State IUCRC CALCE Center for Electronic Packaging

计算机辅助生命周期工程（CALCE）电子封装中心目前是一个NSF/IUCRC，每年预算超过90万美元。现有中心的活动将扩大到研究和开发大批量，高可靠性和国际竞争力的商业电子产品。该项目将把成本效益、可生产性和可支持性以及高可靠性纳入到一个同步的产品开发过程中，以增强美国电子工业的经济发展和竞争力。可制造性、产品产量、质量、可靠性和生命周期成本将在设计阶段同时得到解决，改进的方法、技术和物流将迅速转移到产品开发中。为了实现这一目标，中心的研究分为四个跨学科的研究重点领域，每个领域都有明确的核心和非核心活动：(1)产品性能的设计开发；(2)产品的可生产性和可保障性；(3)生命周期建模与评价；(4)实验与验证。研究结果将通过开发的软件、指南和标准直接传递给行业成员。新技术将通过改进的算法和增强的数据库直接纳入软件，这将反过来帮助工业实现提高可生产性、可靠性和可支持性的设计能力。技术转让活动包括在当地社区学院和国家赞助的小企业倡议组织举办讲习班、短期课程、培训和咨询会议，以及目前在CALCE中心和成员地点举行的技术转让活动。马里兰州、工业界和国家科学基金会将在第一年提供总计75万美元的配套资金。

The Computer Aided Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE)Center For Electronic Packaging is presently an NSF/IUCRC, with an annual budget of over $900,000. The activities of the existing Center will be expanded to conduct research and development of high volume, highly-reliable and internationally competitive commercial electronic products. The program will incorporate cost effectiveness, producibility and supportability as well as high reliability, into a concurrent product development process to enhance the economic development and competitiveness of the electronic industry in the United States. Manufacturability, product yield, quality, reliability and life cycle costs will be addressed concurrently during the design phase, and there will be rapid transfer of improved methods, technologies and logistics into product development. To accomplish this, the Center research is organized into four interdisciplinary research thrust areas, each with defined core and non-core activities: (1) design development for product performance; (2) product producibility and supportability; (3) life cycle modeling and assessment; and (4) experimentation and validation. The results will be transferred directly to the industrial members through developed software, guidelines and standards. New technologies will be incorporated directly into software through improved algorithms and enhanced databases which will in turn aid industry's capability to achieve designs for improved producibility, reliability and supportability. Technology transfer activities include workshops, short courses, training and consulting sessions at local community colleges and state-sponsored organizations for small-business initiatives, in addition to current technology transfer activities at the CALCE Center and at member sites. The State of Maryland, industry and NSF will provide matching funds totalling $750,000 in the first year.