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Three New Distinguished Lecturers Begin Terms in 2001 |
By Lee Hill, Chairman,
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Colin Brench, Dr. Sabrina Sarto, and Dr. Bud Hoeft recently began their two-year terms as the newest Distinguished Lecturers (DLs) of the IEEE EMC Society. They replace Michel Mardiguian, Elya Joffe, and Mark Montrose whose terms expired on December 31 of last year. Our other two DLs, Doug Smith and Werner Schaefer, will complete their two-year terms in December.
Before introducing Colin, Sabrina, and Bud, I want to acknowledge the contributions of Michel, Elya and Mark over the past two years. During their terms, they had to endure many days away from home and family on "planes, trains, and automobiles" in order to give presentations all over the Unites States, Asia, and Europe. The Distinguished Lecturer Program depends upon knowledgeable volunteers with lecture topics that can spark an audience with humor and unique information. A big thank you to our retiring DLs and to our new expert speakers.
Here are our new Distinguished Lecturers:
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Colin Brench is currently a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Compaq Computer Corporation in the High Performance Server Business Unit. His responsibilities include EMC design and development of EMI modeling tools. Colin has been awarded eight patents for various EMI control techniques and has published over 30 technical articles. He is co-author of the "EMI/EMC Computational Modeling Handbook" and teaches regular short courses on EMC topics. Colin has been an active member of the IEEE EMC Society, Technical Committee 9 (EMCS TC9), since its inception in 1994 and provides regular updates on TC9 activities to the IEEE EMC Society Newsletter. Colin is a member of the IEEE EMC Society, ANSI C63.1, and the dB Society. He has chaired the reference antenna working group of ANSI C63.1 and is a past member of the Applied Computational Mathematics Society (ACES). You can reach Colin at colin.brench@compaq.com , telephone 1-508-467-4454.
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Dr. Bud Hoeft received a B.S. and M.S. in physics from the University of Wisconsin and a PhD in physics and biophysics from Pennsylvania State University. In 1979, he completed a 25-year R&D career in the US Air Force working on acoustical noise control, bionics, nuclear weapon simulation, pulse power technology and international R&D coordination. He joined BDM, where he was primarily concerned with helping designers build and test systems that are hardened to electromagnetic effects. In 1994, he retired from BDM and became a private consultant. Dr. Hoeft is a NARTE Certified EMC Engineer. He has presented numerous papers and tutorials on shielding and electromagnetic effects at IEEE-EMC, NEM, Zurich-EMC, Wroclaw-EMC, IEE-EMC, Lightning and IICIT symposia. You can reach Bud at bud.hoeft@ieee.org , telephone 1-505-298-2065
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Maria Sabrina Sarto received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1997, and since 1998 has been Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", where she teaches the course of "Basic Electrical Engineering" for the degree in Aerospace Engineering, and is the head of the EMC Laboratory of the Department of Electrical Engineering. As far as I know, Professor Sarto is the first female Distinguished Lecturer in the history of the IEEE EMC Society! She is the author of more than 70 technical and scientific papers published in international journals and in the proceedings of international symposia, covering several EMC topics. In particular, her research interests include susceptibility and radiated emission of transmission line networks, electromagnetic characterization of composite materials and thin films, lightning interaction to aircraft and numerical modeling. Sabrina has received many prestigious awards including the IEEE EMC Society's Best Paper Award at the 1993 IEEE International Symposium on EMC, the President's Memorial Scholarship Award in 1996 and 1997, and the Best Poster Paper Presentation Award at the International EMC Symposium "EUROPE 2000", in Brugge. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, a member of the TC9 Committee on numerical modeling in EMC and of the IEEE STD 299 working group. Professor Sarto is Senior Member of IEEE. You can reach Sabrina at sarto@elettrica.ing.uniroma1.it , telephone +3906 44 585 543.
The EMC Society's Distinguished Lecturer Program provides speakers for Society chapter meetings and similar functions. Each Distinguished Lecturer (DL) usually can offer one of several pre-prepared presentations on various EMC topics. DLs are appointed by the EMC Society Board of Directors to two-year terms. Currently the Society has five speakers serving on alternating terms.
Distinguished Lecturers may give up to six talks per year under the Program, which reimburses the DL for their pre-approved traveling expenses up to a recommended limit of $750 USD per US engagement, or $1000 USD for international engagements. To provide as many opportunities to as many members as possible, the Society encourages hosting chapters whenever possible to absorb some part of the speaker's costs, such as by providing or paying for local transportation, meals, and lodging.
For more information about the EMC Society's Distinguished Lecturer Program, visit our web site at https://www.emcs.org/lectur.html . You can also contact me at 1-603-578-1842 x203, or via email at LHill@silent-solutions.com EMC