Herb Zajac
Herb Zajac passed away in November 1998 after a brief battle with cancer. He was an electromagnetic compatibility engineer throughout his professional career. He became intrigued with RF while serving in the military. He earned his BSEE degree and began his career at Sprague Electronics. He was largely responsible for the growth of the RF shielded room business and the shielding effectiveness discipline. He worked at Litton Industries prior to spending a good part of his career at Tektronix, Inc in Portland, Oregon. Herb was hired at Tektronix in the mid 70s as their EMC laboratory manager. While his managerial responsibilities increased to include environmental and product safety aspects of product compliance, he was always an EMC engineer at heart. After a 15 year career at Tektronix, Herb continued work in the EMC field at Electromagnetic Engineering, Hamilton Engineering, and Boeing in Seattle, Washington. He was last employed at Lockheed-Martin in Georgia.
Herb was elected to the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society Board of Directors in 1996. He served as Public Relations Director. Herb will be missed by the EMC community and friends.