Survey Forms on EMC Education Needs

Appendix A Survey Forms Collected from EU and ASEAN Participants
A Survey on Adequacy of Postgraduate EMC Education in the Universities

The objective of the survey is to understand the needs of electronic companies/manufacturers in the area of EMC training for their engineers. The survey results will help the universities in developing an innovative university course to better prepare future electronic designers for the challenges imposed by the assurance of the electrical performance of high-speed electronic systems. Five universities that participated in this project are Polytechnic of Turin (Italy), University of Hannover (Germany), University of Nottingham (UK), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and King Monguts Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok (Thailand).
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Name: Ronald De Smedt Company: Alcatel Bell, F.Wellesplein 1, B-2018 Antwerpen (Belgium) Job Title: Physical design competence engineer EMC/SI/Thermal Your company products/services: Telecom systems
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Yes (but long time ago!): - PATO-course Electromagnetic compatibility, Eindhoven (Netherlands), 1986. - Electromagnetic compatibility engineering, Course of the Center for Professional Advancement, Amsterdam (Netherlands), 1988. We have also developed our own, elaborated, 2-days EMC course for designers (mechanical, electronic), which have been given several times at various locations of Alcatel units (Antwerpen, Stuttgart, Paris, Toulouse, Madrid, Dallas).
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Definitely, the two courses, which I have followed (see 5.), were an excellent starting point to be acquainted with the subject. Similarly, the aim of our internal EMC course is to assist our designers to provide a better EMC compliance. At lot of both theoretical background (to better understand the phenomena) and practical examples (eg. good and bad practices) are given. Such a course is accepted well by the designers, as it helps them definitely to make more reasonable compromises and produce better designs. In addition we also provide an extensive EMC design guide and a short checklist (with the most important points of attention).
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Of sure, practical demonstrators are helping to understand EMC. - Life demonstrations are very well convincing. In particular, it removes the doubt, which some sceptic people may have about the amount of impact of EMC phenomena. - Demonstrations are close to real life situations, hence, will induce large interest and recognition from the audience. - It helps much at better understand the theory. - It is a welcome and refreshing change to the more theoretical explanations.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? There exist already a large collection of suitable EMC demonstrators (see eg. the demonstration section at the yearly IEEE EMC Symposium). The practical demonstrations could also cover life (or recorded) demos of simulations (eg. radiations from lines or cables, field penetration through slots and apertures in a shielded box).
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? A good balance between theory (to understand the underlying physical phenomena, without going into detailed theoretical derivations avoid too complicated theoretical expressions, which are scaring a lot of people !), examples of good/bad practices and life demonstrations. A good hand-out, supplemented with a design guide and checklist. Web-based applications of this design guide and checklist are interesting as well, as small simulations can be included as well.
Thank you for taking time to complete the survey.

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Name: Dr. Vladica Trenkic Company: Flomerics Job Title: Research & Development Engineer Your company products/services: EMC & Thermal simulation software
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Yes Electromagnetic Compatibility, Fundamental of Design and Testing University of York
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? Conducted EMI, Shielding and radiated EMI
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? No.

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Name: Spartaco Caniggia Company: Italtel Spa Job Title: Chief of EMI/EMC & Physical Design Your company products/services: Switching Equipment for Telecommunication
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) I was teacher of several internal and external EMC courses.
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) The EMC courses are useful for two main reasons: - They provide the basic knowledge to the designers in order to avoid electrical problems such as reflections on cable and PCB traces, crosstalk, ground and power noises that are not regulated by standards. - They describe the guide lines required in order to be compliant with the EMC standards regarding a well-defined product.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes, to illustrate practical examples with bad and good design practices is very appreciated because the hardware designers are in general not interested in theoretically explanation.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? I would like to include: - Grounding and shielding at PCB, equipment and system level. - Crosstalk and mismatch in signal lines. - Radiated emission from PCB, cables and apertures.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? A visit to an EMC center for measurements (open field, semi-anechoic chamber, etc). Reproduce experimentally some EMC phenomena such as ESD, emission and immunity. How to use a circuital simulator such SPICE in order to predict signal integrity, emission and immunity with simple models.

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Name: Richard Scaramuzza Company: Flomerics Ltd Job Title: Development Manager Your company products/services: Provide virtual prototyping software for engineers
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) No
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) NA.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons)
Yes. EMC is difficult to learn from a theoretical point of view so any practical experience offered by a course will be useful. Rules of thumb can be presented on a course but they may not be remembered unless the student can see the effect of neglecting those rules.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator?
Conducted EMI, shielding, radiated EMI, mode suppression to include absorption and grounding techniques, filtering and use of ferrites
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? Visualization of hotspots in a system, with and without good EMC design practices. The colour plots are easy to remember.

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Name: Alastair Ruddle Company: MIRA Ltd Job Title: Computational Electromagnetics Consultant Your company products/services: Automotive engineering support services (design, test and contract research) in all relevant disciplines. More specifically in terms of EMC, the services provided include EMC and ESD testing (vehicle and component level), EMC design support and problem solving, electromagnetic (vehicle and component level) and electrostatic (component level) modelling in support of design and better targeted testing, EMC test method development (including simulation of tests and test equipment).
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Conferences and workshops, but not courses as such.
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Cannot comment on courses.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Practical demonstrations reinforce learning as they provide a practical focus for abstract ideas, and concrete examples of their real-world application.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? All of the above, plus cable layout and ESD.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course?

