Editorial

Summary form only given, as follows. This TRANSACTIONS has been successful in reviewing approximately 100 papers per month and reducing the average submission to online posting of accepted papers time to 27 weeks. This would not be possible without the help of the reviewers and the Associate Editors. The Associate Editors obtain reviews of the papers and provide me with their guidance on the acceptance or rejection of papers. This often requires them to review the paper themselves, and considering that the Associate Editor handles approximately ten papers per month, you can imagine the heavy work load that they carry for the good of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (IEEE MTT-S) and the microwave engineering profession. With this editorial, I am sad to announce the retirement of two Associate Editors. Prof. Wendy Van Moer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, has provided excellent service to the IEEE MTT-S for the past two years, but she must retire to spend more time with her university position. Prof. John Papapolymerou must also retire as an Associate Editor, but John is retiring because he has accepted the position of Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE MICROWAVE AND WIRELESS COMPONENTS LETTERS. I have valued his work as an Associate Editor for me for six years, and I wish him success in his new role and service that he will be providing to the IEEE MTT-S. Of course, I cannot continue without Associate Editors, and I am pleased to announce the appointment of two Associate Editors. Dr. Tzyy-Sheng Horng, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and Dr. Roberto G??????mez-Garc??????a, University of Alcala, Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain. They have already been hard at work for four months and I already am very thankful that they accepted my invitation to serve the IEEE MTT-S. Their biographies are included in this editorial so you can learn more about them. Finally, if you see Wendy, John, Tzyy-Sheng, Roberto, or any of the other Ass- ciate Editors of this TRANSACTIONS, please thank them for their service.