Chair: Karl Sauter, High Density Packaging User Group International, Inc. Vice-Chair: Graham Naisbitt, GEN3 Staff Liaison(s): Doug Sober Email: dougsober@ipc.org Committee Charter: This task group is responsible for the determination of electrochemical migration (ECM) activity within Printed Boards. Surface ECM issues are addressed by the 5-32b SIR and Electrochemical Migration Task Group. The focus of the 5-32e Task Group is exploring Conductive Anodic Filament (CAF) growth and other ECM failure mechanisms within the board.