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Name: Vittorio Ricchiuti Company: Siemens Job Title: Engineer Your company products/services: Communication equipments for transport networks
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) No.
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons)
NA.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes, because it helps to understand the theory
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? Crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, board resonances
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? I think that can be useful to give information about the measurements for signal integrity.

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Name: Flavio Maggioni Company: Siemens SMC Job Title: Senior PCB layout and signal integrity engineer. Your company products/services: Apparatus for mobile telecommunications.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) No.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) I think it is very important that people can learn about EMC through a demonstrator. Interference mechanisms are very complex and the analysis of practical situations can help their understatement.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? Crosstalk (far end, near end), PCB design rule, ESD current path control (electrical and mechanical ground, connected in one or more points), current return path control in low and high frequency in PCB stack-up.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? The market is pressing to reduce design time. There is no time for complex and accurate analysis. The course should address problems and analysis methodologies that are compatible to this time constraints.

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Name: Loris Vendrame, Luca Bortesi Company: STMicroelectronics Job Title: Process and Device modeling Engineer Your company products/services: Semiconductor manufactures
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) YES, a short course during Esref 96 conference by JJ Goedbloed who is the author of Electromagnetic Compatibility
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) YES, the awareness of EMC in particular during measurements of electronic devices
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) YES, it will give a better feeling about the theoretical part and will give more confidence about the involved physical quantities
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? If possible all of them
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? Schedule many of the courses in time and place. One week course is max for company people.

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Name: Marco Zorzet Company: Consultant Job Title: Hardware Design Engineer Your company products/services: Digital high speed board design (e.g. single board computers and data acquisition boards.)
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) No
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes, practical demonstrators are very effective as a complement to theory. The students that have the opportunity to touch the bad and the good of a design will certainly be upto-speed in the field faster than colleagues that wont.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? All of those listed would be great. If necessary may be you want also to include specific lessons to demonstrate how the get the most out of an instrument like a TDR and a VNA.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? No suggestions, just a good luck to your great idea.

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Name: Chris Marshman Company: York EMC Services Ltd Job Title: Managing Director Your company products/services: EMC Testing UKAS accredited EMC Consultancy design, approvals, test plans, management plans, railways, etc EMC Test Equipment continuous broadband noise emitters, comb generators to 26GHz EMC Education and Training short courses Fundamentals of EMC, EMC in Railways 5days; workshops 1-2 days: design, testing TCF, electrical safety
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) No, other than as a presenter/lecturer courses listed above, I am also course leader for the EMC Management Module of the EMC and RF Comms Masters Course run by the University of York I have also made presentations at a number of IEE EMC seminars and run the annual EMC York conference.
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) The knowledge I acquire from the courses is an understanding of attendees delegates requirements this is fedback into our course evaluation under our QA procedures, enabling us to change/modify courses to meet the demands of our industrial clients. We seldom have clients who are dissatisfied with our courses and believe that the knowledge imparted will be directly relevant to their jobs.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) All of our courses include practical demonstrations and where possible provide some hands-on experience It is well know that practical demonstrations or computer graphics enhances the learning experience. We find that delegates appreciate practical testing to be demonstrated within our accredited EMC facilities.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? We include all of these in our courses as practical demonstrations.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? Understanding of EMC regulations and standards is vital, particularly the limitations on standards test techniques and potential legal implications. The presenter should have a good clear grasp of this subject and provide a stimulating presentation. This is not easy to do with an audience largely composed of Engineers who find generally this subject boring!

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Name: Tan Chek Khoon Company: Land Transport Authority Job Title: Engineer Your company products/services: To provide a seamless and efficient transport network for Singapore.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Yes. E6303 module.
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Yes. It helps in reviewing contractors EMC submission with respect to the technical deliverables.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes. It helps me to visualize the subject better.
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Basically on important topics like Conducted EMI, crosstalk, PCB layout and etc.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? As discussed in the assignment.

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Anton NTRC / Communication Lab 3 Division of Communication School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nanyang Technological University, Singapore M.Sc (Communications Engineering) student
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Your company products/services: (dissertation project) Design and Implementation of Bluetooth-Enabled Camera
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) (E6303) Electro-Magnetic Compatibility/Interference, postgraduate study, Master of Science (Communications Engineering), School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2004 Physics III (Electro-Magnetic Waves), undergraduate study, Bachelor of Computer (Computer Engineering), Faculty of Computer Studies Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta 1998
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) It seems not to be quite significant contribution. But I realize that the first lesson about common mode and differential mode currents play important role in circuit design. Its obviously that in some circuit design theres some difficulties to decide the most perfect ground reference.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes, I prefer if laboratorial experiments of how the techniques to mitigate interference and enhance compatibility against electric and magnetic fields from various type of circuits. In addition, I would like to see both simulation and real hardware for demonstrator kit, which can show how strong electromagnetic fields are radiated from a number of common electronic devices/equipments. Software simulation exhibits how to implement formulae to do estimation, while hardware parts describe clearly how experimental setup is performed based on theoretical premises.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? Crosstalk, Conducted & Radiated EMI, MIC (microwave integrated circuit) design, Antenna Design, Grounding & Shielding, Switching Power supply (LISN)
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? Basic concept of Maxwell equation Relation to Smith Chart in the RF design, as well as Impedance Chart. More hands-on and laboratory experiments

