AlbuquerqueLeland H. Bowen reports that the IEEEAP/EMC/MTT/NPSS Society Albu-querque Chapter has held several meet-ings recently. On January 25, ProfessorChristos G. Christodoulou, Departmentof Electrical and Computer Engineering,University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,gave a presentation entitled, “Reconfig-urable Multifunctional Antennas.” Pro-fessor Chrisoduolou is an IEEE AP Soci-ety Distinguished Lecturer. On February21, a talk entitled, “What’s Up withGEMACS and the CEM Framework?”was given by Dr. Edgar L. (Buddy) Cof-fey, of Advanced Electromagnetics inAlbuquerque, New Mexico. On April 25,“Low- and High-Frequency Solutions of

the Telegrapher Equations for Nonuni-form Multiconductor TransmissionLines,” was the topic when Dr. Carl E.Baum, Distinguished Research Professor,Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering, University of New Mexico,Albuquerque, visited the Chapter. Dr.Carl E. Baum is the recipient of the 2007IEEE Electromagnetics Award “for con-tributions to fundamental principles andtechniques in electromagnetics.” ThisIEEE Technical Field Award was present-ed to Dr. Baum at the AP Symposium(10-15 June, Honolulu, HI) and at theEMC Symposium (8-13 July, Honolulu,HI). The award was presented formallyby the President of the IEEE, ProfessorLeah Jamieson, at the EMC Symposium

where Dr. Baum presented this talk as anInvited Paper. Finally, on June 7, a pre-sentation on “The Folded Horn Anten-na,” was given by Dr. Everett G. Farr,President, Farr Research, Inc. of Albu-querque, New Mexico.

BeijingIn mid June 2007, Dr. Li Erping, anIEEE EMC Distinguished Lecturer, fromthe Singapore Institute of High Perfor-mance Computing, was invited to deliv-er a series of IEEE Distinguished lecturesin Beijing, China. A total three distin-guished lectures were given over June 12to 13 at three prestigious Chinese Uni-versities in Beijing, namely, Tsinghua

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Mahalo for “Hang Loose” and “Aloha”I’d like to do something a little different in the Chapter Chat-ter headline this time. Hopefully, the half dozen faithful read-ers of Chapter Chatter will enjoy something different. And, ifmy musings aren’t enjoyable, never fear, I will return to theregularly scheduled programming in the next issue.

Hang Loose. Can we make Hawaiian shirts the standardattire of all future symposiums? There was something uniqueand relaxing about visiting with EMC friends old and new – withthe shirttails hanging out on my hibiscus flowered shirt. I reallyenjoyed how so many vendors in the exhibit area got into theHawaiian spirit, with themed company shirts, bags, logos, etc.

Walking and driving around Oahu, I don’t recall hearing acar horn. And, the only hand gesture I saw was “hang loose.”

I’d like to import that to the mainland.It was cool to be where it was cool. How nice to leave 100+

degrees for the pleasant 70’s and 80’s of Honolulu. Poi was notsomething I would serve at home, but I did try it. However, Icould live on that deep-pit BBQ pork.

Aloha. You have to love a word that means hello and good-bye. Times together are to be appreciated and good-byesshouldn’t be forever. It was a blast to see and visit with somany old friends this year. How fitting for an anniversary cel-ebration. This was our yearly ‘EMC family reunion’ on agrander scale. I seemed to have a greater opportunity to catchup with more people this year than in years past. I was thank-ful for a visit with Mike Hart in his booth – and sad that itwill be the last. Aloha Mike.

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Dr. Erping Li had a discussion with Professor Cui Xiang(front row, second from right), the Dean of Electrical andElectronic Engineering, NCEPU, and other attendees dur-ing the IEEE Distinguished Lecture break. Dr. Erping Li delivers a Distinguished Lecturer talk in Beijing.

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After his Beijing lecture, Dr. Erping Li (right) had a lun-cheon meeting with Professor Jinliang He (left), an EMCProfessor at Tsingua University, Beijing.

Speaker Lee Hill (far right) of SILENT chats with CentralNew England Chapter members following his presentationat the June 19 Tech Tour.

