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George K. Lucey Jr. was a Branch Chief at the U.S. Army Harry Diamond Laboratories who also served the U.S. Army Materiel Command as the Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Thrust Area Manager for Soldering Technology. ==Career== He entered the US Army Harry Diamond Laboratories as a Mechanical Engineer student trainee in 1959 and retired in 2001. As a Senior level Branch Chief, he was an inventor named in 14 Patents and in 1982 was decorated by the Commanding Officer as Inventor of the Year for contributions that lowered the production cost of artillery fuzes. He also served as manager of multi-million dollar programs, one example being the first production of the M734 Multi-Option Mortar Fuze for war reserves. In the field of manufacturing science, he managed the US Army ManTech Thrust Area for Soldering Technology, which was responsible for reducing the cost of Army electronic systems on a national scale by introducing new technologies into industrial base soldering lines.〔Melvyn J. Shichtman, Mary S. Binseel, Dorothy J. Aldich,“ Proceedings for the Advance Planning Briefing for Industry”, US Army Laboratory Command, Harry Diamond Laboratories, 24 January 1990, pp 275–277.〕〔Bob Irving, “How $1 Billion per Year Can Be Saved In The Soldering Of Electronic Components,” Welding Journal, October 1991, pp 54–56.〕 He coordinated the national ManTech mission with activities having common interests and willing to share results, namely Small Business Innovative Research soldering programs supported by the Air Force, Navy ManTech programs, Department of Defense study groups for Soldering Standard 2000, the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense, Tri-Service Quality Assurance personnel, University professors, and major defense contractors willing to serve as test beds in no-cost Cooperative Research and Development Agreements. For these accomplishments he received the US Army Harry Diamond Laboratories’ John A. Ulrich Award for Managerial Leadership, 1989. He identified the gaps in scientific research that were inhibiting productivity on soldering lines by sponsoring Sandia National Laboratories to conduct symposia with 50 renowned scientists from academe, industry, and government and publish three textbooks to serve as roadmaps for future research: “''The Mechanics of Solder Alloy Interconnects'',” 〔D. R. Frear, Steve Burchett, Harold S. Morgan, John H. Lau, "The Mechanics of Solder Alloy Interconnects" , Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, NY 1994. ( Forward by George Lucey ).〕 “''The Mechanics of Solder Alloy Wetting and Spreading'',” 〔Frederick G. Yost, F. M. Hosking, D. R. Frear, “The Mechanics of Solder Alloy Wetting and Spreading,” Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, NY 1993 (Forward by George Lucey).〕 and “''Solder Mechanics''.” 〔D. R. Frear, W. B. Jones, K.R. Kinamn, “Solder Mechanics “ The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, Warrendale, Pennsylvania 1991. (Acknowledgement to George Lucey)〕 He supplied copies of these textbooks to graduate level classes at nine universities and encouraged the writing of additional textbooks by the University of Maryland Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) as a means of inserting other DOD Critical Technologies into the curricula of a new graduate degree in electronics manufacturing. His vision and in-kind help was instrumental in formulating a successful educational program at CALCE, funded by DARPA in 1994-97, leading to a comprehensive graduate engineering curriculum in electronic products and systems. Today, this program is internationally recognized as one of the premier world-class programs in this subject matter, offers over 12 graduate courses and has over 300 alumni at leading electronics manufacturers all over the world, shaping the future of the industry.〔U. Joshi, M. Pecht, W. Nakayama, “Electronic Packaging and Reliability Education for the 21st Century: The University of Maryland CALCE EPRC Program“, 1997 Electronic Components and Technology Conference, pp 585–588.〕 For this accomplishment, he shared with Dr. Abhijit Dasgupta of CALCE the US Army Research Laboratories Associated Achievement Award for Technology Transfer. To support hands-on laboratory studies, he also supplied inspection equipment for electronic manufacturing to the U.S. Navy Electronics Manufacturing Productivity Facility at the Naval Weapons Support Center, Crane, Indiana.