Vitronics Soltec’s Ursula Marquez de Tino Awarded Ph.D.

Stratham, New Hampshire, USA – Ursula Marquez de Tino, Ph.D., Senior Process and Research Engineer for Vitronics Soltec, has recently been awarded a Ph. D. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Ursula works at the Universal Instruments Surface Mount  Technology Lab in Binghamton, NY, and is a well‐known soldering issues columnist and author in industry trade publications.

Ursula holds a bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad de Lima in Peru. The title of her doctoral dissertation was “Reduction of Nitrogen Consumption of Lead‐Free Reflow Processes and Prediction Models for Behaviors of Lead‐Free Assemblies”. Ursula provides electronic manufacturing process solutions to Vitronics Soltec customers. She is experienced in performing destructive and non‐destructive failure analysis techniques for the purpose of providing corrective recommendations for potential yield problems. She also develops programs in the soldering arena and has developed leading technical papers and presentations for seminars, publications, and educational training programs. Her research interests include quality improvement of electronic assemblies, analysis of new materials, and photovoltaic processes.

About Vitronics Soltec

Vitronics Soltec specializes in the design and manufacturing of mass soldering equipment for the global circuit board assembly market, and includes Reflow, Wave and Selective Soldering technologies. Vitronics Soltec designs and manufactures its systems in three facilities, located in Stratham, New Hampshire, USA; Oosterhout, The Netherlands; and Suzhou, China. Direct sales and support centers are located in the United States, Holland, Germany, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea and Shanghai. For more
information about the company, visit www.vitronics‐soltec.com.