| Introducing
Members Newly Elected to the EMC Society Board of Directors |
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The following members began a three-year
term on the Board effective January 1, 2006.
Bruce Archambeault
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Dr.
Bruce Archambeault is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM in
Research Triangle Park, NC. He received his B.S.E.E degree from
the University of New Hampshire in 1977 and his M.S.E.E degree
from Northeastern University in 1981. He received his Ph.D. from
the University of New Hampshire in 1997. His doctoral research
was in the area of computational electromagnetics applied to real-world
EMC problems. In 1981 he joined Digital Equipment Corporation
and through 1994 he had assignments ranging from EMC/TEMPEST product
design and testing to developing computational electromagnetic
EMC-related software tools. In 1994 he joined SETH Corporation
where he continued to develop computational electromagnetic EMC-related
software tools and used them as a consulting engineer in a variety
of different industries. In 1997 he joined IBM in Raleigh, N.C.
where he is the lead EMC engineer, responsible for EMC tool development
and use on a variety of products. During his career in the U.S.
Air Force he was responsible for in-house communications security
and TEMPEST/EMC related research and development projects. Bruce
Archambeault is an active member of the EMC Society. He has organized
“Introduction to EMC Modeling” and “EMC Modeling
Applications” workshops, as well as special sessions on
EMC Modeling and Modeling Validation at the EMC symposium for
a number of years. He has provided modeling ‘experiment’
demonstrations for a number of years at the EMC Symposium and
has presented a number of papers at the symposium on modeling
and other aspects of EMC design. He is an active member of the
TC-9 subcommittee. He has served as a past Associate Editor for
the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. He is
the author of the book “PCB Design for Real-World EMI Control”
and the lead author of the book titled “EMI/EMC Computational
Modeling Handbook”.
Henry
Benitez is a NARTE certified EMC and Telecommunications Engineer
with 25 plus years EMC experience. He received his Bachelor of
Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Portland. He is a member of the University of Portland Electrical
Engineering Faculty/Industry Board of Directors. He is currently
President of ElectroMagnetic Investigations, LLC, a new electromagnetic
compatibility test laboratory in Hillsboro, Oregon. Previously,
he was a Senior EMC Engineer for Tektronix, Inc., in Beaverton,
Oregon, the EMC Laboratory Manager for Intel Corporation, in Hillsboro,
Oregon and the Senior Product Regulations Engineer for Hewlett-Packard,
in Vancouver, Washington. He is a member of the Information Technology
Industries Counsel (ITI) TC-5 EMC, TC-8 Telecommunications, and
TRC Technical Regulations. He is also a member of the International
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) international committees for
measurement, control and laboratory equipment (TC66) as well as
IEC TC65/66 Joint Working Group to draft the IEC 61326 EMC product
family standard for measurement, control and laboratory equipment.
He is designated as a technical expert for test and measurement
equipment. In the past, he has participated on an ANSI sponsored
USA delegation to negotiate with the European Union Commission
on the “EC’92” Directive implementation. As
a member of the EMC Society, he is a past Board member, a past
Awards Committee Chair (1999-2004) and is Chairman of 2006 IEEE
International Symposium on EMC organizing committee. He is the
founder of the Oregon and SW Washington IEEE EMC Chapter, and
served as chairman for five years. He re-established the Oregon
and SW Washington IEEE Product Safety Technical Committee (soon
to be a chapter of the new IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society)
and is currently serving a third term as Chairman. He was Vice-President
of the new IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society in 2004 and
President-Elect in 2005. He has over 20 articles published in
technical magazines, colloquiums, workshops and international
conferences and has made presentations on EMC and Product Regulations
topics at conferences in the United States, Europe and Asia. Mr.
Benitez enjoys contributing to the development of the EMC Society
and helping it provide value to its members and the discipline
of EMC, “I particularly enjoy chapter development and the
promotion of new members throughout the world.”
