Education and Student
Activities Committee (ESAC)

The Education and Student Activities Committee (ESAC) held its annual meeting at the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on EMC this summer. It was attended by educators from many different institutions and by other engineers with an interest in EMC education. ESAC strives to cultivate programs that develop EMC skills in engineers ranging from those new to the field to experienced practitioners seeking to expand their knowledge. The many educational activities coordinated by the ESAC are described below.


Experiments Manual
ESAC is responsible for maintenance of the EMC-S Experiments Manual. Originally begun by Dr. Clayton Paul over twenty years ago, it is designed to assist those teaching and developing EMC courses that reinforce the theory with practice. The experiments manual can be located under the ESAC page on the EMC-S website. It has been maintained for several years by Dr. Ed Wheeler of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology who has now finished his term. At the ESAC meeting this summer, Dr. Bogdan Adamczyk of Grand Valley State University in Michigan was elected to carry on the work of collecting and publishing experiments. The work of graduate student Chris Semanson of the University of Michigan – Dearborn (featured in the Summer 2010 EMC-S Newsletter) in developing experiments that complement Henry Ott’s book, Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering (reviewed in the Spring 2010 EMC-S Newsletter) will be included. The revised experiments manual will be posted on the EMC-S website.

 

The popular Chris Semanson (center) with the University of Michigan – Dearborn presented the experiment “The Effect of Circuit Impedance on Field-Coupled Crosstalk” at the Long Beach Symposium. Chris worked tirelessly in developing several experiments that complement Henry Ott’s recent book, Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering. The “Fundamentals of EMC” full day tutorial in Long Beach was exceptionally well attended this year, thanks to the popularity of featured speakers Henry Ott, Andy Marvin, Mark Steffka, Don Sweeney, and Bruce Archambeault. Henry chaired the tutorial and presented “Dipoles for Dummies (as well as all the rest of us without a Ph.D. in electromagnetics).

 


University Grant Program
John Howard founded the EMC-S University Grant program in the 1990s to promote the development of original university-level courses in the principles of EMC, and administered it until 2006. Sadly, John perished in an airplane accident in the summer of 2010. At its annual meeting, ESAC voted to recommend to the EMC-S Board of Directors that the annual University Grant award be named in his memory. The funds made available for the last grant period were $5,000. The award for this year, the sixteenth in the history of the program, went to the University of British Columbia in Victoria for the development of an EMC fundamentals course by Dr. Dave Michelson. Tom Jerse has been administering the program since 2006, and this year Daryl Beetner of the Missouri University of Science and Technology will begin his tenure as program chairman. Anyone interested in applying for a future course development grant is encouraged to visit the ESAC page of the EMC-S website or contact the chairman at daryl@mst.edu


Student Paper Contest
ESAC sponsors two student competitions to foster student interest in EMC and the Symposium. Again this year, the student paper competition had a sizeable number of entrants. Three student papers were recognized for the Best Student Paper Award, including:


First Place
“Electromagnetic Field Radiation from MWCNTs and SWCNT Bundles: A Comparative Analysis” by A.G. D’Aloia, M.S. Sarto, and A. Tamburrano, Department of Electrical Engineering, Research Center on Nanotechnology Applied to Engineering, University of Rome, “La Sapienza”


First Runner Up
“Compact Configuration of a Planar EBG Based CM Filter and Crosstalk Analysis” by F. De Paulis¹, L. Raimondo¹, B. Archambeault², S. Connor², and A. Orlandi¹ 1University of L’Aquila, 2IBM


Second Runner Up
“Analytical Expressions for Maximum Transferred Power in Wireless Power Transfer Systems” by Sunkyu Kong, Myunghoi Kim, Kyoungchoul Koo, Seungyoung Ahn, Bumhee Bae and Joungho Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

 

Students Shine in Sunny Southern California!
EMC Society President Francesca Maradei is shown below presenting the student awards during the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on EMC held in Long Beach, California.

Congratulations to these outstanding students from around the world!

Student A.G. D’Aloia from the University of Rome, “La Sapienza”, was the first place recipient of the Best Student Paper Award for his paper, “Electromagnetic Field Radiation from MWCNTs and SWCNT Bundles: A Comparative Analysis.” Student Sunkyu Kong from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) was the second runner up for the Best Student Paper Award for his paper, “Analytical Expressions for Maximum Transferred Power in Wireless Power Transfer Systems.” Student F. De Paulis from the University of L’Aquila was the first runner up for the Best Student Paper Award for his paper, “Compact Configuration of a Planar EBG Based CM Filter and Crosstalk Analysis.” Student Tianqi Li of the Missouri University of Science and Technology won the Best Student Design Award. His design to layout a linear feedback shift register circuit had the lowest radiated emissions of all designs submitted.

 


Student Design Contest
This year the ESAC-sponsored hardware design contest was restarted after a two-year hiatus. The project chosen for this year was to layout a linear feedback shift register circuit for minimum radiated emissions. The entrants were provided with the necessary integrated circuits and clock generator and were tasked with designing and building the circuit layout. They were also free to add any dc filtering components to the circuit as they saw fit. The assembly was powered by a 9-V battery. The submitted entries were taken to the state-of-the-art EMC test facility at Lexmark in Lexington, KY, who graciously donated their time and facilities. The winning entry with the lowest radiated emissions was realized by Tianqi Li, Jun Wu and Hengsi Qin with the Missouri University of Science and Technology under the supervision of Dr. David Pommerenke. Check the ESAC page of the EMC-S website for details and the rules of the competition for 2012.


New ESAC Officers
New ESAC officers were elected at the meeting. Bogdan Adamczyk, the current secretary, was elected to the position of vice-chair and Mark Steffka was elected to replace him as secretary. The current chair, Tom Jerse, will step down after completing a four year term at the 2012 Symposium, and a new chair will be appointed by the EMC-S Board of Directors.
     ESAC invites anyone with an interest in EMC education to join us at our next annual meeting during the 2012 EMC Symposium in Pittsburgh.     EMC

 

 

 



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