{"id":9298,"date":"2018-10-02T10:20:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T09:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineernewsnetwork.com\/blog\/?p=9298"},"modified":"2018-10-02T10:20:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T09:20:05","slug":"emc-education-keith-armstrong-receives-ieee-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineernewsnetwork.com\/blog\/emc-education-keith-armstrong-receives-ieee-award\/","title":{"rendered":"EMC education: Keith Armstrong receives IEEE award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) specialist Keith Armstrong was the first person to be presented with the IEEE\u2019s new Excellence in Continuing EMC Education Award, at the 2018 joint IEEE EMC society and Asia-Pacific EMC (APEMC) symposium.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Continuing Education\u2019 means professional education that engineers\u00a0undertake after their academic education, often called \u2018continuing\u00a0professional development\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The awards ceremony followed a series of successful EMC training courses by Keith in Australia. These are latest in a series of such courses on good, cost-effective EMC, signal integrity (SI) and power integrity (PI) engineering that Keith has delivered worldwide for more than 23 years.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7565662001938327\" data-ad-slot=\"7585079586\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\nDuring this period Keith also wrote many articles and guides and presented many conference papers on these topics, including testing techniques and risk managing electromagnetic interference (EMI), which used to be called \u2018EMC for Functional Safety\u2019.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9300\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9300\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/engineernewsnetwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Keith-Armstrong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9300 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/engineernewsnetwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Keith-Armstrong-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"EMC education: Keith Armstrong receives IEEE award\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commitment to practical EMC education recognised by international engineering institution<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was Keith\u2019s commitment to continuing <span class=\"highlight highlight-blue\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2NYqxLN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EMC education<\/a><\/span> for practising engineers that prompted the launch of online resource EMC Standards in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA strong understanding and knowledge of EMI and EMC is imperative in modern engineering,\u201d explains Keith. \u201cDesigners are always using die-shrunk integrated circuits (ICs) and power switching devices and adding new features to products in a never-ending quest to maintain or grow market share. This generally results in worse SI, PI, emissions and immunity: increasing difficulties in complying with functional specifications and EMC standards; poorer customer experiences, and increased warranty costs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAchieving EMC is often left to a small group of EMC experts, after the functional design is complete, sometimes called \u2018throwing it over the wall to the EMC department\u2019. But this has become extremely inefficient because almost every aspect of a modern electronic product has an impact on EMC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo get to market quickly with a successful and profitable product now requires all designers to use good EM engineering. They don\u2019t need to become EMC experts, or know how to test to standards, but they do need to know enough to ensure that their first prototypes are close-enough to their final products to only require minor modifications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, practical EM engineering is generally not taught as part of academic engineering courses, at any level, so I have always focussed on helping design engineers and their managers understand \u2013 in practical terms \u2013 what is required at each stage of the product cycle to avoid real-world problems and reduce financial risks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very honoured to have been the first person to be presented with this new IEEE award, and will continue to deliver practical education on EMC, SI and PI to engineers worldwide. I hope to deliver this increasingly via my continually-updated training course material on the EMC Standards site.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) specialist Keith Armstrong was the first person to be presented with the IEEE\u2019s new Excellence in Continuing EMC Education Award, at the 2018 joint IEEE EMC society and Asia-Pacific EMC (APEMC) symposium. \u2018Continuing Education\u2019 means professional education that engineers\u00a0undertake after their academic education, often called \u2018continuing\u00a0professional development\u2019. 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