Importance of EMC education

Abstract

This paper summarises the strategy of EMC education in India and abroad. A formal EMC educational course basically includes a broad comprehensive introduction to electromagnetic interference (EMI) problems and their hardening and analysis techniques, computational electromagnetics, methods of EMI measurement and various standards and specifications used in the international levels, as well as instrumentation and case histories of the EMC problems. This is also aimed at training the working engineers in industries, as engineers are keenly interested in EMC because of the competitive nature of today's market. The educational course is designed by the expert teaching staff to provide proper motivation and realism and practical aspects of the EMI situations. The course is divided into two parts. To begin with, the education course may consist of a lecture segment covering the essential topics like EMC aspects, EMC requirements for electronic systems, signal spectra, crosstalk, shielding, electromagnetics etc., and is followed by practical design of various live electromagnetic problems experienced in information technology products and processes, measurements, seminars both by students and by experts from the industries, R&D houses and visits to EMC design centres in the second part. The paper addresses the syllabus of this integrated EMC course which is taught in undergraduate level of the Universities/Institutions. The paper emphasises the importance of nonformal EMC education to produce skilled manpower to look after the EMC design and measurement techniques in electronic industries.