Ron Brewer
Ron Brewer is Vice President, EMC/Technical Services for Laird Technologies, Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania. Laird Technologies is the world’s largest RF gasket manufacturer, and resulted from the merger of Instrument Specialties (ISC) and Advanced Performance Materials (APM). He has been with the company for 19 years. Ron is responsible for technical planning, coordination, and consulting for the EMC/technical services organization and works in conjunction with the Pennsylvania based World Compliance Center (WCC), which he established in 1983. The WCC was one of the first non-European EMC test and consulting facilities in the USA to receive European Competent Body endorsement.

Ron is a NARTE certified EMC/ESD engineer and has worked full time in the EMC/ESD/TEMPEST engineering field for over 30 years. His specialty is EMC Systems Design. He serves on three EMC technical committees, has published numerous papers on EMC design for systems, PCB EMC design, and Shielding. Ron is the inventor/co-inventor of 13 EMC/TEMPEST related devices and circuits and has four patents in the EMC field. He also has an interest in ham radio, and holds an FCC Extra Class license KE3TH. An internationally recognized EMC authority, Ron has made over 260 EMC technical presentations in 29 countries worldwide and was named Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE EMC Society. Ron did both his undergraduate and graduate work in Engineering Science and in Physics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

E. Thomas Chesworth
Dr. E. Thomas Chesworth is a registered professional engineer with a Ph.D. in Physics and two other degrees from Pennsylvania State University. He has more than 30 years experience in EMC at Penn State’s Radio Astronomy Laboratory, HRB-Singer, Inc., Locus, Inc. and, since 1979, his own consulting firm, Seven Mountains Scientific, Inc. He is a NARTE certified EMC engineer and a technical expert for the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s NVLAP program, assessing EMC testing laboratories to perform measurements to FCC Part 15, FCC Part 68, IEC 61000-4-x and MIL-STD-461/462. As a technical expert in EMC for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), he helped to establish the central EMC facility and taught EMC seminars at SAMEER in Madras, India. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is also technical editor of the bimonthly EMC magazine, Electromagnetic News Report, and author of more than 40 technical articles in other journals.

Elya B. Joffe
Elya B. Joffe (M’80-SM’90) graduated with a BSEE from the Ben Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel, in 1981. Elya is the Vice-President of Engineering for K.T.M. Project Engineering, an engineering consulting company, located in Israel. Elya has been involved in EMC design, development and engineering since 1981. He is currently active as an EMC consulting specialist in the EMC design of commercial and military systems, from circuits to platforms and large-scale installations and facilities. His work covers EMC, EMP and Lightning Protection design, as well as numerical modeling for solution of EMC Problems. He is also well known in Israel and abroad for his activities in EMC training, as an author and instructor of several courses on Electromagnetic Compatibility worldwide. Elya is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of the IEEE EMC Society and the Immediate Past Chairman of the Israel IEEE EMC Chapter (having served for 5 years). Under his leadership, activities of the Chapter have increased as well as have participation in its meetings. Elya served as a member and of the IEEE EMC Society Board of Directors (BoD) during the term 1999-2001. In addition to his being a member at-large, Elya also serves the Board (and the Society) as the Region 8 Membership and Chapter Coordinator and as the “Angel” of the Region 8 Chapters. In this capacity, he supported the start-up of two new Region 8 (the fastest growing region in the IEEE) EMC Chapters, in Russia and Turkey. Elya is also a member of the EMCS Education Committee and of the EMCS Standards Development Committee (SDCom). In particular, he is the chairman of the Working Group for the revision of IEEE STD 473 (Practices for Conducting Electromagnetic Site Surveys). Elya has authored and co-authored over 30 papers in EMC and EMC-related topics, both in the IEEE Transactions on EMC, as well as in the IEEE EMC Society and other EMC Symposia proceedings. Elya is a past Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on EMC and serves as a reviewer of various EMC books, for IEEE Press and others. He is also the General Chairman of the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on EMC, which will take place in Tel-Aviv, Israel. He is active in EMC Standardization, in the development of Israeli EMC Standards as Chairman of the Israeli National EMC Standards Committee for EMC, and member of several expert committees for human exposure and for lightning protection. Elya is a NARTE-Certified EMC and ESD Control Engineer and a member of the dB Society.

John Norgard
Dr. John Norgard received a BSEE degree from Georgia Tech in 1966 (as a cooperative student with the Charleston Naval Shipyard). He received MS and PhD degrees in applied physics from Caltech in 1967 and 1969, respectively. During this time, he was an associate engineer with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In 1970, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Oslo and worked for the Norwegian Defense Research Institute and the Auroral Observatory. From 1970 to 1985 he was a professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech and consulted for the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Since 1985, he has been a professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and works part time for the Mission Research Corporation, JAYCOR, NavSys, and Sequel. Professor Norgard received the Chancellor’s Award, the Outstanding Research Award, and the HKN Teaching Award at the University of Colorado. He also received the PE Society Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research at Georgia Tech. He was the EMC Atlanta Chapter Chairman while at Georgia Tech. He has served on numerous technical program committees for APS, MTT, EMC, and URSI and on several steering committees for MTT, EMC, and AMTA. He has been the Interim Dean of the EAS College, the Acting Chairman and Associate Chairman of the ECE Department, and the Chairman of the MAE Department at the University of Colorado. He is the Director of the Electromagnetics Laboratory and the Microwave Anechoic Chamber. He has been a Visiting Professor at the US Air Force Academy and the Tel-Aviv University. He was an AFOSR Fellow at AFRL/RRS (Rome Lab) and an IPA at AFRL/PRS (Phillips Lab). Dr. Norgard is a Fellow of the IEEE (for Infrared Metrology), an Associate Editor of the IEEE/EMC Transactions (on Antennas), the Chairman of Commission A (Metrology) of URSI, a member of the Board of Physics and Astronomy for the National Academy of Sciences, and a Registered Professional Engineer in Georgia and Colorado. He has served as the panel chair of the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program in Engineering. His interests include applied computational electromagnetics, plasmas, lightning, EMP, multipair transmission lines, high field emission, coupling problems (EMC, EMI, EMS/V), EM numerical code verification, time domain metrology, anechoic chamber measurement techniques, and infrared thermography and holography. He has obtained numerous grants and has published over 100 papers in these areas.

