Philip McGaw has over a decade of professional electronics experience, in EMC, Testing and Research and Development

Philip enjoys working within a fast-paced R&D environment developing innovative solutions to allow for testing complex systems within regulatory framework testing, Hardware in the Loop, or production line testing of prototypes through to final products.

Philip can apply his Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering backgrountld and his skills in 3D Printing, rapid prototyping and Embedded Systems to develop and test innovative hardware solutions for Devices under test, recently this has included Electric Vehicles and Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment. Previously this also included hardware supplied for testing by customers.

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Philip McGaw’s Recent Posts

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  Installing just enough Jupyter Notebook
  I don’t like programming, I am not very good at it; yes I can do just enough to make Arduino’s talk SCPI and do other things for me. However, I dislike writing reports in Microsoft Word more (don’t get me started on my feelings about Microsoft Windows). This is where Jupyter Notebook may come in (Not Juniper notebook as I have historicly mis-named it). To install Jupyter Notebook on this Windows 10 machine, I am going to use Anaconda rather than go through the hassle of installing Python etc myself. Installing Anaconda Anaconda can be downloaded from its download page… Read more: Installing just enough Jupyter Notebook
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  Are the Engineering Council a good ethics gatekeeper?
  I have been a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) for over five years and am slowly working towards becoming a Chartered Engineer. The Engineering Council is the gatekeeper to who can and can not become a Chartered Engineer and, subsequently, appends the Post-nominal titles of EngTech, ICTTech, IEng, and CEng after your name. One pre-requisite for chartered status is that you shall promise to observe the code of conduct and the Statement of Ethical Principles. There are four fundamental principles: I must wonder about the second: “Respect for life, law, the environment and public good.” The Engineering Council… Read more: Are the Engineering Council a good ethics gatekeeper?
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  DIN 47100 Colours
  The DIN Standard, DIN 47100, is used to identify the colour-coding for identifying cores in telecommunication cables.
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  Setting up BlueOS for a Remote Operated Robot
  BlueOS is Blue Robotics Raspberry Pi software to control ROVs, it combines the functionality required to control robots and low-cost hardware
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  Building up Ian Hughes’ K9 Body
  Ian Hughes has done a lot of work on making a 3D-printable K9. Details of Doctor Who’s K-9 and other science-fiction models can be found on his Patreon page. I am currently working on printing the external parts for the main body, The parts are printed on our Prusa MK3 3D printer using a mix of random PLA (Polylactic acid) filaments. However, I am mostly using PLA+ from eSUN. I have managed to get the bottom ring printed out so far, this is the sections at the bottom edge of the image to the right. Unlike the diagram to the… Read more: Building up Ian Hughes’ K9 Body

Philip McGaw’s previous responsibilities

Projects that Philip McGaw has worked on previously have included:

• Commissioning of the new EMC, and electrical test facilities
• Designing EV EVSE test equipment.
• Development of design validation plans (DVP) and procedures for Electric vehicles (EV) components to meet industry standards [ISO 16750, CISPR 25, ECE Regulation 10, ISO 10605, ISO 11452, ISO 7637] and company requirements.
• Performing validation tests for EV components – HV traction inverters, ECU, DCDC, BMS, ADAS, HMI, etc.) .
• Performing R&D and functional tests, fault analysis for new EV component designs.
• Performing tests with Vector CANalyzer environment, Python, and Matlab/Simulink scripts.
• Preparation and release of test reports, hardware bug tracking via Atlassian Jira/Confluence