Category: The Future of Engineering

Many designers who create a printed circuit board, know little about the field of EMC.  Why should they since at the physical level, why worry, EMC is an electrical issue and not mechanical or structural.  For at least two generations,

Compliance includes more than just product safety and EMC.  It  may include software protocols or installation requirements unique to a fixed location or be country specific.  Will reliability engineering become a subset of compliance or vice-versa?  A small group of

Most of the time we only think about our daily work depending on what we do either academic research, teaching or applied engineering.  Insufficient time is given to thinking about the future of engineering and society, especially products and services

We attempt to ensure products comply with regulatory requirements, both safety and EMC.  With regard to EMC, compliance engineers always seek an elusive 3 dB margin, yet if we are a few dBs over the specification limit does this mean the

In the future, there will be a point to where the number of active and passive components that can be physically mounted onto a PCB will exceed the available real-estate of assembly.  When this occurs the PCB must increase in

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