A number of years ago, a member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Administrative Committee approached me to ask that I consider devoting a focus issue of IEEE Microwave Magazine to spotlight research performed by women in the microwave engineering field. I thought this was an excellent idea, leading to numerous discussions that I am pleased to say have turned into a successful series of focus issues with technical features describing novel microwave engineering research directed and performed by women microwave engineers throughout the world. This effort was led by Jasmin Grosinger, Wenquan Che, and Sherry Hess from the Women in Microwaves (WiM) MTT-S subcommittee and has led to a collection of six technical features that we will be publishing in the coming months. I would like to thank the organizers for their efforts in organizing and contributing to this set of focus issues. This month’s issue features three of these technical features; an excellent place to start your reading would be the “From the Guest Editors’ Desk,” where the organizers provide background on the articles.

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几年前，IEEE 微波理论与技术协会 (MTT-S) 管理委员会的一位成员找到我，要求我考虑在 IEEE 微波杂志上刊登一期焦点期刊，以重点关注女性在微波工程领域进行的研究。我认为这是一个很好的想法，引发了无数的讨论，我很高兴地说这些讨论已经变成了一系列成功的焦点问题，其技术特征描述了由世界各地的女性微波工程师指导和执行的新颖的微波工程研究。这项工作由微波女性 (WiM) MTT-S 小组委员会的 Jasmin Grosinger、Wenquan Che 和 Sherry Hess 领导，并形成了六项技术特性的集合，我们将在未来几个月内发布这些特性。我要感谢组织者为组织和促成这组焦点问题所做的努力。本月的期刊重点介绍了其中的三个技术特性；开始阅读的一个很好的地方是“来自客座编辑的办公桌”，组织者在那里提供文章的背景。