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76 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I NOVEMBER 2020 ing industry events. There are many free webi- nars offered out there, so take advantage of them. And if you have not yet joined the PCEA collective, I highly encourage you to visit our website at pce-a.org and become a member. I continue to wish everyone and their fami- lies to be healthy and to be safe. Next Month By the time you are reading this, the San Diego and Arizona chapters of the PCEA will have co-hosted their first chapter meeting, which took place on October 28 and featured Insulectro speakers Mike Creeden and Chris Hunrath, who spoke on the following scintil- lating PCB materials topics: • Design innovation • Hybrid stackup models • Material properties and considerations • Effects of loss tangent • Mixing laminates • Embedded capacitance • Advanced HDI structures I'll be sure to check in with our chapter pres- idents and attendees for their thoughts on this event. Upcoming Events • March 6–11, 2021: IPC APEX EXPO (San Diego, California) • April 13–15, 2021: DesignCon (San Jose, California) • May 11–13, 2021: IPC High-Reliability Forum 2021 (Baltimore, Maryland) • November 10, 2021: PCB Carolina (Raleigh, North Carolina) Spread the word. If you have a significant electronics industry event that you would like to announce, please send me the details at kelly.dack.pcea@gmail.com, and we will con- sider adding it to the list. Conclusion There are so many interesting printed circuit engineering folks out there who we can learn from, and we will focus on the most interest- ing people in the PCEA from time to time. As a collective, we want to expand our diverse membership and foster healthy connections among people in printed circuit engineering. We believe that this will be a fulcrum that will help our members become inspired to con- nect and collaborate, and it will open doors to educate and positively contribute to the wider electronics industry. See you next month or sooner! DESIGN007 Kelly Dack, CIT, CID+, is the com- munication officer for the Printed Circuit Engineering Association (PCEA). To read past columns or contact Dack, click here.