Dates
Feb 5, 2024 – Feb 29, 2024
4 Weeks
Class Days
Mondays and Thursdays
Meeting Times
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
12 Hours
Course Description
12 hour hands-on course providing a practical understanding to approach and complete the design, fabrication, and component selection of a printed circuit board (PCB). Students will develop their own PCB using KiCad, a feature rich open-source PCB design suite.
Please Note: There will not be class on Monday, 2/19 in observance of President’s Day. That class will be held on Tues 2/20.
Course Perquisites
No Prior Hardware Experience Required
Target Audience
DoD, Government or Government Affiliated employees only. Must register with your organizational email and will be notified within one week of course acceptance.
Registration
Registration is open!
Shane Smith
Course Instructor
Dr. Shane Smith (Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University) is a Research Scientist at the Ohio State University ElectroscienceLab and President and co-founder of SenseICs Corporation. Shane has worked for more than 20 years designing, producing, and maintaining electronic systems used in integrated circuit research, high energy physics experiments (CERN, Stanford linear accelerator, etc.), and other applications. Shane’s broad expertise covers a range of electrical engineering activities including the design and development of radiation hard mixed signal ASICs, FPGA based data acquisition systems, medical imaging electronics, chemical vapor deposition diamond detectors, and high voltage power supply systems. Additionally, his academic publications, which include more than 80 peer-reviewed conference papers and journal articles, have been cited more than 20,000 times.