I would like to personally encourage you and your colleagues to look into
Palomar College's Printed Circuit Design program and consider registering
for DT210 or DT211 before Aug 20th, 2007. 

http://www.palomar.edu/drafting/pcb/


Classes for the Fall Semester at Palomar College on begin August 20th 2007.


The first class for DT210/DT211 PCB Design will be on Tuesday Aug 21st, 2007
in room E-13 at 6PM to 9PM. Classes are held Tuesday and Thursday every week
during the semester. This is a three unit college credit evening class so it
is convenient for working students too! DT210 is also listed as part of two
AA degree programs at Palomar College. 

Note: It is important to be present on the first day to get important
information about the class and software and to be counted in the class
census so that the class fills the quota of students required by the college
administration.

The class content has been recently improved! There are new and updated
materials and new software to work with... and better learning opportunities
for registered students in the class.
The E-13 CAD lab now has upgraded faster DELL computers with new flat screen
monitors, and we are teaching with the latest version of Altium Designer 6
in the classroom. 
The curriculum is rich with information vital to successful printed circuit
board design... and the instructor has over 33 years of electro-mechanical
and PCB design experience and has been using the software developed by this
user friendly CAD software company since 1998. You may remember it by its
previous name, Protel. It has come a long way since it was well known by
that name and has a very popular client list from all over the world... 
http://www.altium.com/Successes/

http://www.altium.com/files/pdfs/WhatsNewinAltiumDesigner6.7.pdf

Now, you can find out more about Designing Printed Circuits than ever
before... with an easy to use and powerful software platform that is used
world wide...And it's available at your local Palomar Community College!

Here are just some of the highlights from the classroom... 

* Students will learn how to read schematic diagrams and symbols and create
schematics to modern drafting specifications on the computer.
* We cover some general electrical theory and Ohms law so that our student
designers can understand the board layout requirements specified by
electrical engineers in industry.
* Students build component footprints from current IPC and manufacturer's
specifications for both surface mount components and through hole components
and hardware.
* Students learn about printed circuit mechanical requirements and create a
board outline profile and add mounting requirements, thermal requirements,
connectors and other features from a mechanical constraints drawing.
* Component placement is emphasized in this class with instruction on
maximizing the use of board real estate and critical circuit signal flow... 
* Routing of conductors on the board layers is covered thoroughly with
examples of correct routing methods for different types of circuits. 
* Students will learn how to define circuit paths that meet or exceed
voltage spacing, current requirements and environmental needs of the board
in an electronic product.
* IPC specifications and guidelines are emphasized and used as guides to
industry standard practices... 
* Design for Manufacturing, Design for Test, Design for Assembly guidelines
are reviewed and used in class during the development of class projects. 
* All the required documentation needed to manufacture, test and assemble a
printed circuit is produced in this class. 
* Rigid boards and Flex boards will be reviewed in the classroom and
students will get experience with modern technology that is unavailable at a
college anywhere else near North San Diego County. 
* Altium Designer software is used in the classroom during the entire
semester, with some work using AutoCAD as well... (Primarily AutoCAD is used
for mechanical drawing to be imported into the PCB cad tool.)
* The student will output Gerber photo plot files, drill files, and a 3D
model of their project board that can be viewed by anyone including
prospective employers.
* There will be an opportunity to attend a tour of a working printed circuit
manufacturing or printed circuit assembly facility during the semester.

For more information on our new CAD tool see
http://www.altium.com/files/altiumdesigner/AltiumDesigner6-Board_level_desig
n.pdf

We hope to see you this semester! And please...invite a friend to come take
the class with you!

Please forward this invitation to a friend that is interested in learning
more about PCB design too. 
Thank You!

Best regards, 
Bill Brooks - Instructor DT210, DT211
Palomar College
http://www.palomar.edu/

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