Teaching Students the Black Magic of Electromagnetic Compatibility
Introducing Electromagnetic Interference and Electromagnetic Compatibility, or “The Art of Black Magic", for engineering students might be a terrifying experience both for students and tutors. Removing the obstacle of large, expensive facilities like a fully fitted EMC laboratory and hours of complex theory, this paper demonstrates a design of a laboratory setup for student exercises, giving students experience in the basics of EMC/EMI problems that may challenge the functionality and stability of embedded system designs. This is done using a simple laboratory installation and basic measurement equipment such as a medium cost digital storage oscilloscope, at the cost of not knowing the exact magnitude of the noise components, but rather if the noise is significant or not, as well as the source of the noise. A group of students have performed a trial exercise with good results and feedback.
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Available: http://www.teseq.com/com/en/service support/technical
information/01 Transient immunity testing e.pdf
[2] J. L. Drewniak, T. H. Hubing, T. P. Van Doren, and F. Sha, "Integrating
electromagnetic compatibility laboratory exercises into undergraduate
electromagnetics," in Proc. Symp Electromagnetic Compatibility Record.
1995 IEEE Int. Symp, 1995, pp. 35-40.
[3] Y. Zhao and K. Y. See, "A practical approach to education of electromagnetic
compatibility at the undergraduate level," in Proc. IEEE Antennas
and Propagation Society Int. Symp, vol. 3, 2003, pp. 454-457.
[4] Y. Zhao, S. Li, and X. Shen, "A selective training way on emc through
graduation project," in Proc. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society
Int. Symp. 2006, 2006, pp. 1265-1268.
[5] C. W. Trueman, "An electromagnetics course with emc applications for
computer engineering students," vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 119-128, 1990.
[6] A. Hellany and M. H. Nagrial, "Project based engineering education:
a case for teaching emc/emi," in Proc. Asia-Pacific Conf. Applied
Electromagnetics APACE 2003, 2003, pp. 88-91.
[7] M. Albach and H. Rossmanith, "Teaching coupling mechanisms - a case
study," in Proc. IEEE Int Electromagnetic Compatibility Symp, vol. 1,
2003, pp. 160-165.
[8] V. Kus and P. Drabek, "The education of emc -the strategy and teaching
overview at the uwb," in Proc. IEEE Int Electromagnetic Compatibility
(EMC) Symp, 2011, pp. 976-981.
[9] F. Leferink, I. Knijff, and A. Roc-h, "Experiments for educating electromagnetic
effects," in Proc. Int Electromagnetic Compatibility - EMC
Europe Symp, 2008, pp. 1-5.
[10] M. Mazanek and R. Catthoor, "Lablink pilot project - on-line distant emc
education shielding materials effectiveness measurement - laboratory
training and measurement results," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Electromagnetic
Compatibility EMC -03, vol. 2, 2003, pp. 1166-1169.
[11] R. J. Jost, "Introducing emc into the curriculum for the first time:
experiences in achieving depth and breadth," in Proc. IEEE Int Electromagnetic
Compatibility Symp, vol. 1, 2003, pp. 170-172.
[12] Ni usb-6008. (Online). Available: http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/
lang/en/nid/201986
[13] Arduino website. (Online). Available: http://www.arduino.cc
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