EMC Training

aEMCs provides tailored, in-house, on site EMC/EMI courses to help bring your engineering staff and technicians up to speed. We have partnered with leading EMC instructor specialists to provide twenty-nine generic and applications courses. EMC Design and EMI Control courses have also been scheduled at key locations in North America throughout the year.

Lead Instructors
Clients

On Site Courses

2002 Scheduled Courses

Registration
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Lead Instructors

Don White

Don White, the international EMC guru, is President of Don White Consultants (DWCI). He holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Univ. of Maryland. Don lectures and consults in the USA, Canada and overseas on EMC and related topics. He has held earlier positions in the government, and large and small industry. Don has published 13 EMC-related books, three trade journals, and appx. 200 technical articles. He is past president of the IEEE professional group on EMC.

Bill Duff

Bill Duff is Technical Director at Sentel. He has a BEE degree from GWU, a MSEE fron Syracuse Univ., and a DS.cEE from Clayton Univ. Bill has been practicing wireless communication systems engineering for many years. He is active in RF system design for EMI/EMC in cosite electromagnetic environments. Bill has written four books, over 50 technical papers, and taught numerous courses on EMI/EMC. He is a Fellow in the IEEE, a NARTE Certified EMC Engineer and Past President of the IEEE/EMC.

William H. (Bill) Parker

Bill Parker is a registered professional engineer in California, with 27 years experience in EMC, and is a certified EMC Engineer by NARTE. He has vast real world experience in laboratory and field EMI testing, troubleshooting, and problem solving. Bill has taught seminars and consulted in eighteen states and seven foreign countries. Since 1989, he has owned and operated Parker EMC Engineering, a professional consulting firm. Bill has been teaching seminars and consulting since 1982.

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Clients

The following is a list of past on-site, training courses provided by our lead instructors. The list does not include the approximately 56,000 engineers and technicians taught worldwide at open, published seminars over the past 25 years.

3M Company, St. Paul, MN ADC Telec., Minneapolis, MN AEG Westinghouse, Pittsburgh, PA AGT Limited, Edmonton, Canada AIL Systems, Deer Park, NY Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, USA Alberta Telecom, Calgary, Canada Allergen Humphry, San Leandre, CA Allied Signal, Phoenix, AZ Allied Signal, Mississauga ARGO Systems, Sunnyvale, CA Bailey Controls, Wickliffe, OH Bakersfield Memorial Hosp., Bakersfield, CA Bal Seals Engineering, Santa Ana, CA Baptist Medical Center, Jackson, FL Baxter Healthcare, Round Lake, IL Bell Northern Rsch., Ottawa, Canada Bettis Atomic Power Lab, West Mifflin, PA BG Autom. Motors, Hendersonville,TN Boeing Aerospace, Huntsville, AL Boeing Defense, Philadelphia, PA Bonnieville Power Administration Bosie Corp., Yuma, AZ Brazil Govt. Test Labs, Sao Paulo, Brazil Brazilian Army Comm., Washington, DC Brazilian Navy Brotman Medical Ctr, Culver City, CA Calmount Wire & Cable, Santa Ana, CA Camarillo State Hospital, Camarillo, CA Canadian Forces, Ontario, Canada Canadian Marconi, Ontario, Canada Caterpillar Inc., Mossville, IL Central Intelligence Agency, Washing., DC Cessna Aircraft, Wichita, KS Chandler Evans, W. Hartford, CT Chrysler Corp., MI Civilian Personnel Office, White Sand, NM ComDev, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada Compaq Computers, Houston, TX Computing Devices, Canada Conner, San Jose, CA Criticon, Tampa, FL Curtis Wright Corporation DLCSPM, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Deluxe Equipment, St. Paul, MN Department of Energy, Idaho Falls, ID Department of Navy, Philadelphia, PA Desert Springs Hospital, Las Vegas, NV Diagnostics Systems Group, Brea, CA Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard, MA Digital Processing Systems Dow Corning Corp., Midland, MI Dukane Ultrasonic, St. Charles, IL DuPont, Newton, CT Eastman Kodak, Rochester, NY EG&G Energy Measuremt., Las Vegas, NV Electrobras, Rio DeJan., Brazil

