Outline:

1. Introduction: Electric, Magnetic and Electromagnetic shielding
2. Basics approaches to shielding: field theory (Kaden) and circuit theory (Schelkunoff)
3. Limits of the theoretical approaches: numerical simulations
4. Practical aspects of shielding, typical requirements, grounding scheme
5. Shield material: metal, plastic, typical coatings
6. Shield construction: rivets, joints, seams, apertures
7. Shielding and thermal issues: holes, perf patterns, honeycomb
8. Shield integrity and gaskets
9. Internal compartmentalization of a chassis, resonances
10. Practical aspects of source - aperture coupling
11. Shielding for radiated emissions, radiated immunity and ESD - reciprocity aspects and limits
12. Evaluation of shielding effectiveness

Our Speaker: Dr. Sergiu Radu is currently Principal Engineer at Sun Microsystems, leading the EMC Design group in Menlo Park, California. His role at Sun includes the development and implementation of architectural frameworks for EMC Design through design guidelines and best practices, and to provide forward looking solutions, root cause analysis of significant EMC problems, design methodologies involving software simulations and better prediction techniques. Sergiu Radu received a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) from Technical University of Iasi, Romania, and until 1996 he was an Associate Professor at the same university, involved in Electromagnetic Compatibility teaching and research. From 1996 until 1998 he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Missouri-Rolla, as part of the Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory. In 1998 he joined the EMC Engineering group at Sun Microsystems. Sergiu holds seven US patents for EMI reduction techniques in electronic systems and has published more than 50 papers in research journals, symposia, and magazines. He is a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on EMC. He is also a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE EMC Society.