Circuit protection news

 Contest winners will see behind the scenes at NASA
Over the next few months, Littelfuse will randomly select 10 winners from those who enter the promotion to participate in each Speed2Design event. You can learn more and enter at the Littelfuse Speed2Design website. Speed2Design Exploration & Discovery events were created by Littelfuse to allow the design community an exclusive opportunity to meet and talk with engineers working on some of the most exciting and advanced technology being developed today. The highlights of these events are the Speed2Design TechTalks, which offer a unique opportunity for peer-to-peer discussion with NASA engineers involved in the NASA Technology Transfer Program. These engineers are currently working on technological breakthroughs in small spacecraft, intelligent robotics, 3D printing, bioengineering, and the NASA Space Portal. Hospitality events are also included the night before and day of the event. There's no cost to the winners of the drawings to participate in the Exploration & Discovery events; as the host, Littelfuse will provide a travel voucher, lodging and event expenses.

Short-circuit workshop
A four-day ETAP work shop, in Chicago from July 16 to 20th , will cover short circuit, device evaluation, coordination, arc flash, and motor acceleration
The topics will be:
Day 1: ETAP Overview, AC System Modeling, Libraries, Load Flow Modeling & Analysis
Day 2: Short Circuit Analysis, Protection & Coordination
Day 3: Protection & Coordination, Sequence-of-Operation, NFPA 70E 2012, IEEE 1584 2004a, Arc Flash Calculations
Day 4: Arc Flash Exercises, Motor Acceleration Analysis
For more information go to MicroTek – Chicago 

Bourns receives prestigious TTI 2012 Global Operations Excellence award
Bourns, a manufacturer and supplier of electronic components, announced that TTI a global distributor of connector, passive, electromechanical and discrete components, has awarded its prestigious 2012 TTI Global Operations Excellence Award to Bourns. Bourns was recognized as the supplier which earned TTI’s Supplier Excellence Award in three regions – the Americas, Europe and Asia, and the company that received the highest total points globally. Bourns previously announced that it had been awarded TTI’s Supplier Excellence Award at the Diamond Level for its Americas and European operations and at the Gold Level for its Asia operations. The TTI Supplier Excellence program measures sales and management support, on-time delivery, receiving quality, customer-reported quality, administrative quality, operations and business systems. Find more information at www.bourns.com.