Courses
Investing in EMC training for your teams has excellent ROI—usually spending even one less day in EMC testing & troubleshooting more than pays for the cost of training. EMC United’s approach aims to be as comprehensible as possible to all roles working on a hardware project: electrical, mechanical, systems, management, software, technicians, etc. While a STEM background is needed to get the most out of these courses, no other prerequisites are necessary. All courses include live hardware demonstrations, which help illustrate how the concepts described in the slides end up playing out in the real world. This gives students the chance to see the effects of different configurations and the small changes that can have outsize impact.
Below are listed courses that are available as-is. We are also happy to create customized course content tailor made for you and your team. Reach out at info@emcunited.com if you would like to discuss putting together a seminar either in person or online for your company.
Available Courses
Practical Design for EMC
This is our most popular offering, a boot-camp style one day presentation that focuses less on fundamentals and more on what to do and what not to do for EMC success.
The agenda includes:
How structures and cables can act like antennas
Sources of high frequency noise
Choosing the right grounding and filtering scheme during circuit design
PCB stackup and routing
Shielding
Electrical bonding
Throughout the day we’ll switch between “classroom” slide-based discussions, and a bench setup showing how EMC issues manifest in actual hardware. This allows for a more interactive environment with attendees. Q&A will be encouraged throughout the lecture and demonstration periods.
Cost: $8000, no limit on group size, plus travel expenses if delivered on site.
Shielding for EMI
Shielding appears to be one of the most confusing topics in EMC—or at least the topic with the most confusing advice out there. This course aims to provide people with understanding of the fundamentals, so they can decide what approach to shielding makes the most sense for their hardware, whether that be a handheld, automotive, aerospace, or facility-installed unit.
The agenda includes:
Faraday cages
Magnetic shielding
Cable and enclosure shielding acting as antennas
Transfer impedance
Skin depth
Gasketing and honeycomb
Board level shielding
Measuring shielding effectiveness
Cost: $8000, no limit on group size, plus travel expenses if delivered on site
EMI/EMC In Military Systems
Delivered through ATI Courses, this is a three day comprehensive course that teaches EMC fundamentals through the lens of the key military and aerospace standards such as MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-464, and RTCA DO160.
Systems EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) involves the control of EMI (Electromagnetic Interference) at the systems, facility, and platform levels (e.g. outside the box.) This three-day course provides a comprehensive treatment of EMI/EMC problems in military systems. These include both the box level requirements of MIL-STD-461 and the systems level requirements of MIL-STD-464. The emphasis is on prevention through good EMI/EMC design techniques – grounding, shielding, cable management, and power interface design. As we go through MIL-STD-464 and 461, at each step we’ll explain the fundamental principles behind the requirements. Hardware demonstrations will help students understand how some of the strange behaviors associated with EMC play out in the real world. Each student will receive a complete set of lecture notes.
Design For EMC
Delivered through ATI Courses, this is a comprehensive three day seminar covering EMC fundamentals and the practical design advice needed to implement designs that can pass EMC testing easily.
The goal of this course is to give engineers involved in developing hardware the best possible chance of passing EMC testing the first time. Through in-depth discussion, case studies, simulations, and live demonstrations of both fundamental EMC concepts and practical tips, tricks, and troubleshooting advice, students will walk away with confidence that they can identify where EMC problems are most likely to appear and mitigate them before they have a chance to cause issues.
This course addresses emissions, ESD, RFI, power, and self-compatibility. It covers components, Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), power electronics, grounding, and shielding. It will be useful no matter the application—whether the hardware needs to meet FCC, CISPR 32, ISO 11452, MIL-STD-461, or other requirements (or if it only needs to be self-compatible), this course will bear directly on what is needed to pass those tests.
The class is taught by an expert in the field in a practical problem/solution format with minimal math and theory. It emphasizes the most common problems facing designers of today’s high-speed digital and mixed digital/analog circuits and systems.
Course notes are included.
If you would like to get a sense of the presentation style EMC United uses before committing to a class, consider checking out our free Udemy course.
This is a 90 minute online course covering our most popular basic material. You can get a sense of how material is presented, the level of technical detail, and the impact of hardware demonstrations.