THE PRESIDENT’S
OPENING REMARKS
President Williams called the meeting to order at 10:00 am. A
round of introductions was made. Members present included: B.
Archambeault, H. Benitez, C. Brench, N. Carter, A. Drozd, R. Ford,
H. Garbe, F. Heather, D. Heirman, D. Hoolihan, T. Hubing, E. Joffe,
W. Kesselman, F. Maradei, M. Montrose, J. O’Neil, S. Nitta,
G. Pettit, D. Staggs, D. Sweeney, R. Wallen and K. Williams. Members
absent included: M. Hatfield, L. Hill, J. Norgard, A. Podgorski,
and R. Scully. Guest Mike Violette was also present. President
Williams announced that IEEE recently elevated Todd Hubing, Heyno
Garbe, John Osburn, and Bruce Archambeault to the Fellow Grade.
The Board acknowledged this outstanding news with a round of applause.
The meeting agenda as presented was approved. The consent agenda
(including the Treasurer’s report and minutes of the August
7 and 11 Board meetings) was approved as presented. Todd Hubing
noted that the following gentlemen were elected to the Board for
a three year term beginning January 1, 2006: Dick Ford, Henry
Benitez, Dan Hoolihan, Bruce Archambeault, Ghery Pettit, and Elya
Joffe.
PRESIDENT-ELECT REPORT
President-Elect Andy Drozd spoke about the recent long range planning
committee activity. Many of the items to address resulted from
the five-year IEEE conducted formal survey as well as VP inputs
and other recommendations received by the symposium institutionalization
task force. He presented a report on the priority goals of the
long range planning committee. There will be periodic telecons
and meetings to further these plans as well as measurable goals
set to ensure the success of implementing the plans. One goal
is to increase membership by 25%. Targeting new members in China
may be a means to achieve this goal. There was a very good 38%
return on the five-year IEEE conducted formal survey. Details
on the survey results will be presented in a formal report at
the March Board meeting. He also noted that IEEE overall is stressing
a more personalized approach to recruiting new members and interacting
with volunteers.
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| Board members Janet O’Neil
of ETS-Lindgren, Dave Staggs (retired), and Mark Montrose
of Montrose Compliance Services caught up on EMC Society activity
during the Board meeting in Portland. |
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| Board members visit over lunch at
their November Board meeting in Portland. Seated from left
are Warren Kesselman, Dan Hoolihan of Hoolihan EMC Consulting,
Andy Drozd of ANDRO Computational Solutions, and Bruce Archambeault
of IBM. Standing from left are Colin Brench of Hewlett Packard
and Nigel Carter of QinetiQ. |
TREASURER’S REPORT
Treasurer Warren Kesselman briefly summarized his report. Regarding
2004 Operations, the final audit report indicates EMC’s
net surplus was $523,100. A Cost Center Summary was provided in
Enclosure 1 to the Treasurer’s report. Regarding the 2005
Operations Forecast, the recent third quarter forecast review
with IEEE projected a potential year-end operations deficit of
(-$49,000). Market fluctuation is not considered in the forecast.
If 2005’s market experience is a repeat of 2004’s
positive return, the projected 2005 deficit could be fully covered.
A forecast summary table was provided in Enclosure 2 to the Treasurer’s
report. Lastly, regarding 2006 Budget Development, Society budgets
will be reviewed by TAB and the IEEE BoD at the November IEEE
Board Series in Orlando, Florida. EMC’s budget to be submitted
at that meeting contains a projected deficit of (-$27,400). That
projection does not include market fluctuation and may be subject
to changes should anything new be approved in Orlando. Final budgets
are expected to be distributed in early December. A Cost Center
Summary Sheet for the proposed budget was provided in Enclosure
3 to the Treasurer’s report.
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| The Board took the downtown city
tram to the Portland Convention Center, site of the 2006 IEEE
International Symposium on EMC. Enjoying the short ride are
(from left) Francesca Maradei from the University of Rome
“La Sapienza”, Mike Violette of Washington Labs,
and Heyno Garbe from the University of Hannover, Germany. |
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| Chairman of the 2006 IEEE International
Symposium on EMC, Henry Benitez (left) is shown with EMC-S
Vice President for Conferences, Barry Wallen, at the entrance
to the Convention Center. |
SECRETARY’S REPORT
Secretary O’Neil noted that the minutes of the August 7
and 11 Board meetings in Chicago were previously approved as part
of the consent agenda.
COMMUNICATION SERVICES
Ghery Pettit, Vice-President for Communication Services, presented
his report. He summarized the activities related to the Transactions
on EMC in the absence of Editor-in-Chief Flavio Canavero. Regarding
submitted papers, as of today, 163 new manuscripts have been submitted
in 2005. By the end of 2005, we can easily expect to reach the
same number of submissions as in 2004. Professor Canavero would
like to have a special section of the IEEE Transactions on EMC
that includes a few select papers from the EMC Zurich in Singapore
conference. These papers would be significantly enhanced for publication
in the Transactions. Copyright issues would be addressed as required
by IEEE. This would not impact the page count or existing 2006
budget for the Transactions on EMC. The Board approved publishing
papers from the 2006 EMC Zurich in Singapore conference in the
Transactions on EMC. Professor Canavero’s report notes that
the February and May 2005 issues were on time. The August 2005
issue was delayed by approximately one month. Papers were sent
on time to the Publication Department; in fact, having activated
the rapid posting procedure, papers were sent as soon as ready.
