THE PRESIDENT’S OPENING
REMARKS
President Williams called the meeting to order at 9:30 am. A round
of introductions was made. Board members present included B. Archambeault,
C. Brench, N. Carter, A. Drozd, H. Garbe, F. Heather, D. Heirman,
L. Hill, D. Hoolihan, T. Hubing, E. Joffe, W. Kesselman, F. Maradei,
M. Montrose, S. Nitta, J. Norgard, J. O’Neil, G. Pettit,
A. Podgorski, D. Staggs, D. Sweeney, and K. Williams. Board members
absent included M. Hatfield, R. Wallen, and R. Scully. There were
no guests present. President Williams presented the agenda, which
was approved.
TREASURER’S REPORT
Treasurer Warren Kesselman briefly summarized his report, which
was included in the consent agenda. A preliminary 2004 closing
financial summary indicates that the EMC Society may have a substantial
2004 surplus in the order of $380,000 (infrastructure credit and
market fluctuation are not included). The major factor contributing
to a larger net surplus than budgeted is due to a 2004 change
in accounting procedures, which requires that conference income/expenses
must be accrued in the conference year. The EMC Society 2004 budget
was based upon only receiving the 2003 Symposium surplus in 2004.
By also accruing the 2004 Symposium’s surplus in 2004, the
combined 2004 Meetings/Conferences pre-audit Cost Center net is
$274,700 over budget. Other factors contributing to the 2004 projected
surplus are the increased net income from Periodicals, less net
Newsletter cost, and reduced Committee/Other expenses. Post-audit
financials should be available in May or June. In closing his
report, Mr. Kesselman advised that the IEEE’s approved 2005
EMC budget projects a net surplus of $3,000. An overall budget
summary and budgeted Board committee expenses were contained in
his report.
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| The EMC Society Board of Directors
held a reception in Zurich to celebrate the success of the
conference. John Kappenman of Metatech, Nigel Carter of QinetiQ,
Bill Radasky of Metatech, Olof Lundén of the Swedish
Defense Agency, and Mike Marcus, formerly of the FCC, (from
left) attended. |
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| The Zurich reception drew an international
guest list, including Takeo Yoshino from Japan, Flavio Canavero
from Italy, and Erping Li from Singapore (from left). |
SECRETARY’S REPORT
The Board approved the minutes of the November 16 meeting in Chicago
presented by Secretary O’Neil as part of the consent agenda.
COMMUNICATION SERVICES
Ghery Pettit, Vice-President for Communication Services, presented
his report. He introduced Newsletter Editor Janet O’Neil.
She reported that the Winter issue is 80 pages and it was sent
to the printer on February 9. In reviewing the editorial content,
she noted that the Winter issue features a history report on the
background of EMC Society awards by Dan Hoolihan. There are two
practical papers; one is by Bob Hofmann related to EMC issues
at the South Pole and one is by Tom Jerse on common mode emissions.
Ken Wyatt created the cover photo to complement the Standards
Activity article on “Policy Defined Radio.” There are
close to eight pages of paid advertising in this issue from a
total of 12 companies. This is slightly down from the Fall 2004
issue wherein 16 companies had a total of nine pages of advertisements.
