A few weeks ago, I was pulling my bins in from the curb after garbage pick-up day, and I heard a faint whirring coming from somewhere in my neighborhood. At first, I thought it was the Pennsylvania Turnpike, but the tone was different than usual. My son told me to look up. The whirring was emanating from an object in the sky with small, blinking, red and blue LEDs. A … [Read more...]
About the Author
Dean Landers
Dean Landers is an Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3) engineer for a major defense contractor, working with the testing, simulations, and program management of all things involving E3 amongst several programs.
Previously, he was the Supervisor of Applications Engineering for AR RF/Microwave Instrumentation. He was actively engaged in new application and product development, system development and integration, customer support, and training with hardware demonstrations for both customers and AR personnel.
Prior to working at Amplifier Research, Dean spent 9 years as an EMC Test Engineer at Retlif Testing Laboratories, managing military, commercial aviation, and commercial test programs, writing customer test procedures, and working with customers to help them understand their compliance needs and requirements.
He also serves on the IEEE EMC Society Executive Committee.
Science Fiction from Childhood is Now a Reality. Thank You, EMC.
I grew up in the 90s in a small town in West Virginia. Everybody knew each other, everybody knew each other’s kids, and all of the kids spent time at each other’s houses in the summertime. When the heat and humidity turned oppressive, we’d spend the middle of the day inside, playing video games, listening to music, reading comic books, or trading baseball cards. … [Read more...]
How to Not Die in an EMC Lab
There are risks in every work environment: risks to humans, risks to equipment, risks to things you might be testing, and risks to customers’ equipment. Such is the case in an EMC lab, which is typically an ever-changing environment with moving parts, equipment, people, and projects. From day to day, EMI personnel can be working on military equipment worth millions of … [Read more...]
Column | How to Accidentally Start a Career in EMC
“Dean can go to the lab.” I was walking out of my first job after graduating college, likely on my way to dinner or to watch a game somewhere. The office area where the engineering group sat at Two Technologies in Horsham, PA, had a large round table where we would look at drawings, talk about design, shoot the breeze, and talk about life. A lot of decisions were made at that … [Read more...]
Drag Races, a Cashless Society, and the Threat of EMP
About a month ago, my 12-year-old son and I made his first-ever trip to the NHRA Drag Races near our home. It’s something that I always did with my dad, and I have looked forward to taking him ever since he was born. It’s a typical father-and-son day, wrought with loud, fast cars, terrible food, and the occasional waft of nitromethane fuel in the air. The drive is about … [Read more...]
