2024 Oktoberfest with IEEE EMC & SAE Chicago

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The IEEE EMC & SAE Chicago chapters welcome the annual Oktoberfest social and technical meeting where members, guests, and interested attendees come together for a festive evening of conversation and professional networking. We will have Oktoberfest-themed food, refreshments, learning, and more, so come and connect with your local technical community colleagues.

This is a FREE event and everyone is welcome to attend – registration is required.

RF Radiated Emissions from Electric Vehicles – Regulatory Challenges

By Keith Frazier, Ford Motor Company

Unlike internal combustion engines, electric powertrain in automotive applications pose much greater challenges in meeting regulatory requirements with respect to far field radiated RF emissions.  This talk will review the basic physical mechanisms of the EV powertrain that contribute toward RF emissions from the vehicle. Various mitigation techniques are summarized along with the engineering tradeoffs they create. Current and future regulatory requirements are also reviewed.

Keith Frazier serves as Senior Technical Leader of Electromagnetic Compatibility for Ford Motor Company responsible for oversight of all EMC design of Ford automotive products worldwide. His interests include system/subsystem design and analysis for EMC. Between receiving his BSEE from Purdue University in 1976 and joining Ford in 1990, Keith served as an EMC and TEMPEST design engineer for various automotive and aerospace firms including GM, Lockheed, and Magnavox Government Electronics. He is a Life Senior member of IEEE and has authored and presented multiple technical papers and presentations at regional and international symposiums. Keith has authored and co-authored multiple SAE and ISO immunity standards as an active member of the USTAG to CISPR D and ISO TC22/SC32/WG3 international standards committees. In 2008, Keith served as Technical Papers Co-chair for the 2008 IEEE EMC Symposium held in Detroit, Michigan. In the fall of 2023, he was elected member at large of the EMC Society’s Board of Governors and Officers at Large for 2024-2026.