Zorica Pantic-Tanner
Zorica Pantic-Tanner is Founding Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), one of the 11 women engineering deans in the US. She spearheads the growing efforts toward research, including development of Ph.D. programs and a new $83-million building. She serves on the Texas Engineering and Technology Consortium for development of a high-tech workforce and on the Brooks Development Authority that manages the Brooks Technology & Business Park, a partnership project between the City of San Antonio and Brooks AFB.

Before joining UTSA, Dr. Pantic-Tanner was Director of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at San Francisco State University (SFSU) from 1997-2001. Under her leadership, the engineering programs had improved in quality and for the first time ranked among the top 50 in the US News Best Undergraduate Programs. She worked with the California State University Engineering Deans on the California Strategic Workforce Initiative that resulted in a $10 million grant for the California State Universities, and played a crucial role on the $480,000 Pathways Project to establish upper division engineering courses at Ca¯ada Community College in Redwood City. She enhanced the SFSU engineering graduate program by strengthening the environmental engineering area and introducing the wireless communications area. Under the sponsorship of the IEEE EMC Society, and using a major National Science Foundation grant and donations from Silicon Valley companies, she developed a Center for Applied Electromagnetics; the only center on the West Coast that supports undergraduate EMC education and research.

Dr. Pantic-Tanner received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nish in Yugoslavia in 1975, 1978, and 1982, respectively. From 1984 to 1989 she was a Fulbright Fellow in the Electromagnetics & Communications Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1989, she joined the SFSU School of Engineering as an Associate Professor and she was promoted to Full Professor in 1995.

Dr. Pantic-Tanner’s research and teaching interests are in the area of Applied Electromagnetics. She has published more than 80 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings on topics ranging from analysis and design of microwave circuits and printed circuit boards to electromagnetic interference and optical properties of biological macromolecules such as proteins.

Dr. Pantic-Tanner is a Senior IEEE Member and served as an officer of the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the IEEE EMC Society from 1996-2000 (Secretary, Treasurer, Vice Chair and Chair). She is currently a member of the EMCS Education Committee, University Grant Committee, Vice-Chair of the EMC Numerical Modeling Committee (TC-9), Technical Program Committee member for the 2002 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium, and Technical Program Committee chair for the upcoming 2004 IEEE International Symposium on EMC. She also belongs to the IEEE Women in Engineering Association and IEEE EMB Society. Dr. Pantic-Tanner is active in the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and has served on the Board of Directors of the ASEE Pacific South West Section. She also belongs to the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) and AHEE Women’s Caucus.

Ghery S. Pettit
Ghery S. Pettit, NCE, is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has been a member of the IEEE EMC Society since 1977. He received the BSEE degree from Washington State University in 1975. He has been employed full time in EMC and related matters for 26 years with the U.S. Navy, Martin Marietta Aerospace (Denver), Tandem Computers and Intel Corporation. He presently is the Corporate EMC Engineer in the Corporate Product Regulations department at Intel. In this position he serves as the corporate focal point for EMC regulations issues. He is the past Chairman of the Seattle Chapter of the IEEE EMC Society, is a member of the Board of Directors of the IEEE EMC Society and is the EMC expert on the Board on Assessment of NIST Programs under the National Research Council. He is a member of the U.S. National Committee for the IEC / Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for CISPR Subcommittee I, is a member of CISPR Subcommittee I WG2, WG3 and WG4 and is the Chairman of the Information Technology Industry Council’s EMC technical committee (TC5). Mr. Pettit has written seven technical papers and articles for publication, is a member of the dB Society, is a NARTE Certified EMC Engineer with the Accredited Test Laboratory Engineer Endorsement and holds an Amateur Extra class amateur radio license (N6TPT). Most recently, he was appointed as the EMC Society’s Assistant Vice-President for Communication Services.

Kimball Williams
Kimball Williams is a principal EMC engineer for Eaton Corporation at the Eaton Engineering and Research Center in Southfield, Michigan where he directs the technical operation of its Electromagnetic Environmental Effects laboratory. He holds a BSEE degree from Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan and is pursuing a master’s degree through the National Technical University. His professional EMC Society experience includes the following: member of the IEEE EMC Society Board of Directors and VP of Technical Services, member of the IEEE EMC Society Standards Committee, member of the IEEE Education Activities Board - Continuing Education Committee, Past Chair of the IEEE EMC-S Education Committee, Past Chair of the IEEE EMC-S Technical Advisory Committee, and Secretary/ Treasurer of the South Eastern Michigan Chapter of the IEEE EMC-S. In addition, he is a National Association of Radio and Telecommunications Engineers (NARTE) certified EMC engineer and a member of the Board for NARTE. He is a member of the SAE EMI and EMR Committees as well as a member of the US Technical Advisory Groups to CISPR and ISO. He is also an amateur radio operator (N8FNC), scuba diver and private pilot.

We wish the newly elcted 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.

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