A course entitled ‘Successful Change
Management for Engineers, Scientists & Staff in Hi-Tech
Companies’ is being offered by the University of Oxford this
month.
The course, on 16 November, is presented by
Dr John Wilson, Oxford’s continuing professional development
manager. It is aimed at engineers, scientists, managers and any
staff who are responsible for, or involved in, managing change from
small scale interventions to large scale restructuring.
The one-day practical course will investigate
the theory of change, apply tried and tested tools and develop
skills. The application of these tools and skills will be covered
at individual, team and organisation levels in the following areas:
understanding change; arguments for change; introducing change;
handling resistance; smoothing the path; ensuring momentum; and
examining the future.
Oxford is also running its ‘Troubleshooting,
Verification, and High Frequency Measurements in Signal Integrity
& Design for Digital and Analogue Designers’ course this month
on the 14 and 15.
The course is intended for all circuit
designers - especially those involved with signal integrity issues
- design supervisors, and manufacturing test engineers. They will
be given practical knowledge for signal integrity design
troubleshooting and verification that can be used immediately on
the job.
An in-depth description of how to measure
signal and noise in high speed digital and analogue circuits will
be given and these measurements will then be used to characterise
high speed effects in electronic circuits including design
verification and troubleshooting. Sources of measurement error will
be discussed.
There will also be time to discuss the
problems and interests of delegates.
On 16 November, the ‘Failure Analysis and
Prevention in Electronic Circuits for Digital and Analogue
Designers’ course will run. This will be taken by the same
presenter, Doug Smith, a consultant and author of High Frequency
Measurements and Noise in Electronic Circuits.
Aimed at all circuit designers, design
supervisors, manufacturing test engineers, quality engineers, and
field support engineers, this course covers techniques developed by
Smith for troubleshooting design problems both in the lab and field
installations. This seminar describes each technique in depth, how
to apply it, and how to interpret results.
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/electronics