Starting EMC engineers, for instance, those following an introductory course, usually lack practical experience. For that reason, the University of Twente in cooperation with Lambda Engineering Hilversum has been teaching, so called, “EMC on Tour” sessions at Universities of Applied Science in the Netherlands for some years now. 

It is a series of demonstrations of EMC phenomena and measures, glued together with only the most essential physical background:

1. Understanding electromagnetic effects (how does it work?)

2. Thinking in environments with an overview of the important phenomena in those environments: conducted and radiated electromagnetic effects, impulsive disturbances as lightning, inductive switching and ESD, leading to the next step:

3. Separating environments using current boundaries in their various appearances to “short-circuit” common-mode current (or “ground”) loops: connector plates, cable trays and finally shielding.

4. Creating electromagnetic environments, using the measures shown before with reference to standards.

This approach works best for beginning EMC engineers. The motto is “seeing is believing” based on many practical experiments that are performed. The focus is on demonstrating effects using experiments that can be easily copied using simple tools as a generator and an oscilloscope and some home-built probes.

A video impression of the lectures:

Part one: "Introduction EMC principles" 

Part two: "EMC Practice with demo's"

by  Frits Buesink and Kees Post.

 

Programma

 -  uur Ontvangst met koffie en thee
 -  uur Frits Buesink, Universiteit Twente
 -  uur Pauze met koffie en thee
 -  uur Frits Buesink, Universiteit Twente
 -  uur Netwerken met drinks