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Name: Ashwin Pai Ballambettu Company: Agilent Technologies (S) Pte Ltd Job Title: Sr IC Design Engineer Your company products/services: Test & measurement Instruments, IC testers, Spectrum Analyzers, ASICs, High performance LEDs, Opto-Electronic Products, Opto-couplers, Isolators, Optical channel testers, High speed data networking products like SERDES etc.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Yes. E6303.
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes, working as an IC design engineer, I need to understand the EMI issues associated with deep sub-micron process like 0.18 m, 0.13 m, 90nm silicon process. The course will help in understanding the performance of the ASICs under cross talk effects which will significantly impact the timing performance of the chip. Also the EMI performance requirement of the ASIC gives a broader understanding of how the chip Input/Output pads should be designed to meet EMI requirement at the Systems/PCB level.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes, I always believe that practical demonstration would be the best way to understand a course, which is more mathematics intensive and theoretical. Bench experiments would always boost the understanding level of the overall course.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? As an ASIC design engineer, I would prefer to see more of crosstalk, PCB layout and radiated EMI.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? More of practical demonstration would be the best way to improve the overall understanding of the course.

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Name: Basavaraju Basoor Marulasiddappa Company: Venture Corporation Ltd Job Title: Engineering Manager Your company products/services: PCBA contract manufacturing
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended)
Yes. E6303 module in MSc (Consumer Electronics).
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes. Our customers are testing their product for EMC and EMI. .Some times, we have to build PCBA for 3 to 4 proto build before they go mass production and that due to various design issues, among them is EMC EMI problems is one of them.
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Yes. It can help us feedback the information to customer in the first proto itself and can effectively reduce the cost.
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I am not sure.
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Name: Cheng Yow Ching Company: Matsushita Semiconductor (S) Pte Ltd Job Title: Product Development Engineer Your company products/services: Develop and manufacture semiconductor ICs for consumer products.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Yes, the E6303 Electromagnetic Compatibility and Interference course held by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, as one of the elective subject for Master of Science (IC Design) program.
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes. Some of the products designed in my company are susceptive to EMI noise in their application. This course helps me to identify the source of noises and to reduce its effect.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes, definitely. Usually, it is difficult for a beginner in the area of EMC to apply those theories he learnt in EMC course into practical application. A practical demonstrator would definitely help the student to match the theories to actual application.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? PCB layout and crosstalk. It is more related to my work.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? Case study type of assignments or tutorials can help students to use the knowledge learnt into practice.

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Name: Deng Junhong Company: PSB Corporation Job Title: Assistant Vice President Your company products/services: PSB CORPORATION is a one-stop integrated solution provider to providing education service (academy group), product design and system automation service (Technology group), technical consultancy and quality system consultancy service (consultancy group) and testing service (testing group). I am working in testing group. The range of testing programmes of the testing group covers mechanical and building; chemical and materials; electrical and electronics; telecommunications and electromagnetic compatibility, and product certification and inspection.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Yes, Design for EMC, Lightning/Surge Protection Seminar, Printed Circuit Board Design Technologies for Signal Integrity and EMC Compliance, Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) : Basics for Procurement Agencies and Project Managers, Wiring and Cable Design Avoid Front Door EMI
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes, these courses are quite good for R&D engineers who do not have EMC knowledge. After these courses, they will have almost all the basic EMC concepts and be able apply these concepts in product design. Characteristics of an interference signal
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes, the demonstration will help us to understand the concept of good EMC design. Basically, most of the R&D engineers and PCB designers do not have good EMC concepts and they do not have time to read the EMC text book, The demonstration will help them to understand EMC quickly and directly. Its better to give them some common EMC rules to apply in their R&D work.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? The difference between the EMC performance of an equipment with good grounding and poor grounding. During the testing stage, grounding improvement is considered as a best solution because no extra components will be involved except wires and screws and no change on PCB layout. The least inductance rule will help PCB designer and R&D engineer in their work. EMI filter design, the function of each filter components. Shielding, relation between the hole dimensions and wave length. EMC rules in PCB design. EMC consideration in wiring and cabling of electronic system.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? More knowledge of EMC regulations and EMC tests. Some basic EMC rules which are easy to memorize and applied to the product design. Some common EMC troubleshooting methods for each particular EMC test.

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Name: NG ENG YEE Company: HONEYWELL AVIONICS (S) INC. Job Title: R&D ENGINEER Your company products/services: AVIONICS PRODUCTS
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) E6303 Electromagnetic Compliance/Interference at NTU. Company In House training on EMC/EMI.
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes, the knowledge allows me to design the product with EMC/EMI in mind at the very early stage rather than to tackle them later at the design stage. Knowledge would apply on Circuit Design, PCB Layout and Stack Up, Product Chassis, etc.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes, definitely. Practical hands on experiment instill deeper understanding, as there may be things too abstract to look at them at mathematical form or theoretical form. And there is always different combination of problems when we come to actually practicing it on a product.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? All I would say, as they are somehow interrelated in a product.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? To introduce any simulation tools available where we can simulate or emulate the EMC/EMI performance.