Electronic Test Center, Edmonton, Canada Entergy, RBS, St. Francisville, LA Environmental Effects, Ft. Huachuca, AZ European Space Agency, Netherlands Food and Drug Admin., Washington, DC Ford Motor, Dearborn, MI French Space Agency, Toulouse, France Ft. Huachuca, US Army Ft. Hustes, US Army Ft. Monmouth, US Army G.E. Marconi, England G.E. Medical Systems, Milwaukee, WI George Marshall SFC, NASA German Space Ag, Bremen, Germany Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Gichner Shelter Systems, Dallastown, PA Gulfstream Aerospace, Savannah, GA Hawder Sidley, England Hewlett Packard, Loveland Hewlett Packard Medical Instruments Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, CA Honeywell, Phoenix, AZ Human Hospital, Las Vegas, NV IBM, Gaithersburg, MD IBM, Johnson City, NY IBM, Manassas, VA IBM, Oswego, NY IBM, San Jose, CA India Government, Madras Injection Research, Colorado Springs, CO Inland Steel, East Chicago, IN Israel Aircraft Industries Isdud Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Bellflower, CA Kennedy Space Flight Center, NASA John Deere, Moline, IL Johnson Space Center, NASA LAC-Rancho, Downey, CA Lake Hospital System, Painesville, OH Langley Research Center, NASA Lawrence Livermore Labs, Livermore, CA Lockheed-Martin Missiles & Space Los Alamos Laboratories M/D Totco Instrumentation Maine Public Broadcasting McKay Comm., Elizabeth, NJ Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA Martin Luther Hospital, Anaheim, CA Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN McDonnell Douglas, ESC, FL McMaster Carr, Elmhurst, IL Medical University of SC, Charleston, SC Medtronic's, Minneapolis, MN Megahertz, Inc. U.S. Robotics SLC UT Messerschmitt, Munchen, Germany Mitsubishi Motors, Japan Motorola, Boynton Beach, FL

Motorola, Plantation, FL Motorola, Schaumburg, IL Motorola, Northbrook, IL Motorola, Arlington Heights, IL Motorola, Ontario, Canada National Bureau of Standards, (NIST) National Security Agency, Ft. George, MD National Technological University Naval Air Warfare Center, Lakehurst Naval Air Warfare Center, Orlando, FL Naval Air Warfare Center, Paxtuent River Naval Aviation Depot, San Diego, CA Naval Electronics, Vallejo, CA Naval Ordnance Center, Crane USN Naval Ordnance Laboratory USN Naval Surface Weapons Center USN Naval Weapons Laboratory USN Northern Telecom, Raleigh, NC Ontario Hydro, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Perkin, Pomona, CA Petroleum, Bryan, TX Physio Control, Redmond, WA Pickatinny Arsenal, US Army Picker International, Highland Height, OH Pitney Bowes, Shelton, CT Portland General Energy, Portland, OR Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, NH Precision Systems, St. Petersburg, FL Qualcomm, San Diego, CA Randex, Nashua, NH RayProof, Norwalk, CT Redstone Arsenal, US Army Richard Wolf GmbH, Knittlingen BRD Rochester Gas & Electric, Rochester, NY Rockwell International, Cedar Rapids, IA Royal Australian Air Force Royal Navy, Portsmouth, UK Sandi National Lab., Albuquerque, NM Sematech, Austin, TX South African Government, Pretoria SPAR Aerospace, Belleue, Canada St. Jude's, Memphis, TN St. Mary's Regional, Reno, NV Stewart & Stevenson Services Symbol Tech., Costa Mesa, CA Tecknit, Cranford, NJ Teklec Inc., Calabasas, CA Telebras, Brazil Teledyne Brown, Huntsville, AL Toshiba, San Francisco, CA University Medical Center, Las Vegas, NV V-Band, Elmsford, NY WEMS, Inc., Hawthorne, CA Western Telecommunications White Sands Missile Range, USA

