EMC Society Board
of Directors Activities

The President’s Opening Remarks
President Maradei called the meeting to order at 9:00 am. A round of introductions was made. Board members present included B. Archambeault, H. Benitez, C. Bunting, R. Davis, A. Duffy, R. Ford, D. Heirman, T. Hubing, E. Joffe, R. Koga, F. Maradei, J. Norgard, M. Oliver, J. O’Neil, G. Pettit, R. Scully, D. Sweeney, K. Williams, P. Wilson, and T. Yoshino. Absent were Board members L. Cohen, D. Hoolihan, J. LaSalle, A. Marvin, and V. Roje. F. Heather was present as a guest.
     President Maradei reviewed Board meeting protocol, the IEEE code of ethics, and upcoming activities. She reminded Board members of the material on the Board FTP site and asked that everyone remember to review this prior to the Board meetings. Ms. Maradei welcomed the new Board members present and thanked them for their interest in the Board activities.

 

Consent Agenda
The agenda was presented for review. The consent agenda included approval of several motions as well as the March 2011 meeting agenda, the November 2010 Board meeting minutes, inclusion of financial policy in the EMC-S’s OP&P manual, approval of the non-IEEE member subscription fee price list in accordance with the recommended price as determined by IEEE for 2012, approval of the 2012 Transactions on EMC page count not to exceed 1,200 pages, approval of the optional member Transactions on EMC (print copy) fee of $20 in accordance with recommended prices as determined by IEEE for 2012 (no change from 2011), approval of the 2012 membership fee of $30 (no change from previous year), approval to replace the present GOLD representative (Andrés Pavas) with Caroline Chan, approval of the names for the Certificate of Recognition and Certificate of Appreciation awards. A few motions were pulled from the consent agenda and moved to the regular agenda for discussion later in the meeting. The Board then approved the consent agenda. The approved November 2010 Board minutes will be posted to the EMC Society website.


Treasurer’s Report
In the absence of John LaSalle, Ms. Maradei presented his report on EMC Society finances. Mr. LaSalle attended an IEEE Finance Workshop recently. IEEE Operations are strong and this will impact spending from Society reserves. The year-to-date actual is a net $403,500; this is considerably higher than the planned budget of $18,400. The Society had a large positive variance over the budget; key line items impacting this variance included:

  • The 1900 Committee/Other account came in $56,000 below budget
  • Periodicals income was ~$50,000 above the budget
  • Conference proceedings income ($130,000) was distributed in FM13 to all S/Cs
  • Includes EMC-S share of market fluctuation, reserves spending and the pension adjustment (FASB 158) which amounts to ~$135,700

     As of the end of January, the EMC Society is operating at a net-positive $102,300 and is currently tracking towards an overall net-positive budget of $23,100.
     The Board approved the preliminary Officer, Committee, and Other budgeted expenses not to exceed $257,000 (in accordance with the EMC-27 1900 account line items) and to allow the EMC-S FinCom to make the appropriate adjustments in order to assure a balanced budget.

 

PHOTOS BY JANET O'NEIL
Don Heirman of Don HEIRMAN Consultants, Kermit Phipps
of EPRI and Ghery Pettit of Intel (from left) visit during a break
at the Board meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Elya Joffe of KTM Project Engineering presents a report on the EMC Society Constitution and Bylaws during the Board of Directors meeting on March 29.


 

