MANCHESTER, NH – EPTAC is offering a new Printed Circuit Engineering Designer online program, with plans for in-person regional course reviews in the post-Covid era.

The program is geared toward engineers who are interested in printed circuit engineering layout.

As part of their new current development company PCE-EDU, the program was developed by subject matter experts Michael Creeden, CID+, Gary Ferrari, CID+, Susy Webb, CID, Rick Hartley, BSEE, CID, and Stephen Chavez, CID+ to bridge the gap between the knowledge gained at a college level and the practical experience required in this growing technical field.

“PCB is a science about bare boards,” said Creeden in a recent Zoom interview with PRINTED CIRCUIT DESIGN & FAB. “PCA is a science about assembling components to a bare board. There’s an overarching acronym that’s printed circuit engineering (PCE). Many of us think of this as PCB design, and it’s really much more than that. The BSEEs graduating from universities are being conscripted to accomplish their own layouts, and very few, if any, have formal education to be successful in laying out their boards.”

The target audience is “both broad and singular,” Creeden says, including recent college graduates and “seasoned designers seeking to gain high-end signal integrity applications and solving dense place and route of high-speed design or RF circuitry.”

This CAD-neutral program supplemented by 800 PowerPoint slides comes with a reference textbook: Printed Circuit Engineering Professional, with more than 400 color-illustrated pages.

In addition, the Printed Circuit Engineering Association is offering an optional industry-recognized certification following the course: Certified Printed Circuit Designer (CPCD).

The program is exclusively licensed to EPTAC and will also be offered to four-year universities.

The curriculum “covers everything from manufacturing to schematic and circuit development, primarily focusing into the layout of making the actual tooling, of putting that circuit into a tooling that can be built – and that can be built both for test compliance, usages,” etc., says Creeden. Students will learn “an A to Z for the profession.”

For more information, visit https://www.eptac.com/etrainings/printed-circuit-engineering-designer-online-program/.  

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