Chuck Bunting (S’89-M’94) was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia in 1962. He was employed at the Naval Aviation Depot in Norfolk, VA as an apprentice, an electronics mechanic, and an electronics measurement equipment mechanic from 1981-1989.  He received his A.A.S. in Electronics Technology from Tidewater Community College in 1985, the B.S. degree in Engineering Technology with highest honors from Old Dominion University in 1989. He received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in 1992. From 1991-1994 Dr. Bunting held a Bradley Fellowship and a DuPont Fellowship and in 1994 he was awarded the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech. From 1994 to 2001 Chuck was an assistant/associate professor at Old Dominion University in the Department of Engineering Technology where he worked closely with NASA Langley Research Center on electromagnetic field penetration in aircraft structures and reverberation chamber simulation using finite element techniques. In the Fall of 2001 he joined the faculty of Oklahoma State University as an associate professor. His chief interests are computational and statistical electromagnetics, electromagnetic characterization and application of reverberation chambers, and development of near infrared tomographical sensors for prostate cancer detection (http://ece.okstate.edu/cbunting/).

 

Flavio G. Canavero received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, in 1977, and the PhD degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, in 1986.Currently he is a Professor of Circuit Theory and Electromagnetic Compatibility with the Department of Electronics, Politecnico di Torino. His research interests are in the field of Electromagnetic Compatibility, where he works on field coupling to multiwire cables, interconnect and device modeling for signal integrity, and statistical methods in EMC. He is an IEEE Fellow, Chair of URSI Commission E, and Technical Editor of the Practical Papers Section of the EMC Newsletter. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. He received the IBM Faculty Award for the triennium 2003-2005, the Intel Research Grant for 2008, and several Best Paper recognitions. He has co-authored  more than 150 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has been the Organizer of the Workshop on Signal Propagation on Interconnects (SPI; 2001 to 2003, and 2007), and he is currently a member of the Scientific Steering Committees of  several International Conferences in the field of EMC and Electrical Performance of Interconnects and Packages.

 

 

Jim Drewniak received his BS, MS, and PHD degrees from the University of Illinois. In 1991 he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Missouri-Rolla, where he was one of the principle faculty in establishing the UMR EMC Laboratory. His research interests are in PCB EMC, electronic packaging, signal integrity, and applied numerical modeling. He teaches courses in signal integrity, computational EM, microwave principles for mixed-signal design, and advanced EM theory at UMR. He is a member of the IEEE EMC Society TC-9, Computational EMC, and TC-10, Signal Integrity, and is a past chair of both, and is a fellow of the IEEE.

 

 

David Hockanson, Ph.D. is a Senior Staff Engineer with the EMC Design group of Sun Microsystems, Inc. He is responsible for developing novel solutions to electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) issues that can be implemented confidently in early design stages to ensure compliance to worldwide EMC regulations without costly late-stage system changes. He also serves as a troubleshooter for Sun and OEM designs should EMC issues arise. David received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla. He was a National Science Foundation Fellow during his tenure as a graduate student, and came to Sun as a Member of Technical Staff after completing his doctoral program in 1997. Early responsibilities were centered around ensuring that Sun’s products met the requirements set by worldwide regulatory agencies. In 2003, he began focusing on determining more effective means of complying through physics-based design techniques employed on chips, boards, and chassis.

 

 

Todd H. Hubing received his B.S.E.E. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980, his M.S.E.E. degree from Purdue University in 1982, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1988. From 1982 to 1989, he was employed in the Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory, IBM Communications Products Division, in Research Triangle Park, NC. In 1989, he joined the faculty at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) where he is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prof. Hubing has been an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on EMC, the IEEE EMC Society Newsletter, and the Journal of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society. He was the 2002-2003 President of the IEEE EMC Society and is a Fellow of the IEEE.

 

 

 

Andy Marvin is Professor of Applied Electromagnetics, Leader of the Physical Layer Research Group at the University of York and Technical Director of York EMC Services Ltd. He received his BEng, MEng and PhD degrees from the University of Sheffield between 1972 and 1978. He is currently Chairman of COST Action 286 (EMC in Diffused Communications Systems). A Member of the IEEE and the IEE he is on the Executive Committee of the IEE Professional Network for EMC and represents the UK on URSI Commission A (Electromagnetic Metrology). He is co-convenor of the joint CISPR/IEC task force on the use of TEM cells for EMC measurements, a member of the IEEE Std-299 Working Group and an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans EMC. His main research interests are EMC measurement techniques and shielding.

