Penn State Harrisburg to host 2026 Symposium on Signal and Power Integrity

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. - The Center for Signal Integrity at Penn State Harrisburg will host the 19th Annual Central Pennsylvania Symposium on Signal and Power Integrity on Friday, April 17, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on campus.

Signal integrity describes the quality of electrical signals passing through connectors used in electronic devices such as computers or cellular phones. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from international experts about the latest developments in signal and power integrity. More details can be found on the symposium webpage.

The following are scheduled to speak at the symposium:

• Quresh Bohra, system architect, TE Connectivity
• Ioannis Savidis, director, Integrated Circuits and Electronics Design & Analysis Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University
• Palak Patel, technical product manager, SPE Testing Solutions, Telebyte Inc. and Charotar University of Science and Technology, Anand, India
• Arnold Offner, product marketing manager, Phoenix Contact USA
• Andrew D. Josephson, signal integrity technologist at Samtec
• Marcelo Knörich Zuffo, professor of electronic systems engineering at the University of São Paulo

Workshops will be presented by Keysight, Rohde & Schwarz, Scotty Neely, a signal integrity expert, and Kapil Sharma, assistant professor of electrical engineering, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

The Center for Signal Integrity is housed within the college's School of Science, Engineering, and Technology and is the only academic unit in the region that is dedicated to partnering with the area's connector companies in product development through faculty and student research and collaboration.

The Center for Signal Integrity assists central Pennsylvania's numerous connector companies with product development by fostering collaboration between them and the college's engineering faculty and students. The center has been partially funded by TE Connectivity, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Pennsylvania, Penn State Harrisburg Amphenol, Samtec, Keysight Technologies, Phoenix Contact and Neoconix Inc.

Known as the "connector capital of the world," the Harrisburg metropolitan area is home to more than 15 electrical connector companies. Sedig Agili and Aldo Morales, co-directors of the center and electrical engineering faculty members at Penn State Harrisburg, estimate that the region holds about 80% of the U.S. connector market and about half of the market worldwide.

There is a fee for registration, which includes breakfast and lunch. To register or to learn more, visit the symposium's website or contact Morales at [email protected], Agili at [email protected]or Kelly Batche at [email protected].

The TE Connectivity Lecture Series and Penn State Harrisburg are partially sponsoring this year's symposium.