Polish Joint Chapter AP/AES/MTT Historical Sketch

Chapter beginning

In 1990, on September 24th on the initiative of dr. Zbigniew Czyż and dr. Andrzej Jeleński, Joint Chapter AP (Antenna and Propagation Society) / AES (Aerospace and Electronic System Society) / MTT (Microwave Theory and Techniques Society), has been established. It was the first chapter in IEEE Polish Section. Until the first election of the chapter management committee members, doc. Zbigniew Czyz was in charge of preparation for the election and other organizational activities in the chapter. The first full line-up management committee consisted of the following members:

• Józef Modelski – Chairman
• Edward Sedek – Vice Chairman
• Bogusław Smólski – Vice Chairman
• Zbigniew  Czyż – Vice Chairman
• Jerzy Piotrowski – Secretary / Treasurer

One of the main goal of the Chapter was to promote a harmonious interaction between the Academy and the Industry in this part of the world by promoting the IEEE professional membership and participating in academic and industrial events. Additionally the objective of the Joint Chapter was to link different resources from the domestic industry companies and academic institutes, to enhance the professional technique exchange and corporation, and to strengthen the interpersonal and public relationship.

Since 1991, subsequently to Joint Chapter establishment, Environmental Microwave Seminars in Warsaw, once a month with the participation of PW (Warsaw University of Technology), WAT (Military University of Technology in Warsaw), PIT (National Telecommunications Institute), ITE (Institute of Electron Technology), IMTE (Institute of Electronic Materials Technology), IPPT PAN (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences) are organized. Annually about 9-10 seminars were held. Unfortunately, discontinued in 1997.

MIKON Conference

To share a knowledge between international community of microwave scientists and engineers from industry the common meetings were necessary. For this purpose national microwave conference MIKON was transformed to the international conference. First international MIKON was held in 1994 in Książ, Poland. Subsequently in 1996 MIKON was transformed to International Microwave and Radar Conference.

Since 1994, MIKON has two main partners: Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) and IEEE. Since then MIKON is organized regularly every two years in the late spring (May/June). Since 2004 MIKON runs in the framework with Microwave and Radar Week gathering microwave scientists during three thematic conferences:

• MIKON  International Conference on Microwaves, Radar, and Wireless Communications,
• IRS International Radar Symposium,
• MIDEX International Conference “Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.

Table. Places where MIKON conference was held.

One of the most important events related to MIKON was establishment of a national competition for the best thesis in the field of microwave, antenna and radiolocation technique. This competition is executing in 2-year cycle. The results of competition are announced during MIKON conference.

In 2010 MIKON for the first time MIKON goes outside Poland to Vilnius in Lithuania. In 2014 MIKON is for the second time organized outside Poland in Lviv, Ukraine.

In 1993 the Chapter started “The Joint IEEE MTT/ED Initiative for Aiding Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (EE / FSU)”. All chapters of the MTT and related to them, which originated in the countries of the Former Soviet Union until 2003, were the result of this initiative. The summary of the initiative is included in the document written by Prof. Modelski “Summary of the Joint MTT/ED Initiative for Aiding Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (1993-2002)”. Thanks to the inclusion of Polish Chapter in this initiative, the Chapters in Lithuania and Belarus were affiliated to the Polish Section (until creation of their own Sections). On the basis of this initiative, an extensive cooperation between the Polish Section and our colleagues from the eastern and Baltic countries was developed.

Table. List of chapters created as a influence of “The Joint IEEE MTT/ED Initiative for Aiding Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union”.

Chapter has focused as well on organizing Regional Seminars of Microwave Section, Radiolocation Section KEiT PAN within IEEE Poland Section. In 2003 following seminaries were held:

• Wroclaw Regional Seminary on „Antenna, Microwaves & Wireless Communications” – Chair Wojciech Krzysztofik,
• Gdansk Regional Seminary “ Microwave & Antenna Technology” – Chair  Wlodzimierz Zieniutycz,
• Warsaw Regional Seminary “Microwave & Radar” – Chair M. Wnuk

So far Polish Joint Chapter had 14^th terms and 15^th is currently running. Below in the table there is a list of all chairmen of Chapter in years 1991-2014.

