Grand Valley State University EMC Center
Grand Valley State University offers unique EMC education opportunities provided by its EMC Center located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The center houses an industrial EMC precompliance lab supported by academia and industry that brings decades of EMC & SIPI expertise, tools and capabilities to the classroom and student experience. Practicing EMC professionals and new engineers entering the field can earn undergraduate and graduate EMC badges issued by GVSU and attend a two-day certificate course “Principles of Electromagnetic Compatibility” offered in April and October, taught by Dr. Bogdan Adamczyk, professor and EMC Center director.
Dr. Bogdan Adamczyk is professor and director of the EMC Center at Grand Valley State University where he develops EMC educational material and teaches EMC courses for industry. He is an iNARTE certified EMC Master Design Engineer. Prof. Adamczyk is the author of two textbooks: “Foundations of Electromagnetic Compatibility with Practical Applications” (Wiley, 2017) and “Principles of Electromagnetic Compatibility: Laboratory Exercises and Lectures” (Wiley, 2024). He has taught numerous EMC courses for industry and has authored over 100 publications on EMC education, measurement, and testing, and presented hardware demonstrations at several IEEE EMC Symposia. Prof. Adamczyk is a senior contributor to the In Compliance Magazine; since January 2017 he has been writing a monthly column “EMC Concepts Explained”.
Inside this 6,000 square-foot facility there are seven EMC test chambers for radiated and conducted emissions, radiated and conducted immunity, and electrostatic discharge testing. The center provides support for university electromagnetic compatibility courses at undergraduate and graduate level as well as EMC certificate courses for industry.
