Program Participants Chairman's summary

• actively consider and exchange ideas about the impact on industry, society and the environment of Micromachines, including Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) or Microsystem Technology (MST)
• comprise delegates from thirteen countries/regions in the world that are active in research and production concerning the Micromachine industry.
• report on the status, directions and critical issues concerning Micromachine developments in the countries/regions represented
• present in a non-technical manner the state of the art applications and production methods, future possibilities, how Micromachines can change the way people live and work and the national initiatives and policies which might be adopted to give humankind the maximum benefit from Micromachines
• provide a forum to enable a vital interchange of innovative and provoking thought on Micromachines.

4th Micromachine Summit
Program

29 APRIL 1 MAY, 1998
RMIT UNIVERSITY MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA

The Micromachine Summits are international forums that enable vital interchange of innovative and provoking thought about the critical issues and impact on industry, society, and the environment of Micromachines including microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) or Microsystem Technology (MST). Thirteen countries/regions in the world that are active in this field of research and production send delegates to the Summit. The aim is to exchange ideas on the status, provide practical examples and consider possible initiatives on how Micromachines can change the way we work and live and bring benefits to humankind.

Wednesday April 29

Thursday April 30

Questions and Discussion

Questions and Discussion

Questions and Discussion

Questions and Discussion

Friday May 1

Questions and Discussion

Meeting of the Chief Delegates
Seminar Rooms l&2, Level 7, Storey Hall

Questions and Discussion

Saturday May 2

• Professor Ian Bates
  Associate Dean, Research & Development RMIT University Faculty of Engineering
• Dr. Ron Zmood
  Dept of Electrical Engineering RMIT University
• Dr. Mike Murray
  Corporate Executive CSIRO
• Mr. Peter Hayes
  Group Leader Electronics Robert Bosch (Australia) Pry Ltd
• Professor Graeme Clark
  Director, Bionic Ear Institute

BENELUX

• Dr. Albert van den Berg
  MESA Research Inst University of Twente
• Dr. Lou Hermans
  IMEC
• Dr. Henk Leeuwis
  

CANADA

• Mr. Gordon Guild, President,
  MTC Micromachining Technology Centre Simon Fraser University
• Dr. Peter Dawson, Director General
  NRC Inst for Microstruc Science

CHINA

• Prof. Zhaoying Zhou, Chairman
  Dept of Precision lnstruments & Mechanology
  Tsinghua University Bejing, China
• Prof. Wendong Zhang
  Dept of Instruments & Measurement Tec Nth China Inst of Technology
• Prof. Defu Li
  Chinese Soc of Inertial Tech Bejing, Chaina
• Mr. Guoying Cao
  SSTCC Bejing, Chaina

FRANCE

• Prof. Daniel Handen
  Director LPMO-CNRS
• Mr. Jean-Christophe Eloy
  YOLE Develpt Co

GERMANY

• Prof. Wolfgang Menz
  Institut fuer Mikrosystemchnik Universitaetsgelaande Flugplatz
• Dr. Bernhard Thomas
  Daimler Benz
  Forschungsinstitut Frankfurt Germany
• Dr. Reiner Wechsung
  Microparts GmbH
• Mr. Juergen Berger
  VDI/VDE Technologie, Zentrum Informations Technik GMBH
  

ITALY

• Prof. Paolo Dario
  Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna ARTS/MITECH labs
• Mr. Leonello Dori
  CNK-lst Lamel Via P Gobetti

JAPAN

• Prof. Naomasa Nakajima
  Dean Div of Eng, Graduate School University of Tokyo
• Mr. Takayuki Hirano,
  Executive Director Micromachine Center
• Dr. Tsuneo Ishimaru,
  Chairman Denso Corporation
• Dr. Sadao Moritomo,
  President & CEO Seiko Seiki Co Ltd
• Dr. Toshiro Shimoyama,
  Chairman & CEO Olympus Optical Co Ltd
  

SCANDANAVIA

• Prof. Jan-Ake Schweitz
  The Angstrom Laboratory Uppsala University
• Mr. Terje Kvisteroy,
  Technical Director SensoNor asa
• Mr. Francois Grey, Vice Director
  Microelectronics Centre,
• Prof. Ari Lehto, Research Professor
  VTT Electronics/Microelectronics

SWITZERLAND

• Prof. Nico de Rooij
  Institute of Microtechnology University of Neuchatel
• Mr. Philippe Fischer
  FSSRM, Swiss Foundation of Research Microtechnology
• Dr. Volker Gass
  Mecanex SA
• Mr. Markus Haller
  Medtronic Europe SA

TAIWAN

• Dr. Minh-Shyong Lin
  Executive Vice-President Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Mr. Yao Cheng,
  Associate Research Scientist Synchrotron Radiation Research Centre
• Prof. Jin-Shown Shie
  Institute of Electro-Optics National Chia Tung University
• Prof. Star Ruey-Shing Huang
  Dept of Electrical Engineering National Tsing Hua University

UNITED KINGDOM

• Prof. Howard Dorey
  Dept of Elec & Electronic Eng Imperial College,
• Dr. Malcolm Gower, Chairman
  Exitech Ltd
• Prof. Geoff Beardmore,
  Micro Engineering Manager
  Major Defence Systems Smiths Industries Aerospace & Defence Systems Ltd
  Cheltenham, Bishop's Cleve, Cheltenham Gloucestershire,
• Prof. Ron Lawes, Facility Head
  Appleton Laboratory, CLRC Chilton, Didcot
  Oxfordshire, UK

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

• Prof. Richard Muller
  Director: Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Centre Editor in Chief IEEE/ASME/JMEMS
  University of California Dept of EECS
• Dr. Albert (Al) Pisano
  MEMS Program Manager DARPA/ETO
• Dr. Long-Sheng Fan
  IBM Corporation Almaden Research Centre

1. With regard to standardization, an internation-al network with Japan as the core will be con-structed to promote standardization using the Internet, based on the results of the workshop held in Japan, and contact persons will be assigned from active countries/regions.
2. The 1999 summit is to be held in Scotland, with the 2000 summit to be held in Japan, and it was proposed that the 2001 summit be held in the United States. The United States made clear their intent to review the matter in a pos-itive light. Other countries which wish to hold the summit include Germany and Denmark.
3. Due to activities in Singapore becoming quite pronounced, Singapore will be added as a mem-ber at the next summit.
4. The home page for the summit proposed by Japan shall be started on the Micromachine Center's web site. For the time being, this home page will display pasts programs, partici-pants, and chairman's summaries, in addition to plans for the staging of future summits. In this, the fourth summit, a common level of awareness of micromachines among the participat-ing countries/regions was notable, as was an awareness of the need for greater efforts to assure the development of micromachines into the 21st century.