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