The training is about 80 hours of video lessons. You also get PDF guides, design checklists and more.

The program is an all-in-one solution and the value of the training will pay for itself within 4 weeks once hired as a hardware engineer in the USA, since you'll be earning at least $95,000 to 104,000 per year starting and your salary only increases (e.g. a hardware engineer role at Meta should command $160,000 or more in the Bay Area). So it's worth at least $20,000 to change your life forever.

However, we're aware that not everyone has a ton of savings lying around for training and that managers might not invest in it for their employees.

So if you're serious about enrolling on a call, we can make arrangements and payment plans. However, the program and what it offers stays at the current price ($2000 for lifetime access to core video training + $1000 for the VAULT).

The program has 3 major components:

1. Our core video training (Course) (60 mandatory hours of video training + 20 hours of optional video training). Detailing step-by-step how to build printed circuit boards the right way.

2. Four 30-minute 1-on-1 support (Coaching) meetings so that you have checkpoints after project 2, project 3, project 4 and project 5, so that you actually finish the training and get the push you need to stay accountable to your goals and success.

3. HaSofu VAULT - A collection of guides, documents, standard operating procedures and complete custom manuals that cut to the chase with using your ECAD software tools.

The training is 80 hours of video lessons. You also get PDF guides, design checklists and more.

Assuming you pause and play the videos and follow along with your own software tools, then double the hours of video.

So, 60 hours of video will be 120 hours (you watching video combined with doing what's in the videos).

If you spend 10 hours per week on this program, you'll be done with all the material in 12 weeks (3 months).

Yes. You do. The majority of people we talk to who have designed PCBs have not taken proper consideration of designing for assembly, cost, test, fabrication, etc. weaved into their process, and especially not in the way we teach it.

Designing high-speed printed circuit boards requires significantly more knowledge, work and effort than most engineers realize or communicate. This is why, on average, it will take 2-3 years of industry experience to hope to become independently ready as a designer. Then 2-3 more years after that to be considered a professional. Then 5 more years to become senior.

You also need signal integrity, EMI and other foundational knowledge and skills and know when to apply them. Industry PCB design for products at scale is an entirely different ballgame.

Also, no other training has the Kirsch METT method to rapidly understanding and executing on PCB design, along with our 140 step 10-phase system presented at PCB West. More importantly, being able to categorize the things you learn from any other training you do in hardware design. So you won't ever feel like you're drinking from a firehose again, regardless of any YouTube videos, courses, books, etc. you're watching or reading. There's not more figuring out where it fits and why it matters. For a high-level explanation, watch this video where I explain the method.

The truth is, all domains of physics play critical roles in designing hardware products that work. Having an integrated holistic approach to designing these products is the only way to keep up with the complexity while also reducing the design cycles and being among the top of hardware engineers in your field.

Learning industry-level PCB design can often take a long time, much like mastering our native tongue. The typical haphazard unstructured approach has its benefits though. For instance, it helps us to know what we do know in greater detail than just getting head knowledge from study alone.

However this method of learning is lengthy and requires significant amounts of practice over multiple years before true mastery is achieved - similar to the comprehensive education that anyone learns through primary schooling when exposed extensively to their domestic language.

Let me ask you this...if you've ever taken training in engineering you've likely had one of these scenarios:

1. You can apply the training to a board similar to the one you were taught, but if it's a new board, you're unsure which knowledge to transfer to the new design. You risk becoming a copy-paste hardware engineer. Only being able to design what you've been taught to design. Not any board you want to design. OR

2. Maybe you've come across amazing training that covers principles in design, but there aren't sufficient practical aspects in the training for you to build something based just on those principles. OR

3. Perhaps you find training that teaches you how to use ECAD software to lay out a printed circuit board, but you don't know when you will actually use some of what you're being taught or why it matters or how to lay out the board. OR

4. Maybe the training covers both ECAD software and the PCB design process they use and some principles, but there is not enough about the industry standards for mass production design at scale.

So, you're left with no choice but to scour the internet, read books from the experts, do a lot of boards and courses, and spend about 3-4 years of your life combining all this for yourself.

Well...for those who don't want to have to do all that on their own...our program combines all these, weaves them into the training and adds intentional rapid learning techniques to the training as well, so it's not just another mega course that throws a bunch of information at you.

You're taught in a way that allows you to apply principles at any time. Not just copy and paste. You become the principles-based hardware engineer and not a copy-paste engineer.

If you're in doubt, then ask yourself this: how can a hardware engineer with 5 years experience creating a bunch of different boards, and still make a mistake on layout or designs...but a 3D field solver that has never designed a PCB in its entire knows how to vet any design?

That's because the 3D field solver doesn't need to design a board to know if it will work. As long as the laws of physics are still being followed, the solver will analyze and spit out the correct answers (aside from mismatch in the real world vs simulated models of course).

Now imagine having a 3D field solver installed in your head so that you design a board right from the beginning, knowing which steps to take before things become a problem due to layout.

That's what our program does. It installs that 3D field solver in your head, with checklists and training so that you are independent fast, not in 3-5 years.

Become like the 3D field solver who can see hardware design and education in 3D doing preventative design at will for any board, and not just thinking in 2D, just copying and pasting best design practices and hoping for the best.

On top of combining knowledge from trusted sources and lab experience, this is the only program in hardware design we know of where at least 3 different deliberate hyper learning techniques are interwoven into the training. It makes a huge difference by a factor of ten in the learning curve, compared to training that doesn't go the extra 15 miles in lesson planning. This lesson planning, not just hardware design knowledge is what we enjoy.

Final Note on Other Courses...
The majority of other training programs in hardware design are actually amazing (I've taken most of them), so we encourage you to take them, just like we do. However, we've intentionally supercharged our training methods for rapid learning of hardware design, not just more information. It's especially for those who want to learn fast and digest the concepts deeply, like a set of university courses planned to build on top of your fundamentals, but with materials that's actually used in industry so that you start/skill up your new career sooner than later. (or so that you can design your own products that you know will work and why).

This program serves at a foundation for all other hardware training programs. You will understand other courses 10 times more clearly and in depth when you do them, because you know where to include them in our HaSofu system of hardware design education.

Yes we do. You apply with our various partners for a personal loan, the bank pays us, and you pay the bank back as little as you'd like that works for you at the time. Exactly how one would finance a car or college. We do prioritize working with people who are fed up with not having the practical skills, possibly failing interview after interview in this specific field. However, even if you just want to join our email list for now, then ask questions about the program over time, we're here to help.

You don't need any strong foundational knowledge to take the course. Just an interest in electronics and hardware and an interest in understanding physics in an intuitive way. I teach you what you need to know, hence why the program is a bit on the pricey side. I'm an instructor of electrical and electronics engineering at the University of Arkansas, so I teach you whatever you need to know (after we assess your skillset)

If you have any questions, we get those answered within 48 hours. Oftentimes within 24 hours and directly within the course lesson.

The course is completely self-paced and we do 24 hours of 1-on-1 sessions to accelerate your growth through the program at an alarming rate, but in such a way that you still gain deep understanding of PCB design, not just get firehosed with a lot of things you don't know. I've paid special care to share certain information at the right and exact time needed for proper digestion of the material. No notes necessary!

You will also have pre-recorded videos and documents and checklists to teach you everything, should you choose to focus on the self paced option for as long as you'd like (you don't have to do the live one-on-one option at the beginning or at all, but you'd be progressing to your goal more slowly.

Since you have the program for life, special requests can be made to add more videos. The mentorship part is on-demand and exclusive to you. Not in a group. There I accelerate your learning tenfold, and also garner excited me

Right now the course is live one-on-one tutoring and training to get you finishing your first high-speed PCB in 24 hours or less.

It also has pre-recorded videos that let you digest information more slowly and shows you how to design 6 PCBs from scratch, adhering to designing with Manufacturing, Signal Integrity, EMI, and high-speed constraints.

This course is taught in Cadence OrCAD v17.4. Then sometime 2024, OrCAD X, Altium Designer, KiCAD 8 and PADS Professional. You'll get all versions.