Chapter Reports

RTP Chapter

The RTP Chapter membership stands at 43 members, 18 of those holding CID credentials and 6 of those are CID+. Congratulations to all our members who have shown a commitment to continuing their education and enhancing their professional standing.  

Our latest chapter meeting was held on May 17 at the Cisco Systems facility in RTP. The meeting was attended by 34 industry professionals. The topic was mechanical/electrical CAD interfaces using the Intermediate Data Format (IDF) presented by Glenn Torrance and Peter Cerbone of Cisco Systems. The meeting and dinner were sponsored by Cisco Systems. Many thanks to Cisco for their support of the RTP chapter.

The RTP chapter now begins it’s customary summer meeting break, but this year members will be meeting to work on the PCB Design Conference East 2006 scheduled to be held September 25 – 29 at the Marriott Durham Civic Center in Durham, NC. Check out the UP Media Group website at http://www.pcbeast.com/ for more information on the show.

Report submitted by S. Trasatto, RTP Chapter Secretary
June 14, 2006

PNW Chapter

On June 14 we held our bi-monthly board meeting.   During this meeting, along with our regular business and reporting, we continued to solidify our calendar for the upcoming year, and started discussing topics for next year’s meetings.  If you would like to be involved in future planning, please feel free to join the next board meeting!  The next one will be August 9 and will be a BBQ at Barbara Hill’s house in Beaverton. To attend, RSVP via our website.

Our next general meeting will be held at Tektronix in Beaverton on Tuesday, July 18, from 11:30am to 1:30pm.  Gil White from DDI will be presenting “Impedance Design Considerations”. A big thank you to DDI for sponsoring this educational opportunity – and lunch!  To RSVP, please visit our website http://dcchapters.ipc.org/pnw. 

The PNW Chapter is interested in assembling a Advanced PCB Designers Certification Workshop (C.I.D.+) scheduled for sometime in the 4th quarter of 2006. For more information contact Ruth Delker at radservices24@aol.com.

For up-to-date information, to sign up for any event, and to view details for our current and future events, please visit our website at http://dcchapters.ipc.org/pnw. We look forward to serving our members!