What's New @ IEEE in Circuits

VOLUME 3 NUMBER 11 NOVEMBER 2002

CONTENTS:
1. Green Chip Manufacturing Could Save Billions
2. IEEE Election Results: Arthur Winston 2003 President-Elect
3. The Future Could Be 3-D
4. Assessing Career Competencies and Gaps: Measure Progress Regularly
5. New Title from IEEE Press Offers Guide to Semiconductor Devices
6. LSI CEO Predicts Slow Industry Rise to Low Plateau
7. New Circuit and System Design Publication Available
8. IEEE Adds 85,000 Historic Documents to IEEE Xplore in 2003
9. IEEE Journals Score Higher Than Ever in Annual Citation Study
10. Voices of Innovation Launches Show, Enhanced Web Site
11. Applications Sought for IEEE-USA Government Fellowships
12. IEEE-SA to Exhibit at International Electron Devices Meeting

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1. GREEN CHIP MANUFACTURING COULD SAVE BILLIONS
Dirty manufacturing processes that generate millions of pounds of hazardous materials cost the chip industry billions of dollars a year and open major corporations to charges from environmental groups and employee lawsuits. A "green" manufacturing process called supercritical carbon dioxide resist remover (SCORR) developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory uses no water, few chemicals and no drying process in making chips. The new process could, according to the Los Alamos lab, save the industry billions. Find out more at: www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.11/start.html?pg=7

2. IEEE ELECTION RESULTS: ARTHUR WINSTON 2003 PRESIDENT-ELECT
Arthur W. Winston, director of the Gordon Institute of Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, USA, has been selected 2003 IEEE president-elect. Winston will begin serving as IEEE president on 1 January 2004, succeeding 2003 IEEE President Michael S. Adler. An IEEE Life Fellow, Winston served on the IEEE Board of Directors from 1996-1999. For a complete list of the newly elected officers, including division delegates and directors and officers of the Standards Association, IEEE-USA and Technical Activities, go to: www.ieee.org/newsinfo/elections02.xml

3. THE FUTURE COULD BE 3-D
Transistors with three gates and 3-D geometries could replace today's devices before the end of this decade, writes Linda Geppert in IEEE Spectrum magazine. These multi-gate transistor structures, in development at most semi-conductor industry labs, can be smaller, more tightly packed on ICs, and probably faster than the planar, single-gate structure used throughout the last 25 years. The problem is that as dimensions shrink and numbers per chip soar into the billions, current that leaks out in its off state leads to power consumption driven to unacceptable levels. Intel introduced a version at the International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials in Nagoya, Japan in September. Read more: www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/wonews/nov02/trigate.html

4. ASSESSING CAREER COMPETENCIES AND GAPS: MEASURE PROGRESS REGULARLY Outside of annual performance appraisal with your manager, how often do you sit down and assess what's going well in your career and what needs improvement? Vern Johnson and Judy Edson of the University of Arizona in Tuscon believe it's critical that engineers monitor their career progress regularly and develop career development plans accordingly. Their interactive online assessment tool will help you identify behaviors and attitudes, as well as technical and non-technical skills and knowledge, which are important to your professional performance and career growth. In the latest edition of IEEE-USA Today's Engineer: www.todaysengineer.org/Oct02/assess.htm

5. NEW TITLE FROM IEEE PRESS OFFERS GUIDE TO SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
The basic components of the integrated circuit are examined in the newly revised Wiley-IEEE Press handbook "Complete Guide to Semiconductor Devices" by Kwok K. Ng. Claiming that semiconductor devices are responsible for rapid industry growth over the past five decades, Ng argues that these devices are and should be constantly studied, improved and reinvented. Find out more at: shop.ieee.org/store/product.asp?prodno=PC5943

