All, There will be a joint Northeast Product Safety Society and EMC Society meeting tonight, Wednesday, October 27, at EMC Corporation's Customer Briefing Center at 42 South Street in Hopkinton, MA. A social hour with light refreshments will begin at 6:00 PM and the technical meeting will start at 7:00 PM. Our first speaker will be Dr. Bruce Archambeault, Senior Member Technical Staff, IBM, NC presenting an EMC topic concerning the “Ground Myth”. Our second speaker will be Andrew Vourlos, UL Program Manager - Customs, presenting a Product Safety topic concerning UL’s trademark anti-counterfeiting efforts which usually involve U.S. Customs & Border protection. If you will be in the area, please feel free to join us as NPSS membership or advanced notice is not required.
Dr. Bruce Archambeault PhD, IBM Senior Technical Staff Member, will discus the “Ground” myth and clarify grounding techniques for EMC control. The term "ground" is probably the most misused and misunderstood term in EMC engineering, and in fact, in all of circuit design. Ground is considered to be a zero potential region with zero resistance and zero impedance at all frequencies. This is just not the case in practical high-speed designs. The one thing that should be remembered whenever the term "ground" is used, is that "Ground is a place where potatoes and carrots thrive"! By keeping this firmly in mind, many of the causes of EMC emissions problems would be eliminated. The term "ground" is a fine concept at DC voltages, but it just does not exist at the frequencies running on today's typical boards. Dr. Bruce Archambeault is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM in Research Triangle Park, NC. He received his B.S.E.E degree from the University of New Hampshire in 1977 and his M.S.E.E degree from Northeastern University in 1981. He received his Ph. D. from the University of New Hampshire in 1997. His doctoral research was in the area of computational electromagnetics applied to real-world EMC problems. In 1997 he joined IBM in Raleigh, N.C. where he is the lead EMC engineer, responsible for EMC tool development and use on a variety of products. Dr. Archambeault has authored or co-authored a number of papers in computational electromagnetics, mostly applied to real-world EMC applications. He is currently a Board of Directors member of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) and the IEEE EMC Society. He has served as a past Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. He is the author of the book "PCB Design for Real-World EMI Control" and the lead author of the book titled "EMI/EMC Computational Modeling Handbook". Dr. Archambeault is currently a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE EMC Society. Further information about Dr. Archambeault and his presentation is available on the IEEE Boston web site at http://www.ieee-boston.org/electromagnetic_compatibility.htm#oct27. Andrew Vourlos, Melville UL Program Manager - Customs, will discuss some of UL’s history and what they do for product safety. He will describe UL’s efforts to maintain the integrity of the UL mark as a sign of product safety and what they do in anti-counterfeiting to protect the UL trademark. There will be illustrative examples f these efforts, many of which involve US Customs & Border Protection. Andrew Vourlos is in charge of the enforcement team within UL's Anti-Counterfeiting Operations section. Andy has held various positions in his 11½ years at UL. Among his many responsibilities, Andy has been training Customs and Border Protection staff throughout the United States for the last several years in determining the authenticity of UL Certification Marks on products. Andy holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology, an Associate degree in Applied Science in Laser and Fiber Optic Technology, and is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Energy Management. Further information on our speakers and their presentations is available on the NPSS web site at http://www.nepss.org. If you or anyone you know would like to give a product safety technical presentation, please contact Paul Smith, our meeting scheduler, by email at [email protected]. A technical presentation should be 45 to 60 minutes in duration and be related to product safety. Although the presentation may reference your company and it’s services, the presentation must not be simply company advertising. We would also appreciate any slides or handout materials be made available for posting on the NPSS web site. Releasing presentation materials for posting is desired but not a requirement to make a presentation. The 2004 NPSS meeting schedule is available on the NPSS website at http://www.nepss.org/meetings/NPSS_2004_Calendar.html. Further information about the Northeast Product Safety Society and how to become a member is available at http://www.nepss.org. You can also contact one of the NPSS officers via links on the NPSS web site. Directions: >From Route 495 North or South take exit 21B to West Main Street. Counting the first traffic light as the traffic light at the off ramp >from Route 495 South. At the second traffic light, turn left on to South Street (Note: This is on South direction side of Route 495). EMC Corporation is the second driveway on the right. Matt Campanella NPSS Secretary Compliance Engineer Motorola, Inc. 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