By Lee Hill, Chairman, Distinguished Lecturer
Program Werner Schaefer and Doug Smith recently began their two-year terms as the newest Distinguished Lecturers (DLs) of the IEEE EMC Society. They replace Don Bush and Bob Dockey whose terms expired on December 31, 1999. Our other three DLs, Elya Joffe, Michel Mardiguian, and Mark Montrose, are midway through their two-year terms. At the end of August 1999, I volunteered to take over responsibility of DL Program from outgoing Chairman Scott Roleson. Under Scott’s leadership, the IEEE EMC Society Distinguished Lecturer program has become a “must-have” resource for our members who seek expert speakers for local chapter meetings. Since Scott became chair in 1995, he has rallied support to increase the number of Distinguished Lecturers to five, including two new international speakers (Elya Joffe in Israel and Michel Mardiguian in France) especially for the benefit of our members in Europe. Please join me in extending a huge “thank you” to Scott for his service to the Society!
Here are our new Distinguished Lecturers:
Doug Smith
is currently Manager of EMC Development and Test at Auspex Systems in Santa
Clara, California. He received a BSEE degree from Vanderbilt University in 1969
and an MSEE degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1970. In 1996,
he retired as a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Doug’s interests include high frequency effects in electronic circuits,
especially EMC, Electrostatic Discharge (ESD), Electrical Fast Transients (EFT),
and other forms of pulsed EMI. He has been granted over 15 patents, including
several for measurement apparatus, has published over two dozen technical papers
and articles, and has authored one book. Doug is a senior member of the IEEE.
Doug’s favorite topics to present are Unusual Forms of ESD (and War Stories),
Signal Integrity Measurements and Probe-Building Workshop, and Common Signal/Noise/EMI
Measurement Snafus. You can reach Doug at doug@dsmith.org,
telephone 1-408-356-4186.
Werner Schaefer
is currently an EMC Technical Contributor at Agilent Technologies (formerly
Hewlett Packard Company) in Santa Rosa, California. He received an MSEE in 1982
from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, and an MBA from Hochschule
für Berufstäige, Germany, in 1990. He has been active in EMC product
design, marketing, and applications development at Hewlett Packard since 1983.
He has published many papers on EMI and microwave measurements, and has co-authored
one book. Werner is an active member of the IEEE, SAE, CISPR committee A, ANSI
C63 subcommittees, VDE, and is a NARTE certified EMC Engineer. Werner’s
favorite topics to present include “Use of Scanning Receivers in EMI Compliance
Measurements,” “Understanding Impulse Bandwidth Specifications of
EMI Receivers,” and various aspects concerning the automation of radiated
and conducted EMI measurements. You can reach Werner at werner_schaefer@agilent.com,
telephone 1-707-577-2817.
It is my pleasure and privilege to inherit a well-structured and well-established program that serves the technical needs of our members. My interest in EMC began back in 1985, when I picked a co-op job that had me spinning the dials and listening to the output of an EMC-25 analog EMC receiver! Since then I have completed an MSEE at the University of Missouri-Rolla’s EMC Laboratory, and also served as a Distinguished Lecturer from 1994-96. The best place to find me is at my favorite place, the Experiments and Demonstrations area, during the annual IEEE EMC Symposium. So you see my personal label should be “EMC technical and education junkie.” The DL program’s charter to make expert speakers more accessible to our members seemed like a great place for me to help “give back” to the Society.
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. The EMC Society Board of Directors appoints DLs 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 approved traveling expenses up to a recommended limit of $750 per US engagement, or $1000 per international engagement. 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 1-603-465-3920, or via email at Lee_Hill@silent-solutions.com.