It does seem to be the case that commercial courses offered for EMI
prevention are developed by people with something to sell. Still, not
all are aimed at 11th hour solutions. Few people in the field really
favor this kind of fix. It isn't integrated with product esthetics
(translation: it can be ugly), it isn't considered in mechanical
design, so it may not fit well, and it's costly. These points are all
emphasized by courses originating in test labs, rather than
product-specific vendors.
However, the original question was whether courses in complying with
regulations should be offered in college. Isn't this issue more an
engineering ethics problem, and a social consequence of our work, than
a problem of technical design? Getting compliance designed in can be
much harder than discovering when it is not.
Regards,
Cortland
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Subject: Re: Regulatory compliance training for students
Author: dmck...@paragon-networks.com (Doug McKean) at internet
List-Post: emc-pstc@listserv.ieee.org
Date: 1/23/97 10:12
Why is the talk centered around safety?
Safety specs are construction and performance.
They tell you what to do. No secret there.
Emissions specs are performance specs. They say nothing
about construction. Only one course I've seen for emi/emc
offered at a school was a graduate class one semester.
Even still, some things some people call 'fixes' have been
11th hour gasket/ferrite panic fixes as the primary emi
control procedure. In fact, starting out in the field of
emi/emc, all one can hope for to large extent are 'courses'
sponsered by gasket/ferrite people who want you to
improperly primary design so that you keep them in
business.
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