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edfas.org ELECTRONIC DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS | VOLUME 21 NO. 4 42 EDFAS AWARDS SEEKING NOMINATIONS FOR EDFAS AWARDS The ASM Electronic Device Failure Analysis Society established two awards to recognize the accomplishments of its members. The awards will be given at ISTFA 2020. Nominate a worthy colleague today! EDFAS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD The EDFAS Lifetime Achievement Award was established by the EDFAS Board of Directors in 2015 to recognize leaders in the EDFAS community who have devoted their time, knowledge, and abilities to the advancement of the electronic device failure analysis industry. EDFAS PRESIDENT’S AWARD The EDFAS President’s Award shall recognize exceptional service to EDFAS and the electronic device failure analysis community. Examples of such service include, but are not limited to committee service, service on the Board of Directors, organization of conferences or symposia, development of education courses, student and general public outreach. While any member of EDFAS is expected to further the Society’s goals through service, this award shall recognize those who provided an exceptional amount of effort in their service to the Society. Nomination deadline for both awards is March 1, 2020. For rules and nomination forms, visit the EDFAS website at edfas.org, click on Membership & Networking and then Society Awards, or contact Mary Anne Jerson at 440.338.5446, maryanne.jerson@asminternational.org EDFAS MEMBERS RECEIVE ASM AWARD T he Electronic Device Failure Analysis Society (EDFAS) is proud to announce that two of its members have been named as recipients of 2019 ASM Awards. The awards were presented on October 1 at ASM’s annual awards dinner during the Materials Science & Technology conference in Portland, Ore. ASM FELLOW Felix Beaudoin, PMTS product development engineer at GlobalFoundries in Malta, N.Y., was named to the 2019 Class of Fellows of ASM International. Hewas cited “for innovativemicroelectronic fault localization techniques using contact-less backsidemethods, and outstanding contributions to semiconductor industry development and yield improvement of planar and FinFET process technol- ogy for complex CMOS integrated circuits.” RichardMcSwain, president of McSwain Engineering Inc. in Pensacola, Fla., was also selected as a Fellow of ASM International. His award was “in recognition of a distinguished career committed to the factual investigation of materials failures and to the development and promulgation of forensic tools and standardized processes and for educating and mentoring young professionals in the field of materials failure analysis.” Beaudoin and McSwain join Larry Wagner (2010), Ed Cole (2013), Bill Vanderlinde (2014), Cheryl Hartfield (2017), and Dehua Yang (2018) as EDFAS members selected for this honor.