President’s Report
Ms. Maradei presented her report. She asked John Norgard to speak about the passing of Carl Baum, recipient of the 2007 IEEE Electromagnetics Award. She asked for a moment of silence in respect for Dr. Baum’s passing and in recognition of the devastation in Japan due to the earthquake and tsunami. Takeo Yoshino then gave a presentation summarizing the devastation in Japan and in particular the problems associated with the damage to the nuclear reactor.
     Ms. Maradei reviewed the activity of the Excom meeting held the previous evening. The meeting addressed administrative points including the agenda review, motions to be presented, etc. All items discussed are included on the meeting agenda.
     Regarding Global Outreach, Ms. Maradei noted the two upcoming Regional Events - in Buenos Aires (April 1, 2011) and Brasilia (April 4, 2011). She will attend and give a presentation at the Buenos Aires event and she plans to attend the Asia Pacific EMC Week in Jeju Korea, from May 16–19, 2011.
     Regarding the November IEEE TAB meetings, she confirmed IEEE has approved the transition of the EMC Newsletter to a Magazine. The launch of the EMC Magazine is January 2012. The 5-year EMC Society review took place last February 17 during the IEEE TAB Meeting Series in Miami, 15–20 February 2011. A report will be coming shortly from the IEEE.

Bruce Archambeault of IBM, Henry Benitez of ElectroMagnetic Investigations, John Norgard of NASA, and Chuck Bunting of Oklahoma State University (from left) enjoy the lunch break.
Mike Oliver (center) of MAJR Products was selected by Visit Pittsburgh as Pittsburgh’s Convention & Meetings Partner of the Year. Ghery Pettit (left) and Todd Hubing of Clemson University congratulated Mike on this recognition.
Bob Scully (left) of NASA and Fred Heather of the Naval Air Station at Patuxent River caught on their respective EMC test challenges during a break in the Board meeting.

     Regarding the status of electronic motions made since the last Board meeting in November, three motions were approved for EMC-S technical co-sponsorship of the following conferences: COMCAS 2011, APL 2011 and SoftCom/EEEMC 2011.

 

Past President’s Report
Elya Joffe presented his report. He addressed all motions, including the four motions that were moved from the Consent Agenda to this part of the agenda. The Board approved the following amendment to Section 11.1 of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society (EMC-27) Bylaws as follows, to say: “11.1 The Excom shall make such rules and regulations as from time to time it may deem proper for its own Governance as documented in the Society’s Operations, Policy and Procedure Manual.” The Board approved the following amendment to Section 3.0 of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society (EMC-27) Bylaws as follows, to say “3.0 Board of Directors: The Board of Directors shall consist of Directors-at-Large and Executive Directors with vote plus elected and appointed Ex-officio Directors without vote. A majority of the voting members of the Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum. All voting members shall have an equal vote.” The Board approved incorporation of the EMC-S Financial Policy, now maintained on the EMC-S web site, at URL https://www.emcs.org/financial-policy.html and any amendment thereafter, in the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society (EMC-27) Handbook Operations, Policy and Procedure Manual as Appendix S. Amendments to the EMC-S Financial Policy shall thereafter automatically amend Appendix S accordingly.

 

Member Services Report
Bob Davis, Vice-President for Member Services, presented his report. He asked Bruce Archambeault to lead off with the awards committee presentation. Mr. Archambeault presented the list of major awards and candidates for each award. The Board then reviewed and approved several awards which will be presented at EMC 2011 in Long Beach, California. The balance of the awards that will be presented at EMC 2011 will be determined by the various committees, such as the best symposium paper award, etc. New Awards Committee Chair Mike Oliver reported TAB has approved the changes to the Presidents Memorial Award cash amounts as approved at the last Board meeting. The request for the new EMC Society Award for Excellence in Continuing EMC Engineering Education has been submitted to IEEE and will be presented to the TAB ARC at their next meeting.
     On membership, Bob Davis advised seven members have been elevated from member to senior member this year since January 2011. Current membership is at 4,007 (with affiliates) a decrease of 34 members or 0.8% since this time last year. EMC Society Student membership is down 12.9% from this time last year to 61 student members. The new EMC Society marketing brochure is completed. The plan is to initially print 1,000 brochures, upload the brochure to the EMC-S website and upload a special down-loadable PDF version of the brochure for printing. Also, three new, tradeshow type displays were purchased in December 2010, including two larger pop-up type displays for regional events in the US and Region 10 and one smaller display for regional outreach events, such as the ones coming up in Argentina and Brazil (Region 9) in April. The new EMC-S brochures will be distributed at these Region 9 events as well.
     Bruce Archambeault reported on the Distinguished Lecturer (DL) program. The DLs for 2010–2011 include Dr. Giulio Antonini, Mark Steffka, and Dr. Omar Ramahi. The DLs for 2011–2012 include Jerry Ramie, Jerry Meyerhoff, Professor Wen-Yan Yin, and Chuck Bunting. The report includes financial data on the program as well as the number of presentations/trips per DL. A list of the current topics presented as part of the video DL library is included in his report.
     Bruce Archambeault noted three Respected Speaker Bureau (RSB) talks have been presented to date in 2011. The current speaker list includes Colin Brench, Alistair Duffy, Jim Drewniak, Tzong-Lin Wu, Cheung-Wei Lam, Eric Bogatin, Werner Schaefer, David Pommerenke, Bruce Archambeault, Elya B. Joffe, Jun Fan and Chris Holloway.
     Frank Sabath provided a detailed report for Region 8. Currently there are 1,113 active members, 167 members are in arrears (e.g. a member who has not paid the membership fee) and there are 175 inactive members. A breakdown of the number of members at the various membership levels is included in his report. Mr. Sabath has sent emails to members in arrears to remind them to renew their IEEE membership and provide information on suspension of membership. During this process he learned that some members had problems with payment via credit card, of which he advised Bob Davis.