However, the delay was due to two concurring events: a) the transition
to the rapid posting mixed up and misplaced some papers, that
initially were not included in the August issue; b) some authors
requested a second check of the galley proofs of their papers.
Regarding the page count of the Transactions, the Board approved
increasing the page count to 1090 pages in 2005. This decision
eliminated the backlog of 50+ papers. In closing this report,
special issues to consider in the future would address topics
such as Validation of Computational Electromagnetics, Wireless
EMC, and Electronic Band Gap Structures. Professor Canavero will
submit a recommendation on these special issues in the near future.
Next, Mr. Pettit introduced Janet O’Neil, Newsletter Editor,
to give her report. She advised that the Fall issue covers the
Chicago symposium and will be 96 pages; it is the longest EMC
Newsletter issue in history. Included are three practical papers
and an article discussing the “balance” of applied
and theoretical papers in the annual symposium’s technical
program. Many of the standard articles are included, i.e. President’s
Message, Personality Profile, Standards Activity etc. New is a
photo collage submitted by the EMC 2006 committee, a “Thanks
for the Memories” photo collage by Ken Wyatt of Chicago
images, a book review by Jim Drewniak, an article on the St. Petersburg
conference by Elya Joffe, an article on the Chicago demonstrations
by Andy Drozd, an article on the Children’s Workshop in
Chicago by Gayla Burns, and an article on TC-1 activity by Dan
Hoolihan. There are also the special symposium features such as
the awards program listing, and the five pages of “centerfold”
photos from the symposium. There is also an announcement about
the newly elected Board members. Unfortunately, Maqsood Mohd was
unable to submit his annual Education and Student Activities article.
Regarding advertising in the Summer 2005 issue of the Newsletter,
there were 10.83 pages of paid advertising in this issue. The
final revenue from these ads in the Summer 2005 issue to the EMC
Society is $8,595.60. The cost to layout, print, and mail the
Summer 2005 issue, at 68 pages with a press run of 5,062 copies,
was $16,487. Thus, the ad revenue offset a little over 50% of
the cost. At Elya Joffe’s request, copies of the Newsletter
were sent to the 2005 Asia Pacific EMC Symposium in Taipei to
promote this member benefit from the EMC Society membership booth
he will staff there. There have been several conversations with
IEEE about the cost/benefits of becoming a formal magazine. EMC-S
has been advised that the Newsletter needs to increase its technical
content in order to publish a magazine. Included are three practical
papers in the Fall 2005 issue accordingly in an attempt to do
this. Lastly, discussion continues with the EMC 2006 symposium
committee, Barry Wallen, and the finance committee about bundling
the symposium advance program with the Newsletter to save money.
Barry Wallen will report on this activity under his conferences
report. Next, regarding the EMC website, Mr. Pettit noted that
Nigel Carter is our new manager for website activity. Mr. Pettit
canceled the contract with IEEE for Webmaster services. EMC-S
received a refund for contracted services since IEEE has not implemented
the work they were contracted to do. Mr. Carter will seek a new
company to contract for these web services. Regarding IEEE Press,
Mr. Pettit advised there was no report from committee chair, Ray
Perez. Regarding Public Relations, Dave Staggs advised that the
previous EMC-S promotional VHS videos created in the early 1990s
have been converted to DVD and one particular video is very useable
today as a promotional video for the society. The use of the 50th
Anniversary of the EMC-S video as a promotional video is not required,
since one of the older videos will work fine. But discussions
are still in process with the History Committee. The design of
the new EMC-S lapel pin is ongoing and will include the 50th Anniversary
logo design. When the design is ready, the variations of the design
will be brought to the BoD for review and selection. In closing
his report, Mr. Pettit noted that Dan Hoolihan’s History
report would be included in his report on planning for the 2007
symposium to be presented later in the meeting.
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| During their tour of the Portland
Convention Center, Board members stopped to view the impressive
pendulum clock. |
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| Back in the meeting room, Don Heirman
of Don HEIRMAN Consultants gives his report as the Vice President
for Standards. |
STANDARDS SERVICES
Don Heirman, Vice-President for Standards, presented his report.
Standards activity covers three major areas: The Standards Education
and Training Committee (SETCom), the Standards Advisory and Coordination
Committee (SACCom), and the Standards Development Committee (SDCom).
