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Lee Ritchey

DesignCon Keeps Going Strong

Lee Ritchey

Electrical engineers can attend many conferences to obtain information that can help them as they advance in their careers. As a young engineer, I attended WESCON, NEPCON, ATECON, DAC, IPC, and the PCB Design Conference. I went to many very good seminars and heard many short papers. Most of these conferences are gone, and those that remain have devolved to where their educational value for advanced topics is limited or nonexistent.

One of the things I resolved to do, if I ever gained enough expertise, was to participate in these conferences as a trainer. I wanted to gave back like those who preceded me had done. I did it at some of these conferences, but then I saw them go away, leaving us with no good place for such training.

Luckily for us, DesignCon has managed to become the forum for these papers and short training sessions. As a result, I recommend the conference to students in my training classes. They always thank me for pointing them to the show.

One thing still missing is extended training classes in some of the fundamentals of high-speed design for beginning engineers and those who are continuing on in their careers. One of my goals is to foster the addition of such classes, as well as to assist in continuing the tradition of finding new papers that help engineers advance their skills.

If you have any suggestions for topics to help kick off the series, let me know in the comment section below. I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

Martin Rowe
Martin Rowe
11/28/2012 10:53:45 PM
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Re: Extended training classes
Lee Wrote:

A one or two day class on differntial pair technology.

Do you think it would need that much time or could a half day class work?

A one day class on stackup design.  I did a 2 hour intro a while back at DesignCon and had more than 150 attendees.

Showing my ignorance here, but what is "stackup design?

A two day intro to the whole subject of high speed design.
That could take a whole week

An intro to power delivery system design.

That would be popular.


Those who attend should be willing to pay a modest fee for such classes.   When we used to do them at other conferences, it was not uncommon to have as many as 100 people sign up.


Might even consider a class on EMI.

I can think of several people who could teach on that topic. Bruce Arch could certainly do it.

The presenters should be paid a modest fee for their time and knowledge.
I agree. they should be paid


I think this would work very well.  There is plenty of room at the convention center to hold such classes.

Definitely something to bring up for 2014. Thanks for your input.


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Lee Ritchey
Lee Ritchey
11/28/2012 6:34:12 PM
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Re: Extended training classes
I am very tardy in responding to these questions.  I suppose I could claim I have een bbusy, but, then, so have all the other participants.

 

As to what kinds of classes might go well with DesignCon, we have a number of people who have tutorials on a variety of subjects that are i ndemand by new engineers as well as those who want to advance their skills.  Among them are:

 

A one or two day class on differntial pair technology.

A one day class on stackup design.  I did a 2 hour intro a while back at DesignCon and had more than 150 attendees.

A two day intro to the whole subject of high speed design.

An intro to power delivery system design.

Those who attend should be willing to pay a modest fee for such classes.   When we used to do them at other conferences, it was not uncommon to have as many as 100 people sign up.

Might even consider a class on EMI.

The presenters should be paid a modest fee for their time and knowledge.

I think this would work very well.  There is plenty of room at the convention center to hold such classes.

 

 

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Martin Rowe
Martin Rowe
10/25/2012 8:38:58 PM
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Extended training classes
Lee,

What topics should be covered in such classes? Perhaps a "fundamentals on SI and PI" might bring in new people to DesignCon.

What other topics belond in long sessions?

Then, we'd have to figure out when to hold such classes. Some conferences hold day-long classes on Monday or Friday, with technical session in between.

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Katie Stern
Katie Stern
10/25/2012 4:48:13 PM
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Lucky us!
Luckily for DesignCon, it has a group dedicated individuals such as yourself, that have DesignCon's best interests at heart! Continuously proposing new ideas to present quality content and training to our community is clearly what keeps the conference strong and relevent. The combination of all of these things has set this event apart from the others, allowing it to thrive. We've not yet reached the 2013 show, and I'm already excited about planning for 2014! Thanks for your many contributions to date Lee!

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