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IPC Designer's Council Certification Program Reaches Milestone
September 9, 2003 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
Northbrook, Ill. — The IPC Designers Council has now granted more than 2,000 printed circuit board (PCB) designers Certified Interconnect Designer (CID) designation through its PCB Designer Certification Program.
Founded in 1995 and launched the subsequent year, the CID certification program assesses a designer's knowledge of how to transform a schematic into a reliable rigid PCB design that can be easily manufactured, assembled and tested. The certification tests are based on several critical IPC documents that link design principles to the end product use of the printed wiring assembly.
In 1998, the program saw dramatic gains in participation after the IPC Designers Council incorporated two-day Designer Certification Preparation workshops into the certification program to provide in-depth educational preparation of the principles contained in the examination. Training centers now exist in the U.S., United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and the Netherlands.
The IPC Designers Council has also developed an Advanced PCB Designer Preparation Workshop and Examination Program to continually educate CID designers on the industry's ever-evolving technologies. Participants who successfully complete the advanced module, which covers 40 key objectives beyond the CID program, are awarded the CID+ designation. To date, 154 designers have gained CID+ accreditation.
IPC will host Designer Certification programs October 6 through 8 at the Holiday Inn Montreal Aeroport in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and November 9 through 11 at the Marriott at Research Triangle Park in Raleigh, N.C., in conjunction with its two Designers Learning Symposiums.
The IPC Designers Council is a professional society of designers forming an international network. Its mission is to promote printed board and printed board assembly design as a profession and to encourage, facilitate and promote the exchange of information and integration of new design concepts through communications, seminars, workshops and professional certification through a network of local chapters. For more information, visit dc.ipc.org.IPC is a trade association dedicated to the competitive excellence and financial success of its more than 2,200 member companies, which represent all facets of the electronic interconnection industry, including design, printed circuit board manufacturing and electronics assembly. For more information, visit www.ipc.org.