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Columnist Istvan Novak Nominated for Engineer of the Year
December 23, 2019 | Andy Shaughnessy, Design007Estimated reading time: Less than a minute
Design007 Magazine columnist Istvan Novak, a principal signal and power integrity engineer with Samtec, has been nominated for the DesignCon Engineer of the Year award.
Istvan has been working with PCBs since he built a circuit board out of Bakelite as a youngster. He is a long-time member of the DesignCon Technical Program Committee and an IEEE Life Fellow with 25 patents.
Voting is open until noon Pacific time on December 27. Send Istvan a holiday greeting by casting your vote for him today!
To cast your vote, click here.
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