January Meeting Minutes are attached for your information. The January IPC Designers Council Chesapeake Chapter meeting was held on Monday, January 20th at Orbital Sciences Corporation in Germantown, Maryland. Our thanks to Fred Elsis for arranging to host and sponsor this meeting. The guest speaker was Steve Zimmer from HADCO Corporation in Owego, New York, who presented on the topic of controlled impedance design and processes. Some good questions and discussion followed the presentation. Chapter business included the appointment of George Crawley of Orbital Sciences Corporation to the position of Design Certification Liaison Officer. Thanks to George for volunteering to to accept this position and communicate with National IPC regarding the pc designer certification program. The group was reminded of the upcoming 2 Day seminar on February 7th and 8th at Veribest, Inc. at their Reston, VA facility with the guest presenter, "Clive Max Maxfield", reviewing electronic fundamentals for designers. Linda Mazzitelli, President, requested topics for future meetings and the floor suggestions were: BGA Design Materials MCMs and how they differ from PCBs Mass Micro Vias Blind Vias Discussion took place regarding the possibility of a VENDOR day in APRIL. If anyone can volunteer space for this fund raising event, please contact a board member. The meeting was adjourned at 9:30 PM. Please visit our web site at: http://www.IPC.org/ches/index.html *************************************************************************** * TechNet mail list is provided as a service by IPC using SmartList v3.05 * *************************************************************************** * To subscribe/unsubscribe send a message <to: [log in to unmask]> * * with <subject: subscribe/unsubscribe> and no text in the body. * *************************************************************************** * If you are having a problem with the IPC TechNet forum please contact * * Dmitriy Sklyar at 847-509-9700 ext. 311 or email at [log in to unmask] * ***************************************************************************