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(1999), "SMTA. Anita Sargent named winner of the 1999 Hutchins Educational Grant", Soldering & Surface Mount Technology, Vol. 11 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ssmt.1999.21911cab.015
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
SMTA. Anita Sargent named winner of the 1999 Hutchins Educational Grant
SMTA
Anita Sargent named winner of the 1999 Hutchins Educational Grant
Keyword SMTA
Each year, the Hutchins Educational Grant is given to a student pursuing an advanced degree in electronics assembly, packaging, or a related field. Of the several students who applied for the 1999 grant, Anita Sargent was chosen by the SMTA review committee to receive the $5,000 award.
Anita Sargent is a graduate student of Binghamton University in the field of analytical chemistry. Throughout her education, Anita has enjoyed practical projects with routine hands-on involvement and has gained experience in operating and troubleshooting with a variety of analytical instruments and sensors. She believes that the electronic assembly and packaging field would benefit from the knowledge obtained from chemistry based research.
Specifically, her interest is in concern for the chemical and electrochemical interactions between substrate surfaces and bath components. The subject of the project for which Anita was awarded the Hutchins Grant is the mechanisms of electroless gold plating using dimethylamineborane baths for electronic packaging applications.
Anita has recently spoken at nationally recognized conferences and sees chemically-related information as something that can contribute to faster, less expensive, and more efficient product design in the electronics industry. In her professional pursuits, she hopes to be involved through teamwork in the development of novel sensing devices or state-of-the-art chemical and electrochemical surface instrumentation designed to probe and investigate the processes of interest.
Anita is invited to the SMTA Annual Meeting and SMTA-International conference to receive the award and attend scheduled technical sessions of interest. She will also be able to display a poster detailing her project that will be displayed at the meeting as well as on the exhibit floor.