The SETCom chair position was vacant and a replacement has been
made (see below), the SACCom chair Elya Joffe is resigning and
he is looking for a replacement, and SDCom continues to be chaired
by Stephen Berger. Mr. Heirman reviewed the activity from the
previous day’s standards committee meetings. Regarding the
SDCom activity, the newest committee member is Colin Brench of
Hewlett Packard. The major topics covered during the meeting were
working group support, “Broadband over Power Line”
working group issues, policy and procedures for P1900 on software
defined radio, radar EMC discussion with a DoD rep, and the DySPAN
conference with the Communications Society. Regarding “Working
Group Support”, the committee discussed how meeting cost
fees can be assessed and used for paying expenses and establishing
“reserves” for future needs of working groups, e.g.
editing, telephone calls, drawings, etc. They would like to establish
FTP sites where working groups can exchange information/drafts
under password protection. The committee discussed the use of
the standards budget for teleconferences in lieu of, but not fully
replacing, in person meetings. Regarding the topic of “Broadband
over Power Lines”, the committee approved co-sponsorship
of a PAR on EMC measurements with the Power Engineering Society.
SDCom policy and procedures updating is underway and includes:
1: Formation of WGs comprised of multiple society members (MOU
procedures), 2: E-mail balloting, 3: Patent discussion requirements/slides,
4: Emeritus members, 5: Officer descriptions, 6: Meeting fees,
7: Maintenance of policies and procedures. The policies and procedures
for P1900 (SDR) are under review. Radar EMC discussion included
the DoD MIL STD on radar EMC status and the need to consider commercial
standards that might apply. It has been proposed that the DoD
should consider SDCom activity on Software Defined Radio (SDR)
as a possible spectrum usage tool. The committee agreed that the
DoD should become a member of P1900 on SDR to see its usefulness.
The committee reviewed a report on the recent DySPAN Conference.
This was an IEEE Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum
Access Networks. It was sponsored by the Communications Society;
EMC-S was a co-sponsor. The focus was on better spectrum usage
for communications. 300 people attended (80 were from outside
USA). In addition, multiple ongoing standards projects were identified
and there is tremendous potential for increased standards activity.
Mr. Heirman discussed the results of the standards leadership
solicitation initiated by him and publicized by Elya Joffe. 14
people responded and a new chair of the SETCom was appointed.
He is Qiubo Ye, a Project Leader with the Communications Research
Center in Canada. In addition, candidates for SACCom leadership
were identified. New volunteers responded from outside IEEE regions
1-6. Mr. Heirman noted that the next series of standards meeting
would be on March 16 in Piscataway, New Jersey, at IEEE headquarters.
This is the same venue where the ANSI ASC C63 meetings will take
place over March 13-15. The EMC-S is a voting member of C63 and
since the C63 meeting is on 15 March, he indicated that those
SDCom or Board members interested in attending should contact
him to support that attendance.
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| The Annual Dinner also featured the
passing of the gavel from Kimball Williams (left) to incoming
EMC-S President Andy Drozd. |
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| At the Board’s Annual Dinner,
Todd Hubing of the University of Missouri-Rolla (left), presented
outgoing President Kimball Williams of Denso International
America with a gift from the Board for his service to the
EMC Society. |
MEMBER SERVICES REPORT
Elya Joffe presented the report on Membership Service. He led
a discussion on the usage of the Angel Funds. The Board approved
Mr. Joffe’s proposal that a Chapter Angel may authorize
up to a maximum of $500 in financial support per year. Each chapter
may submit multiple requests per year to receive the funding from
the Bob Haislmaier Angel Fund as long as the total sum received
per year does not exceed $500. Chapters may not combine activities
for the purpose of obtaining the $500 and each request shall be
submitted, justified, and considered separately. Regarding Chapter
Chair retreats, Mr. Joffe reviewed the scheduled chapter retreats
for 2006. Mr. Joffe discussed a proposal for formalizing a link
between the related “sister societies” in order to
promote our respective interests. Bruce Archambeault then gave
a report on the EMC-S Awards. He documented the process for the
awards presentation based upon the format utilized in Chicago.
