HENRY W. OTT is President and Principal Consultant of
Henry Ott Consultants, an EMC/ESD training and consulting organization
located in Livingston, New Jersey. Mr. Ott has literally "written
the book" on the subject of EMC, and is considered by many to be the
nation's
leading EMC educator. He not only knows the subject, but has the
rare ability to communicate that knowledge to others. Mr. Ott has
over thirty years of experience in the field of EMC.
"Few engineers know as much about electromagnetic compatibility, or EMC, as consultant Henry Ott, keynote speaker at the upcomming PCB Design Conference East." Quoted from an article on Henry Ott in the July 17, 2000 issue of EE Times.
Prior to starting his own consulting company, he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories (now Lucent Technologies), Whippany, New Jersey, for 30 years, where he was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. At Bell Labs, he worked on projects relating to missile guidance systems, nuclear effects instrumentation, analog and digital tape recorders, telephone transmission and signaling systems, microprocessors, and acted as a consultant on Electromagnetic Compatibility.
He is the author of the popular EMC book Noise Reduction Techniques in Electronic Systems, published in 1976 and 1988, by Wiley Interscience. The book is ofter referrd to as the "bible" on EMC. The first edition has been translated into Japanese, Russian, Bulgarian, and Polish, and the second edition has been translated into Italian, Japanese, and Chinese. Together, the two English editions have sold over 60,000 copies.
Mr. Ott is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and an Honorary Life Member of the IEEE EMC Society. For over twenty years Mr. Ott has served the EMC Society in various capacities including: member of the Board of Directors, Education Committee Chairman, Symposium Committee Chairman, and Vice President for Conferences. In addition he is a past Distinguished Lecturer for the EMC Society, and lectures extensively on the subject of EMC. He is a member of the ESD Association and is a NARTE Certified Electrostatic Discharge Control Engineer. He holds an amateur radio operator's license with the call sign WA2IRQ.
Mr. Ott is the holder of four patents, and author of numerous technical papers. He received his BSEE degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1957, and his MSEE degree from New York University in 1963. Mr. Ott has also received many awards for his outstanding contributions to the field of Electromagnetic Compatibility.
Also see the article about Henry Ott published in
the
August 2000 issue of Printed
Circuit
Design Magazine.
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