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OCTOBER 2021 I DESIGN007 MAGAZINE 89 neering industry, we are inherently made up of leadership and membership which stems from the design portion of our industry. A few years ago, we consciously focused on the name of our organization to include the word engineer- ing as opposed to design in order to include all the other important stakeholders—manu- facturers, assemblers, test engineers, suppli- ers and others—along with designers, to col- laborate, educate, and inspire each other. We are the Printed Circuit Engineering Associa- tion—not a design association—and if you are a stakeholder working on the manufacturing, test, assembly, procurement, or inspection of printed circuits, we need your help. We have an immediate need for executive level representation from the many comple- menting stakeholder areas mentioned above. We are asking for your help in stepping up and proactively representing your respective col- leagues in our organization. We are looking for individuals who can unite with other represen- tative stakeholders within our organizational chapters. We need your alter-design stake- holder perspective to homogenize our thinking as we move forward to serve this great indus- try. Are you willing to step in and serve? e pay is non-existent but the rewards of service in the PCEA can change your career trajectory overnight. If you are interested, contact PCEA Chairman Steph Chavez through our website contact page (pce-a.org/contact/) and let him know you believe that the PCEA should be more than design and design education; it needs to collaborate, be educated, and inspired by your alternatively important subject matter expertise. Message from the Chairman As we start October, respective workloads and industry events are in full swing. PCEA is coming off its first official booth on a convention hall floor at a major industry "in person" conference. PCEA's booth at DesignCon 2021 was a great success. e marketing and events team did an amazing job bringing this together and showcasing pol- ished professionals. ey sure hit a home run on this one. Kudos to the PCEA team and to the support team of DesignCon for another successful event, especially considering today's circumstances and resurgence of the pandemic and a new variant. Even with this, PCEA did its part in collaborating with other associations or groups for the betterment of the industry. We continued that same positive momen- tum going into another local PCEA chap- ter (Orange County) event on September 1. Although this was another successful virtual webinar, with great design and manufacturing content, the word on the street, per my follow- up conversation with local chapter Chairman Scott McCurdy, is chapter members can't wait to get back to their previous in-person meet- ings. I couldn't agree with them more. I was very excited to see over 100 attendees sign up and attend; a very strong industry engagement indeed. I love the continued collaboration between PCEA and American Standard Cir- cuits, a PCEA sponsor and host of the event, and I want to personally thank American Standard Circuits for its continued support of PCEA. I thought the two topics presented, "Next Gen Line/Space Capability for PCB Designs" and "An Overview of Via Fill—Choosing the Right Type for Your Design Application," were on point for today's complex PWB designs needs. If you were not able to attend this event, no Stephen Chavez We are asking for your help in stepping up and proactively representing your respective colleagues in our organization.