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DECEMBER 2022 I SMT007 MAGAZINE 23 IPC-A-610 and J-STD-001. ose are four very popular industry documents. Of course, there are design documents being worked on, and we have the greener cleaners document, IPC- 1402, that was released recently. ere's a lot of change coming up for our industry; in terms of standards, IPC APEX EXPO will be an oppor- tunity to see what's out for review of the new revisions. I want to mention, the IPC/WHMA-A-620 task group will not only be having a party, but they have started on the next revision, due out in 2025. at team already has a series of ques- tions and comments to work on and will be meeting for a whole day to keep moving for- ward. Johnson: When do committee meetings start and end? What's the period in which they run? Rowe: ey run all day Saturday, Jan. 21, through ursday, Jan. 26. In many cases we have as many as a dozen meetings happening at one time. To make everything fit, IPC stan- dards committee staff and volunteers are some- times concurrently running meetings. To be more sequential, standards commit- tee meetings would otherwise need a month or two and does anybody have time for that kind of commitment? e tradeoff is that we run concurrently for a week. It's very busy, but it works. Barry Matties: I'm curious about the Emerging Engineer program and their participation in the standards committee work. What are you seeing as far as participation and are you inte- grating them in by design? Rowe: e Emerging Engineer program has been an exciting and refreshing opportunity for us. Many of our emerging engineers, who have either finished the three-year program or they're somewhere in the second half of their three-year program, have started to take on leadership roles. We have leaders who have been in task group leadership roles for a while; they're stepping aside, and emerging engineers are taking those roles. ey are bringing fresh ideas, and energy in some cases, to projects that we've been working on. ey not only come to the pro- gram to learn, but to be mentored. e mentors are those who have been in standards develop- ment for years and they guide the young engi- neers through the process of taking on those leadership roles so that they can become fully engaged in their IPC contributions. Johnson: Any surprises? Rowe: For many years, IPC has given commit- tee service and leadership awards. We wanted to look at having our standards development people help with the recognition of those who have done their best with their contributions. is year, we are introducing a new awards program with two key awards. Everyone on a task group will receive a certificate that says they've participated in that revision activity when that revision or that document is finished. Going forward, anyone who worked on those committee projects for the previous year can be nominated for two new awards. One is the Committee Leader of the Year and the other one is the Committee Member of the Year. ese awards have names, but we will not be revealing the names until the show. e nomination period for the 2023 awards is now closed and our nominations selection commit- tee will be providing their recommendations for the winners of those two awards. When people realize who the awards them- selves are named aer, and see how they're pre- sented, I think they will understand that we have really changed this up. is is exciting for us. Matties: ank you so much, Teresa. Rowe: You're welcome. I'm always happy to talk about standards. SMT007