THE PRESIDENT’S
OPENING REMARKS
President Williams called the meeting to order at 9:00 am. A round
of introductions was made. Members present included B. Archambeault,
R. Brewer, N. Carter, A. Drozd, M. Hatfield, D. Heirman, D. Hoolihan,
T. Hubing, E. Joffe, W. Kesselman, S. Nitta, J. Norgard, J. O’Neil,
Z. Pantic-Tanner, G. Pettit, A. Podgorski, C. Sartori, R. Scully,
D. Staggs, D. Sweeney, R. Wallen, and K. Williams. There were
no members absent. Guests present included D. Clark, R. Goldblum,
F. Heather, R. Hofmann, S. Long, W. McGinnis, M. Montrose, and
F. Sabath. President Williams presented the agenda.
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| Bill Strauss (far right) gives the
report of the Technical Activities Committee during the Board
of Directors meeting. |
TREASURER’S REPORT
Treasurer Warren Kesselman presented his report. Regarding 2003
Operations Post-Audit Finals, IEEE’s post-audit financials
indicate EMCS net was a $235,200 surplus. This is $5,700 less
than reported in the May pre-audit report. Small adjustments were
reflected in Periodicals, Meetings/Conferences, and Administration
Cost Centers. A final 2003 Cost Center summary chart was presented.
EMCS year-end net worth is in the order of $990,000. Regarding
2004 Operations, the 30 June Cost Center summary chart in the
report shows a reasonable operating surplus ($291,200) for the
first half-year. It’s still too early to make a realistic
year-end prediction since Society committee expenses “peak”
in the second half of the year. Assuming the Board’s cost
containment efforts continue, EMCS should be able to achieve its
approved “zero balance” operating budget (market effect
not considered). Regarding 2005 Budget Development, the “second-pass”
budget received from TAB contained a $25,000 deficit. The Transactions
Page Budget increase approved at the May BoD was included. A revision
projecting a $500 surplus was returned to TAB. The improvement
was the result of addressing the May BoD approved 2004 Symposium
budget (their surplus will be income in 2005) in the revised document.
The final IEEE approved budget will be issued in December.
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| Mark Montrose of Montrose Compliance
Services (far left) joined Francesca Maradei from the University
of Rome, La Sapienza, and Carlos Sartori from the University
of São Paulo, Brazil at the August meeting of the EMC
Society Board of Directors. |
SECRETARY’S REPORT
Secretary O’Neil presented the minutes from the previous
Board meeting on May 11, 2004 for review. Minor changes that were
editorial in nature were required. The minutes were approved as
amended.
IEEE DIVISION IV DIRECTOR-ELECT REPORT
Stuart Long, the Division IV Director-Elect, gave a presentation
on his role within the IEEE. He is replacing Hal Flescher, whose
term ends this year. He is a Professor and Associate Dean at the
University of Houston. His research area involves antennas. He
is a member of the AP, MTT, and Education Societies. He may be
reached at s.long@ieee.org.
Professor Long gave an overview of the IEEE and the administrative
structure. He is one of ten Division Directors representing the
different Societies on the Board.
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| During a break in the August Board
meeting, Janet O’Neil, Region 9 Conference Coordinator,
discussed upcoming regional conferences with Barry Wallen,
EMCS International Conference Coordinator. |
COMMUNICATION SERVICES
Ghery Pettit, Vice-President for Communication Services, presented
his report. He called upon Janet O’Neil, Newsletter Editor,
to present her report. Ms. O’Neil provided highlights of
the Summer 2004 issue, which is currently in the final editing
stages. It consists of 64 pages. The Summer issue features a cover
photo of an IC which draws attention to the inside practical paper
on modeling switching noise in on-chip power distribution. The
second practical paper is on the comparison of frequency domain
and time domain measurement procedures for ultrawide band antennas.
These papers are from the INCEMIC and AMTA conferences, respectively.
There is also an interesting article on Lawrence G. Cumming written
by Dan Hoolihan. In fact, we added Dan to the list of Associate
Editors in this issue, as he will be contributing History/Anniversary
articles regularly through 2007. We have coverage of IC EMC Compo
and EuroEM as well in this issue, along with the regular articles
Chapter Chatter, Personality Profile, etc. We have a new guest
book review editor, Pat André, who provided a thorough
review of the Bruce Archambeault book in this issue. Don Heirman’s
Standards Activities article includes a review of EMC Sendai.
Warren Kesselman contributed an EMCS financial summary for 2003
for this issue. There are 9.67 pages of paid advertising in this
issue from a total of 14 companies. $15,711.00 has been billed
to date for these ads, of which the EMCS will receive approximately
$7,856.00. Once again, Ken Wyatt of Agilent Technologies has provided
the cover photograph for this issue. Paul Doto of IEEE also continues
to do a great job with the Newsletter composition. Technical Editor
Bob Olsen reports that he has a queue of practical papers out
for review and advertising commitments remain fairly constant
so the publication is healthy. Ms. O’Neil noted from Warren’s
report in this Summer 2004 issue that EMC Society 2003 revenue
was $826,000. Of that total, Newsletter ads provided $71,000.
The Newsletter ad revenue increased from 2002 to 2003 by 52%.
This is significant at a time when the majority of commercial
publications saw their ad revenue decrease. Lastly, the next issue
will be the Fall 2004 issue, which covers the Santa Clara Symposium.
This is our “blockbuster” issue of the year and typically
contains 80 pages of photos, articles, committee reports, etc.
on news related to the annual symposium. Ghery Pettit then presented
the report of Flavio Canavero, Transactions on EMC Editor-in-Chief.