There are fewer advertisers in the Winter 2005 issue, which is
traditionally a “light” issue, but just one page less
of advertisers. The final revenue from these ads in the Winter
2005 issue to the EMC Society is $6,916.60. Next, in the absence
of Transactions Editor-in-Chief Flavio Canavero, Ghery Pettit
presented his detailed report. This includes a summary of activities
in 2004. 187 manuscripts were received in 2004, up 17% from the
previous year. 55% of the papers submitted were rejected. 704
total pages were published for the year. There was a backlog of
50 papers at the end of 2004. The Associate Editors and Advisory
Board are currently reviewing the papers from 2004 in order to
select the “Best Transactions” paper award to be presented
at the 2005 IEEE EMC Symposium. Professor Canavero has contacted
the Publication Department of IEEE to investigate the possibility
of having the accepted Transactions papers posted to the Xplore
website, before the printing takes place. This would accelerate
the accessibility of papers, and relieve the pressure the authors
are putting on the journal to have their papers published (note
backlog from 2004). He will bring this issue to the next IEEE
Panel of Editors meeting (in New Orleans, April 7-8), where he
is confident to find a solution. He will also continue discussions
with the IEEE publications staff about launching a new “Letters”
section as part of the Transactions. Mr. Pettit asked the Board
to consider a 2006 budget for the Transactions based upon a total
of 920 pages; 800 pages for regular Transactions pages and 120
pages for Letters. The Board agreed to evaluate this at its next
meeting. Regarding the EMC Society website, Andy Drozd noted that
he has received many suggested changes from within the EMCS and
its chapters, and has been working to implement these in order
to provide a stable web site platform to turn over to the IEEE
by early-March in order for them to launch their maintenance effort.
The purchase order with the IEEE CMS staff has been issued and
they are ready to begin their support for an amount NTE $10,000
for the remainder of calendar year 2005. Mr. Drozd will remain
as Web Manager in charge of reviewing the conformance of our web
pages at the Society level in accordance with IEEE policies and
guidelines. Regarding the IEEE Press, Mr. Pettit referred to Ray
Perez’s report. IEEE Press narrowly escaped the chopping
block. IEEE Press is still not out of the woods yet but it looks
much better. Several people contributed to saving it for the time
being (including Ray Perez). There are still a few hoops to jump,
but Ray considers the worst over. If and when things go back to
normal (around the summer) Ray will resume with the IEEE Press
work (getting authors, new textbooks, sales pitches etc). Public
Relations Committee Chair Dave Staggs advised that copies of the
previous EMCS promotional VHS videos created in the early 1990s
have been located and are in hand. After viewing these videos,
a determination will be made on the use of any of this footage
for a future promotional video. Particular focus will be on any
outdated technology presented in these videos and if the information
is dated. The use of the 50th Anniversary of the EMCS video as
a promotional tool is being discussed. The opportunity to combine
and make a multipurpose video (celebrating the 50th Anniversary
of the EMCS and to also use as a promotional video for Membership)
is real and would save the EMCS money. Discussions are ongoing
with the History Committee. Mr. Staggs noted that the Power Engineering
Society of the IEEE just completed a PES 1/2 inch die struck antiqued
gold lapel pin. He distributed a sample for Board members to see.
The Board approved Mr. Staggs’ request that the Communications
budget be increased by $6,000 for the purpose of creating a DVD
on the EMC Society. Mr. Staggs’ request to create a lapel
pin at a cost of $4,000 to promote EMCS membership was also approved.
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| Noel Sargent of Analex and Dan Hoolihan
of Hoolihan EMC Consulting (right) enjoyed visiting at the
Zurich reception. |
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| Mr. and Mrs. John Ladbury (he is
with NIST in Boulder, Colorado) appreciated hearing first
hand about the next Zurich conference, in Singapore, directly
from its Chair, Erping Li (center). |
STANDARDS SERVICES
Don Heirman, Vice-President of Standards, presented his report.
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. The main topics currently being addressed
by Standards are “Broadband Power Line Communications”
and “Conformance Evaluation of Software Defined Radio (SDR)”.
There will be special presentations on these two topics during
the Chicago Symposium. These were the main topics of discussion
during the Standards meetings held on March 7. Mr. Heirman showed
a special presentation prepared by Stephen Berger on the new IEEE
Standard 1900.x. A cooperative agreement is in place between the
IEEE Communications Society and the EMC Society for the three
projects initiated under 1900.x to address the next generation
of radio systems and advanced spectrum management techniques.
