Board of Directors Activities
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At a meeting at IEEE headquarters, Dick Ford, Steering Committee
Treasurer for the 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility,
turned in the Treasurer's books for the IEEE required audit. Dick Ford is shown (left to
right) with Pete Curtis, IEEE CMS Finance Administrator, Emily Cummings, IEEE Operations
Auditor, Ken Maze, Director, Audit Operations and Sameer Qureshi, IEEE Operations Audit
Intern. This Symposium set records for total attendance (3003) and for total conference
revenues ($1.14M). The surplus generated was within 1% of the budget estimate ($190K). Mr.
Ford presented a financial report on the symposium at the June Board meeting.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
Friday, June 15, 2001
THE PRESIDENT'S OPENING REMARKS
President Butler called the meeting to order at 9:00 am. A round of introductions was
made. Board members present included H. Benitez, J. Butler, L. Carlson, T. Chesworth, L.
Cohen, B. Crain, A. Drozd, R. Ford, F. Heather, D. Heirman, D. Hoolihan, T. Hubing, W.
Kesselman, D. Millard, M. Montrose, J. Muccioli, J. O'Neil, H. Ott, J. Perini, G. Pettit,
C. Sartori, K. Williams, and T. Yoshino. Board members absent included D. Bush, E. Joffe,
A. Podgorski, and D. Smith. Guests present included V. Feuerstein, R. Schlentz, and M.
Volk. President Butler welcomed Vita Feuerstein of IEEE Conference Management Services
(she will be working on the 2002 IEEE International Symposium on EMC in Minneapolis) and
Robert Schlentz of the Minneapolis EMC Symposium Steering Committee. The agenda was then
distributed. The agenda was approved as presented.
TREASURER'S REPORT
Treasurer Warren Kesselman reported that the EMC Society's net operational surplus for
2000 was $103,900. The Society remains financially sound with an estimated million dollar
net worth. Regarding the budget for 2002, President Butler noted that we raised the dues
last year to $20 per member. The dues were raised in part to support the new magazine
initiative. However, in the IEEE's revised proposal for the magazine, several costs were
increased substantially. Thus, the new magazine initiative will be postponed. President
Butler recommended keeping the dues increase of $20 though so as to support the IEEE's
newly imposed infrastructure charges. The Board approved a 2002 budget for the EMC Society
with the following parameters: Member dues $20, Transactions budget based upon five issues
or 600 pages, Nonmember subscription rate of $255 and a net surplus of $94,400. A
commission was formed to look at options for the EMC Society to continue its association
with the IEEE. Dick Ford will chair this with members being Larry Cohen, Jose Perini and
Ghery Pettit.
SECRETARY'S REPORT
Secretary O'Neil presented the minutes from the Board meeting on February 23, 2001 in
Zurich for review. The minutes were approved with one amendment.
STANDARDS SERVICES
Don Heirman, Vice-President of Standards presented his report. It was noted that the
webpage (https://www.standards.ieee.org) for
EMC Standards is now operational. Standards activity covers three major areas: The
Standards Education and Training Committee (SETCom) chaired by Hugh Denny, the Standards
Advisory and Coordination Committee (SACCom) chaired by Elya Joffe and the Standards
Development Committee (SDCom) chaired by Steve Berger. SDCom is the most active committee.
They are looking at standards involving high definition and digital television. Two new
standards P-1530 and P-1560 are proceeding in their development. They are branching out of
worrying about immunity and looking at matters of public concern. The website has more
information about SDCom activity. Mr. Heirman reported that he appointed Steve Berger to
the IEEE Standards Association Standards Board new standards committee (NesCom) which is
responsible for recommending approval of project authorization requests (PARs). The SETCom
will hold a special workshop session on "Processes and Procedures for the Development
of EMC Standards" during the IEEE EMC Symposium in Montreal. Regarding the SACCom
activities, Mr. Heirman's report included a status report from Chair Elya Joffe. This
included an update of CISPR activity and the work of the IEEE Standards Coordinating
Committee 34 on cellular phone measurements.
COMMUNICATION SERVICES
Len Carlson, Vice-President for Communication Services, presented his report. He
reported for Professor Marcello D'Amore, Transactions Editor-in-Chief. There will be a
special issue on printed circuit boards (PCBs) as well as a special issue on the late
Transactions editor, Moto Kanda. The special issue on PCBs will be published in November
2001 with Flavio Canaverio as guest editor. The special issue in honor of Moto Kanda will
be published in February 2002 with guest editors being Chris Holloway and Perry Wilson.
