If you work for a big company, the compliance department may be divided into several sections, each responsible for a particular phase of a project, such as EMC design, product-testing, and regulatory groups. The duties and skills needed by EMC engineers vary from job to job and company to company. To really define who or what an EMC engineer is, you need to look at the many aspects of the field of EMC.
Or was he trying to determine the difference between an EMC engineer and a NARTE EMC engineer? Was he someone whose job duties now included EMC and was wondering where he fit in? He could have been one of those engineers questioning whether EMC is a distinct engineering discipline. Maybe he needed to hire an EMC engineer and was looking for some help with the job description. When the inquisitive gentleman caught up with me later and asked the question again, I discovered there is more than one answer-depending on how the question is asked or, better yet, who is asking it.Īt first, I thought the gentleman was asking what qualifies a person as an EMC engineer. What is an electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) engineer? It seemed like a simple question when it was posed to me during the National Association of Radio and Telecommunications Engineers (NARTE) pre-exam session at the Denver EMC Symposium.
