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Dr. Lawrence C. Wagner, failure analysis technical strategy manager and distinguished member of technical staff at Texas Instruments Inc., has been elected president of ASM International, The Materials Information Society.
Dr. Wagner earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from
Wagner has published extensively, including the book Failure Analysis of ICs: Tools and Techniques. He has delivered six tutorials on failure analysis, including tutorials at the International Reliability Physics Symposium, International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits, and the Materials Research Society. He is a member of the Product Engineering Council at Texas Instruments and the Sematech Product Analysis Forum and represents Texas Instruments on the Sematech Quality Council.
He was the first president of the Electronic Device Failure Analysis Society (EDFAS), an Affiliate Society of ASM International, and the first editor of Electronic Device Failure Analysis News. He was also the 1995 general chair of the International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis (ISTFA). He chaired the Sematech Product Analysis Forum in 2000.
Wagner joined ASM in 1987 and is also a member of IEEE, ACS, Sigma Chi, and ASMS.
He will serve as ASM president until he is succeeded next October by current ASM vice president Dr. Dianne Chong, director of strategic operations and business-engineering, Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) at the Boeing Company in
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