Both undergraduate and graduate students at UMR have an opportunity to get involved in research that will help determine the way that electronic products of the future are designed. Research in the UMR EMC Laboratory is sponsored by companies that are leaders in the electronics industry. Many of these projects are funded by the UMR EMC Consortium, a group of companies with a common interest in electromagnetic compatibility problems and solutions.

Current Research Projects

• Printed Circuit Power Bus Design and Modeling
• Embedded Capacitance Project
• In-Board Low-Pass Filtering
• Enclosure Design for EMI
• EMI Expert System for PCB Design Analysis
• Differential Clock Driver Evaluation
• Differential Signal EMI
• EMI Associated with Inter-PCB Connections
• PCB layout Strategies for Low-Cost Boards
• Chip-Level EMI Investigation
• A System-Level EMC Expert System for Automotive Designs
• Development of Numerical Modeling Codes for Solving EMC Problems
• Electrostatic Discharge Susceptibility of Computer Peripherals
• Repeatable Electrostatic Discharge Tests

Recent Undergraduate Research Projects

• Lightning Simulator (ISPARK)
  Students: John Fitez, Mark Hopkins, Craig Gurke, Elizabeth Eckhoff
  Spring ‘02
• Mock Missile Design
  Students: Steven Achterberg, Mark Withouse, Robert Nichols
  Spring ‘02
• Electrostatic Discharge Detector
  Student: Steven Shiffman
  EE392 Project: Fall ‘00
• IEEE EMC Society Student Design Contest
  Students: K. Wall, M. Ratterman, D. Nurre, N. Pelech
  EE392 Project: Winter ‘00
• Magnetic Field Cancellation near an Electron Microscope
  Students: Peter Sayers, Tonica Iglehart, Louise Kendrick
  EE392 Project: Winter ’99
• Differential Driver Radiation
  Students: Dan Berg, Sarah Hartleben, Chris Olsen
  EE392 Project: Fall ‘98
• Analysis of PCB Traces Driving Shielded Enclosures
  Student: Sarah Hartlebein
  EE390 Project: Fall ‘97