SMYRNA, GA — UP Media Group Inc. today announced leading EDA software company Mentor Graphics has signed an agreement to sponsor Printed Circuit University, the industry’s first online e-learning and training resource for professionals involved in the engineering and design of printed circuit boards and related technologies.

Printed Circuit University, printecircuituniversity.com, is built on the robust, established and time-proven beTheSignal e-learning platform, and features instruction by Dr. Eric Bogatin. UP Media Group will demonstrate Printed Circuit University for the first time at DesignCon, Jan. 31 – Feb. 2, at the Santa Clara (CA) Convention Center.

Mentor Graphics is the site’s first Design Excellence Certificate (DEC) sponsor, which features a license to post webinars and video presentations to the site, links to Mentor Graphics’ own sites, banner ads all pages sites, exclusive course sponsorships, and multiple scholarships.
“In today’s highly competitive electronics market, it is very important that designers are educated in using the latest technologies,” stated Ed Goldman, director of marketing programs, Systems Design Division of Mentor Graphics. “Mentor Graphics is proud to be the first sponsor of Printed Circuit University. Their first series on high-speed design practices will enable more designers to develop higher performance systems, faster. We will also hold a drawing for a one-year scholarship opportunity to the University from entries submitted at our DesignCon booth.”

“We are pleased our longstanding relationship with Mentor Graphics in supporting our magazines and trade shows is being extended to Printed Circuit University,” said Pete Waddell, president of UP Media Group. “We see Printed Circuit University as the cutting-edge in Web-based learning for PCB designers and engineers, and the support of leading companies like Mentor Graphics will go a long way toward educating and training the next generation of great designers.”

Printed Circuit University’s (PCU) mission is to provide online educational resources in technologies and techniques for printed circuit board design as well as a professional social network to further the education and capabilities of engineers, designers and managers involved in those technologies.

The virtual campus features white papers, webinars, flash presentations and a host of other accessible resources at no charge, and the tuition-based Design Excellence Program, a structured curriculum for all levels of design expertise.