University, North China Electric PowerUniversity and Beijing Institute of Tech-nology. The first distinguished lectureentitled “Multiscale simulation for com-plex EMC problems” was delivered inTsinghua University’s main building onthe morning on June 12, which washosted by Professor He Jinliang, fromthe Department of Electrical Engineer-ing, Tsinghua University, Beijing,China. Dr. Li elaborated on the signifi-cance of EMC in both electrical and elec-tronic products, the requirements ofEMC simulation tools, and multiscalesimulation techniques for complex EMCanalysis. Following the talk, Dr. Li visit-ed the Tsinghua University’s Electro-magnetic Environment Research Lab.Dr. Li also held a fruitful luncheon meet-ing with Professor He regarding theIEEE EMC developments and activitiesin China. The second distinguished lec-ture was held at the Campus of NorthChina Electric Power University(NCEPU), Beijing, and organized byProfessor Cui Xiang, Dean of the Schoolof Electrical and Electronic Engineeringwith NCEPU, where Dr. Li spoke on

“Electromagnetic susceptibility analysisfor electronic systems”. He pointed outthe challenges of electromagnetic suscep-tibility analysis and design challengesencountered by the EMC community. Inaddition, he presented the equivalentcircuit modeling techniques for RF radi-ated electromagnetic susceptibilityanalysis. The lecture was followed byanother interesting talk on reverberationchambers for EMC testing. A follow upmeeting was carried out with ProfessorCui’s EMC research group where theydiscussed EMC developments in Chinaand addressed the future Asia-PacificEMC collaboration. The third distin-guished lecture was conducted at theBeijing Institute of Technology (BIT),hosted by Professor Lu Xin, Dean ofElectronic and Information Technology,and Professor Shen Xinqing from BIT.Dr. Li gave a presentation on, “EMC andSignal Integrity in High-speed IC andElectronic Packaging”. In this talk, Dr.Li elaborated on the major signal integri-ty and power integrity issues in high-speed designs of electronic packaging,including ICs. He also showed the recent

research work carried out in his researchgroup on system-level package model-ing. Dr. Li’s Beijing IEEE distinguishedlectures were well attended by represen-tatives of various institutions includingthe research students, professors, engi-neers, and officers from Tsinghua Uni-versity, North China Electric Power Uni-versity, Beijing Institute of Technology,Beijing Jiaotong University, ChineseEMC Society, Editorial board membersof the magazine of EMC and Safety inChina and others. The attendees greatlyenjoyed the IEEE EMC distinguishedlectures. Thanks were given to the dis-tinguished lecture organizers ProfessorXui Xiang, Professor He Jinliang andProfessor Shen Xinqing.

Central New EnglandJohn Clarke, Secretary of the CNEEMC Chapter, reports that the CNEChapter held a meeting on TuesdayApril 17. The speaker was BruceArchambeault, PhD, DistinguishedEngineer of IBM, North Carolina. Thepresentation covered the topic “Elec-

Central New England Chapter members, including RogerAnderson of EqualLogic (center) and two attentive unidenti-fied women visit during the reception following the Tech Tour.

Sharon Smith of Conformity magazine, one of the Tech Toursponsors, joins Jim Schell of Kaiser Systems, winner of theraffle prize drawing held during the reception.

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tromagnetics for the Working Engi-neer.” Electromagnetics theory is sur-rounded by mystery and magic. Mostlybecause the mathematics needed tosolve Maxwell’s equations are messyenough that most of us avoid them atall costs! This presentation was intend-ed to remove the mystery behind elec-tromagnetics and explain things ineveryday terms - without the mathe-matics. Some of the basic symbols usedin mathematics, such as integration,derivatives, and weird vector symbolswere explained. Then, using these sim-ple explanations, Faraday’s andMaxwell’s contributions to electromag-netics were explained. These conceptsare not just of university only interest,they have real world application in thedesign of electronic equipment. Fara-day’s law is an introduction to induc-tance, and this presentation examinedinductance and its impact on system-level and printed circuit board design,the concept of “ground”, and returncurrent flow. Also, the speaker includ-ed a brief discussion on shielding andantennas. Eleven IEEE members andfour guests attended Bruce’s presenta-tion. The Chapter also sponsored the

Tech Tour at the Westford Regency andConference Center, Westford, Massa-chusetts on June 19. Two of the fourspeakers, Lee Hill and Randal Vaughnof SILENT, are CNE Chapter members.The other two speakers included Dr.Vince Rodriguez of ETS-Lindgren, andVic Hudson of Rohde & Schwarz. TheSILENT presentation addressed EMCtroubleshooting techniques and provid-ed many hands-on real world examples.Dr. Rodriguez gave a presentationtitled “Considerations for MIL-STDTesting Facilities, Including FieldGeneration and Antenna Systems forImmunity Measurements” noting thatan EMC chamber properly designed forMIL-STD 461E requirements can beused for conducted emissions, conduct-ed immunity, radiated emissions, andradiated immunity testing. The presen-tation discussed chamber essentials formaking MIL-STD 461E measurements.Mr. Hudson presented “EMI Measure-ments Using Time Domain (FFT)Based Test Instruments.” He discussedEMI measurement systems with a focuson comparing and contrasting timedomain/FFT and frequency domainbased instruments. The pros and cons

of each method including comparisonsof timing, accuracy and the usability ofthe results each method produces wereaddressed. The CNE Chapter antici-pates scheduling the next Chaptermeeting in early Fall 2007.