Professor D'Amore is also processing a proposal from Professor Gavan of Israel to do a new
special issue about EMC problems due to antenna co-site. Regarding the selection process
to identify the best paper from the 2000 Transactions on EMC, Professor D'Amore has
received nominations from eight of his associate editors. He has organized a special
session to be held during the Montreal symposium which addresses the Transactions on EMC.
All Board members are invited to attend this session. Flavio Canaverio, the Managing
Editor of the Transactions on EMC, is evaluating the electronic handling of Transactions
papers using the IEEE Manuscript Central procedures. They hope to have this electronic
submission and reviewing of the papers fully implemented by the end of this September. The
announcement about electronic processing will be published in the August issue of
Transactions. Regarding the Newsletter, Editor Janet O'Neil verbally reported that the
last issue (Spring 2001) was 48 pages, a record length for the Newsletter. It featured a
cover story about the IEEE EMCS organized special session in Zurich, coverage of the
Zurich and Brugge EMC conferences (of which the EMCS was a technical co-sponsor), three
practical papers, a standards activity article on ANSI ASC C63 document C63.19, and an
article by Division IV Director Peter Staecker on the IEEE fiscal state of affairs.
Several letters to the Newsletter were received as a result of these articles. They will
be published in the next Newsletter. The Spring 2001 issue marked the last article by
Associate Editor for Chapter Chatter, Todd Hubing. Ms. O'Neil publicly acknowledged and
thanked Mr. Hubing for his years of service as an Associate Editor. Plans are now underway
to continue the publication as a Newsletter, not a magazine, in accordance with the
Board's recent direction. Advertising will be solicited for the Newsletter and will appear
in the first issue published in 2002. The IEEE media department will handle the
advertising efforts. Mark Montrose next presented his report as IEEE press liaison. The
IEEE has completed negotiations with John Wiley and Sons, New York, to enter into a
publishing partnership. The IEEE Press was running at a deficit and this publishing
relationship will help them control costs. Royalty payments to authors and EMCS will
remain unchanged at this time. Royalties received for the calendar year 2000 were
$6,786.73. EMCS Webmaster Andy Drozd then presented his report. Most of the recent
activity concerns TC-2, 5 and 8. TC-8 (Product Safety) has an alternate site and the EMCS
site forwards viewers to their alternate site. New pages have been made for the RAC. The
Education Committee is being approached to provide information on their activities so they
can have a site. Regarding advertising on the website, two new companies have indicated
interest in advertising. Mr. Drozd discussed costs involved in upgrading the website by
professional outside firms. The Board approved establishing an annual budget under
Communication Services starting in FY 02 to support web page activities (development,
update and maintenance) across all EMCS technical committees (TCs 1-10) including
Education and Student Activities, RAC, Standards, and Web Manager committees. The initial
budget projections for FY 02 may become part of an out-of-cycle "New Initiative and
Operational Necessities" request coordinated through the EMCS Treasurer. Mr. Drozd
advised that he attended the IEEE sponsored web education workshop on April 20-22 in
Alexandria, Virginia. The IEEE presented various new technologies available via the web,
such as the "Hot Lava" capabilities. Mr. Drozd's report includes the 2001 IEEE
Technical Societies Web Education Meeting Report. Public Relations Chair Tom Chesworth
presented a report titled "Proactive Media-Based Introduction to Benefits of EMC
Society Membership." He would like to reach more people outside the EMC Society and
IEEE to tell them who we are and what we do. He suggested placing ads in the EMC related
trade magazines, attending related trade shows and having material distributed on the EMC
Society and/or performing a popular demonstration related to EMC. It was suggested that
this material be posted to the EMCS website so members can review and comment upon this.
Bruce Crain, Andy Drozd, Fred Heather, Dick Ford and Mark Montrose volunteered to help Mr.
Chesworth on a committee he formed to address public relations.
