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The PCB Design Conferences are currently accepting course abstracts for all upcoming conferences. If you are interested in teaching a technical course, please submit your proposed topic, using the following guidelines and via the following online form. For further information, please contact Conference Chair Ronda Faries at rfaries@up-mediagroup.com.

The PCB Design Conferences have established a reputation for the high quality of the technical courses offered at each show. Speakers are selected on the strength of their abstracts and qualifications, with practicing designers, engineers, and engineering managers given priority. Marketing-oriented presentations or presentations focusing on features of proprietary products will not be accepted.

Topics should fit into one of four conference tracks:

Signal Integrity (e.g., SI, EMI and high-speed issues)
Advanced Technologies (e.g., microvias, chip-scale packaging, flex, FPGAs, BGAs)
Design Basics (e.g., routing strategies, placement, layer stackup, dimensioning and tolerancing)
DFM and DFT (e.g., fabrication, assembly and test issues, data exchange, standards)

Each course should be structured to fit one of the following:

a 2-hour workshop
a 3.5-hour (half day) seminar
a full-day tutorial
a two-day course for the special Design Excellence Certificate Curriculum

Suggestions:
In additional to utilizing traditional college-style lecturing skills, offer special tips, tricks, and techniques that you have learned in your career as a PCB designer/engineer/manager. Sharing practical applications along with theory will make your talk more valuable. Sessions on novel and unique applications of products and tools are good, but ownership or purchase should not be necessary to benefit from the class.

Submission Review:
All submissions will be reviewed by a penel of experts in the topic of interest. East submitter will be contacted following the submission deadline with the results of the review. All speakers whose abstracts are selected are required to sign a speaker agreement, provide a paper to be published in the conference proceeedings, grant premission for the publication of the paper in the conference proceedings, and grant permission for his/her name, biography and photo to be used in the conference brochure and other show promotions.

Honorarium:
An honorarium is customary for speakers who are not employed by exhibiting companies. Exhibitors may propose courses and speak but will not receive an honorarium. The honorarium amount is based on course length.

Submission Requirements

Each abstract submission MUST contain the following elements:

1. Please indicate the conference to which you are submitting an abstract.

PCB Design Conference West
March 24-28, 2003
Santa Clara, CA
DEADLINE: September 1, 2002

2. Proposed course title:

3. Abstract
Approximately 150-300 words outlining your proposed session.
Each abstract should be written so that it is suitable for publication. Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference catalog

4. Suggested Track:
Signal Integrity
Advanced Technologies
Design Basics
DFM/DFT

5. Prerequisites
Please include information regarding what knowledge or past experience is necessary for the attendee to get the most out of the session.

6. Biography
Approximately 75 words on your professional background, education, or other information indicating your qualifications as a presenter of the proposed topic. Biographies of accepted speakers will be published in the conference catalog.

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For more information on PCB Design Conference course or speaking opportunities, contact Conference Chair Ronda Faries at rfaries@up-mediagroup.com.