Join us for an inspiring webinar, “A View from the Top: Succeeding as Women Engineers in Microelectronics,” where we celebrate the achievements of two remarkable women in the electronics industry, Cheah Soo Lan, Master IPC Trainer for CID/CID+ and Despina Davis, Ph.D. This event features insightful interviews with trailblazing professionals who have excelled beyond engineering roles. Additionally, our speakers will introduce new IPC online instructor-led courses, including A Technical Overview of the Semiconductor Chip Industry—perfect for those new to semiconductor topics, offering a gateway to new career opportunities and enhanced expertise. Also, discover the intricacies of Microvia Electroplating, where you’ll learn essential techniques and best practices for reliable microvia fabrication in high-density interconnects. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights and advance your career!

Join Anthony J. Bryant as he previews his August IPC Counterfeit Electronic Parts Mitigation course. The webinar reviews the key aspects of counterfeit documentation challenges focusing on the recent issues with aircraft engines and the broader High-Reliability supply chain concerns. Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the problem, as well as practical strategies and best practices for mitigating the risks. In this webinar, we’ll cover:

- Understand the scope and impact of counterfeit documentation in the aerospace industry
- Identify common tactics used by counterfeiters to create fake documentation
- Learn strategies and best practices for mitigating the risk of counterfeit documentation
- Discuss industry-wide initiatives and regulations aimed at addressing this challenge

IPC and iNEMI convened electronics industry experts in person on June 17 to discuss circularity challenges at the workshop, "There’s no end to a circle. A workshop on how to address circularity challenges in electronics manufacturing" at the Electronics Goes Green conference in Berlin. The fundamental goal of the workshop was to scope industry solutions to address pressing circularity challenges. Please join us on July 17 at 10:00 AM EDT to learn more about the results of the workshop and next steps that will lead to work by iNEMI and IPC.

Explore the world of PCB Board Fabrication and discover the journey of design artwork once it’s dispatched to the board shop. This comprehensive webinar provides insights into the process, making it a valuable resource for Electrical Engineers, PCB Layout Professionals, Supply Chain personnel, and anyone interested in PCB Board Fabrication. In this webinar, we’ll cover:

- Design and layout
- Material selection
- Drilling, imaging, and etching processes
- Plating and finishing
- Solder Mask materials and application
- Silkscreening
- Cost Drivers

This webinar will focus on circularity in electronics manufacturing, particularly on the recovery and reuse of integrated circuits (ICs).

A group of industry experts will discuss the evidence of the root causes of creep corrosion, relevant testing, and effective mitigation strategies available to prevent creep corrosion failures in electronics. Fundamentally, creep corrosion is the product of the reaction of copper with sulfur, which may be mitigated with manufacturing processes, such as the printed circuit board solder mask and surface finish, conformal coating, and enclosure levels, as well as during end use operation, such as filtration. Several types of harsh environmental test methods that are used to evaluate for product susceptibility to creep corrosion will also be reviewed.

Panelists include:
• Randy Schueller, Ph.D., Dell, Director, Client Reliability & Durability
• Christopher Genthe, Rockwell Automation, Senior Principal Engineer
• Paul Leone, Rockwell Automation, Principal Engineer

Join IPC on June 24 at 10:00 am EDT for a special virtual event, "Bold Breakthroughs: Women Reshaping the Engineering Landscape," as we celebrate International Women in Engineering Day (INWED). Our lineup of panelists features nine extraordinary women from nine different countries, each a leader in her own right within the electronics industry.

My colleague Happy Holden famously stated that only about 10% of design packages received by PCB fabricators are complete and accurate out of the gate. This means unnecessary time and cost are going into the other 90% of jobs. What it also means is that design success and product reliability are in jeopardy if these issues are not identified and addressed. 

Early engagement between a PCB fabricator and a PCB designer is essential to avoid common design issues that will impact the success of any PCB design. Getting the PCB fabricator's engineers together with the PCB designers to understand manufacturing capabilities and collaborate on the optimum design solution for a particular application is mission-critical to the success of the project. This webinar will cover: 
•    Customer service representatives are not engineers; why all technical questions cannot be addressed during the quoting stage.
•    What happens when the customer's netlist does not match the customer's Gerber/3d data.
•    Customer impedance requirements don't match the drawings/data. 
•    Picking the appropriate material set for a given design application.
•    Customized CAM adjustments for manufacturability. 
•    The impact of a PCB designer not understanding fabricator capabilities.
•    Unmanufacturable designs.
•    Inheriting designs from another PCB fabricator.
•    Overdesigning a project from a complexity and cost standpoint. 
•    Early and often engagement; it's all about time and cost.

Join experts from the U.S. State Department and the environmental law firm Beveridge and Diamond for a discussion of new and anticipated international rules governing plastics use and management in the electronics value chain.

This webinar will describe available apprenticeship funding opportunities to support your workforce development costs. We aim to demystify these funding opportunities and make them more accessible. We understand that navigating the labyrinth of government funding can be overwhelming, which is how IPC can help.