{"id":616,"date":"2011-06-11T08:33:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T13:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/?p=616"},"modified":"2011-07-09T14:55:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T19:55:51","slug":"summer-co-op-canadian-space-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"Summer Co-op: Canadian Space Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heritage College’s Electronics program offers two summer co-op terms, which are recognized on the diploma received at graduation.<\/p>\n

Last summer, I was employed at the very same college, officially preparing equipment for next year’s classes, making an inventory of electronics components and materials, and making a database with search and checkout\u00a0functionality\u00a0to keep track of components. Unofficially, I also assisted the computer services guys, setting up computers for the Jeux du Quebec 2010, then quickly dismantling and putting them back in classrooms and offices.<\/p>\n

This year, I’m working at the Canadian Space Agency.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I work at the David Florida Laboratories (DFL), which is a branch of the CSA. I work in the RFQF (Radio Frequency Qualification Facilities), where I perform various types of testing on sometimes space-related (though not always) devices. To date I’ve performed radiated emissions and susceptibility testing, as well as current injection, antenna testing (to a limited extent: measuring reflected signal). The DFL is divided into several sections; I’ve been working in RFQF, but there is also PIM, TVAC, and a couple others I haven’t been in yet.<\/p>\n

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I spend much of my time in a lab with a room like this: an anechoic chamber. The foam on the walls is designed to absorb RF signal, serving to simulate a free-space environment. The EUT (equipment under test) is placed in this room, along with a probe, and possibly another antenna to introduce RF signals for\u00a0susceptibility\u00a0testing.<\/p>\n

In two weeks I’ve learnt so much procedure, learning about different types of tests (which many were written in-house), as well as how to use different standards as a way of defining limits for our testing.<\/p>\n

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This is a spectrum analyzer, one of
\nthe tools I use in the RF labs.<\/p>\n

There is no better way to learn than to follow someone else, and by the end of the summer, I expect my mind will be filled with new knowledge. This is going to be an awesome summer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heritage College’s Electronics program offers two summer co-op terms, which are recognized on the diploma received at graduation. Last summer, I was employed at the very same college, officially preparing equipment for next year’s classes, making an inventory of electronics components and materials, and making a database with search and checkout\u00a0functionality\u00a0to keep track of components. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,8],"tags":[191,185,186,188,189,192,187,190],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-life","category-school","tag-co-op","tag-csa","tag-dfl","tag-emc","tag-emi","tag-job","tag-rf","tag-spectrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}