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Name: Fu Jiong Company: Matsushita Semiconductor Singapore Pte Ltd Job Title: Product Development Engineer Your company products/services: We are an overseas subsidiary of the Japanese global semiconductor company, Semiconductor Company of Matsushita Electric Industrial Corporation (MEI), with a total commitment to the development and manufacturing of semiconductors (Products of Analog LSIs, Discrete and system LSIs) for consumer and industrial applications, under the renowned brand name of Panasonic.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Yes, the following is the course detail I attended. Title: E6303 Electromagnetic Compatibility & Interference School of EEE, Nanyang Technology University (NTU) Organizer: Content: EMC/EMI Overview. EMI properties of passive components. Crosstalk and cabling. Grounding. Shielding. Balancing and filtering. Non-linear phenomena. Digital circuit noise and radiation. Electrostatic discharge. EMI emission measurements and test methods. Susceptibility and testing.
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes, my job is designing the Audio-Video Switch IC used for the TV system. The bandwidth of TV signal is around 8 ~ 10 MHz. Under this high frequency domain, the crosstalk between channels becomes the critical issue. The technology such as grounding and shielding should be useful tools to improve the quality of AV Switch IC. Digital circuit noise and ESD are also the important issue for IC design. The EMC course shows me the general design principles of EMC and makes the design work easier.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes, I think the practical demonstrator might be necessary for the EMC course candidates to understand the principle of EMC better. The EMC design is related to many practical issues in the engineering domain. Its difficult to realize the solution in the practical design work, even though the designers master the complete knowledge of EMC in theory.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? Because of my background of mix-signal IC design, I am interested in some topics such as crosstalk, shielding, PCB layout, digital circuit noise and ESD protection.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? Practical case study may help to understand the principle and master the design skill. Laboratory experiment can improve the understanding.

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Name: Goh Hui Leng Karen Company: Flextronics Design Asia Pte Ltd Job Title: RF Engineer Your company products/services: Flextronics Design creates innovative, market-leading products for our customers. We partner at any phase of the product development cycle from concept to production launch. Our flexible engagement models allow customers to utilize Flextronics global engineering team for complete, full turnkey product development or for a specific contract design service. We take costs out of an existing product with DFX analysis, redesigns and industrialization services. We provide a multitude of support services including compliance and regulatory testing, production test system development, DFX consulting, prototypes, and new product introduction. By balancing stylish product design with the realities of manufacturing in today's global economy, Flextronics helps customers rapidly move from concept to production launch while optimizing resources and reducing costs.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Yes. E6303 Electromagnetic Compatibility and Interference.
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes. I will be more aware of the EMC and EMI design rules when doing the PCB layout.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes, it will. Lectures, laboratory exercises and PC simulation only give students the necessary knowledge and skill but with a practical demonstrator, students will be able to see real cases of EMC problems, equipment and testing.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? 1. Crosstalk 2. Conducted EMI 3. Shielding 4. PCB layout 5. Radiated EMI
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? Practical EMC experiments and mini-projects can be implemented. This will allow students to see real cases of EMC problems, equipment and testing with their own eyes.

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Name: Khin Thida Aung (Ms) Company: NTU Job Title: MSc Consumer Electronics Student Your company products/services: Full Time Study
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) I believe the knowledge of this EMC/EMI course will be greatly useful for the job, especially for EMC engineer, Design engineer, PCB engineer, Test engineer, QC engineer, Application engineer.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) I will really appreciate and welcome the demonstrator who will guide the EMC practices. In this fast pace of technology, there are many powerful software to simulate the design, but the actual outcome may be different with the simulated design. The surprise of the outcome difference between and the simulated and actual results may be what you see may not be what you get.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? I would like to include the following in the practical demonstration: - Crosstalk - Conducted EMI - Shielding - PCB layout
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The course is comprehensive enough for the future development in the career.

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Name:
Kyaw Ko Lwin
Company: EEE, NTU Job Title: Full-time MSc (Consumer Electronics)
Your company products/services: NA
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) E6303: Electromagnetic Compatibility and Interference
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I think the knowledge acquired in the course will be useful in my job. As designing for EMC is not only important for the desired functional performance, but the devices must also meet LEGAL requirements in virtually all countries of the world before they can be sold.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) It will help me to understand the concept of good EMC design better because an EMC course is difficult to discern without a practical demonstrator.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? I would like to include PCB layout in the practical demonstrator.
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Name: Lee Chee Hoong Company: Flextronics Technology Singapore Job Title: Electronic Engineer Your company products/services: Design & Manufacturing of Large Format Plotter, Printer & etc.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Electromagnetic Compatibility Design Techniques by Philips Electronics Centre for Technical Training (CTT)
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes, it covered Basic EMC principles, EMC at component level, cable/connector, PCB, cabinet and system level. It also included EMC measuring and testing, analysis method and EMC Standards.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes, it provides the opportunities to obtain the hands-on experience through general discussion, ideas exchange and question & answer session.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? PCB layout, immunity to radio frequency fields, transient interference, and self-pollution in electronics products.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? More practical demonstration and examples are recommended in the EMC course.