Members of the Board pose for a photo following the Board meeting, including (from left) Ryuji Koga of Okayama
University, Kermit Phipps, Todd Hubing, Francesca Maradei of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”,
Don Sweeney of DLS Electronic Systems, Bob Davis of Lockheed Martin, and Chuck Bunting.

     Takeo Yoshino reported on Region 10 activity. New China and India Membership Coordinators were appointed to allow the EMC Society to provide a focus of membership and chapter growth in these countries. Er Ping Li was appointed in China and Dr. Subbarao was appointed in India.
     Chapter Coordinator Sergio Pignari reports there are now 74 chapters. The top regions for chapters includes Regions 1-6 with 34 Chapters, Region 7 with four Chapters, Region 8 with 20 Chapters, Region 9 with three Chapters and Region 10 with 13 Chapters. He noted the request to form a Joint Society Syracuse Section AP03/EMC27/MTT17 Chapter obtained the final approval from IEEE in early March 2011. His report outlines activity for potential new chapters. For Long Beach at EMC 2011, the training session contents have been re-arranged. Part of the formal session material will be posted on the EMC Society website. Mr. Pignari has completed a review and update of the Chapter Chair Directory. The Chapter awards will be presented as announced at the March Board meeting.
     EMC GOLD representative Caroline Chan notes in her report that she has communicated with Bob Davis, Elya Joffe, William Somerville (GOLD Representative) on when/how to promote GOLD EMC. The target is to bring awareness to the eligible members in the IEEE EMC Society - how GOLD can help them and vice versa. An announcement of IEEE GOLD EMC activities at Long Beach was sent to the GOLD e-Newsletter on March 16, 2011 for publication. A Facebook (IEEE GOLD EMC keyword) and email address GOLDEMC@gmail.com have been created. The report details GOLD activity planned for EMC 2011 in Long Beach.
     Henry Benitez reported as the Sections Coordinator. Plans underway include providing Mexico Section liaison support in order to encourage chapter development in Mexico in coordination with efforts provided by Maria Alejandra Mora. He will continue to develop good relations with the Region 9 Director and solicit support for EMC-S Chapter or Joint Chapter formations in that region. Mr. Benitez will participate in the upcoming Sections Congress in San Francisco. He is coordinating with the Santa Clara Valley Chapter regarding a possible EMC Society tabletop display at this year’s Congress.

