Jose PeriniThe following members began a three-year term on the Board effective January 1,
2000.
Abbreviated biographies of these gentlemen are shown below.
Jose Perini
Prof. Jose Perini was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he received the BS degrees in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from Escola Politecnica de Sao Paulo in 1952. In 1961, he obtained the Ph.D. in EE from Syracuse University. He joined Syracuse University in 1962 as an Assistant Professor, moved through the ranks to Full Professor, and retired in 1991. He is now an Emeritus Professor of EE. He has taught in many different areas such as EMF, Antennas, EMC, Digital Signal Processing, Communications, Radar, Circuit Theory, Mathematics, and Computers. Prof. Perini has had continuous research support from the Navy, Air Force, Army, and industry, mostly in the EMC area, during his 29 years at SU. He is still active in the profession as a lecturer and researcher. As a Consultant he has done extensive work in the US and abroad. He has published and presented over one hundred papers in the US and overseas. He has given many invited papers, lectures, and tutorials. He was a Distinguished Lecturer for the EMC Society until 1998. He is an IEEE Fellow, and a certified NARTE EMC Engineer. He is a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on EMC, AP-S, MTT, and Education.
Moto Kanda
Motohisa (Moto) Kanda received the BSEE degree in 1966 from Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, and the MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1968 and 1971, respectively. From 1965 to 1966, he was a research technician at Keio University, and from 1966 to 1971 he was a research/teaching assistant at the University of Colorado. In 1971, he joined the staff of the Radio-Frequency Technology Division (formerly Electromagnetic Field Division), National Institute of Standards and Technology (formally National Bureau of Standards) and served as group leader of the Fields and Interference Group for 15 years. Concurrently, he has served as an adjoint professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Kanda is an IEEE Fellow, Life Member of the EMC Society and has been Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on EMC for 12 years. He has been the leader of EMC research at NIST, has written over 100 archival papers, and has participated in the writing and editing of a number of EMC books and EMC standards for ANSI and IEEE Standards Committees. He was technical member, vice chair and technical program/paper committee chair of the 1981, 1989 and 1998 IEEE EMC Symposia in Denver, Colorado, respectively. He was elected to serve as Vice Chair from 1994 to 1996 and as chair of the International Commission A (Electromagnetic Metrology) of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) from 1997 to 2000. He has received two Bronze Metals (1981 and 1992) and a Silver Medal (1989) from the U.S. Department of Commerce. He has received three EMC Transactions Best Paper Awards in 1982, 1989 and 1992. Dr. Kanda has been a leader in promoting EMC research and disseminating research results in the IEEE Transactions on EMC. His main goal has been to emphasize technical issues in EMC Society activities through the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and to upgrade the technical quality of the EMC Society publications.
Andrew Podgorski
Andrew Stan Podgorski has a MASc and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He has published over 100 scientific papers and over 30 classified and non-classified reports. He holds many patents in the area of electromagnetics. Currently, he is President of ASR Technologies (Ottawa, Canada) -- an independent Research and Engineering Company conducting research in the area of broadband electromagnetics. His scientific interest focuses on electromagnetic theory, microwave networks and antenna theory in application to measurements, modeling and generation of picosecond electromagnetic phenomena. For 15 years, he was a Group Leader of the EMI/EMC Group at the National Research Council of Canada and was involved in numerous programs of national significance for the Canadian Government and Industry. He has served on many international, inter-governmental military and civilian panels of experts representing Canada in USA, Europe, and Australia. For several years he was on the Board of Directors for the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Society of IEEE where he was the Treasurer and a “Distinguished Lecturer” for the Society. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Life Member of the IEEE EMC Society. Currently, he is a Chair of the Technical Activities Committee (TAC) of the IEEE EMC Society. Dr. Podgorski is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario and a member of the Association of Old Crows. His name is listed in the Canadian “Who’s Who” Publication.