MEMBER SERVICES REPORT
Andy Drozd, Vice-President for Membership Services presented his report. Currently
there are 4,830 active members of the EMC Society, a slight decrease from 2000. He
introduced Bruce Crain who will be in charge of setting up the membership booth at our
annual symposia. Mr. Crain advised that we will have two booths at the Montreal EMC
Symposium and the booth will have a new banner. Mr. Crain also discussed plans for
increasing senior membership levels in the EMC Society. He presented a detailed report on
the Senior Membership. Andy Drozd next reported for Lee Hill, chair of the Distinguished
Lecturer program. Two new lecturers, Colin Brench and Maria Sabrina Sarto, were approved
for the 2001-2002 term. The Board approved Lothar "Bud" Hoeft as the third
Distinguished Lecturer for the 2001-2002 term. Henry Benitez reported on Awards. The
awards nomination process is now available via the EMCS website. The awards will be
presented as a two-part event at the Montreal symposium. Some of the lesser awards will be
presented the night before the awards luncheon. During the awards luncheon, a video will
be shown of the awards presented the previous night. He presented a schedule for
submitting awards. The candidates for the various awards to be presented in Montreal were
reviewed. Ghery Pettit presented the report for Chapter Activities. He noted that the
German chapter has a request in for Angel funds. Angel funds were distributed to the
Central and South Italy EMC chapter. A new EMC chapter in Romania is in the process of
formation headed by Dr. Andrei Marinescu. There is interest in Australia for forming an
IEEE EMC Chapter. The Milwaukee EMC chapter was added to the chapter roster. The chapter
chair is James Blaha. Mr. Joffe's report for Region 8 activities was distributed. In Mr.
Joffe's absence, Mr. Drozd noted that seven new IEEE EMC Society members were recruited at
the EMCS membership booth in Zurich. The EMCS international membership booth will be
present at the St. Petersburg, Russia, International Symposium on EMC June 19-22, 2001.
The EMCS will be a technical co-sponsor of this symposium as well as the EMC Europe 2002
conference in Sorrento, Italy and the International Conference on Electromagnetics in
Advanced Applications (ICEAA-01) in Torino, Italy. Potential new EMC chapter development
is underway in Belgium, Romania, Greece, Georgia (Russia) and Australia. Regarding the
Region 9 report, Jose Perini advised that he had visited Mexico City and four cities in
Brazil this spring. He was impressed with the well-organized IEEE membership in Mexico.
There were over 54 student chapters with over 40 members on average per chapter. Carlos
Sartori assisted Mr. Perini with his visit to Brazil. This country too is very fertile
ground for recruiting new EMC Society members. Mr. Perini gave several presentations on
this trip including one on "Radiated and Injected Measurements Ð When are They
Equivalent?" and "Measurement Uncertainty Ð What is it?" He is working
with Elya Joffe on a special IEEE EMCS workshop to be held during the St. Petersburg
Symposium. Takeo Yoshino reported on EMC activity in Region 10. He has been in contact
with two new potential chapters in India and Australia, respectively. Mr. Drozd is working
on preparing a SAMIeee list of EMC members in Region 10 (excluding Japan) for Dr. Yoshino
in an effort to identify the most appropriate contacts to pursue in this region for
chapter formation. Concerning Nominations and Bylaws, Dan Hoolihan advised there were no
changes required for the bylaws. The cCall for Nominations" was printed in the Winter
2001 issue of the EMC Society Newsletter. To date, six nominations have been received. Mr.
Hoolihan has requested that Board members encourage others to be considered as candidates
for the Board of Directors. Regarding the Fellows Search Committee, Mr. Drozd advised that
last year two Fellow candidates, Donald R. Pflug and Daniel J. Kenneally, were elected to
the grade of Fellow. Their awards will be presented at the Montreal EMC Symposium. Bill
McGinnis's PACE report was distributed to the Board. The main thrust for 2001 for IEEE-USA
is to improve communications with and training of PACE representatives for an integrated
fast response network. The PACE committee has doubled in size. Mr. McGinnis has asked
Kimball Williams to join the committee as Vice-Chair and he has accepted. This should
complement the EMCS Education Committee's Life Long Learning activity. Lastly, Dick Ford
distributed copies of the survey which will be distributed at the Montreal EMC symposium.
The EMCS experiments video was shown during the break. Mr. Ford requested comments and
feedback on the video.
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During the June meeting of the IEEE EMC Society Board of Directors, a
tour was conducted of the Minneapolis Convention Center, site of the 2002 IEEE
International Symposium on EMC. Board members accompanied Jody Geiselhart, Sales Manager
for the Minneapolis Convention Center, (center foreground) on a tour of the spacious
facility.
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EMCS Board members, Todd Hubing of the University of Missouri at
Rolla, Tom Chesworth of Seven Mountains Scientific, Len Carlson of NW Emetek Services, and
Dave Millard of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (from left) agreed that the
Minneapolis Convention Center would be an ideal site for the 2002 EMC Symposium.
