Regan, Regarding "regulatory compliance training for students". My personal opinion is that engineering students should only be taught that "such things exist and affect what they will be designing" - but not particular details of any of the standards, regulations, etc except as might be used as examples. More importantly, this "exposure to the real world" should include mention that these are country and industry(product) specific - so it depends where they end up working what restrictions they will ever see. Similarly important is that not only are product safety and EMC/EMI emissions and tolerance worthy of mention; but environmental, ergonometric, and other standards and conditions exist and they too must be considered if they apply. I think that all this should be taught within the context of "the total job description for an engineer" not as a "regulatory compliance" subject. This total engineers "job description" should also include mention of such other mundane issues as component tolerance analysis, failure mode/effect analysis and all the other "little" things one muct do to stay out of trouble when designing real world products. Obviously, the university cannot spend the time to make them experts in it all (they would forget much of the detail before they ever used it anyway) but they should be told such things exist exists. Maybe they will then remember what types of things must be considered - and then need to research the current requirements whenever they get to that stage in any design.
So much for my "two cents" worth. Best regards, Harold Leipold Siemens Electromechanical Components Inc. Princeton, IN ** Comments above are personal and do not necessarily reflect the position of my company. ** ---------- From: Regan Arndt To: emc-pstc; treg Subject: PLEASE REPLY List-Post: [email protected] Date: Friday, December 20, 1996 12:58PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I would like to ask everyone's opinion on the following subject: Do you believe that there is a need for students, who are in technical = institutions & Universities, to participate, in a course designed = towards achieving a good working knowledge of regulatory compliance = standards as part of their cirriculum. i.e: Safety (i.e IEC 950, EN60950, etc.), EMC (CISPR 22, AS/NZS 3548, etc.), & Network Protection (FCC part 68, IC CS03,etc.) RVSP Thanks in advance Regan Arndt Safety technologist NORTEL
