Clayton R. Paul Global University
Advance your EMC knowledge and career with in-depth classes on
EMC at the IEEE EMC Society’s premier educational event.
About Clayton R. Paul Global University
The first Global University took place at the 2007 International Symposium on EMC in Honolulu, Hawaii. Janet O’Neil, the symposium chair, was looking for events to help encourage people relatively new to EMC to come to the symposium. Dr. Clayton Paul proposed a series of courses taught by internationally recognized EMC instructors from around the world. Together, they organized an event they named “Global University” consisting of ten, two-hour courses that ran throughout the symposium week. The event proved to be very popular and has been a fixture at every EMC symposium since then.
In the early years, the name of the event changed from Global University to Global EMC University to Global EMC & SI University, as the topics and the nature of instruction evolved. However, in 2013 the IEEE EMC Society Education Committee determined that the membership was best served by Global University as it was originally envisioned and organized by Dr. Paul. The committee established strict standards for both the topics and instructors to ensure a high-quality educational experience. They also renamed the event “Clayton R. Paul Global University.”
PLEASE NOTE: The Clayton R. Paul Global University course content is intended for engineers who have been working in EMC and/or SIPI for several years and wish to be able to deepen their understanding. It is suggested that those who would like to attend will have already participated in the “Fundamentals Tutorial” held on Monday during the annual IEEE EMC Society Symposium week.
PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
*Attendees participating in Clayton R. Paul Global University must attend all 16 hours of the instruction to receive a participation certificate. Other Symposium sessions and activities can be attended outside of these hours.
MEET OUR CHAIR
Dr. Arturo Mediano
Professor, I3A, University of Zaragoza
Founder The HF Magic Lab
IEEE Senior Member. Chair EMC-S Spain Chapter.
Past Chair MTT-S MTT-17 Committee.
MEET OUR INSTRUCTORS
TUESDAY
Dr. Flavia Grassi
Professor, Politecnico Milano
IEEE EMC-S TAC Vice-chair, IEEE EMC-S TC-7 Chair
Dr. Flavia Grassi (M’07–SM’13) received the Laurea (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. She is currently a Professor with the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano. From 2008 to 2009, she was with the European Space Agency (ESA), ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands, as a Research Fellow. Her research interests include distributed-parameter circuit modeling, statistical techniques, characterization of measurement setups for EMC testing (aerospace and automotive sectors), and application of the powerline communications technology in ac and dc lines. Dr. Grassi received the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Young Scientist Award in 2008, and the IEEE Young Scientist Award at the 2016 Asia- Pacific International Symposium on EMC (APEMC), the IEEE EMC Society 2016 and 2021 Transactions Prize Paper Award, and the Best Symposium Paper Award at the 2015 and 2018 APEMC. She is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on EMC, IEEE EMC Magazine, and IEEE Letters on EMC Practice and Applications.
Flavia is currently serving as the Chair of the IEEE EMC-S Technical Advisory Committee (TAC).
Dr. Anne Roc’h
Assistant Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology
Dr. Anne Roc’h received her M.S. degree in Telecommunication from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Limoges (Limoges, France) in 2005 and her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Twente (Enschede, the Netherlands) in 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Frank Leferink. Her Ph.D. work focused on Behavioral Models for Common Mode EMI filters. Since 2014, she is an Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology.
Anne’s research and education interests are about integrating both sustainability and the risk-based approach into the circular design of innovative (safety-critical) products, across their value chain. She develops predictive models and tests for (innovative) screening material and EM Filters. Anne also characterizes the EM propagations in products (ICs, PCBs, mm-wave packages, power systems, cable layouts…) within a community of industrial partners in the Energy Renewables, Mobility and Medical Technology markets.
Dr. ir. Anne Roc’h is a Senior Member of the IEEE EMC Society (Board Member for the IEEE EMC Society Benelux, Secretary of the IEEE EMC TC4 on “EMI control” and vice-chair of IEEE EMC Education Committee). She is also a Board Member of the Dutch EMC-ESD society. She is the Coordinator of the MSCA Doctoral Networks Eternity, PARASOL and PATTERN.
WEDNESDAY
Mr. Lee Hill
MSEE, Missouri University of Science & TechnologyFounding Partner, SILENT Solutions LLC & GmbHAdjunct Faculty, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)Associate Tutor, University of Oxford
Mr. Lee Hill is Managing Director of SILENT Solutions GmbH, and Founding Partner of Silent Solutions LLC, consulting firms that he started in Munich in 2017 and Silicon Valley in 1992. Lee received his MSEE from the Missouri University of Science & Technology EMC Laboratory emclab.mst.edu., studying under Dr.’s Van Doren, Hubing, and Drewniak. Lee teaches graduate EMC as adjunct faculty at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), and is also an EMC course instructor for University of Oxford (England). Lee is the named inventor of three US patents for EMI control. Lee was previously the chair of the IEEE EMC Society’s Clayton R. Paul Global University program and Distinguished Lecturer program, and served as a Distinguished Lecturer from 1994-96. Lee consults and teaches public and private in-person and online EMC courses worldwide, and has been teaching short courses on EMC design and troubleshooting for over thirty years, He has presented EMC courses in the United States, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Mexico, Canada, South Korea, Germany, France, Poland, Norway, Portugal, Italy, India, and United Kingdom.
