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Lecture Time and Location: 11:30 - 12:20 MWF, Room Engr. 304
Prerequisites:
Familiarity and understanding of basic concepts
in signals and systems, electronics, and electromagnetics. ECE 3410 Electronics
I and ECE 3870 Electromagnetics I should give you most of the background
you need.
Required Text: Introduction to Electromagnetic Compatibility, 2nd edition, C.R. Paul. Wiley-Interscience, 2006, ISBN 0-471-75500-1. Probably the best known book on introductory EMC, the one that everyone references, by one of the giants that everyone knows (or should know). Covers most EMC topics, and is a very understandable starting place for learning about the field of EMC. By the way, if you are looking for a good introductory EM book, check out Clayton's text "Electromagnetics for Engineers: With Applications to Digital Systems and Electromagnetic Interference, Wiley, 2004, ISBN: 0-471-27180-2. A great intro to electromagnetics, with many of the examples drawn from EM issues with digital systems design and EMC-related problems.
Recommended Supplements:
While these books are not required, if you plan on doing anything serious in EMC, you should also have a few of the following texts on your book shelf. Note that these are just my opinions, and everyone knows that opinions are like..., well, you know.
"Electromagnetic Compatibility: Principles and Applications, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded," David A. Weston, Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2001, ISBN 0-8247-8889-3. Just reading the title means I already have a significant time investment in this book, and makes me want to read the rest of the book. Another general EMC book like Paul's, but with more emphasis on measurements and testing. It is almost worth getting the book for Chapter 9, "EMI Measurements, Control Requirements, and Test Methods," and Chapter 10, which has material on several case studies as well as EMC predictions. Kind of pricey, but a definite must have.
"Engineering Electromagnetic Compatibility : Principles, Measurements, Technologies, and Computer Models, 2nd Edition," W. Prasad Kodali, Wiley, 2001, ISBN 0-7803-4743-9. A book similar to the Paul text, with more emphasis on modeling and simulation. A reasonable alternative to Paul.
"High-Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic," Howard Johnson and Martin Graham, Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1993, ISBN 0-13-395724-1. A very well-known text in this area. Covers many of the same topics as the Paul text, but more oriented toward digital design.
"High-Speed Signal Propagation: Advanced Black Magic," Howard Johnson, Prentice-Hall, Inc. 2003, ISBN 0-13-084408-X. A companion text to Johnson and Graham. Covers different material, primarily associated with high speed signal transmission.
"High-Speed Digital System Design: A Handbook of Interconnect Theory and Design Practices," Stephen H. Hall, Garrett W. Hall, James A. McCall, Wiley Interscience, 2001, ISBN 0-471-36090-2. A book similar to Johnson's second text.
While the above books cover much of the background material, theory and applications of EMC design principles, one of the key skills that an EMC engineer needs is the ability to model and compute some of the physical situations that are involved in EMC analysis. Two complementary books that I can recommend on this topic are the following:"EMI/EMC Computational Modeling Handbook, 2nd ed.," Bruce Archambeault, Colin Brench, and Omar M. Ramahi, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, ISBN 0-7923-7462-2. Covers the application of computational EM techniques to EMC/EMI problems, with a special emphasis on understanding how to model the physics of the situation, including the importance of validating the model used to analyze a situation.
"EMC Analysis Methods and Computational Models," Frederick M. Tesche, Michael V. Ianoz and Torbjorn Karlsson, Wiley Interscience, 1997, ISBN 0-471-15573-X. A much more detailed introduction to EMC analysis and modeling, getting into more of the details of how you do the analysis and the subsequent modeling.
Tesche, et. al.'s book is the place to start in understanding the detailed physics of what is going on, while Archambeault, et. al's book gives you more insight on what would be the best way to tackle the problem from a computational approach. Use both of them together and you'll be well on your way to handling most of the problems you run into. Get them both, learn what's in them and you'll save yourself a world of hurt when modeling EMC problems.
Grading: We are going to have a midterm (25%), homework (20%), a semester long software project (25%) and a hardware project (30%) that will take the place of a final exam. The software project will entail the use of either Maple, Mathcad or MATLAB to develop some simulations and/or calculations of parameters useful in the EMC arena. For more information, go to the Supplemental Material page via the link below, then go to the Software Project page.
Reading & HW Assignments: Reading/Homework assignments for the semester
Reference Material: Useful EMC reference information
EMC Links: EMC related links
Supplemental Material: Supplemental material for this class and links to class projects
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Last Updated: 4/19/2006