Attendees: Stephen Adam, Kris Agarwal, John Barr, Adalbert Beyer, R. E. Skip Bryan, Eliot Cohen, Jim Crescenzi, N.R. Dietrich, S. Jerry Fiedziuszko, Bernard D. Geller, Vladimir G. Gelnovatch, K. C. Gupta, Jerry Hausner, Rudy Henning, John Horton, Ho C. Huang, Tatsuo Itoh, Charlie Jackson, Linda Katehi, Reynold Kagiwada, Tim Kemerley, J. K. McKinney, Mahesh Kumar, Roger Marks, Dave McQuiddy, Jozef Modelski, Edward C. Niehenke, Art Oliner, George Oltman, Don Parker, Roger D. Pollard, Jung Woong Ra, Ed Rezek, Arye Rosen, Peter Russer, Ted Saad, Fred Schindler, Harold Sobol, Roberto Sorrentino, Richard A. Sparks, Peter Staecker, Michael Steer, Steven S. Stitzer, Roger W. Sudbury, Dan Swanson, Kiyo Tomiyasu, Bob Trew, Austin Truitt, Andre van der Vorst, Karl Varian, John Wassel, Glenn Thoren, Larry Whicker.

The meeting was called to order by Skip Bryan at 8 p.m. on Sunday, 12 January 1997 at the Adam’s Mark Hotel in Denver Colorado, U.S.A.

(Items I.A., I.B and I.C were delayed until after item II.)

There being no discussion the minutes of the September 1996 meeting were accepted unanimously.

There being no discussion the agenda of this meeting was accepted with minor additions.

The agenda is included as Appendix I.

Guests to the meeting were welcomed. The new elected AdCom Members were introduced.

Tatsuo introduced Modelski as the new Chairman of the Transnational Committee and Adalbert Beyer as the new Coordinator of Region 8.

Presented by Claude Weil.

The full report is included as Appendix II. 

Bryan queried Weil about when the contracts with the "Contingency Hotels" had to be exercised. Bob Seeley replied. He reported that they (the 1997 IMS Committee) do not need to exercise the contracts with the contingency hotels at Stapleton until thirty days before the conference. The peak room block is 2,300 on Tuesday night. There will be four bus loops at the downtown hotels and a fifth will be added if the contingency hotels are used. Jim Crescenzi commented that we have gone from a buyers market to a sellers market as far as hotels are concerned.

Presented by Mahesh Kumar. There were 52 contributed papers. There will be a focused session on RF, microwave and millimeter-wave Si RF ICs with invited papers presented by technologists from Japan, Europe and U.S.A. There will be three parallel sessions and two workshops on RF ICs, one on Sunday and one on Friday. [The RFIC conference was formerly known as the Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Monolithic Symposium.]

Jim Crescenzi queried Kumar about the inclusion of Millimeter-Waves in the charter of the RFIC Symposium and how this did not conform with the commitments by the conference organizers to delete the inclusion of millimeter-waves from the charter of the conference. Kumar responded that the conference is in transition and papers normally submitted to the conference in the past are still being submitted. He stated that the conference is not being changed to totally concentrate on circuits below 2 GHz. Crescenzi repeated that he did not believe that this conformed with the commitments made by the conference organizers. Wang Ho responded that he did not believe that there was such a commitment. Bryan requested that any further discussion be mediated by Roger Sudbury.

With proper ceremony John Wassel, the outgoing MTT President, transferred the MTT President’s Pin to Skip Bryan, the President of MTT for 1997. John Wassel accepted the "Old Elephants’ Pin" (the Past President’s Pin) from Skip Bryan.

John Wassel presented the outgoing president’s message which is included as Appendix III.A.

Presented by Skip Bryan and included as Appendix III.B.

Presented by Michael Steer.

