APTE

Since 2009 APTE promoted the entrepreneurial culture in more than 60 locations (mainly vocational schools and technical universities), with participants from all over the country, also offering  training, technical and technological support for enterprises (more than 100, 27 being partners in ELINCLUS CLUSTER)) and employees (over 4000), to enhance adaptability, entrepreneurship.  As a result we have a data base of over 12500 participants: students, specialist, entrepreneurs, managers, in electronics industry. Apte is also the management unit for ELINCLUS - ELectronic INnovation CLUSter (www.elinclus.ro)  assiting members with national and international  networking; politics, strategies, programs and advocacy; courses, seminars, professional meetings, social events; matchmaking; APTE organizes since 1995 the international symposium SIITME (www.siitme.ro) – The International Symposium for Design and Technology of Electronic Packages and a professional student contest TIE (www.tie.ro/2012)- Interconnection Techniques in Electronics (since 1992). 

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The mSysTech project is based on the positive results and experiences in two European pilot projects: Leonardo da Vinci project "Internet-based Performance Centred Instruction - the Link between Work and Education" (IPCI) and Socrates/Minerva "On-line Learning Mathematics and Sciences" (OnLine Math&Sciences).

Within the IPCI project a complete set of courses covering microelectronics design, technology and packaging were developed. There are not many frameworks that unify these subjects in an attractive way. This became possible thanks to the financing of the Leonardo da Vinci programme on European level and the transnational work. The different courses have been developed by the experts who are (ones of) the best in the corresponding specialisation in Europe, e.g. University of Twente, the Netherlands - in technology, BUTE, Hungary - in packaging, CIME Nanotech, France - in microsystems and analogue systems design. The performance centred approach has been proven to be more effective than the traditional lecture-practice-test (expository inductive) in training higher order skills, for preparing learners for self-learning, improving, adapting for changing tasks, jobs.

In mSysTech the performance-centred job-linked training approach will be used also and the selected content from the courses of IPCI will by adapted and up-dated for the needs of Romanian and Bulgarian electronic sector and education. The new learning materials on the microsystem technology and the evolution of nanosystems during the last three years (after the end of IPCI) will be developed and used by all partners in the project, as well by the partners from the IPCI project who are not in the mSysTech partnership.

Within OnLineMath&Sciences a learning platform for stand-alone learning, simulations, group-working at a distance and Scenari - software for multimedia course development was created, full courses in mathematics, physics and chemistry for the first two years of university education were designed and implemented in the regular curricula. In the mSysTech project we will select the Java applets for simulation of selected content, Scenari for the design of new multimedia materials in microsystem technology.

Every year the best PCB CAD designer students from the area of the Central European Hu&Ro IEEE-CPMT Chapter get together to match their skills against each other, as well as, with the rapidly developing computer aided design techniques.

The innovative Electronics Interconnection Technology Design (TIE) one day hands-on real-time competition is really an unrivalled Component Packaging and Manufacturing Technology event in Europe, the best for undergraduates in electronics. The event comprises a day of workshops and another day of competition in the organization of CETTI of Politehnica University of Bucharest, the IEEE-CPMT Romanian Student Branch and the Hu&Ro Chapters, as well as, lots of sponsors who are interested in skilled designers for the European industry.

The workshops include lectures and discussions by professionals with the intention to give students insight into the practicalities of the outside world. Not only the competitors but other industrial engineers, scientists and professors attend the workshops.

On the second day the workshops are followed by the excellent student competition. Each undergraduate student competitor has to carry out a circuit design and layout project within four hours, under high time pressure. The design requirements are defined to the student competitors just before the competition begins. Each student is provided with a computer with a suite of design software and a high definition color screen. The students are required to develop a parts library, create component footprints, create a schematic and complete a layout. The adjudication is by small teams of experienced CAD designers plus anyone else who wishes to intervene, thus having a fully transparent process.

Some 50 students (both female and male) participate in the competition and year by year they display impressive skills. The prizes to the top three are financial scholarships to support their ongoing education. All the funds are received from sponsors. IEEE-CPMT offers free student membership for the winner.

