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8 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I FEBRUARY 2025 The Shaughnessy Report by Andy Shaughnessy, I-CONNECT007 Back to the Future It's no big secret: ere's a shortage of PCB designers and design engineers, and we don't have enough of a pipeline to fill these seats. To top it off, the last batch of designers from the Baby Boomer generation is approaching retirement. Young people should be lining up to become PCB designers. Designers can have a lucrative career while working on the latest technology for products that fit on your wrist, go to Mars, or go really fast one way and never come back. But we have to do a better job of marketing this as a career to high schools and colleges if we want to see a steady stream of future designers. is is probably the most fun time to be a PCB designer. With innovations like AI com- ing online, changes will be coming fast and furiously, both for the products and the EDA tools themselves. Duncan Haldane's EDA company JITX was a big hit at DesignCon