Seminar: EMC Testing: Test the Right Things, the Right Way
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February 19th, 2026 | 9am-4pm PT
PRICE: $285
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58
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2
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38
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33
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Karen Burnham
President and Chief Engineer of EMC United
This class will be hosted online via Zoom.
Following this event, you will receive:
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Slides
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Certificate
Seminar abstract:
This offering is intended for individual sign-up only. If multiple people wish to attend, a separate seat must be purchased for each participant. If we determine that this policy is being violated, we reserve the right to terminate access without a refund.
Failing EMC testing is always frustrating. But nothing is more frustrating than spending weeks troubleshooting, only to discover that the “failed” test wasn’t set up correctly to begin with.
This seminar aims to inform attendees about the most common pitfalls that can turn EMC testing into an EMC nightmare.
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While not being specific to any particular test method, it will cover aspects that are relevant to: radiated emissions, radiated immunity/susceptibility, conducted emissions, conducted immunity/susceptibility, and ESD testing.
At the end of this course you should be able to read over an EMC test plan with an eye toward potential red flags. The more you can nail down the details ahead of time, the less time (and budget) you’ll spend troubleshooting problems, real or imagined, in an EMC lab.
Drawing on her extensive experience testing and troubleshooting for aerospace, defence, automotive, consumer, and medical devices, Karen will cover:
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Confirming requirements and tailoring them if possible
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Setting up the equipment under test (EUT). How close do you need to get to "test like you fly (or drive)"? How should the EUT be installed? What are the small things that make the most difference?
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Choice of Line Impedance Stabilization Networks (LISNs) or Artificial Networks (ANs)
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Test equipment settings, particularly measurement bandwidth, step sizes, sweep options
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Defining pass/fail criteria for immunity/susceptibility testing
About Karen Burnham
Karen Burnham has worked in and around the aerospace, defense, automotive, and broader consulting world since 1996. She has a BS in Physics, an MS in Electrical Engineering, and a talent for translating EMC to English. She has managed requirements and test planning for NASA and the Dream Chaser spaceship and others. She has done troubleshooting on electric vehicles for Ford Motor Company and others. She has initiated innovative SBIRs and STTRs through government centers and worked on classified programs. She has consulted on projects across a wide swath of industries and sits on multiple international standards committees, landing her in her current role of Vice President of Standards for the IEEE EMC Society.
Ms. Burnham founded EMC United, Inc. in 2024 in order to focus on helping companies and hardware designers solve EMC problems, ideally before they even start. She believes that, far from being black magic, EMC can be understandable (and even fun!), and she hopes to spread that passion more widely.
