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Diophantine model for deterministic modulations

In the previous post, I outlined the reasoning steps taken in my last paper which claimed that random modulation is not a valid EMI reduction technique, and in systems with serial communication devices it can disturb the signal on average the same as by using deterministic modulation. Here I am describing shortly the deterministic model using and online application developed with Shiny and R. Read more...

Karol, 1.07.2022

Random vs deterministic deterministic modulations in power converters

In my last paper, we argue against using random modulation as a cure to achieve electromagnetic compatibility in systems with serial communication devices. In this blog I want to outline the main reasoning steps. Read more...

Karol, 25.06.2022

Secondment in the Netherlands

At the beginning of June, in a cheerful day for the United Kingdom (it was the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth) my colleague Karol and I left a vibrant London toward Enschede in order to carry out the second part of the secondment at the University of Twente and in Thales. Read more...

Erjon, 20.06.2022

Experiencing a new atmosphere at University of Nottingham

Academic secondment is an important part of the SCENT project. The purpose is to share experiences, knowledge and experiences study in a new atmosphere in different countries.
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Imam, 27.05.2022

The Incontestable Relationship between Studies and the Construction of the Life Project, Part 2.

In July 2021, at the invitation of the professors from the State School Prof. João Batista Curado (located in the city of Jundiai, state of São Paulo, Brazil). I taught a lecture on The Incontestable Relationship between Studies and the Construction of the Life Project. The lecture was dedicated to high school students.
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Hermes, 30.03.2022

Virtual Secondments with SIEMENS

According to Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions guide: "Secondment is a period of research training with another beneficiary or a partner organization implemented to further enrich the training experience of a researcher." In my case, the secondment at the SIEMENS was planned for May 2020. However, due to COVID 19, several plans and visits to the UK were canceled. Read more...

Hermes, 25.03.2022

XXVIII Targi Budownictwa, Wyposażenia Wnętrz i Ogrodów 2022

As an Early-Stage Researcher on the SCENT project, I have been developing dissemination and communication initiatives directed at the general public. After periods without opportunities for in-person activities due to the restrictions imposed by Covid-19, new possibilities finally begin to appear, albeit timidly. Read more...

Hermes, 6.03.2022

SCENT Summer School II

Finally! After a (too) long Covid break SCENT ESRs and their supervisors were able to meet in person during the Second SCENT Summer School, held at the University of Zielona Góra in Poland.

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Karol, Imam, Marshall, Dasha, 29.09.2021

SCENT Summer School II - Introductory videos

The concept of SCENT Summer Schools considers providing training elements that will be obligatory for all ESRs to establish a common background of knowledge. ESRs progress presentations, scientific modules, and transferable skills training are carefully incorporated in the Summer Schools programme to assure complementarity with the individual ESRs’ training. Read more...

Hermes, 20.08.2021

Secondment in Poland

Have you ever felt like being home when visiting a new country? Well, it happened to me and hope you will understand why after reading this short post which aims to describe my experience in Zielona Góra (Poland). Read more...

Erjon, 15.09.2021

An Experience as Co-Chair of the Automotive EMC Joint Tutorial & Workshop - Tutorial Part.

In October 2020, during a conversation with Prof. Flavia Grassi from the Politecnico di Milano and Douglas Nascimento from the ETOPIA project, on outreach activities. There was a possibility, or better saying, the idea of being a Co-Chair of a technical workshop at the 2021 Joint IEEE Int. Symp. EMC & SIPI, EMC Europe. Read more...

Hermes, 3.08.2021

EMC-SIPI 2021 SCENT Special Session

We would like to invite to participate in the Special Session organized by the members of the SCENT project, entitled "Advanced Methods to Model, Evaluate, and Measure Electromagnetic interference at Low Frequency in Transportation and Renewable Energy Systems." The Special Session will be held on 11th of August at 2021 JOINT IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY, SIGNAL & POWER INTEGRITY, AND EMC EUROPE conference. Read more...

Waseem, 1.08.2021

The Incontestable Relationship between Studies and the Construction of the Life Project

As an Early-Stage Researcher on the SCENT project, I'm encouraged to elaborate dissemination and communication initiatives directed at the general public. It was in this context, with the support of professors from the State School Prof. João Batista Curado I taught a lecture on July 1, 2021, on The Incontestable Relationship between Studies and the Construction of the Life Project. Read more...

