Hi Egide, I also echo what the others have suggested. I started my career as a microwave design engineer, then switched companies after a couple years and did DC-Dc power supplies, then after five years, switched to RF design. All this was in the aerospace world. I finally got my foot in the door at Hewlett-Packard as an EMC engineer (after both my predecessors got fired - that’s another story) and spent the rest of my career at HP/Agilent, where I really learned the EMC skills.
You need to stand out among other candidates. You can do this by writing (I first started writing magazine articles while in college), blogging (the newer way to be published), networking and learning (see below). Start networking: 1. build your network on LinkedIn (I wouldn’t get crazy and start inviting all the friends you know…keep it to just engineers and managers - people who can help you with your career) 2. in your immediate community 3. join the IEEE and the EMC Society 4. participate in your local EMCS chapter 5. participate in the annual International Symposium on EMC (will be in Raleigh this year). Take the Monday “EMC Fundamentals” workshop. Once you get a little experience, then sign up for the "EMC University” track there. Then start learning: 1. absorb the topics on this forum 2. register on the InCompliance and Interference Technologies websites. You will start receiving webinar training notices and info on other training opportunities 3. Google search out prominent EMC trainers. Their web sites will have good info 4. Check the Missouri Institute of Technology and Clemson University web sites for their EMC programs. They both have plenty of good technical and design info 5. Buy Henry Ott’s book on EMC Engineering and devour it. There are also many other good reference books, but that’s the one I’d start with. 6. Participate in some of the EMC-related LinkedIn groups, such as “EMC Experts”. 7. Sign up for some EMC seminars. If you speak to the trainers, I bet they’d give you a discount if they knew you were “self paying” and/or just out of college and looking to get into the field. Because some product designers feel EMC compliance is an “undesirable” job that just gets in the way of their creative avenues, you may get your foot in the door with less experience, IF you have some self-training under your belt. It also helps a great deal if you can find an engineer or manager that will serve as a mentor and at least help you get a start. If you can get in the door as an engineer and get some experience...then eventually make it known you’d like to get into product compliance/EMC, you may find little resistance! I’m probably missing a lot of other things, but I’ll let the group here fill in the gaps. Good luck, Ken _______________________ Ken Wyatt Wyatt Technical Services LLC [email protected] www.emc-seminars.com Phone: (719) 310-5418 On Nov 18, 2013, at 12:32 PM, Murisa, Egide <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello EMC Experts, > > Now that Don listed the job announcement, it got me thinking to ask you guys > who have been in this industry for a long time. > EMC Engineering is not something that is being taught in colleges; at least > not at the University I just graduated from. > After a few months working as an EMC/EMI Testing Intern, I became fascinated > by this engineering field, I feel like I want to do this my entire life. > > However, companies do not want to hire entry level engineers as EMC > Engineers, they want several years of experience. > As experts, would you advise an entry level engineer like me to pursue this > career right away, or first find another Electrical Engineering position > first to gain an experience in the industry? Your responses will be highly > appreciated. > > Regards, > > Egide > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 12:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [PSES] Job Opening for EMC Engineer > > I am retiring at the end of the year, and my company is looking for an EMC > Compliance Engineer to replace me. Location is Pullman, Washington, USA. > > Here is a link to the job opening: > > https://www.recruitingcenter.net/Clients/SELInc/PublicJobs/controller.cfm?jbaction=JobProfile&job_id=17518 > > > - > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc > discussion list. 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