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The IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society seeks original, unpublished papers and tutorials on all aspects of product safety and compliance engineering including, but not limited to:

Forensics Track:
Papers and presentations on Forensics will include:

•    The latest findings in failure analysis on new components and miniaturization of common products implemented by the electronics industry. 
•    Descriptions of failure analysis involving rare failure modes that are not commonly seen in any given product line.
•    Developments in the general tools and techniques used for quality failure analysis of electronic and electrical products.
•    Dominant failure modes for a given type of component, detailing causes and effects of these failure modes.

Large Format Lithium Ion Batteries Track:
Papers and presentations on large format lithium ion batteries will include:

•    Battery technologies for vehicles.
•    Current standards and activities around developing new standards for batteries.
•    Potential failure modes and risks associated with large format batteries.
•    Failure analysis techniques.
•    What we can learn from past experience regarding battery safety.

EMC Product Compliance Track: 
Papers and presentations on EMC product compliance will include: 

•    EMC Standards and Regulations
•    PCB design for EMC compliance
•    EMC shielding, grounding, filtering and layout considerations for compliance
•    EMC Troubleshooting techniques
•    EMC compliance and non-compliance case studies
•    Smart Grid EMC considerations
•    Transportation system EMC
•    Electric Vehicle EMC
•    Lightning Protection
•    Electrostatic discharge protection

Medical Devices Track - “The impact of the new IEC 60601-1”:
Papers and presentations on Medical Devices will include: 

•    Risk Management process
•    Essential performances
•    Patient and Operator – different requirements
•    How to deal with the Collateral Standards
•    Manufacturer opinion
•    Consultant opinion
•    Testing House opinion

Risk Assessment Track – Are you ready for Risk Assessments in Standards??
Papers and presentations on Risk Assessments will include:
•    Introduction to Risk Assessments and various techniques
•    Introduction to CSA Z1002 Occupational Health and Safety based on ISO12100. How will it
affect Machinery Standards in Canada?
•    Functional Safety and Machinery: Are Standards like ISO 13849‐1 and IEC 62061taking focus
away from other Risk Control Measures?
•    New laws in member states of the EU affecting the Directives
•    IEC62326 Hazard Based Standard
•    Risk Assessments for Electromedical Equipment
•    ISO Guide 51

General Track:
Papers and presentations in the General Track will include: 

•    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.