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>Date: Wed, 23 Jul 97 17:12:47 CDT
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>From: Glenn Miner GGMR
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>Subj: North Texas Chapter ~ IPC Designers Council Meeting August 7th
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>July '97 Volume 1.3
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>* HELP SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE IPC DESIGNERS COUNCIL
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>* PLEASE forward this message to ANY Board Designer you know
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>* in the North Texas and Oklahoma area!!!
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>The August chapter meeting will be held Thursday, August 7 at the Texins
>Association complex located on the north side of the Texas Instruments campus
>at LBJ and Central Expressway. Originally, the August meeting was to be
hosted
>by Specialty Photo-Etch, Inc. in Grand Prairie. Because of situations beyond
>their control, we have postponed that meeting and tour to December 4th.
>
>We will be viewing the IPC video "Design Considerations", one of seven video
>tapes from the IPC-D-275 PWB Design Workshop series. Explained by Dieter
>Bergman, IPCs Director of Technology Transfer, on how to use the
IPC-D-275, IPC
>Printed Board Design Specification. It promotes the best practices of PWB
>producibility. (Thank you to IPC and the video loan program.)
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>- MEETING AGENDA
>- 6:30 PM Refreshments and networking. Meet old friends and make new friends.
>- 6:55 PM Meeting announcements
>- 7:02 PM Video "Design Considerations"
>- 8:00 PM Round Table Discussion (on video)
>- 8:15 PM New business
>- 8:30 PM Meeting adjourns
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>- CALENDAR
>Chapter Meetings (6:30 to 8:30PM):
>- Aug 7 "PWB Design Considerations" (Texins Association @ TI, Dallas)
>- Oct 2 "High Frequency Design" (Texins Association @ TI, Dallas)
>- Dec 4 "Solder Stencil Mfg." Tour of Specialty Photo Etch, Inc., Grand
Prairie
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>Core Group Meetings (6:30PM):
>- Sep 11 (Olive Garden, SW corner of Greenville at LBJ)
>- Nov 6 (Cheddars, SW corner of Greenville at LBJ)
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>DIRECTIONS TO Texins Association (Texas Instruments, 13500 N Central Expy,
>Dallas, TX 75243):
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>FROM EASTBOUND OR WESTBOUND LBJ (I635)-
>Exit NORTH on 75 (Central Expressway). Immediately exit at Midpark. Follow
>service road to traffic light at Midpark. Turn right into the Texas
Instruments
>facility (open access to parking areas). Turn left after entering the parking
>lot and follow road straight until it ends at a fence. Texins Association
>building will be on your left. Park anywhere near the building. Enter at the
>main entrance, ask for directions to conference rooms 1 & 2.
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>FROM SOUTHBOUND CENTRAL EXPRESSWAY (75)-
>Exit at Midpark (next exit past Spring Valley). Turn left at the traffic
signal
>at Midpark and cross over Central Expressway and follow straight into the
Texas
>Instruments facility (open access to parking areas). Turn left after entering
>the parking lot and follow road straight until it ends at a fence. Texins
>Association building will be on your left. Park anywhere near the building.
>Enter at the main entrance, ask for directions to conference rooms 1 & 2.
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>FROM NORTHBOUND CENTRAL EXPRESSWAY (75)-
>Exit at Midpark (next exit past LBJ). Turn right at the traffic signal at
>Midpark and the service road into the Texas Instruments facility (open access
>to parking areas). Turn left after entering the parking lot and follow road
>straight until it ends at a fence. Texins Association building will be on
your
>left. Park anywhere near the building. Enter at the main entrance, ask for
>directions to conference rooms 1 & 2.
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>* REVITALIZATION OF THE NORTH TEXAS CHAPTER
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>This chapter has been inactive for slightly over a year. There is a
tremendous
>resource of designers in the North Texas area which can make a very strong
>chapter with a diverse knowledge base. Let's unlock this valuable resource!
>
>The second chapter meeting was hosted by North Texas Circuit Board in Grand
>Prairie, Texas. There were eighteen people in attendence. Let's see if we can
>double that number in August!! Thanks to Andy White and Keith Larson from
>giving an excellent tour of their facility and for all the refreshments.
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>WHAT ARE THE PARTICULARS TO JOINING?
>The IPC has set the guidelines for membership: $50.00 per member makes
>you a national member and a member of the local chapter. $20.00 of your
>membership fee is returned to the local chapter to help with the
>educational part of the council. Membership is open to PWB designers and
those
>diciplines related to PWB design (including vendors). Either visit the IPCs
>web site at http://www.ipc.org then select Design and then Designers Council.
>You may join via the web or by mail. Applications are available at the
meeting
>or call me. BE SURE TO AFFILIATE WITH THE NORTH TEXAS CHAPTER.
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>Please RSVP to Glenn Miner at 972-462-2298 or email at [log in to unmask]
>If you are not a PWB designer or involved in some related activity, please
>forward this message to anyone you know in the North Texas and Oklahoma area
>who may be interested in the designers council. Thanks!
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