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SEPTEMBER 2019 I DESIGN007 MAGAZINE 65 July and August served as a summer break for the chapter, and the date and details for the September meeting will be announced soon. In addition, PCB Carolina 2019 is approaching and will be held November 13 at the McKim- mon Center at North Carolina State Univer- sity in Raleigh. It's free to all attendees and includes a keynote and 16 technical sessions. Based on last year, the projected attendance is 1,000 attendees, and the vendor floor is already sold out (Figure 1). San Diego Chapter: California Chapter Leader: Luke Hausherr Our last meeting was held at the Del Mar Electronics show with around 35 attendees. Altium paid for everybody's lunch. I made my debut as the new chapter president since Bob Griffith has retired. I gave a short speech thanking the community for their support and explained my objectives to increase membership. John Carney from Cadence is now the secretary, and Judy Warner from Altium joins the team as education chair. Gerry Partida—the director of engineering for Summit Interconnect in Anaheim, Califor- nia—spoke on "CAD to PCB: Your Data and What I Actually Do With It." His presentation provided a great overview in understanding the input and data review process of your design data in front-end engineering departments at PCB fabrication companies. We then had a raffle where we gave away a bunch of vendor- and chapter-sponsored items. Our next meeting will be held at San Diego PCB in September. Jeffrey Jenkins, PCB chief technologist at L3 Communications, will be giving a presentation about conformal coating, what is it, and why to use it. Orange County Chapter, California Chapter Leader: Scott McCurdy We had our latest "lunch 'n learn" chapter meeting on July 18 at JT Schmid's Restau- rant banquet room in Anaheim, California. We had a very well-attended event with 68 designers and PCB profes- sionals in the audience. The topic was "How Fabrication Processes Determine DFM Guidelines" presented by Julie Ellis, field applications engineer at TTM Technolo- gies Inc. She gave a detailed look at fabrication realities to help designers understand capabili- ties and tradeoffs. It was very educational and generated lots of questions from the audience. I wish to thank Altium for sponsoring much of the lunch cost of the meeting and also for providing a three-day pass to their upcoming AltiumLive event in San Diego as one of our door prizes. PCB Libraries provided a gener- ous grand prize for a one-year Cloud License of their full-featured PCB Library Expert Enter- prise tool. We also had other raffle prizes donated by Mentor and Freedom CAD Services. International Chapters Our international chapters continue to be very active, two of which have been showcased in recent columns. The Monterrey Chapter is led by Luis Saracho, and the Sonora Chapter is headed by Robert Ivan Villalba Gonzalez. IPC CID/CID+ Certification Success by Stephen V. Chavez, MIT, CID+ We continue to have successful IPC CID and CID+ certifications classes to date, resulting in many new and seasoned engineers and design- ers successfully achieving their certifications. Congratulations to all who have recently suc- cessfully achieved their new IPC CDI/CDI+ certification! Welcome to the family! In the next section, you will find the remain- ing training sessions to take advantage of as well as upcoming PCB design events. 2019 Training and Certification Schedule IPC Certified Interconnect Designer (CID) • September 19–22: Schaumburg, IL • October 8-11: Carmel, IN • October 21–24: Anaheim, CA • November 2–5: Raleigh, NC • November 5–8: Dallas, TX Luke Hausherr Scott McCurdy