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Better Performance and Enhanced Reliability in the Automotive Electronics industry

Better Performance and Enhanced Reliability in the Automotive Electronics industry In this episode, we will learn so much about automotive electronics and the reliability of electronics systems that goes in the vehicle. Our guest Lenora Clark shares the importance of material choices for your PCB can affect the reliability and performance of your vehicle’s system design. Read Article

How to Select the Best Surface Finish for your PCB

How to Select the Best Surface Finish for your PCB Dr, Kunal generously gives us all a crash course on surface finishes and understanding different types of materials that could affect signal integrity, reliability and electronic shelf life. Read Article

The Promising and Challenging Future of 3D Printed Electronics

The Promising and Challenging Future of 3D Printed Electronics The business development manager of J.A.M.E.S., Alexandre Schafer talks about the organization’s vision to push the Additively Manufactured Electronic technology to become more accessible to the industry. Read Article

Roughness of Copper and its Effect on Signal Integrity

Roughness of Copper and its Effect on Signal Integrity Bert Simonovich, a very well-known expert in the signal integrity community, is our guest in today’s podcast episode. He developed the "Cannonball-Huray" model a transmission line loss modeling, which has been adopted in several popular EDA tools. Read Article

Design Predictable PCBs through Simberian's SIMBEOR® Electromagnetic Signal Integrity Software

Design Predictable PCBs through SIMBEOR® Electromagnetic Analysis In this episode, the founder of Simberian will demonstrate Simbeor’s simulation capabilities and briefly educate us on rise times, signal integrity, and solving EMI. Watch how an electromagnetic analyzer can be a lifesaver to a PCB designer like you. Read Article

10-Ounce Copper PCBs and Design Library Migration

10-Ounce Copper PCBs and Design Library Migration Today’s guest is Mario Strano, the senior PCB designer at Nikola and also president of ECAD Central. We will discuss interesting topics such as designing a 10-ounce PCB, setting up clearance and creepage rules, library migration, and a 57-ounce copper board; yes, you heard that right! Read Article

PCB Design Education Through Content Creation

PCB Design Education Through Content Creation Phil Salmony, a successful youtube creator with 64.6K subscribers, shares with us how he was introduced to PCB design, his early career, and what got him to start his own Youtube channel. Watch this podcast episode and check out the additional resources below. Read Article

IPC CEO John Mitchell on the Supporting American Printed Circuit Boards Act

IPC CEO John Mitchell on the Supporting American Printed Circuit Boards Act Supply chain security and having access to trusted manufacturers in the US would be an ideal outcome of the Printed Circuit Board Act. John Mitchell talks about the role of the IPC in influencing the creation of laws relating to the electronics industry. Watch this podcast episode now or listen on the go. Read Article

The Electronics Behind a Haunting Attraction

The Electronics Behind a Haunting Attraction In this episode, a returning guest Gabriel Goldstein shares the electronics behind the thrills in escape rooms. He also generously gives some valuable advice on finding your niche and starting your own business in the electronics industry. Watch and learn from this episode. Read Article

Occam Process: Assembly without Solder

Occam Process: Assembly without Solder Have you heard of assembly without solder? In this episode, Joseph (Joe) Fjelstad founder and president of Verdant Electronics talks about the Occam process – a solderless assembly for electronics. Read Article

Resilient, Robust and Trusted Supply Chain

The Benefits of Diversifying PCB Industry Supply Chain To develop a resilient ecosystem, understanding the root cause of the PCB industry supply chain shortages is a must. Listen to Travis Kelly and Zach’s insightful conversation about PCB supply chain shortages. Read Article

Accessible Trustworthy Data for PCB Designers

Easily Find Electronic Components for Your Next PCB Design Dan Schoenfelder joins us today to discuss the most extreme problems the PCB design industry faces: supply shortages, particularly the semi-conductor products and microcontrollers. Read Article

Making Codes Tangible Through Electronic Projects

Making Codes Tangible Through Electronic Projects In this episode, Bill Kolicoski, the creator of Taste the Code Youtube channel, inspires young electronic designers to start learning through creating. Read Article

Landing a Full-Time Engineering Career at NASA

Landing a Full-Time Engineering Career at NASA Andrew Hartnett dreamt of working with NASA at a very young age. He will share with us exactly how he landed his Computer Engineer position in this very sought-after agency. Watch this episode, or listen on the go! Read Article

The Exciting Path to Mechatronics Engineering

The Exciting Path to Mechatronics Engineering Fergus Downey, Ph.D. student and research assistant at Curtin University in Western Australia (WA), is joining us in this episode and sharing his journey to becoming a Mechatronic Engineer. This will be a fun episode! Fergus will discuss his involvement with the Binar Space Program and give us an overview of CubeSat Read Article

Hands-on Learning for PCB Design Students

Hands-on Learning for PCB Design Students with Sid Deliwala Our guest Sid Deliwala is the Director of Lab Programs in the Electrical and Systems Engineering Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Sid will share how he makes Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) fun and meaningful for our future innovators. Read Article

Data Security, 5G and Onshore PCB Manufacturing with Dr. Rob Spalding

Data Security, 5G and Onshore PCB Manufacturing with Dr. Rob Spalding In this episode, we are very pleased to have Dr. Rob Spalding. He is a retired Brigade General at the US Air Force and now the CEO of SEMPRE (Secure EMP-Resistant Edge), a tech company based in Washinton DC that provides military-grade 5G and high-performance edge computing infrastructure for telecom operators, first responders, government, and enterprise customers. Today, Rob and I will talk about all things security! Rob will tackle the Read Article