Professional Activities

Professional Activities – General

  • Member, Organizing Committee, 2004 ENDE 10th international electrmagnetic symposium, June 2004
  • Member, International Steering Committee, Optimization of Electric and Electronic Equipment, OPTIM-2004, May 16-17, 2004, Brasov, Romania.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, the Eleventh Biennial IEEE Conference on Elecromagnetic  Field Computation (CEFC 2004), Seoul, Korea, June 6 to 9 2004
  • Member, International Advisory Committee, PIERS-2004 (Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium), March 28-31, 2004, Pisa, Italy.
  • Member, International Steering Committee, Engineering of Modern Power Systems Conference, May 2003, Oradea, Romania.
  • Member, International Advisory Committee (IAP) of Asia Conference on Sensor (AsiaSense) 2003, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 14 -18.   
  • Fall 2001-Spring 2002, Visiting Professor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
  • Member, International Steering Committee, Optimization of Electric and Electronic Equipment, OPTIM-2002, May 16-17, 2002, Brasov, Romania.
  • Member, International Steering Committee, Engineering of Modern Power Systems Conference, May 24-26, 2001, Oradea, Romania.
  • Program Committee Member, Conference on Subsurface Sensors and Applications (SPIE International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation, (1999-present).
  • Member, International Steering Committee, International Conference on Electromagnetic Field Problems and Applications, (ICEF), (1991-present)
  • Member, International Steering Committee, The International Symposium on the Application of Electromagnetic Forces (1990-present).
  • Member of the Organizing Committee and Planning Board for the International Electromagnetic (TEAM) Workshop (Member, 1985-1990, President, 1991-2002). This workshop is concerned with validation of computer codes for electromagnetic calculations. It was held twice a year in different regions of the world with a general meeting every two years.
  • Member, International Steering Committee, COMPUMAG Conference, (1991- 2000)
  • ICS-International Computational Society, Board member-and Secretary for North America (1995-2000).
  • Organized and hosted the second TEAM Workshop, The Johns Hopkins University, Center for NDE, April 3-4, 1989.
  • Organized and hosted the “1982 GFUN Users Meeting.” This conference was an annual meeting for sharing information and ideas between users of computer codes for 2-D and 3-D electromag¬netic applications, in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory and Rutherford and Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom. (The conference name has since been changed to EM-COMP.)
  • Secretary for the 1985 COMPUMAG Conference, held at Colorado State University, June 3-6 1985. COMPUMAG is an international conference concerned with computation of magnetic and electric fields.
  • Member of the Organizing Committee for the EM-COMP Conference (1983-1986). EM-COMP was an international annual conference on electromagnetic field computation concerned primarily with the interaction between developers and users of computer codes. Replaced by CEFC.
  • Co-Chairman of the American Society of Nondestructive Testing Committee for Electrical and Magnetic Methods and Activities(1983-1986), member(1986-1992). Also member of the Nondestructive Testing Handbook Development Committee (1984-1988)/ coordinator for the electromagnetic testing volume..
  • Summer 85 – Visiting scientist and consultant for the Fraunhofer Institut fur Zerstorungsfreie Prufverfahren (IzFP) in Saarbrucken, Federal Republic of Germany. This included installation of a 3-D eddy current computer code on the institute VAX 11/785 and on a CRAY-1 at the University of Stuttgart. Vectorization of the computer code and training of personnel in its use were the primary activities.
  • Spring 1994: Visiting Professor, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Conference Session Chairmanship

