Professional Development

Courses For Industry

Review the general course outlines and background information given below, then select the course or courses that you would like to be offered at your company using this link. Tell us the date(s), locations and any additional information about your needs. We prefer a lead time of at least three weeks for planning. We will tell you if those dates are acceptable and send out a quotation for the courses.

We encourage working with you to "tune" the course to your needs, although we do charge more if we have to completely customize the course. In fact, we have offered completely customized courses for companies such as Microsoft, Nortel, Hamilton-Sundstrand, Rockwell, Boeing, U.S. Air Force, Huawei, Emerson, Medtronic, RAFAEL, Hong Kong Productivity Council, Saturn, GEC, General Dynamics, Honeywell and others. Nevertheless, we will discuss the specific needs with you once a quotation is accecpted, to help us understand your needs.

We prefer to use a computer for our presentation and ask you to provide a computer projector. However, we can present using overhead transparencies. We provide a professional set of overheads one week prior to the course. It is your responsibility to make copies for the attendees. We do own the copyright on all materials.

For planning your training course, please click here. You can also contact the calce training team led by Prof. Michael Pecht for more information.


  1. Lead-Free Readiness
  2. Physics of Failure and Reliability
  3. Accelerated Product Qualification
  4. Virtual Qualification and Reliability Assessment
  5. Prognostics and Health management
  6. Failure(Root-Cause) Analysis of Electronic Products
  7. Electronic Parts Selection and Management
  8. High Temperature Electronics
  9. Electronic Part Obsolescence Forecasting, Mitigation and Management
  10. Electronic Product and System Cost Analysis
  11. Plastic Materials for Microelectronics
  12. Uprating - Use  Of Electronic Parts Outside the Manufacturer-specified Temperature Range
  13. Optical Methods as a Tool for Microelectronics Product Development
  14. Counterfeit Electronics