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• Demonstrates knowledge, experience, and competency.
• Encourages self-development and continuing education.
• A check mark in the "plus" column in performance reviews, career advancement, and new employment opportunities.

• Helps raise the overall competency level of the entire ESD control field.
• Provides a means to assess the qualifications of personnel hired to work in static control.
• Helps assure that the industry has properly trained and qualified personnel helping solve ESD control problems.
• Helps prepare companies for ISO 9000 audits if professional certification is part of a company's formal program.
• Improves seller-buyer relationships through better communication with fewer misunderstandings.

• Begin official file with ESD Association Headquarters (see registration information below)
• Complete pre-requisite courses
• Pass an in-depth examination
• Maintain certification with continuing education

The following courses are offered every year at Symposium and at other times throughout the year. If an attendee completed these courses in 2004 or after, they may be applied to the Device Design Certification.

The courses are listed in the preferred tutorial sequence for the Device Design Curriculum. 

• ESD On-Chip Protection in Advanced Technologies (full-day)
• SPICE-Based ESD Protection Design Utilizing Diodes and Active MOSFET Rail Clamp Circuits (half-day)
• EOS/ESD Failure Models and Mechanisms (half-day)
• On-Chip ESD Protection in RF Technologies (half-day)
• Charged Device Model Phenomena and Design (quarter-day)
• Latch-up Physics and Design (quarter-day)
• Circuit Modeling and Simulation for On-Chip Protection (quarter-day)
• Troubleshooting On-Chip ESD Failures (half-day)
• Device Testing--IC Component Level: HBM, CDM, MM, and TLP (half-day)
• Impact of Technology Scaling on ESD High Current Phenomena and Implications for Robust ESD Design (half-day)
• Transmission Line Pulse Measurements: Parametric Analyzer for ESD On-Chip Protection (quarter-day)
• System Level ESD/EMI: Testing to IEC and other Standards (half-day)

• ESD On-Chip Protection in Advanced Technologies

• SPICE-Based ESD Protection Design Utilizing Diodes and Active MOSFET Rail Clamp Circuits

• EOS/ESD Failure Models and Mechanisms

• Charged Device Model Phenomena and Design

The ESD Association is offering the second ESD Certified Professional-Device Design certification exam in conjunction with our annual symposium, on Friday, October 8, 2010. To take this exam, an official registration filing fee of $50.00 and a registration form must be completed and submitted to ESDA Headquarters. You must have taken all of the required courses (unless you qualify for the iNARTE certified exemption below) and have your eligibility verified by the ESDA.

PLEASE NOTE: An exam fee of $60 will be applicable and must be paid on-site.

The ESDA is offering iNARTE certified ESD engineers the opportunity to take the ESD Certified Professional Device Design exam without having to take all of the required courses. Simply show your current iNARTE card, pay the exam fee and take the exam. Please note that the Device Design exam does cover additional areas and may be more difficult than the iNARTE exam.

To obtain certification, you must initiate an official file in your name at the ESD Association Headquarters, please complete the PDF registration form and send it with a $50 payment to:

ESD Association
7900 Turin Road, Bldg 3
Rome, NY 13440 USA