About Us

Dr. Suhir is Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (ret), Basic Research,Physical Sciences and Engineering Research Division, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ. Currently he is on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Dept., University of California at Santa Cruz, and is Visiting Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park. In addition, he is CEO and President of a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Company, ERS Co. funded through the US Government grants. Dr. Suhir is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Physical Society (APS), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE). He is co-founder of the ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging and served as its Technical Editor for eight years (1993-2001).

Dr. Suhir has authored about 250 technical publications (papers, book chapters, books, patents), including monographs “Structural Analysis of Microelectronic and Fiber Optic Systems”, Van-Nostrand, 1991 and “Applied Probability for Engineers and Scientists”, McGraw-Hill, 1997. Dr. Suhir has edited and co-edited several books on materials, physics, mechanics, reliability and packaging of micro- and opto-electronic systems, including recently published Springer book “Micro- and Opto-Electronic Materials and Structures” (with Dr. C.P. Wong and Dr. Y.C. Lee as co-editors). Dr. Suhir is currently editor of a Springer book series on physics, mechanics, reliability and packaging of microelectronic and photonic systems.

He was on the Board of Governors of the IEEE CPMT Society and Member-at-Large of the IEEE Technical Activities Board for many years. Dr. Suhir is Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE CPMT Society and teaches continuing education courses worldwide. Dr. Suhir is on several Technical Committees of the CPMT Society and is Associate Editor of the IEEE CPMT Transactions on Advanced Packaging. Dr. Suhir organized many successful conferences and symposia in the USA, Europe and Far East countries, and presented numerous keynote and invited talks. In 2007 he has taught short courses and presented keynote and invited talks at several CPMT-sponsored conferences in the US, Japan, Germany and Singapore. Dr. Suhir received many distinguished service and professional awards.

Dr. Suhir’s Affiliations:

Physical Sciences and Engineering Research Division, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ.

Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Dr. Suhir’s Society Fellowships & Memberships:

Fellow, Institute of Physics

Fellow, American Physical Society (APS)

Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Fellow, Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE)

Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Member, International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS)