DOWNLOADS and LINKS

On this page you will find some carefully-chosen links to our projects and to web sites with connections to Martin Tarr Associates.

Downloads

If you would like to have details to print or to pass on to others, right-click on the links below and save to your computer:

Our Consultancy brochure (124KB)

Our Lead-free applications sheet (76KB)

EPPIC paper:
“Delivering lead-free products to the market” (2.64MB)
(May 2005; author)

SMART Group Scotland paper: “WEEE & RoHS Legislative Update” (119KB) (March 2006; presenter)

More on the hot topic of REACH on this page, and on thermal management on this page.

Additional material, primarily for the use of students and academic colleagues, is to be found on this page.

Links

Bolton University		http://www.ami.ac.uk/
Since 2003, Martin Tarr has been a writer and tutor on a number of materials and process modules in Bolton’s online postgraduate programme for the electronics industry.
Electronics Knowledge Transfer Network		http://www.electronics-ktn.co.uk/
Set up in 2007, EKTN is one of a number of similar networks created in response, among other things, to the DTI report “Electronics 2015: Making a Visible Difference”. EKTN’s aims include raising the profile of the electronics sector in the UK, Europe and globally, bridging the gap between academia and industry, and transferring knowledge to stimulate innovation and competitiveness and the adoption of new technologies and processes. Our 2008 task is to provide web-based material to promote good practice thermal management. More details on this page.
EPPIC-Faraday Partnership		http://www.eppic-faraday.com/
EPPIC-Faraday is a technology network serving the international device packaging community. In 2005, Martin Tarr provided the paper “Delivering lead-free products to the market”, which supplemented an analysis of the general situation with two implementation case studies.
HE Academy		http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/
Martin Tarr qualified for corporate membership of what is now the Higher Education Academy by his Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning from Napier University. He still has links with the University Educational Development department (http://www.ed.napier.ac.uk/index.html) as part of his own Continuing Professional Development programme.
IET		http://www.theiet.org/
Martin Tarr is a Chartered Engineer and a corporate member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the 2006 rebrand of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.
iMAPS		http://www.imaps.org/
iMAPS is an organisation that covers “everything in electronics between the chip and the system”. Martin Tarr has been a member of iMAPS and one of its predecessors ISHM, the International Society for Hybrid Microelectronics, since the late 1960s.
Napier University		http://www.napier.ac.uk/
Martin Tarr has worked with Napier University since 1993 on a wide range of technical and business issues, most recently responsible for technical consultancy, course development and training delivery.
The Open University		http://www3.open.ac.uk/oubs/
An “early adopter” of the OU Business School, Martin Tarr graduated with an MBA in 1994.
SMART Group		http://www.smartgroup.org/
For many years Martin Tarr has been involved in the work of SMART, “For the Advancement of Surface Mount and Related Technologies”, the leading European technical trade association representing the electronics manufacturing industry, and he is currently Chairman of SMART Group Scotland.