Workshop Instructors

Leon Hamiter
Leon is the President-Owner of Components Technology Institute, Inc, an engineering and consulting firm. He has over 40 years experience with many types of components. This experience includes component selection, specification, testing, failure investigation. reliability prediction and problem solving. He has investigated counterfeit components failures and issues for OEMs, brokers and Legal Firms. Using his broad experience he developed the Counterfeit Components Avoidance Practices and Training.

Mr. Hamiter is a registered Professional Engineer with a BS in Electrical Engineering, University of Alabama. Prior to retirement from NASA, he spent twenty-three years in the NASA/MSFC components engineering group and was the manager for eighteen years. This group was responsible for the electronic components engineering on MSFC projects and the NASA Standard Parts Program. He is also founder of the worldwide Capacitor and Resistor Technology Symposium (CARTS), Components of Military and Space Electronics Conference and Exhibition (CMSE), Failure Analysis and Component Test Symposium & Seminar (FACTS), and Program Chairman for a number of years of the International Symposium on Testing and Failure Analysis (ISTFA).

Donald V. Trenholm
Don is President-Owner of Custom Analytical Services in Londonderry, NH. The company is a micro analytical laboratory engaged in performing Failure Mode Analysis (FMA), Destructive Physical Analysis (DPA) of microelectronics, printed circuit boards, component device packaging and related materials. The Company has an engineering staff made up of electrical and chemical engineering disciplines. Using OM, SEM, AES, EDX, Micro-FTIR, X-RAY, C-SAM, cross sectioning, digital imaging and other sophisticated analytical techniques.

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