Hermes, 1.07.2021

SCENT: EMC in Smart Cities via Power Electronics

We would like to invite to participate in the Special Session organized by the members of the SCENT project. The Special Session will be held during the Asia Pacific EMC (APEMC 2021) International Conference. Read more...

Imam, 15.05.2021

II Latin America MCAA Conference

I had the remarkable opportunity to make one pitch talk at II Latin America MCAA Conference (Fig. 1). This pitch talk was an excellent way to disseminate the SCENT project to researchers from Latin America spread worldwide, speaking about my Secondments and Research Progress in COVID times. Read more...

Hermes, 23.03.2021

Secondment at Siemens

As adapted by the MSCA-ITN SCENT project, teleworking and virtual secondment activities has enabled secondment activities for continued work development. As most industries and colleges where teleworking is encouraged due to covid 19 constraints, Secondment has now become a virtual work. Luckily, I received Siemens PLC visit for two days in the middle of March 2020 as a secondment in an industry. Read more..

Venkat, 23.03.2021

Becoming and ESR during COVID time

All ESRs know the challenges of researching and working remotely during the pandemic. Some of us have already shared their experiences, particularly regarding the remote secondments. But what is like to start the early stage research journey during the pandemic? Is it possible to do it remotely? This is a first blog post from our new colleague Erjon, who wants to share his first experiences of becoming an ESR. Read more...

Erjon, 04.03.2021

Secondments in ENEA

There is a new approach of industry support for “Building a bridge between the industry and academia” – one of the main objectives of the Marie Curie SCENT project proposal. The link between the industry and research represents an unbreakable bond, especially, in the field of smart grid and renewable energy. However, the unexpected situations such as COVID 19 pandemic has slowed down the process. Fortunately for me, I had performed the 1st secondments at ENEA Operator right before the outbreak of the pandemic Read more...

Marshall, 08.02.2021

Industrial Secondments in COVID-19 time

Nowadays, the link between the industry and academia represents an unbreakable bond, especially in the field of smart grids and renewable energy due to the daily challenges the engineers encounter in this field. Within the SCENT project, the Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) investigate the smart grid issues encountered in industry. Therefore, the secondments and training provided by the industrial partners are strong tools that provide the ESRs a link between the industry and academia. However, sometimes this link could be affected by unexpected situations such as the COVID 19 pandemic. Read more...

Waseem, 21.01.2021

My industrial secondment during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Marie-Sklodowska Curie Actions Innovative Training Networks (MSCA-ITN) offers many valuable opportunities for the Early Stare Researcher (ESR) to develop their knowledge, skills and careers. One of the appreciated opportunities which I obtained as the ESR in the SCENT project is doing secondment at industries. The experience from the industrial secondment provides the insight for the ESR to find and tackle real world problems using academic and scientific research approach. Read more...

Wibi, 10.12.2020

Optimizing the Industrial secondment experience during the Covid-19 pandemic

Industrial secondment activities for early-stage researchers (ESR) are an essential part of the learning process and development, especially in the Smart Cities EMC Network for Training (SCENT) project, which has an orientation to develop their ESRs become excellent experts. However, the Covid-19 pandemic in the world, which began at the end of 2019, made the learning process, including industrial secondment activities, become more difficult than usual. Read more...

Imam, 9.12.2020

My Marie-Skłodowska Curie Secondment in COVID-19 times

PhD journey involves a lot of hard work and being an early-stage researcher (ESR) in the SCENT project sometimes, the hurdle increases. Nowadays, the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic changed our lives, and teleworking has been practiced more than ever. However, some activities are challenging to establish remote, such as the secondments. Read more...

Hermes, 30.11.2020

Building a bridge between the industry and academia

As you may already know from the previous post, industrial secondments play an important part in the SCENT project. However, the current situation related to the pandemic made it complicated to take part in the collaboration between academia and industry. How do we overcome these difficulties? Read more...

Dasha, 25.11.2020

Dealing with real challenges on a navy warship

An important part of the SCENT project is our possibility and obligation to conduct research not only in the academic but also industrial setting. This possibility enables us to bridge the gap between industry and academia, ensuring us that the research is not only a subject for some boffins, but is in fact relevant and can be used in solving 'real-world' problems. In a series of posts we are going to share our experiences on the secondments to the industrial partners of the SCENT project. Read more...

