How can you learn design without courses? Kind of shortcut? By means of some existin one-hour workshop, you may be able to design a one layer, few component board, but if you know nothing about ASSEMBLY and TEST technology, I'm afraid that will be no good construction. I know guys who have been designing PWBs for decades, and they say to me there is still more to learn: materials, chemistry, tolerances, electrical paramters, thermal properties, environmental behavior, soldering, repair, modifying, rules, standards, marking, storage bla-bla...If the person is very young or have some perception problem or like, you can of course buy learning-kits for a decent cost. Hands-on with other words. Example: http://www.electronickits.com/kit/complete/complete.htm There are lots of such kits, with varying complexity Here is a list: http://www.everythingpcb.com/p13426.htm Inge On 14 March 2012 14:37, Smith, Rick <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to find a non-CAD tool based PCB Design Intro training here on > the East coast (or thereabouts). Seems that the available training is > either based on a particular CAD tool or, too advanced for the trainee I > have in mind. Any recommendations? > > I am not sure if posting the name of a company in this forum is against > IPC Technet guidelines so please bear this in mind when responding. > > Thanks much! > > With Best Regards, > Rick > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. > For more information please contact helpdesk at x2960 or [log in to unmask] > ______________________________________________________________________ > ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please contact helpdesk at x2960 or [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________