Thanks to the intense promotion of the journal by the previous
Editor-in-Chief, Marcello D’Amore, more potential authors
are aware of the possibility to publish in this journal. Authors
have recognized that the Transactions review process was restructured
by the introduction of the web-based handling of papers, and by
a renewal of the Editorial and Reviewers team. This fact has increased
the confidence of authors in the journal, and the feeling that
their submissions will be promptly evaluated and published (if
accepted) in a timely manner. As such, the numbers of papers submitted
has increased by 23% since 2001. Professor Canavero predicts that
the total number of submissions in 2004 will be 185. The web system
“TEMC Manuscript Central” (TEMC-MC) was activated at
the end of September 2001 to handle reviews of manuscripts submitted
to the EMC Transactions. Now all information on the submitted
manuscripts is stored, and readily available for processing, partly
via the reporting options of the system, and partly via offline
post-processing. Regarding the review process time, he noted that
the change of organization, from manual handling of manuscripts
to the web-based processing has reduced the processing time by
at least one month. Some room for improvement is still available,
and the trend showing a reduction in review time in 2003 from
2002 indicates that a fine-tuning of the organization can lead
to further reduction of the manuscript processing time. However,
the bottom line for the reduction of the time to first decision
is related to the time needed by the Reviewers. In his opinion,
it is difficult to reduce this time, without compromising on the
quality of the review. In fact, it is not uncommon that the most
experienced and qualified Reviewers have the longest delays. Professor
Canavero’s report provides a summary of the paper acceptance
ratio, since the year 2000. In 2003, 48% of the regular papers
were accepted with 53% of the short papers accepted. He noted
that the acceptance ratio is constant over the years, irrespective
of the handling process used (manual vs. web-based), and this
is a clear sign of a constant policy over the years, not influenced
by the operational details. Further, it was noted that almost
all accepted papers undergo at least one revision before final
acceptance while almost all rejection decisions are made at the
end of the first round; this is positive and fair to the Authors,
that can know about their manuscripts with the minimum delay,
and there is no waste of time for unsuccessful papers. Regarding
Special Issues, the special issue “Advanced EMC Numerical
Modeling” with Guest Editors Professor Christos Christopoulos
and Professor James Drewniak was published in May 2003; the manuscripts
for this issue were collected during 2002: a total of 28 manuscripts
were collected, of which 54% were accepted. The Special Issue
“High Power Electromagnetic Disturbances and Intentional
EMI”, whose main Guest Editor was Dr. William Radasky, is
being published in the August 2004 issue; the manuscripts for
this issue were collected during 2003: a total of 18 manuscripts
were collected, of which 89% were accepted. The high acceptance
ratio is explained by the fact that the great majority of papers
were already solicited from experts in the field. Professor Canavero
noted that different policies that might be adopted for different
Special Issues require that the manuscripts have a special classification,
and are processed separately, in order not to influence the statistics
of the journal (in particular, the trend of the received manuscripts,
and the acceptance ratio might be affected). The web-based TEMC-MC
system has the capability to identify and process the Special
Issue manuscripts as a distinct category. Regarding the page count,
in 2003 this amounted to 680 pages. This amount was increased
to 750 printed pages in 2004 and will remain at 750 printed pages
for 2005. Early this year, the release of Manuscript Central version
3.0 was announced. Version 3 supports the same workflows and uses
the same “centers” as the current version of Manuscript
Central. However, the new version is more flexible and incorporates
many of the features and functions based on the experience of
use in the last three years. He was given a demo account, and
he had the chance to try this new version several times. Overall,
he is very positive about the new version, which looks very professional
and includes a larger amount of information for all submitted
manuscripts. The new database will contain a detailed step-by-step
history of each paper, thus allowing a complete handling of all
phases – from manuscript submission to journal production
– from inside the website, without any need to have parallel
exchanges of emails or handling paper copies and CD versions of
accepted papers. Also, from the point of view of Authors and Reviewers,
the flexibility, the access to information, and diagnostics and
guiding through the submission process has greatly improved. In
closing his report, Professor Canavero noted that significant
revenue is generated by the “Over Page Count” financial
penalty. For example, the May 2004 issue had 11 papers paying
the OPC, for a total amount of $7000. Next, EMCS Webmaster Andy
Drozd presented his report. He is talking with the IEEE about
the possibility of them assuming the management of the EMCS website
in the future on a day-to-day basis. The committee is awaiting
information on the annual costs to obtain this service. The challenge
is to keep the TC websites current. Routine updates were made
to the EMCS web site (e.g., changes to the Director and committee
rosters, Chapter Chair contact information, calendar of events,
Call for Proposals to host the 2009 and 2010 EMC Symposia, etc.).
The site’s contents are reasonably up to date at present.
