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78 I-CONNECT007 I REAL TIME WITH... IPC APEX EXPO 2022 SHOW & TELL MAGAZINE ity standards. He has participated in numerous national and international consortia on elec- tronics manufacturing materials and processes. He recently led a team of SMEs to redefine the cleanliness provisions of J-STD-001, culminat- ing in what is presently J-STD-001H. Patty Goldman: Doug, we're here to congratu- late you on the Dieter Bergman Fellowship Award, which is quite an honor. Doug Pauls: It is. I was quite surprised when John Mitchell called and told me I had been elected to receive it. I was shocked that I had gotten this. I know my friend and colleague, Dave Hillman, was one of the original recipi- ents of that award. But I hadn't really much thought about it. I didn't really think that what I have done was really in line with what his award stands for. I think back on my interac- tions with Dieter. When I was a young engi- neer and mammoths roamed the earth, he was one of the giants of the industry. A lot of people I met were dedicated to a technology, or they might be dedicated to their company. He was the first person that I had ever known who was truly dedicated to the industry itself, not really caring about where a technology came from; he was not an advocate of the "not invented here" syndrome. While he and I did not always agree on things, I always had a great deal of respect for him for what he did to make sure that the technology paths we pursued were right for the industry, and not just as an organization. To be even mentioned in the same breath as Dieter for that same thing was both very gratifying and very humbling to me. Goldman: at's a good way to describe Dieter. He was really like a freight train. He wanted it all and he did it all. But you're quite active in various parts of IPC and committee work. What committees are you involved with right now? Pauls: Since turning over the cleaning and coat- ing work to Jason Keeping, I've been trying to work my way out of a lot of the active leader- ship stuff. I'm doing what I can to promote a lot of the new and up-and-coming members of IPC and shiing more into a mentoring role. I'm still very active with J-STD-1 and IPC- A-610. I'm still very active in all the cleaning and coating aspects of IPC, and the associated specifications. As a Technical Fellow for Col- lins Aerospace, I am our technical lead in both electronics cleaning and electronics coating. It is part of my job responsibilities to stay as a leader in those areas and that's where most of my focus is these days. Goldman: Are you still representing the U.S. in ISO and IEC working groups, or has that been passed along, shall we say? Pauls: I'm not really sure. A lot of the IEC/ISO work I have done was with my friend and col- league, Graham Naisbitt. Graham is very active in the IEC and leads several of their technical committees, when there are industry consor- tiums that deal with the testing of materials, the characterization of manufacturing pro- cesses, and so on. ings that Graham is leading are predomi- nantly from an IEC, or European standpoint, and we have several RTX locations in Europe. So, I like to stay involved with those as well. I know that I have put in several comments on IEC dra specifications for consideration. So, overall, I'm still involved. Goldman: Good. You said you were mentor- ing. Are you mentoring some of the Emerging Engineers? Pauls: Again, it's one of those "I think so." e reason I'm a little hesitant on that is that the pandemic has really thrown everything into a cocktail. ere is a young engineer who I have as part of the Emerging Engineers pro-