George Kenneth Lucey Jr.

George Kenneth Lucey Jr.
Born New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Residence Hagerstown, Maryland, USA
Nationality American
Fields Mechanical Engineer
Institutions Harry Diamond Laboratories (Retired)
Alma mater University of Maryland
Notable awards Department of Army Decoration for Meritorious Civilian Service

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.[1][2]

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,” [3] “The Mechanics of Solder Alloy Wetting and Spreading,” [4] and “Solder Mechanics.” [5]

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.[6] 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.[7]

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) [8] by Dr. Morgan Tench enabled manufacturers to improve yield by precisely measuring the solderability of parts before beginning assembly. Reduced Oxide Soldering Activation (ROSA) [9] 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) [10][11] by Dr. Stephan Bobbio reduced the cost of materials and handling by enabling components to be soldered without flux. A national Laminography Standard [12] by Dr. Thomas Siewert enabled X-Ray laminography inspection machines to be more accurately calibrated. And, Composite Solders [13][14][15][16][17] 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.

Education

He graduated from the University of Maryland College Park with a B.S. (1960) and M.S. (1967) in Mechanical Engineering with emphasis on stress wave theory, inelastic deformation theory, and advanced machine design. He also completed 670 hours of in-service training focusing on program management, contract management, quality control, producibility, finances, configuration management, motivation, contract law, and value engineering.

Honors

US Army Research Laboratory Associated Achievement Award for Technology Transfer, 1996

Cahners Magazine R&D 100 Award, 1994

Rockwell International Corporation Chairman's Team Award, 1993

US Army Decoration for Meritorious Civilian Service, 1990

US Army Harry Diamond Laboratories John A. Ulrich Award for Managerial Leadership, 1989

US Army Harry Diamond Laboratories Inventor of the Year, 1982

Background

George K. Lucey Jr. (nicknamed Stormy) was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on November 13, 1937 to Phyllis Claire Curott and George Kenneth Lucey. Soon after WWII (1947) the father became one of the first overseas navigators for Trans World Airlines and the family was moved to a Via Nomentana apartment in Rome, Italy. Stormy and his older sister, Margo, attended elementary school at the Overseas School of Rome in the villa of the recently deceased dictator, Benito Mussolini.

TWA relocated the family at the onset of the first Arab-Israeli war, to an apartment with anti-aircraft defenses on the roof at Wadi El Nil in Heliopolis, near Cairo Egypt. Phyllis Lucey on occasion met with King Farouk and was assigned an Egyptian Army Colonel for local protection. The children attended the Heliopolis Sporting Club, where both won Egyptian National Championships in backstroke. They also attended the English School of Cairo (1948–51) until a British firefight with Egyptians in Ismaïlia resulted in riots that burned hundreds of buildings in Cairo (26 January 1952) and a revolution deposed the King (23 July 1952). For safety, the family moved outside Cairo to Maadi, where the children attended the Cairo American School (1952–53) and the Maadi Sporting Club.

Once a home was built in Colesville MD, the family returned to America, where both children graduated from Sherwood High School and the University of Maryland. Margo Lucey won the Miss District of Columbia beauty contest and later was the first runner-up to Miss America (1956) during which she married David Denton who became Commander of a guided missile destroyer, USS McCain. George became an avid skier, private pilot, scuba diver, and his dogs’ best friend. He entered the employ of the US Army Harry Diamond Laboratories to perform research on artillery and remained 43 years. He married Virginia David and later married Jeannie Cepelones - together they raised three children, Angela Cochran, Lavenia Moore, and Skye Jeanotte.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Bob Irving, “How $1 Billion per Year Can Be Saved In The Soldering Of Electronic Components,” Welding Journal, October 1991, pp 54–56.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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).
  5. ↑ D. R. Frear, W. B. Jones, K.R. Kinamn, “Solder Mechanics “ The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, Warrendale, Pennsylvania 1991. (Acknowledgement to George Lucey)
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Stephany Stiptzberg, “ Producibility Microfactory Cuts System Costs“, SCOPE, Harry Diamond Laboratories, Volume III, No. 2, September 1991, p.8
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ George K. Lucey, Jr., James A. Wasynczuk, Roger B. Clough, Jennie S. Hwang, “Composite Solders,” US Patent, Serial #5,520,752, May 28, 1996.
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ 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.

Patents

1. George K. Lucey, Jr., Thomas Gher, Guy Cooper, Robert J. Richter, “Method for Using a Ring Vortex,” US Patent, Serial #6,544,347 B2, April 8, 2003.

2. George K. Lucey, Jr., “System and Method for Sealing High Density Electronic Circuits,” US Patent, Serial #6,207,892, March 27, 2001.

3. Louis J. Jasper, Jr., George K. Lucey, Jr., Thomas J. Gher, Louis E Jasper, “Projectile With an Air Pressure Wave Generator and Chemical Agent Marker,” US Patent, Serial #6,213,024, April 10, 2001.

4. George K. Lucey, Jr., Melvyn J. Shichtman,“Method for Detecting Toxic Chemical Concentration in Individuals,” US Patent, Serial #6,044,293, March 28, 2000.

5. 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.

6. George K. Lucey, Jr., James A. Wasynczuk, Roger B. Clough, Jennie S. Hwang, “Composite Solders,” US Patent, Serial #5,520,752, May 28, 1996.

7. Brett Piekarski, George K. Lucey, John Langan, “Solderability Tester Methodology,” US Patent, Serial #5,357,346, October 18, 1994.

8. George K. Lucey, Jr., Michael G. Orrell, “Springless Impact Switch,” US Patent, Serial #4,174,666 November 20, 1979.

9. Charles W. H. Barnett, George K. Lucey, Jr., Douglas R. Augustine, “Flight Simulator for Missiles,” US Patent, Serial #3,960,000, June 1, 1976.

10. Samuel A. Clark, Jr., George K. Lucey, Jr., Thomas H. Zimmerman, “Protective Metal Shield for Plastic Fuze Radomes,” US Patent, Serial #3,971,024, July 20, 1976.

11. David Williams, George K. Lucey, Jr., “Rain Impact Sensing Proximity Fuze,” US Patent, Serial #3,926,120, December 16, 1975.

12. George K. Lucey Jr., “Stress Free Rod and Eyelet Assembly for Plastic to Metal Interfaces,” US Patent, Serial # 3,773,427, November 20, 1973.

13. Murray Ressler, George K. Lucey Jr., “Stress Free Crimp Joint for Plastic To Metal Interfaces,” US Patent, Serial #3,594,027, July 20, 1971.

14. David Williams, George K. Lucey Jr., “Crush Switch,” US Patent, Serial #3,458,673, July 29, 1969.