Richard
(Dick) Ford, NCE, is a graduate of Northeastern University, Boston,
MA, USA (BSEE 1964), with postgraduate work completed at Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, American University, BYU, and University
of Colorado. Dick Ford has over 30 years experience in the EMC
fields. He has been employed at MIT’s Draper Lab, Sylvania,
General Electric, Interference Control Technologies, the Navy’s
Surface Weapons Center at Dahlgren and is currently at the Naval
Research Laboratory. In 1973 he co-founded the US Navy’s
Shipboard EMC Improvement Program (SEMCIP), which by 1983 had
grown to be the US DoD’s largest and most successful EMI
Fix-It program. He was a Congressional Fellow assigned as military
technology advisor to Senator Hatch in 1982-83 where he contributed
a key background paper on the EMP aspects of the movie “The
Day After” when it received US Congressional Review. In
1983-84 he was Technical Editor of EMCT, at the time, the EMC
industry’s world leading bi-monthly magazine (70,000 circulation)
on electromagnetic compatibility. He has taught EMC to a thousand
students in commercial and government sponsored short courses
both nationally and internationally since 1983. He holds two US
patents on EMC measurement technology. He’s a certified
EMC Engineer (NARTE - 1989 to present) and served a two-year elected
term as a NARTE Director 2003-2005. His hobbies are solar energy,
ten-pin bowling and carpentry. Mr. Ford has been an IEEE member
for over 35 years; with 25 years as a Senior Member. He has been
active in the EMC Society continuously since 1986 as a Board member,
officer, or presently sub-committee chair. He was EMCS Treasurer
from 1986-1994 and EMC Society Photographer from 1994 to 2003.
He is the Society’s liaison to IEEE USA’s R&D
Policy Committee since 1991. He was Chair of the Society’s
Survey & Analysis Committee 1994 to 2003. He was a committee
member and treasurer of the 2000 IEEE International Symposium
on Electromagnetic Compatibility. Past awards include several
Certificates of Appreciation, the Laurence G. Cumming Award (1992),
and Honorary EMCS Life Member (1994). He’s a strong proponent
of the Society’s international out-reach initiatives, as
well as the Institute’s national initiatives both in the
US and, in the future, worldwide (based on the experiences of
IEEE/USA). He’s voted for more open and democratic processes
within the Society’s BoD and supported efforts to have the
Society’s president-elect directly elected by the Society
members to encourage more outreach to the membership.
Daniel
D. Hoolihan is currently President of Hoolihan EMC Consulting
in Lindstrom, Minnesota. His formal education includes a Bachelors
Degree in Physics from Saint John’s University (Minnesota),
a Masters Degree in Physics from Louisiana State University (Baton
Rouge), and a Masters in Business Administration from the University
of Minnesota (Minneapolis). Mr. Hoolihan has been consulting in
EMC engineering since January of 2000. He specializes in EMC laboratory
evaluations, EMC standards, and EMC education. He is a consultant
to the United States Department of Commerce National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the area of Telecom Certification
Body (TCB) and Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) evaluations. He
is also an assessor for the NIST National Voluntary Laboratory
Accreditation Program (NVLAP). He worked as Vice-President of
Minnesota Operations for TUV Product Service from 1994 to 2000.
From 1984 to 1994, he was the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer
of AMADOR Corporation; a small business specializing in EMC testing
of electronic products ranging in size from pacemakers to supercomputers.
His first employment out of graduate school (in 1969) was with
Control Data Corporation in their internal EMC lab. Hoolihan has
been on the Board of Directors of the EMC Society of the IEEE
since 1987. He is the past-president of the EMCS (1998-1999) and
has held many positions with the EMCS board in his years of service.
He most recently served as the Chair of the 2002 IEEE International
Symposium on EMC, which was held in Minneapolis in August of 2002.
He helped found the EMC chapter of the Twin Cities Section in
1985 and has been active in the local chapter since that time.
Elya
Joffe is employed by K.T.M. Project Engineering, an engineering
consulting company in Israel, since 1987. He currently holds the
position of V.P. of Engineering and works as a Senior EMC engineering
specialist and consultant. Elya holds a B.ScEE in Electrical Engineering
from the Ben Gurion University in Israel, is a Registered Professional
Engineer and is a NARTE (US National Association of Radio and
Telecommunications Engineer) certified EMC and ESD Control Engineer.