Mr. Berger is chair of P1900.2, which is the “Recommended
Practice for Interference and Coexistence Analysis.” Volunteers
are needed to help further this work. The Standards Committee
is also addressing their input to the EMCS 5-year Review due in
April. Regarding SDCom, Don Sweeney noted that IEEE 299 is out
for vote and he encouraged those on the balloting group to please
vote on this standard. Nigel Carter noted that he had received
an e-mail from Stephen Berger that the voting is completed, the
ballot is closed, and the document has been forwarded to the Review
Committee of the IEEE Standards Association. There were two negative
votes. Regarding SACCom, Chair Elya Joffe noted that he is now
sending the SACCom report on a quarterly basis to the Chapter
Chairs. The next series of Standards meetings will be held on
May 23 in Tucson, Arizona prior to the next Board meeting.
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| Marco Klingler of PSA Peugeot Citroën,
Professor Branko Kolundzija from the University of Belgrade,
and Bojan Janic of WIPL-D Ltd. (from left) attended EMC Zurich. |
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| Shuichi Nitta of Salesiar Polytechnic,
John Norgard of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs,
and Francesca Maradei from the University of Rome “La
Sapienza” (from left) attended the March 8 meeting of
the EMC Society Board of Directors. |
MEMBER SERVICES REPORT
Elya Joffe presented the report of Membership Services. Membership
Committee Chair Dave Staggs reported on the survey conducted by
IEEE about the drop in Society membership within IEEE. The top
three reasons for not renewing IEEE membership include: 1) IEEE
membership is too expensive, 2) career change such that IEEE is
no longer relevant, 3) employer is no longer paying membership
fees. In the year 2003, all Societies had their maximum drop in
membership in IEEE. Mr. Joffe noted that they are forming a membership
development task force to address and implement ideas to build
IEEE membership. Mr. Joffe will attend an IEEE membership development
retreat and orientation at IEEE over April 29 – May 1 to
represent the EMCS. He will report on this meeting at the May
Board meeting. Andy Drozd then reported on the Distinguished Lecturer
(DL) program and the revised policy for DL travel. In December,
he distributed the revised DL policy to the Board as well as to
IEEE. He received 10 relevant comments back from Board members,
including current Board members that are past DLs. The IEEE reviewed
this revised DL policy and approved it. The DL committee will
evaluate this one more time before finalizing it. Bruce Archambeault
next gave a report on the EMCS Awards. Mr. Archambeault advised
that the committee would present the list of award nominees in
advance of the May Board meeting. Chapter Activities Committee
Chair Ghery Pettit then reported on chapter development. Poland
and Croatia have submitted petitions to IEEE to form new EMC chapters.
Australia is working on submitting their petition to form a new
EMC chapter. Mr. Pettit updated the EMCS Chapter Chair Handbook
and forwarded this recently to the Chapter Chairs. The Board approved
Mr. Joffe’s suggestion that the BoD delegate the VP for Member
Services or his representative(s) to represent the Board at the
inauguration meetings of the newly formed chapters. Mr. Joffe
noted that he would host a Region 10 Chapter Retreat during EMC
Zurich in Singapore. This will be open to all chapters in the
region that have registered for the conference. Mr. Joffe noted
that there would be no cost to the EMCS for this retreat. Elya
Joffe then presented the Region 8 report. He attended the EMC
Zurich (Switzerland) conference in February 2005 and four new
members were recruited. He plans to attend the EMC-2005 conference
in St. Petersburg, Russia over June 21-24, as well as EMC Asia
in Taipei, December 2005. For 2006, he plans to attend EMC Zurich
in Singapore in February and EMC Europe in September in Barcelona.