 

  

 

Clayton R. Paul was born in Macon, GA on September 6, 1941. He received the B.S. degree, from The Citadel, Charleston, SC, in 1963, the M.S. degree, from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, in 1964, and the Ph.D. degree, from Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, in 1970, all in electrical engineering. He is emeritus professor of electrical engineering at the University of Kentucky where he was a member of the facultyin the department of electrical engineering for 27 years. He is currently the Sam Nunn Eminent Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the department of electrical and computer engineering at Mercer University in Macon, GA. He is the author of numerous textbooks on electrical engineering subjects, and has published numerous technical papers, the majority of which are in his primary research area of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) of electronic systems. From 1970 to 1984, he conducted extensive research for the US Air Force in modeling crosstalk in multiconductor transmission lines and printed circuit boards. From 1984 to 1990 he served as a consultant to the IBM corporation, in the area of product EMC design. Dr. Paul is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is an Honorary Life Member of the IEEE EMC Society. He received the 2005 IEEE Electromagnetics Award “for excellence in the advancement of electromagnetic theory towards solving crosstalk problems in transmission lines and cable assemblies”.

 

 

Albert E. Ruehli received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1972 from the University of Vermont, Burlington, and an honorary doctorate in 2007 from the LuleaUniversity in Sweden. He has been a member of various projects with IBM including mathematical analysis, semiconductor circuits and devices modeling, and as manager of a VLSI design and CAD group. Since 1972, he has been at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, where he now is a Research Staff Member in the Electromagnetic Analysis Group. He retired from IBM in 2009. He is the editor of two books, Circuit Analysis, Simulation and Design (New York, North Holland 1986, 1987) and he is an author or coauthor of over 180 technical papers. Dr. Ruehli has served in numerous capacities for the IEEE. In 1984 and 1985, he was the Technical and General Chairman, respectively, of the ICCD International Conference. He has been a member of the IEEE ADCOM for the Circuit and System Society and an associate editor for the Trans. on Computer-Aided Design. He has given talks at universities including keynote addresses and tutorials at conferences, and has organized many sessions. He received IBM Research Division or IBM Outstanding Contribution Awards in 1975, 1978, 1982, 1995 and 2000. In 1982, he received the Guillemin-Cauer Prize Award for his work on waveform relaxation, and in 1999, he received a Golden Jubilee Medal, both from the IEEE CAS Society. In 2001, he received a Certificate of Achievment from the IEEE EMC society for inductance concepts and the Partial Element Equivalent Circuit(PEEC) method. He received the 2005 Richard R Stoddart Award, and in 2007 he received the Honorary Life Member Award from the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society for outstanding technical performance. He is a life fellow of the IEEE and a member of SIAM. IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, P. O. Box 218, Yorktown Heigts, NY 10598  Tel: 914 945 1592  Fax: 914 945 4469

 

 

Mark Steffka, B.S.E., M.S., is with the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Engineering Group of General Motors (GM) Powertrain and is a faculty member of two universities in the Detroit, Michigan, area. He has over 25 years of industry experience in the design, development, and testing of military, aerospace and automotive electronics, including power, control, and radio frequency (RF) systems. Since 2000, he has been an adjunct lecturer at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department for the undergraduate and graduate classes on EMC, and was a Co-Principal Investigator for a United States’ National Science Foundation grant which resulted in the establishment of the campus’ EMC laboratory. For the college’s Engineering Professional Development office he is the instructor for engineering continuing education courses on “Automotive EMC” and “Antennas”. He is the recipient of faculty and alumni awards from the University of Michigan – Dearborn, College of Engineering and Computer Science, for his contributions to engineering education and the EMC curriculum. At the University of Detroit – Mercy he is an adjunct professor and teaches an undergraduate and graduate engineering course on EMC. He is a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), has served as a session chair for the IEEE EMC Symposium and a technical session organizer for the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) World Congress. He has been a speaker at IEEE and SAE conferences held in the United States and international locations. His publications have covered topics on EMC, RFI, and was a co-author of the book “Automotive Electromagnetic Compatibility”. He has held an amateur radio license since 1975, with the call sign WW8MS, is a Life Member of ARRL, the National Association for Amateur Radio, and serves on the ARRL EMC Committee.