SPECIAL SESSIONS

SPECIAL SESSION ON EMC MEASUREMENTS AND TESTING
Sohair Fakhry (National Institute for Standard in Egypt) and Carlo Carobbi (University of Florence - Italy)

Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) measurements are a quite spread and challenging practice nowadays. Electronic circuit designers, RF designers and EMC specialists have to tackle unintentional coupling phenomena and interference occurring in the broad frequency interval ranging from power-frequency to microwaves and involving passive and active devices. Specific measurement methods and skills must be developed in order to correctly evaluate the interference level, identify the disturbing source, the coupling mechanism to the victim and the viable noise mitigation techniques.
EMC testing laboratories have to face the challenges of the global, quality driven market and the increasingly rapid development of high-tech products and accompanying EMC test methods. Nowadays military, space, avionics, biomedical, automotive systems and commercial products must be tested for EMC compliance from few kilohertz up to tens of gigahertz taking into account the fundamental metrological issues of traceability of measurements and uncertainty evaluation of test results.
Original contributions on high frequency and fast transient measurement techniques, Electric, Magnetic and Electromagnetic measurements, EMC test methods and uncertainty evaluations are warmly welcome in this special session on EMC measurements and testing.

SPECIAL SESSION ON MEASUREMENTS IN TELECOM
Leo Van Biesen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Belgium)

- Measurements of telecommunication channels;
- wireless channels;
- transmission lines;
- optical channels;
- measurements of microwave equipment;
- measurements of the location of mobile equipment;
- measurements related to network planning and network assessments in e.g.;
- WiFi;
- WiMAX;
- LAN and WLAN
- B3G and 4G networks

SPECIAL SESSION ON "E-learning as educational and technological innovation"
Domenico Grimaldi (University of Calabria - Italy)

The experience of the e-learning in the education on Instrumentation and Measurement (I&M) at different levels, degree courses or long life learning, suggests new and interesting aspects to be examined. Moreover, the capabilities of remote teaching and the use of multimedia communication tools as a channel to reach the students or workers to their homes have introduced new and specific requirements not previous considered and invite to explore new directions. Several solutions based on internet and/or Digital Video Transmission as communication channels and mobile computing enable the realization of flexible customized solutions for specific measurement educational tools on demand.
This Special Session deals with all educational and technological problems concerning: innovation, quality, reality, innovative requirements for the development, aspects connected to the interoperability of the e-learning.
Topics may include any issue related to e-learning based educational facilities, laboratories, and especially: Studies on the content of a modern multimedia-based I&M course; Non-traditional teaching approaches using multimedia technology; Innovations related to the laboratory practice (educational tools, technological equipment, and content) due to multimedia-based approaches; Multimedia-based continuing education and training related to I&M.

SPECIAL SESSION ON "Measurement on Human Being"
Sergio Rapuano (University of Sannio - Italy)

- Image and signal processing for medical applications
- Biometric sensing
- Medical measurement instrumentation
- Measurement methods for diagnosis
- Instrumentation for distance healthcare

SPECIAL SESSION ON "INSTRUMENTATION, MEASUREMENTS AND METHODS FOR QUALITY, RELIABILITY, TESTING AND FAULT DIAGNOSIS"
Marcantonio Catelani, University of Florence (Italy); Loredana Cristaldi, Politecnico of Milano (Italy); Massimo Lazzaroni, University of Milano (Italy); Lorenzo Peretto, Paola Rinaldi, University of Bologna (Italy)

Quality as well as Reliability, Testing, Fault diagnosis, Maintainability and Safety (in a collective term: availability) represent important requirements in design and development of components, software and complex systems. Measurements of such performances play fundamental rules for industrial applications: reliability evaluation and prediction, safety and risk management, design review, life-cycle cost evaluation, certification, standardization are crucial in different fields as, for instance, automotive, biomedical, railway, aeronautic and space. Quality control is also fundamental in order to verify such performances on the final product as well as the performances of the production process. This special session focuses, mainly, on such aspects and it’s addressed to interested researchers who usually work in the field of the instrumentation, measurements and methods for the quality and availability analysis/evaluation, in all the aspects above mentioned. This special session promotes useful and interesting discussions would certainly provide an increasing of knowledge and an easier diffusion of the most recent findings and proposals in this field. Perspective authors must provide original contributions in such topic, which can cover, but not limited to, the following aspects:

• Measurements and methods for quality control;
• Software quality and reliability;
• Instrumentation, measurements and methods for diagnosis of components and systems;
• Measurement uncertainty on availability (reliability, maintainability) parameter estimation (i.e. MTBF, MTTR);
• Instrumentation and measurement methods for testing;
• Built-in Test Equipment (BITE);
• Automatic Test Equipment (ATE);
• Design and implementation of reliability tests;
• Mathematical and statistical models for reliability, testing, diagnosis, maintainability and safety;
• Reliability evaluation and prediction;
• Risk assessment.

PRIN 2006 (National Interest Research Project)
“DEVELOPMENT OF NEW METHODS FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION, MODELING AND CORRECTION OF A/D AND D/A CONVERSION NOT IDEALITY, TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE HARMONIZATION AND THE UPGRADE OF THE RELATIVE INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS” results.

Italian Research Units involved in the Project and Coordinators:

Mario SAVINO (Politecnico di Bari) – National Coordinator of the Project
Marcantonio CATELANI (University of Florence)
Pasquale DAPONTE (University of Sannio di Benevento)
Domenico MIRRI (University of Bologna)
Salvatore NUCCIO (University of Palermo)

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Are you interested in organizing a special session?

Please, contact the Conference Chairman Prof. Marcantonio Catelani - University of Florence, Italy

e-mail : marcantonio.catelani@unifi.it