ChicagoFrank Krozel provided an update onChicago’s 9th annual IEEE EMC Mini-Symposium. Of course, the EMC Mini-Symposium was a success, according toMr. Krozel, EMC Mini-SymposiumChairman. They had 94 guests, some ofwhich were new to the Mini-Symposium.There were 21 tabletop exhibitor dis-plays and four technical presentations.The presentations ranged from fundamen-tals of EMC to specification changes totransient mitigation. Mini-Symposiumattendees left with new information onseveral specifications that have changed,and that they need to address. In addition,one of the highlights was the EMC Panel ofExperts. Attendees had the opportunity toask a panel of experts questions related toEMC, moderated by the Panel Chairman,Frank Krozel of Electronic InstrumentAssociates. The IEEE EMC Mini-Sympo-

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sium is a yearly event, sponsored by theChicago Chapter. For additional details,see http://www.emcchicago.org.

Hong KongThe Hong Kong Chapter had a success-ful day on 23 June when they held twoEMC technical presentations and EMCSociety talks. This half-day meeting had37 attendees, and was part of the EMCSociety Board of Directors out reach to

Hong Kong. The two technical talkswere: “New Paradigms for SpectrumManagement Based on RF Resource Uti-lization Beyond Spectrum” and “InfraredImages of EM Fields for Numerical CodeValidation” presented by Andrew L.Drozd, President of the IEEE EMC Soci-ety. A meeting of the Hong Kong Chap-ter’s committee members, along with adelegation EMC Society Board Mem-bers, including Andy Drozd, BarryWallen (VP Conference Services), and

Francesca Maradei (Chapter Coordinator)was held after the technical presenta-tions. The meeting introduced variousEMC Society related matters includingdiscussion on the Chapter’s direction andpossible future Hong Kong Chapterevents. A social gathering and HongKong tour were also organized the dayafter the event. Board members wereintroduced to the culture and some pop-ular Hong Kong sites, including aseafood dinner at Lamma Island.

The EMC Society Board of Directors delegation and theHong Kong EMC Chapter committee members enjoyed aChinese Dim Sum lunch at the Chinese Restaurant in theCity University of Hong Kong, prior to the Chapter meeting.

A laboratory tour to the Applied Electromagnetic Lab at theCity University of Hong Kong was held following theChapter meeting.

The “EMC Panel of Experts” at the Chicago Chapter’s Mini-EMC Symposium included (back row from left) FrankKrozel, Dr. Bret Robinson, Tom Braxton, Roger Swanberg,Ray Klouda, (front row from left) Bob Hofmann, Jerry Mey-erhoff, and Craig Fanning.

The EMC technical presentation at City University by thePresident of the EMC Society, Andy Drozd.

The EMC Society Board of Directors delegation meetingwith the Hong Kong EMC Chapter Committee membersas part of their outreach visit.

Dr. David Cheng (center), IEEE Hong Kong Section Chairman,presenting a souvenir to Andrew Drozd, the President of theIEEE EMC Society, after the technical presentation. The Chair-man of the Hong Kong EMC Chapter, Peter Leung, is on the left.

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HuntsvilleGlenn Shelby, Chapter Chair, reports thatthe Huntsville Chapter held a monthlytechnical meeting on May 10. The Chap-ter is indebted to Ms. Leigh Christian ofMindready Systems for hosting the eventand to Mr. Ken Javor of EMC Compli-ance for sponsoring the delicious bar-beque dinner. Mr. Ken Javor presented“Military/Aerospace EMI requirementsand demonstration of historic EMI testequipment used to set test limits.” Thetalk was well attended with 44 membersand guests present. Mr. Javor explained

the historical background of U.S. militaryEMI requirements and demonstratedantique radio receivers and EMI testreceivers. He explained that shortcomingsin World War II-era radio and radioinstallation design caused inordinate sen-sitivity to nearby electric fields and alsopower bus noise. The levels that causedRadio Frequency Interference (RFI) werevery low, and the EMI requirements werelevied to control emissions to those lowlevels. The WWII-era BC-348Q radioand the AN/PRM-1 EMI test receiverused to measure its susceptibility wereboth demonstrated during the meeting to

show how the original EMI requirementswere constructed. In addition, the 1960s-era AN/BRR-3 submarine Very Low Fre-quency (VLF) receiver was demonstratedto explain the origin of the RE01 mag-netic field requirement. Mr. Javor’s pre-sentation was very well received, as evi-denced by the number of attendees whostayed for over an hour after the presenta-tion to talk with him and examine theequipment. The Chapter is grateful to Mr.Javor for the demonstration and for haul-ing the very heavy equipment to themeeting. A sudden thunderstorm afterthe meeting made it very interesting to

Huntsville Chapter members networking before the meet-ing began.

