Electromagnetic Compatibility: Learning from experience by means of practical cases

Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) is a very important topic for any professional dealing with electronics. However, teaching EMC concepts faces several difficulties like the fact that several subjects are concerned with it, the lack of time for it or the troubles to realize the effect of interferences. After reviewing the main textbooks and literature, the authors have believed desirable to complete the teaching material with a list of practical cases. In this way, the authors want to improve the efficiency of the teaching-learning process and to show real world problems, identifying the most important EMC concepts that can be left out of engineering curricula. The proposed cases show interference effects on professional equipment or on prototypes of electronic systems but always focusing in practice and with minimal mathematics. Each case is accompanied by questions for students and comments on the way to overcome the problems. The document has been released under an open license to allow other teachers to use it or to include new cases.