 

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On-Site Courses

Background

Your staff will be taught how EMC and EMI control is done in the conceptual stages, design, production, installation, diagnostic or upgrade and retrofit stages of the life cycle of your products or systems. This is done completely at your own facility, so there is no travel and per diem cost or lost time traveling. The biggest cost of training your engineers and technicains is not the cost of our course. To offset any perceived "lost work time" by those taking the course, part of the in-house training time is earmarked to solve your existing project or system EMI problems. Projected overheads and/or actual hardware are critiqued by the instructor in front of the class with student participation including Q & A, strategies and options. This also helps apply and bind what has been learned.

Applications

The on-site courses offered by aEMCs apply to the following areas:

EMI - RFI - EMC - ESD - E3 APPLICATIONS ORIENTED

Vehicles and Buildings	Industrial and Commercial	Communications and Computers	Power Generation and Distribution
Aircraft	Automatic Test Equipment	Computers & Peripherals	Elec. Power Generation
Architectural Design	Consumer Electronics	Telecommunications	Nuclear Power Plants
Boats & Ships	Electrical Appliances	Cellular & PCS	Power Transmission
Buildings & Facilities	Industrial Controls (I&C)	Cable & Connectors	Substations
Hospitals & Clinics	Lightning Control	LAN, WAN &DSL	Power Distribution
Motor Vehicles	Luminaries	Mobile Communications	Power Quality
Rapid Rail Transport	Medical Electronics	CATV, Telecom & Fiber	Power Conditioning
Spacecraft	Safety & Security Systems	PCBs & Backplanes	Power Supplies & Reg.
Military Vehicles	Audio & Video Products	Telephone Plants & OSP	UPS & Backups

 

Courses

Twenty-nine different courses are available. Compressed one-day versions are offered for very tight budgets. Courses may be combined in many different ways and tailored to meet the customer's specific missions or application. Courses are divided into generic and application-oriented, as listed below:

Generic Courses EMC - All You Need to Know Introduction to EMI/RFI/EMC Grounding and Shielding EMC and Project Management Practical EMI Fixes Cable Design and Installation PCB Design & Layout EMC for Packaging Engineers FCC and EU Compliance MIL-STD-461, -462 and System-level Test and Compliance Electrostatic Discharge Diagnostics, Design and Retrofit Anatomy of EMI Failures and Solutions Power Conditioning Lightning and Its Control Basics of EMFs and their Control

Applications Courses Printed Circuit Boards EMI Control in the Design & Installation of Telecommunications EMC Wireless Communication System Design Computer Room Design Industrial Process Control (I&C) EMI Control in the Design of Buildings & Facilities EMI Control in Medical Electronics and Hospitals Mobile Communications Systems EMI Control in Weapon System & Military Vehicles EMI Control in the Design & Testing of Aircraft and Spacecraft EMI Control in Motor Vehicles Power Generation and Nuclear Facility Power Transmit, Substations & Distribution

 

Getting Started

Getting started on an in-house course is quite simple. Just follow the steps below:

• Call to get our in-house training course kit and procedures.
• Discuss your needs or ideas with one of our EMC engineer instructors.
• Identify mission objectives and course expectations.
• We prepare a preliminary course syllabus and pricing package.
• You mark up the syllabus with "emphasize", "de-emphasize", etc.
• The instructor fine-tunes the course syllabus and offers you several options.
• We continue to guide you all the way until a satisfactory program is developed.

About Our All-New Courses

Objectives:
Rapid technology transfer to arm design, systems and installation engineers and technicians to solve EMI-related problems with supporting rationale.

