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Plenary Speech P-Tu1
Title: Ensuring the Electromagnetic Compatibility of Safety Critical Automotive Systems
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Speaker: Prof. Todd Hubing, Clemson Univ., USA |
Automotive technology is advancing at a record pace. Ten years ago, cars and trucks were primarily mechanical machines with various electronic controls. Development cycles were 5 years or longer and designs were largely driven by mechanical innovations and constraints. The vehicles being developed today are highly integrated electronic systems. Computers play a key role in everything from running the engine to "rolling down" the windows. Very few aspects of vehicle operation are controlled directly by the driver without one or more computer systems intervening. As a result, today's automobiles are safer, more reliable and more fuel efficient than ever before. However, greater reliance on electronic systems demands greater emphasis the electromagnetic compatibility and reliability of these systems. It is more important than ever before to ensure that system failures due to electromagnetic interference, electrical faults or software glitches do not compromise vehicle safety. As we continue to incorporate more electronics into the automotive platform, we must rethink the way that automobiles are designed, manufactured and tested. This will require abandoning certain aspects of traditional automotive development in favor of processes borrowed from the aerospace and consumer electronics industries. The leading automotive companies in the next decade will be those companies that successfully make this transition.
Biography
Prof. Todd Hubing is the Michelin Professor of Vehicle Electronics at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) in Greenville, South Carolina, USA. He holds a BSEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MSEE from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. from North Carolina State University. He began his career as an EMC engineer for IBM in 1982, where he did EMC testing and troubleshooting on a variety of computer and network communications products. In 1989, he became a faculty member at the University of Missouri-Rolla (now the Missouri University of Science and Technology) where he worked with other faculty and students to analyze and develop solutions for a wide range of EMC problems affecting the electronics industry. Since coming to Clemson in 2006, he has continued his work in electromagnetic compatibility and computational electromagnetic modeling, particularly as it is applied to automotive and aerospace electronics. He is a Past-President of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, an IEEE Fellow and a Fellow of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society.
Plenary Speech P-Tu2
Title: EMF Health Issues: Perspective of Risk Analysis and Risk Management
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Speaker: Prof. Masao Taki, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan |
Concerns about possible health risks of electromagnetic fields (EMF) are growing in many countries with the rapid penetration of wireless technology and novel applications of electrical energy into daily lives. A vast amount of resources has been invested to researches on this issue since 1990's. The results mainly confirmed the absence of health effects of low-level exposures especially of researches with good dosimetry or quantitative exposure assessment. The demands on the good dosimetry stimulated progress in computational electromagnetics and development of sophisticated numerical human models. We now have much more evidences about the safety of EMF exposure owing to the progress in the electromagnetic dosimetry. Some recent progress regarding those topics will be shown in the talk. On the other hand epidemiological studies have been suggesting possible associations between EMF exposure and cancer. The limitation in epidemiology derives from the precision of exposure assessment in spite of great efforts devoted to exposure assessment for epidemiology. World Health Organization recommended adopting international guidelines on the limit of exposures, and assessment of exposures from sources where exposures might be expected to exceed limit values. The exposure assessment is mandatory in the development of any products of application of electromagnetic energy. Assessment of compliance with the guidelines is of interest in emerging technologies. Some recent progress in this issue will be discussed.
Biography
Frof. Masao Taki is a Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan. He received his B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1976, 1978, and 1981, respectively. He then joined Department of Electrical Engineering of Tokyo Metropolitan University, where he started researches on bioelectromagnetics in 1981. Since then he has been engaged in electromagnetic dosimetry and assessment of health risks of humans exposed to electromagnetic fields. He has also been involved in biological studies in vivo and in vitro, and also in epidemiological studies for risk assessment of electromagnetic field exposures. He was a member of International Commission of Non-ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) from 1995 to 2008, and chairing the ICNIRP SCIII from 2000 until 2004. He served as a board member of Bioelectromagnetics Society in 2005 - 2007. He is currently the Vice-chair of Commission K of the International Union of radio Science (URSI).
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