Khaled The Copper Connection offers a number of short courses on design techniques. Santa Clara, CA 1-408-970-9838. The PCB Design Conference will be 3/23/98 - 3/27/98 and that will cover all kinds of design material. There is another conference scheduled for October. http://www.pcbdcon.com Santa Clara, CA 1-888-811-7391 Subscribe to Printed Circuit Design magazine. It's free and keeps you abreast with what is going on in the industry. http://www.pcdmag.com 1-888-847-6177. Take the IPC Designers Certification Course. Get familiar with the IPC documents, especially IPC-D-275. http://www.ipc.org 1-847-509-9700 Thanks Norm Al Moseng ################################################################ DesignerCouncil E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ################################################################ To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE DesignerCouncil <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil ################################################################ Please visit IPC web site (http://jefry.ipc.org/forum.htm) for additional information. For the technical support contact Dmitriy Sklyar at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.311 ################################################################