Introduction to Climatics Testing

The course will provide you with a basic understanding of climatic testing. While climatic testing covers broad aspects within the industry, this course will provide an introduction to the physics of environments; a brief history of climatic test requirements; techniques to derive climatic requirements based on field data vs analysis; tailoring strategies for climatic tests of large systems and small components; an understanding of failure modes due to applied environments; an introduction to climatic test facilities and how to create environments; and practical applications of test methods.  This course is designed to be a stepping stone leading to the more focused Climatics Testing Learning Path and MIL-STD-810H training course.

Course outline     Who should attend?     Course materials     Instructor     Next date and location


Course outline

  • Physics of Environments and how environmental effects can add up over time and usage
  • Climatic Test Requirements (Standards, Regulations, Etc.)
  • Simulation, Field Testing, and Determination of stress levels
  • Common failure modes due to Applied Environments
  • Climatic Test Facilities and how to create (Applied) Environments
  • Temperature and Temp/Humidity Chambers overview
  • Chamber subsystems and functions
  • Usage Do’s and Dont’s
  • Sensors
  • Controls
  • Calibration
  • Installation and Maintenance
  • Costs

 

Who should attend?

  • Beginners in the field of Environmental Simulation testing
  • Folks working in the Dynamics, Safety Engineering, or EMC parts of Test Labs who want to get into Climatic testing
  • Lab Technicians and Engineers who would like to deepen their understanding of the Climatic testing activities and equipment
  • Folks who would like to be better shoppers for climatic testing equipment, particularly the bread-and butter Temperature and Temp/Humidity chambers
  • Lab Managers, so they can better understand what their staffs are up to when climatic testing, or when they want to spend money for climatic testing services or equipment

 

Course materials

  • Course PowerPoint in PDF format sent electronically
  • Certificate of attendance for completion of CEUs

Continuing Education Units: .6 CEUs

 

Instructors

David Gibbons (View LinkedIn profile)

Although he did start work in 1994 at HP in the Env Test lab, his 26-year career in Environmental Testing spanned HP, Agilent Technologies, and finally Keysight Technologies. Dave and the whole group/division he worked in did the same work serving the same customers over those years, with the name changes due to Corporate and stock market maneuvering.Today he is retired, but still active in the profession teaching through the IEST education program. As a senior member of the IEST, it is important to him that new practitioners understand the basic principles of the equipment they are using, and the processes they are following to ensure safe and successful testing.

Next date and location

Monday, November 10, 2025
9 - 4:30 p.m.
During EDUCON 2025
In-person or virtual

Details and registration information available here.