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TECHNICAL SERVICES
Kimball Williams, Vice President for Technical Services, presented his report. He
advised that the Technical Committees are attempting to pursue meetings on line. The
formation of a new TC-10 on Signal Integrity is underway. The Product Safety Committee
(TC-8) continues its evolution into its own IEEE Society. Andy Drozd and David Southworth
are working to encourage more use of our web pages to communicate within the elements of
EMCS. The symposia electronic paper review system is moving towards a cooperative
implementation in conjunction with TC9 and the IEEE A&P and MTT Societies. Mark
Montrose next reported on his efforts to promote TC-10. Formation of the committee will be
finalized at the Montreal EMC Symposium. TC-10 has organized a half-day workshop during
the symposium. Mr. Montrose will chair this workshop that was designed for those
interested in signal integrity and EMC aspects related to advances within the
semiconductor industry. Officers for the TC-10 are being finalized. Mr. Montrose also
reported on TC-8 efforts for the Montreal EMC Symposium. TC-8 reviewed 13 papers. They
have organized a half-day product safety workshop for Montreal to be chaired by Dan Modi.
Murlin Marks and Jack Burns will chair a special session on product safety during the
Montreal Symposium. Maqsood Mohd's report on the activities of the Education Committee was
reviewed. The experiments manual will soon be posted to the website. Larry Cohen spoke on
the new model for the demonstrations. Now the demonstrations include software modeling.
There are approximately 15 modeling and simulation demonstrations planned for the Montreal
EMC Symposium that focus on computer analysis applications for EMC using canonical-type
problems. There will also be some 20-24 hardware demonstrations planned at the Symposium.
Approximately 30-40% of the Symposium demonstrations will be new this year. Regarding the
Student Design Competition, 37 kits have been requested from seven different countries.
This is very encouraging. The University Grant program was expanded last year to include
non-US universities. The NARTE Exam will be conducted on the Friday following the
symposium, with the review on the Monday of the symposium week. Concluding the report of
Technical Services, Mr. Williams discussed the report of the Representative Advisory
Committee (RAC). Chair Dave Case reports that they have organized their traditional
RAC/SACCom luncheon at the Montreal EMC Symposium. The RAC report included a budget review
and cost reduction efforts. There will not be any special RAC sponsored special session at
the Montreal EMC Symposium.
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The convention center featured a "Holiday Show" on the
exhibitor floor. Board members Andy Drozd of Andro Consulting Services and Jim Muccioli of
Jastech EMC Consulting (foreground left to right) are shown amidst the Christmas trees and
various holiday themed items on display. Henry Ott of Henry Ott Consultants is shown at
rear, left, surveying the scene in his role as the Society's Vice-President for
Conferences.
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Barry Wallen (left) and Erik Borgstrom (right) of TUV Product Service
join Dan Hoolihan of Hoolihan EMC Consulting (center) for the tour of the Minneapolis
Convention Center. Mr. Wallen is the Society's International Conference Chairman, Mr.
Hoolihan is Chairman of the 2002 Symposium Steering Committee, and Mr. Borgstrom will
handle publicity for the 2002 Symposium.
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CONFERENCE SERVICES
Henry Ott, Vice President for Conference Services presented his report. This addresses
the increasing commercialism of the symposia. He also advised that there are various
committees associated with the EMC Society who are holding meetings during the annual
symposia. The Board approved the requirement that an EMC Society Vice-President approve a
committee's request for a free meeting room during the annual symposia. President Butler
noted that a task force has been formed to address the inconsistencies in symposia policy
and the "institutionalizing" of more components of the symposia. Henry Ott will
chair the task force with members being Don Heirman, Hugh Denny, Barry Wallen, Kimball
Williams and Janet O'Neil. Mr. Ott then called upon Barry Wallen, Chair of the
International Symposia Committee. Mr. Wallen reported on the various upcoming symposia as
follows: 2000 Washington DC: The audit should be completed by the IEEE in August. The
projected surplus is expected to be approximately $189,000; 2001 Montreal: The committee
has already repaid the loan they received from the EMC Society. It was noted that the
Montreal committee obtained the copy of the Zurich symposium mailing list and will use
this to promote the Montreal symposium. To date there are 160 exhibitors with 266 booths
sold. 85% of the room block at the Wyndham hotel has been filled. 383 registrations have
been received to date. They are undertaking a strong e-mail campaign to build attendance;
2002 Minneapolis: Dan Hoolihan led a tour of the Minneapolis Convention Center, site of
the 2002 IEEE International Symposium on EMC. The host hotel, the Hyatt Regency, is
located across the street and is connected to the convention center by a covered skyway.