He will have the EMC Society membership booth at these conferences
and attempt to recruit new members. No report was received from
Carlos Sartori on EMC activity in Region 9. Shuichi Nitta reported
on the EMC conference schedule in Region 10. There are several
conferences planned for 2005 and beyond in China, Thailand, Taiwan,
and Japan. He distributed the advance announcement about the Pan-Pacific
EMC Joint Meeting to be held on May 27, 2005 in the Awaji Yumebutai
International Conference Center in Hyogo, Japan. Professor Nitta
noted that EMC activity in this area is very strong and that chapter
meetings are frequent and well attended. President Williams asked
Mr. Drozd if having a colloquium and tabletop show in Australia
would help encourage chapter development in that area. Mr. Heirman
suggested that we invite the key members of the EMC community
in Australia to attend our Board and Standards meetings in the
US, and encourage them to submit a nomination for the next Board
elections. Mr. Joffe noted that Heyno Garbe is the new chair of
the Fellow Search Committee. He advised that fellow submissions
for 2006 were due by March 1, 2005. Todd Hubing, Nominations Chair,
noted that the call for nominations for Board members for the
three-year term 2006-2008 was included in the Winter 2005 issue
of the EMC Newsletter. Completed nomination petitions must be
postmarked by May 31, 2005. Fred Heather volunteered to chair
the new committee that evaluates and provides financial assistance
grants to disadvantaged engineers, formerly chaired by Zorica
Pantic-Tanner. He will work with Elya Joffe to define the committee’s
tasks for 2005 and beyond. Mr. Joffe spoke about the two surveys
which were distributed at the Santa Clara symposium; one to exhibitors
and one to attendees. Hundreds of surveys were returned. Andy
Drozd volunteered to tabulate the responses from the attendee
surveys and present the findings at the May Board meeting. Janet
O’Neil will work with Barry Wallen and Vita Feuerstein to
address the exhibitor survey findings and implement many of the
good ideas presented in the surveys. Fred Heather noted that he
previously sent Jack Black, the exhibits chair for Chicago 2005,
a set of the survey copies from the exhibitors in Santa Clara.
Mr. Joffe closed his report advising that Ken Wyatt is the EMCS
photographer. He continues to support the EMC Newsletter by providing
cover photos. He is also assisting the Chicago Symposium committee
by providing photos and art design for the awards program. Lastly,
it was noted that no report was received from Bill McGinnis regarding
PACE activity.
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| Samuel Connor of IBM and Colin Brench
(right) of Hewlett Packard attended the Eastern North Carolina
EMC Chapter meeting in Raleigh. |
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| Todd Hubing (left) from the University
of Missouri at Rolla, was the speaker at the March meeting
of the Eastern North Carolina EMC Chapter. Chapter officers
Glenn Robb (center) of Research Triangle Compliance Engineering
and Dave Guzman of EMC Technologists welcomed Todd to the
meeting. |
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 noted that the TCs
are reviewing the papers for Chicago. This is being done entirely
electronically this year and right now there are a few problems.
This is the first year of full paper submittals so extra time
and care is required to review these. 19 workshops are being planned
by the TCs. Nigel Carter asked about the conflict between the
special session planned on waveform diversity, and the Board’s
denial of a technical co-sponsorship of the annual waveform diversity
conference. Mr. Norgard agreed to check into this and see if it
is possible to reverse the Board’s decision. Representative
Advisory Committee (RAC) Chair Fred Heather presented his report.
There are plans to hold a joint RAC/SAC meeting in Chicago. Details
will be announced.
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| Newly elected Board member Heyno
Garbe from the University of Hannover (second from left) brought
mini mugs from his family’s brewery in Germany to the
March Board meeting. Showing their appreciation are (from
left) Ghery Pettit of Intel, Colin Brench of HP, Andy Drozd
of ANDRO Computational Solutions, and Nigel Carter of QinetiQ. |
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| Several Board members stayed over
a day to attend the local Eastern North Carolina EMC Chapter
event on March 9, including (from left) Dave Staggs, Francesca
Maradei, Nigel Carter, and speakers Bruce Archambeault of
IBM and Lee Hill of Silent Solutions. |
CONFERENCE SERVICES
In the absence of Barry Wallen, Vice President for Conference
Services, Elya Joffe presented his report. Activity on IEEE EMCS
International Symposia was noted as follows: Regarding 2004 Santa
Clara, the symposium did very well. The expected net surplus is
approximately $245,000. Regarding 2005 Chicago, Chair Tom Braxton
advised that paper submissions have been brisk. This is the first
year that full papers are being submitted and the review process
has been extended accordingly, but it is generally going well.
