Lecturer: Salvatore Caorsi  

Course name: Electromagnetic compatibility
Course code: 505007
Degree course: Electronic Engineering
Disciplinary field of science: ING-INF/02
L'insegnamento è caratterizzante per: Electronic Engineering
University credits: ECTS 6
Course website: n.d.

Specific course objectives

The student will acquire the basic capabilities to face the problem to study, realize and control the electromagnetic conditions in order to guarantee the correct working modalities of electronic, electric and electromechanical systems operating according on their design characteristics and operating, in a temporary or permanent way, inside a given electromagnetic environment developing or not the same functional objective.

Course programme

The problem of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC problem): fundamentals and definitions. The problem of electromagnetic interference (EMI problem): radiated and conducted emission, cross-talk; radiated and conducted immunity (susceptivity). Methodologies and procedure for EMI control and reduction: shielding, grounding, routing and bonding, filtering). Measurement techniques. Lows and Norms

Course entry requirements

Mathematics: complex numbers, arrays, differential operators applied to scalar and vector fields. Physics: Electrostatic and Magnetostatic fields, Faraday-Neumann, Ampere-Maxwell, Gauss, Maxwell Equations, Lorentz Potentials. Electromagnetic Fields: Radiation. Elementary antenna theory, basic elements on guided propagation.

Course structure and teaching

Lectures (hours/year in lecture theatre): 45
Practical class (hours/year in lecture theatre): 0
Practicals / Workshops (hours/year in lecture theatre): 0

Suggested reading materials

Material will be arranged by teacher. P.A. Chatterton M.A. Houlden. EMC Electromagnetic Theory to practical design. Wiley and Sons,1992. D.A. Weston. Electromagnetic Compatibilty Pronciples and Aplications. Marcel Dekker, New York, 1991. R.P. Clayton. Introduction to Electromagnetic Compatibility. John Wiley and Sons, 1992. A. Bochicchio, G. Giambartolomei. Lezioni di Compatibilit. Pitagora, Bologna 1993.

Testing and exams

At the end of course there will be an oral examination.