Mr. Archambeault led a discussion on the awards process and “institutionalizing”
the awards. The consensus was that the Awards program is a function
of the EMC Society and should be actively administered by the
Awards Chair. The local symposium committee may provide input
on the awards activity, however, the committee ultimately must
take direction from the Awards Chair. Regarding Membership Development,
Dave Staggs reported on membership statistics and booth activity
in Chicago during the symposium. 10 new IEEE members and 26 new
EMC Society members signed up at the Chicago symposium. The EMC
2007 Hawaii promotional material and the IEEE magazines on display
attracted people to the booth. Volunteers from the local Chicago
EMC chapter helped staff the booth. As of September 2005, the
total number of active EMC-S members was 4,154, down 2.1% from
this same time in 2004. Senior members account for some 12% of
total EMC-S membership. Mr. Staggs will present a proposal for
increasing this percentage at the March Board meeting. Total IEEE
membership is 350,274, up 0.2% over 2004 numbers. Next, in the
absence of Distinguished Lecturer Committee chair Lee Hill, Elya
Joffe reported that a total of $4,791.53 was expended on the program
in 2005. This expenditure is much less than in 2004. The average
cost per attendee in 2005 was $16.97. 12 lectures were given by
DLs in the US; 2 were given in Europe. The majority of the DLs
gave three of the maximum six lectures allowed in 2005. Mr. Hill
is evaluating why the DLs did not give as many presentations in
2005 as in prior years. The DL policy revisions have been posted
to the EMC-S web site and are now consistent with the revised
policy in the EMC-S Handbook and Chapter guide. Mr. Hill noted
that Tom Jerse and Greg Kiemel are ending their terms as Distinguished
Lecturers in 2005. He sent a full report to the Board on the proposed
new candidates to replace Tom Jerse and Greg Kiemel starting January
1, 2006. Following discussion of the new candidates, the Board
approved the appointment of Etienne Sicard and David Hackason
as Distinguished Lecturers of the EMC Society for a two-year term
beginning in January 1, 2006. Discussion then ensued about DL
lectures and how to effectively promote this program globally
to all EMC-S members. Elya Joffe will prepare a proposal for a
revised DL program that will service members in all regions. He
will present this at the March Board meeting. Chapter Coordinator
Francesca Maradei then provided an extensive report on the status
of Chapters and Angels. She noted that the Pittsburgh Chapter
has completed the procedures for its approval. Michael J. Oliver
is the new chapter chairman. Mr. Joffe noted that the Philadelphia
Chapter was removed from the “Dissolution List” thanks
to the efforts of Francesca; Venk Venkatesh was appointed as the
new Chapter Chair. Bob Scully has submitted a petition to the
IEEE Galveston Bay and Houston Sections for forming a joint Galveston
Bay/Houston EMC Chapter. Efforts have also started to form a Chapter
in Vancouver/British Columbia, Canada. This would be the fourth
EMC Chapter in Canada, joining Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal.
In Region 8, there is activity for a Czech Republic joint EMC/MTT/AP/ED
chapter, following the efforts exerted at the St. Petersburg Symposium
on EMC. In Region 9, new EMC chapter activity is underway in Mexico
and Argentina. Discussions with these chapter members and Elya
Joffe were held during the Chicago Symposium. There is no news
of activity with the Australia and Thailand chapters. Ms. Maradei
noted that Professor Nekhoul Bachir is interested in forming a
new EMC Chapter in Algeria. She concluded her report noting that
the chapters on a “watch list” due to inactivity include
the Montreal, Central & South Italy, Seoul, Ukraine, and Washington
Chapters. Next, Heyno Garbe reported that with the help of Professor
Nitta, there are three candidates for Fellow received from Japan.
In total, there are seven candidates for 2007, not including the
candidates for 2006 that were not selected in 2005. Regarding
Nominations, Chair Todd Hubing announced the newly elected Board
members for a three-year term beginning January 1, 2006 are Bruce
Archambeault, Henry Benitez, Richard Ford, Dan Hoolihan, Elya
Joffe and Ghery Pettit. Next, Fred Heather presented a report
on the survey conducted in Chicago. The IEEE conducted five-year
survey results are in. Results indicated that by and large the
Society’s leadership is doing a good job of balancing the
diverse needs and interests of its varied membership: 86% rated
themselves satisfied, and only 2% were dissatisfied. Some attention
needs to be paid to the needs of members in Regions 8-10 who were
most likely to rate themselves as “less than satisfied.”
Mr. Joffe noted that Ken Wyatt is the EMC-S photographer. He continues
to assist the Newsletter editor in providing photos and cover
artwork. He also assisted in providing artwork for the EMC-S membership
booth in Chicago. He did not like the brick background at the
awards luncheon in Chicago and may consider investing in a portable
backdrop for future awards ceremonies so the photos are more professional.
Any thoughts or suggestions for photography should be directed
to Ken at ken_wyatt@agilent.com.
Regarding PACE, Mr. Joffe noted that no report was received from
Bill McGinnis. Mr. Joffe would like to see a new person as the
PACE chair. He will seek a replacement for this position. Next,
Mr. Joffe reported that there were no activities in Regions 8-10
since the August Board meeting. Future membership development
activities are being planned in conjunction with the following
symposia: EMC Asia in Taipei, December 2005; EMC Zurich in Singapore,
February 2006; INCEMIC in India, February 2006; EMC Wroclaw in
Poland, June 2006; and EMC Europe in Barcelona, September 2006.
Fred Heather then noted that the Travel Assistance Support Program
committee has drafted a plan for implementing this program. Mr.
Heather revised the paperwork for this grant program. He is working
with Henry Benitez, chair of EMC 2006 in Portland, to work out
a process such that when papers are submitted, applicants for
this program can submit an application. Regarding the Membership
Development Task Force, Mr. Joffe noted that meetings would be
held in conjunction with the quarterly Board meetings. The main
goal and proposed scope and content are to consider the current
situation of membership development, brainstorm on membership
development initiatives, and propose to the VP for Member Services
and to the Board possible strategies and initiatives which may
help in membership development. The basis for discussion is the
previously developed “Membership Initiatives List”
of membership items in the Long Range Planning Committee material
along with IEEE developed material. In concluding his report,
Mr. Joffe noted that several IEEE and non-IEEE professional organizations
and societies are involved in EMC (i.e. the IEE, the Australian
EMC Society, the Society of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
in Israel (SEEEI), etc.). He suggested creating a “Sister
Society” MOU to cross promote and market the respective
activities of these organizations. The Board agreed this activity
should be pursued.