Imam, 23.11.2020

Integration of energy and communication systems in smart cities

What are the challenges of integrating energy and communication systems in smart cities? What is the role of the standards, especially about EMC? This is the panel's context promoted by SCENT project and Bright Cities, with the mediation provided by SCENT ESR2 - Hermes Loschi, in conjunction with ETOPIA ESR 7 - Francinei Vieira and the electrical engineer at ABB - Carlos Eduardo Bertolassi. Read more...

Hermes, 17.11.2020

EMI Filters

Reading every single paper about passive EMI filters you’ll find a statement in it, that designing and optimization of aforementioned filters is not a trivial task. This article will open a series of posts in which we will try to give an understanding to a reader of all significant phenomena or aspects in a filter design. Read more...

Dasha, 29.09.2020

Electromagnetic Compatibility in Smart grid environment

EMI can cause malfunction or failure of the performance of power semi-conductor devices, equipments, or systems through main power lines (conducted emissions: CE) and through space (radiated emissions: RE). High-speed semiconductors are applied in power electronics converters to improve efficiency. But high frequency switching leads to generation of interference over a wide range of frequency. EMI is an inevitable problem in modern power electronic circuits. Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), which has recently gained a high importance, is the solution against electromagnetic interference. Read more...

Venkat, 23.09.2020

What is CISPR for the EMC society?

The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC; in French: Commission électrotechnique internationale) is an international standards organization that prepares and publishes international standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies – collectively known as "electrotechnology". IEC standards cover a vast range of technologies from power generation, transmission and distribution to home appliances and office equipment, semiconductors, fibre optics, batteries, solar energy, nanotechnology and marine energy as well as many others. The IEC also manages four global conformity assessment systems that certify whether equipment, system or components conform to its international standards.
All electrotechnologies are covered by IEC Standards, including energy production and distribution, electronics, magnetics and electromagnetics, electroacoustics, multimedia, telecommunication and medical technology, as well as associated general disciplines such as terminology and symbols, electromagnetic compatibility. Read more...

Marshall, 07.09.2020

Electromagnetic Compatibility Challenge in Industry 4.0 and 5.0

Nowadays, the development of industrial automation or the internet of things (IOT) in the industrial era 4.0 has been very rapid. In the future, this technology will develop into technologies that allow "personalization", which is known as the 5.0 industrial era. What are the challenges in Industry 4.0 and 5.0 from the Electromangetic Compatibility perspective? Read more...

Imam, 31.08.2020

Living in the Netherlands

An important aspect of the SCENT project is the mobility of the ESRs. We all need to adjust to living abroad, which is often related with a culture shock, especially in the beginning. However, this is also an important lesson and allows us to make international friends while appreciating our similarities and differences. Here is a story from Wibi. Read more...

Wibi, 24.08.2020

EMI in CENELEC A frequency band

A lot of problems appear in the communication due to the presence of harmonics and conducted Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) in the power cables due to the increasing amount of devices utilizing switching frequencies in the frequency range of narrowband communication in CENELEC A band. In this blog we are going to explore the types of electromagnetic interference in a CENELEC A frequency band. Read more...

Waseem, 14.07.2020

Outreach activities, and now, what I do?

One of the SCENT project primary mission is the dissemination and communication initiatives directed towards the general public. The primary goal is to create awareness of the importance of research to society and to raise awareness of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, based on the principle "public engagement" of the "European Charter for Researchers." Read more...

Hermes, 16.06.2020

FFT example, part 1.

Time domain and frequency domain are two complementary ways of looking at a signal. Usually, to switch from time domain to frequency domain, we use Fourier Transform. However, looking more closely at Fourier Transform, one can realize that there are many things that should be taken into consideration. This example is aimed at demonstrating the effect of bandwidth on the measurement of some standard waveforms. Read more...

Dave and Karol, 16.06.2020

Struggling with writing?

Don't worry, we all do. Writing articles is a big part of every scientists' life. Sometimes you don't know where to start, other times you realize that you don't know what you were talking about. Dasha wants to share some more personal thoughts on the writing process. Read more....

Daria, 30.03.2020

Cable Modelling in SACAMOS

SACAMOS (State-of-the-Art CAble MOdels for Spice) is a software for modelling the cables propagation and external field coupling with all cable properties and frequency dependent values that effect performance of cables. In this post we will show some of SACAMOS' features. Read more...

Venkat, 29.03.2020

What is dB?

Many of us heard about "decibels". In fact, for an electrical engineer decibles should be a bread and butter. But to use them properly, one needs to know what they really mean. Sometimes it is needed to refresh the basics. Let's refresh them together. Read more...

Karol, 28.03.2020

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