Meet Rick Hartley - OnTrack Insight

Up Close with Leaders and Mentors of the Electronics Industry. A New OnTrack Series focused on helping You become a Better Engineer. Have you ever wished you had a wise mentor to give you advice on your career? After all, wouldn’t we all benefit and learn from the experience of the ones who failed and succeeded before us? With this in mind we’ve created a new series called OnTrack Insight. We will be sharing conversations with leading experts from the electronics industry to discover the wisdom, knowledge and personal stories that have shaped their lives and careers.
Our first guest is one of the world’s leading experts in PCB Design and Signal Integrity. His insatiable curiosity led him into a wide variety of sectors including telecommunications, automotive systems and military aviation electronics. He’s read over 100 books on electrical theory and engineering. He’s held numerous seminars at the largest industry events including AltiumLive - at which we recorded the interview you are about to watch. He will share with us his understanding of how electronics behave, how we can encourage the next generation to stay curious and what he thinks is the key to a successful engineering career. Now, meet your Mentor - Rick Hartley.
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[@mkobox]

Very ispirational. Thank you!

[@parkerd2154]

Rick, the epiphany that you describe having after reading Ralph Morrison’s book is the exact epiphany that you deliver to your listeners! You completely changed my perspective on board design.

[@todymannn]

Great speech of Rick Hartley! Congrats for your thoughts.

[@chrispowder2713]

YES! Designing boards is art.
This guy is an idol.

[@jimmycake7143]

Rick, up in an apartment so cant do a ground rod for my HF antenna system. So using 3rd wire ac outlet ground to an arrestor on the RG-213 coax, will this allow static or noise to bleed off, or bring in more noise.thanks -radio guy.

[@jp_engineer]

I loved every word of this talk and I wish I had Rick's words back when I decided to go for embedded systems ( 7 years ago).
If I could redo my path, I would have:
- read more books;
- drank from the experts' bits of knowledge;
- burnt many circuits putting much more hands-on;
But in the end, I did my best, I took my chances and what I had in hand to make it work. If you are reading and got somehow curious I have this: www.element14.com/community/people/jpnbino/blog/2017/12/18/how-i-became-an-embedded-guy
"Nachher ist man immer schlauer"
Books List:
Fast Circuit Boards: Energy Management by Ralph Morrison
PCB Design for Real-World EMI Control by Archambeault
Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering by Henry W. Ott
ps.: I also would be up for a chess match :)