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| Enjoying the Annual Dinner festivities
are (from left) Henry Benitez of ElectroMagnetic Investigations
and Dick Ford of NRL. |
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| Board meetings provide a unique opportunity
for members Elya Joffe (left) of KTM Project Engineering in
Israel and Shuichi Nitta of Salesiar Polytechnic in Japan
to catch up on international EMC activity. |
TECHNICAL SERVICES
In the absence of John Norgard, Vice President for Technical Services,
President Williams presented his report. The Chair of the Technical
Advisory Committee (TAC) is Bill Strauss. Vice-Chair is Arto Chubukjian,
and Secretary is Robert Scully. They are reviewing the proposed
new technical committee on TC-11, Nanotechnology. A presentation
was given to the committee, suggesting that TC-11 should first
be formed as a working group over a period of one to two years,
possibly sponsored by the TAC. Doing so would allow a gradual
emergence on nanotechnology into the EMC “world”.
Charts were presented to the committee establishing the basis
for the working group approach. As part of the effort, it was
suggested that a tutorial be provided for the next Symposium in
Portland. The committee determined that was important to establish
the level of interest within the Society, and that it was deemed
wise policy not to rush into the formation of the TC too quickly.
After much discussion, TAC recommended forming an ad hoc committee
to address nanotechnology and make a recommendation for moving
forward within TAC. TAC has also recently formed an ad hoc committee
to revisit the criteria to determine EMC-S co-sponsorship of other
EMC related conferences, specifically to add quantifiable aspects
to the decision process. TAC is also reviewing the process for
determining the best paper at the EMC-S annual symposium. The
“Best Paper Process” is not currently documented,
but should be to ensure uniformity in the decision and selection
processes. The committee has scheduled a series of telecoms for
the first half of 2006 to ensure members stay on task with their
respective activities. Regarding the Representative Advisory Committee
(RAC), Fred Heather prepared an article summarizing the RAC/SACCom
meeting held during the Chicago Symposium for publication in the
Fall 2005 EMC Newsletter. He noted that the open positions are:
Aerospace Research and Development, IEEE-USA R&D Policy Committee,
and the IEEE Communications, Information Policy, Medical Technology
Policy Issues. RAC member Dan Hoolihan will also contribute an
article as EMC-S representative of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine
and Biology Society, Committee on Man and Radiation (COMAR) for
the Winter 2006 issue of the EMC Newsletter. In closing this report,
Mr. Norgard noted that no report was received from Maqsood Mohd
on the Education and Student Activities Committee.
CONFERENCE SERVICES
Barry Wallen, Vice President for Conference Services, presented
his report. He noted that CMS has not been responsive to the EMC-S
Symposium needs due to the department being heavily involved lately
with the Sections Congress. This led to the discovery that it
is in the Society’s best interest to have contracts with
CMS, in lieu of the “agreements” that we currently
have. With a contract, financial penalties can be specified for
non-performance. Mr. Wallen gave a report about incorporating
the abstracts of the symposium papers along with information on
the social events and a registration form in the Spring issue
of the EMC Newsletter. Readers will be directed to the symposium
website for more information. This will be a more economical approach
than printing and mailing the traditional advance program for
the EMC-S symposium. Mr. Wallen then provided the following update
on EMC-S Symposiums: EMC’2005 Chicago, IL (Chair: Tom Braxton)
Preliminary numbers from the Chicago symposium were just received.
Revenue was shown as $1,021,695, expenses were $833,726 for a
net surplus of $187,969. These are unaudited numbers. On site
registration was nearly the same as in Santa Clara in 2004. In
total, there were 471 IEEE member full registrations and 191 non-member
full registrations. There were 3,392 badges created for registrants,
exhibitors, and companions. It was a well-attended symposium.
There were 223 booths, and 8 tabletop displays from 162 exhibiting
companies; EMC’2006 Portland, OR (Chair: Henry Benitez)
The budget was recently reviewed and updated by Dan Arnold. Thanks
to Bob Hofmann, EMC 2005 Treasurer, for his input based on the
most recent symposium financial data. Several EMC 2006 committees
have been quite active. The technical committee has distributed
the call for papers and call for special sessions. A call for
demonstrations is in process. Changes are being made to upgrade
the perception of poster sessions, which are included in what
are now called “Close Format Presentations.” Publicity
and publication activities are proceeding. Promotions have been
placed in some publications. The EMC 2006 Symposium Website is
being updated. It includes the call for papers. The EMC-S Symposium
Committees have NOT had the support services from the contracted
IEEE Conference Management Services (CMS) for the past several
months. The IEEE CMS has lost some staff and priorities have changed.