 

 

Conference Services
Bruce Archambeault presented his report. For EMC 2010 in Fort Lauderdale, the financial books have not been closed. The audit needs to be scheduled. The approximate surplus is 19.3%.
     Regarding EMC 2011 in Long Beach, Mr. Archambeault noted 182 papers were submitted for review. Approximately 85% of the papers were accepted with required and suggested changes. On the Workshop/Tutorials, 19 half day sessions were accepted. Four special sessions were accepted.
     The Board approved the EMC 2011 Committee to allow exhibitors to provide alcoholic beverages during the last two hours of exhibit time on Tuesday of the Symposium week. Exhibitors will be responsible for paying the conference center caterer directly (not through EMC 2011 committee) and all alcohol served must be served by conference center caterer personnel.
     Regarding EMC 2012 in Pittsburgh, the committee will change the symposium URL to emc2012.ISEMC.org since emc2012.org was not available. Conference Direct was selected for conference management. Mr. Archambeault was pleased to announce Mike Oliver was selected by Visit Pittsburgh as Pittsburgh’s Convention & Meetings Partner of the Year.
     Mr. Archambeault discussed the cooperation between the EMC Society and the EMC 2015 symposium in Dresden. Details of the cooperation are outlined in the report. The Board approved the cooperation between EMC 2015 and EMC Europe as presented.
     Regarding EMC 2015 (USA location), Mr. Archambeault advised Washington DC did not work out and there may be a possible bid by the Santa Clara EMC Chapter to organize this symposium. On EMC 2016 in Ottawa, the committee is negotiating with the convention center.
     Regarding Technical Co-Sponsorship requests received since the last Board meeting, the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) recommended and the Board confirmed approval for SOFTCOM 2011 and APL 2011. TAC also recommends approval for the EMC Society of Australia conference – EMC-SA. The Board approved Technical Co-Sponsorship for EMC-SA 2011.
     The Board approved an EMC-S policy that will require all EMC-S technically co-sponsored conference Memorandums of Understanding to include the requirement that all papers must be presented in order to be submitted to IEEE Xplore.
     Mr. Archambeault concluded his report by discussing issues with the symposium paper review software. The Society needs to find a new system as support for the current system is not timely. The TAC is looking at commercial systems.

 

Edmundo Gatti of the Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial (INTI) received a special book from Perry Wilson of NIST as Pablo Perri of INTI, Hernan Urdiales of ETS-Lindgren and Hector Eduardo Petronacci of INTI (from left)
look on. INTI is the metrology lab of Argentina. The book was titled “Plane-Wave Scattering-Matrix Theory of
Antennas and Antenna-Antenna Interactions” by David M. Kerns and featured the National Bureau of Standards
(NBS) Monograph 162. Mr. Gatti was a “guest worker” at NBS in Boulder, Colorado between October 1980 and
January 1981; coincidentally, the book was issued in June 1981. The book provides the foundation of near-field
antenna metrology.


