Editorial

Presents news of members´ accomplishments or honors, appointments, or other announcements that would be of interest to Society memebers as well as the rest of the engineering community. May also include overviews of current society and chapter news and events.. In addition, just after turning in this Editorial the Editor-in-Chief received notification of our first Journal Citation Report ranking from Thomson Reuters. He is extremely pleased to report that our 2013 Impact Factor stands at 4.34, placing us 12th out of 247 journals in Electrical Engineering. We also placed 17th out of 136 in Applied Physics, and 5th out of 82 in Optics, the two other categories we were rated under. A very hearty thank you to all our contributors, who took a chance on our new venture to better serve the THz community.