June Meeting:

Saturday June 7 6 p.m. AdCom reception

7 p.m. AdCom Dinner

8 p.m. to 11 p.m. AdCom Meeting

Sunday June 8 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. AdCom Meeting

Adam’s Mark Hotel, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.

Phone: +1-303-893-3333 Fax: +1-303-626-2534

Karl Varian reminded AdCom members to submit their housing registration by February 1, 1997 to ensure that they get the hotel of their choice.

September Meeting:

Saturday Sept. 20 6 p.m. AdCom reception

7 p.m. AdCom Dinner

8 p.m. to 11 p.m. AdCom Meeting

Sunday Sept. 21 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. AdCom Meeting

Hyatt Regency Hotel,

122 North Second Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85004-2379, U.S.A.

Phone: +1-602-252-1234 Fax: +1-602-256-0801

Presented by Dan Swanson and included as Appendix V.A.

Presented by Ed Rezek. The 1998 budget is in development. The 1998 budget for MTT is due to the IEEE TAB in June 1997. MTT committee input is due at the end of January 1997.

Presented by Dave McQuiddy and included as Appendix VI.A.

Presented by Walt Gelnovatch and included as Appendix VI.B.

Presented by John Wassel and Skip Bryan.

Skip Bryan presented a report on the June 1996 IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB) meeting.

Highlights of the meeting were

• Approval of Societies having investment options.
• Two new transactions approved.
• Can share revenue conference organizers.
• TAB finance has requested quarterly financial reports (Attention Ed Rezek).
• 1997 IEEE Budget anticipated as being $600k in the red.
• TAB is now under secretary of the Board of Directors.
• TAB is open to Societies being involved in electronic publishing.
• The MTT Society is scheduled for review by TAB in February 1998.
• Skip will be representing MTT on the Design and Manufacturing AdHoc Committee.

John Wassel reported on the November 1996 TAB meeting. One of the items of the meeting of interest to the MTT Society is the Jolly project (Journals On Line). The Journals will be made available on a secure web site. On-line journals will be accessible to members who already subscribe to the "corresponding paper journal." There was a discussion of how the MTT Society can be involved in this project. (The Jolly Report is included as Appendix XIII.A.

There were no additional reports.

Submitted by Barry Perlman and presented by Walt Gelnovatch. Art Oliner requested changes to the report as it relates to URSI. The corrected report is included as Appendix VIII.A.

It was noted that we do not have an intersocietal liaison with the Antennas and Propagation Society. Barry Perlman was requested to determine whether there should be such a liaison.

ACTION: PERLMAN

Presented by Jim Crescenzi. The major topic was the need for membership growth but there was no consensus on the committee of how to achieve this. We need to do things that accentuate the benefits of MTT membership growth such as the number of CD-ROM projects that are being planned. One suggestion was a free breakfast for MTT members at the IMS symposium. The report is included as Appendix IX.

Eliot Cohen reported on the Long Range Planning Committee goals and suggestions for implementation:

• Encourage new active members:

• Enhance member access to publications.
• Institute publicized, open MTT-S Technical Committee Meetings.

The suggestion of a free breakfast for MTT members at the IMS received overwhelming encouragement.

The meeting adjourned at 10:35 p.m. and resumed at 8 a.m. on Monday Morning.

Presented by the new chairman Jozef Modelski. The major topic of the report was the effort to develop the society in former Eastern Europe and Soviet Union countries. Phase I is completed and Phase II is concentrating on consolidating the gains of Phase I. The report is included as Appendix X.A.

Motion:

Ed Rezek moved and Eliot Cohen seconded:

Approved Unanimously (22 voting in favor, no abstentions, none opposed)

Presented by Adalbert Beyer and included as Appendix X.B

Ra presented the Region 10 report included as Appendix X.C.

Rolf Jansen submitted an additional report on the activities on membership promotion in Eastern Europe and in the Former Soviet Union. This report is included as Appendix X.D

Presented by Roberto Sorrentino.