Ken Javor (third from right) explains the operation of the BC-348Q radio to several interested Huntsville Chapter members.

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Huntsville Chapter members admiring the workmanship ofthe AN-BRR-3 VLF receiver.

Huntsville Chapter members Ken Javor (left) and CurtisNeely (right) sharing EMI experiences after the meeting.

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Gary Wu and Louis Catuogno of Boeing Satellite Systems,Speaker David Hockanson of Sun Microsystems, Connie Pedrozaof Northrop Grumman, David Fischer of Fischer Custom Com-munications and Carl Vogelsang of Boeing (from left) enjoyedthe March Los Angeles Chapter Meeting.

Doug Smith gives his presentation on troubleshooting ofPCB’s with low cost test equipment to the Los Angeles Chap-ter in April.

load the equipment in an open truck forthe ride home! Several Chapter functionsare planned for the rest of the year. Mr.Jeff Bruce, Steward, will present “Ferritesin the suppression of EMI” at the Augustmeeting. Dr. Jun Fan, EMCS Distin-guished Lecturer, will present “Power dis-tribution network design for high-speedprinted circuit boards” at the Septembermeeting. The annual Chapter businessmeeting will be held in October to closeout the year. Planning for future eventsincluding Huntsville EMC 2008 (April29, 2008) is underway. The call for pre-sentations for the 2008 Chapter year willbe sent out in September. Please contactGlenn Shelby (glennshelby@ieee.org) ifyou would be interested in presenting tothe Huntsville EMC Chapter at one of the2008 monthly meetings. Remember tocheck out Huntsville EMC Chapter hap-penings at the Chapter website:http://ewh.ieee.org/r3/huntsville/emc/.

Los AngelesThe Los Angeles Chapter boasted an all-star lineup for the Spring series of meet-ings including EMC Society Distin-

guished Lecturer David Hockanson ofSun Microsystems in March, past Distin-guished Lecturer Doug Smith of D.C.Smith Consultants in April, as well aspast Chairman of the Distinguished Lec-turer Program Lee Hill of SILENT,Vince Rodriguez of ETS-Lindgren andJames Young of Rohde & Schwarz for theEMC and Wireless Tech Tour in May,and, finally, EMC Society PhotographerKen Wyatt of Agilent Colorado Springsin June. David Hockanson spoke on thetopic of “Power System Signal Integrityat the Microprocessor Level.” He spokeon the methodology he used to analyzethe power signal integrity of an actualSun microprocessor. David’s energeticpresentation style had most attendees atthe edge of their seats. There were plen-ty of questions for David at the end of hispresentation as most of the attendeeswere involved with signal integrityissues. Doug Smith spoke on the trou-bleshooting of PCB’s with low cost testequipment for ESD susceptibility. Doughad an actual PCB that had a knownreset problem and he invited the audi-ence to use his troubleshooting setup tofind the area of susceptibility. Surpris-

ingly, it took the attendee “victim” along time to find the area of susceptibil-ity, as it was a very localized spot on thePCB. When the correct area and looporientation the PCB’s flashing LEDslocked up, Doug also lightened up thecrowd by showing a Dilbert video clip“The Knack” which most engineerswould appreciate! It got quite a fewlaughs from the attendees as it hit closeto home. It can be found on GoogleVideo by typing in “The Knack.” Chap-ter members traveled to the IrvineHilton to attend the half-day EMC TechTour and meet up with members of theOrange County EMC Chapter. At theTech Tour, Lee Hill showed us how toeasily check the quality of RF connec-tors, adapters and cables by fashioning areturn loss measurement setup using aspectrum analyzer, directional couplerand a tracking generator. He demon-strated how a seemingly high qualityexpensive RF connector or load actuallyhad poor return loss whereas a cosmeti-cally beat up RF load had better returnloss. He stressed the importance ofquickly verifying the quality of all RFcomponents in the measurement signal

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path before making emissions measure-ments. Vince Rodriguez discussed sever-al of the test environments used for radi-ated testing: GTEM, OATS and Ane-choic Chambers. He outlined some of theadvantages and disadvantages of each ofthese test environments. Each one haslimitations but some can only be used forpre-compliance testing whereas anOATS or properly size anechoic chambercan be used for compliance testing.James Young discussed the new EMIreceiver architecture that allows for fastersweeps giving the user more real-timespectral data than conventional EMIreceiver architectures. It allows the userto see more of the time history for signalsof interest, which will aid the test engi-neer in identifying EMI sources. In June,Ken Wyatt spoke on The Top Ten EMIProblems and Troubleshooting Tech-niques. As he went through his top tenlist of EMC problems he illustrated thedesign deficiencies with real-worldexamples of real products. He has seenthese very common problems time andtime again over his lengthy career withAgilent as an EMC Engineer. After this,he went into the second part of his pre-sentation, which featured his “EMCCrashcart” kit. His kit is full of all kinds

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Ken Wyatt during his presentation on the “Top Ten EMC Prob-lems” at the June Los Angeles Chapter meeting.

