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Three Rivers Designers Council For Pittsburgh and the Tri-state area `Everything comes together at the Three Rivers Designers Council' On the internet at http://www.ipc.org/noframes/3RDC/index1.htm You can also contact the 3RDC Steering Committee : Jeff Imes PH 412-349-1811 ([log in to unmask]) Jamie Morrow PH 717-944-9560 (mail : [log in to unmask]) Ed Pavlock PH 412-767-2400 x3441 ([log in to unmask]) Lou Takach PH 412-688-2574 ([log in to unmask]) Joseph Zdybowicz PH 412-772-6552 ([log in to unmask]) The 3RDC Core committee met on August 27, 1996 and again prior to the general member ship meeting on September 17th. and discussed the following : - Future meeting Sponsors - Upcoming meeting schedule - Septembers meeting - Announcement samples - Creation of sub-committees - Web page status - IPC certification - Chapter organization - Chapter meeting location - Chapter activities Those attending the core meeting were: Jeff Imes, Jamie Morrow, Ed Pavlock, Joe Zdybowicz Jay Stokes from Triangle Circuit and Hank from Robocon would like to become involved with the Three Rivers IPC Designers Council, and host a meeting. Jay will be invited to our next core meeting to discuss when, and topics he would like to present. Our meeting schedule is as follows, dates are tentative: Sept. 17 Topic :"How to make a PCB" by Tom Coyle from Hadco Location : Medrad Hosted by Ed Pavlock. Oct. 15 Topic : "PCB finishes, OSP" by Tom Eshelman from Enthone OMI Location : Union Switch & Signal Hosted by Lou Takach Nov. 12 Topic : "Design for Testability, In-Circuit Test" by Gene Hixon from FORE Systems. Location : Union Switch & Signal Hosted by : Joe Z. from FORE Systems Dec. open date We would like to schedule Septembers meeting on the 17th, at 7:00. Ed will make arrangements with the speaker Tom Coyle, and for a conference room. Ed will also forward announcement information to Lou for distribution. Joe Z. will forward examples of meeting announcements to Ed. We would like to form some committees for putting together a newsletter, and for the 3RDC-Board of the Month. Information will be distributed with a list of chapter openings. The Three Rivers IPC Designers Council web page is open and on the IPC pages. Congratulations to Jeff our webmaster for putting all of this together, "Way to go Jeff !!" Thanks also to Anita Abbatacola, Gary Ferrari, and the IPC for sponsoring our web site location. Three Rivers IPC Designers Council web page address: ** http://www.ipc.org/noframes/3RDC/index1.htm ** The group discussed certification. It seems there are several people who are interested in, and working towards certification. The 3RDC needs help from one or two of them to provide assistance to others. One idea is to bring everyone interested in certification together for a support/study group session. We are working towards incorporation, and everyone is new to this kind of activity. The 3RDC Core is taking the following steps to better understand the laws, and paperwork required for incorporation. Jeff brought tax id forms, and distributed them to the group. Jamie brought the IPC incorporation kit, and will pass out copies this week for our 3RDC Core to review. Ed has a contact who is an officer in a local Pro E users group. This users group has been incorporated for three years, and we hope can provide us with more insight into paperwork, tax laws, and bookkeeping. Joe Z. will start working with the IPC incorporation kit to create by-laws and history for the Three Rivers IPC Designers Council, group would like to add to the 3RDC web page. Jamie is going to talk to other chapters to see how their by-laws are organized. Jeff is going to talk to the IPC in hopes of gaining more insight to these requirements. Jeff is going to move forward with obtaining the tax ID number and establishing a checking account for the chapter. The Three Rivers IPC Designers Council has been rotating locations of our chapter meetings along with our sponsors and hosts. The Core feels there are several good reasons to continue with this. The Core feels this is a good idea because everyone has a chance to organize a meeting. Hosts also gain some sense of accomplishment and ownership as more people have some input into the end product. Changing hosts every month also ensures no one gets overloaded, and burned out. We have fresh people working on a chapter meeting three months in advance, and we have been successful at bringing in good speakers every month. We are also able to attract people from a wider area, as our location moves, we may by closer to some people one month and some others the next. We feel this one way we've been able to grow our chapter pretty well the last 6 months. The 3RDC Core would like to organize some fun activities. The ideas we came up with are: Lets spend some time with our members in the next meeting to see what may be of interest. Organize a darts and billiards tournament following our chapter meetings. Organize a potluck picnic. raffle off hockey tickets donated by a sponsor. There was a suggestion for holding our Core meetings over conference call. The group liked talking face to face, but is willing to try one For an upcoming meeting. Jamie, our membership officer, will distribute our complete members list to all the Core members. The group is a little concerned that some people may prefer to keep their names private, so the list will not be made public until we can resolve this issue. The core should discuss this with members in our next chapter meeting. The core group would like to create a Q&A drop box where members can drop a question or comment. We would then help them to resolve the issue. The group choose a drop box because several members do not have access to EMAIL. A drop box will be added to our web site for people who do have access to the internet. Email is also acceptable. The core group would like to take a survey of the area designers to find out the software packages being used, platforms, and technology of designs such as average number of layers, count of nodes, pins, vias, SMT pitch, etc. Jamie will bring in a questionnaire created by Hadco for this same purpose. SEPTEMBER 17 Th. GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING First of all, we would like to thank Ed Pavlock from Medrad for sponsoring this meeting and providing refreshments. Today's meeting was on the topic "HOW A BOARD IS BUILT". The presentation was give by Tom Coyle from Hadco. Nice job Tom and thanks !! Toms' presentation covered : - PWB fabrication process (flow chart) - Pre-Engineering functions - Inner layer process steps - Kiting / Lamination / Fabrication process - Outer layer process steps - Routing and chamfering - Inspection and test Tom had samples of a board at all the various stages of fabrication. That was an excellent touch to the presentation ! A question and answer session followed the presentation. After the presentation, Joe Z. and Lou gave a brief overview of chapter activities. Lou Takach Union Switch & Signal Inc. 412.688.2574 (voice) 412.688.2399 (fax) [log in to unmask] **************************************************************************** * The mail list is provided as a service by IPC using SmartList v3.05 * **************************************************************************** * To unsubscribe from this list at any time, send a message to: * * [log in to unmask] with <subject: unsubscribe> and no text. * ****************************************************************************