Prof. Levent Sevgi of OKAN University, Engineering Faculty, Tuzla – İSTANBUL

The role of EM fields in our lives has been increasing. Communication, remote sensing, integrated command/control/surveillance systems, medicine, environment, education, marketing, defense are only a few areas where EM fields have critical importance. We have witnessed the transformation from “Engineering Electromagnetics” to “Electromagnetic Engineering” for the last few decades after being surrounded by electromagnetic waves everywhere. Among many others, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) engineering is the most important one since it necessitates establishing an intelligent balance between strong mathematical background (theory), engineering experience (practice), and modeling and numerical computations (simulation).

This tutorial explores the fundamentals of EMC engineering and examines the concepts and underpinnings of electromagnetics. It highlights the procedures from design to market for both technical and non-technical issues, including market control, accreditation, calibration, EM signal environments, noise, interference, EMC tests and measurement, signal integrity, and EMC mitigation and protection.  Electromagnetic model, circuit model, two-port circuit definitions, grounding, common and differential model currents, and microstripline circuits are explored.  It also covers antennas and antenna calibration, including communication antennas, normalized site attenuation (NSA), loop antennas, and loop antenna calibration (LAC).  Practical aspects and challenging issues in different sectors – from defense industry to telecommunications, space industry to automotive sector and fast trains, to commercial electronics, white goods, etc., are discussed. 

Biography:

Prof. Sevgi Born in Akhisar / Turkey on 1^st January 1958. He received his BsEE, MsEE and PhD degrees in Electronic Engineering from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in 1982, 1984 and 1990, respectively. In 1987, while working on his PhD, he was awarded a fellowship that allowed him to work with Prof. L. B. Felsen at Weber Research Institute / New York Polytechnic University York for two years. His work at the Polytechnic concerned the propagation phenomena in non-homogeneous open and closed waveguides

He has been involved with complex electromagnetic problems and complex communication and radar systems for nearly three decades. His research study has focused on propagation in complex environments, analytical and numerical methods in electromagnetic, EMC/EMI modeling and measurement, communication, radar and integrated surveillance systems, surface wave HF radars, FDTD, TLM, FEM, SSPE, and MoM techniques and their applications, RCS modeling, bio-electromagnetics. He is also interested in novel approaches in engineering education, teaching electromagnetics via virtual tools. He also teaches popular science lectures such as Science, Technology and Society.

He is a Fellow member of the IEEE, an AdCom member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) (2013 - 2015), the writer/editor of the “Testing ourselves” Column in the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine (Feb 2007 -) and a member of the IEEE AP-S Education Committee (Jun 2006 -), a member of the IEEE AP-S Field Award Committee (Jan 2018 -). He is also a member of several editorial boards (EB), such as the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine (Feb 2007 -), the IEEE Access (2017 - 2019), Wiley’s International Journal of RFMiCAE (Jan 2002 -), etc.

He has published more than 10 books in English and Turkish, nearly 200 journal/magazine papers/tutorials and attended 100+ international conferences/symposiums.

His three books Complex Electromagnetic Problems and Numerical Simulation Approaches (2003), Electromagnetic Modeling and Simulation (2014) and Radiowave Wave Propagation and Parabolic Equation Modeling (2017, with Gökhan Apaydın) were published by the IEEE Press & Wiley. His book A Practical Guide to EMC Engineering (2017) was published by ARTECH House.

He has been involved with complex electromagnetic problems and complex communication and radar systems for nearly three decades. His research study has focused on propagation in complex environments, analytical and numerical methods in electromagnetic, EMC/EMI modeling and measurement, communication, radar and integrated surveillance systems, surface wave HF radars, FDTD, TLM, FEM, SSPE, and MoM techniques and their applications, RCS modeling, bio-electromagnetics. He is also interested in novel approaches in engineering education, teaching electromagnetics via virtual tools. He also teaches popular science lectures such as Science, Technology and Society.

He is a Fellow member of the IEEE, an AdCom member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) (2013 - 2015), the writer/editor of the “Testing ourselves” Column in the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine (Feb 2007 -) and a member of the IEEE AP-S Education Committee (Jun 2006 -), a member of the IEEE AP-S Field Award Committee (Jan 2018 -). He is also a member of several editorial boards (EB), such as the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine (Feb 2007 -), the IEEE Access (2017 - 2019), Wiley’s International Journal of RFMiCAE (Jan 2002 -), etc.

He has published more than 10 books in English and Turkish, nearly 200 journal/magazine papers/tutorials and attended 100+ international conferences/symposiums.

His three books Complex Electromagnetic Problems and Numerical Simulation Approaches (2003), Electromagnetic Modeling and Simulation (2014) and Radiowave Wave Propagation and Parabolic Equation Modeling (2017, with Gökhan Apaydın) were published by the IEEE Press & Wiley. His book A Practical Guide to EMC Engineering (2017) was published by ARTECH House.

Address:Electrical – Electronics Engineering Department, OKAN University, Engineering Faculty, Tuzla , Tuzla-İSTANBUL, Istanbul, Türkiye