The August issue of the IEEE Microwave Magazine is out! This issue is all about innovations and has four columns, an application note and a great set of columns. Please check out the Editor’s Desk column for all the inside information on this issue but for now enjoy this summary.

Our innovations happen from circuit components to systems. We have features on all about forming Gaussian pulses, how to create electronically tunable time delay networks, everything you wanted to know about chipless RFID and a tour of radar used for security. Clearly radar is happening. And don’t forget our Application Note on the uses of ink-jet printing.

Don’t forget to check out our columns that let you know how the IEEE is affecting education and change in the world. After the Editor’s Desk your next stop should be the President’s Column. We only have presidents for one year in our society so they have to move quick to leave their mark. This month’s President’s Column covers many things including how our Technical Coordination and Future Directions Committee makes an impact. The IEEE emphasizes education and our Education News column covers our graduate student fellowships so check them out. We keep up with how our societies are doing and this month’s Society News covers what is happening in Technical Committee 16 regarding interconnects and packaging. We love our conferences and time to get together. Our Conference Report covers Radio and Wireless Week in 2025. This meeting was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I hope you were there for a great event in a great place. For so many of us our IEEE experience begins as students and our MGA News column features our new student chapter in Kottatam, Kerala. And speaking of student chapters, the Bordeaux, France student chapter is in our Featured MTT-S Chapters as the 2024 Outstanding Chapter Award for best branch. WAMICON is one of our most exciting conferences and our Women in Microwaves column features the inspiring speakers at the joint Women in Microwaves and Young Professionals event at the most recent WAMICON. Many scholarship opportunities are out there as well as the ability to contribute to them. A recent In Memoriam regarding Anand Gopinath left out the family scholarship opportunity at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

Next we can dig in to the more technical columns. Our MicroBusiness column explores management communication and motivation- or not – and when is a failure not a failure. RFID is a part of our everyday world and the subject of our Book/Software Reviews has the subtitle “How to Engineer an RFID Reader”. Finally our Enigmas, etc. column explored coupled coils last month and this month we have the answer.

Enjoy the issue and don’t forget to check out the Conference Calendar.

Summary by
Alfy Riddle, PhD
Quanergy Solutions, Inc.