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/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DesignerCouncil Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil. To temporarily stop/(restart) delivery of DesignerCouncil send: SET DesignerCouncil NOMAIL/(MAIL) Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------