Dr. Lawrence C. Wagner
Vice President ASM International (2005-2006)

Topic

Vision for ASM International

Speakers's Background:

Dr. Lawrence C. Wagner
Vice President (2005-2006)

Lawrence (Larry) Wagner is the Failure Analysis Technical Strategy Manager and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Marquette University and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Purdue University. After two years in the High Temperature Chemistry Group at Argonne National Laboratory, he joined Texas Instruments as a failure analysis engineer in 1976. He managed the failure analysis lab for 15 years, starting in 1979.

Dr. Wagner has published extensively, including the book, Failure Analysis of ICs: Tools and Techniques, published in 1999 by Kluwer Academic. 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) 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. Larry Wagner joined ASM in 1987 and is now a member of EDFAS as well as IEEE, ACS, Sigma Chi and ASMS.
 

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