The advance program is being laid out and the workshops are fully
booked. The budget is being reviewed. As of February 11, 173 booths
have been sold. Regarding 2006 Portland, Chair Henry Benitez reported
that most committee positions have been filled. Professor Bob
Olsen has accepted the position of Technical Papers Chair. The
theme will be tied to the 200th Anniversary of the Lewis and Clark
expedition. The organizational chart for the 2006 EMC Symposium
Steering Committee was presented. Regarding 2007 Honolulu, Chair
Janet O’Neil advised that the host hotel contract has been
signed. The host hotel is the Hilton Hawaiian Village on Waikiki
Beach. Outreach efforts continue to secure “public relations”
committee members to promote the conference in the Pacific Rim.
Discussion is underway with the VPs of Conferences for the MTT
and AP Societies who are each having their symposium in Honolulu
during the summer of 2007. Options are being explored as to sharing
the same decorator in order to achieve quantity discount pricing.
Special exhibitor pricing is being investigated for exhibitors
who participate in all three symposia in 2007. A schedule for
the symposium week is being developed to take into account the
special anniversary activities being planned. The committee plans
to meet over July 6-8 in Honolulu at the host hotel. There will
also be one committee meeting there in 2006. For 2008 Detroit,
the chair is Kimball Williams. Scott Lytle is the Vice-Chair and
Graeme Rogerson is the Treasurer. Most key committee positions
have been filled. The host hotel contract and the convention center
contracts have been signed. The SE Michigan Chapter recently received
a $1,000 check from the Detroit Metro Convention and Visitors
Bureau as a thank you for bringing the symposium to Detroit. For
2009 Austin, Chair Dave Staggs has the major committee positions
filled. IEEE insurance forms have been submitted to IEEE CMS.
The host hotel contract (the new Hilton located adjacent to the
convention center) has been signed. The Convention Center has
been reserved. Nigel Carter then presented his report as the Global
Conference Coordinator. He showed the current status of EMC Society
Cooperation with global conferences and symposia. An MOU has been
signed with the Zurich Symposium in Singapore being held over
February 28-March 3, 2006. Pending requests for cooperation are
being evaluated for EMC Europe 2006, EMC Compo Germany, the Product
Safety Engineering Society Symposium Chicago, and a Power Symposium
in Columbia. Exhibior Liaison Janet O’Neil then presented
her report. She has received suggestions from exhibitors that
they would like to form a board, which formally reviews planned
changes to EMCS symposia procedures and processes. She contacted
Rhonda Erickson of ETS-Lindgren to work on the formation of this
Board so it represents the various sizes of exhibitors at our
annual symposium. She would like this to be formalized so it can
be presented at the Exhibitors Breakfast in Chicago. Ms. O’Neil
is getting information on freight consolidators and shipping regarding
EMC 2007 in Hawaii to have available for the exhibitors at the
breakfast in Chicago. Fred Heather has posted the updated points
to the EMCS website site. The points are being used to assign
booth space for Chicago 2005. The comments from the exhibitor’s
survey conducted in Santa Clara are being reviewed so the committee
can address any suggestions/comments/criticisms, etc. before the
Chicago symposium. Janet O’Neil next reported on regional
events with EMC Chapters in Regions 1-7. Since her November 2004
Board report, there have not been any tabletop shows. There are
many tabletop shows coming up in the first half of 2005. She does
not know of any tabletop shows being planned for the second half
of the year. Typically, the chapters do not hold these events
in the summer, but she expects there will be one or two in the
fall of this year as we have had in the past. All of these events
seem to be running smoothly. The attendance at the March 9 event
is lower than we typically see at our tabletop shows, perhaps
due to the local economy. Lastly, related to Chapters, she has
spoken with Sarah Morales of the joint EMC/AP/MTT chapter in Tucson.
