2009 Chair: Prof. Todd Hubing, Clemson University
2009 Co-Chair: Prof. Andrew Marvin, University of York

Global EMC University will be held in conjunction with the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on EMC in Austin, Texas the week of August 17-21. This will be the third consecutive year that this popular program targeted toward engineers who are new to the field of EMC has been offered at the symposium. Global EMC University is 9 two-hour short courses on topics of fundamental importance to EMC engineers. Course instructors are highly regarded members of the EMC profession with a reputation for excellent teaching. Enrollment is limited to 30 students. This year’s list of topics and instructors are provided below. Please note that the times shown are tentative and may be shifted to accommodate the symposium event schedule.

Monday 1:30 pm – 3:20 pm
Conducted Emissions and Power Supply Filters – Mark Steffka, GM
A brief review of the conducted emission regulatory requirements, the LISN, common-mode and differential-mode currents, and analysis of typical power supply filters.

Monday 3:40 pm – 5:30 pm
Capacitance and Inductance – Al Ruehli, IBM
Introduction to the concepts of capacitance and inductance as they relate to electromagnetic coupling and the high-frequency behavior of components.

Tuesday 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Use of PSPICE in Solving EMC Problems – Clayton Paul, Mercer University
Students will use the circuit modeling software, PSPICE, to solve basic problems of interest to EMC engineers.

Tuesday 1:30 pm – 3:20 pm
Overview of Numerical Methods – Chuck Bunting, Oklahoma State University
A brief overview of numerical methods for solving problems in electromagnetics including FDTD, BEM, FEM techniques and the software that employs them.

Tuesday 3:40 pm – 5:30 pm
Shielding – David Hockanson, Sun Microsystems
An overview of electromagnetic shielding methods and materials including shielding evaluation techniques, shielded enclosure design, electric field shielding and magnetic field shielding.

Wednesday 8:00 am – 9:50 am
Transmission Lines: Time-Domain and Signal Integrity – Jim Drewniak, Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology
An introduction to the time-domain solution of the transmission line equations, SPICE solutions, effects of mismatch, signal distribution, power distribution and decoupling, and the effects of losses.

Wednesday 10:10 am – 12:00 pm
Transmission Lines: Frequency-Domain and Crosstalk – TBD
An introduction to frequency-domain transmission line analysis including models for electrically short lines (inductive and capacitive coupling), shielded wires and twisted pairs, numerical methods for electrically long and/or lossy lines.

Thursday 8:00 am – 9:50 am
Antennas and Radiation EMC Standards – Andy Marvin, University of York
An introduction to Hertzian and loop dipoles, the half-wave dipole and the quarter-wave monopole, antenna arrays, general properties of antennas, Friis transmission formulas, multipath propagation, standard test sites and measurement equipment.

Thursday 10:10 am – 12:00 pm
PCB Layout and System Configuration for EMC – Todd Hubing, Clemson University
Printed circuit board layout techniques that reduced radiated emissions and improve a product’s immunity to external noise sources including electrostatic discharge, conducted transients and radiated electromagnetic interference.