Upcoming Event:
Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2012
5:30pm: Networking/light dinner
6:30pm: Presentation
7:45pm: Adjourn
Light Dinner and beverages will be served for a fee. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served free of charge.
Location: Applied Materials Bowers Cafeteria
Title
How Bad is Bad? Cavity Signal Injection and Mitigation
Speaker
Steve Weir,CTO IPBlox, LLC
Abstract
An ideal signal return path is contiguous. Often insuring a completely contiguous return path can impose routing headaches, and/or force costly additional layers. This talk will will show measured effects of signal inject ion, and the effectiveness of mitigation strategies.
Biography
Steve is an independent consultant with over 20 years industry experience and a broad range of expertise. Steve holds numerous patents, has authored more than a dozen papers on power integrity, and contributes regularly to the SI-List signal integrity reflector.
March Event:
Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2012
5:30pm: Networking/light dinner
6:30pm: Presentation
7:45pm: Adjourn
Light Dinner and beverages will be served for a fee. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served free of charge.
Location: Applied Materials Bowers Cafeteria
Title
Why does my design fail EMC? & How to fix it.
Speaker
Jerry Meyerhoff, EMI/EMC Principal Consultant, JDM LABS LLC; IEEE EMC Society Distinguished Lecturer
Abstract
Overall EMC principles are introduced:
- 4 quadrants of mechanisms
- 3 elements of the actors
- 4 types of coupling
Case studies drawn from multiple designs are used to demonstrate the underlying EMC physics across the 4 quadrants for causes and cures. Analysis, measurement and creativity methods are highlighted. Narratives also present soft skills of teamwork & consulting persuasion. Solutions are generalized for applicability to multiple future designs.
Biography
Jerry Meyerhoff is currently the Principal of JDM LABS LLC, a consultancy which he started in 2009. He is devoted to assisting clients in optimizing designs for EMC, ElectroMagnetic Compatibility.
Previously Jerry was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff of Continental Automotive Systems, Deer Park, Illinois resulting from the acquisition of the former Motorola Automotive Group in 2006. He acted as a group-wide consultant in EMC design, serving multiple projects technologies and customers. Jerry's prior 36 years at Motorola involved hardware design and development applied to radios, RF and analog circuits and refining digital microprocessor hardware with increasing emphasis on EMC.
Jerry earned a BSEE, with emphasis on communications technology, from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 1970. He immediately joined Motorola's Land Mobile Group. In 1971 he joined the US Army Reserve , was trained as a Fixed Station Transmitter Repairman 32C20 at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey serving the next 5 years in the 305th Psyop Bn. while pursuing his Motorola career. Jerry also took post graduate courses in RF design from IIT in Chicago.
At Motorola, Jerry lead design teams for the MICOM Solid State HF-SSB radio and then the MOCAT CB. He transitioned to the Technical Ladder as an individual contributor to FM and AM Stereo entertainment receivers for passenger automobiles. Ongoing he contributed to the development of many industrial and automotive control designs. In the Automotive Group, Jerry consulted on EMC design techniques across multiple electronics controls teams and Telematics product design groups. He is familiar with EMC lab measurement pitfalls and design problem resolution. He developed design guidelines, internal EMC lectures and acted as a trainer/coach to product development teams. He was a technical co-editor of Motorola's corporate Signal Integrity Technology Advisory Board newsletter.
Jerry leveraged his experience in RF and high frequency effects by pursuing the application of CAE tools to EMC applications including: NEC-MoM, Mentor Graphics Quiet Expert, Hyperlynx SI/EMC PCB tool and CST Microstripes . He continues his keen interest in EMC modeling and simulation.
Jerry holds multiple US patents and publications and was a member of Motorola's Science Advisory Board Associates (SABA), a recognition afforded key members of the technical community. Jerry has participated in SAE EMC standards committees "EMI" and "EMR" refining measurement methods for automotive modules and vehicles. He is active in the IEEE EMC Society and his Chicago Chapter, as an officer and also making technical presentations as a named Distinguished Lecturer. He is a founding member of the UIC Chapter of Zeta Psi of North America Fraternity, founding member and ongoing Board member of the UIC Engineering Alumni Association, member of the UIC ECE Departmental Industrial Advisory Board and past Committee Chair of BSA Troop 401. He also holds Amateur Radio call sign, WA9FIY. He particularly enjoys bicycle touring, challenge rides and civic advocacy.
April Event:
Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2012
5:30pm: Networking/light dinner
6:30pm: Presentation
7:45pm: Adjourn
Light Dinner and beverages will be served for a fee. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served free of charge.
Location: Applied Materials Bowers Cafeteria
Title
Reverberation Chamber Theory/Statistical Overview
Speaker
Prof. Charles F. Bunting, ECE Dept., Oklahoma State University; IEEE EMC Society Distinguished Lecturer
Abstract
To understand the application of reverberation chambers EMC engineers must delve into the scary world of statistics and applied random variables. This talk provides a discussion of the statistical electromagnetic environment in a reverberation chamber and the method by which the equipment under test can be tested to a given peak (or average) component (or total) field (or power) level with a definable uncertainty.
Biography
Chuck Bunting (S-1989, M-1994, SM-2011) was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He was employed at the Naval Aviation Depot in Norfolk, VA as an apprentice, an electronics mechanic, and an electronics measurement equipment mechanic from 1981-1989. He received his A.A.S. in Electronics Technology from Tidewater Community College in 1985, the B.S. degree in Engineering Technology with highest honors from Old Dominion University in 1989. He received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in 1992. From 1991-1994 he held a Bradley Fellowship and a DuPont Fellowship and in 1994 he was awarded the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech.
From 1994 to 2001 Dr. Bunting was an assistant/associate professor at Old Dominion University in the Department of Engineering Technology where he worked closely with NASA Langley Research Center on electromagnetic field penetration in aircraft structures and reverberation chamber simulation using finite element techniques.
In the Fall of 2001 he joined the faculty of Oklahoma State University as an associate professor and was promoted to full professor in August of 2011. His chief interests are engineering education, applied computational electromagnetics, statistical electromagnetics, electromagnetic characterization and application of reverberation chambers, and the analysis and development of near infrared tomography and microwave acoustic tomography for prostate cancer detection. (http://cbunting.ecen.ceat.okstate.edu/).
May Event:
Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2012
5:30pm: Networking/light dinner
6:30pm: Presentation
7:45pm: Adjourn
Light Dinner and beverages will be served for a fee. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served free of charge.
Location: Applied Materials Bowers Cafeteria
Title
TBD
Speaker
Henry Ott
Abstract
Biography
September Event:
Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2012
5:30pm: Networking/light dinner
6:30pm: Presentation
7:45pm: Adjourn
Light Dinner and beverages will be served for a fee. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served free of charge.
Location: Applied Materials Bowers Cafeteria
Title
TBD
Speaker
Alex McEachern, Power Standards Lab