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IEEE PRODUCT SAFETY ENGINEERING SOCIETY / CHICAGO CHAPTER MEETING Our Mission - To provide a professional forum for Product Safety professionals, both to develop their own skills, and to provide Product Safety outreach to engineers, students, and other interested parties. http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r4/chicago/pstc/ List-Post: emc-pstc@listserv.ieee.org Date: Thursday December 16, 2004 Place: D.L.S. Electronic Systems 1250 Peterson Drive Wheeling, IL Time: 5:30 - 7:30pm (ish) Please let us know if you plan to attend. Announcement of this meeting will NOT appear in SCANFAX so please spread the word to your colleagues! RSVP : Tom Brenner - 847/ 537-6400 tbren...@dlsemc.com or Ken Thomas - 262/ 331-4454 ktho...@wi.rr.com News flash: We now have the required number of signatures of IEEE and PSE Society members to formally establish a Chicago Chapter. Our application has been accepted by the IEEE Chicago Section and signed by the Chairman of the Executive Committee. It will be delivered to Mark Montrose, the national chair of the PSE Society on November 15. Those of who are IEEE members but have not yet joined the PSES are urged to do so. Annual registration/renewal for 2005 IEEE membership is now going on! Agenda Items - 1. Review of Meeting Minutes from Previous Meeting 2. IEEE PSES Chicago Chapter 3. Old business/New business 4. Appeal for volunteers within Chicago Chapter 5. Presentation - See description below. Presentation starts at 6:30PM. Presentation: Compliance with European Environmental Legislation Presenter: Michael Pfeifer, Ph.D, PE The European Union has enacted a directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances (RoHS) in electrical and electronic equipment. This directive requires the elimination of hexavalent chromium, mercury, cadmium, lead, and certain flame retardants from electronics sold in member states of the European Union by July 1, 2006. Additionally, the directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) requires producers and/or distributors to have systems in place to take back components and materials for reuse or recycling. The first part of the presentation will cover the main points of these directives. The presentation will then cover the uses of the restricted materials in electronics, the alternatives available to replace the restricted metals, and materials reporting compliance. The remainder of the presentation will be devoted to a discussion of some of the manufacturing, test, and reliability issues associated with the elimination of lead from electronics. Biography: Michael Pfeifer is President of Industrial Metallurgists, LLC. Industrial Metallurgists, LLC works with design and manufacturing companies, providing materials engineering consulting for materials decisions related to engineering designs, cost reduction, product quality improvement, and environmental compliance. Prior to starting Industrial Metallurgists, LLC Michael worked at Motorola as a materials design engineer in the automotive electronics group. As a materials design engineer he was responsible for materials selection, evaluation, and implementation for new designs, cost reduction, and yield improvement. In this role he worked with mechanical and electrical engineers, manufacturing engineers, reliability engineers, and suppliers. Michael has a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University, is a professional engineer licensed in Illinois, and a member of IEEE, ASM, and IMAPS. This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to emc-p...@ieee.org Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas emcp...@ptcnh.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
