Lee Hill - Founding Partner
Lee Hill is an electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) engineer with over twenty years of industry experience in the design and retrofit of complex electronic systems. He is Founding Partner of SILENT, an independent consulting firm that specializes in EMC and RF design, troubleshooting and training. SILENT provides services to commercial and industrial manufacturers with global distribution including the consumer, computer, network and telecommunications, industrial, medical, scientific and automotive industries.

Previously Lee was Principal EMC and Systems Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation's Workstation Systems Engineering Group in Palo Alto, California. In 1994, Lee was appointed to serve a two year term as an IEEE EMC Society Distinguished Lecturer. He has authored many IEEE papers, tutorials, and demonstrations on EMC design and troubleshooting, and is a frequent speaker at local IEEE EMC Society chapters in the US. Mr. Hill was awarded the 1993 IEEE EMC Society President's Memorial Scholarship and the 1994 Missouri Collegiate Entrepreneur Award. He received the Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering and electromagnetics with highest honors from the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) EMC Laboratory (www.emclab.umr.edu) in 1994. He holds a US patent for EMI control in portable electronics.

Mr. Hill consults and teaches worldwide, and has presented classes in Taiwan, Singapore, Canada, Mexico, Norway, South Korea, United Kingdom and United States. He is also a regular EMC course instructor for Oxford University (England), University of California-Berkeley, General Motors University and Freescale Semiconductor. In previous years he was an instructor for Agilent Technologies. Lee is currently a member of the IEEE EMC Society Board of Directors, and also serves as former Chairman of the Society's Distinguished Lecturer Program. He has completed a three-year term on the Editorial Review Board of Printed Circuit Design Magazine, is a past Vice-Chair of the Central New England Chapter of the IEEE EMC Society and served as Co-Technical Chairman of the 2003 IEEE Symposium on EMC in Boston, Massachusetts