Communication Services
Perry Wilson, Vice-President for Communication Services, presented his report.
     Newsletter Editor Janet O’Neil reported on Newsletter finances for the Fall 2010 issue. The 112 page issue cost $19,261 for the printing and mailing of 4,776 copies. There were 14 advertisers in the issue (up from nine in the last issue) that generated $17,850 in billed ad revenue, of which the EMC Society received a net of $9,818. The spreadsheet included in her report shows the revenues and expenses for all four Newsletter issues produced in 2010. The Winter 2010 issue is still in production. There is quite a bit of new material with bylaws changes, call for Board nominations, summary of last Board election process, and the introduction of new Board members. The Associate Editor for History, Dan Hoolihan, is suggesting a reprint of all 18 issues of “Quasies and Peaks” (Q&P, the “original” newsletter of the EMC Society – then called the Institute of Radio Engineers Professional Group on Radio Frequency Interference) over the next 18 issues of the Newsletter. This issue of the EMC Newsletter includes the first, March 1955 issue of Q&P. This is the last issue for Flavio Canavero, as he will retire as the Newsletter’s Technical Editor. Professor Kye Yak See of the Nanyang Technical University in Singapore will replace him as the Technical Editor effective with the Spring 2011 issue. Ms. O’Neil recognized Professor Canavero for the tremendous work he has done over the past several years as Technical Editor. He has also worked with Kye Yak See on the last few issues to ensure a successful transition.
     The Society’s proposal to transition from a Newsletter to a Magazine was formally approved by IEEE TAB at its November 2010 meeting. The new publication will launch with the Winter 2012 issue. Financially, the EMC Society has an initial investment to make in the first year of magazine publication (2012) which at this time is a not to exceed amount of $40K. Over 3–5 years, the magazine will be a break even proposition as there is increased revenue from subscriptions, downloads from Xplore, and revenue from being part of the IEEE all periodicals collection. The expenses include the cost to be on Xplore as well as promotion costs. Ms. O’Neil concluded her report in presenting a summary of the financial impact of the Newsletter to Magazine transition over the next three years.
     Mr. Wilson reported for Professor Heyno Garbe, the Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions on EMC. He is starting the second year of his three year term. There are currently 20 Associate Editors with a resource of some 200–300 reviewers, of which 100 are active in any given year. The Advisory Committee includes six members. In 2010, all issues were mailed on time. There is a slight backlog at present due to the 2010 special issue. Professor Garbe has requested a 1200 page budget for 2012. On future special issues, in 2011 the topic is “Applications of Nanotechnology in EMC” with guest editors Marcello D’Amore and Sabrina Sarto. In 2012 the topic is “The Impact of High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP) on the Civil Infrastructures” with guest editor Bill Radasky. In 2013 the topic is “Model Validation and EMC” with guest editors Bruce Archambeault, Alistair Duffy and others. A luncheon will be held once again at the symposium in Long Beach to thank the Associate Editors for their service. Professor Garbe’s report includes detailed information on current Transactions activity.
     Dan Hoolihan, Chair of the EMC Society’s History Committee, reports the committee continues publication of “look back” articles in the EMC Newsletter. Bill Duff has donated old EMC test equipment, which is currently stored in Mr. Hoolihan’s garage. Digitizing older copies of the EMC Newsletter is still being pursued with the IEEE.
     On the EMC Society website, Todd Hubing reported several routine updates have been made to committee, chapter, conference, and awards web pages. Job listings (PDs) have been added to the Board of Directors page. A major revision of the website’s appearance is still planned although funding for this activity was cut from $10k to $0.9k for 2011. A link to proposed changes to the constitution and bylaws has been added to the main page.

 

Standards Services
Don Heirman, Vice-President for Standards, presented his report.
     On the Standards Development Committee (SDCom) activity, Mr. Heirman reported for chair Andy Drozd. He reviewed the status of each standard in his report. He advised IEEE accepted SDCom’s withdrawal as co-sponsor of Std. 1775. A small group formed to write an article for IEEE Spectrum or the EMC Newsletter and to draft recommended changes in SA Standards Board procedures. Final revisions to the SDCom Policies & Procedures document are underway; this will be sent to AudCom for review. He summarized Long Range Planning strategy and reviewed the link to the EMC-S SC1 committee on SmartGrid. Mr. Heirman reviewed the intent and description of the new Standards Travel Grant. Information on this will be published in the Spring 2011 EMC Newsletter.

Gustavo Fano (left) of the Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco is the chair of the joint IEEE APS/EMC chapter in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a
big help to Janet O’Neil of ETS-Lindgren in organizing the successful EMC regional event there.


     John Norgard has assumed chairmanship of the Standards Advisory and Coordination Committee (SACCom), with Don Heirman remaining as secretary. The committee is reorganizing activity to show EMC standards by non-EMC-S organizations that can be useful to EMC-S standards work. The goal is to explore possible joint work and using material from each other’s work (with approval) to leverage each organization’s expertise. The report includes a list of the SACCom members and their respective work on EMC related standards with non EMC-S organizations. For the SAE AE4 committee, there are 42 EMC related standards. Examples of SACCom member activity with these non EMC-S standards organizations are included in the report.

