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Presentation

Complex Cavity Measurement Techniques for the Assessment of Aircraft Electromagnetic Environments

Date: Thursday December 13, 2018

Location:          Ralph’s On The Park

900 City Park Avenue

New Orleans, LA 70119

Telephone = 504-488-1000

Time:                6:00 pm   Networking (Cash Bar)

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm   Dinner

8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Program

 

Menu:                This will be a plated, served dinner.

 

                          First Course: Turtle Soup

 

Second Course: Choice of –

Pan Seared Chicken kale, sweet potatoes, pecans, lemon and herbs

Striped Bass Almondine roasted baby potatoes, green beans, brown

butter emulsion

Vegetarian Menu Entree

                      

                       Third Course:

                       Cranberry Bread Pudding candied walnuts, white chocolate brandy

sauce, nutmeg whipped cream

 

 

Cost:                       IEEE Members: $30, (+ $30 one guest)                                                                                 IEEE Retired & Student Members: $20, (+ $20 one guest)

                                 Non-Members: $50

 

Abstract: With the proliferation of wireless devices, it is important to understand how they behave in complex electromagnetic environments and how they interact with other devices and systems with which they are co-located. Aircraft environments have been shown to behave similarly to reverberation chambers, and therefore these techniques can be employed to achieve precision measurements of the propagation environments and system interactions. This presentation will give examples of how these techniques were employed to measure bulk absorption used to simulate passenger loading of aircraft, field mapping which is useful for the evaluation of signal coverage and channel interference, as well as signal propagation characteristics. Utilizing this same approach, it is possible to assess the shielding of large structures such as commercial aircraft. These aircraft shielding measurements are necessary for High Intensity Radiated Field Susceptibility (HIRF) certifications.

 

Speaker Biography

Dennis Lewis received his BS EE degree with honors from Henry Cogswell College and his MS degree in Physics from the University of Washington.  He has worked at Boeing for 29 years and is recognized as a Technical Fellow. He currently has leadership and technical responsibility for the primary RF, Microwave and Antenna Metrology labs. Dennis holds eight patents and is the recipient of the 2013 and 2015 Boeing Special Invention Award.   He is a member of the IEEE and several of its technical societies including the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S), the Antennas and Propagation Society and the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Society. He serves as a Board Member and is a past Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE EMC Society. He is a Senior Member of the Antenna Measurements Techniques Association (AMTA), and chaired its annual symposium in 2012.  Dennis is a part time faculty member teaching a course on Measurement Science at North Seattle College and is chair of the Technical Advisory Committee. His current technical interests include aerospace applications of reverberation chamber test techniques as well as microwave measurement systems and uncertainties. He will chair the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Signal and Power Integrity to be held July 22 to 26 in New Orleans, LA.

Reservations are REQUIRED for this meeting. Please RSVP your reservation (Entrée Choice can be made at the restaurant) to the Reservation Link: Above

                                                                   OR

E-mail Richard W. Miller at lighth@bellsouth.net, or call 504-905-3570), by Noon Monday December 10, 2018.