EMC · Environmental Test · Space & Aerospace
EMC & Environmental Test Engineering
I'm James Yates, Lead EMC Engineer at Leonardo and a former laboratory director. I have more than twenty years of experience in commercial, aerospace, defence and space testing, following an engineering apprenticeship at QinetiQ Aberporth.
Resources
Engineering tools and experience
EMC
Field strength, receiver bandwidth, RF unit conversion, grounding and bonding.
Enter → 02Antennas
Antenna field regions, beamwidth digitising and beam coverage planning.
Enter → 03Radar
The range equation, Doppler shift, PRF and a PPI display demonstration.
Enter → 04Space Qualification
Vibration, thermal cycling and thermal vacuum testing, with test-planning calculators.
Enter → 05Management & Leadership
Laboratory management, turnaround improvements, team development and accreditation.
Enter → 06Personal
Endurance events, Army Reserve service and parachuting.
Enter →Current role
Leonardo, Edinburgh.
Leading EMC laboratory operations for radar and combat air programmes, expanding accredited scope, developing test methods and improving measurement repeatability.