Designer Learning Symposium 2001
Call for Papers
Northbrook Hilton in Northbrook, IL
July 16-21, 2001

Get Ahead... Think Design!
The IPC Designers Council is proud to announce the first annual Designer
Learning Symposium. This event will concentrate primarily on practical,
hands-on training for the designer. Get concrete information that you can
take back to the workplace. In addition to a first class technical
conference, there will be full day workshops on the hottest topics in design.

Submit an abstract of your unpublished work detailing case histories, field
data, new technologies or innovations or research and findings. Your abstract
should summarize the problems and resolutions, methods used, results, and
benefits to the industry. The deadline for abstract submittal is April 1,
2001. Only a limited number of papers will be accepted. If accepted, speakers
should be prepared to give an approximate 30 minute, non commercial,
presentation with 5 to 10 minutes of questions & answers. The paper should
detail all of the findings scoped in your abstract. Papers focused on a
company's product will not be accepted. As a speaker/author you will be
entitled to a copy of the proceedings and free registration to the two-day
hands-on conference.

Please email or fax your abstract to Stephannie Caliendo at [log in to unmask] or
847-509-9798. Remember to include your full name and full company/contact
information with your abstract submittal.

Suggested Paper Topics:

Schematic Capture
- Engineering for the Designer
- Designer's Involvement in Schematic Generation

Library
- Development
- Management
- Land Patterns Assembly Concerns

Testing
- Future of PC Board and/or Assembly Testing with HDI
- Design for Bare Board Testing
- Design for Assembly Testing
- Boundary Scan

Placement
- Relative to HDI
- High Speed Design
- Thermal Concerns

Routing Techniques
- Hand Routing Tips
- Auto Routing Tips

Signal Analysis
- Schematic Analysis
- Board & System Analysis
- Timing & Simulation Models

Documentation
- For Fabrication
- For Assembly
- Post Processing

Miscellaneous
- Front End Simulation
- Prototyping
- Other