What these courses are not:

• About EMI-related regulations and compliance testing
• Academic and theoretical emphasis, per se
• EMC information space fillers and "fluff"
• EMC rules and techniques without rationale

What these courses provide:

• A blend of the analytical and pragmatic
• Solutions to real-world, today and tomorrow problems
• Design and installation focus and tools
• "War stories", strategies and solutions with rationale
• Consulting during the course on your project
  
  

Course Strategy and Expectations:
All Don White Consultants courses are a blend of the analytical and the pragmatic, with supporting rationale. Concepts are highly illustrated to enhance your grasp and are buttressed by math models, where practical, to facilitate understanding. Sometimes, computer-software is run to portray inputs with output results and "what-if" gaming. Re physical reliability, photographs of hardware are shown with installations, where available, or hardware show-and-tell is used and passed around in class. The concept objective is total multimedia immersion and is far superior and faster than traditional training with "hands-on" demonstrations.

Q&A During a Course:
Your questions throughout the course are extremely important to us. In addition to providing us feedback, others in the class may have a similar question. Remember, there is no such thing as a stupid question. Only a poor answer.

Consulting During a Course:
Bring your unsolved problems to the course. If of general interest, you may be invited to present them before the entire class for critique and solutions. Otherwise, discuss them with the instructor at breaks, before the class begins or at the end of the day.

What you take home:

• An exhilarating experience with new tools and solutions
• An understanding of EMI-control Methodology & Procedures
• Two highly-illustrated handbooks, one of which is
        The EMC, Computer and Telecom Encyclopedia,
       3rd Edition by Don White
• Problem-solving software on CD-ROM
• Eagerness to solve old/new existing problems back at the plant

About the Instructors: Don White, Bill Duff and Bill Parker

• Seasoned, international EMC gurus
• Collectively taught 19,000 engineers and technicians worldwide
• Written 16 EMC-related books
• Masters at technology transfer
• Two are past IEEE/EMC Presidents

Who Should Attend:

• Electronics Engineers and Technicians
• Mechanical and Packaging Engineers
• Engineering Managers
• Selected Marketing and Sales Engineers
• Others with "need-to-know"

Course Guarantee:
All DWC courses are guaranteed to provide substantial technology transfer. In the extremely unlikely event, you are not pleased at any time during the course, advise the instructor and your tuition will be refunded in full.

Grounding & Shielding
(2 days)

Course Overview and Expectations

Day 1, a.m. - Basics of Grounding

An Overview of EMI/EMC/ESD
     What is EMI and EMC?
     Examples and Case Histories
     EMI Episodes and Solutions
     Present State of the EMC Science and Future
The Reasons and Rationale for Grounding
Grounding Myths and Pitfalls
Shock and Safety Hazards and the NEC
Lightning Protection and Control
     Lightning Strike Umbrella Envelope
     Potential Earth Gradients
     Magnetic-Field Couplings
     Aerial Terminals and Earthing Systems
     Surge Suppressors
Power Grounds
     Avoid Loops with NEC Grounding
     Hardware, Conductors and GFIs
     Power Grounding and Conditioning
Signal Grounding
     Signal Return vs. "Ground" Return
     Why and Where?
     Circuit Transmission-Line Distortion
     Analog Circuits
     Digital Grounds to PCB Planes
     Mixed Digital and Analog
Cable and Connector Grounding
     How and Where?
     Grounding Methodology
Box and System-Level Grounding
     The Interconnect Dilemma
     Multiple Grounds and Solutions

Day 1, p.m. - Basics of Shielding

Shielding Effectiveness
    Reflection and Absorption Losses
Shielding Materials and Coatings
     Metal Box Housings
     Metalized Plastic Boxes and Composites
Aperture Leakage and Their Control
     The Leakage Math Model
     Securing the Aperture Leakage
     Securing Entry/Exit Cables and Devices
Shielded Windows
     Screen and Knitted-Wire Mesh
     Thin Conductive Films
     Convection and Forced-Air Cooling
Electrical Gaskets
     Spring-Finger Stock
     Mesh Gaskets
     Conductive Elastomers
     Vulcanized-in-Place Gaskets
Box and Housing Shield Designs
     Selecting the Box Shielding Material
     Identifying Major Leakage
     Trade-Offs Among Leakage Controls
     Designing for Overall Shield Effectiveness
Architectural Shielding
     Old and New Walls, Floors and Ceilings
     Windows and Vents (HVAC)
Shielded Rooms
Cable Shielding and Performance
     Shield Coverage and Transfer Impedance
     Shield Performance

