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82 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I SEPTEMBER 2022 Shaughnessy: I've been trying to find a speaker with a lot of experience in PEC, a Rick Hartley or Lee Ritchey in this segment. ere doesn't seem to be a lot of PEC instructors. Where would you tell somebody new to PEC to find resources: classes, books, websites, etc.? Bianchi: Well, three of us at least are on the printed electronics committee for the PRINT- ING United Alliance, which is the printed electronics and industrial applications group. is is an association that can certainly direct OEMs and engineers to the right resources for our niche. Wagner: ere are a handful of colleges that have integrated printed electronics into their curriculum. Western Michigan has the Cen- ter for the Advancement of Printed Electron- ics. I've been there and seen their curriculum. ey're teaching people how to make screens for printing conductive inks, studying how gravure works, and how flex works with con- ductive ink. ey have the equipment. ey're doing research projects for the government and corporations. ere are some people in the industry that have graduated from that program who are working in printed electron- ics. ere are others, like Cal Poly, Clemson, and maybe Georgia Tech. Bianchi: And at UMass-Lowell there's the Printed Electronics Research Collaboration. Miller: Not only do they have printed electron- ics, but they have a plastics degree as well. ey put them together on different types of products. We've been in contact with them. Bianchi: I think Kevin and Insulectro probably have done the best merge on those PCB manu- facturing and printed electronics manufactur- ing. When Insulectro first started promoting, I said, "Who is Insulectro?" ey were so heav- ily PCB-based but now, they're a staple in the printed electronics world. DESIGN007 Stay tuned for Part 3 in the October issue of Design007 Magazine. Tom Bianchi Mike Wagner