Dr. Haleh Ardebili has a BS honors degree in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Pennsylvania State University at University Park, MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland at College Park. She has three years of industry experience as research scientist at General Electric Global Research Center at Niskayuna, New York. She is a recipient of GE Invention Fulcrum of Progress Award. She has several years of experience teaching engineering courses at University of Houston. In Sep 2010, she joined as Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at University of Houston. Her research work is mainly focused on nanomaterials for Energy Storage and Electronics.
Jiawei Zhang has 10 years of experience working in the development and implementation of advanced packages. He is currently Staff Engineer at Qualcomm, San Diego. Previously, he served as Development Senior Staff Engineer at Broadcom Corporation responsible for IC package co-design flow (Die/Package/System). He is experienced in advanced package, FCBGA, MCM, and SiP. He has published over 30 external papers, including two which won best Conference Paper Awards (2012 IMAPS and 2014 SMTAI) He has been honored with one Broadcom Corporation Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards for design flow. He also served on the IWLPC Technical Committee from 2013 to 2015 and as the session Chair in 2013.
He is the founder and director of CALCE (Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering) at the University of Maryland, which is funded by over 150 of the world's leading electronics companies at more than US$6M/year. He is a Professional Engineer, an IEEE Fellow, an ASME Fellow, an SAE Fellow, and an IMAPS Fellow. He is currently serving as editor-in-chief of Circuit World. He served as editor-in-chief of IEEE Access for 6 years, as editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Reliability for 9 years, and as editor-in-chief of Microelectronics Reliability for 16 years. He has also served on three U.S. National Academy of Science studies, two U.S. Congressional investigations in automotive safety, and as an expert to the U.S. FDA. He is also a Chair Professor. He consults for 22 major international electronics companies, providing expertise in strategic planning, design, test, prognostics, IP and risk assessment of electronic products and systems.

1. Introduction2. Plastic Encapsulant Materials3. Encapsulation Process Technology4. Characterization of Encapsulant Properties5. Encapsulation Defects and Failures6. Defect and Failure Analysis Techniques for Encapsulated Microelectronics7. Qualification and Quality Assurance8. Trends and Challenges