Board Meeting, Saturday, November 14, 1998
New Brunswick, New Jersey
President Hoolihan called the final Board meeting of 1998 to order at 8:30 am. He asked for a moment of silence for Herb Zajac who recently passed away from an illness. Herb had been a member of the EMC Society Board of Directors for the past few years. Also, Dick Schulz recently passed away as a result of injuries sustained from a car accident. Dick was a previous long-term editor of the IEEE Transactions on EMC. There was a moment of silence for these two gentlemen.
A round of introductions was made. Board members present included Dan Hoolihan, Janet O’Neil, Warren Kesselman, Len Carlson, Todd Hubing, Don Heirman, Kimball Williams, Bill Gjertson, Henry Ott, Bob Hofmann, Andrew Podgorski, Joe Butler, Andy Drozd, Dick Ford, Norm Violette, Henry Benitez, Ferdy Mayer, Mark Montrose, Don Sweeney, and Takeo Yoshino. Newly elected Board members included Elya Joffe, David Millard, Don Bush, Ghery Pettit, and Doug Smith. Absent Board members were Jim Muccioli, Franz Gisin, and Bill McGinnis. Guests included Barry Wallen and Maqsood Mohd. The agenda was presented and approved as modified.
(L-R) Don Heirman of Don HEIRMAN Consultants raises a toast to
outgoing Board member
Bob Hofmann of Lucent Technologies while Andrew and Elizabeth Podgorski look on.
Dr. Andrew Podgorski is with ASR Technologies.
Secretary Janet O’Neil presented the minutes from the last Board meeting in Rome on September 18, 1998. The minutes were approved as presented.
Warren Kesselman presented the treasurer’s report. He advised that the Society’s 1998 financial outlook is good. As of October 30th, the Society has a $207,900 surplus and the net worth on September 30th was $930,770.
President Hoolihan commented upon the TAB meetings held this week. The IEEE has hired a series of consultants to help “modernize” the IEEE to update its logo and to “brand” the look of IEEE publications so there is a consistent look. A proposal was also submitted to limit the return on investments to Societies from both short and long term returns to just short term returns. Regarding the 1999 EMC Symposium in Zurich, President Hoolihan advised that he would attend to present a short introduction to the IEEE and EMC Society.
Joining in the annual November Board dinner celebrations are
(L-R) Norm Violette of Violette Engineering Corp.,
Mark Montrose of Montrose Compliance Services, Inc., and
Elya Joffe of KTM Project Engineering Ltd.
Todd Hubing, Vice-President for Member Services, presented his report. He noted that the request to increase the cash awards for the President’s Memorial and the Stoddart Awards has been forwarded to the IEEE for approval. Mr. Hubing expects to receive the approval in time to become effective for the August 1999 Awards Luncheon. Nominations for 1999 awards should be submitted to Mr. Hubing by the May 1999 Board meeting. The award nominations will be voted upon at the May 1999 Board meeting. The Board requested that the citations for each award recipient be included in the lunch program for the Seattle Awards Luncheon. Mr. Hubing advised that a description of each award as well as a list of past award recipients is available now on the EMC Society web page. Regarding the Distinguished Lecturer Program, Scott Roleson has a list of five candidates for the three open positions. Information on these candidates will be circulated to the Board electronically. Mr. Hubing discussed membership numbers for the EMC Society. The current membership is 5,560 active members. The position of PACE coordinator is still open since the retirement of Al Mills. Ferdy Mayer will man the membership booth in Zurich. Don Bush and Don Heirman volunteered to help staff the membership booth. Bob Hofmann reported on changes to the EMC Society Constitution and Bylaws. Dick Ford distributed a photo album of the Denver symposium activities, which was then presented to Barry Wallen, Chairman of the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on EMC. He presented a list of the EMI related videos in his library. Mr. Ford discussed the survey. The bias on the survey has been corrected, but the return has been low. The Board agreed to conduct a formal, scientific survey on the EMCS in 2001. The 1999 symposium survey will be divided into two parts; one for members and one for nonmembers. Mr. Ford requested that any suggested changes to the survey questions be sent to him electronically (EMC4D@aol.com).
