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PEACHTREE CITY, GA – MARCH 20, 2025 – Registrants for the PCB East exhibition this April will gain access to five free technical sessions (plus a keynote presentation) ranging from printed circuit design to fabrication and assembly, the Printed Circuit Engineering Association (PCEA) announced today.
The free sessions take place on April 30 at the Boxboro Regency Hotel and Conference Center in Boxborough, MA, and cover topics about AI and PCB design, flex design, simulation, UHDI, and more.
“Free Wednesday” starts with a session on “AI and Other Upcoming Changes in PCB Design,” by Matthew Leary, founder and president of Newgrange Design.
After Leary’s presentation, Stephen Chavez, senior product marketing manager of Siemens and PCEA chairman, will speak about “Exploring the World of Ultra-High-Density Interconnect (UHDI) PCB Design.”
The morning sessions will conclude with the keynote presentation before lunch on the exhibit floor, which is free to all show registrants.
Free sessions resume in the afternoon with three sessions:
Following the free sessions is a reception on the exhibition floor sponsored by Cofactr and EMA Design Automation, and a PCB design community meetup to end the day.
Anyone who registers at pcbeast.com for the exhibition and free sessions by April 29 will receive free admission. Day of show registration for the exhibition and free sessions is $25.
PRINTED CIRCUIT DESIGN & FAB and CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY magazines are media partners for the event.
For more information about PCB East, visit pcbeast.com or contact Conference Director Mike Buetow at 617-327-4702; mike@pcea.net.
PEACHTREE CITY, GA – March 13, 2025 – The discounted price for the PCB East 2025 technical conference ends March 29, conference organizers said today. From March 30 through April 28, registrants will pay the advanced conference price, which is $100 more than the “early bird” rate, the Printed Circuit Engineering Association (PCEA) added.
The technical program for PCB East 2025 features more than 75 hours of in-depth electronics engineering training from leading experts such as Rick Hartley, Susy Webb, Daniel Beeker, Tomas Chester, Karen Burnham and Zachariah Peterson.
It will be held April 29 to May 2 at the Boxboro Regency Hotel and Conference Center in Boxborough, MA. It features classes for every level of experience, from novice to expert.
The scope of classes ranges from the basics of design engineering, documentation, libraries and circuit grounding to more advanced fare such as RF and mixed signal design, DDR5 routing, board stackups, simulation, controlling EMI, and power delivery system design.
More than half the presentations are new to the conference, including ones on maximizing routing channels, successful design release, differential pair design for 112 Gbps and faster systems, EMI shielding, flex design, UHDI design, controlling for tin whiskers, and AI and other upcoming changes in PCB design.
“PCB East is the best technical conference on the East Coast for PCB designers, design engineers, fabricators and assemblers,” said Mike Buetow, president, PCEA. “There’s something for everyone, no matter their background or length of industry experience.”
Registration for the technical conference and the exhibition is open at pcbeast.com.
An exhibition featuring leading suppliers to the electronics design, manufacturing and assembly industry will be held April 30.
PRINTED CIRCUIT DESIGN & FAB and CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY magazines are media partners for the event.
PEACHTREE CITY, GA – MARCH 10, 2025 – CIRCUITS ASSEMBLY today announced the 2025 New Product Introduction (NPI) Award winners for electronics assembly equipment, materials and software.
The 18th annual NPI Awards recognize leading new products during the past 12 months. An independent panel of practicing industry engineers selected the recipients.
The winners are:
“Judges this year praised the winners for improvements in versatility and speed,” said Mike Buetow, president of PCEA, in announcing the winners. “They were notably impressed with equipment that added functionality without increased footprint, and materials that required very little process change.”
PEACHTREE CITY, GA – March 5, 2025 – Registrants for PCB Detroit this June will gain access to several technical sessions and a tabletop exhibition, the Printed Circuit Engineering Association (PCEA) announced today.
The sessions take place on June 2-3 on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, and cover topics ranging from controlling noise, using AI in hardware and PCB design, flex and rigid-flex materials and DfM, HDI via design, and PCB cost drivers, among others.
Conference sessions include:
PCB Detroit will also feature a tabletop exhibition on June 2 with fourteen companies including: A2Z Electronics LLC, ADCO Circuits, AllSpice.io, ASC Sunstone Circuits, BarTron Inc., Cofactr, DirectPCB, DownStream Technologies, Electronic Interconnect, K&F Electronics, Polyonics, RBB, Summit Interconnect, and Zuken USA.
A free reception on June 2 and special designers meetup (registration required) on June 3 will be held after classes end those days.
“PCB Detroit is the only place the electronics industry can see Rick Hartley, Susy Webb, Dan Beeker and Steph Chavez together at the same time in the Midwest,” said Mike Buetow, president of the Printed Circuit Engineering Association. “And the opportunities not just to learn but to network with fellow designers and engineers should not be missed.”
Registration for the two-day technical conference and the tabletop exhibition takes place at events.american-tradeshow.com/pcbdetroit/begin. Conference registration is required for both the conference and table top exhibition. Plus, lunch will be provided to registrants.
Wayne State University is Michigan’s third-largest university, and a licensee of the PCEA Training Certified Printed Circuit Designer curriculum.
For more information about PCB Detroit, visit pcea.net/pcb-detroit or contact pcbdetroit@pcea.net.
PEACHTREE CITY, GA – FEBRUARY 27, 2025 – The PCEA membership elected its board of directors for the next two years at its annual meeting in October.
Returning to the board are Jim Barnes, Stephen Chavez, Tomas Chester, Doug Dixon, Justin Fleming, Rick Hartley, Matt Leary, Anaya Vardya, Susy Webb, and Eriko Yamato.
New board members include Charlene McCauley, and Juan Frias, who was voted in following the meeting as a replacement for the retiring Scott McCurdy.
As president of PCEA, Mike Buetow retains an automatic appointment to the board.
At its scheduled February board meeting, Chavez was reelected chairman, Webb vice chairman, Fleming secretary and Vardya treasurer. Dixon was appointed chair of the Strategic Planning committee and Leary was named chair of the Membership committee. Chester was reappointed chair of the Education committee.
PEACHTREE CITY, GA – FEBRUARY 23, 2025 – PCEA Training today named respected industry veteran Paul Fleming technical director, PCB design.
Fleming has a long and storied career in printed circuit design both as a designer and with various ECAD companies. He has design experience with various blue-chip OEMs and running a service bureau. He also spent time as a software QA engineer and applications engineer with Siemens/Mentor, Cadence and Intergraph. Fleming is a former chapter president of the Designer’s Council and a master instructor in the IPC CID program.
Fleming will oversee the printed circuit board technical programs for PCEA Training. He will be responsible for coordinating updates to the Certified Printed Circuit Engineering curriculum, including adding targeted modules. He will also be staff liaison to the Conference task group responsible for the technical programs for PCB East, PCB West and PCB Detroit.
“The success of the PCEA programs dictated the addition of subject matter experts, and we have a great one in Paul,” said Mike Buetow, president, PCEA. “He is well regarded by peers as being knowledgeable, pragmatic and easy to work with. We think Paul will make an outstanding addition to the PCEA team and contribute immediately to our mission of enhancing the careers of professional PCB designers and engineers.”
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