PEACHTREE CITY, GA – APRIL 2, 2025 – PCEA Training is offering a five-day Certified Professional Circuit Designer (CPCD) training and certification class May 9, 16, 23, 30, and June 6 for printed circuit engineers, layout professionals, and other individuals currently serving in the design engineering industry or seeking to get into it.

The instructor-led classes cover the gamut of printed circuit design engineering, from layout, place and route to specifications and materials to manufacturing methods. Schematic capture, signal integrity and EMI/EMC are also part of the comprehensive program.

Each class is 40 hours long and includes a copy of Printed Circuit Engineering Professional, a 400-page handbook on circuit board design, and the optional certification exam recognized by Printed Circuit Engineering Association (PCEA).

The deadline to register for the May class is April 18.

There are no prerequisite requirements to enroll. Upcoming classes will be held online. All courses are led by experienced instructors.

The course handbook, Printed Circuit Engineering Professional, was authored by Michael Creeden, Stephen Chavez, Rick Hartley, Susy Webb and Gary Ferrari, industry veterans who combined have more than 200 years’ experience designing and building PCBs for all types of applications.

For information about the course overview, class format, and materials to prepare in advance for the class, visit pceatraining.net/course-overview.

For information about the instructors of the course and authors of the course material, visit pceatraining.net/instructors-authors.

To enroll, visit pceatraining.net/registration for the next available class or email pceatraining@pcea.net for additional information.

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:

• Simulation vs. Reality – Analyze What You Will Really Build
• Why Do You Need to Care about Tin Whiskers in High-Reliability Electronics?
• Basics of Flex Design

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 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:

• DELO Industrial Adhesives — Adhesives
• SMartSol Technologies — Automation Tools
• Indium Corporation —Cored Wire
• ITW EAE — Cleaning Equipment
• KYZEN — Cleaning Materials
• INOVAXE — Component Storage
• Axxon-Mycronic — Dispensing Equipment
• Inspectis AB — First Article Inspection
• DuPont — Laminates
• Kurtz Ersa, Inc. — Rework and Repair Tools
• Intraratio Corporation — Software – Management
• Arch Systems — Software – Process Control
• Weller Tools GmbH — Soldering – Hand Tools
• BTU International — Soldering -Reflow
• Apollo Seiko — Soldering – Selective
• ITW EAE – Soldering — Wave
• Indium Corporation — Soldering Materials
• ViTrox – Test and Inspection -AOI
• Test Research, Inc. (TRI) — Test and Inspection -AXI
• Test Research, Inc. (TRI) —Test and Inspection – ICT
• Nordson Test & Inspection — Test and Inspection – SPI

“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:

• “Circuit Grounding to Control Noise and EMI,” Rick Hartley
• “Solving Routing Problems in Digital Boards,” Susy Webb
• “HDI Via Design: Planning the Energy Pipelines,” Dan Beeker
• “Low Layer Count and IoT PC Board Design,” Rick Hartley
• “Designing Complex PCBs,” Stephen Chavez
• “Design Guidelines Associated with Unique RF Features,” John Johnson
• “Designing with Embedded Materials,” Bob Carter
• “Using AI in Hardware and PCB Design: Real Strategies to Increase Efficiency and Output,” Ethan Pierce
• “Flex/Rigid Flex: Materials, DFM and Cost Impacts,” Dave Lackey
• “PCB Cost Drivers,” Michael Marshall
• “The Most Common Design Errors Caught by Fabrication (and How to Prevent Them),” Mike Tucker/Ray Fugitt

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.