Additional updates are in process on the electronic (regular and
student) EMCS membership applications. The new versions of these
applications will be posted to the web site shortly. In reviewing
the Societies committee pages, he has noticed a problem with the
use of the IEEE and EMCS logos. They are disproportionate with
respect to each other, i.e., the EMCS logo being larger than the
IEEE logo. Some are using an outdated web page style that is vintage
1998, and/or an outdated IEEE logo. A few pages appeared to have
missing information on officers, dead links, no past meeting minutes,
and missing announcements of upcoming meetings. This defeats the
purpose of the web page as a timely information resource for our
members. However, there is some encouraging news to report in
that the following committees have taken measures to update the
contents and “look” of their sites: TAC, TC-1, TC-2,
TC-4, TC-5, TC-6, TC-8, TC-10, and ESAC. Those committees that
have not made a concerted attempt to keep their sites current
have been placed on notice that a recommendation is being made
to eliminate the sites (resident on the IEEE entity web hosting
server) unless they are updated and put back into active service
soon. Keeping alive a severely outdated web site is a disservice
to our members and does not reflect well on the committee or our
Society. Mr. Pettit then presented Ray Perez’s report as
EMCS IEEE Press Liaison. Mr. Perez’s report notes that the
new book proposals to be sponsored by EMCS include Eli Recht (Israel):
Electro-Optic Systems as well as Erik Wainwright: Tips and Tricks
for the Printed Circuit Board Designer, High Speed Design Made
Easy. Contracts have not been signed for these books. Contracts
have been signed for the following books to be sponsored by EMCS:
Elya Joffe/Kai Sang Lock (Israel/Singapore): The Grounds for Grounding
- Grounding from Circuits to Systems. Sevgi: Complex EM Problems
& Numerical Simulation Approaches (Sept., 2003). (This book
was signed and developed with the support of the Antennas &
Propagation Society; they therefore sponsored it.) The IEEE Press
Editorial Advisory Board held its annual meeting on Friday, 9
July, in a teleconference featuring a report and discussion on
the recent governing board review of the IEEE Press’s financial
situation. At the 16-20 June Organization Units Meeting Series
in Kansas City, MO, the IEEE Publications Services and Products
Board (PSPB) recommended that the book program be discontinued
in order to avoid further financial losses. However, the IEEE
Board of Directors tabled the recommendation, largely because
the decision had not been discussed with interested parties, including
the IEEE Press Editorial Board. An elimination of the Press program
would entail negotiations with Wiley to continue sales of current
stock and to carry out existing author contracts. IEEE would retain
rights to the IEEE Press name and to the titles contributed to
the Wiley-IEEE Press imprint. Discussion following the presentation
focused on the role of IEEE Press as a service on behalf of IEEE
members; as a source of comprehensive technical information; and
as a vehicle to promote the image of IEEE. Participants spoke
in support of proposals to transform the Press product line to
embrace products that can be delivered electronically. Several
speakers cited the critical need to preserve the function of IEEE
Press, which should be viewed as distinct from the medium that
delivers Press’s technical information to its audience. The
decision to continue with IEEE Press will be made in the fall
of 2004. Lastly, History Chair Dan Hoolihan reported that he is
working on converting some EMCS videotapes to DVD. This will be
discussed within TC-1 and will be budgeted for 2006.
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| EMCS President Kimball Williams of
UL (right) invited Stuart Long from the University of Austin
to give a presentation to the EMCS Board on his role as IEEE
Division IV Director-Elect. |
MEMBER SERVICES REPORT
Andy Drozd presented the report of Membership Services. Membership
Chair Dave Staggs reported that he has reserved two booth spaces
for the EMCS membership booth at the Santa Clara EMC Symposium.
Flo Haislmaier will once again man the booth and will be supported
with staffing by local Chapter members. Membership numbers seem
to be slowly rebounding. The total number of active members was
4,135 as of June 2004. This is down approximately 4.1% compared
to the same time in 2003. Total IEEE membership is 334,478. Higher
grade and student memberships are rebounding over 2003. The EMCS
has elevated 32 members to the Senior Grade so far this year.
The EMCS membership application is being uploaded to the EMCS
website. Next, Andy Drozd reported for Lee Hill, chair of the
DL program. The current price per person attending a DL lecture
has increased recently to $17.91. DL policy was revised to address
mixed travel, attracting attendees, and marketing the program.
The IEEE is now reviewing its overall DL Policy and Mr. Hill is
monitoring this process. Mr. Drozd will report on this at the
November Board meeting. Regarding Awards, Mr. Drozd announced
that Clayton Paul is the recipient of the 2005 IEEE Electromagnetics
Award. At the last meeting, the Board formed a Task Force to address
the EMCS Awards Process. Don Heirman, Don Sweeney, Andy Drozd,
Elya Joffe, and Bruce Archambeault had volunteered to be members
of this committee. Bruce Archambeault agreed to chair this committee.
Mr. Drozd advised that Mr. Archambeault would be the new chair
of the Awards Committee. Henry Benitez, the current chair, will
now focus his efforts on Chapter development. Mr. Archambeault
advised that the committee would present the list of award nominees
in advance of the May Board meeting. No nominations will be accepted
from the floor at the May Board meeting. EMCS membership and Board
members were encouraged to be pro-active in identifying qualified
candidates for awards nominations. Next, Chapter Activities Chair
Ghery Pettit reported that there is a new draft available for
the New Chapter Chair on IEEE Chapter policies and procedures.
The Chapter Chair luncheon will be held on Tuesday, August 10
at the convention center. 19 Chapter Chairs have indicated they
will attend the luncheon. There is a new Chapter in the Russia
(NW) Section. There is also an indication of Chapter activity
in Poland and Czechoslovakia. Elya Joffe presented his report
as Region 8 Chair. He attended a few regional conferences over
the past few months, including 2004 Wroclaw (Poland) and EuroEM’2004
(Germany). In the future, he plans to attend EMC Europe (the Netherlands),
EMC UK Symposium (England), 1st Waveform Diversity and Design
Conference (Scotland), and EMC Zurich (Switzerland). Mr. Joffe
called upon Frank Sabath to give a report on the first Region
8 Chapter Retreat, which was scheduled in conjunction with EuroEM
‘2004. Mr. Sabbath advised that this was a full day event.
14 people participated in the retreat, including four EMCS Board
members. There was a representative from Australia who indicated
he would like to form a new Chapter there. A summary of the retreat
was prepared for publication in the Summer 2004 EMC Newsletter.
Carlos Sartori then reported as the Region 9 representative. He
noted that efforts continue with establishing a new Chapter in
Mexico. He is working with Mr. Valeri Ivanovich Kontorovitch Mazover
of the IEEE in renewing the relationship with the EMC members
there. Mr. Sartori is working on the presentation he will present
about the IEEE and EMC Society at the two-day conference in São
José dos Campos, Brazil at the end of September. Mr. Drozd
then reported for Takeo Yoshino’s activity in Region 10.
