Friends and Colleagues,
If anyone in the product safety world could be considered a celebrity,
it would be Rich Nute. Please join us in welcoming Rich for what will
be a very interesting presentation you won't want to miss.
SNACKS AND BEVERAGES PROVIDED!
IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society Santa Clara Valley Chapter
Rich Nute delivers a presentation that will challenge conventional
product safety orthodoxy! Attending puts you at the risk of
conversion to a heretical viewpoint of product safety.
Dinner: 5:45 – 7:00 p.m. Socialize with your colleagues and
tonight's speaker at:
El Torito Mexican Restaurant, 2950 Lakeside Drive, Santa Clara, CA
95054 (408-727-4426) -- just two blocks north of the meeting site.
No RSVP required.
Program: 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. No admission charge. Open to the public.
Snacks and beverages will be provided!
Topic: Heretical Views of Product Safety Orthodoxy
Product safety standards can be considered the dogma or orthodoxy of
product safety. Conventional wisdom about product safety derives from
this orthodoxy. This presentation compares electrical engineering
concepts with product safety orthodoxy and conventional wisdom. In
these examples, the engineering concepts bring forth questions as to
the validity of some traditional product safety concepts.
Speaker: Richard Nute
Richard Nute has worked in the field of product safety since 1973,
mainly at Tektronix and Hewlett Packard. Mr. Nute has also worked as
a manufacturing engineer, R&D engineer and engineering manager.
He has contributed to the development of both national and
international standards. He is currently a member of ECMA TC-12, the
US TAG to IEC TC-108, and IEC TC-108, working on the hazard-based
safety standard, IEC 62368. Mr. Nute is the co-author and an
instructor of "Hazard-Based Safety Engineering," a Hewlett-Packard
Company proprietary course in product safety – and, in fact, he was
the originator of that phrase!
Mr. Nute has conducted original research in product safety and
published "Dynamic Aspects of Body Impedance," appearing in Electrical
Shock Safety Criteria, Proceedings of the First International
Symposium on Electrical Shock Safety Criteria, edited by J.E.
Bridges, Pergamon Press. He is co-holder of a patent for a ground
isolation monitor.
Other publications include "Technically Speaking", a regular
column of the Product Safety Newsletter. Some of these articles have
been re-published in national and international magazines and most are
available online at: http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pses/newsletters.html.
Mr. Nute twice has been an invited speaker to UL's annual
Professional Engineers' recognition program. He is recipient of the
Michael J. DeMartini award for education in the field of product
safety and is both a Senior Member and a Life Member of the IEEE.
Mr. Nute holds a Bachelor of Physical Science degree from
California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo.
Meeting Site: Applied Materials, Bowers Café, 3090 Bowers Ave, Santa
Clara, CA 95054 (map: http://www.scvemc.org/scv2003meetmap.gif )
Meeting Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Santa Clara Valley Chapter
Chair: Steve Baldwin, steve.bald...@lamrc.com
Vice-Chair: Roberto Pasos, rpa...@elliottlabs.com
Treasurer: Mark Montrose, mmont...@ix.netcom.com
Secretary: Gary Eldridge, geldri...@apple.com
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