〔Stephany Stiptzberg, “ Producibility Microfactory Cuts System Costs“, SCOPE, Harry Diamond Laboratories, Volume III, No. 2, September 1991, p.8〕 He noted the cost driver that was nationally pervasive on production lines was the inspection of assemblies after soldering and the subsequent reworking of joints with irregular shapes simply because there were no tools available to assess the risk to reliability after delivery. He decided variations in wetting and spreading were root causes of irregular shapes and invested in radically new research at the Rockwell International Science Center, the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, and the National Institutes of Science and Technology. The result was an accelerated commercialization of five inventions: Sequential Electrochemical Reduction Analysis (SERA) 〔D.M. Tench, M.W. Kendig, D.P. Anderson, D.D. Hillman, G.K. Lucey, T.J. Gher, (1993) "Production Validation of SERA Solderability Test Method", Soldering & Surface Mount Technology, Vol. 5 Issue 1, pp. 46 – 50.〕 by Dr. Morgan Tench enabled manufacturers to improve yield by precisely measuring the solderability of parts before beginning assembly. Reduced Oxide Soldering Activation (ROSA) 〔D. M. Tench, D. P. Anderson, P. Jambazian, P. Kim, L. F. Warren, D. Hillman and G. K. Lucey, “Reduction of metallic surface oxides via an electrochemically-generated redox species”, Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, Volume 25, Number 10, October 1955. p. 947.〕 by Dr. Morgan Tench enabled manufacturers to reduce scrap and materials by restoring solderability to the entire lot of components before assembly without using flux; Plasma Assisted Dry Soldering (PADS) 〔N. Koopman, S. Bobbio, S. Nangalia, J. Bousaba, B. Piekarski, “Fluxless soldering in air and nitrogen”, Electronic Components and Technology Conference,” June 1993, 43rd Proceedings, pp 595 – 605.〕〔Stephen M. Bobbio, Thomas D. DuBois, Farid M. Tranjan, George K. Lucey, Jr., James D. Geis, Robert F. Lipscomb, Timothy Piekarski, “Fluxless Soldering Method,” US Patent, Serial #5,609,290, March 11, 1997.〕 by Dr. Stephan Bobbio reduced the cost of materials and handling by enabling components to be soldered without flux. A national Laminography Standard 〔Thomas A. Siewert, Mark W. Austin, G. K. Lucey, and M. J. Plott, “Evaluation and Qualification Standards for an X-Ray Laminography System”, Materials Evaluation, Volume 50, No9, September 1992, pp. 1027–1035.〕 by Dr. Thomas Siewert enabled X-Ray laminography inspection machines to be more accurately calibrated. And, Composite Solders 〔George K. Lucey, Jr., James A. Wasynczuk, Roger B. Clough, Jennie S. Hwang, “Composite Solders,” US Patent, Serial #5,520,752, May 28, 1996. 〕〔Roger B. Clough, Alexander J. Sapiro, Andrew J. Bayba, George K. Lucey Jr., “Boundary Layer Fracture in Composite Solder Joints”, Journal of Electronic Packaging, December 1995, Volume 117, Issue 4, pp 270–274.〕〔Marshall, J.L., Calderon, J., Sees, J., Lucey, G., Hwang, J.S, “Composite Solders”, IEEE Transactions on Components, Hybrids, and Manufacturing Technology, December 1991, Volume 14 Issue 4, pp 698–702.〕〔J.A. Wasynczuk, G.K. Lucey, “Shear Creep of Cu6Sn5. Eutectic Composites”, Proceedings of the Technical Program - NEPCON West Conference, Anaheim, CA, Volume 3, 1992, pp 1245–1255.〕〔R.B. Clough, R. Pete;, J.S. Hwang, G. Lucey, “Preparation and Properties of Reflowed Paste and Bulk Composite Solder”, Proceedings of the Technical Program - NEPCON West Conference, Anaheim, CA, Volume 3, 1992 , p.1256.〕 by George Lucey and Dr. Roger Clough offered manufacturers the opportunity to reduce inspection and rework by increasing the strength of the joint. The Army Materiel Command presented George Lucey the second highest award offered to civilians in 1990, the US Army Decoration for Meritorious Civilian Service. He was also a member of the SERA team that won a worldwide competition among Rockwell plants and received the Rockwell International Corporation Chairman's Team Award in 1993. In 1994 the Cahners R&D Magazine presented the SERA team with the prestigious national R&D100 Award as one of the top 100 new products of the year. In 1996, Dr. Bobbio received the R&D100 award for PADS. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Kenneth Lucey Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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