 

Technical Services
Bob Scully, Vice President for Technical Services, presented his report.
     Regarding the Education and Student Activities Committee (ESAC), Mr. Scully noted that technical coordination between stakeholders for educational initiatives continues to be a problem with the ESAC. A policy is needed to establish who is responsible for what, and what individual roles are with regard to input and oversight. ESAC perceives its role as primarily being for the development of EMC education in academia, with professional education considered as a legacy role, but not a target area of interest. Mr. Scully recommends a group be formed, comprising membership from ESAC, TAC, and the BoD, to deliberate on this and propose a solution at the next BoD meeting to establish an unambiguous guiding authority for professional technical educational activities within the EMC-S that will enable the ESAC to carry forward its educational initiatives without further inhibition. A new group is being formed to propose a solution to the ambiguity of its relationship with the EMC Global University, the leadership track, PACE, etc. Chuck Bunting, Kimball Williams, Bruce Archambeault and Elya Joffe volunteered to be part of the new group studying this. The group will be chaired by Bob Scully.
     Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Chair Bruce Archambeault noted the committee held a telecom on March 7. Future meetings in 2011 include May 14 at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, in August during the EMC symposium and a telecom will be held on October 11. The report outlines the activity for the EMC 2011 paper, workshops/tutorials and special session reviews. Issues with the paper review software used are outlined in the report.
     Bob Scully reiterated that TAC has used the same paper review system as last year, and is experiencing the same frustrations this year with lack of attention to needed actions, changes, and so forth. While TAC has been using this system for free for some years now, it’s time to look for alternative systems. The EMC-S requires, at present, a review system that accommodates a second round of reviews, and an off-the-shelf solution does not exist. Mr. Scully advised he will chair a task force committee to make a proposal to the Board on purchasing new software for the paper review process. Bruce Archambeault, Francesca Maradei, Don Heirman, Perry Wilson, Todd Hubing, Fred Heather, and Alistair Duffy volunteered to be members of this task force.
     Mr. Archambeault noted that Kermit Phipps has resigned as TAC secretary and a replacement is being sought.

Perry Wilson of NIST (right) visited with Juan Carlos Mateus Sánchez of the National Institute of Metrology, Normalization and Industrial Quality (INMETRO), the metrology lab of Brazil. Dr. Wilson was in Brazil to present at the EMC regional event and stopped by INMETRO to learn more about their capabilities.


 

Suspension of Meeting
Ms. Maradei suspended the meeting at 5:45 pm. The meeting will continue on Wednesday morning, March 30 at 9:00 am.

 

Continuation of meeting on Wednesday, March 30, 2011

 

Call To Order
President Maradei called the meeting to order at 9:00 am.

 

Strategic Planning Update
Ghery Pettit talked about strategic planning. He summarized the five strategic goals of the EMC Society, including A. Provide products of value to EMC researchers and practitioners managed by Perry Wilson, VP Communications; B. Global technology presence, visibility and excellence managed by Bruce Archambeault, VP Conferences; C. Engage young professionals in the EMC Society managed by Bob Scully, VP Technical Services; D. Improve EMC-S membership development and retention managed by Bob Davis, VP Member Services; and E. Enhance community collaboration managed by Don Heirman, VP Standards. The next strategic planning meeting will be held at the November Board meeting.

 

New Initiatives
New Membership - Bob Davis presented a motion related to new memberships in the EMC Society. The Board approved the use of EMC Society reserves, in the amount of $20,000 per year, for up to
3 years renewable annually, to use for offering a limited number of free IEEE and EMC memberships at IEEE EMC symposia, free IEEE EMC memberships at domestic and international EMC regional symposia, free IEEE EMC membership at technically co-sponsored symposia and free e-memberships at international EMC regional symposia.
     Symposium Finance Tool – The Board approved Bruce Archambeault’s suggestion to investigate the feasibility of creating a standard accounting tool (such as Quick Books) for use by all EMC-S symposia using funds from the EMC-S surplus. A maximum of $4,000 may be used to purchase software licenses and contract help to set up an initial system.
     Paper Review Software – Bob Scully revisited the issues with the paper review software noted earlier in his VP Technical Services Report as well as in Bruce Archambeault’s TAC Report. The Board approved $10,000 of funding sourced from the new initiative pool to support the acquisition process of suitably designed and tailored software for EMC-S Symposium paper review activities.