A close up of Kanaiya Mahendra troubleshooting a samplePCB during Doug Smith’s troubleshooting presentation inLos Angeles.

Doug Smith demonstrating trouble-shooting techniques in LosAngeles.

Kanaiya Mahendra performs well as an audience volunteerduring Doug Smith’s ESD transient troubleshooting tech-nique demonstration in Los Angeles.

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of low cost troubleshooting tools. Kenestimated the total cost of the kit ataround $3,000. Some of the items were aspectrum analyzer, low noise amplifier,ESD sources, ESD event detectors, cur-rent probes, homemade antennas, har-monic comb generator (schematic andparts list included), resistivity probesand other goodies. The spectrum analyz-er was rather interesting as its display is

a Palm Pilot that can be removed so youcan check your e-mail or lookup a tele-phone number while taking a break fromEMC troubleshooting. In addition to anexcellent presentation, the attendeeswere treated to a three-course dinner atZazou in the upstairs banquet room.Many Chapter members were lookingforward to the EMC Symposium andtheir chance to share their EMC exper-

tise to their fellow EMC engineers withthe acceptance of their technical papersby the symposium technical committee.Some were more excited and proud ofgetting their travel to Hawaii approved(by their company) than actually goingto Hawaii! The Los Angeles Chapter hasalso been getting ready for EMC 2011 asthe contract for the Long Beach Conven-tion Center was signed late in June. By

Ken Wyatt’s inexpensive spectrum analyzer that utilizes aPalm Pilot for a display shown during his presentation tothe Los Angeles Chapter in June.

Lee Hill of SILENT gave a great presentation titled “Character-ize EMI Lab RF Cables, Connectors, and Accessories Using eBayand a Test Receiver” during the Tech Tour held on May 15 inIrvine for the Los Angeles and Orange County EMC Chapters.

Los Angeles Chapter members Brian Kuhlman and Terry He ofBoeing joined John O’Brien of WEMS Electronics (from left)during a break between Tech Tour presentations.

Los Angeles Chapter Chair, Ray Adams (left) of Fischer Cus-tom Communications, visited with Danny Odum of ETS-Lindgren during the Tech Tour reception.

Verdin Orozco, Roger Mannering, and Joseph Capella (from left)of Dot Hill Systems enjoyed good food, good drink and good net-working at the reception following the Tech Tour.

The Tech Tour reception in Los Angeles featured tabletop dis-plays by the event sponsors, ETS-Lindgren, SILENT,Rohde&Schwarz and Conformity Magazine.

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doing so, the Chapter was able to claimincentive money from the Long BeachArea Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Milwaukee This spring, the Milwaukee EMC Chap-ter participated in an IEEE MilwaukeeSection sponsored “Senior Project PosterCompetition.” This competition wasopen to the three Engineering Colleges

within the Section. They are: MarquetteUniversity, Milwaukee School of Engi-neering (MSOE) and the University ofWisconsin at Milwaukee. The competi-tion was held at the Miller Inn, locatedin Miller Valley, home of the MillerBrewing Company. A well-attendedmeeting provided an opportunity for thesenior standing students to brush up ontheir presentation skills. It also offeredan opportunity for the various Chapters

to catch up on each other’s activities. Sec-ond place was awarded to a team fromUW-Milwaukee for its Radio DirectionFinder System for Small Hobby Crafts.First Place was awarded to the team fromMSOE for its Dynamic Force SensingInsole for Ambulatory Therapy. After theawards were presented to the students,IEEE Region 4 Awards were also pre-sented. The Magnetics, Power and EMCChapters received awards. The Milwau-

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Tien Vu of Northrop Grumman (far left) won the raffle prizeat the conclusion of the Tech Tour in Los Angeles. He’s smilingas he was the last to RSVP yet won a great prize! Joining himare Martha Hallman and Danny Odum.

First Place Winner! The “Dynamic Force Sensing Insolefor Ambulatory Therapy” poster by the Milwaukee Schoolof Engineering.

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kee EMC Chapter was acknowledged byRegion 4 as one of the most active Chap-ters within the region for calendar years2004, 2005 and 2006.