  • Organized Session, Chairman: “Time Dependent Methods and Wavelet Based Techniques,” Session 66, PIERS-2004, March 28-31, 2004.
  • Session Chair, Optimization, COMPUMAG – 14th Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields, Saratoga Springs, New York, July 13-17, 2003.
  • Session Chair, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, Columbus, OH., June 22-27, 2003, Session 111, FDTD: Application to Antenna Analysis.
  • Organized Session, Chairman: Wavelets in Electromagnetics, ACES Conference, Monterey, CA., March 24-27, 2003.
  • Organized Session Chairman: Electromagnetic NDT, ACES Conference, Monterey, CA., March 24-27, 2003.
  • 10th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation – CEFC-2002, Sessions P4, Devices and Applications I, June 17, 2002.
  • OPTIM2002, Session Chairman, Session 1A, Electromagnetics, May 16, 2002
  • OPTIM2002, Session Chairman, Session 1H, Photovoltaics, May 16, 2002
  • 13th Compumag Conference on Computation of Electromagnetic Fields, Evian, France, July 2-6, 2001, Session PB1 on Optimization of Electromagnetic Devices.
  • TEAM Workshop and Applications Forum, Evian, France, July 6, 2001. Afternoon Session.
  • 9th International IGTE symposium on Numerical Field Calculation in Electrical Engineering and European TEAM Workshop, Graz, Austria, Sept 11-15. 2000, Oral Session O1 – Eddy Currents.
  • The 9th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation – CEFC-2000. Session MA2: Wave Propagation, June 5, 2000.
  • OPTIM-2000, Brasov, Romania, May 11-12. Session 1A-II Electromagnetic Field and Electrical Circuits II, May 11 200012th Compumag Conference on Computation of Electromagnetic Fields, Sapporo, Japan, October 24-28, 1999. Session OA-Wave Propagation, October 25, 1999.
  • ISEM, Pavia, 10-12 May, 1999, Organized Session: “Advanced Computing Techniques”,  Session on May 10, 1999.
  • TEAM Workshop, Sapporo, October 29, 1999, Session: “New Directions and New Problems”.
  • The Third Brazilian Electromagnetics Conference (III Congresso Brazileiro de Eletromagnetismo), Sao Paulo, October 25-28, 1998, Oral Session on Numerical Techniques, October 28, 1998.
  • The 8th International IGTE Symposium on Numerical Field Calculation in Electrical Engineering, 21-23 September 1998, Graz, Austria. Oral Session O4 – Nondestructive Testing, Sept. 22, 1998.
  • The 8th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, Tucson, AZ., June 1-3, 1998, Session III: Static and Quasi-Static Fields, June 2, 1998.
  • 11th Compumag Conference on Computation of Electromagnetic Fields, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 3-6, 1997. Opening Session OA-Wave Propagation, Nov. 3, 1997.
  • 7th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, Okayama, Japan, March 18-20, 1996, Session Chairman, Poster Session PE3 – Numerical Techniques, March 20, 1996.
  • TEAM Workshop, Session: New Problems, March 21, 1996.
  • 9th Compumag Conference on Computation of Electromagnetic Fields, July 10-13, 1995. Session PF2: “Quasi Static Fields II” (July 11), Berlin.
  • CBmag’95 – Congresso Brasilero de Eletromagnetismo, UFCS, Florianopolis, 14-17 May, 1995, Session O4 – Altas Frequencias (high frequencies), May 16, 1995.
  • 6th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, Aix Les Bains, France, July 5-7, 1994, Session Chairman, Poster Session PIX – Applications, July 5, 1994.
  • 5th COMPUMAG Conference on the computation of electromagnetic fields, June 3-6, 1985. Session 5, “Materials”.
  • 32nd Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Chicago Il., Nov. 9-12, 1987. Session BE, “Eddy Current Applications and Coupled Phenomena”.
  • Beijing International Symposium on Electromagnetic Fields in Electrical Engineering – BISEF ’88, Beijing, China, October 19-21, 1988, Session 4-B on “Material Properties and Coupled Phenomena”.
  • COMPUMAG ’89, Tokyo, Japan, September 3-7, 1989, Session BE: “Static Fields”.
  • TEAM Workshop, Sendai, Japan, Jan. 31 – Feb. 1, 1991.
  • 7th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, Claremont, CA. Aug. 3-6, 1992. Session MOD: “Radiation and Scattering”, August 5, 1992.
  • TEAM Workshop, Sapporo, Japan, Jan. 30, 1992.
  • Compumag Miami, Session PB3: Devices and Applications I, Monday, Nov. 1, 1993.