Kimball Williams, Vice-President for Technical Services, distributed his report. He introduced Maqsood Mohd, Chairman of the Education Committee. Mr. Mohd reported that the Student Paper contest for the Seattle symposium in 1999 was well publicized and resulted in 17 papers being submitted. An additional four papers were received after the deadline and were rejected. Mr. Mohd reported on the Technological Literacy Counts Workshop he recently attended. He was very impressed with the quality and content of the workshop. President Hoolihan advised that the EMC Society financially supported this workshop. Work continues with the experiments subcommittee to repeat their successful efforts in Denver in Seattle. The committee would like to hold a student design contest in conjunction with the 2000 symposium, but there are problems developing the contest. Mr. Mohd solicited suggestions from the Board to put this in place. Regarding the Technical Activities Committee (TAC), Chairman Andrew Podgorski distributed his report. He discussed the TAC web page currently under construction. Mr. Podgorski also reported on the paper review process for the EMCS symposia. Mr. Williams concluded his report with a review of the Technical Services budget. This projects out to the year 2006.
Don Heirman, Vice-President for Standards, presented a report on Standards. Activity continues with the three subcommittees: 1. Standards Development Committee (SDCom), 2. Standards Education/Training Committee (SETCom), and 3. Standards Advisory and Coordination Committee (SACCom). He reviewed the organizational chart of the VP for Standards Organization. The committee has developed with the IEEE a password protected site for the on-line review of standards electronically. The committee has effectively worked towards being a truly international committee. All three above subcommittees typically meet prior to a regularly scheduled Board meeting. Mr. Heirman invited anyone with an interest in the activities of these subcommittees to attend their meetings. In mid-December, the collection of 37 EMC related standards will be on line for individual subscriptions.
Todd Hubing of the University of Missouri at Rolla (L) and
Andy Drozd of Andro Consulting Services (C) welcome new Board member
Doug Smith of Auspex Systems (R).
Len Carlson, Vice-President for Communication Services, presented his report. He welcomed Emerson Pugh, Chairman of the IEEE History Center, who reported on the activities of the History Center. The goal of the Center is to document and promote engineering achievements. The Center’s endowment market value as of December 1997 is $3.65 million. The History Center is located on Rutgers campus in New Jersey. Graduate students work part time at the center. The History Center publishes a newsletter. The History Center web page address is www.ieee.org/history_center. Their phone number is 732-932-1066. The EMC Society pledged to contribute a total of $15,000 over three years to fund the Center. Bill Gjertson, Chairman of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on EMC to be held in Seattle, Washington, August 2-6, then presented his report. The Board discussed the registration fees for IEEE members and nonmembers. The Board also discussed the distribution of the conference record via printed matter and/or CD-ROM. Barry Wallen, Chairman of the 1998 IEEE International Symposium, presented a report. The net surplus is estimated to be $119,000. There were 2,093 total advance registrations and 494 on-site registrations. There were 184 exhibitors occupying 262 booths. Close to 5,000 total room nights were booked at the four hotels used during the symposium week. Takeo Yoshino reported on the 1999 EMC Conference in Tokyo, Japan, May 17-21. He suggested a hotel for the Board and reviewed surface travel logistics between the airport/hotel/conference site. Len Carlson introduced Fran Zappulla, IEEE Publications Staff Director, who supervises the OPeRA program (On-Line Periodicals and Research Area). Ms. Zappulla gave a presentation on the OPeRA program. When they began the program in 1996, they had 12 journals on line. Currently, they have 38 journals on line. A direct mail piece promoting the OPeRA program will be sent to the entire membership in the near future. They are monitoring the “hit rates” of their site and usage is up 50% since the program’s inception in 1996. The demo site is located at https://opera.ieee.org/opdemo. The Board agreed to participate in the IEEE on-line periodicals research area (OPeRA) beginning in the year 1999 and to fund the program $12,500. The Transactions on EMC are to remain on the database indefinitely. The Board formed a committee to evaluate the dissemination of all the EMC Society published material (Newsletter, Transactions, Symposia Records) and to make a recommendation on the most cost effective way to distribute this material. Henry Ott, Chairman of the Symposia Committee, presented his report. He suggested a revision to the EMCS Policy on Exhibitors Booth Assignment. The Board reaffirmed and clarified their commitment to the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on EMC in Israel. The Board will authorize use of the EMC Society name for their conference, but will not provide financial resources. Bill Duff, Chairman of the 2000 IEEE International Symposium on EMC in Washington DC, presented a report. There is room for 254 8’ x 10’ exhibit booths plus 60 tabletop displays. Mr. Duff feels the Hilton Hotel at 1919 Connecticut Ave. will meet the needs of the symposium. This is the hotel where the symposium was held in 1990. He showed a video walk-through of the hotel meeting and exhibit space which Dick Ford prepared. There are several large hotels nearby for overflow guestrooms. Janet O’Neil presented a brief report as Newsletter Editor.
