IEEE members may be interested in the following event which is sponsored by AWS.

One of their January meetings is a tour of:

Advanced Silicon Materials, Inc.
Producer of high purity polycrystalline silicon and silicon gases for the integrated circuit industry.

2:00 pm to 5:00 pm January 21, 2005
Tour of Advanced Silicon Materials, Inc. (ASiMI)
Butte, Montana

If interested, contact:

Tim McJunkin
Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory
Industrial and Material Technologies
208 526 7895
mcjutr@inel.gov

or, please check out the link below for more details. There is a small contingent from Idaho Falls contemplating the winter drive to Butte, so there should be car-pooling opportunities.

http://www.aws.org/sections/id-mt/meetings/January05.htm