He indicated that there are difficulties with the formation of
the Thailand EMC Chapter. They are two signatures short of having
a completed petition. It is hoped that this will happen before
November. Professor Yoshino’s report included the status
of Chapter development activity in Australia, Thailand, India,
and a second Chapter in Malaysia. Professor Nitta thanked the
Board for their support of EMC Sendai. It was a very successful
conference. Fellows Search Chair Don Sweeney advised that he is
looking for good candidates to nominate for IEEE Fellow. He asked
that if anyone has a name for a candidate, that they also provide
a letter that indicates why this person should be considered for
the Fellow Grade. There was only one nominee for Fellow Grade
from the EMCS for 2003. The newly elected Fellow is Professor
Jurgen Berthold Nitsch. Six nominees for Fellow Grade have been
received for 2004. The members of the Fellow Evaluation Committee
include Hugh Denny, Ernie Freeman, Art Wall, and Bill Duff. Todd
Hubing is the new Nominations Chair as he begins his two-year
term as Past President. Regarding nominations for members of the
Board of Directors 2005-2007, he has nine nominations, but IEEE
requires 12 names on the ballot. They will not process the ballot
without 12 names on the ballot, which is what the EMCS bylaws
require. The Board approved Mr. Hubing’s suggestion to process
the current ballot with the names of at least nine nominees. The
Board approved Mr. Hubing’s suggestion to put the following
names on the ballot: Henry Benitez, Todd Robinson, Lee Hill, Fred
Heather, Colin Brench, Heyno Garbe, Francesca Maradei, Mark Montrose,
and John Norgard. Mr. Hubing will address the changes required
to the bylaws to implement the change in number of candidates
on the ballot. He discussed the procedure for e-mail balloting
and adding this verbiage to the bylaws. He circulated a draft
revision to the bylaws. Next, Zorica Pantic-Tanner, chair of the
committee addressing financial assistance grants to disadvantaged
engineers, noted that she has worked on the policy for the grants
and will distribute this to the Board in the near future. Unfortunately,
she needs to step down from this work and will seek a replacement
as chair. If anyone is interested in chairing this committee,
please contact Dr. Pantic-Tanner. Next, Fred Heather discussed
the symposium survey. He distributed a copy of the survey and
asked the Board to complete and return it to him. Andy Drozd worked
with the IEEE to develop an on-line Symposium survey, which could
be completed during the Symposium. Thus, people can complete the
survey via a hard copy or on-line. Prizes will be given to those
who complete the survey. Results of the survey will be presented
at the November Board meeting. Mr. Drozd noted that Dr. Elena
Gertsman of IEEE would conduct the next IEEE Five-Year Member
Satisfaction survey. Mr. Drozd noted that Ken Wyatt of Agilent
Technologies is our new EMC Society Photographer. He prepared
new photos for use in the EMC membership booth. He continues to
provide excellent support to the EMC Newsletter with his cover
designs. He plans to actively cover the Santa Clara Symposium
this week. Lastly, PACE Chair Bill McGinnis reported that recent
activity has been at a low level. He is writing an article for
the EMC Newsletter on PACE activities within the context of “redirecting
careers” and “thinking outside the box.”
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| The August Board meeting held during
the annual IEEE EMC Symposium provides the unique opportunity
for guests to attend and witness the Board in action. Current
EMCS Board members Elya Joffe (far left), Robert Scully (center
with beard), and John Norgard (far right) welcome guests Don
Clark, Frank Sabath, and Bob Goldblum (from left). |
STANDARDS SERVICES
Don Heirman, Vice-President of Standards, presented a short verbal
report. There will be much standards activity during the symposium
week and he will give a full report on Thursday evening at the
continuation of this Board meeting. All Board members were invited
to attend the standards meetings. Standards activity covers three
major areas: The Standards Education and Training Committee (SETCom)
chaired by John Kraemer of Rockwell-Collins, the Standards Advisory
and Coordination Committee (SACCom) chaired by Elya Joffe, and
the Standards Development Committee (SDCom) chaired by Stephen
Berger.
TECHNICAL SERVICES
John Norgard, Vice President for Technical Services, presented
his report. He advised that the Chair of the Technical Advisory
Committee (TAC) is Bill Strauss. Vice-Chair is Arto Chubukjian,
and Secretary is Robert Scully. Mr. Norgard presented the list
of TC chairmen. Bob Scully related some recent TAC activity. There
will be three TAC meetings during the symposium week. Mark Montrose
introduced Evelyn Hirt, 2003-2004 Region 6 Director for the IEEE.
She is also in charge of the Nanotechnology conferences. She will
be giving a presentation on this topic during the symposium. Mr.
Montrose noted that Sabrina Sarto is working on nanotechnology
implications related to EMC at the University of Rome, La Sapienza.
Mark Montrose is interested in forming a new TC-11 on the topic
of Nanotechnology. During the symposium week, he will try to determine
the level of interest among the members for this topic. Representative
Advisory Committee (RAC) Chair Fred Heather then presented his
report. The annual joint RAC/SACCom luncheon meeting will be held
on Monday, August 9 from 12-2 pm at the Marriott Hotel. 30 people
are expected to attend. Mr. Norgard reported for Maqsood Mohd,
Chair of the Education and Student Activities committee. 21 kits
were requested for the Student Design Contest, but only six were
returned, all from the US. The winning entry was from the University
of Tennessee at Knoxville. There were only six student papers
submitted this year, which is down approximately 60% from last
year. Regarding the video productions committee chaired by Dick
Ford, there is no activity recently. This year, the CD showing
various EMC experiments will be distributed to faculty at the
Student Design booth during the symposium. Regarding the University
Grant program, this year only three proposals were received. This
is significantly down from 13 proposals received two years ago.
The committee will attempt greater outreach efforts to increase
the number of proposals. Recently, an article on the grant received
by Clemson University appeared as the cover story in the EMC Society
Newsletter. It is hoped this exposure will increase the number
of proposals next year. Regarding the tutorials, this year marks
the 11th anniversary of this activity. Expert speakers have been
secured for the Monday lectures and a large audience is expected.
The NARTE exam preparation workshop and exam will be held as usual
on the Monday and Friday of the symposium week, respectively.
