Dr. Anatoly Tsaliovich
IATC / EB Chair

IATC Mission and Functions

International Advisory Technical Council (IATC) is an international group of engineers and scientists serving as an advisory entity to the 2003 IEEE EMC Symposium and committed to suggesting, promoting, facilitating, implementing, and coordinating important Symposium Program-related activities. The Council work is based on the dedication of the Council members to scientific and engineering excellence and free exchange of professional information and opinions, supported by their expertise, knowledge, and reputation.

Service in the IATC is bestowed on worthy professionals as a sign of their recognition by world wide EMC community, is viewed as an honor, and carries certain authorities and obligations


IATC Charter

1. Facilitate the organization and holding of the 2003 International EMC Symposium by carrying out the liaison with international EMC community, coordinating Symposium Program-related international activities, assisting the Symposium Technical Committee in session and workshop organization and paper review
2. Be a forum of international experts that could provide recommendations as to “hot” topics, or fields of engineering on which we would like to concentrate.
3. Form a “bank” of experts that in case of need could be called upon for many technical tasks, such as organizing sessions or papers, again thanks to their contacts, or recommend on such topics. Their names should be well known, and will be placed on the Web, in order to add prestige to the Symposium. We would also encourage to add people to that Council.
4. Work in close coordination with the Symposium Editorial Board (EB). In fact, we consider EB as an integral part of IATC.

We believe that many more usages can be made of this Council. We are always open to critical reviews and free expression of opinion with regard to the policies, strategies, duties and tasks of this committee.

EB Mission and Functions

Editorial Board (EB) is an international group of engineers and scientists, predominantly but not necessarily members of IATC, who coordinate the paper review process with the EMC Society TAC Committee in the areas of their expertise, engage additional local and world wide paper reviewers when necessary, and participate in the Symposium Technical Program development and implementation. The additional function of the EB is to provide the platform for establishing and enforcing uniform standards for paper review. The actual size of the EB is determined by the amount of pending work to do and requests by Symposium organizers.

IATC and EB Status and Immediate Action Item List
Delineating the immediate practical steps that both IATC and EB should take up immediately, as well as working on the long range goals, is an on-going process.

• Committee organization is accomplished.
  By now, the initial organization of the IATC and EB Committees is complete. In particular, the Editorial Board is grouped in the topical subcommittees (TS) reflecting the technical themes of the Symposium, the TS chairs and members are nominated and by and large coordinated with the membership at large. The EB is ready to start the 2003 Symposium paper submission reviews, as soon as requested by Symposium organizers and provided with appropriate Instructions.
• Liaison, Cooperation, and Coordination with “sister” organizations
  We are still looking into and trying to provide liaison with the respective organizations within the EMCS and other “sister” societies: Automotive, Biological/Medical, etc. Any help in this respect is appreciated
• Publicity
  Being well known in industry and academia, you are in a good position to provide local and international contacts, names, and titles for the Symposium organizers and for potential new members of IATC; facilitate your contacts joining the IATC and EB.
• Adopt a Session, a Workshop, or any other Symposium activity
  Please review the published on the 2003 Istanbul EMC Symposium WEB site planned list of sessions and / or topics. You may volunteer, as you feel appropriate, for sponsoring any of these sessions or suggest your own sessions, for helping to invite lecturers, chairing the session (if there is no chair), advertising the session within your own local professional community and/or helping the 2003 Symposium Technical Program Chairman to do this, for providing additional information on the subject, helping to actually conduct the session, etc. It is our understanding that the "Adopter" will work in close contact with the session chair if such is identified) or may be himself (herself) volunteer to chair a given session, if there is no chair identified to date.
• Proactive Attitude
  Members of the IATC and EB Committees are encouraged to work proactively and come up with suggestions of the organizations’ activities along the lines of their definitions and functions. We are sure you can come up with many more activities and your input is solicited and welcome.