The following members will begin a three year term on the Board effective January 1, 1999. Abbreviated biographies of these gentlemen are shown below.
Don Bush worked in or managed the EMC lab at IBM
Lexington, KY, from 1965 until its acquisition by Lexmark International in 1991. He worked
for Lexmark from this date until March, 1996. At this time founded dBi Corporation and
continued in the EMC profession (art?).
Mr. Bush received the Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and Master of Electrical Engineering Degrees from the University of Louisville, is a registered professional engineer, and a NARTE certified EMC engineer. He has authored and presented eleven papers on EMC subjects, and holds one patent. His company, dBi, is an A2LA accredited EMC test lab.
E. Thomas Chesworth is President of
Seven Mountains Scientific, Inc., an EMC consulting and publishing company he founded in
1979. He received his Bachelor of Science in meteorology in 1960, Master of Science in
physics in 1969, and Doctor of Philosophy in physics in 1974, all from Pennsylvania State
University.
Dr. Chesworth is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1977), a NARTE-Certified EMC Engineer, and a Technical EMC Expert for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). He has been an EMC assessor for NIST’s NVLAP since 1989 and a technical consultant to numerous companies on EMC projects, electromagnetic shielding and other electromagnetic effects. He is a Technical Editor of Electromagnetic News Report, FCC News Report, Advance Battery Technology, and Advanced Fuel Cell Technology. Dr. Chesworth has published more than 40 technical papers and has designed and built various electronic devices, including instruments for time-of-flight mass spectrometry, a computer-controlled synchroscope driver, and a chamber for aerosol levitation in vacuum. He worked in EMC at HRB-Singer, Inc. from 1966 to 1970 and was a Staff Physicist with LOCUS, Inc. from 1975-1979.
Elya B. Joffe was born in Johannesburg, South
Africa.
He received his education in Electrical Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be’er-Sheva, Israel.
With over 15 years of experience in government and industry, in EMC/E3 (Electromagnetic Compatibility/Electromagnetic Environmental Effects), Mr. Joffe’s expertise ranges from interference control from circuit through systems to platforms. His work covers EMC, EMP and Lightning Protection design, as well as numerical modeling for the solution of EMC problems. Mr. Joffe is the VP of Engineering of K.T.M. Project Engineering, Ltd and works as an EMC Engineering Specialist.
Mr. Joffe is well known in Israel and abroad for his activities in EMC training and education, as an author and instructor of various courses on Electromagnetic Compatibility and related topics. Mr. Joffe has authored and co-authored over 35 papers in EMC and EMC-related topics. Mr. Joffe is a Registered Professional Engineer and a NARTE Certified EMC and ESD Control Engineer.
David P. Millard is a Principal
Research Engineer and Chief of the Electromagnetics and Antennas Division, Sensors and
Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. He received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical
Engineering and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University in 1973 and 1974, respectively. He also pursued work toward
a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology
from 1981-1986. Mr. Millard is a member of AFCEA, a Registered Professional Engineer and a
NARTE Certified EMC Engineer. He has published over 15 articles and symposium papers and
36 major reports. He was a co-author of the IEEE video, VC51 “Getting Rid of
Interference,” 3 December 1991.
Mr. Millard has enjoyed an 18 year career in electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) at GTRI where he started as a Research Engineer II in 1980, was promotion to Principal Research Engineer in 1991, and was appointed to his current position as Division Chief in 1995. He currently manages a diverse group of antenna and electromagnetic environmental effects (E3) engineers with Projects in the division covering all aspects of antenna design and E3.
Ghery S. Pettit is a Senior EMC Engineer with
Intel Corporation in DuPont, Washington. He received the Bachelor of Science Degree in
Electrical Engineering from Washington State University in 1975 and has taken numerous
courses in EMC and related subjects since then.
Mr. Pettit began his EMC career as a field TEMPEST test engineer for the U.S. Navy in 1976. He was employed by Martin Marietta Denver Aerospace from 1979 to 1983, performing EMC and TEMPEST design and analysis on MX and other projects. From 1983 to 1995 Mr. Pettit worked for Tandem Computers, providing EMC design, analysis, troubleshooting and testing support for various products. During that time he designed and built both a 30 meter open area test site and a 10 meter RF semi-anechoic chamber and served as Tandem’s representative to the CBEMA ESC-5 committee (now ITI TC-5). Since 1995 he has been employed by Intel Corporation, providing EMC support for various groups, including desktop PCs. While at Intel he has built two EMC laboratories, one in Hillsboro, Oregon and the other in DuPont, Washington. He has written 6 papers for publication/presentation. Mr. Pettit is a NARTE Certified EMC Engineer, a member of the dB Society and is a Technical Advisor in the area of EMC to the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). He presently serves as Intel’s representative to the ITI TC-5 committee and is a member of the USNC to the IEC / CISPR SC G Technical Advisory Group.
Douglas C. Smith is Manager EMC Development
and Test at Auspex Systems, in Santa Clara, CA.
Mr. Smith held an FCC First Class Radiotelephone license by age 16 and a General Class amateur radio license at age 12. He received a B.E.E.E. degree from Vanderbilt University in 1969 and an M.S.E.E. degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1970. In 1970, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories as a Member of the Technical Staff. He retired in 1996 as a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. Currently he is Manager of EMC Development and Test at Auspex Systems, a maker of high performance network servers.
He has been involved with FCC Part 68 testing and design, telephone system analog and digital design, IC design, and computer simulation of circuits. He has been granted over 15 patents, several on measurement apparatus.
Mr. Smith has lectured internationally at Universities, technical symposia, and at public and private seminars on high frequency measurements, circuit design, ESD, and EMC. He has published over two dozen technical papers and articles in these fields and is author of the book High Frequency Measurements and Noise in Electronic Circuits. Mr Smith is currently working on his second book which will be published in 1999.
We wish the newly elected members of the Board of Directors success and thank all candidates for their willingness to serve and for permitting their names to be included on the ballot.