Jim Whalen and Russ Carstensen are in charge of this effort. Mr.
Mohd is interested in developing a mechanism for coordination
between the TAC and the ESAC for sessions, tutorials and workshops.
If anyone has any suggestions for this, please contact Mr. Mohd.
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| EMCS Board members ready their computers
for the start of the August meeting, including immediate past
president, Todd Hubing (far left) from the University of Missouri
at Rolla. |
CONFERENCE SERVICES
Elya Joffe, Vice President for Conference Services, presented
his report. He introduced Barry Wallen to present his report on
IEEE EMCS International Symposia, as follows. Regarding 2004 Santa
Clara, the budgeted registration income is down at this date,
but this is expected to be remedied by walk-in traffic. The sponsorship
numbers are down, perhaps due to the exhibitors feeling financial
pressure due to increased exhibitor fees. Everything appears be
on track for the week. Regarding 2005 Chicago, the budget has
been developed. The hotel contracts at the Hyatt and the Sheraton
have been renegotiated to reduce the room block commitments. The
Navy Pier will be the venue for the Symposium. The Symposium theme
is “Our Kind of Town – EMChicago.” Regarding 2006
Portland, hotel contracts have been signed, but there is no further
significant activity. Options for the social functions are being
investigated. Regarding 2007 Honolulu, Mr. Wallen advised that
the MOU is ready for signing and that contracts for possible options
for the host hotels are being negotiated. The committee currently
consists of Chair Janet O’Neil, Vice-Chair Barry Wallen,
Treasurer Benoît Nadeau, Registration Ghery Pettit, Workshops
John Maas, and Technical Program Co-Chairs Don Heirman and Todd
Hubing. Anyone interested in being on this committee should contact
Chair Janet O’Neil at
j.n.oneil@ieee.org or Vice-Chair Barry Wallen at barry_wallen@dell.com.
For 2008 Detroit, the chair will be Kimball Williams. Scott Lytle
is the Vice-Chair and Graeme Rogerson is the Treasurer. For 2009,
three proposals have been received to host this Symposium representing
Fort Lauderdale, FL, San Diego, CA, and Austin, TX. The San Diego
Chapter did not provide a complete proposal so they were disqualified.
The symposium evaluation review committee, including Nigel Carter,
Bruce Archambeault, Janet O’Neil, Don Sweeney, and Barry
Wallen have reviewed the proposals and will make a recommendation
at the November Board meeting. Nigel Carter then presented his
report as the Global EMC Symposia Coordinator. He discussed the
various global EMC conferences with which the EMCS is a technical
co-sponsor. The issue of retaining the conference proceedings
from these various events was brought to the Board’s attention.
Efforts to confirm storage arrangements with GTRI and SWRI have
failed. Also, the IEEE informed Dr. Carter that the IEEE couldn’t
provide the service of maintaining and storing the records on
our behalf. Don Clark of GTRI and Bill McGinnis (formerly with
SWRI) volunteered to check into these respective sites and report
back on the status. Regarding future collaborations, a letter
of application was received for technical co-sponsorship by the
EMCS for the 17th International Zurich Symposium & Technical
Exhibition on Electromagnetic Compatibility to be held in Singapore
between February 28 and March 3, 2006. EMC Zurich traditionally
takes place every odd year in Zurich and is organized by the Laboratory
for Electromagnetic Fields and Microwave Electronics of the ETH
Zurich and is sponsored by Electrosuisse, which is a Swiss non-profit
organization. Following a long standing collaboration with the
National University of Singapore and Nayang University, the Zurich
Symposium committee decided to organize EMC Zurich in 2006 in
Singapore, before going back in 2007 to Europe, and have thus
submitted a request to the EMCS for Technical Co-Sponsorship.
The responsible conference president will be Dr. Li Er Ping from
the Institute for High Performance Computing (IHPC). The local
IEEE EMC Chapter will be involved in the organization and they
are currently asking URSI and IEE for Technical Co-Sponsorship
as well. The same high-quality International Conference as known
from past EMC Zurich events will be maintained and 400-600 participants
are anticipated. A technical exhibition will also be held in conjunction
with the Conference. The Symposium Chairman has invited the President
of the EMC Society to give a welcome address during the opening
ceremony as well as solicited technical contributions of the EMC
Society, e.g., organization of an invited session/workshop during
the Conference. The request was forwarded to TAC for their evaluation.
Dr. Carter will be working with the Symposium Committee to finalize
an MOU and will follow up with TAC on the approval process. The
request will be brought to the BoD for vote either in the Thursday
BoD meeting during the Symposium or in the November 2004 BoD meeting
(pending TAC’s approval). Janet O’Neil then reported
as Exhibitor Liaison. She is currently working on the agenda and
arrangements for the Exhibitor’s Breakfast in Santa Clara.
She has asked John Howard to have a power point presentation ready
on the general symposium overview. She has asked Darryl Ray to
give a report on the committee’s increased efforts at publicity
and the impact this has had on symposium attendance. Janet has
also asked Elya Joffe to give a presentation on the symposia scheduled
to date in coming years, the dates, and the locations. She’s
also asking him to share with the exhibitors the new process for
selecting a symposium venue as well as future symposia plans such
as the proposed “paperless symposium.” Janet thinks
we need to engage the exhibitors more at the breakfast so that
we approach the upcoming symposia as a team. The exhibitors are
an integral part of the financial success of each symposium and
their ideas and comments should be considered. Of course, our
points “master” Fred Heather will be on hand to review
the points policy and answer any questions. Janet would like Fred
to share some of the information on the symposium survey with
the exhibitors as it relates to attendance, reasons for attending/not
attending, likes/dislikes, and various marketing information that
might be useful to the exhibitors. Finally, Barry Wallen will
be present to give his report as the International Conference
Chair. Barry was asked to address the issue of competing EMC conference
globally and the need for a strategic vision to retain our stature
as the leading international EMC symposium. Janet would like a
review of attendance over the years at our symposia, number of
papers presented, hotel rooms booked, etc. The purpose of this
presentation would be to show the exhibitors that we are interested
in maintaining our reputation as a premier symposium, yet at the
same time we are aware that our attendance is dropping and this
needs to be addressed now. It may be just the economy as a factor,
or maybe it isn’t. Any input the exhibitors might have on
this and all topics presented at the breakfast would be appreciated.
