Lauren Waslick and Kristen Aguiar discuss mentorship, visibility and the career few people know exists.

One of the PCB design community’s greatest talents is hiding in plain sight.

Ask a room full of high school students what they want to be when they grow up and you'll hear doctor, lawyer, engineer, teacher, maybe even influencer if we're being honest. In my own case, I wanted to be a writer. I simply failed to anticipate that the characters would be engineers.

A stencil aperture modification eliminated pogo pin tilt during reflow, maintaining alignment within customer specifications.

Pogo pins are specialized, spring-loaded electrical connectors used to establish reliable temporary or permanent connections between electronic circuits. Comprised of a plunger, barrel and spring, they provide consistent contact force – typically around 1 Newton –ensuring stability against vibration and accommodating thermal expansion in compact devices.

Moving from personal AI habits to standardized workflows can help manufacturing teams save time, improve consistency and scale practical AI use across operations.

It's 6:47 a.m., and Robert is doing what he does every morning before the production standup. He opens his AI chat, pastes in last night's shift handoff notes and types the same prompt he's typed every day for three weeks: "Summarize these production notes. Flag anything that needs immediate attention. Prioritize by customer impact."