People
 Paul Lin |
Paul Lin has joined Kulicke & Soffa (Willow Grove, Pa.) as director of process integration. Lin holds more than 50 patents, founded Array Packaging Technology Inc., and held several positions at Motorola Inc., including Dan Noble Fellow, director of packaging development.
George S. Agyare has been appointed controller at Chase EMS Group (West Bridgewater, Mass.).
 Charles Grapy |
Charles Grapy has been appointed field operations manager for Semiconductor Test Europe at Teradyne (Munich).
Dieter Bergman, IPC director of technology transfer, has been honored with the Marsh Award at the PCB Design Conference East.
Park Electrochemical Corp. (Lake Success, N.Y.) has named Kent Frazer as senior director of global marketing and sales, RF/microwave materials.
ViTechnology LLC (Haverhill, Mass.) has appointed Jean Marc Peallat as vision product manager.
ST Assembly Test Services Ltd. (Singapore) has appointed June Chia as executive vice president, worldwide sales and marketing.
Michael Pecht, director of CALCE Electronic Products and Systems Center at the University of Maryland, has been named Chair Professor for his contributions and impact in the scientific community in the area of electronic packaging and product development. Bongtae Han, also of University of Maryland's CALCE Center, has received the 2001 Brewer Award for skill in the practical application of experimental mechanics techniques and risk assessment of electronics products and systems.
Companies
Lytron (Woburn, Mass.) has added a new Matsuura RA-2G high-speed CNC machining center to its ISO 9001-registered manufacturing facility.
Aegis Industrial Software (Philadelphia) has announced an OEM agreement with MIMOT, an international manufacturer of intelligent and flexible automatic SMD placement systems.
Numerical Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) has been named one of the top 10 companies in Deloitte & Touche's list of the 50 fastest growing businesses in Silicon Valley.