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| Don Heirman, Vice President for Standards,
visits with fellow EMC Society Board members John Norgard,
Vice President for Technical Services, and Zorica Pantic-Tanner
(from left to right) following the Board meeting held in São
Paulo, Brazil on November 24. |
The Brazilian Connection
Our thanks to our Brazilian visitors
who came to hear our EMCS standards work and who listened
to other standards update at the EMC Brasil 2002 Colloquium
and Exhibition in São Paulo at the end of November
last year. What a treat to be there in Region 9 of the
IEEE for the first time with our standards meeting series.
Our special thanks go to our host, Carlos Sartori, for
his help in organizing the colloquium and in publicizing
our special standards meetings held the Saturday following
the colloquium.
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Our standards presentations in Brazil were geared to provide
information and to answer the questions of our guests. We started
off the four-hour session with the overview of the IEEE Standards
Association (SA) standardization process by the author. Don introduced
the IEEE SA new "Geoport" web site which highlights
standards activities in various regions of the world. In particular,
he showed the Geoport for the Americas (https://www.standardsamericas.net/portal/index.jsp)
which as of this writing is showing a community highlight of Raul
Colcher of SIMPRO-Brazil which promotes usage of international
and domestic standards as a means to increase competitiveness
and facilitate trade. Other items on the web site are a review
of IEEE SA standards activity, many of which have been translated
to Spanish and Portuguese. Take a look when you get a chance!
Don next showed the tools available on the SA web site to develop
standards including all the necessary on-line forms for the various
submissions for approval and review. This too is an extremely
interesting and useful URL (https://standards.ieee.org/resources/development/index.html).
Check this out again, perhaps between glasses of wine when you
are relaxing??
Next, Dave Traver, Standards Development Committee vice chairman,
provided an overview of the SDCom and how to join and participate.
Hugh Denny, SDCom secretary, then gave more details on the EMCS
standards development process. This was followed by examples of
current EMCS standards projects in some depth. Dave Traver (Working
Group Chair) indicated that IEEE Standard 187 on measurement of
spurious emissions from TV and FM receivers is close to being
updated. Elya Joffe (WG chair) then presented a review on the
major additions being drafted to IEEE Standard 473 on EM Site
Surveys. Finally, Andy Drozd (WG Chair) delivered a review of
the progress on IEEE P1597 on validation of Computational Electromagnetic
Computer Modeling. He then followed up with a brief overview of
the SDCom Policy and Procedures to again familiarize our guests
on the rules we have to abide by to get our standards out the
door and what procedures we use to make that happen. It was also
noted that at the start of all standards meetings, including those
of working groups, a copyright statement must be read. The IEEE
legal department, in cooperation with the SA, prepared the text.
The following table shows the status of our standards work that
was brought up to date during this session
Next Hugh Denny, Standards Education and Training Committee (SETCom)
chair, reported on the SETCom activity including holding workshops
at the EMC symposia and Newsletter reports such as this one. He
also announced that John Kraemer of Rockwell-Collins will take
over as SETCom chair starting this year. Elya Joffe, Standards
Advisory and Coordination Committee (SACCom) chair, then reviewed
the over two-dozen liaison relationships with other than IEEE
SA standards development organizations.
The floor was then open to discuss opportunities for South American
organizations to work with the EMCS in EMC standards development
if they are engaged in such activity. Some interesting possibilities
were brought up that will be discussed further. The meeting then
concluded with some committee business, including setting the
calendar of meetings for 2003, i.e., 13 March in Honolulu in conjunction
with the EMCS Board meeting series, 11 May in Istanbul at the
2003 IEEE International Symposium on EMC, 18 and 20 August at
the IEEE Boston symposium, and a date to be determined in November
in the Santa Clara area.
So stay tuned and if any of the above interests you, please send
an email to Don Heirman on d.heirman@ieee.org
and we'll see how you can participate. Have a good year! EMC
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