Mr. Joffe has over 25 years of experience in government and industry,
in EMC/E3 (Electromagnetic Compatibility/Electromagnetic Environmental
Effects) for electronic systems and platforms (in particular –
aircraft and aerospace). He is actively involved, as an EMC/E3
Specialist, in the EMC design of commercial and defense systems,
from circuits to full platforms. His work covers various fields
in the discipline of EMC, such as NEMP and Lightning Protection
design, as well as numerical modeling for the solution of EMC
problems. Mr. Joffe is also well known in Israel and abroad for
his activities in EMC training and education, and has authored,
developed and presented many courses on electromagnetic compatibility
and related topics. He has authored and co-authored over 30 papers
on EMC and EMC-related topics, both in the IEEE Transactions on
EMC and on Broadcasting, as well as in the proceedings of international
EMC symposia. Mr. Joffe is Senior Member of the IEEE, and has
served as a member of the IEEE EMC Society Board of Directors
since the year 2000. He is currently the VP for Member Services
and is a past VP for Conferences. He is also the Immediate Past
Chairman of the Israel IEEE EMC Chapter and he serves as the Israel
IEEE Section Industry Relation Officer (IRO). Mr. Joffe is a Member
of the IEEE Standards Association, a member of the IEEE EMC Society
Standards Development Committee (SDCom) and Chairman of the EMC-S
Standards Advisory and Coordination Committee (SACCom). He is
also Chairman of WG 473 for revision of IEEE STD 473 (“IEEE
Recommended Practice for an Electromagnetic Site Survey (10 kHz
to 40 GHz)”). Mr. Joffe also served as a “Distinguished
Lecturer” of the IEEE EMC Society, for the years 1999 through
2000. Mr. Joffe has received several awards from the IEEE and
EMC Society for his activities; he is a recipient of the Laurence
G. Cumming Award (2002), the Honorary EMCS Life Member Award (2004),
the Technical Achievement Award (2004), the Symposium Chair Award
(2004) and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.
Ghery
S. Pettit is the Corporate EMC Engineer in Intel Corporation’s
Corporate Product Regulations department, in Dupont, Washington.
He received the BSEE degree from Washington State University in
1975 and has taken numerous courses on EMC and other topics since
graduation. Mr. Pettit has been employed full time in EMC and
related matters for 29 years with the U.S. Navy, Martin Marietta
Aerospace (Denver), Tandem Computers, and Intel Corporation. His
first job out of college was in the Nuclear Engineering Department
at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. After a year of working on nuclear
submarines, he transferred to the Naval Electronic Systems Engineering
Center, Vallejo, where he got his start in EMC as a TEMPEST test
engineer. In 1979 he took a position at Martin Marietta, providing
EMC and TEMPEST design and analysis support for a number of projects.
In 1983 he moved to Tandem Computers in Cupertino, California.
While at Tandem he provided EMC design, testing and troubleshooting
support for the company as part of the EMC department. He designed
and oversaw the construction of a 30 meter Open Area Test Site
and a 10 meter RF semi-anechoic chamber while at Tandem and became
involved in what is today the Information Technology Industry
Council’s (ITI, formerly CBEMA) EMC committee, ITI TC5,
which he has chaired for a number of years. He presently is the
Corporate EMC Engineer in the Corporate Product Regulations department
at Intel. In this position he serves as the corporate focal point
for EMC regulations and standards issues as well as provides in-house
consulting and training on EMC design, testing, standards and
regulations matters. Prior to joining the Corporate Product Regulations
department, he was involved in the construction and operation
of EMC laboratories for Intel in Oregon and Washington. Mr. Pettit
is a member of numerous committees, including the U.S. National
Committee for the IEC/Technical Advisory Groups (TAG) for CISPR
Subcommittee I and IEC SC77B, and is a member of CISPR Subcommittee
I Working Groups 2, 3 and 4. He is the Co-convener (secretary)
of CISPR SC I Working Group 3 and, as noted previously, is Chairman
of the Information Technology Industry Council’s EMC technical
committee (ITI TC5), on which committee he has served since the
late 1980s. He has recently finished a seven-year term serving
as the EMC expert on the Panel for the Electrical and Electronics
Engineering Laboratory of the Board on Assessment of NIST Programs,
under the National Research Council. Mr. Pettit has written seven
technical papers and articles for publication. He is a member
of the dB Society, is a NARTE Certified EMC Engineer with the
Accredited Test Laboratory Engineer Endorsement and holds an amateur
extra class amateur radio license (N6TPT). Mr. Pettit is a Technical
Advisor for the American Radio Relay League in the area of EMC.
In his spare time, Mr. Pettit is a private pilot, working on an
instrument rating. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has been
a member of the IEEE EMC Society since 1977. He is presently the
Vice President for Communication Services for the IEEE EMC Society.
In the past, he has held the following positions in the IEEE EMC
Society: Member, Board of Directors (1999-2004); Chairman, Seattle
Chapter (1997-2000); and Chairman, Santa Clara Valley Chapter
(1989-1991). He served the Santa Clara Valley Section of the IEEE
as Secretary (1991-1992), Treasurer (1992-1993), Vice Chairman
(1993-1994) and Chairman (1994-1995). EMC|
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