John McCloskey has 36 years of experience as an electronics and electromagnetics engineer in the aerospace industry. After receiving his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University in 1988, he went to work at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. After spending his first 10 years as a design engineer, he spent his next 10 years as an electrical systems engineer. During this second 10-year period, he got more involved with electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) issues and a seed was planted. You could say he “got the bug.”  When the center advertised for a new Chief EMC Engineer (a.k.a. “EMC Guru”), John jumped at the chance to apply for the job.  He got the gig and never looked back.

During his tenure as Center Chief EMC Engineer, John provided EMC support to many NASA missions, most notably (and for the longest duration) the James Webb Space Telescope. Click here to view his video series entitled “My 20-Year Journey with the James Webb Space Telescope.”

John has provided an extensive series of EMC tutorials and workshops to the NASA workforce (and contractors), and he has contributed many lectures and hardware demonstrations at the annual IEEE Symposium for Electromagnetic Compatibility, Signal Integrity, and Power Integrity (EMC+SIPI). He has started a video series of some of these tutorials entitled “Fundamentals of Electromagnetics,” which are available publicly on YouTube here. He is happy to come to your facility to teach a seminar and/or help you with an EMC problem. Click here to contact him to set something up.

John is also an active musician (primarily a guitar player) and an avid bicyclist. He is also a self-published author of a book about his cats (click here for more information).