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April 2004
Volume 50, Number 10
Publication No:
USPS 580-500
“The IEEE
Newsletter” (North Jersey Section), is published monthly except June and July
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SECTION OFFICERS
Chairman....................................... Dr.
Durga Misra
dmisra “AT” njit.edu (973) 596-5739
Vice-Chairman-1.................................... Har
Dayal
har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com (973) 633-4618
Vice-Chairman-2......................... Bhanu Chivakula
b.chivakula “AT” computer.org (732) 718-3818
Treasurer........................ Dr. Edward (Ted)
Byrne
flatland “AT” compuserve.com (973) 822-3219
Secretary................................. Dr.
Sanghoon Shin
s.shin “AT” ieee.org (973) 492-1207 Ext. 22
Members-at-Large:
Dr.
Nirwan Ansari (nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu)
Naz
Simonelli (naz “AT” ieee.org)
Dr.
Richard Snyder (r.snyder “AT” ieee.org)
The North Jersey Section
Executive Committee usually meets the first Wednesday (except holidays and
December) of each month at 7:00 PM.
Meetings are open to all members.
For information on meeting agenda contact Secretary Dr. Sanghoon Shin at
(973) 492-1207 Ext. 22, s.shin “AT” ieee.org.
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IEEE
North Jersey Section Activities
April
2004
Apr. 1 – “Pico Radios - What Does it Take to Design a
Link Between Them?” - NJ Communications Chapter, 7:00 PM (refreshments at
6:45 PM), NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ.
Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670 (nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or check
http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj for the latest updates.
Apr. 1 – “Silicon-Germanium Three-dimensional
Nanostructures: Against All Odds” -
EDS/C&S and LEOS Chapters, 5:00PM (buffet at 4:45PM), NJIT, 202 ECE Center,
Newark, NJ. Dr. H. Grebel (973) 596-3538
(grebel “AT” njit.edu).
Apr. 6-8 – “2004
ASME/IEEE Joint Rail Conference” – IEEE VTS, Renaissance Harborplace Hotel, 202
East Pratt St, Baltimore, MD. See http://www.asmeconferences.org/jrc04/
for details. Elio Manes (manese “AT”
asme.org)
Apr. 7 – “NJ Section
Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton,
NJ. Dr. Sanghoon Shin at (973) 492-1207
Ext. 22 or s.shin “AT” ieee.org.
Apr. 10 – “IPv6: The new and improved Internet Protocol” – NJ
Coast & Consultants Network, 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Clarion Hotel,
Somerset, NJ. Dr. Amruthur Narasimhan
(732) 957-0850 (anarasimhan “AT” ieee.org) or see http://mywebpages.comcast.net/anarasimhan3/seminar/seminar-main.htm.
Apr. 14 – “PACE, GOLD Meet
- Part 2, Trends Affecting Engineering Professionals, Plus: What we can do?”
- NJ PACE, 6:30 – 9:00 PM, Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton,
NJ. Paul Ward (973) 790-1625 (PWard1130
“AT” aol.com) or Richard F. Tax (201)
664-6954 (rtax “AT” bellatlantic.net).
Apr. 16 – “Electrical Transients & Power Quality Seminar” -
NJ IAS/PES Chapters, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM, PSE&G Training Center, 234 Pierson
Ave, Edison, NJ. Ronald W. Quade, PE,
(212) 833-0268 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
Apr. 21 – “Functional MRI Motor Mapping for Tumor Patients”
- NJ Signal Processing Chapter, 4:45 PM (refreshments at 4:30 PM), NJIT, 202
ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Yun Shi
(973) 596-3501 (shi “AT” njit.edu), Dr. Alfredo Tan (201) 692-2347 (tan “AT”
mailbox.fdu.edu), Dr. Hong Man (201) 216-5038 (hman “AT” stevens-tech.edu).
Apr. 22 – “Fundamentals of Electrical Noise” - MTT/S/AP-S,
7:00 PM (pre-meeting buffet at 6:00 PM), New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ.
Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542
(NJIT), Kirit Dixit (201) 400-2313, or Har Dayal (973) 633-4618.
Apr. 27 – “The Rational Unified Process Software Development
Methodology” - NJ Computer Chapter, 7:00 PM (pre-meeting buffet at 6:00
PM), Public Meeting Room, Morris County Library, 30 E. Hanover Ave, Whippany,
NJ. Seth Jakel (973) 731-1902 (sgjakel
“AT” comcast.net) or Vivek Shaiva (908) 221-6125 (vshaiva “AT” computer.org).
Apr. 28 – “Evolution and Recent Advances in RF/Microwave
Transistors” - EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 PM), NJIT, 202
ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Richard Snyder
(973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave), Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT”
njit.edu) or Dr. Edip Niver (973)
596-3542 (NJIT).