Our CMS contact is now back as of this week. Mr. Wallen advised
that it is important for future symposiums to be aware of this
situation of when soliciting contracts with IEEE CMS or evaluating
other CMS providers; EMC’2007 Honolulu, HI 50th Anniversary
Symposium (Chair: Janet O’Neil) Ms. O’Neil reports
there has not been any significant activity since the August Board
meeting, with the exception of Jim Blaha agreeing to handle publicity
and marketing for the symposium. Janet met with Jim during the
Chicago symposium. Jim has marketing experience from his years
at Agilent. He is currently chair of the Milwaukee EMC Chapter.
Janet also met with Mike Slocum of the Navy at Dahlgren about
his work with the Navy in Hawaii. She will follow up with him
on this to establish a link to draw the Navy personnel to EMC
2007. Janet gave a presentation at the exhibitors breakfast in
Chicago on what the committee’s plans are to ensure good
attendance at the symposium. This includes the launch of the EMC
Global University, special technical sessions, a big name keynote
speaker, and extensive marketing in Asia. She invited GES (show
decorator and drayage company) to give a presentation on the “Facts
vs. Reality” about shipping to and exhibiting in Hawaii.
GES offered to provide 30 days of free storage to EMC exhibitors
in Hawaii who also exhibit at the MTT and/or AP Symposiums being
held at the Hawaii Convention Center in June 2007. GES asked if
any exhibitors present at the breakfast had ever exhibited in
Hawaii. The response was one! Thus, this presentation was especially
important. The 50th Anniversary logo was shown on the cover of
the Summer 2005 EMC Newsletter. The EMC 2007 logo will be very
similar to this logo to maintain the anniversary/symposium “branding.”
Regular Newsletter articles by Dan Hoolihan refer to the anniversary
celebrations and promote attendance at the EMC 2007 symposium.
The committee plans to meet in Hawaii in June 2006. This will
be the last on site meeting prior to the symposium in 2007. Current
action items include: Setting dates for June 2006 committee meeting;
Revising budget based upon Chicago’s final actuals; IEEE
CMS needs to sign contracts for the Wednesday evening gala (luau
at Royal Hawaiian Hotel) and the Friday afternoon Anniversary
celebration luncheon (Marriott Turtle Bay) by 12/31/05; Develop
formal marketing plan for brochures, formally appoint public relations
representatives in all IEEE Regions, target shows to send material/rep
to, create magazine ads, etc.; Secure keynote speaker; EMC’2008
Detroit, MI (Chair: Kimball Williams) All committee positions
have been filled. The committee is holding monthly telecom meetings.
The marketing committee will met on November 4, at UL Novi to
discuss a number of “up front” issues and lay further
plans for working with the “Big 3” (DaimlerChrysler,
Ford and GM). Scott Lytle has purchased the web “name”
and they are beginning work on the web site format. Since CMS
will help put the web site together, their work will be strictly
the ‘art’ and content; EMC’2009 Austin, TX (Chair:
David Staggs) IEEE insurance and information schedule forms are
complete and have been submitted to IEEE CMS. The committee is
currently in negotiations with CMS that will lead to a contact
being signed between the Central Texas Chapter and IEEE CMS. The
current listing of the Symposia Committee includes: General Chairman
– David Staggs, Vice Chairman – John O’Brien,
Secretary – Michael Royer, Treasurer – Patrick Webb,
Technical Program – Dr. Michael Foegelle, Exhibits/New Product
Presentations – Mark Prchlik, Publicity (Public Relations)
– Glen Watkins. Preparations to negotiate the Austin Convention
Center contract are underway. The IEEE CMS contract has not been
signed pending a review of 2007, 2008, and 2009 contract pricing
comparisons by the VP of Conferences. Exhibitor Liaison Janet
O’Neil reported that the exhibitors breakfast in Chicago
was well attended. There were several presentations given on the
following topics: Tom Braxton, Chair of Chicago 2005, provided
registration information, etc. on the symposium; Henry Benitez,
Chair of Portland 2006, provided an update on the symposium plans;
Janet O’Neil, Chair of Honolulu 2007, provided an overview
of marketing and publicity for this symposium; Pam Pietrok, GES,
provided information on shipping to and exhibiting in Hawaii;
Janet O’Neil reported for Barry Wallen on the proposed new
patron program for 2006, the use of IEEE e-notice, standardization
of the symposium steering committees, and results of the 2004
Exhibitors Survey. There were many good comments from the exhibitors
received at the breakfast related to ideas to improve the symposium.
Several comment cards were completed and returned after the breakfast.
One in particular noted the lack of applied papers during the
regular Tuesday through Thursday sessions, which prompted a healthy
debate with the Portland 2006 technical committee. This discussion
was summarized and included in an article in the Fall 2005 EMC
Newsletter. The comment cards were reviewed with Barry Wallen
and IEEE CMS. Exhibitors noted they liked the new features of
the Chicago symposium, notably the EMC-OPOLY, the New Product
Showcase, and the Interactive EMC Forum (Ask the Experts). These
activities are being considered for EMC 2006 Portland. Chicago
2005 also awarded a best booth prize following the symposium.
Please contact Jack Black of DLS Electronics for more information.