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Name: Lim Seong Hong Company: Johnson Electric, Hong Kong. Job Title: Application Engineer Your company products/services: Permanent magnet direct current motor for optical data storage drives.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Unfortunately no. The company provides only the production process training. The product development department owns the testing.
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) N/A
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes, it will help me to understand the concept better. This will let me to expose different aspects of EMC learning and help me to analyze the EMI more logically.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? PCB layout and radiated EMI.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? CAD modeling.

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Name: Clement Lim Tzu Huang Company: Thomson Multimedia, Tuner Development Lab. Job Title: Senior RF Engineer Your company products/services: Analog and Digital Tuners.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Yes, currently at NTU. I have an EMC subject in the MSc course.
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes, because, the topics covered are relevant to my work experiences. It offers an introductory level of understanding, which is what I need, since I have never attended such a course. Also, the EMC problem examples and practical experiences given by the lecturer are useful in my current job scope.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes, definitely, since that is simulating the real environment that an EMC engineer would encounter. This will in fact give students a feel of EMC problems as taught in theory and work examples.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? I suppose all of the above given issues should be included, since EMC/EMI problems could arise from any of the above.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? Besides the practical demonstrator kit, the course can also include a visit to an industrial lab where EMC/EMI tests and certifications are carried out. During this visit, students can be shown a real example of EMC test on a single product, eg handset, medical device, etc.

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Name: LOY TECK PUI Company: NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Job Title: MSc Student (IC DESIGN) Your company products/services: NA.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) E6303 ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY & INTERFERENCE
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) I find the course insightful and I feel that it would be more so if there were practical sessions where the participant can get a chance to play with various design topology and look at the effect on the EM field.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Definitely it will help with the understanding and appreciation of the subject if we were able to see for ourselves that an ESD discharge could reset or hang a computer. If we were able to see that everyday products that are not EMC/EMI compatible affecting or being affected it will drive in the message deeper.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? ESD discharge if possible. As in Singapore we almost never see this phenomenon, it would be good if we could demonstrate with an ESD gun, what people in the dryer climate regions experience regularly. Of course I dont mean zapping the participant.
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Name: KHOO TAI HOCK Company: Philips Optical Storage Job Title: Development Engineer Your company products/services: Consumer Electronics
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) E6303
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes, a better understanding on the EMC and the standards, as the products developed in company will be exported to US and Europe.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Definitely, seeing is more believing.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? Radiated EMI.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? Should make this course compulsory in the undergraduate level.

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Name: Mohan Rajesh Elara Company: NTU Job Title: MSc (Consumer electronics)-Full time Your company products/services: Not applicable
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Yes, Electromagnetic Compatibility and Interference in MSc (CE) at NTU.
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes, as the course covers most of the design and measurement methods involved in EMC/EMI, also the case studies covered in the course where very useful.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes of course, as the course would become more interactive.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? Crosstalk measurement, shielding effectiveness, grounding principles and PCB Design.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? The course can be structured with a supporting laboratory so as to enable the students to understand the concepts in depth.

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Name: Steven Neo Chin Kok Company: Conexant Systems Singapore Pte Ltd Job Title: Senior Field Applications Engineer Your company products/services: Provide semiconductor system solutions for broadband communication applications.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Yes. 2004 Electromagnetic Compatibility and Interference course at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes, to a certain extent. We advise customers on their product design that uses our semiconductor solution and this includes providing PCB layout review. More knowledge in the EMC field can help to reduce number of PCB spins due to compliance issues.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes, definitely. Electromagnetic field problems are difficult to visualize. A demonstrator kit will help bridge the gap between theory and practice.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? PCB layout in particular dealing with high speed signal routes and traces.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? Introduce EMC educational kit available from EMC tool vendors that will help to further enhance understanding on EMC topics.

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Name: Po Po Company: MSc. ( Consumer Electronics ) Full-Time Job Title: Full time student Your company products/services: NA.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Yes. I have attended E6303 - Electromagnetic Compatibility and Interference course.
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes, I think. The knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for the job because EMC courses are well-served with real-life case histories. So, it is very useful.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes, I think it will help us to understand the concept of good EMC design better because he has more experiences in EMC knowledge than students.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? I would like to include shielding and radiated EMI in the practical demonstrator.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? Need to train the working engineers in industries as the engineers of today are keenly interested in EMC subject because of competitive nature of todays market and to encounter practical EMC problems for achieving the quality products. EMC course should be taught to undergraduates.

