Object-oriented CEM programming

The essence of object-oriented software technology and its application to CEM have been discussed. OOP is a promising technology for implementing a unified simulation framework for CEM. A well-designed object-oriented CEM package can encapsulate features common to all CEM techniques and support development of new modeling algorithms via object inheritance and polymorphism. Such a package would be a useful modeling tool for the CEM community. As of the writing of this article, there is no coordinated open-source initiative for creating a unified object-oriented CEM package. Availability of such a package would foster new channels of collaboration in the EM community. This would enable future students, engineers, and researchers to better focus their efforts in engineering design and algorithm innovation. The IEEE MTT Society could play an important role in realizing this proposed object-oriented CEM package.