Impact of ROHS and Techniques for Verification

Speakers:
Dr. John Lau (Ph.D, P.E. IEEE fellow, ASME fellow)
John H. Lau earned his Ph.D. degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (University of Illinois) and 3 master degrees in Structural Engineering (University of British Columbia), Engineering Physics (University of Wisconsin), and Management Science (Fairleigh Dickinson University). John is the Lead-Free Technical Program Manager of Agilent Technologies, Inc.

With more than 30 years of R&D and manufacturing experience in the electronics, photonics, and automobile industries, he has authored and co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed technical publications, authored more than 100 book chapters, and given over 200 workshops and invited presentations. He has been teaching electronics and optoelectronic packaging courses for IEEE, ASME, IPC, SMTA, ASM, NEPCON, and APEX since 1986. The engineers/managers from many prestigious companies had taken his courses with exceptional results and satisfactions.

John received many awards from ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and other Societies for best Transactions and Proceedings papers and outstanding technical achievements. He is one of the distinguish lecturers of ASME and IEEE. He is also one of the Fellows of ASME and IEEE.

Esa Nummi (MSC-Applied Chemistry)
Esa Nummi earned his Masters degree in Applied Chemistry from Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland and is currently working as the XRF Handheld Marketing Manager for Oxford Instruments Analytical.

He has been involved in the development of handheld XRF analyzers from the beginning, not only for RoHS compliance screening but for other applications as well. With more than 10 years of R&D and production experience in the analytical instrumentation, photonics and chemical industries he has broad experience about how to implement different analytical methods in practice. He also gives workshops and is invited to give presentations about the different analytical methods and their use in industry.