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6. LSI CEO PREDICTS SLOW INDUSTRY RISE TO LOW PLATEAU
While the semiconductor industry has started a slow climb from its long-suffering economic doldrums, LSI Logic Corporation Chairman and CEO Wilfred J. Corrigan believes the industry may be headed toward a pronounced plateau. Corrigan, quoted in EE Times, said he believes the industry on the whole is on the "low slopes of recovery" and will take some time to find a significant upward turn. Read more at: www.eet.com/semi/news/OEG20021025S0053

7. NEW CIRCUIT AND SYSTEM DESIGN PUBLICATION AVAILABLE
The proceedings of the 2002 Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design are now available from IEEE. Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, the 15th edition of this proceedings can be found at: shop.ieee.org/store/product?prodno=PR1807
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8. IEEE ADDS 85,000 HISTORIC DOCUMENTS TO IEEE XPLORE IN 2003
In 2003, IEEE will add select IEEE periodical and conference titles from as far back as 1950 to the IEEE Xplore (R) online delivery platform, totaling approximately 85,000 historic documents. Many of these early papers present first implementations of classic circuit answers in common use today, explained with the freshness of fundamental discoveries. Currently, IEEE periodicals and conference proceedings published after 1988 are available through IEEE Xplore. IEEE members with online subscriptions to these publications and subscribers to the IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL) will have access to this material. The establishment of an historic digital archive is critical to the IEEE mission as a scholarly society. For a complete listing of the periodical and conference titles that will be included in this historical data, visit: www.ieee.org/products/onlinepubs/0902_05.html

9. IEEE JOURNALS SCORE HIGHER THAN EVER IN ANNUAL CITATION STUDY
The IEEE publishes 21 of the top 25 journals in electrical and electronics engineering, according to results from the annual Institute for Scientific Information Journal Citation Study (2001 edition), the highest score the IEEE has ever received. The ISI study ranks journals' impact by the number of times they are quoted or cited by other scientific publications in their initial year of publication. IEEE had nine of the top 10, 21 of the top 25, and 52 of the top 75 most influential journals in the field of electrical and electronics engineering, based on a selection of 199 journals in the category. The top IEEE journal in the category was IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Imaging, ranking second; it was also the most-cited journal in the biomedical engineering and imaging science & photographic technology categories. www.ieee.org/products/citations.xml

HIGHLY-CITED CIRCUITS ARTICLES - Twenty articles in the Journal of Solid-State Circuits have been cited more than 100 times. sscs.org/jssc/topcites.htm

10. VOICES OF INNOVATION LAUNCHES SHOW, ENHANCED WEB SITE
Voices of Innovation, a new public radio program from the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) and its constituent societies--including the IEEE--about real engineers and their stories, has launched a revamped Web site. Now visitors can listen to today's story, download a transcript and submit story ideas. www.voicesofinnovation.org

11. APPLICATIONS SOUGHT FOR IEEE-USA GOVERNMENT FELLOWSHIPS
IEEE-USA is seeking applications for 2004 Congressional and Engineering & Diplomacy Fellowships. Congressional Fellows spend a year in Washington working on the staff of a Member of Congress or Congressional committee. The Engineering & Diplomacy Fellowship is a new program designed to place an engineer as a technical advisor in the U.S. State Department. Fellows must be IEEE members in good standing (4+ years), be U.S. citizens and meet specific experience requirements. Diplomacy Fellows must also have or be able to obtain a security clearance. The deadline to apply for 2004 Fellowships is 24 February 2003. For more information, see: www.ieeeusa.org/forum/govfel

12. IEEE-SA TO EXHIBIT AT INTERNATIONAL ELECTRON DEVICES MEETING IEEE
Standards Association (IEEE-SA) will feature its advanced products and services at the 2002 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), in San Francisco, CA, USA, from 8 to 11 December 2002. IEDM is known as the leading forum for the presentation of research and development in the area of electron devices and their applications. For more information on IEDM, visit: www.his.com/~iedm/
IEEE-SA: http://standards.ieee.org/

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