They are working together on the March 18 tabletop show and will
coordinate a chapter meeting for May 23 or 24 when the EMC Board
of Directors is in town for their meeting. The speaker and topic
are to be determined. She has also communicated with members of
the EMC Society of Australia about a regional event with the IEEE
EMC Society for this July. At the last Board meeting, in response
to President Williams’ request that the EMCS get more proactive
with its outreach efforts in this area, she had suggested that
we perhaps help organize an event there following the EMC 2007
July meeting in Hawaii. Some of the attendees at this meeting
could combine this trip with a visit to Australia and speak there.
However, we have since learned that the EMC Society of Australia
has an annual Symposium in September and, thus, this July event
would be a conflict. She met with Elya Joffe and Todd Hubing in
Zurich to discuss this and Elya will provide more information.
A statement was issued by the EMC Society of Australia that he
will share with the Board. Following is the list to date of upcoming
regional conferences in IEEE Regions 1-7. This list is included
in the Winter 2005 Newsletter, Calendar Section. March 9: Eastern
North Carolina EMC Chapter; March 18: Tucson EMC/AP/MTT Joint
Chapter; March 22: Milwaukee EMC Chapter; April 25: Portland and
SW Washington Chapter; May 3: SE Michigan EMC Chapter; May 17:
Chicago EMC Chapter. Frank Sabath’s report as the Region
8 Conference Coordinator was presented by Mr. Joffe. The committee
is working on an information kit for regional events. Several
EMC conferences will take place in this area in the coming months
and in 2006, including the St. Petersburg Russia conference, which
will have an IEEE EMC special session on shipboard EMC, EMC Wroclaw,
and EMC Europe. For 2005, there will also be a regional tabletop
show in Israel on May 2 and a workshop on the EMC of wireless
systems in Rome over September 19-21. Dr. Sabath will look into
storage at TIB for international EMC conference proceedings. Regarding
Region 9 tabletop shows, Janet O’Neil noted that she has
not scheduled one to date for the fall of 2005. There was some
talk during last year’s tabletop show in Sao Paulo about
scheduling one for this year in Rio de Janeiro, but nothing has
been confirmed. They may wait and do one in this area in 2006
so they are offered on an every other year basis. She will work
with Carlos Sartori on these events so we are in communication
should something arise this year that sounds attractive for holding
an event in the fall. Regarding Region 10, Shuichi Nitta noted
that the conference hotel in Phuket, Thailand was destroyed by
the tsunami. They are looking for a new location, but will keep
the same dates of July 20-22. As noted earlier, there will be
a Pan-Pacific EMC Joint Meeting in Hyogo, Japan on May 27, 2005.
In closing this report, Elya Joffe suggested that the EMCS organize
and provide sponsorship of a session to take place in the 2005
Asia Symposium on EMC, Taipei, Taiwan, December 2005. The Board
agreed in concept, but would like specifics on the topic and speakers
before approving this session.
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| John Norgard (standing) gives his
report as Vice-President for Technical Services at the March
8 meeting of the EMC Society Board of Directors held at IBM
in Research Triangle Park. |
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| Following the Board meeting, several
members took the hotel shuttle to a nearby restaurant. Managing
to squeeze into the van are (from left) Elya Joffe of KTL
Project Engineering, Ghery Pettit, Kimball Williams of Denso
International America, Heyno Garbe, Don Heirman of Don HEIRMAN
Consultants, and Warren Kesselman. |
EMC Society 50th Anniversary Committee
Dan Hoolihan presented his report. His report reviews the plans
for celebrating the anniversary, including oral interviews with
founders and other key members of the Society, the power point
presentation under development on the Society’s history,
and putting the Transactions on EMC on a DVD. The power point
presentation will not be ready for usage by the DL speakers until
2006. Preliminary work has started on putting all EMCS Transactions
on a DVD for the 50th anniversary. The logo for the 50th Anniversary
has been finalized and was presented to the Board. The budget
for this activity is being reviewed with Warren Kesselman. He
would like to select the top ten papers published during the annual
EMC symposia as well as in the Transactions on EMC over the past
50 years. The candidates would have received the best paper award
at the annual symposium. Photos of past EMCS presidents as well
as Richard Stoddart and Laurence Cumming are especially needed
for the anniversary document. There was a special EMCS anniversary
session presented at EMC Zurich that was well attended by some
70 people.
