Joanna McLellan of EMC Productivity

Abstract:

By using the results of Maxwell’s equations without the arduous math EMC can be transformed into a team effort rather than that of a single specialist who is often ignored until a test has failed.

In these situations the EMC specialist is hard pressed to explain why a connector is in the wrong place after the mechanical tooling is complete. I recognized this eight years ago and started developing an EMC course to teach electromagnetic skills to a wider audience of engineers. 

The goal is to train an engineering team comprised of mechanical, test, system, analog, digital, functional safety, and electrical engineers as well as PCB layout professionals and technical management to give them a functional understanding of the physics of EMC. 

The lessons learned from successfully teaching this class in China, Germany, Mexico and here in the United States for eight years will be presented. 

Issues such as the importance of the pesky slow speed of light, the Schelkunoff small loop equation, and university circuit theory curriculum with diminishing value past 100KHz will be presented. Human issues such as cultural variations, generational variations, and ways to communicate complex concepts quickly and effectively will also be presented.  

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Biography:

Joanna McLellan received her MSEE degree from Georgia Tech and her BSEE from Florida Tech. She turns the magic of EMC into the technology of EMC with consulting and EMC courses globally. 

This summer she will run for a second term as an IEEE EMC society member of the board. 

She is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE EMC Society, SWE, WIE, and SAE EMI Task Force. Her engineering career spans over 40 years always with an interest in fields and waves.

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