The 20th TIE will be the third opportunity for a Hungarian group of students and me to attend this unique event. In the first occasion, the 28th TIE 2009 was organized in Galati, Romania, where - in addition to the interesting workshops and the exciting competition - we enjoyed the warm hospitality of the professors and students of the Universitatea Dunarea de Jos, as well as, the nice panorama of the city along the bank of the unthinkably wide Danube. Last year, in 2010, it was our pleasure to visit the beautiful cultural capital of Transylvania, where our old friends, the team of Professor Dan Pitica from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca hosted the competition. The most popular for ever competition was completed by an interesting excursion to the exceptional salt mine of Turda.

This year we are looking forward to participating in the jubilee 20th anniversary competition of TIE in Bucharest and to meeting our best friends and colleagues from CETTI of Politehnica University of Bucharest, headed by Professor Paul Svasta, the ever enthusiastic researcher and educator in the field of electronics design and packaging technology.

Zsolt Illyefalvi-Vitéz
dr.techn (BME), CSc/PhD (MTA/BME), DHC (UPB)
Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)
Department of Electronics Technology (ETT)
Goldman t. 3, Budapest, Hungary, 1111
E-mail: illye@ett.bme.hu Tel: +36 1 463 2753 Fax: +36 1 463-4118 www.ett.bme.hu

Oferta de cursuri certificate IPC / SUA sustinute prin APTE (Asociatia pentru Promovarea Tehnologiei Electronice – www.apte.org.ro ) in cadrul CETTI-ITA (Incubatorul Tehnologic si de Afaceri  din Universitatea Politehnica din Bucuresti, Centrul de Electronica Tehnologica si Tehnici de Interconectare UPB-CETTI, www.cetti.ro, www.cetti.ro/ita).

Pentru membri APTE, persone fizice sau juridice se acorda:
       -  Reduceri pentru taxa de participare la cursurile promovate de asociatie;
       -  Publicitate gratuita in cadrul concursului TIE si conferintei SIITME;
       -  Reduceri pentru tarifele de consultanta tehnico-economica si suport tehnologic oferit prin incubatorul CETTI-ITA;
       -  Reduceri privin costurile de participare si/sau publicitate la Saloanele Regionale respectiv Salonul National al Cercetarii.

Calitatea de membru APTE se obtine prin depunerea in acest sens a unei cereri pe adresa de mail: apte@apte.org.ro si presupune o taxa de membru platibila in doua transe, in valoare de:
       -   5Lei/luna (60Lei/an) pentru persone fizice;
       -   50Lei/luna (600Lei)an pentru personae Juridice.

Pentru mai multe detalii descarcati oferta.

Prof. Dr. Eng. Paul Svasta

The Association for Promoting Electronics Technology has currently 88 members. APTE was founded in 2002, by the Center for Technological Electronics and Interconnection Techniques, UPB-CETTI, and highly respected members of electronics industry, to sustain the electronics packaging education, in a climate of trust, ethics and social responsibility. A globally-competitive work force with theoretical, as well as hands-on, education must be trained. In addition to the areas of science, engineering, microelectronics and packaging, this training must encompass the broader areas of business, economics, ethics, foreign culture and languages. Our vision is to support developments on both these fronts which will benefit the microelectronics industry today and in the future.

The Association for Promoting Electronics Technology has currently 88 members. APTE was founded in 2002, by the Center for Technological Electronics and Interconnection Techniques, UPB-CETTI, and highly respected members of electronics industry, to sustain the electronics packaging education, in a climate of trust, ethics and social responsibility. In addition to the areas of science, engineering, microelectronics and packaging, the training encompass the broader areas of business, economics. APTE offers annually a comprehensive set of short courses on electronic packaging technologies, standards training and certification, management, industrial organization, designed to serve the needs of electronic industry. Apte is organizing and sponsoring annually International Symposium for Design and Technology of Electronic Packages and TIE Students Professional Contest.