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BOARD OF DIRECTORS ACTIVITIES |
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THE PRESIDENT'S OPENING
REMARKS
Andy Drozd presented the report of Membership Services. The total number of active members is 4,125 as of March 2003. This is down approximately 13.4% compared to the same time in 2002. Mr. Drozd noted that the first level of IEEE has approved the proposed Technical Achievement Award elevation from a certificate to a plaque. Bruce Crain, Membership Chair, was not present at the meeting. Mr. Drozd advised that he is continuing to promote the Senior Member elevation for several of our EMCS members. A list of EMCS Senior Members for 2002 was published in the Winter 2003 Newsletter. He has enlisted Flo Haislmaier and Sandy Bush to staff the EMCS Membership Booth in Boston. There is a new electronic version of the membership application available. Andy Drozd reported for Lee Hill, chair of the Distinguished Lecturer (DL) program. Currently there is moderate to high activity. The survey process for DL presentations has been implemented this year. The average cost for the DL program per meeting attendee is currently $12.98. Henry Benitez next reported briefly on Awards. He presented the list of award nominations received which would be presented in Istanbul and in Boston. The Board voted upon the award nominations. Ghery Pettit then reported as Chapter Activities Chair. He noted that he distributed the nomination forms to all chapter chairmen for the Best Chapter and Most Improved Chapter awards. These two awards have been determined and the recipients will be announced at the Awards Luncheon in Boston. Mr. Pettit noted that he has reviewed and updated the "Angels" assigned to each chapter as part of the Chapter Angel program. There is interest in forming a new chapter in the Sacramento area as well as in South Africa. Elya Joffe is assisting the South Africa members with this effort. He also learned of interest in forming an EMC Chapter in Central Valley, California. This chapter would cover members located from Bakersfield to Modesto/Stockholm. Andy Drozd sent a Chapter Petition Form to the point of contact on this, Todd Robinson. Mr. Pettit has located a 1997 version of the Chapter Chairman's Handbook. He is working to update this manual. The Chapter Chairman's luncheon will take place in Boston this August. Next, Elya Joffe presented his report as the Region 8 Representative. There have not been any conferences in Region 8 since the last Board meeting in March. The EMCS membership booth will be present at the Istanbul symposium. He will meet with a potential chair for an EMC chapter in Greece during the Istanbul symposium. Regarding support for low-income engineers to attend EMCS symposia, the committee addressing this allocated the Board approved amount of $3,300 USD to six low-income participants who will attend the 2003 IEEE International Symposium. This will offset travel and registrants costs. Mr. Joffe noted that the URSI donated Euro 1,500 and the Israel EMC Chapter donated $1,000 USD to this fund set up for low-income engineers. In the absence of Jose Perini, Region 9 Representative, Andy Drozd discussed EMC activity in Mexico and South America. There are no new developments to report. Takeo Yoshino reported as the Region 10 Representative. Efforts continue to establish an official EMC Chapter in Thailand. There has not been any further progress in establishing an Australian EMC Chapter. Mr. Drozd then reported for Bill Duff, chair of the Fellows Search Committee. The EMC Society received two Fellow applications for review. The Fellow Search/Evaluation Committee currently consists of Jose Perini, Art Wall, Ernie Freeman and Hugh Denny. In the absence of Nominations and Bylaws Chair Joe Butler, Mr. Drozd noted that the Nominations Committee for the BoD elections has been formed. Members include Dan Hoolihan, Ghery Pettit, and Len Carlson. The committee is looking for one more non-Board member. A preliminary list of candidates has been generated. Mr. Drozd will post the nomination form on the EMCS website.
The Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) is Bill Strauss. Vice-Chair is Arto Chubukjian, and Secretary is Robert Scully. There are several cost saving measures being implemented by the TAC. For example, the Boston Symposium paper review was largely done electronically. The potential merger of TC-3 and TC-6 is still being investigated. A recommendation will be made to the Board after the Boston Symposium. The NARTE question review has begun. Representative Advisory Committee (RAC) Chair Fred Heather then presented his report. This contains the membership list. There was no significant activity of the RAC committee since the last Board meeting. There was no report from Education and Student Activities Chair Maqsood Mohd. There is no succession plan for this committee. Maqsood Mohd will remain as Chair and Bob Nelson will remain as secretary, but the vice chair position is open. Mr. Norgard is looking for candidates to fill this position. The Experiment Demonstrations for Boston are on track according to Andy Drozd who is in charge of this effort. The call for Experiment Demonstrations was published in the EMC Newsletter. Mr. Norgard noted that four experiments from the Volume 2 Experiments Manual are now available on the IEEE EMC ESAC website (http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/edu/exper.htm). Two additional experiments will be posted shortly. Mr. Norgard relayed that John Howard, chair of the University Grant Committee, advised we are receiving " leverage" from this activity. The cover of the Winter 2003 issue of the EMC Newsletter featured the efforts of the University of Michigan at Dearborn whose EMC lab was launched with their EMCS awarded grant money.
Elya Joffe, Vice President for Conference Services, presented his report. He introduced Barry Wallen to present the report on IEEE EMCS International Symposia. Mr. Wallen advised that for the 2002 Minneapolis Symposium, the final audit is in process and is expected to be completed by the end of May 2003. Regarding 2003 Boston, Mr. Wallen noted that 192 booths have been sold to date. This is on track for 2002, but still far behind 2000 and 2001. 180 papers have been selected. The advance program was distributed to the Board. Regarding 2004 Santa Clara, Mr. Wallen advised that he will meet with this committee in the near future and that is going according to plan. There has been little activity to report upon since the March Board meeting. For symposia in 2005, 2006 and 2007, Mr. Wallen advised that these committees are each moving along smoothly and according to plan. IEEE CMS has been contracted to manage each of these symposia. The hotels are being researched for 2007 now. For 2008, Mr. Wallen has received input from the Detroit and Washington DC EMC Chapters about organizing the symposia in their respective cities. There was some discussion that Washington DC would prefer to have the symposium in 2010. Discussion on this will be deferred until a future meeting. Kimball Williams distributed some marketing material on the Detroit area. Regarding 2003 Istanbul, Elya Joffe discussed the revised budget. This shows a deficit of approximately $7,000 USD, which is better than reported at the last meeting. He is expecting that the symposium will eventually break even financially. 380+ papers will be presented in 44 sessions. ORTRA (the PCO) will absorb any financial losses if they materialize. Regarding global EMC symposia, Mr. Joffe reported for Jose Perini. He reviewed the specific definitions of the different levels of involvement in various non-IEEE EMC symposia, including Technical Co-Sponsor and Cooperation. The Board approved the official definitions and procedures for establishing formal relationships as shown in his report. It was suggested that the approved policy be posted to the EMCS website, updated in the symposia manual, and published as an article in the EMC Newsletter. Janet O'Neil then presented her report as Exhibitor Liaison. There has not been significant activity since the last Board meeting. All is on track with the Boston exhibitors. Ms. O'Neil is working closely with Vita Feuerstein of IEEE CMS on exhibitor issues as they arise. Regarding regional conferences, Janet O'Neil noted that there are several tabletop shows scheduled for 2003. These are included in her report and are listed/advertised in each issue of the EMC Newsletter. The March 24 tabletop show sponsored by the SW Washington and Portland EMC Chapter was well attended. The speakers were Lee Hill and Tom Van Doren. The April 8 tabletop show sponsored by the Milwaukee EMC Chapter was a big success. Over 80 people attended and there were several exhibitors. Lee Hill was the speaker. Milwaukee Chapter Chair Jim Blaha deserves kudos for chairing and organizing such a great event. The Central Texas EMC Chapter one-day event was held on April 30 at a hotel in downtown Austin. This event was held in conjunction with the Reverberation Chamber, Anechoic Chamber and OATS Users Meeting. Some 60 people attended and there were 17 participating exhibitors. The Board approved establishing the position of a Regional Local/Regional Conference Coordinator for Regions 8, 9 and 10. The Board authorized the generation of a Symposia Policies and Procedures Manual (normative report) in addition to the Symposium Organization Manual (informative document). EMC
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