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REAL TIME WITH... IPC APEX EXPO 2020 SHOW & TELL MAGAZINE I I-CONNECT007 93 you also look at it from the perspective of when the person put it together. Maybe there were some things that they overlooked that are now causing these types of defects in the man- ufacturing line. I don't have much to do with design other than inputting data and visualiz- ing it, but I have to deal with it to understand where that individual was coming from, what they did, and how they routed things out. It always has an effect because it's all about ther- mal mass, which will affect your assembly. I stayed on that track and then did interme- tallic formation as it pertains to the reliability of solder joints. Some of it was hard to grasp. I got the gist of it, but it was more of a deep dive than I was anticipating. At Zentech, we're 80% concentrated in milaero, which is Class 3 and high-reliability, so those things really mat- ter when we're processing. Matties: Where is your career path headed? Vaughan: I have a variety of experiences. I've been in the industry 10 years and in manufac- turing engineering three years. I've done some direct customer program management. I've done some manufacturer representative sales, too. On the path that I'm going, with adding in the manufacturing engineering and the roll- out of the smart factory, there's a talent gap from the demographic that's aging out of the industry. That's a big reason for the IPC STEM Student Outreach Program and the Emerging Engineering Program. My career is going to mold all that together into a technical process role, perhaps, or some- thing where you interface with your customer base, instead of having a liaison like a program manager. It may be all-encompassing, such as technical application. There are so many differ- ent titles out there that mean the same thing— it's semantics—but I'm thinking something in that area.