Janet O’Neil then reported on regional events with EMC Chapters
in Regions 1-7. Since her last report, the SE Michigan EMC Chapter
organized “EMC Fest 2004: EMC Coupling Mechanisms and Diagnostic
Techniques” with Tom Van Doren, University of Missouri, Rolla.
This was held at the Dearborn Inn, in Dearborn, Michigan on May
6. Kimball Williams of Underwriters Laboratories Inc. was the
principal organizer of this event. Janet handled the exhibits.
Over 100 people attended and 24 exhibitors participated. Frank
Krozel reported that the 6th Annual EMC Mini-Symposium he organized
with the Chicago EMC Chapter was their best ever. Held on May
18, this year’s event drew the highest attendance. Lastly,
on June 14, the Dallas EMC Chapter held their first ever colloquium
and exhibition. The speaker was Clayton Paul. Despite excellent
promotion and publicity, attendance was lower than expected. The
Dallas economy is still very depressed for EMC engineers. However,
the exhibitors supported this event in a big way and contributed
just under $10,000 to the Chapter in tabletop space rental fees.
60 people attended and the students very much appreciated the
lecture by Clayton Paul. Financially, the Dallas IEEE Section
was ecstatic with the surplus from this event and would like to
use this show as a model for other Chapters within their section.
On July 12, the German EMC Chapter held an IEEE Region 8 Workshop
on Numerical Field Computation with Tapan K. Sakar of Syracuse
University. Heyno Garbe organized this event. All tabletop shows
noted above were included in the Calendar section of the Newsletter
on a regular basis and were also posted to the Calendar section
of the EMCS website. Coverage of these tabletop shows will be
publicized in the EMC Newsletter’s “Chapter Chatter”
column, Summer 2004 issue. There is one last tabletop show scheduled
for 2004 in the US. This will be held on Monday, October 11 in
Melbourne, Florida. They have requested Clayton Paul as a speaker
for the day and Dr. Paul has agreed. Janet is currently working
with the Chapter now to locate a good hotel and finalize the advance
program. Frank Sabath then reported as the Region 8 Conference
Coordinator. On July 12, the German EMC Chapter presented the
“IEEE Region 8 Workshop on Numerical Field Computation”
in Magdeburg, Germany. There was also a Region 8 Chapter Chair
retreat on July 15 in Magdeburg. This was held in conjunction
with EuroEM’2004. The University of St. Petersburg “LETI”
is organizing the national VI Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility
and Electromagnetic Ecology, in St. Petersburg, Russia over June
21-24, 2005. A request for technical co-sponsorship was received
from the symposium Vice Chairman. The request was approved by
TAC, and was forwarded for an electronic vote by the BoD. No decision
was received yet. Dr. Sabath will coordinate the symposium, on
behalf of the EMCS, as the Region 8 Symposia Coordinator. Janet
O’Neil reported that Region 9 would have a two-day technical
seminar and exhibition in the greater São Paulo, Brazil
area. The dates are September 30 and October 1, 2004. This will
be held at the Brazilian Space Agency (INPE) to eliminate hotel
expenses. The program has been confirmed and includes speakers
Dan Hoolihan, Todd Hubing, Mark Steffka, and Ray Adams from the
US. Topics to be covered on the first day include EMC/EMI Test
Resources at INPE by Benjamim Galvao (followed at the end of the
day by a tour of the new EMC laboratory there) Head of EMI/EMC
– LIT, The Challenge of EMC to the Brazilian Industries by
Roberto Menna Barreto of QUEMC, Introduction to RF Anechoic Chambers
for EMC, Antenna Pattern Measurement, and Radar Cross Section
Testing by Vince Rodriguez, ETS-Lindgren/USA, and Practical EMC
Design Concepts and Applications by Todd Hubing, University of
Missouri at Rolla/USA. On the second day, Carlos Sartori will
present The IEEE EMC Society in Brazil, followed by Dan Hoolihan
on Medical EMC Design Applications and Regulatory Considerations,
Mark Steffka of GM on Automotive EMC Design and Applications,
Ray Adams of Boeing on Aerospace EMC Design and Applications,
and finally, Dave Seabury of ETS-Lindgren on Specific Absorption
Rate (SAR) Concepts and Regulatory Considerations. The South Brazil
EMC Chapter selected the topics. Over 100 people are expected
to attend. Regarding Region 10, Shuichi Nitta reported as that
area’s Regional Conference Coordinator. A request was received
from Professor. S. T. Peng from Taiwan, to host a regional IEEE
EMC Symposium in Taipei, entitled: “2005 IEEE Asia Symposium
on EMC”. The preliminarily dates for the symposium are set
for the period 22-24 November 2005. The Taipei EMC Chapter will
organize the Symposium. Expected attendance is 350 people. A letter
of application was received for technical co-sponsorship of the
EMCS for the Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Environmental Electromagnetics
(CEEM’2006). This will be held in Dalian, China on August
1-4, 2006. The second and third Asia-Pacific Conferences on Environmental
Electromagnetics were held in Shanghai and Hangzhou, China, in
2000 and 2003, respectively. The IEEE EMC Society was the Technical
Co-sponsor of these conferences. These conferences were very successful.
Professor Gao Yougang, Chairman of IEEE Beijing EMC Chapter, also
invites the IEEE EMC Society to hold a BoD Meeting in Dalian,
China at the same time. All the fees for meeting room and the
alimentation for BoD members will be paid by the China Institute
of Communications during the period of this conference. TAC has
recommended the EMCS be a technical co-sponsor of this conference.
