A two-day hands-on workshop where students design, etch and solder their own printed circuit board, from schematic capture to the finished board.
This workshop gives Electronics students practical experience of the full PCB workflow: capturing a schematic, converting it to a board layout, and then making the physical board. Students work on a simple circuit such as a portable bench-top variable power supply, an LDR based automatic night LED or a 555 based LED flasher.
Workshop benefits
Practical, hands-on experience for Electronics students
Turns theoretical knowledge into practical application
Know-how of the PCB manufacturing process
Curriculum
Session I: Introduction to Printed Circuit Boards
About PCBs
PCB fabrication process
Importance of PCB design
Types of PCBs
Multi-layer PCBs
Materials used for PCBs
Session II: Introduction to CAD Tools
Overview of CAD tools
Generic tools
Session III: Introduction to PCB Design Software
Schematic capture
Schematic to PCB conversion
Session IV: Training on Schematic Capture
Creating a new project
Component manager
Placing and wiring components
Labelling the nets
DRC check and fixing errors
Session V: Schematic to PCB Conversion
Design rules and layers
Defining the board size
Auto routing and interactive routing
Selecting footprints
Manipulating tracks and pads
Preparing the silk screen
Day 2, Session VII: PCB Making Process
Handling of chemicals
Film and film transfer
Transferring the circuit onto copper clad
Drying, etching and cleaning
Drilling
Soldering
Session VIII: Review, Evaluation and Q&A
Final output check
Interactive session and Q&A
Closure
What's included
Training by our engineers
A take-away product built by the students
Certificate of hands-on experience for every participant
What the institution provides
A hall that can accommodate all enrolled students
LCD projector and PA system
A PC with interface to the projector
A laboratory with enough work benches for the students
Gallery
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