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Janet O'Neil,
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This year promises to be an exciting one! I don’t know about you, but my phone has been ringing off the hook these days. I anticipated a slow January in a relatively quiet office. In fact, I was looking forward to the quiet after a hectic holiday. This was not to be. Instead, I believe people have awoken after a long hibernation to encounter a robust economy. This has spurred tremendous activity. It’s exciting!
It’s also exciting that we have two new Board members in 1998 from the “younger” generation of EMC engineers. Henry Benitez and Mark Montrose attended their first EMC Society Board of Directors meeting last November in Atlanta, Georgia. I’m sure Henry and Mark will bring fresh, new ideas to the Board as they represent the younger EMC engineers in our Society.
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Janet O'Neil,
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We also have two new members of the Distinguished Lecturers Program and they are introduced in this Newsletter by the able Chairman of the Distinguished Lecturers Program, Scott Roleson, on Page 13.
Jim Muccioli recently received the IEEE Fellow Award. Congratulations Jim! We are formally acknowledging Jim on Page 11 of this Newsletter. Jim turns 39 on March 9. Could he be the youngest member of our Society to receive the Fellow Award? Speaking of awards, now is the time to start considering nominations for awards to be given at the 1998 IEEE EMC Society Symposium in Denver. Contact Bill McGinnis, Awards Chairman, for information on award categories and criteria for specific awards. Then, nominate that hard working volunteer you know that has contributed to the success of the EMC Society. We need to hear from you! You may contact Bill McGinnis per the information on Page 3 of this Newsletter.
There are many regional conferences coming up in 1998 which may interest you. Please refer to the Calendar section of this Newsletter for more information. These conferences are an excellent way to sharpen your EMC skills and network with other EMC professionals. I hope to see you at one of these conferences during the year. Of course, don’t forget the 1998 IEEE EMC Society Symposium in Denver. An advertisement for this symposium is found on Page 28 of this Newsletter.
I am also very excited to announce that this Newsletter is now available electronically on the IEEE World Wide Web. At the last Board meeting, the expenditure to provide each issue of the EMC Society Newsletter for 1998 on the web in the HTML format was approved! This was done to provide a better service to our international membership who do not always receive the Newsletter in a timely manner, if at all, via mail. Also, this enables other IEEE members, who are not members of the EMC Society and thus do not receive the Newsletter, to take a peek and learn about our activities. It is hoped that this will also recruit new members to the EMC Society. Visit the EMC Society Newsletter on the EMC Society Home Page at https://www.emclab.umr.edu/ieee_emc/
Lastly, we’ve confirmed for 1998 the companies who will support the Newsletter financially with their contributions to the Institutional Listings section. You’ll find these companies on the back cover of the Newsletter. Thank you for the corporate support!
With all this activity, I’m sure you’ll agree that 1998 promises to be a great year!
Well, gotta go, the phone’s ringing!
Janet O’Neil
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