PhoenixHarry Gaul, Chapter Chair, reports that18 people attended the May meeting ofthe Phoenix EMC Chapter. EMC SocietyVP for Member Services Dave Staggsgave a brief presentation on the upcom-

ing EMC Symposium and 50th anniver-sary celebration of the EMC Society,which will be held in Hawaii this sum-mer. Dan Hoolihan was the featuredspeaker with a topic entitled “Under-standing the Latest Changes to IEC17025 for EMC Lab Accreditation.” Danbegan his talk by offering suggestions onhow to select an EMC Lab. First, youshould make sure the lab is accredited toISO17025: 2005 and then verify that thescope of accreditation covers all of your

tests. The ISO17025 document coversall kinds of labs, not just EMC. The doc-ument includes both managementrequirements as well as technicalrequirements. One of the highlights ofISO17025 is that a lab needs to seekfeedback from its customers, both posi-tive and negative. Also corrective actionusing root cause analysis should beundertaken to correct error proneprocesses. In particular, Dan mentionedthat a lab’s measurements should always

Free beer on tap at the IEEE Milwaukee Section “Senior ProjectPoster Competition.”

Jim Blaha (left) of Ingenium Testing, Milwaukee ChapterChair, enjoys “Miller Time” with Milwaukee IEEE SectionVice-Chair Tom Smith.

The Miller Brewing Company with free beer and free parkingproved to be an ideal location for an IEEE event in Milwaukee.

A close up of the biosensor insole at the Milwaukee IEEE Sec-tion event.

The University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee received the secondplace award for its “Radio Direction Finder System for SmallHobby Crafts.”

Dan Hoolihan presents Tom Karas of Motorola and Jim Voglerof National Technical Systems (from left) with IEEE beachtowels to commemorate the 2007 EMC Symposium in Hawaii.Tom and Jim won the towels as door prizes at the May meetingof the Phoenix Chapter.

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fall within plus or minus two standarddeviations. This should be checked on aroutine basis by performing intermedi-ate checks such as measuring the E-fieldlevel of an FM radio station. Informationon future meetings is available on thePhoenix EMC Chapter Web site athttp://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/phoenix/phoenixemc/.

PittsburghA technical meeting of the PittsburghEMC Chapter was conducted on April17 at the Westinghouse Energy Centerin Monroeville, PA. Michael Oliver,EMC Chapter Chair, and HarryGodlewski, Vice Chair, hosted the meet-ing with 16 people in attendance. Wewere fortunate to have four studentsattend the meeting from Geneva Col-lege; it is always important for our EMCChapter to have Electrical Engineeringstudents involved for continued growthin our field. The meeting started with asocial prior to a technical presentation.We had the privilege of having Lee Hillas our technical speaker. Lee is a found-ing partner of SILENT; an independentconsulting firm that specializes in EMCand RF design, troubleshooting, and

training services to commercial andindustrial manufacturers. He presented“Measuring Noise Current and How toReduce it Using Ferrites.” This presenta-tion was based upon a mix of Lee’s othermore in depth presentations that he reg-ularly presents as courses offered throughSILENT. On May 15-17, Lee held athree-day Electronic Product Design &Retrofit for EMC Class at the SyriaShrine Center in Cheswick, PA. Formore details, see the following link:http://www.silent-solutions.com/educa-tion.htm. In the technical presentation,Lee reviewed the use of low and high fre-quency noise filter inductors that arecommonly referred to as ‘ferrites’. Heprovided the necessary background, theconcepts of differential and common-mode current and demonstrations usinga spectrum analyzer, a variety of currentprobes, and several ‘live’ noise sources.Discussion also included tips for choos-ing the right probe and ferrite to under-stand and solve noise problems and areview of Lee’s favorite current probes forthe measurement of low and high fre-quency currents. This presentation wasrelevant to anyone involved in the con-trol of electrical noise from 10 kHz to 10GHz. Lee encouraged audience partici-

pation and welcomed questions through-out the presentation.

Rock River Valley SectionGreat news from Rockford, Illinois: TheEMC Society has a new Chapter! TheEMC Society has granted an EMC Chap-ter to the IEEE Rock River Valley (RRV)Section. The new EMC Chapter will bejoining three Chapters as part of the RRVSection. The other three Chapters are:Industrial Applications, Computer/Con-trol Systems and Power Electronics. Tojump-start the petition for an EMC Chap-ter, the Rock River Valley Section assist-ed with the hosting of Tech Tour 2007 byETS-Lindgren, Rohde & Schwarz,SILENT and Conformity. This half-dayseminar on June 6 provided practicalEMC design experience from the experts.One of the featured speakers was also oneof the EMC Society’s own experts, Mr. LeeHill. Over 80 registered professionalsattended the presentations. Following thetechnical program, the attendees also hadthe opportunity to tour the new Ingeni-um Testing EMC Laboratory. A social,with four varieties of cheesecakes, fol-lowed the hour-long tour. This summerhas also been an active one for the new

Ingenium Testing, LLC hosted over 80 Tech Tour attendees fromthe IEEE Rock River Valley Section for a tour of its facility.

