emc York 2003 Conference:

The conference was held at Vanburgh College, University of York on Tuesday 1^st July 2003.

The conference covered the following subjects:

An Introduction to EMC including brief overviews of:
- What is EMC?
- The EMC Directive Legislation and conformity
- EMC testing
- Design issues for EMC
- EM Standards Update
The NEW EMC Directive
EMC simulation techniques and shielding above 1 GHz
Ambient cancellation techniques
Product recall
The EMC Directive and conformity
EMC standards and automotive harnesses
The Medical Devices Directive EN61000-1-2 changes to the Medical Equipment EMC Standard
The impact of New Technologies on the Radio Spectrum
Measurement of emission from moving trains
GTEM – user guide
Risk to Product EMC Compliance of Design Changes
The SMPS and EMC

Paper of the Month:

Date	Author	Paper
June 2004	Darren Stone, Department of Electronics, University of York	Total Body Water Content Observations using Resonant-Perturbation Methods (81 kB)
May 2004	Martin O'Hara, Telematica Systems	A Qualitative and Quantitative Method for Assessing the Risk of PCB Level Design Changes Affecting EMC Performance (132 kB)
April 2004	Francesca D Faraci, Department of Electronics, University of York	Interaction of Emerging Mobile Telecommunication Systems and the Human Body (7 kB)
March 2004	Dai Davis, Consultant, Nabarro Nathanson	Notes on Product Recall (25 kB)
February 2004	David Mawdsley, Laplace Instruments Ltd	The ambient problem (65 kB)
January 2004	Didier Bozec, David Cullen and Les McCormack, York EMC Services Ltd John Dawson, Department of Electronics, University of York Brian Flynn, School of Engineering and Electronics, University of Edinburgh	An investigation into the EMC emissions from switched mode power supplies and similar switched electronic load contollers operating at various loading conditions (992 kB)
December 2003	Chris Marshman, York EMC Services Ltd	FOREMC Project - Framework 5 Growth Programme - Thematic Network (375 kB)
November 2003	Angela Nothofer, National Physical Laboratory	A GTEM Good Practice Guide – the use of GTEM cells for EMC measurements applying IEC 61000-4-20 (154 kB)
October 2003	Nick Wainwright, York EMC Services Ltd	EMC Standards: The Challenge of Keeping Up to Date (28 kB)
September 2003	Martin O'Hara, Telematica Systems James Colebrooke, Triple-C Technology	Automotive EMC Test Harnesses: Standard Lengths and Their Effect on Radiated Emissions (444 kB)
August 2003	Dave Imeson, Compliance Europe	EMCD 2003 (48 kB)
July 2003	Paul Duxbury, Flomerics	Using Computational Electromagnetics to Assess Shielding Effectiveness (3,267 kB)