Fred Heather has updated the exhibitor points since the Chicago
symposium and provided this spreadsheet to IEEE CMS so they can
start assigning booths for Portland after January 1. The updated
points will be posted to the EMC-S website. Next, Dr. Nigel Carter,
the Global Symposia Coordinator, provided updated data regarding
forthcoming Global Symposia and Conferences, which are (or proposed
to be) Technically Co-Sponsored by the EMC-S. Only two new requests
for Technical Co Sponsorship have been received since the last
Board Meeting. Following is the schedule of conferences:
Regarding regional conferences in Regions 1-7,
Janet O’Neil reported that since the August Board meeting,
the Los Angeles EMC Chapter held a tabletop show on “Aerospace
EMC” on Monday, September 26, 2005. She worked with LA Chapter
Chair Ray Adams on this colloquium and exhibition. Some 70 people
attended. 19 companies participated as exhibitors, reserving a
total of 21 tables. The topics and speakers were well received.
The expected net surplus to the chapter is $5,000. The event will
be profiled in the Fall 2005 EMC Newsletter. Chapters are planning
various tabletop shows for 2006, including the Milwaukee (March
28), SE Michigan (May date TBD) and Chicago (May 16) Chapters
who hold annual tabletop shows in the spring. New in 2006 will
be a tabletop show organized with the Dallas EMC chapter. The
Rocky Mountain Chapter in Denver is also considering a tabletop
show for 2006, as is the prospective new chapter in Mexico City.
Ms. O’Neil is working with the Dallas, Denver, and Mexico
City chapter members on these events. Frank Sabath reported on
activities in Region 8. He noted that an MOU between the IEEE
EMC Society and the steering committee of the EMC Europe was developed.
The negotiations have continued since the August report. The international
steering committee for EMC Europe met in parallel with the EMC
Europe Workshop over September 19 – 21, 2005 to work on
the MOU. Regarding the retention of records of co-sponsored symposia,
the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), Hanover,
Germany withdrew its intent to take over a copy of records of
co-sponsored symposia. The management of TIB had the final opinion
that proceedings of major symposia are part of the MoU between
IEEE and TIB. Dr. Sabath has discussed this situation with Heyno
Garbe and he suggested asking the library of the Otto-von-Guericke-University,
Magdeburg, if they are interested in taking the proceedings. Dr.
Sabath will contact the Otto-von-Guericke-University in November.
Dr. Sabath noted the following conferences will take place in
Region 8: 5th International Workshop on EMC of Integrated Circuits
(EMC Compo 2005), EMC Wroclaw 2006, EMC Europe 2006, and the VIIth
International Symposium on EMC and Electromagnetic Ecology. See
the table under “Global EMC Symposia” for details
on these conferences. Currently, the IEEE EMC-S is involved in
the organization of workshops in Belgium (first half of 2006)
and Barcelona (parallel to EMC Europe). There will also be a Region
8 Workshop on Computational Electromagnetics (CEM) Computer Modeling
and Simulation on May 14, 2006, at the Hamburg University of Technology.
The IEEE German EMC Chapter will host this. Regarding Region 9,
Janet O’Neil reported that no tabletop shows have been scheduled
for 2005. Plans are to wait until 2006 to have a colloquium and
exhibition in Brazil. Ms. O’Neil has been unable to reach
Carlos Sartori to establish plans for a future event. Regarding
Region 10, Professor Shuichi Nitta reported that there are several
upcoming EMC conferences in 2006, including EMC Asia in Taipei,
December 2005; EMC Zurich in Singapore, February 2006; and INCEMIC
in India, February 2006. The IEEE EMC-S membership booth will
be present at these conferences. Regarding institutionalizing
the EMC-S Symposiums, Mr. Wallen showed the organization chart
for EMC-S Conferences Services. The change since this was first
presented in August shows the more global scope of this committee.
The Board approved the VP Conferences committee structure. The
Board approved the appointments of Bruce Archambeault (Site Selection),
Fred Heather (Policy and Procedures), Bob Hofmann (Finance), and
Mike Violette (Global Conferences) on this committee. Next, Site
Selection Chair Bruce Archambeault reported on the three venues
proposed for the 2010 Symposium. The city of Vancouver, Canada
will resubmit for 2011, as they did not have time to complete
the symposium questionnaire. Mr. Archambeault reviewed the committee’s
concerns with the two venues, Fort Lauderdale and Washington DC.
During the review process, the site selection committee recommended
that the Society consider event insurance so that it is protected
in case the symposium cannot be held due to acts of God, terrorist
attacks, etc. The committee recommended that the vote on the symposium
venue be deferred until the March Board meeting. The Board approved
this plan as well as limiting the 2010 symposium venue selection
to Washington DC and Fort Lauderdale.