Day 2, a.m. - EMI and Control Issues

Fields Levels, Meaning and Threats
Electrical Noise Sources
     Licensed Transmitters
     Low-Level Transmitters
     Electrical Ballast, Variable-Speed Controls, SMPSs
     Lightning and ESD
     Switching Transients and Load Dumps
     Motors, Relays and Solenoids
Analog Devices and Logic Victims and Their EMI Properties
     Noise Immunity Levels vs. Bandwidth
     RF Demodulation and its Control
     Printed Circuit Boards
     EMI Exit and Entry Control
     Signal Integrity Protection
     Trace Layout and Rules
     Managing I/O Problems
     Run Software Design Control
EMI Device Reciprocity
Threat and Victim Levels and Margins

Overview: The Five EMI Coupling Paths
Common-Ground Impedance Coupling
     Signal Return Path or Ground Return?
     Single or Multipoint Grounding?
     Conductor Impedance: Wires, Grids and Planes
     Ground Separation and Isolation
     Practical Solutions: PCB to Room Level

Day 2, p.m. - Principal EMI Coupling Paths and Control

Field-to-Wire Loop Coupling and Control
     Signal Return Path or Ground Return?
     Math Models and Tables
     Common-Mode (CM) Voltages
     Loop Area Reduction Techniques
Ground-Loop Coupling (GLC)
     CM-to-Differential Mode Conversion
     Class Examples
GLC Reduction Techniques
     Floating and Single-Point Grounds
     RF Blocking Chokes
     Balanced Line Drivers and Receivers
     Signal Transformers and Baluns
     CM Absorptive Ferrites
     Feed-Through Capacitors and PCAs
     Signal Filters
     Optical Isolators and Fiber Optics
     Wireless: Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11b
Field-to-Cable, D-M Coupling/Reduction
     Balanced Wire Pairs + Models
     Twisting Wire Pairs + Models
     Shielded and Coaxial Cables
More on Cables and Connectors
     Cable Shields: Ideal vs. Compromises
     Optical Coverage and Transfer Impedance
     Double, Isolated Shields and Tris/Quads
     Interaction of Ground Loops with Ground Shields
     Grounding Rules for Cable Shields
     Ribbon Cables and Shields
     Filter-Pin Connectors and PCAs
     Cable Harness Shields and Connectors
Crosstalk and Its Control
     Capacitive and Inductive Coupling
     Basic Crosstalk Model: PCB Traces
     Basic Crosstalk Model: Wire Cables
     Crosstalk Reduction Techniques
Power-Line Coupling and Reduction
     CM & DM Coupling thru Power Mains
     Transformer Parastatic Coupling
     Faraday-Shielded Transformers
     Control of SMPS Noise
     Power-Line Disturbances
     Reduction Options for P-L Disturbances
     Uninterruptable Power Supplies
     Standby Diesel-Engine Driven Generators

System EMC Design and Installation (1 day)

Course Overview and Expectations
A.M. Session - System EMC Design Methodology and Procedures Traditional Strategies for System-Level, EMC Design
Why they often fail - now or latently
System Integration and Interfacing

Designing the System from the Get-go

Disciplined Strategies and Rationale System-Level EMI Prediction and Control

Overview of the Design Methodology
Example: Broadcast Station Jams Digital Data Link
Procedure for Problem Solution
Class Solves Problem Using Manual
Forms, Graphics and Procedures
Critique of Solution Results
Options for Alternate Solutions
What to Do when there are Multiple Radiating Sources?
Strategies for Problem Solutions

P.M. Session - System Design and Installation Using Software