In message <2008121515197.344647@Alan-PC>, dated Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Alan E Hutley <[email protected]> writes:
>Without the furore of this activity, EMC would almost certainly not >have been on the RADAR to the extent that it has been. Agreed; the 1989 Directive widened greatly the range of products subject to emission and immunity control. Before then, only a few people knew, or needed to know, about EMC, in countries other than Germany and Austria. They were different because of the restrictions placed on their AM broadcasting post-1945, which prompted a drive to lower the EM noise floor. >Could this be the reason why formal qualifications and academic >training has not evolved at the same pace or magnitude? Probably not a major factor. Academics have to pursue funding, because that's how the system is set up. But it appears that few did pursue funding for EMC, and I suspect that is because it's a bit too much 'engineering' rather than 'science', which is not attractive to many academics. One could say, 'EMC? It's Maxwell's Equations. The rest is just arithmetic!'. A lot of the science of EMC has been pursued in Germany, Switzerland and Poland, not in the countries around the North Sea. > Is the apparent lack of resources committed to Training and Education >due to the relevant organisations and Governments lack of understanding >with respect to the complexity surrounding EMC... or are there other >reasons. Governments understand very little about training needs. They tend to be led by the nose by a certain type of 'educationalist', who have an approach which I think many engineers would find incomprehensible and not well-directed. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk All these closing-downs have been caused by dozing clowns John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]>