Professor Nitta is working with the Symposium Committee to finalize
an MOU and will follow up with TAC on the approval process. The
request will be brought to the BoD for vote in the November 2004
BoD meeting. Next, regarding Symposia Procedures and Policy, the
Board approved Elya Joffe’s motion to approve EMCS technical
co-sponsorship of the St. Petersburg IV Symposium on EMC and Electromagnetic
Ecology to be held June 21-24, 2005. Mr. Joffe advised that the
electronic motion regarding EMCS Co-Sponsorship of the EMC Symposium
in Taipei for November 22-24, 2005 was approved. The Board approved
EMCS Co-Sponsorship of the 4th Asia Pacific Conference on EMC
(CEEM 2006). A call for proposals for hosting the 2010 IEEE International
Symposium on EMC is being published now. It is announced on the
EMCS web site, and will be in the Summer 2004 issue of the EMCS
Newsletter. Following the symposium, Mr. Joffe will submit a call
for proposals, by means of the Chapter Chairs reflector. Also,
an announcement will be made at the Chapter Chairs Luncheon. He
noted that during the Region 8 Chapter Chairs Retreat held in
Magdeburg, Germany, an announcement was made in order to encourage
the submission of proposals form Region 8. Regarding the institutionalization
of EMCS symposia, Mr. Joffe noted that no meeting would take place
during the August Symposium due to the high density of events.
The next meeting of the “Institutionalization of Symposia”
(ISTF) Task Force is scheduled in conjunction with the November
2004 BoD meeting in Chicago. Significant progress took place in
the development of the Symposium Manual. A new version was submitted
for review by the Task Force members, following the May BoD meeting.
Comments were received and forwarded to Fred Heather for incorporation
in the Manual. The Manual (and P&P Manual) is approximately
75% complete. Completion of the current draft is expected by the
end of 2004. Regarding electronic paper submission and review,
moving to full paper submission was approved at the November 2003
Board meeting. Moving all electronic is Mr. Joffe’s vision.
Paper submission has already been done electronically for a couple
of years. However, from the point papers are received, the process
can be significantly improved. A presentation of the system used
in Istanbul was made to the Board at the February 2004 meeting.
A presentation to TAC will be made during the Santa Clara Symposium
and a presentation to IEEE will be made in Piscataway, probably
during September 2004. As a result, we missed the application
of the system in the 2005 symposium. Our goal should be to implement
this process for the 2006 symposium. Lastly, regarding electronic
communications, Mr. Joffe has registered on behalf of the EMCS
to the IEEE “e-Notice” service which has performed a
test case of “e-blasts” to EMCS membership on behalf
of the EMC 2004 Symposium. He has also registered to the “ListServe”
(replacing the IEEE “majordomo” system) for distribution
to any mailing list. He is currently collecting data for construction
of e-mailing lists, from co-sponsored symposia, previous events
and participating organizations. Full implementation is expected
for the 2005 IEEE EMC Symposium. This activity will be under the
responsibility of VP for Communication Services, and Mr. Joffe
has already confirmed the process for transferring “ownership”
of the lists to Ghery Pettit.
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| Dave Staggs, EMCS Board member, and
his lovely wife Barbara enjoyed the social activities at the
annual dB Society dinner party held during the Santa Clara
Symposium. |
EMC SOCIETY 50TH ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE
Dan Hoolihan gave a report regarding activities to date for recognizing
the EMC Society’s 50th Anniversary in 2007. This committee
was formed when Joe Butler was President of the Society. The IEEE
History Center provided an MOU to assist with the anniversary
recognition. They are researching the history of the Society and
will prepare a booklet on the EMCS.
AUSTIN AND FORT LAUDERDALE 2009 SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATIONS
Laurie Hartz of the Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau gave
a presentation on the benefits of having the EMC symposium in
Austin. Carol Daugherty of the Fort Lauderdale Convention and
Visitors Bureau gave a presentation on the benefits of having
the EMC symposium in Fort Lauderdale. After the presentations,
Elya Joffe thanked Ms. Hartz and Ms. Daugherty for attending the
Board meeting. He noted that a visit to both venues is planned
by a delegation of the EMCS (International Coordinator and Exhibits
Coordinator) before November 2004, so that a first hand impression
of the venue and facilities will be possible. The survey report
shall be submitted to the VP of Conferences and presented to the
BoD at the November 2004 BoD meeting, prior to vote.
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| EMCS Board member Ghery Pettit of
Intel, EMCS VP of Communications, (left) visited the exhibit
area during the Santa Clara symposium along with colleague
Nick Garinger. |
IEEE REGION 6 ACTIVITIES
Evelyn Hurst spoke about the activities within IEEE Region 6.
She discussed the newest capabilities of the SAMI database, including
a map tool, which can be used to show where IEEE members reside.
This could be helpful in determining where new Chapters can be
started, as well as ensuring that members within a given area
are included on that Chapter’s mailing list.
NEW BUSINESS
There was no new business to address.
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| Janet O’Neil, EMCS Board Secretary,
EMCS Board member and Immediate Past President, Todd Hubing,
and Immediate Past-Past President, Joe Butler of Parker Chomerics,
at the winery gala event held during the Santa Clara Symposium. |
ACTION ITEM REVIEW
President Williams reviewed the action items discussed during
the meeting.
NEXT MEETING AND ADJOURNMENT
Kimball Williams noted that the next Board meeting would be on
November 16 in Chicago, Illinois. The Standards Committee meetings
will be held the day before along with the Symposia Institutionalization
Task Force meeting. There being no further business, the meeting
then adjourned at 4:35 pm.
