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Editor's Notes
 Welcome
to the new IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society’s (AP-S)
web site. The site has been under construction for some time as
we’ve been trying to work through both the content and format.
Parts of the web site are still not finalized as we revise and refine
a few important areas. Your feedback and suggestions would be greatly
appreciated!
I would like to thank Andy Mathis for all of his past support on
the previous version of the site. Andy has done a great job responding
to all of our requests and in maintaining and revising the site.
Job well done, Andy!
The main goal of the new site is to provide AP-S members with an
information portal on AP-S services, publications, conferences,
committees, AdCom committees and deliberations, and general Society
activities. We intend to focus a significant portion of the site
on students and educational resources. I will be providing more
information on the site content in the Web Site Information section
below on a regular basis.
One significant aspect of the new site is the inclusion of a regular
Feature Article that will cover a wide range of topic areas including
both technical content and notes of a more personal and informational
nature. Technical articles will undergo a peer review process. Other
articles will undergo an editorial review. Please contact me if
you are interested in submitting a Feature Article.
It is a pleasure for me to introduce the inaugural Feature Article,
How should we excite non-engineers about our professions as antenna
engineers and researchers?, written by Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii,
a past AP-S President and holder of the Northrop-Grumman Chair in
Electromagnetics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Yahya
provides some very interesting personal insight into how he discusses
what he does as an antenna scientist and engineer.
- Steven Best, webeditor@ieeeaps.org
Feature Article
 How
should we excite non-engineers about our professions as antenna
engineers and researchers?
Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii
UCLA
In today’s society, we tend to size people up almost immediately.
Among the most quintessential questions we ask in order to formulate
our opinion is simply, “what do you do?” In our profession,
this is a rather tough question to answer and several years ago,
when I was the Department Chair at the Electrical Engineering Department
at UCLA, I had to do just that. I was invited to give a luncheon
talk at the Beverly Hills Rotary Club at the famous Beverly Hills
Hotel. The luncheon guests were some of the top business professionals
such as bank executives, hotel managers, doctors, lawyers, etc.
After a delicious lunch in a beautiful setting, it was then my turn
to talk for about forty five minutes about what I do as an electromagnetic/antenna
scientist and engineer. You can probably imagine how unusual it
is to excite this kind of audience about the nature of the work
we do! Full feature article
Announcements
The 2009 IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society Symposium
will be in Charleston, South Carolina on 1-5 June 2009. Short courses
will be held on preceding and the day after technical sessions,
i.e., 31 May 2009 and 6 June 2009. Please visit www.apsursi2009.org
for more information.
The AP-S ADCOM is sponsoring a Women In Electromagnetics conference
which will be held in Salt Lake City in June 2009. For more information,
please visit the conference web site at www.wiem.eecs.ucf.edu.
October 16, 2008: AP-S is using electroning voting
(eVoting) this year. To vote electronically, please use the secure
web site, Intelliscan.
You will need your IEEE member number and the control number, which
is printed on your paper ballot. Polls open October 21. In case
of missing ballots or other problems, please contact Intelliscan
by email or phone: +1 (610) 935 6172.
Web Site Information and Updates
The inaugural launch of the AP-S web site leaves a few areas “under
construction”. These include the For Students tab, the Ask
an Expert feature and AP Fellows on the Cutting Edge. Updates to
these sections of the web site will follow shortly.
In the For Student section of the site, we intend to add education
resources, which will include the capability to download a number
of IEEE AP-S training videos. With Ask an Expert, we intend to add
a feature that will allow students to ask recognized experts in
the field basic questions regarding antennas, electromagnetics and
wave propagation. We have some implementation considerations to
work out on this feature before it goes live. Finally, with AP Fellows
on the Cutting Edge we intend to have short feature comments from
recently elected AP-S Fellows on critical topics in antennas and
electromagnetics.
Navigating the web site is straight-forward using the numerous
tabs on the left. You are encouraged to use these tabs rather than
the backward and forward features of your browser. If you have any
issues or find any errors on the site, please send an email to editor@ieeeaps.org
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