IEEE Southeastern Michigan EMC Society

Meeting Notice

The Southeastern Michigan IEEE EMC Society presents:

"Ask the EMC Experts"

An interactive meeting where you can ask a panel of area EMC experts, questions concerning EMC topics.

Date: January 22, 2009

Time: 5:30 PM

Location: Fairlane Campus - U of M Dearborn (Map Code FCN)

University of Michigan
School of Management
Fairlane Center North - Room 120
19000 Hubbard Drive
Dearborn, MI 48126

Driving Directions

Please pre-register for this free event online at:

https://www.ieeeemcs.org/semi/regemcmeet.asp?EventID=012209

Deadline: Noon on the day prior to the event.

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Schedule of Events

5:30 – 6:00 Pizza and Refreshments by the  Yazaki Testing Center

6:00 – 7:00 Question the Panel

The Chapter Presentation is a FREE event.  IEEE Non-Members Welcome!

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Kimball Williams: Event Moderator

Kimball Williams is a Senior Manager with Denso Americas in Southfield, Michigan, USA. He holds a BSEE degree from Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan. His professional experience includes the following: Principal EMC Engineer, at Eaton Corporation for 26 years, Member of the IEEE EMC Society Board of Directors and current President Member of the IEEE EMC Society Standards Committee, Secretary of the South Eastern Michigan Chapter of the IEEE EMC-S National Association of Radio and Telecommunications Engineers (NARTE) certified EMC & ESD engineer and a member of the Board for NARTE, Member of the SAE EMI and EMR Technical Committees, Member of the US Technical Advisory Groups to CISPR/D and ISO/TC22, He holds one patent in the field of electro-technology, He is also an amateur radio operator (N8FNC), scuba diver and private pilot.

Vino Pathmanathan'a Bio:

Vino Pathmanathan received his BSEE in 1994 and his MSEE in 1996 from Wright State University in Dayton Ohio. He worked for ITT as an automation engineer and then as a controls engineer becoming an EMC test engineer in 1998. Vino then worked for Valeo and was in charge of the TRW EMC lab. Vino is currently and EMC consultant. Vino's spare time is spent with the lovely and intelligent engineer Mrs. Gowry Pathmanathan.

Tom Holmes Bio:

Tom Holmes is a graduate of Kettering University/GMI, and is currently an RF & Microwave Applications Engineer for Agilent Technologies. Prior to that he was supervisor of the Electronic Validation Testing Lab and EMC Development for ITT Industries in Dayton, OH. He has three patents, two related to EMC suppression of Automotive DC motors. His hobbies include amateur radio (N8ZM), fast cars, and grandson EJ.

Bill Gilmore's Bio

Bill Gilmore is a Retired Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineer from Core EMC, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Powertrain & Chassis Component EMC Engineer for Chrysler. Bill has over thirty years of electronic product design and development experience, including automotive, numerical control machine tool, radio communications, instrumentation, military, industrial and commercial electronics. Bill majored in Physics and Mathematics at the University of Detroit. Bill Gilmore brings to our Ask the EMC Expert panel over fifteen years experience in Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC), as an expert in root cause analysis and remediation of issues. He is the principal author of the DaimlerChrysler grounding Design Standard. Bill is the co-developer of a method for measuring the interference of vehicle electrical systems to AM radio and simultaneously evaluating multiple remediation methods objectively. He authored DaimlerChrysler's Radio Communications Equipment Installation Recommendations, for Amateur and commercial two-way communication equipment, a current Service Bulletin for all vehicle lines.

Bill Gilmore is the co-author of the Institute of 1999 Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) paper on automotive EMC. Bill Gilmore was the originator and project leader for DaimlerChrysler Challenge Grant to Electrosciences Department, Ohio State University to study grounding and noise current flow in automotive electrical systems, which led to the aforementioned paper and the grounding design standard US and foreign patents on electronic devices, notably the dual use of a single sensor element currently in use in TMAP and other sensors. Bill is a member of SAE Single Edge Nibble Transmission protocol task force (J-2716), which will provide greatly improved EMC performance for sensors in the automotive electrical environment, as well as potential cost reduction. He is a member of SAE Electrostatic Discharge in Fuel Systems Subcommittee of Fuels and Lubricants Committee (J-1645).

Bill Gilmore is active in Amateur Radio, he has over thirty years of Amateur Radio experience (station operation, equipment construction): with an Amateur Extra Class license. Bill is the principal organizer and participant for six years of an annual exhibit at Hamvention (the de facto Amateur Radio International convention in Dayton, OH, with over twenty-five thousand attendees) involving DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company and General Motors Corporation. Bill is the vice chairman for Professional Activities and continuing Education for Southeastern Michigan Section of IEEE EMC Society. Bill is a former member and secretary of SAE Bus communications Working Group (J-1850) as well as a former member of several DaimlerChrysler EMC committees, including independent laboratory evaluation, corporate EMC specifications, and technical operations.

James Muccioli Bio:

Biography: James P. Muccioli received his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan. He has extensive experience in EMC design, analysis, and testing. His background includes over 25 years of specialized EMC systems experience at X2Y Attenuators, DaimlerChrysler and United Technologies. Mr. Muccioli co-authored articles published in the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility (The Electromagnetic Environment of an Automobile Electronic System; August, 1987), the 1990 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility (Radiated Emissions of Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits), and the 1991 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility (An Electromagnetic Immunity Diagnostic Tool for Electronic Circuits). He published several articles on integrated circuit emissions in EMC Test & Design Magazine (1992-1993). He was a contributing author (Part 6 Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility) for the Automotive Electronics Handbook (Ronald Jurgen, Editor-in Chief, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1995,1999). Mr. Muccioli taught an undergraduate course ("Noise Reduction Techniques") and a continuing education seminar ("Electronic System Noise Reduction") at Lawrence Technological University and the University of Michigan. He presented a paper (Integrated Circuit Decoupling - A Key Automotive EMI Concern) at the EMC/ESD International 1992. Mr. Muccioli is a certified EMC engineer through the National Association of Radio and Telecommunications Engineers. He is an active member of SAE J-1113 and J-551 EMC committees and is chairman of the SAE Integrated Circuit EMC Task Force. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the IEEE EMC Society (1993-1998; 2001-2003) and was selected as an IEEE Fellow in 1998 for contributions to integrated circuit design practices to minimize electromagnetic interference.

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