Table. Chapter management committies

03/1992

06/1993

Józef MODELSKI

WUT

Seweryn POGORZELSKI

PIT

Wiesław KLEMBOWSKI

PIT

Edward SĘDEK 

PIT

Jerzy PIOTROWSKI

WUT

07/1993

05/1996

Józef MODELSKI

WUT

Seweryn POGORZELSKI

PIT

Bogusław SMÓLSKI

MUT

Edward SĘDEK 

PIT

Jerzy PIOTROWSKI

WUT

06/1996

06/1998

Wojciech GWAREK

WUT

Tadeusz WIĘCKOWSKI

WrUT

Mieczysław ŻURAWSKI

MUT

Michał MROZOWSKI

GUT

Adam ABRAMOWICZ

WUT

07/1998

2000

Edward SĘDEK

PIT

Wojciech KRZYSZTOFIK

WrUT

Lesław PARADOWSKI

MUT

Michał MROZOWSKI

GUT

Adam ABRAMOWICZ

WUT

2001

2002

Jerzy PIOTROWSKI

WUT

Wojciech KRZYSZTOFIK

WrUT

Wojciech KOCAŃDA

MUT

Anna CZWARTACKA

PIT

Jerzy SZYPER

POLKOMTEL

2003

2004

Michał MROZOWSKI

GUT

Andrzej KARWOWSKI

SUT

Tomasz RUTKOWSKI

PIT

Adam ABRAMOWICZ

WUT

Aleksander KRĘCZKOWSKI

PIT

2005

2006

Michał MROZOWSKI

GUT

Andrzej KARWOWSKI

SUT

Tomasz RUTKOWSKI

PIT

Adam ABRAMOWICZ

WUT

Aleksander KRĘCZKOWSKI

PIT

2007

2008

Wojciech KRZYSZTOFIk

WrUT

Andrzej KUCHARSKI

WrUT

Adam KAWALEC

MUT

Małgorzata CELUCH

WUT

Sławomir GRUSZCZYŃSKI

WrUT

2009

2010

Wojciech KRZYSZTOFIK

WrUT

Andrzej KARWOWSKI

SUT

Krzysztof KULPA

WUT

Adam ABRAMOWICZ

WUT

Grzegorz JAWORSKI

WrUT

2011

2012

Jerzy PIOTROWSKI

WUT

Krzysztof NYKA

GUT

Krzysztof KULPA

WUT

Łukasz KULAS

GUT

Bartłomiej SALSKI

WUT

2013

2014

Wojciech KRZYSZTOFIK

WrUT

Marian WNUK

MUT

Jacek MISIUREWICZ

WUT

Mateusz MAZUR

PIT RADWAR

Jerzy MICHALSKI

SpaceForest

2015

2019

Wojciech KRZYSZTOFIK

WrUT

Marian WNUK

MUT

Jacek MISIUREWICZ

WUT

Mateusz MAZUR

PIT RADWAR

Jerzy MICHALSKI

SpaceForest

2020

2021

Krzysztof NYKA

GUT

Adam NARBUDOWICZ

WrUT

Piotr SAMCZYŃSKI

WUT

Artur RYDOSZ

AGH

Mateusz RZYMOWSKI

GUT

2022

2023

Krzysztof NYKA

GUT

Adam NARBUDOWICZ

WrUT

Mateusz MALANOWSKI

WUT

Artur RYDOSZ

AGH

Mateusz RZYMOWSKI

GUT

Since its beginning the Chapter is still strengthening the position in IEEEE community. Proceedings of conferences organized under Chapter leading are placed in IEEE Xplore databases. Logo of IEEE is always included on conference materials. Our management committee members and regular members play important roles in organizing committees of most important IEEE conferences. Five Chapter members obtained IEEE Fellow distinction:

• Prof. Wojciech Gwarek (2001),
• Prof. Józef Modelski (2001),
• Janusz Dobrowolski (2005),
• Prof. Michał Mrozowski (2007),
• Prof. Jerzy Krupka (2012)

Prof. Józef Modelski served and still serves in international administration of IEEE. Among many important positions some of them should be highlighted:

• 2008, President of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S),
• 2009 – 2010, Director of IEEE Region 8 and 2012 Director Elect of IEEE Division IV,
• 2012 –  IEEE Division IV Director.

In 2013 he was awarded by MTT Society “2013 Distinguished Service Award”.

Prof. Wojciech Gwarek in years 2005-2007 served as MTT-S Distinguish Lecturer. In 2011, he was awarded “IEEE MTT-S Pioneer Award”,

First web page of the Chapter was created by Prof. Michał Mrozowski in 2004 on the server of Gdansk University of Technology. In 2007 web page was moved to Wroclaw University of Technology server. Subsequently in 2011 web page was moved to the server of Warsaw University of Technology. Since 2012 Chapter web page is installed on IEEE server. In 2013 web page was renewed and can be found under this link http://site.ieee.org/poland-apaemtt/

Polish Joint Chapter AP/MTT/AES Summary

Table. Chapter members and their affiliation. State in year 2022.

The sum of Chapter members: 102

Figure. Distribution of Chapter Members in Sections.

Figure. Chapter Members vs. their affiliation.

Polish Joint Chapter AP/MTT/AES Awards

From the very beginning of establishing the Chapter was many times awarded. There are below most important awards we got and we are proud of.

1992-1993, AESS Outstanding International Chapter of the Year		2014, Region 8 Chapter of the Year
1995-1996, AESS Outstanding International Chapter of the Year		2015, MTT-S Outstanding Chapter
2005, Region 8 Chapter of the Year		2016, AP-S Best Chapter
2005, Region 8 AESS Outstanding Chapter		2022, MTT-S Outstanding Chapter
2010, Region 8 Chapter of the Year