Dr. Vicente Rodriguez of ETS-Lindgren presents “Considera-tions for MIL-STD Testing Facilities, Including Field Gen-eration and Antenna Systems for Immunity Measurements”at the Rockford Tech Tour.

Rockford Tech Tour speaker and sponsor, Vic Hudson of Rohde& Schwarz, presents “EMI Measurements Using TimeDomain (FFT) Based Test Instruments.”

The light and bright cafeteria area of Ingenium provided aperfect location for the Tech Tour reception held following thetour of Ingenium’s new test facilities in Rockford, Illinois.

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EMC Chapter. A seminar committee hasbeen formed and plans are already lockedin for an EMC Seminar in October. Chair-ing the seminar committee is the newEMC Chapter Chair, Jamal Shafii, PhD.Look for Jamal’s seminar report in theWinter Issue for the EMC Newsletter.

RomaniaOn June 14, the Romanian EMC Chap-ter, in co-operation with the Romanian

EMC Association (ACER), TechnicalUniversity of Cluj-Napoca andResearch Institute for Electrical Engi-neering (ICMET Craiova), held theworkshop, “Romanian RegulationsHarmonized with European Directives:EMC, R&TTE, Automotive and Work-ers Health and Safety requirements tothe risks arising from electromagneticfields.” Of course, the conference had aspecial emphasis on EMC topics. Theone-day workshop was hosted by the

Electrical Engineering Faculty of theTechnical University Cluj-Napoca(Western Romania). More than 50 peo-ple, including representatives fromnational regulatory bodies, universities,research institutes, tests laboratoriesand industry, attended the meeting.The technical programme was estab-lished by Professor Sorin Coatu, fromthe “Polytechnical” University ofBucharest, EMC Chapter Chair andProfessor Andrei Marinescu, from the

Jack Black of DLS Electronic Systems won the raffle prizedrawing held at the conclusion of the Tech Tour reception.Tammy Hojat of ETS-Lindgren presented the prize.

Joe Etminan (left), IEEE Rock River Section Chair, of RockValley College joins the new Rockford EMC Chapter Chair,Jamal Shafii (center) PhD, of Hamilton-Sundstrand during ahand shake “Welcoming” from Jim Blaha, EMC ChapterChair in Milwaukee.

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SeattlePat André, Chapter Chair, reports that theSeattle Chapter had an excellent meetingon May 18 with EMC Society Distin-guished Lecturer David Hockanson of SunMicrosystems presenting “CSI: Compliance

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Professor Andrei Marinescu, Vice-Chair of the RomanianEMC Chapter, opening Romania’s recent workshop. ProfessorCalin Munteanu (Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Tech-nical University Cluj-Napoca), Professor Radu Ciupa (Deanof Electrical Engineering Faculty), Professor Andrei Marines-cu, and Rr. Ioan T. Pop (Transelectrica) are shown from left.

Professor Andrei Marinescu introduces Eng. Uwe Flor (EMTest GmbH, Germany), who presented a report about newaspects in the revised version of IEC 61000-4-4 standard (Ed.2.0) to the Romania Chapter.

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The meeting was held at CKC Labs inBothell where pizza was served for a casualdinner before the presentation.

SwedenJan-Olof Brink, Vice Chairman of theIEEE Sweden EMC Chapter, reports that

on April 17 and 18, 2007, the firstSwedish professional conference on thetheme “EMC, ESD and Electricity Safe-ty” was held in Gothenburg, Sweden.The event was organised by Just EventSweden AB and had been prepared formore than one-year prior. Several promi-nent organizations such as the IEEE Swe-

den EMC Chapter, Nordic ESD Council,and Swedish National Committee onRadio Science supported the event. Avery good mix of people from differentcompanies, authorities and universitiesattended, and a good “cross-fertilization”could be seen as a result. This was thenatural opportunity for “people in the

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Pat André (left) of André Consulting, Seattle ChapterChair, presents a small token of appreciation (Seattle’s BestCoffee) to speaker David Hockanson of Sun Microsystemsat the May Chapter meeting.

Seattle Chapter members enjoyed a pizza dinner at CKC Labsin Bothell prior to the excellent presentation by DistinguishedLecturer David Hockanson.

IEEE EMC Sweden Chapter Vice-Chair Jan-Olof Brinkencouraged participants to learn more about the IEEE andEMC Society at the Gothenburg conference.

SIBCON 2007 attendees enjoy a walking tour of the tradi-tional architecture of Tomsk, Russia.