Presented by John Barr and included as Appendix XI.A.

Motion:

John Barr moved and Roger Pollard seconded:

Approved Unanimously (20 voting in favor, no abstentions, none opposed)

No items were discussed.

Presented by Fred Schindler and included as Appendix XI.C.

Presented by Ed Niehenke and included as Appendix XI.D.

Presented by Dick Sparks and included as Appendix XI.E.

Presented by John Barr. The November 1996 edition of the Procedures Manual was distributed at the meeting.

Austin Truitt requested that updated addresses for the MTT Committee Directory be given to him.

Submitted by Frank Sullivan and presented by Tim Kemerley. The report is included as Appendix XII.A.

No discussion.

Presented by Hal Sobol and included as Appendix XII.C.

Tim Kemerley moved and Kiyo Tomiyasu seconded:

That a new technical committee MTT-20 called "Wireless Communications" be created and that the present MTT-16 technical committee be modified to have two subcommittees: one on Phase and Active Antennas and the other on Transportation Systems.

Approved Unanimously (24 voting in favor, no abstentions, none opposed)

The background for this includes: endorsement by the Technical Coordinating Committee; agreement by MTT-16; recommended by the Technical Committee Review Committee.

Skip Bryan proposed an action item: Distribute AdCom minutes to Technical Committee Chairs.

Presented by Jerry Fiedziuszko and included as Appendix XIII.A

Presented by Robert Trew and included as Appendix XIII.B.

There was considerable discussion on the future of the Symposium special issue in December of each year. No conclusion was reached but will be considered in the future.

Bob Trew moved and John Barr seconded:

Approved Unanimously (20 voting in favor, no abstentions, none opposed).

Action Item: In future allocate more time for the publications committee reports.

Presented by Roberto Sorrentino and included as Appendix XIII.C.

Action Item:

The Publications Committee is to develop a proposal to establish a magazine which incorporates the Microwave and Guided Wave Letters and the MTT Newsletter which would provide better overall coverage of new fields.

Submitted by Mike Golio and included as Appendix XIII.D.

Roger Pollard moved and Dan Swanson seconded:

Approved Unanimously (20 voting in favor, no abstentions, none opposed).

Roger Sudbury, Chairman of the Meetings and Symposia Committee presented the Committee’s report which is included as Appendix XIV.A. There was a brief discussion of San Francisco being a possible site submission for the 2005 IMS. It was decided that all submission received by the Meetings and Symposia Committee by the end of January would be considered as site proposals at the June AdCom meeting.

The audit of the 1996 IMS is now complete. There is approximately a $500K surplus.

The body of the report was presented on Sunday night. K.C. Gupta presented a Report on the Technical Program Evaluation for 1997 IMS Symposium. This is included as Appendix XIV.B.

Presented by Stitzer and included as Appendix XIV.C.

Presented by Horton and included as Appendix XIV.D.

Brief oral report by Thoren. Preparations are on track

Brief oral report by Samir El-Ghazaly. Preparations are on track.

No report was presented.

Brief oral report by Kiyo Tomiyasu and included as Appendix XIV.H.

Brief oral report by Karl Varian.

Presented by Fred Schindler and included as Appendix XIV.J.

Fred Schindler moved and Skip Bryan seconded:

Approved Unanimously (15 voting in favor, no abstentions, none opposed).

Submitted by Tatsuo Itoh and included as Appendix XIV.K

The report on the Wireless Communications Conference was submitted by Roger Marks and is included as Appendix XIV.L.

Submitted by Roger Marks and included as Appendix XV.

Presented by Dan Swanson.

Aditya Gupta reported on the MTT Graduate Fellowship Program, see Appendix XVI.

The meeting broke for lunch at noon and resumed at 1 p.m.

Presented by Rezek/Thoren

Presented by J.K. McKinney.

There was no new business

The meeting adjourned at 1:55 p.m. Monday January 13, 1997.