Dr. Keith Hardin and Dr. Cheung-Wei Lam have recently begun their two-year terms as the newest Distinguished Lecturers (DLs) of the IEEE EMC Society. They replace Doug Smith and Werner Schaefer whose terms expired on December 31, 2001. Our other three DLs, Dr. Maria Sabrina Sarto, Dr. Bud Hoeft, and Colin Brench continue their terms through December of 2002.

Before introducing Dr. Hardin and Dr. Lam, I want to acknowledge the contributions of Doug and Werner over the past two years. During their terms, they volunteered to spend days away from home and family in planes, cars, and shuttle busses in order to give presentations all over the Unites States and Europe. The Distinguished Lecturer Program depends upon these bright and learned volunteers who can make an EMC Society Chapter meeting or special event a very entertaining and educational experience. Please join me in thanking our retiring DLs, and welcoming our new expert speakers.

Here are our new Distinguished Lecturers for 2002-2003. Please feel free to contact them directly by phone or email to discuss hosting them at your next chapter meeting, university class, or other special event.

Dr. Keith Hardin is currently a Senior Technical Staff Member and Technical Team Leader in the EMC Department of Lexmark International in Lexington, Kentucky. In this role, Keith is responsible for overseeing all technical aspects of Lexmark’s EMC product development and test activities. He has been involved with product design and EMC at Lexmark and its former parent company IBM since 1981.

Keith received his M.S. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville in Kentucky. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kentucky where he studied under the tutelage of Dr. Clayton Paul. He is a prolific author and inventor who has published 20 technical publications in peer reviewed journals and international symposia. He holds seven US patents in the field of EMC. He is a NARTE certified EMC engineer and a registered professional engineer in the state of Kentucky. In 2001, he received the IEEE EMC Society’s Certificate of Technical Achievement for contributions to the development of spread spectrum clocking technology.

Keith is prepared to give several favorite lectures on EMC including Spread Spectrum Clock Generation (SSCG), Two-Layer PCB Design for EMC, and Radiated and Conducted Emission Debug Techniques. You may contact him at khardin@lexmark.com, telephone (859) 232-7797.

Dr. Cheung-Wei Lam is currently a Senior EMC Engineer at Apple Computer, where he has implemented an EMC design and analysis process to facilitate on-time compliance at lower cost. At Apple, he is also engaged in IC, PCB and system level EMC R&D. Prior to joining Apple, he was a Co-Founder and Principal Engineer of Transcendent Design Technology. In addition to Transcendent, he has worked in Viewlogic’s Advancement Development Group (formerly Quad Design Technology). During his years in the EDA industry, he has played key roles in the design and development of EMC, signal integrity and ground bounce analysis software tools. From 1988 to 1993, he was with the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics, where his focus was on modeling of high-speed interconnects and superconducting transmission lines.

Dr. Lam received the B.S. degree in electronics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the S.M. and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.

Dr. Lam has served on the IEEE EMC/S TC-9 Computational EMC committee and the SAE EMC Modeling Task Force committee. He has given numerous papers, seminars, workshops, tutorials, and training courses on various EMC and signal integrity topics in the US, Europe and Japan. He was a co-recipient of the best paper award at the 1996 IEEE International Symposium on EMC. He is listed in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in the World.

Dr. Lam is prepared to give several EMC design related lectures including Obtaining Benefit from EMC Analysis Tools, Signal Integrity Design versus Radiated Emission Control, Transmission Lines: Beyond the Basics, and PCB Layout: Dos and Don’ts. You can reach him at (408) 974 0769, or via email at lam@apple.com.

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