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| The Vice-Chairman for the 2006 IEEE
International Symposium on EMC in Portland, David Britton
of Hewlett Packard, attended the Board’s Annual Dinner
with his wife, Linda. |
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| Kimball Williams (standing) visited
with fellow Board member Don Heirman (seated far left) and
guests Derick and Heather Skouby. Derick is the Technical
Program Chair for the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on
EMC in Portland |
EMC SOCIETY 50TH ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE
Dan Hoolihan presented his report. The Anniversary Committee is
chaired by Dan Hoolihan, with the following members: Warren Kesselman
– History Subcommittee Chair, Len Carlson – Public
Relations Subcommittee Chair, Henry Benitez – Special Awards
Subcommittee Chair, Janet O’Neil – “Dotted Line”
– Chair – 2007 IEEE International Symposium on EMC,
Bill Gjertson – Commemorative Items Subcommittee Chair,
Jerry Ramie – Power-Point Presentation on EMC-S History,
Elya Joffe – History of Fellows Award Winners for EMC-S,
Joe Butler – Special Anniversary Awards – Technical
Achievements. General committee members include Bill Duff, Bob
Goldblum, Fred Heather, Don Heirman, Todd Hubing, Herb Mertel,
Mark Montrose, Henry Ott, and Kimball Williams. Oral interviews
continue with Warren Kesselman, Chester Smith, and Leonard W.
Thomas, Sr.. The interviews with Ralph Showers and Milton Kant
(both are founders of the EMC-S) have been completed. Future people
to interview include James P. McNaul (the 2nd President of the
EMC-S), Joseph F. Fischer (13th President of the EMC-S), William
Eugene (Gene) Cory (14th President of the EMC-S), and Anthony
G. Zimbalatti (Founder of the EMC-S). The IEEE History Center
will provide materials for the booklet on the history of the EMC
Society. Ghery Pettit and Flavio Canavero are considering at a
special issue of the Transactions to commemorate the 50th Anniversary.
The committee hopes to benefit from the IEEE’s recent efforts
on digitizing all records prior to 1988 and placing them in the
electronic laboratory to be accessed via Xplore. The committee
is discussing coordination of the costs for putting all the EMC-S
Transactions on a DVD with the IEEE as part of this “digitization”
project. They also continue to research the costs and methods
of putting the EMC-S Symposium Records on a DVD; they hope to
get some of the IEEE’s digitization money for this project
also. The committee is researching special events at the 2007
Symposium, special Anniversary Awards for Technical Achievements,
commemorative items, membership incentives, an announcement of
the Top Technical Papers in the first 50 Years, exhibits on the
EMC Society at IEEE Headquarters, a special luncheon at the Hawaii
symposium for past presidents and founders, special plaques for
pioneering technical papers, a 50th anniversary pin, mini-colloquia,
a traveling exhibit of historic EMC test equipment, and a meeting
between past-presidents and students at the symposium in 2007.
The committee is trying to publish one “historical”
article in every issue of the Newsletter from now until July of
2007.
OLD BUSINESS
The following item was discussed under “Old Business”:
Memorandum of Understanding: Marketing and Promotion
Mark Montrose presented a draft MOU that outlined cooperative
cross marketing of EMC-S material with other publications.
NEW BUSINESS
The following items were discussed under “New Business”:
Cross Marketing of Related Society Symposiums
Don Heirman discussed a proposal to hold technical sessions at
related Society symposiums. He reviewed a plan for furthering
this work.
EMC-S Handbook
Mark Montrose and Ghery Pettit volunteered to update this document
at the last Board meeting. Mr. Pettit reported that the document
was last updated in the late 1980s. The document was circulated
to the Board. Mark Montrose then gave a presentation on his version
of the updated document. Due to time constraints, Mr. Montrose
was unable to complete his full presentation. After considerable
discussion, the Board approved the updated version of the EMC-S
handbook presented by Ghery Pettit.
Administrative Support
President Williams noted that each fall the Society reviews its
agreement with the Society’s paid administrator, Warren
Kesselman. The Board approved renewing the agreement with the
Society’s paid administrator Warren Kesselman for 2006.
Flashing Lights and Beer at the Symposium
In the interest of time, discussion on this topic was deferred
until the next meeting.
Schedule of Meetings for 2006
President-Elect Andy Drozd reviewed the EMC Board meeting schedule
for 2006: March 16-17, in Piscataway, NJ, May 16-18, in Hanover,
Germany, August 13 and 16, 2006 in Portland, Oregon and November
9-11, 2006 in New Orleans, LA (proposed location). The November
Board meeting was scheduled around the IEEE TAB meetings. If the
IEEE moves the location from New Orleans for its TAB meetings,
the Board meetings may be relocated as well. Mr. Drozd will report
on the status of the location for the TAB meetings at the next
Board meeting.
ACTION ITEM REVIEW
President Williams reviewed the action items discussed during
the meeting.
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 5:00
pm. The next series of meetings will be held over March 16-17
at IEEE headquarters in Piscataway, NJ. Incoming President Drozd
will distribute the schedule of meetings to the Board shortly
after the first of the year. It being the last meeting presided
over by outgoing EMC-S President Williams, the Board gave him
a round of applause for his leadership. EMC
Submitted by:
Janet O’Neil, Secretary,
EMC Society Board of Directors