(L-R) Joe Butler of the Chomerics Division of Parker Hannifin
celebrates the results of the Board election of officers. Joe is the new President-Elect
for the EMC Society. Fellow Board members offering congratulations to Joe are
Takeo Yoshino of the Fukui University of Technology (Radio Physics Research Lab),
Kimball Williams of Eaton, and Henry Benitez of Tektronix.
Joe Butler presented the Planning Committee report. He suggested, and the Board approved, that the EMC Society accept the job description for a part-time paid administrator as outlined in his report. The Board accepted Mr. Butler’s recommendation that Warren Kesselman be hired for the paid administrator position. Mr. Butler strongly recommended that all BOD members upgrade to Windows’95/Office ’97 software, but when sending attachments, these be sent in Word 6.0.
Newly Elected Board Members attending their first Board meeting in
November are
(L-R) Elya Joffe of KTM Project Engineering Ltd., Don Bush of dBi Corporation,
Ghery Pettit of Intel, David Millard of the Georgia Tech Research Institute,
and Doug Smith of Auspex Systems.
Warren Kesselman handled the officer nominations in the absence of Bill Gjertson who was required to attend a training at the TAB meeting.
The election results follow:
President-Elect: Joe Butler was the successful candidate for a one-year term beginning 1999.
Treasurer: Warren Kesselman was the successful candidate for a two-year term beginning 1999.
Secretary: Janet O’Neil was elected Secretary by acclamation for a two-year term beginning 1999.
Vice-President for Communications: Len Carlson was the successful candidate for a two-year term beginning 1999.
Vice-President for Member Services: Todd Hubing was the successful candidate for a two-year term beginning 1999.
Vice-President for Standards: Don Heirman was the successful candidate for a two-year term beginning 1999.
Vice-President for Technical Services: Kimball Williams was the successful candidate for a two-year term beginning 1999.
President Hoolihan advised that there is a vacancy on the Board due to the death of Herb Zajac. In the recent Board elections, the next runner-up with the most votes who was not elected was Dave Traver. The Board approved President Hoolihan’s recommendation that Dave Traver be selected as the new Board member to fill the vacancy.
President Hoolihan requested that the Board start considering what the Society should do to recognize the anniversary in 2007.
President Hoolihan set the Board meeting schedule for 1999.
Dick Ford showed a public relations EMC video which had been developed by Herb Zajac.
Don Heirman suggested that the video be distributed subject to the video review and marketing committee recommendations. Henry Benitez will chair the video review and marketing committee of Len Carlson, Elya Joffe, Dick Ford, and Kimball Williams.
Secretary Janet O’Neil then reviewed the action items assigned during the meeting.
Hearing no further business, the meeting adjourned at 5:45 pm.
Janet O’Neil
Secretary, EMC Society Board of Directors