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Name: Soh Beng Choo Company: Epcos Pte Ltd Job Title: Engineer Your company products/services: SAW (Surface acoustics wave) filters
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes, for the ESD section of the course. I have a better knowledge of how ESD occurs, the human body model for the ESD measurement and ESD control.
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Name: Sun Jing Company: Matsushita Semiconductor Singapore Pte Ltd. Job Title: Product Development Engineer Your company products/services: IC Chips: Power Amplifier, Regulator, Microcontroller, Audio Signal Processor.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) E6303 Electromagnetic Compatibility and Interference (Part Time Master of Science Course provided by NTU)
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes. It is useful. Currently I am involved in the design of 75ohm Driver. Its operating frequency range is up to 50MHz. I encounter problem in the design of testing board as previously I am only involved in audio range signal processing.
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Yes. Of course it helps me to better understand the concept of good EMC design. In fact EMC knowledge can also be obtained from some reference books. Most of these books, they just tell readers what design is correct and what design is not appropriate. However, as no practical demonstrators are given, readers cant really 100% believe or appreciate their conclusions.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? As much as possible, all the above EMC design issues could be included in the practical demonstrator. It does help learners to have first hand sense of the mentioned EMC issues.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? A lot of engineers encounter EMC problems in their work. It is hoped that some dedicated EMC course could be provided. CASE STUDY course is proposed. It is a good practice to learn from mistakes.

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Name: Tan Juay Yong Company: EPCOS PTE LTD Job Title: Test Engineer Your company products/services: EPCOS is a MNC producing SAW filters for mobile communication customers; Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and LGIC, and automobiles customers; Delphi, Jabil, etc. EPCOS is based in Germany, Munich, with manufacturing plant in Germany, Singapore and China. It has its R&D department based all over the world Germany, USA, Japan, Singapore. Initial product design to final testing are all carried out internally by the Company itself.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Currently attending NTUs part-time MSc in Communcation Engineering. This course has included a compulsory module in Electromagnetic Compatibility and Interference for students taking a major in RF Engineering, in which introduces EMC/EMI to the audiences. This is followed by controlling EMI through good design practice and consideration. Shielding design is been discussed in the module and finally topics on ESD is discussed. Introduction and hands-on practice on EMC/EMI testing are been provided to the students, these include lab session to introduce various test method and test chamber.
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) The knowledge gain in this course are relevant and most useful to the students, with which the introduction of the requirements and fundamental of a good design, meeting to international EMC/EMI standards. However, the art of good EMC/EMI design must come from a fundamentally strong understanding of this field, through which technical experience would bridge a good product design.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes, with a practical demonstrator, it would definitely help students to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices. Most importantly, to allow students to have a better understanding and to avoid making the common foolish mistakes discussed.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? All defined root cause for EMC design failures could be included in the practical demonstrator to allow a reference to different FMEA (Failure Mode Engineering Analysis). This could assist in the design of different requirements with each, an own set of critical parameters.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? E-Training and membership forum side for EMC courses and discussion could come in handy especially in sharing good design practice and problems encountered.

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Name: Teo Chuan Wee (G0301135G) Company: Marvell Asia Pte Ltd Job Title: Test Product Engineer Your company products/services: It provides broadband communications and storage solutions.
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) I found it quite useful especially the explanation of nature of the ESD event, and also the design techniques for reduce this EMI behavior. I am working in the testing environment, and quite often ESD is a headache to us, which normally caused by reckless handling.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Definitely, students can have better understanding of the course material if the course comes with a practical demonstrator.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? Crosstalk and PCB layout.
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Name: Teo Wee Lip Company: Micro Semiconductor Asia (Pte) Ltd Job Title: Test Equipment Engineer Your company products/services: Memory Products like DRAM, Flashetc
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) EMC at Undergraduate level in NUS Electromagnetic Compatibility and Interference NTU (Postgraduate level)
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Not directly. The course armed me with knowledge that I may understand some of the extra FCC kits that are required to install on Equipment concerning their function and purposes.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes, it will. Through a practical measurement of the interference encountered or generated, it will give us a true picture of a good/bad circuit design and countermeasure.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? Interference detection and measurement techniques. Practical session to determine the most effective countermeasure pertaining to particular interference source.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? No complaints on the theory part. Hope to see more practical session or mini-project to reinforce theory taught in class.

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Name: Wong Chee Meng Company: Lucent Technologies (S) Pte Ltd Job Title: Consultant Your company products/services: Optical Network, Wireless Network, Data Network. Full turnkey solutions.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Yes, E6303.
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes, it will be very useful for my job because I deal mainly with wireless network and wireless equipments and understanding EMC will be useful in protecting our equipments and base stations from external interference and prevent our equipments form interfering others nearby. It also help us to understand the seriousness of not doing proper shielding which may case catastrophic destruction on the circuit and thus losing money and time.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Definitely yes! With a demonstrator, we can see better the difference between a good and a bad EMC design practices. Furthermore, it makes the course more interesting and interactive.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? I would prefer to have practical demonstration on the shielding and radiated EMI.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? Probably on more practical lessons in the class, for example, a demonstrator, especially on the shielding and EMI impact or have more case studies from the industries so that students can foresee the kind of EMI/EMC issues when working.

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Name: Yan Dan Lei Company: Agilent Technologies Job Title: R&D Engineer Your company products/services: communication test operation. Telecommunication network tester. Voice quality tester. wire/frame scope
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) I think it is very useful for me
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes. I can understand what is good design and bad design for EMC.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? Crosstalk, PCB layout, Conducted EMI
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? It is better that we have a chance to test in lab.

