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Congratulations!
Announcing the New Senior Members of the IEEE EMC Society
Congratulations for your elevation to the grade of Senior Member of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society. The
Senior Member grade constitutes a mark of recognition of your high professional standing and experience. Only 3%, approximately,
of the entire IEEE membership hold the grade of Senior Members, and we are proud to have you joining this
prestigious class.
Martin Armstrong
Lowell Kolb
Paul Vertannes
Jose Descardeci
Junhong Deng
Koji Michishita
Masahiro Aoyagi
Rodolfo Areno
There has been significant confusion between the EMC
Society’s Honorary Life Member Award and the IEEE
Life member grade. To alleviate this confusion, the
Board of Directors has changed the name of the award to “EMC
Society Honored Member Award” rather than “EMC Society Honorary
Life Member Award”. The benefits have also been expanded
to formally include complimentary registration at the
annual symposia.
IEEE Life membership is a grade of membership automatically
awarded to all IEEE members at the time that their age
plus number of years of membership total 100 or more years.
This is managed at the IEEE level and does not reflect any Society
membership or activities. The EMC Society does recognize
IEEE Life members’ long commitment by providing reduced
rate symposium registration fees.
All those who previously received the former EMC Honorary
Life Member Award did so for their outstanding service to
the EMC Society. This was not automatic but a specific Society
award. This award provided the person being honored with
complimentary Society membership for life and a certificate.
Complimentary symposium registration was not an official part
of this award, rather it was a courtesy extended by the individual
symposium chairs.
This outstanding achievement (Honorary Life) award was
first given in 1970 to Rexford Daniels, who was a Founder of
the EMC Society, served on the Administrative Committee, and
among many other things, was a long standing editor of the
Newsletter, from 1954 to 1968 (Issues 2–53). [1] These awards
Richars Hoard
Hideki Sasaki
Paul Stover
Hongmei Fan
Thomas Heckman
Branko Misljenovic
David Thomas
Murray Marple
Keith Tinsley
Yakup Bayram
Abdelber Bendaoud
Jacek Izdorczyk
Michael Oliver
William Parker
IEEE EMC Society Honored Member Award
By Colin E. Brench, Membership Coordinator/Awards Committee
have been given out almost yearly since that time, sometimes
to one individual, sometimes up to five individuals. Just recently,
in 2008, eight awards were given; three to currently active
members, and five to past active Founders. While some of
the award recipients are also Life members of the IEEE, there
are many who receive this award for outstanding service to the
EMC Society who are not in that category. For further background
on the history of the EMC Society awards, see the article
in the EMC Society Newsletter, Issue No. 204 [2].
In summary, the EMC Society Honored Member Award
is primarily a name change to avoid the above mentioned confusion;
it maintains the existing benefits of the old EMC Life
member award and adds complimentary registration to the annual
symposium to the benefits. IEEE Life members who have
not received the EMC Honorary Award will continue to receive
reduced EMC Symposium registration rates. A letter will be
sent shortly to all who have received the EMC Honorary Member
award to personally notify them of these changes. If you
have any questions, please contact the author at colin.brench@
ieee.org.
1) http://www.conformity.com/artman/publish/printer_201.
shtml
Hoolihan, Daniel D.; “EMC: A Brief History of the IEEE
EMC Society”; Conformity, Jul 1, 2007.
2) http://www.emcs.org
Hoolihan, Daniel D.; “EMC Society Awards – An Historical
Review”; IEEE EMC Society Newsletter, Winter 2005; Issue
No. 204. EMC
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