Andrew Drozd
Andrew L. Drozd is President of and Chief Scientist for ANDRO Consulting Services, which is dedicated to work in the fields of EMC, CEM, and electromagnetic environmental effects (E3). He received a BS in Physics and Mathematics in 1977 and an MSEE specializing in Communications/Signal Processing in 1982, both from Syracuse University. His professional responsibilities include: systems engineering; EMC computer modeling, simulation and analysis; exploitation of innovative, expert system technologies for EMC/ CEM analytical applications; and EMC laboratory testing support including the design and conduct of experiments. Mr. Drozd continues to apply his over 23 years of technical and program experience in electromagnetics technologies primarily for the modeling and analysis of E3 effects, environments, and responses for government and commercial systems. Mr. Drozd is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an active EMC Society Member for over 15 years. He has completed his first three-year term as a Member of the EMC Society Board of Directors. He is involved in several important initiatives that cut across membership, technical, standards, and communications services for the Society. He is Vice Chair of the Education Committee and has organized the EMC Experiment Demonstrations for the annual IEEE EMC symposia since 1992. He is a Member of the EMC Society SDCOM and is the EMC Society senior liaison on the newly formed IEEE Intelligent Transportation System Technical Council. Mr. Drozd is the current EMC Chapter Chair for the IEEE Mohawk Valley Section and is a Member of the TC-9 Committee on Computational Electromagnetics. He is a Member of the IEEE Continuing Education Products Committee and has been actively involved in the IEEE sponsored Dual Use/Information Technologies and Applications Conference held annually in Upstate New York where he was responsible for establishing tracks that address EMC concerns in the information age. Mr. Drozd is also a NARTE certified EMC Engineer. He has authored and co-written approximately 100 technical papers, reports, and newsletter/journal articles on various EMC topics. Mr. Drozd continues to support the goals of the EMC Society on behalf of membership development, promoting education, standards development, and webmaster activities.
Larry Cohen
Lawrence S. Cohen was born in Washington, DC on December 20, 1948. He received a BSEE from George Washington University in 1975 and an MSEE from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1994. Mr. Cohen was involved in the integration of antennas for surface combatants while employed by the Naval Sea Systems Command from 1975 to 1987. From 1987 to the present, Mr. Cohen has worked in the Radar Division of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC where he has conducted research on mode-stirred chambers, enhanced radar absorption materials and T/R modules for future radar applications. Mr. Cohen is a past Chairman of the Washington, DC/ Northern Virginia IEEE EMC Chapter and is presently a co-chairman for the EMC Society Education Committee’s sponsored experiment demonstrations presented at the IEEE EMC Symposia. Mr. Cohen is the Technical Program Chair for the 2000 IEEE EMC Symposium in Washington, DC. Mr. Cohen is a NARTE Certified EMC Engineer.
Fred Heather
Fred Heather is a senior member of the IEEE and a 12-year member of the EMC Society. In 1993, he founded and currently serves as chairman of, the Southern Maryland Chapter of the Communications, Computers, and EMC Society. Over the past 20 years he has published several papers on EMC. In addition to his activities within the EMC Society, he has been a major participant with the SAE AE4 Committee. He served as chair on the AE4R High Intensity Radiated Fields (HIRF) Test and Analysis panel. Later he went on to supporting the Electromagnetic Effects Harmonization Working Group (EEHWG). This international body was tasked with harmonizing the US and European HIRF documents into one common set of documents. He currently is chairman of the SAE AE4H subcommittee, chartered with specification, standards and technology for High Power RF Simulator and Effects. His professional certifications include NARTE, Senior Member, Certified EMC Engineer, and DWIA Certified in Systems Engineering and Test and Evaluation. He holds a BSEE degree from Rochester Institute of Technology granted in 1977. His professional career has been with the Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division, at Patuxent River, Maryland. During his 20-year career he has had responsibility for both major and minor aircraft development programs. He has conducted major Electromagnetic Envi- ronmental Effects (E3) tests on all the platforms for which he was responsible. His current position is E3 Technical Specialist and Consultant. In this position he is the Navy’s E3 manager for the Joint Strike Fighter. He is the project manager for an OSD Test Technology and Demon- stration Program on a Fiber Optic Microwave Transmission System and Project Director for another OSD program to develop a joint high power RF capability to simulate worldwide high power RF emitters. In his off time, he pursues his interests in the outdoors by providing adult outdoor training classes from basic camp training to advance backpacking as a volunteer member of the Girl Scout Council of the Nations Capital.
We wish the newly elected members of the Board of Directors success and thank all candidates for their willingness to serve and for permitting their names to be included on the ballot.