Group represents 40 percent of the individuals certified this year

Four TREK sales engineers achieve ESD certification (from left to right) Elwin Rego, John Clack, Chris Lemke and Ron Slaby.

TREK has announced that four of the company’s sales engineers were recently certified by the Electrostatic Discharge Association (ESDA) with the designation of ESD Certified Professional - Program Manager. 

The four individuals at TREK receiving certification include John Clack, Chris Lemke, Elwin Rego and Ron Slaby. This TREK group represents 40 percent of the individuals who achieved certification by passing the recent ESDA annually-offered certification exam. The certification program was designed by the ESDA for individuals who are involved in designing, implementing, managing and auditing electrostatic discharge (ESD) control programs.

This brings the total number of individuals at TREK that have received this certification from the ESDA to five. Tom Larson, TREK's sales manager, was one of the first six individuals to successfully complete the new certification program in early 2006. In total, TREK now represents 22 percent of all the individuals certified since the program’s inception, including individuals from IBM, NASA, Raytheon, Seagate, Trane and other institutions interested in electrostatic discharge.

ESD management is important in semiconductor, electronic assembly, hard disk drive and other electrostatic-sensitive environments and applications. Other applications that could benefit from ESD measurement and management tools include medical/biomedical devices, powder handling (chemical, pharmaceutical, ceramic and other materials), electrostatic painting/coating, test & measurement, instrumentation, quality control, materials evaluation, military, automotive, aerospace and R&D applications.         

Electrostatic discharge can cause havoc with electronic devices and assemblies. By better understanding the role played by ESD, manufacturers can make process improvements to minimize device destruction and latent damage, thereby enhancing product integrity and production yields.

TREK designs and manufactures electrostatic measurement instruments to assist with ESD management and control. The ESDA certifications enable these individuals at TREK to better understand the intricacies of ESD and thereby assist customers with educational seminars, ESD program development and electrostatic measurement methods, to enable problem identification and related solutions in ESD-sensitive environments.