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64 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I JANUARY 2022 riculum. And we have Dale Lee from Plexus, who will talk about accessibility and manu- facturability. We will also have speakers focusing just on the DFX standard. What is it, and why should you care if you're working at the front desk or on the line? On ursday, we will highlight STEM through the IPC Education Foundation, which is hosting a show floor tour for high school students as part of the STEM program. ere will be a pit stop on the tour for a 10-minute presentation on design. We want to get high school students excited about PCB design. e plan is to have them coming through ursday morning, and a little bit in the aernoon. I want to note this is an open invite. Anyone on the floor can come by and meet the stu- dents. Bump their elbows, talk to them, and get them excited. In the process, you'll get excited knowing that these are the future engineers. Shaughnessy: e AMA sounds really good. ey always get people excited on Reddit. Crawford: Absolutely. We'll have people ask- ing questions over all of IPC's social media on the Monday and Tuesday before the AMA, and attendees can drop questions in a box, so it'll be fun. Hopefully, we'll get some good back and forth discussion. Shaughnessy: What else has been going on with IPC Design? Crawford: We're moving forward. We want to re-strategize what we want to do with design and how we can best serve the design indus- try. We're looking at how we can better the industry through our PCB design courses, and how we are going to work with industry through that education branch in general. But as we move into the next year, and into the next three or four years, we really want to shi focus to these deliverables and opportunities for designers. Shaughnessy: Right. I noticed that IPC offered online military and aerospace design classes during the fall. You had a few classes going on this fall. Crawford: Yes, and I've taken a couple of them. I took Intro to PCB Design 1 and 2 when they were first running a couple of years ago. ere are a few more now, such as the PCB design for military and aerospace applications. As you might expect, that addresses design challenges such as temperature ranges, high altitude, and more. We also offer classes on PCB design for HDI and advanced packaging, design for rigid-flex, embedded components, and more. Most attendees I've talked to who have taken these courses say that they have learned fast when they were taking them, and these are skills they can immediately translate into their jobs. I am so grateful for the steering commit- tee which is putting the design competition together. ere's so much going on at IPC Design. We will have so much to share in the next year or so, but we will also need your help and we need volunteers. e best thing you can do is to help out. It's a lot of work, but it's also a lot of fun. at is my call to action. If you're interested in volunteering your time, please email me at design@ipc.org. Shaughnessy: I am curious about where we can access the design reference guide that you mentioned. Is that in the PDF format? I'd like to see that, and I know designers would too. Crawford: It will be available through our store, starting, hopefully, in February. Shaughnessy: Well, it's been great talking with you, Patrick. I'll see you at the show. Crawford: Nice talking with you, Andy. ank you. DESIGN007