NEW BUSINESS
The following topics were addressed under New Business:
Finance Committee Report
The Board approved the following figures for 2006 as presented
by Todd Hubing:
EMC Society Member Fee: $25
Transactions Page Budget: 800
Transactions Print Copy Fee: $15
Non-member subscription fee: IEEE recommended rate
The Board approved Todd Hubing’s suggestion to request IEEE
approve a new initiative for 2006 to fund the creation of a CD
of past EMCS annual symposia proceedings. The maximum amount allocated
from the EMCS reserves would be $50,000.
New Standard on Spectrum Access
Don Heirman presented a proposal on behalf of Stephen Berger,
SDCom Chair; on IEEE Standards 1900.x related to the next generation
radio systems and advanced spectrum management. This new standard
would be a joint effort with DARPA and the IEEE Communications
Society. A symposium is planned in Baltimore to address “New
Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks.” Mr. Heirman
suggested that the EMCS co-sponsor this symposium to show a public
demonstration of mutual cooperation with the Communications Society.
Stephen Berger would be the primary representative to the symposium
committee. The Board supported working with the Communication
Society on this symposium and pursuing this relationship.
Product Safety Engineering Society (PSES)
Mark Montrose presented a proposal for mutual cooperation between
the EMC Society and the Product Safety Engineering Society (PSES).
Discussion on this was tabled until the next meeting.
Print Copies of the EMCS Symposium Records
The Board approved a policy wherein the Symposium Committee must
stipulate that CDs be the default method of distributing the symposium
record. Paper copies will be made available at a reasonable cost
for an additional fee. A request for paper copy must be provided
on the advance registration form along with the cost. The paper
copy request can be made available only on the advance registration
form. Making the paper copies available at the symposium shall
be at the symposium committee’s discretion.
Five Year EMC Society Review Meeting
President Williams noted that there would be a meeting of the
EMC Excom on Friday and Saturday, April 22-23, 2005 in Lincroft,
New Jersey. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the report
and make progress on the 2005 EMC Society Five-Year Review. Any
interested Board members are welcome to attend.
Marketing Promotion
Mark Montrose distributed a proposal on marketing and promotion
of the EMC Society. Discussion on this was deferred until the
next meeting.
President Elect Report
EMCS President Elect Andy Drozd discussed the EMCS Long Range
Plan. He appointed the VPs as members of the long range planning
committee. He would like to assign some time (two hours) to address
long range planning at the upcoming Board meetings. Regarding
meetings in 2006, he suggested that the EMCS consider going from
four meetings annually to three. He selected the tentative dates
of mid January for a teleconference meeting and then showed the
TAB meeting dates, and several EMC events happening globally.
The Board discussed the number of meetings. The consensus was
to hold four EMCS Board meetings a year. The schedule of meetings
for 2006 will be included in the Calendar section of the EMC Newsletter.
Mr. Drozd noted that he has set up a private website for Board
business.
EMC Society Five-Year Review
Regarding the five year Society review, President Williams showed
the current field of interest statement. Membership retention
and reasons to join were discussed. The IEEE Xplore program and
its effect on individual Society membership were discussed.
ACTION ITEM REVIEW
President Williams reviewed the action items discussed during
the meeting.
NEXT MEETING
Kimball Williams noted that the next Board meeting would be on
Tuesday, May 24 in Tucson, Arizona. 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
adjourned at 5:00 pm. EMC
Submitted by:
Janet O’Neil
Secretary, EMC Society Board of Directors
