All,

It is with appreciation we are writing this letter to express our gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the designers in the electronics industry through our affiliation with the IPC Designers Council. Many of us have contributed a significant amount of our careers to the betterment of our industry with this involvement. We have done so with the attitude of an educator with a servant’s heart. Through all the decades of this effort, we have encountered success and challenges. We have no regrets in looking back at our efforts.

We are also writing to convey our acceptance that we have been summarily dissolved effective immediately, at the request of senior management at IPC. We have respectfully ceased all actions in relation to our efforts as an IPC Board. We will make all efforts to continue to represent IPC in a professional and positive manner, as professionals serving in our industry. Many of us continue to serve the IPC community in other capacities and plan to do so with excellence.

With our determination to continue to be involved in the electronics industry, we are informing IPC of the intentions of the Legacy Board Members, along with many others in the engineering/design community, to continue to serve the design professional. We have determined to form a new entity called the Printed Circuit Engineering Association (PCEA). In this new organization, we seek to be strong advocates of IPC and all their efforts to better the electronics industry. We will encourage all we encounter to embrace the IPC standards, along with other organizations and standards bodies in the electronics community.

It is our goal and hope to have a professional, cooperative relationship. We truly wish IPC continued success and seek to be professional advocates.

Respectfully (alphabetic order),