country Club, Alabang. Mr. Cesar Quiazon, ARCDI Executive Director graced the event as the Guest Speaker. One of the highlights of this activity was the recognition of the NARTE ESDC Engineer/Technician Certification Exam (6 out 9 Filipinos passed the examination). The winners of the 1^st ESD Olympics, held during the 3^rd Philippine ESD Forum, were also recognized (Intel being the Overall champion while Philips and Pricon as runner up). Along with these recognitions, other individual and company level awards were given for best attendance and for supporting AEC mission and vision.

In line with these activities was the induction of the new AEC Officers for 2006-2007 led by the ASEMEP chairman Mr. Jimmy Apolinar. The past fiscal years had been very successful for AEC with the consolidated efforts of the 2005-2006 AEC Officers. With the induction of the new sets of officers for fiscal year 2006-2007, AEC aims to be able to deliver the best in helping the industry to become more competitive in ESD Awareness and Technical competency not only locally but internationally as well.

2006-2007 Officers:

Chairman Maui Martin / PRICON
Vice - Chairman Ed Malonjao / 3M
Secretary Rence Grimaldo / ALLEGRO
Asst. Secretary Ruby Valiente / PIMES
Treasurer Easy Cunanan / DOUYEE
Membership Chairman Roy Martinez / PROPACK
Events Com. Chairman Richard Ruiz / TOSHIBA
Tech'l/ Educ. Chairman Jeffrey Concordia / INTEL

NOTE: Check this out, AEC has been featured on the ESD Association Threshold. For more details logon to http://www.esda.org/threshold.cfm

SETC Summit at PSECE

Olsen Bandahala, ON Semiconductor

The Semiconductor and Electronics Training Council (SETC), ASEMEP’s training arm has successfully conducted its 6^th Annual Technical Training Summit with this year’s theme: “Coaching and Mentoring… Beyond Training”. This activity was one of the highlights of PSECE 2006 opening day program lined up with other SEIPI NWC activities.

Three big names in the field of coaching & mentoring practice graced the occasion. Ms. Marie May SJ Soriano of Visions & Breakthrough International, Inc. (VBI) talked about the differences between coaching, mentoring, and training with exciting mini workshops for the participants. In the afternoon, Ateneo-GSB Prof. Maria Luisa (Lulu) Moguel shared her expertise on how to implement coaching and mentoring in big organizations, then followed by Ms. Grace “Grachi” Canave of Moog Controls Corp. where she and three of her coachee shared their success stories on coaching their associates at Moog-Baguio City Plant.

This event was participated in by more than a hundred training practitioners in the industry and made possible through the support of ARCDI and some sponsors namely VBI, MBR/Ateneo-GSB, Moog Controls, CLCI, Microtel, and STI-HQ.

It was also on this occasion that the new set of officers for 2006-2007 was inducted by the ASEMEP chairman Mr. Jimmy Apolinar with yours truly as the new Chair (ON Semiconductor), Tita Almalvez (Vice Chair-Allegro), Weng Mandilag (Secretary-Fujitsu Computers), Dexter Mendoza (Temic-Treasurer), Alen Esguerra (TNA Comm Head-Philips Cab), Emer Francisco (TNA Asst Comm Head-Fuji Electric), Casiano Reblando (Trng Evaluation Comm Head-Pricon), Edwin Fabian (Trng Eval Comm Asst Head-P. IMES), and Dolly Mendoza (Academe Comm Head-ISPL).

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(The author is the newly-elected chairman of SETC, one of the Communities Of Practice (COP) of ASEMEP.)

ASEMEP-CFAR’s Newsletter - LABTALK Launched June 2006

Rady Angeles, Texas Instruments

With the launching of the 1st Edition of CFAR’s LABTALK Newsletter last June 2006, the FA & REL forum of ASEMEP is being brought to the next level by way of the printed and written media. While ASEMEP’s CFAR have been sharing constantly in the monthly learning sessions, some members prefer writing than having to talk in front of 30-40 people to share their experiences in their FA & REL works… Thus the Newsletter was created to address this need.

CFAR (Council of FA & Reliability) envisions to be the advocate of excellence in the practice of Failure Analysis and Reliability Engineering. One of their mission is to promote a cooperative environment for valuable interaction of FA & REL practitioners. CFAR is now breaking new grounds for sharing & interaction in their Community of Practice (CoP) with the lauching of the Newsletter named LABTALK...

Initially CFAR aims to publish the Newsletter quarterly, but as it gets more contributions and positive responses, they plan to make this more frequent as needed. In the 1^st Newsletter issue, LABTALK features a recap of CFAR’s accomplishments and plans moving forward . Articles on FA and REL were also being showcased to balance the issue for its broad readers. A forum for discussion thru Q&A format (“Itanong Mo Kay Doc!” (Ask our PhD!)) will become a regular feature. A regular Photo Contest section will also feature unique FA photos that will tickle the artistic minds of its members. CFAR members are being encouraged to contribute in these exciting sections.

More importantly, integrated sections for Advertisement of Failure Analysis & Reliability Laboratory suppliers and sponsors in LABTALK is an available service . CFAR is giving its suppliers & supporters the opportunity to advertise in the digest so they can share latest information about their products and services! The funds generated from the ADS services will help CFAR towards its goal of becoming self-sustaining and continue its projects & regular activities. There is a lot of excitement about LABTALK and CFAR hopes that this will become a meaningful instrument that can fully serve their Community of Practice.

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(The author is the current Chairman of CFAR under ASEMEP. )

Mobile Robots on the go…!

by Jon Custodio, PIMES

One important mission of this year’s Annual National Technical Symposium (ANTS) Host Company, PIMES, was to establish a stronger link between the industry and academe. This was realized through the Mobot Races on the second day of ANTS. A Mobot Race is a head to head match against time between two Mobile Robots (Mobots). The Mobots are actually toy cars that were modified to run along a specific path that was pre-programmed to its EEPROM. The speed, accuracy and capability of the Mobots to stay on track reflected the programming skills of the students. The Mobot will be off-track if it cannot detect the specified path with black line where it was programmed to follow.

The Mobot Race, which is actually part of a series of regional races throughout the country, was participated in by different schools in the country namely UP Diliman, Adamson, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, Asian Pacific College, University of Baguio, St. Louie University and Colegio de Dagupan. This special event was organized and sponsored by Zilog and IEEE with Mr. Jess Felipe of Zilog and Dr. Louie Sison of UP Diliman as organizing chairmen.

It was indeed an exciting event witnessed by no less than the SEIPI BODs themselves. Mr. Jess Felipe of Zilog was very grateful that the students were given the opportunity to showcase their technical skills and talents and was actually held during a National Technical Symposium. In the end, Mr. Tristan N. Laguador of Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila was declared as the winner of this exciting event.