Angel Training
Bob Davis reported for Chapter Coordinator Sergio Pignari on the Angel Program. He conducted a “refresher course” on the program and the Board member responsibilities as Angels. The Chapter Angels serve as liaisons between the Board of Directors and the Chapters on all matters relating to Chapter Activities. They should employ a proactive approach in their Chapter support activities. Angels can determine Chapters under their responsibility by looking at the list of Chapters and Chapter Chairs, posted on the EMC-S website: https://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/chapters/chapter1.html. The goal is for Chapter Angels to act as “coaches” or “mentors” to the Chapters to better improve their activities. The report includes a list of the Chapters worldwide and their assigned Angel. The website link also includes the Angel Manual for more information.


Board of Directors
Forum and Document Archive

Bruce Archambeault led a discussion on the new Board Forum available on line. The Forum has three main purposes: 1. Allows discussion threads, 2. Facilitates email to Board members and 3. Serves as a document repository of important documents for all to access. Mr. Archambeault acknowledged the efforts of Jun Fan in setting up this Forum for the Board.


Old Business
The following items were reviewed under Old Business:
     Boston Globe Article – Francesca Maradei thanked Dick Ford for his work on the letter refuting the claims in the Boston Globe article on the use of cell phones on planes. She commented that she never received a response from the Boston Globe in reply to the EMC Society letter. Dick advised he has finished with his scope of work and has disbanded the committee formed to support this work.
     Newsletter to Magazine Transition – Perry Wilson reviewed the three year financial forecast for the transition from an IEEE Newsletter to Magazine presented earlier in his report. Following discussion, the Board approved the transition of the EMC Newsletter to a Magazine in 2012.

 

New Business/Additional Items
The following items were reviewed under New Business:
     Board A/V Equipment – The Board approved the purchase of a new notebook computer (with MS Office 2010, and Anti Virus program) and shipping container in an amount not to exceed $2,100 for use at the August 2011 Board meeting and beyond.
     IEEE Sections (and Societies) Congress – Elya Joffe discussed the upcoming Sections Congress to be held over August 19–22, 2011 in San Francisco, California. This year’s tri-annual event is the 10th IEEE Sections Congress. It provides an opportunity for IEEE representatives from all over the world to participate in an event which provides them with the tools and training to assist their unit in focusing their activities solely on the member and increase members’ participation in IEEE activities. The Sections Congress is the one major meeting which brings together the IEEE’s grassroots leadership so that they can share ideas, concerns and solutions. The report outlines the schedule for the congress this year and details activities that will take place, including a new poster paper session.
     iNARTE and RABQSA – Kimball Williams discussed the new partnership between these two organizations. iNARTE had been exploring an offer from RABQSA in the form of a strategic alliance to enhance the capabilities of both organizations. RABQSA is an international certification agency based in Sydney, Australia that offers professional certifications in many technical disciplines that complement the iNARTE portfolio. This alignment is expected to give iNARTE the capacity to expand in several areas where its Board has long hoped to grow, but was limited by manpower and funding from stepping in that direction.
     Board Meeting Dates for 2012–2013 – Ghery Pettit discussed future Board meeting dates and locations. The dates are tentative at this time. When confirmed, these will be announced in the EMC Newsletter.

 

Summary of Financial
Impact of Approved Motions

Elya Joffe provided a financial summary of the motions approved at the meeting.

 

Action Item Review
Secretary O’Neil reviewed the action items discussed during the meeting. An updated, consolidated list of action items will be sent to the Board following the meeting.

 

Closing Remarks
Francesca Maradei thanked everyone for attending and contributing to the Board meeting.
     The meeting adjourned at 12:15 pm.
     Submitted by:

Janet O’Neil
Secretary, EMC Society Board of Directors

EMC

 

 

 


 



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