Dan Hoolihan
President, EMC Society
Time flies, as the Romans used to say. Since the last quarterly newsletter of the EMC Society, we have had two major symposiums in the EMC World. The first was, of course, the annual get together at IEEE 1998 International Symposium on EMC held in Denver, Colorado.The second one was EMC ROMA ‘98 in Rome, Italy.
Every general indication that we have seen highlights the fact that the Denver Symposium was very successful. There were over 2600 participants, almost 900 fully-paid registrants, and 185 exhibitors (occupying 250 booths). The technical sessions were well attended and the poster papers were quite successful as well.
The Board of Directors had a day-long meeting the Sunday before the symposium which was very productive and attended by a number of guests.
The “Board” also traveled to Italy in September to hold a meeting at the Rome Symposium. Members of the board participated in the opening session, various workshops during the week, and an “Introduction to the EMC Society Workshop” on Friday morning. The Symposium was held at the University of Rome, which is 500 years old, and it is surrounded by some of the ancient Roman ruins which are 2000 years old. The rather new technology of EMC Engineering seemed even newer in that historical and famous environment!
The next Board of Directors meeting will be held in New Brunswick, New Jersey; near the IEEE headquarters in Piscataway. The meeting is scheduled for Saturday, November 14, and guests (especially members of the EMC Society) are welcome to attend the meeting.
We will be attending the Tokyo Symposium in May of next year and having a BoD meeting at that time. We are attempting to hold one BoD meeting outside the United States to reflect the fact that 40% of our membership comes from outside the United States.
On a sadder note, we were sorry to hear that Richard B. Schulz had passed away as a result of a car accident in Oregon. Dick was a past president of the EMC Society (1968), a past editor of the EMC Society Transactions, and an IEEE EMC Society Fellow. He attended the most recent EMC Symposium in Denver and was part of the Past Presidents photo taken after the Thursday noon awards ceremony. Dick was always a gentleman and always easy to talk to while being full of information; especially historical information on the early days of the EMC Society. He will be missed, both personally, and collectively by many EMC Society members. As always, if you have a concern or a compliment about the EMC Society, pass them on to me via phone (651-638-0250) or FAX (651-638-0285) or e-mail (dhoolihan@tuvps.com).
(L-R) Dan Hoolihan of TUV Product Service caught up with Noel
Sargent of the
NASA Lewis Research Center and Dave Traver of Sony at the EMC ’98 Roma banquet.
Salvatore Celozzi of University of Rome “La Sapienza” and
Todd Hubing of the
University of Missouri-Rolla (L-R) form an interesting trio with an ancient bust at the
EMC ’98 Roma welcome cocktail party held at the Palazzo Barberini.
Joe Butler (L) of Chomerics Division of Parker Hannifin, joined Bill
Gjertson of
Boeing and Marianne Gjertson at the EMC ‘98 Roma gala banquet. Bill and
Marianne were intent on picking up some pointers at the Italian conference as they
are Chairman of the IEEE 1999 Symposium on EMC, and
Companion Events Chair, respectively.
EMCS Board member Ferdy Mayer of LEAD is shown during his
presentation
at EMC ‘98 Roma on global EMC Society activities. Eight new IEEE EMC
Society members were recruited during the conference.
Dick Ford, Don Sweeney of DLS Electronic Systems, and Moto Kanda of
NIST
(L-R) are shown enjoying the Italian hospitality during their visit to EMC ‘98 Roma.
Professor D’Amore, Chairman of EMC ’98 Roma, and Maria
Sabrina Sarto, from
the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” organized an impromptu al fresco lunch
for the Board during their visit to Rome.
The Board hosted a reception to informally meet the international
attendees at
EMC Roma ‘98. President Dan Hoolihan (C) discussed EMC in academia with
Lorenz Jung (R) of the Technical University of Hamburg- Hasburg and
Markus Petirsch (L) of the Universitat Karlsruhe.