Mr. Hoolihan advised that the symposium website address is www.2002-ieee-emc.org; 2003
Boston: Mirko Matejic has stepped down as Chairman of the 2003 Boston Symposium Steering
Committee. Jon Curtis of Curtis-Strauss was proposed by the committee as the new steering
committee chairman. The Board approved this appointment; 2006: Mr. Ott reported that the
location for the Symposium in 2006 has not been determined to date. The EMC Society has
been approached by the German and Eastern North Carolina EMC Chapters to hold the
Symposium in their respective areas. Mr. Ott encourages any chapters interested in holding
the 2006 symposium in their respective cities to present a proposal at the August Board
meeting. The Board will make a decision on where to hold the 2006 Symposium in November
2001. Larry Cohen advised that the AMEREM 2002 conference on high power electromagnetics
would be held on June 3-7, 2002 in Annapolis, MD. He advised that a request was received
for the EMC Society to be a technical co-sponsor of this conference. TC-5 supports this
proposal. The Board could not make a decision on this request based upon the limited
information received. Mr. Cohen will prepare some more information on this conference for
a presentation to the Board at the next meeting. Mr. Ott then presented Chairman Elya
Joffe's report as the Global Symposia Coordinator. Regarding recent global activities, the
report notes that the Zurich conference special session organized by Don Heirman and Ed
Bronaugh on measurements above 1 GHz and associated uncertainty was well received and
attended by some 100 people. Future global activities include the EMC conference in St.
Petersburg this June where the EMCS will hold a special session on "EMC Aspects in
the Analysis and Design of Printed Circuit Boards" and on "Techniques and
Facilities for EMC Measurements." The International Conference on Electromagnetics in
Advance Applications will take place in Torino, Italy this fall. The EMCS will be a
technical co-sponsor of the following future global EMC symposia: EMC 2002 Beijing, EMC
Europe 2002 Sorrento, and EMC 2002 Wroclaw. Mr. Joffe's report covers recent activity on
the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on EMC in Tel Aviv. The symposium is on track and is
following the master schedule as planned. A document has been prepared which is titled
"How to Obtain EMCS Co-Sponsorship" so that organizers of global EMC conferences
can understand in advance how to approach the Board to obtain co-sponsorship. Janet O'Neil
presented her report as Exhibitor Liaison. She advised that she has fielded several calls
from exhibitors and has worked with the Montreal conference management representative on
various exhibitor issues. Ms. O'Neil noted that the exhibitor point policy and rules will
be posted to the EMCS website in addition to the actual point system grid which is
currently posted. The agenda is being prepared for the exhibitor's breakfast in Montreal.
Ms. O'Neil next reported on regional conferences. There were five technical conferences
and tabletop shows sponsored by regional EMC chapters during the spring, including the
Chicago, Southeastern Michigan, Portland, Seattle, and San Diego chapters. These events
were well attended and will be featured in the Chapter Chatter column. Andy Drozd and
Warren Kesselman organized the shipment of IEEE and EMC Society membership and promotional
material to each of these chapter events. Ms. O'Neil acknowledged in particular the
outstanding job Clayton Paul did in promoting membership in the IEEE at the chapter events
at which he was a speaker. There are no plans for such tabletop shows in the summer and
one is planned to date by the Rocky Mountain Chapter for October 3, 2001.
OLD BUSINESS
There was no Old Business to discuss.
NEW BUSINESS
The following items were discussed under new business:
DISTRIBUTION OF EXCESS EMCS MATERIAL – Andy Drozd distributed a report on the
excess EMCS material, including CDs, Symposia records, etc. that is currently in storage.
MEETING SCHEDULE FOR 2002 – EMCS President-Elect Todd Hubing proposed the
following meeting schedule for 2002:
- February 13 in Tempe, AZ
- May 31 in Boston, MA
- August 18 and 22, in Minneapolis, MN
- November in Sao Paulo, Brazil (date to be determined)
ACTION ITEM REVIEW
President Butler reviewed the action items discussed during the meeting.
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, the meeting then adjourned at 5:03 pm.
Janet O'Neil
Secretary
EMC Society Board of Directors
EMC
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