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Have periodic meetings with your sponsor about the system requirements. Get them cleared up ASAP. This way you know what to shop for. Begin parts shopping for major parts in your potential PCB. Make sure these major parts serve in completing your system re...

PDR at end of month It is best to have your schematic in Altium ready to go by PDR. If you're having trouble with your Altium schematic or using the software, Ask. For. Help. Good news is since we picked Altium, an industry professional will defin...

September: Begin testing these components, either with an evaluation module or a breadboard. This early prototyping lets you check right away if a component can be used or not WARNING: The curriculum at this time strongly prioritizes paperwork. The advice I...

CDR at end of month, beginning of December Congrats for making it through PDR! Hopefully, your mentor, judges, and sponsor have given you useful feedback on your schematic and what you need to make it successful. Any feedback you feel was good you should imp...

Congrats on making it past CDR! Hopefully, the judges, sponsor, and mentor gave you some valuable feedback. Again, same spiel on implementing feedback from PDR. At this point, it's the end of the semester. Assuming you're on track as seen above. You're in goo...

Welcome back from Winter Break! Let's get our boards ordered. To assemble or not to assemble? This depends on your budget, your ability to solder, and your time. In general, assembly services from board houses are very expensive, especially if you ask for "T...

ISR at end of month Alright, boards have arrived!! We now get to test our boards It is not recommended to just power the entire board in one go. Even with all our checks and asks for help, something might still be broken or incorrect. Break up each aspect o...

FAR near end of April Hopefully, you have your second round of boards in at this time. Go through the same power-up steps as before and hopefully you don't have to do any further debugging. Ideally, you should have a working board at this point! Congrats, yo...

Regardless of if your board works out or not, it's an experience that you won't forget. You will learn a lot and have lots of transferrable skills. Even with a product that doesn't work, you can still get a good grade and have a good presentation for design d...

Overview Resouces Phil's Lab Video on How to Learn PCB Design Good video on how PCB design journeys start Altium Article on How to Learn PCB Design Altium's article on how to begin in PCB Design as a career Cadence Article on How to Learn PCB Design ...