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Name: Yeo Che Yon Company: Shimadzu (Asia Pacific) Pte. Ltd Job Title: R&D Engineer Your company products/services: Design and Manufacture of Medical, Analytical and Healthcare instruments.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) E6303 conducted by NTU.
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes, definitely. This course provides details on how EMC/EMI works and methods to overcome it. As far as I know, there have not been many EMC/EMI courses and most young design engineers pick up this subject through older colleagues without proper guidance. Hence it is very important to understand the basics and the elements of EMC/EMI through this kind of courses.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes it definitely helps a lot. In my opinion, it is very important to have hands-on experience rather than only theoretically learning. Examples and case studies or probably small projects will benefit the students to further understand the concept well. This is because many of the design engineers nowadays has a certain product development cycle time of a span of less than 1 to 2 years, therefore it is not everyday that these design engineers deal with EMC problems. Sometimes, what they learned from theory can be easily forgotten if not use frequently on the job. Therefore, it is important to have a practical project that these design engineers can have hands-on experience to work with and indirectly engrave this concept in their mindset.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? I think all the above-mentioned should be included in the practical demonstrator. It may not be necessary a huge complex product for the practical demonstrator, only a small and easy product will do, example a cordless phone which operate a low frequency range.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? It seems that the EMC course has many topics related to general knowledge like what specifications to adhere to, agency, tests and measurement setup. I think all this information can be read by students at their own time. Instead, the course should explain more on technical aspect like proper PCB layout design, component selections, filtering circuit, coupling effect and so on.

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Name: Yong Nyet Yun Company: ST Assembly and Test Ltd Job Title: Test Product Engineer Your company products/services: Provides testing and assembly services.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Currently attending NTU E6303: Electromagnetic Compatibility and Interference.
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes. It helps me to understand the various ESD precautions and appreciate the design of the equipment with EMC in mind.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Definitely. Seeing is believing, and one will always be reminded of a good EMC design through experiencing.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? Crosstalk, shielding, PCD layout.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? EMC awareness in the undergraduate level. Wherever possible, bring up some of the EMC design issues in the undergraduate courses.

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Name: Yuwono Kurnia Rahman Company: LTX Asia International, Inc. Job Title: Application Engineer Your company products/services: Automated Test Equipment for Semiconductor. Test Program Development.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Yes. NTU Course, E6303-ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY & INTERFERENCE
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes. Since my job require me to set and build system (on-board) of Device Under Test, the EMC/EMI course will help me to prevent unnecessary radiated/conducted EMI, noise problem, ESD problem, cross-talk, etc.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes. But more important is to present all available design rules (good practice) to trainee.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? Cross talk, shielding and PCB layout.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? On postgraduate level, It's not necessary too much emphasize the awareness and important of EMC. It should be focused on in-depth review of EMC phenomena, and how the good practice of design can avoid such problem.

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Name: ZHANG LIFENG Company: PHILIPS ELECTRONICS (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD Job Title: EMC ENGINEER Your company products/services: Develop the TV and LCD for the world market, the product is divided into Asia pacific region, Europe region and North America region.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Yes, I have attended a Four-day EMC course in Philips in September 2002, its name is Electromagnetic compatibilityDesign techniques. The course intended for electronic designers and EMC quality engineers working in product development, production automation, system engineering and research. The requirement educational level is technical college/ technical University.
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes, it is very useful for my job. Because the knowledge and case study give me idea to solve EMC problem in our product development, and its formula calculation also can save EMC measurement time. For example, during I study this course, the product of LCD fail in 3 meter (CISPR 13 & CISPR 22) testing, the dominant one is CM radiation, CM choke was used to measure CM current, than calculate the E field, it can estimate if the product can pass 3 meter testing. So I do not need to confirm the some solution in EMC Lab, just do it in my office. Of course it saves my time and also the EMC cost.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes, a practical demonstrator can help to understand the concept of good EMC design. Because EMC theory is always abstract, the theory and knowledge can not solve the problem directly, For the product develop purpose, Not only the practical demonstrator can help us to understand the concept, but also can direct give us idea to solve the practical problem.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? I would like to see the demonstrator of the crosstalk, PCB Layout and shielding.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? Besides the demonstrator and EMC theory, it is better to introduce some common EMC problem or EMC design challenge point in the course, especially connect with the real product, for instance, EMC design for LCD or EMC design for mobile phone and so on.

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Name: Zhang Qingxiang Company: NTU Job Title: Project Officer Your company products/services: Research on IC design and modeling
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) NTU postgraduate course Electromagnetic Compatibility & Interference
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes. It will provide me with the knowledge on EMI/EMC, which is an important factor for design engineer
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Yes. If without any demonstrator, we wont have a chance to realize how important EMC is until we encounter problems in out real life. And at that time, it maybe too late.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? Crosstalk, PCB layout, radiated EMI,
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Name: Zhu Jiang Company: NTU EEE5 Job Title: PhD Candidate Your company products/services: NA.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Electromagnetic Compatibility & Interference in NTU
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) I believe that it will be useful for my job hunting in future.
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Yes, I think so. Because it will be more attractive to us, rather than boring.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? PCB layout.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? Tell us more application in industry.

