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From: emc-p...@ieee.org [mailto:emc-p...@ieee.org] On Behalf Of Kunde,
Brian
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 6:52 AM
To: EMC-PSTC
Subject: RE: EMC Eduction and Training
Hey, lets think about this for a minute. Do we really want this “black
magic” stuff we do for a living to be better taught in universities? Lets
face it, we have a good thing going here and we don’t need some greenhorn
engineer thinking he knows more about it than we do. As mentioned earlier,
this job is more experience and technique than science.
The best EMC engineers and technicians I know where not taught in
school, but
had been mentored by an older experienced EMC engineer. Like a magician
passing on his secretes to his apprentice. This is how it has been done and
the way it has to be done.
The Other Brian
The Other Brian touches on an interesting and salient feature of the happy EMC
Engineer. EMC demands a more "hands on" approach than most of the other
disciplines. Those students who are not already building their own circuits
and frying their own power supplies will not do well in EMC, or at minimum,
will try to stay toward the academic / computational edge of EMC. To the
rigidly academic, it must be terrifying to discover that EMC problems have so
many unknowns and (usually) more than one solution.
I'm not so sure that a mentoring / apprentice system HAS to be the only way to
assure continuity, but, from my observation, it has been an effective and
efficient method. Certainly, we could get into an endless discussion of
whether our educational system rationally assigns talent to appropriate needs
(after all, they told me I could be anything I wanted; what they didn't tell
me was that what I wanted also had to be needed). Remember Pachinko and
Pinball machines? There's something fascinating about watching the life-arc of
a ball, despite us knowing with 6-sigma certainty the origin and destination
of every ball.
Uhhh, what was the question?
Ed Price
ed.pr...@cubic.com <blocked::mailto:ed.pr...@cubic.com> WB6WSN
NARTE Certified EMC Engineer
Electromagnetic Compatibility Lab
Cubic Defense Applications
San Diego, CA USA
858-505-2780
Military & Avionics EMC Is Our Specialty
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