EMC on tour at Fontys University of Applied Sciences

When:

19 October 2016

13:30 Hour - 17:00 Hour

Location:Fontys Hogeschool Engineering
Rachelsmolen 1 Collegezaal R1_1.67
5612 MA Eindhoven

Event organizer:Electrical engineering

Pricing Deelname is gratis mits aangemeld vai https://goo.gl/forms/x1PfXHFRhUseELY82 (verplicht):Free

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 demos"

by Frits Buesink and Kees Post.

Description

The aim of "EMC on Tour" is to raise the subject of EMC among students (technical courses) and local SMEs in a practical way.

The various aspects of the EMC field are discussed in a practical form (demos).

Interested parties can thereby "request topics" such as EMC
related topics from their own practice.

The target groups are people who have to deal with EMC in their work and also have to find practical solutions: installers, machine builders, designers of
measurement and control systems, but also PCB designers.

EMC (ElectroMagnetic Compatibility) means that equipment works satisfactorily in the (electromagnetic) environment it is intended for.

Without adding interference signals to it.
Interference and interference ultimately take place through connections.

And that on every scale: from vast cable systems in a refinery to traces on a printed circuit board (PCB).

It turns out that the location, the way in which these connections are laid, has a major influence on the interference behaviour of an installation.

To increase accessibility, practical demonstrations of how currents and voltages in connections affect each other will be given as much as possible.

Theoretical considerations will be omitted.