CONTINUATION OF BOARD MEETING on Thursday, August 12, 2004
Additional guests included H. Benitez, E. Li, H. Chang, C. Wu,
M. Mohd, W. Strauss, A. Chubukjian, and K. Wyatt.
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| Board member Zorica Pantic-Tanner,
of the University of Texas at San Antonio, brought her son,
David (right), along with her to the Santa Clara Symposium.
They caught up with their long-time family friend, and Silicon
Valley local, Franz Gisin of Sanmina (left). |
COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES UPDATE
Ghery Pettit reported that he had a meeting with Flavio Canavero
about the Transactions on EMC. They are looking at putting the
entire set of Transactions on EMC on a CD for sale to the membership.
Dr. Canavero is looking for a candidate for managing editor or
potential replacement for himself as Editor- in-Chief of the Transactions
on EMC.
MEMBERSHIP SERVICES UPDATE
Andy Drozd reported that 44 new members signed up at the EMCS
Membership Booth this year during the symposium. Ken Wyatt then
reported as the Symposium photographer. He would like to receive
photos from key articles in the Newsletter directly from the authors
if possible so he can perhaps incorporate this into the Newsletter
cover. Regarding the awards luncheon, Henry Benitez reported that
the sound system was much better this year. The “old”
program where all awards were presented took place. The Board
agreed that the luncheon and the program was a positive improvement
over last year. Fred Heather reported on the surveys he issued.
The symposium attendee survey was widely distributed and returned.
The coffee mugs were a good incentive to people to return surveys.
Over 300 mugs were given out. The symposium exhibitors survey
was given out for the first time this year. The results will be
tabulated and shared with the exhibitors via e-mail. The Board
will receive a summary of the results of both surveys at the November
Board meeting.
STANDARDS SERVICES UPDATE
Don Heirman reported that there was very good attendance at the
various Standards Committee meetings during the symposium week.
He presented a formal report, which showed the schedule of meetings.
The SDCom meeting attracted some 20 people and reported on 12
standards. The study topics they are addressing include EMI and
line replaceable modules (LRMs) test methods, wireless performance
measurement, use of GTEM technology above 1 GHz, spectrum occupancy
optimization, and lightning protection. SETCom met and will hold
a special workshop on Friday. Some of the topics included in the
workshop will be SAR, CISPR standards for digital TV, the ANSI
C63 series of standards, and more. SETCom plans to promote their
activities in the EMC Newsletter and at standards workshops during
the annual EMC symposia. SACCom met and is focusing their attention
on a proactive bidirectional exchange with other standards development
organizations. President Williams noted that the Power Society
has asked for assistance in developing a standard regarding ultra-wide
band radio.
TECHNICAL SERVICES UPDATE
Maqsood Mohd noted that there were over 350 people at the tutorials
on Monday. He feels this was the best program yet. The demonstrations
and experiments went very well with the new format of tables and
chairs for the visitors. Tom Jerse will replace Ahmad Fallah as
the new Student Activities chair. Dick Dubroff is stepping down
as Chair of the Experiments Manual subcommittee. A replacement
is being sought. At the NARTE exam, there were 33 students registered.
Fred Heather reported that the joint RAC/SACCom meeting was well
attended. They recruited a new person to help them fill the vacant
liaison positions. He will write an article for the Newsletter
about the RAC activities. Bill Strauss reported on the activities
of TAC. TAC held three meetings during the symposium week. They
are reviewing some of the NARTE exam questions now. The committee
held two telecoms since the last symposium, which were very effective
and beneficial. They plan to hold four telecoms with the next
year. They are looking at the paper review form and aiding in
the selection of the best symposium paper. Regarding nanotechnology
and the suggestion of a new TC on this, he noted that Chris Holloway
spoke to TAC about this developing technology. The TAC decided
to defer a recommendation on this until the fall. At this time,
they are not convinced that there is a need for a TC on this.
The Board approved the purchase an LCD projector for the functions
of the TAC. The TC chairs contacted authors of papers that they
reviewed this year and invited them to attend their respective
committee meetings. This was very effective in boosting attendance
at their meetings. They also published and distributed a flyer
on the TAC meetings with an open invitation to attend their meetings.
They felt this was effective as well. Lastly, regarding the request
for EMCS co-sponsorship of various EMC symposia globally, Kimball
Williams requested that Bill Strauss prepare an article for the
Newsletter about TAC, which encourages people to attend their
meetings and get involved.
CONFERENCE SERVICES
Barry Wallen reported on the Santa Clara symposium. The committee
should meet their budgeted surplus of 20%. There were many at
the door registrations in Santa Clara. The attendance estimates
for the major event food functions, including the Tuesday reception,
Wednesday evening dinner, and Thursday awards luncheon were very
accurate. This saved a considerable amount of money. Elya Joffe
gave a brief update of symposium activities. He attended the symposium
“wrap up” meeting. The overall response indicates the
symposium was very successful. Janet O’Neil spoke about the
exhibitors breakfast, comment cards received from exhibitors,
agendas distributed in advance, the symposium exhibitors survey,
etc. Dr. Li Er Ping from Singapore gave a presentation about EMC
Zurich in Singapore in 2006. Next, Hsi-Mei Chang and Chang-yu
Wu from Taiwan gave a presentation about their upcoming EMC Symposium.
The issue of IEEE EMC Symposium session chairs and their responsibilities
was discussed. Papers that were deemed to be too commercial in
nature were also discussed. Penalties to commercial authors were
also discussed.
ACTION ITEM REVIEW
Janet O’Neil reviewed the action items assigned during the
meetings on August 8 and 12.
ADJOURNMENT
In closing, Dan Hoolihan invited everyone to attend the 50th anniversary
lunch meeting at the Westin Hotel on Friday, August 13. President
Williams then encouraged people to attend the PSES symposium that
will start tomorrow. There being no further business, the meeting
adjourned at 9:00 pm.
Submitted by:
Janet O’Neil,
Secretary,
EMC Society Board of Directors
EMC