The audience listens attentively at the first Swedish profes-sional conference on the theme “EMC, ESD and ElectricitySafety” held in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The exhibition held during the Gothenburg, Sweden confer-ence encouraged much interaction between the participants.Jonathan Silvergran (right) of Saab Aerotech EMC and Elec-tromagnetic Engineering in the town of Östersund, is the IT-manager for the Swedish EMC Chapter.

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business” to gather and spread experienceand know-how. Professor Dag Strannebyof Orebro University, presented the firstpaper with the title “What Colour is theElectron?” At the end of the presentationwe got the answer - it is yellow. Morethan 50 additional papers were presentedon the subjects EMC, ESD and Electrici-ty Safety, in four parallel sessions. Justoutside the conference hall, there was anexhibition with 40 exhibitors showingtheir products and services. In summary,it was an excellent event, and you can seefrom the amount of visitors in the photoshown that there is a growing need forthis kind of event in Sweden. The goal isto repeat this event in the next two orthree year’s time. The IEEE Sweden EMCChapter will meet again in Linköping onOctober 2. The theme for this meetingwill be EM-terrorism and intentionalEMI to wireless networks. Please contactthe chairman of this event, Mr. Leif Jun-holm for more information leif.jun-holm@ieee.org. For more information onthe activities of the Sweden EMC Chap-ter, please contact Mr. Brink at jan-olof.brink@kockums.se or visit theChapter website at www.ieee.se.

Tomsk, RussiaOleg Stukach, Chapter Chair, reports thatthe seventh Siberian Conference on Con-trol and Communications (SIBCON2007) was held by the Tomsk Joint EMCChapter, in Tomsk. The event was alsoorganized by the Siberia Section, co-spon-sored by ED-S, MTT-S, ComSoc, andsponsored by the Russian Foundation forBasic Research. Topics included “Simula-tion and Modeling in Control and Infor-mation Processing,” the “Basic Problemsof Communication and Control Theory,”and “Digital Video and Image Process-

ing.” There was also a special session on“Materials for Electron Devices and X-Ray Detectors.” The program consisted ofthe paper presentations and discussionswhile a social program included a site-see-ing tour, banquet and bowling. Onceagain, the conference has shown that anarrow, specialized event can not only besuccessful in Russia, but that it is alsoextremely necessary for the developmentof important technical fields. The secondday of the conference was especially suc-cessful. The summer-like weather wasvery hot. Saturday’s foot excursion, whichdemonstrated the unique wooden housesof Tomsk, made an indelible impressionon the tour’s participants. During ourtour, traditional songs about Tomskplayed from street loudspeakers. Thearchitectural-musical foot tour was cer-tainly a highlight of the conference. Wecordially invite all interested experts toparticipate in the next SIBCON 2009.Your cooperation and support of the Sci-entific Program Committee would behighly appreciated. Please find informa-tion regarding future events on the Webat http://www.comsoc.org/tomsk.

United Kingdom & Republicof IrelandThe Chapter had another successful pro-gramme of events in 2006 starting onWednesday, March 1, with a meeting atthe British Telecommunications Officesin Brentwood, Essex. Presentations wereon a number of important topics by Mar-tin Wright, Trevor Morsman, Paul Sayer,Brian Jones and John Pink. The meetingwent well with a good atmosphere andplenty of audience participation. Twenty-one people attended. The next event wasin June at The National Space Centre inLeicester. There was a good turnout for

exciting presentations from the fivespeakers on “Space/Aerospace EMC” plus“Some Topical Measurement Subjects.”Attendees were able to explore thesite/facility in the afternoon where muchhistoric rocketry etc. is on display. OnOctober 18, Experiment DemonstrationSessions were held at EMCUK2006 in theNewbury Racecourse Conference Centre.Stuart Charles, Andrew Lambourne, RoyEdiss and Lorant Foelkel in the marqueeannex gave four practical experiment andcomputer solution demonstrations. OnDecember 6, the annual general meetingand afternoon technical meeting wereheld at University College London. Theafternoon meeting was a special event on“PCB and IC Level EMC” presented bytwo world-class speakers Tim Williamsand IEEE EMC Distinguished Lecturer,Etienne Sicard. An after-meeting net-working session was held in “The Lamb,”a traditional London pub. 2007 startedwith a technical meeting on the theme“Topical EMC Issues.” Papers were pre-sented on New EMC Regulations, Forth-coming Multimedia Standards, Cables inEMC Testing and EMC Requirements forRadio Equipment. Although the meetingwas interrupted by a fire alarm, it was stillvery successful and enjoyed by all. EMC

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There was much interest in the tabletop demonstrations atNewbury organized by the United Kingdom and Republicof Ireland Chapter.

Andrew Lambourne of Qinetiq demonstrates the effective-ness of EMP protective devices at Newbury.

Roy Ediss of Philips talks about ana-lyzing current paths and magneticfields at Newbury.

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