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Name: YIN ZHI LIN Company: PHILIPS ELECTRONICS PTE LTD Job Title: SENIOR ENGINEER Your company products/services: TV, AV system, etc.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Yes. The course is Electromagnetic Compatibility Design Techniques
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) I think the course is useful. The course has given a lot of theoretically calculation method for EMC design, such as shielding effectiveness, radiation. And some practical method is also provided, e.g. how to control radiation from PCB and through cables, etc.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) I agree. With the practical demonstrator, it will help us a lot to understand the concept of good EMC design.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? Crosstalk, PCB layout, for example, two modules with separate power supplies but the signal is connected through cables. How to handle the signal return path on ground.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? I think the lecture notes should provide more details so that we can understand more clearly.

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Name: T.Jayashree Company: W.S Atkins [Singapore] Pte. Ltd Job Title: Engineer Your company products/services: Providing specialist consultancy in System Assurance Safety and Reliability Engineering and Electromagnetic Compatibility to Rail and Expressway systems.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) 1) Certificate in EMC FOR ENGINEERS AND TECHNOLOGIST [21-hour course] at Ngee Ann Polytechnic , Singapore
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) YES, the course was a good introduction to EMC concepts.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) YES, such an EMC course will give a better understanding of the concepts of EMC design better.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? ALL - (Crosstalk, conducted EMI , shielding , PCB layout , Radiated EMI etc)
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? 1) Including hands-on training in EMC testing / designing. 2) Arranging visits to EMC test laboratories.

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Name: LI JIANER Company: (my former company) Raycare Bioengineering Co., Ltd, Guangdong, China Job Title: Electronic Engineer Your company products/services: To design and produce the medical equipments to help several kinds of illnesses suffers healing. The main product of the company is the Raycare Jingluo Physical Therapy Device. This device uses a special material, which can emit electromagnetic wave and electromagnetic field to treat some illnesses.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Yes. E6303 in NTU.
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) I think so. Because in my former job, the main task is to design the controller of the Raycare Jingluo Physical Therapy Device, and we are going to pass some certification since our boss want to export the product to other countries. I think it is quite important to reach the requirements of EMC if we want to export the product. And since the device use the electromagnetic wave, I think it will make the EMC design more complicated and more challenge.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Sure! I think it should be part of the course. Since it is no minimum limit to an EMC problem, and the EMC problems in different projects are different, for me who have not much experience in EMC design, its hard to decide whether the EMC design in a project is good or not. We should have practical rules, methods or demonstrator that allows us to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices. It makes us due with the design problem practically and visually instead of totally theoretically. It absolutely will in turn help us understand the concept.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? All of the design issues referred above I would like to include in the practical demonstrator. Because I think they all are the practical and important issues in the EMC design.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? I wish the course would provide systemic procedures to design products not suffer from EMC problems when after teaching us the base knowledge of EMC. And the course should also give more detail example studies to tell us how to analyze the EMC problem in a practical case.

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Name: Seah Seow Leng John Company: ASE Singapore Pte Ltd Job Title: Test/Product Engineer Your company products/services: IC Chips Testing and Wafer Sorting
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) In House Practical Training, NTU, PCB Layout Design for EMI Compliance, academic
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes as I had a better understanding of the concept and applications of circuit design for EMI compliance. From the course I realize the effect of EMI can be a disaster to the electronic world that we live in. Designing concept and techniques on how to suppress EMI are taught during the course and project are done to feel and realize the EMI effects.
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) It is definitely very useful as we can convince ourselves by applying the design concepts that we have learnt during the course to practical demonstration. It will involves test measurement and from there we will know if we had correctly applied the techniques and concept to successfully suppress EMI radiation. From the practical projects we might even discover some other design concepts.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? Electrostatic Discharge, Diagnostics of EMI problem, Emission from Digital Circuits.
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? Have more practical experiments and mini projects. If limited by resources for a large group of students, a demonstration would be able to let the students have a better view and picture of EMI effects. Include case studies in course notes of some joint EMC projects with the industries outside to better demonstrate the EMC design concept and its effects to practical

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Name: Yeo Pen Meng Company: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (current) Lutron Electronics, US (last job)
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Job Title: Full time MSc student (current) Project Electrical Engineer (last ) Your company products/services: Manufacturer of high-end lighting control systems for commercial and residential applications.
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Have you attended any EMC course? (If yes, please list down the courses you have attended) Yes. E6303: EMC/EMI , NTU 2004 Introduction to EMC/EMI, In-house training Standards and products, In-house training
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Do you think the knowledge acquired in the courses is useful for your job? (Please give your reasons) Yes, it gets us as a designer thinking about EMI/EMC right at the start of the product development cycle. In the long run, this helps to reduce the amount of NRE (nonrepetitive engineering costs).
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If an EMC course comes with a practical demonstrator that allows you to appreciate good and bad EMC design practices, do you think it will help you to understand the concept of good EMC design better? (Please provide reasons) Definitely, nothing reinforces a theory like a good old solid experiment.
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What EMC design issues (e.g. crosstalk, conducted EMI, shielding, PCB layout, radiated EMI, etc.) you would like to include in the practical demonstrator? The more common issues that would lead to degradation of signal integrity in the system (e.g. crosstalk, cabling and layout) and any issues that would lead to a failure during certification (e.g. radiated and conducted EMI).
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Any other suggestions to improve the delivery of EMC course? No.

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Yes. E6303 module in MSc (Consumer Electronics).

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Company: EEE, NTU Job Title: Full-time MSc (Consumer Electronics)

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