2007 ieee international symposium on electromagnetic compatibility

6PLENARY SESSIONTuesday, 10 July <strong>2007</strong>8:30am – 9:30amHawai’i Convention CenterEMC <strong>2007</strong> ADVANCE PROGRAMThe <strong>2007</strong> IEEE International Symposium on EMC steering committee is pleased to announce that IEEE President Leah Jamieson will be thekeynote speaker to officially open the technical sessions of the EMC Society’s 50th Anniversary Symposium. Ms. Jamieson will also present theprestigious <strong>2007</strong> IEEE Electromagnetics Award to Carl Baum, the <strong>2007</strong> IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award to Clayton R. Paul, and thisyear’s Fellow Awards. To conclude the plenary session, in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the EMC Society and its rich historical legacy, invitedspeaker Tapan Sarkar will give a presentation on James Clerk Maxwell and his numerous contributions to EMC science. This talk, based on a bookco-written by him on the history of wireless technology, will discuss Maxwell from a historical perspective focusing on some of his works that manyare not familiar with beyond his classical electromagnetic equations.SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE ADDRESS“Engineering in the Changing World”Leah Jamieson, <strong>2007</strong> IEEE PresidentAbstractGlobal and technological trends are driving change both in the engineeringprofession and in engineering education. What grand challenges andtechnological trends will shape engineering endeavors over the next 20years? What attributes will define success in 21st century careers? Howdo we prepare students for careers where traits such as innovation and flexibilityare as crucial as math, science, and engineering fundamentals?What role might professional societies play in this changing landscape?What unexpected opportunities might result from the broadening ofengineering beyond its traditional scope? We need nothing short of a revolutionin how we think about 21st century education and careers.BiographyLeah H. Jamieson received the S.B. degree in mathematics from MIT andthe Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering andComputer Science, Princeton University. In 1976 she joined the faculty atPurdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, where she is theRansburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and ComputerEngineering and John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering.Jamieson is co-founder and past director of the EngineeringProjects in Community Service (EPICS), an engineering design programthat operates in a service-learning context. Initiated at Purduein 1995, EPICS programs have been created at sixteen additional universitiesand one high school. EPICS co-founders were awarded theU.S. National Academy of Engineering’s 2005 Bernard M. GordonPrize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education.EPICS was featured in the PBS documentary Communities BuildingCommunity, produced by WFYI Indianapolis in 2003.Jamieson’s research interests include speech analysis and recognition;the design and analysis of parallel processing algorithms; andthe application of parallel processing to the areas of digital speech,image, and signal processing. She has authored over 160 journal andconference papers and has co-edited books in these areas. She has beenan IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer and anIEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor.Jamieson has been an active volunteer in the 365,000-memberInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for manyyears and was recently elected to be the <strong>2007</strong> IEEE President. Shewas awarded an IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000) and the IEEESignal Processing Society’s 2003 Meritorious Service Award.Jamieson is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the U.S. NationalAcademy of Engineering.“WHO WAS JAMES CLERK MAXWELL AND WHATIS/WAS HIS ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY?”Tapan Sarkar of Syracuse UniversityAccording to Dr. Sarkar, Maxwell can be considered as one of theworld’s greatest scientists even if he had never worked on electricityand magnetism. His influence is everywhere, which surprisinglyis quite unknown to most scientists and engineers. The talkwill describe some of that research including for example, the ophthalmoscopeand the Maxwell’s yellow spot test for macular degeneration,the three colors used in color television, as inventor of the concept ofensemble averaging and the developer of the concept of entropy whichwas expounded by Leo Szilard and others as information theory. Hetook the first color photograph, laid the basic foundation on the choiceof three primary colors in characterizing any color, and developed accessoriesfor colorblind people, which are still used today. He developedgeneral laws of optical instruments and even developed a theory on thecomposition of Saturn’s rings. He created a standard for electrical resistance.He also wrote the first paper on negative feedback that was thecornerstone of Norbert Wiener’s work on cybernetics. Additionally, heimproved the system of dimensional analysis which led him to predictthat light was electromagnetic in nature and surprisingly the method ofsolving the loop currents as the ratio of determinants, to name a few. Hedeveloped a coherent set of units of measurement of electricity and magnetism,which became misleadingly known as the Gaussian system.Even though Maxwell has influenced development in many areas of thephysical sciences and had started a revolution in the way physicists lookat the world, he is not very well known for these accomplishments,unfortunately, outside some selected scientific communities. The reasonsfor that will also be described.©<strong>2007</strong> IEEE www.emc<strong>2007</strong>.org