PSES 2011 - 2011 IEEE Symposium on Product Compliance Engineering (PSES)

2011 IEEE Symposium on Product
Compliance Engineering
Sponsored by the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society
October 10 - October 12, 2011
San Diego, California, USA
www.psessymposium.org
Technical Program Co-Chairs
Gary Tornquist, garytor-AT-microsoft.com
Bob Griffin, bobgriff-AT-us.ibm.com
Editorial Board Chair
Murlin Marks, murlinm-AT-ieee.org
Conference Management/Registration
Chris Dyer,
cdyer-AT-conferencecatalysts.com
General Chair
Bansi Patel, Bansi.Patel-AT-IEEE.org
General Co-Chair
Anna Klostermann,
aklostermann-AT-case4n6.com
Call for Papers, Workshops, and Tutorials
The IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society seeks original, unpublished papers
and tutorials on all aspects of product safety and compliance engineering
including, but not limited to:
Product Specific: Consumer, medical, computer (IT), test and
measurement, power supplies, telecommunication,
industrial control, electric tools, home appliances,
cellular and wireless, etc.
Hazard Specific: Electrical, mechanical, fire, thermal, chemical, optical,
software, functional, reliability, risk assessment, etc.
EMC / RF: Electromagnetic emissions, electromagnetic immunity,
regulatory, Introduction to EMC/RF for the safety
engineer and compliance engineer.
Components: Grounding, insulation, opto-couplers, cables,
capacitors, connectors, current-limiters, transformers,
current-limiters, fuses, lasers, ferrites, environmental,
electromagnetic suppression & protection, surge
protectors, printed wiring boards, etc.
Certification: Electromagnetic emissions & immunity, Environmental,
Product safety, Processes, safety testing, regulatory,
product liability etc.
Standards Activities: Development, status, interpretations, country specific
requirements, Laboratory Accreditation, etc.
Research: Body physiological responses to various hazardous
energy sources, unique safeguard schemes,
electrically-caused fire, forensic methods etc.
Environmental: RoHS, WEEE, EuP (Energy-using Products), Energy
Star, Packaging Directives, REACH (Chemical), CeC,
etc.
Demonstration Papers: Demonstrations of product safety testing techniques
including mechanical, electrical, fire, etc.
Author’s Schedule All dates require that the associated documents be
loaded into EDAS by the due date
Abstract submission May 15, 2011
Notification of Abstract Acceptance June 1, 2011
Draft formal paper / presentation July 15, 2011
Formal Final Paper August 15, 2011
All Final Papers and Presentations September 1, 2011
Prospective authors should submit e-papers using the on-line EDAS submission
system.
Please go to the Author’s Kit page of the PSES web for comprehensive
submission instructions including paper templates on the author tab at:
www.psessymposium.org
http://www.ieee-pses.org