Dr. Arturo Mediano
Professor, I3A, University of Zaragoza
Founder The HF Magic Lab S.L.
IEEE Senior Member. Chair EMC-S Spain Chapter.
Past Chair MTT-S MTT-17 Committee.
Dr. Arturo Mediano received his M.Sc. (1990) and his Ph. D. (1997) in Electrical Engineering from University of Zaragoza (Spain), where he has held a teaching professorship in EMI/EMC/RF/SI from 1992. He has been involved in R&D projects with companies in the EMI/EMC, Signal Integrity and Radio frequency (RF) fields for communications, industry, defense, medical, automotive, and scientific applications since 1990. He has taught hundreds of courses/seminars for industries and institutions in the fields of EMI/EMC/SI/RF in Europe, USA, Canada, and Singapore.
Arturo Mediano is one of the Instructors of Besser Associates, Inc. (CA, USA).
He is the founder of The HF-Magic Lab®, a specialized laboratory for design, diagnostic, troubleshooting, and training in the EMI/EMC/SI and RF fields in Zaragoza (SPAIN).
Dr. Mediano is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is member of the IEEE EMC Society (EMC-S), and Chair of the EMC-S Spain Chapter. He is member of the MTT Society and Past-Chair of the MTT-17 Committee (HF/VHF/UHF Technology).
He received the 2024 Excellence in Continuing EMC Engineering Education Award from the IEEE EMC Society.
Dr. Todd Hubing
Professor Emeritus, Clemson University
IEEE Fellow, ACES Fellow
Past President, IEEE EMC Society
Dr. Todd Hubing is a Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University and President of LearnEMC. Dr. Hubing holds a BSEE degree from MIT, an MSEE degree from Purdue University and a Ph.D. from North Carolina State University. He was an engineer at IBM for 7 years and a faculty member at the University of Missouri-Rolla for 17 years before joining Clemson University in 2006. As the Michelin Professor of Vehicle Electronics at Clemson, he established the Clemson Vehicular Electronics Laboratory where he supervised research projects and taught classes in vehicle electronics, electromagnetic compatibility and digital signal integrity. At LearnEMC, he provides EMC instruction, consulting and design assistance to engineers working in the automotive, aerospace and consumer electronics industries. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society, and a Past-President of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society.
Dr. Frank Leferink
Professor, Chair EMC, University of Twente
Director EMC, THALES Nederland
IEEE Fellow
Dr. Frank Leferink received his B.Sc in 1984, M.Sc. in 1992 and his PhD in 2001, all electrical engineering, at the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. He has been with THALES, Hengelo, The Netherlands, since 1984, and is currently Director EMC. He is also manager of the Network of Excellence on EMC of the THALES Group, with over 150 EMC engineers scattered over more than 30 units, worldwide. In 2003, he was appointed as a (parttime, full research) Professor and the Chair for EMC with the University of Twente. At the University of Twente, he lectures the course EMC, and manages several research projects, with 3 researchers and 20 PhD student-researchers. Over 400 papers have been published at international conferences or peer reviewed journals, and he holds 6 patents.
Frank Leferink is Vice-President Conferences of the IEEE EMC Society, and associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility and the IEEE Letters on Electromagnetic Compatibility Practice and Applications.
THURSDAY
Karen Burnham
President and Chief Engineer of EMC United, Inc. Distinguished Lecturer on EMC.
Karen Burnham is President and Chief Engineer of EMC United, Inc. She 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, iNARTE certification, 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 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.
Dr. Daryl G. Beetner
Professor, Missouri University of Science & Technology
Director, Missouri S&T Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory
Director, NSF Center for Electromagnetic Compatibility
Prof. Daryl G. Beetner (Fellow, IEEE) is a Professor of electrical and computer engineering with the Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA (Missouri S&T), is the Director of the Missouri S&T Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory, is the Director of the Center for Electromagnetic Compatibility, a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, and is the former Chair of the Missouri S&T ECE Department. He was the 2020 recipient of the IEEE EMC Society Technical Achievement Award and the 2003 IEEE-HKN C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Young Electrical Engineering Professor, and has won a number of best paper awards including honorable mention for the 2018 Richard B. Schulz Best Transaction Paper award. He serves on the EMC Society Board of Governors, recently stepped down as the Chair of TC-5 – Interference Control, is the EMC Education Grant Chair, and is a member of the IEEE-HKN Outstanding Young Professional committee.