Apr. 29 – “Lightning Protection” - NJ Consultants'
Network, 7:30 PM, Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated Products, 60 S. Jefferson Rd,
Whippany, NJ. Robert Walker (973)
728-0344 or www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
Upcoming Meetings
May 2 - “NJ Section Awards Reception” - 3:00 to
6:00 PM at the Birchwood Manor, 111 North Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. Anne Giedlinski (973) 377-3175.
May 5 – “NJ Section
Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton,
NJ. Dr. Sanghoon Shin at (973) 492-1207
Ext. 22 or s.shin “AT” ieee.org.
May 12 – “Carbon Nanotubes” - EDS/C&S and LEOS
Chapters, 7:00PM (buffet at 6:15 PM), NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. H. Grebel (973) 596-3538 (grebel “AT”
njit.edu).
May 20 – “Power Management Control Systems” - NJ
IAS/PES Chapters, 7:00PM, General Electric Atlantic Region Office, 1st Floor,
Maple Plaza 1, 4 Campus Dr, Parsippany, NJ.
Ken Oexle (973) 386-1156.
May 20 – “Collections:
How to Get Paid” - NJ Consultants' Network, 7:30 PM,
Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated Products, 60 S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
Oct. 19&20 – “IEEE
Lightwave Technologies in Instrumentation & Measurement Conference” – IEEE
METSAC, IBM Palisades Executive Conference Center in Palisades, NY. http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r1/metsac/LTWV.htm.
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2004 IEEE NORTH JERSEY FELLOWS
Atam P.
Dhawan
“for contributions to optical imaging of skin-lesions and multi-modality
medical image analysis.”
Atam P. Dhawan,
PhD obtained his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Roorkee, Roorkee, India.
He was a Canadian Commonwealth Fellow at the University of Manitoba
where he completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering with specialization in
medical imaging in 1985. In 1984, he won
the first prize and the Martin Epstein Award in the Symposium of Computer
Application in Medical Care Paper Competition at the Eighth SCAMC Annual
Congress in Washington, DC, for his work on developing a three-dimensional (3D)
imaging technique to detect early skin-cancer called melanoma. From 1985 to 1988, he was an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of
Houston. Later, in 1988, he joined the
University of Cincinnati as an Assistant Professor where he became Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, and Radiology (joint
appointment). From 1990-96, he was the
Director of Center for Intelligent Vision and Information System. From 1996-98, he was Professor of Electrical
Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, and Adjunct Professor of
Radiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at
Dallas. From 1998-2000, he was Professor
of Bioengineering at the University of Toledo and Director of Medical Imaging
and Informatics Laboratory. Since 2000,
he has been Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Professor of
Biomedical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Dr. Dhawan has published more than 58 research
articles in refereed journals, and edited books, and 100 research papers in
refereed conference proceedings.
Recently, he has authored a textbook, Medical Image Analysis published
by John Wiley & Sons. Dr. Dhawan is
a recipient of Martin Epstein Award (1984), National Institutes of Health FIRST
Award (1988), Sigma-Xi Young Investigator Award (1992), University of
Cincinnati Faculty Achievement Award (1994) and the prestigious IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Early Career Achievement Award (1995) and
University of Toledo Dorman Distinguished Lecture Award (1999). He is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s
Who in Engineering, Who’s Who in Education and Who’s Who in the World. He served as an Associate Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (1996-2002) and Assistant Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering (1995-2000). He is an Associate Editor of International
Journal of Pattern Recognition. He also
serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Computing
Information and Technology. He has
served on many IEEE EMBS professional committees and has delivered workshops on
Intelligent Biomedical Image Analysis in IEEE EMBS International Conferences
(1996, 1997, 2000, 2003). He served as
the Chair of the “New Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering” Symposium at the
World Congress 2000 on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. He is the Conference Chair of the 2006 IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society International Conference to be held
on August 31-September 3, 2006 in New York.
Dr. Dhawan is a Fellow of the Institute of
Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of SPIE, ASEE and
Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society. His current
research interests are medical imaging, multi-modality medical image analysis,
multi-grid image reconstruction, wavelets, genetic algorithms, neural networks,
adaptive learning and pattern recognition.
Dr. Dhawan is listed in Who’s Who In the World (2004), Who’s Who in
America (2000-2004), Who’s Who in Engineering (2001, 2002, 2003), Who’s Who in
Education (2002) and Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (2002, 2004).
Spencer P.
Kuo
“for contributions to the understanding of electromagnetic wave propagation
in plasmas.”
Dr. Kuo received both of his BS and
MS degrees from National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan R.O.C. in 1970 and 1973,
respectively. After he received his PhD
Degree in 1977 from Polytechnic University, he received from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute a Research Associate position, working at the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory on the Elmo Bumpy Torus (EBT) fusion program. He returned to Polytechnic University in
September 1978 as Research Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering
Department and was promoted to full professor in 1986. He initiated and ran a “summer research
program for college juniors” in the EE department from 1985 to 1991. A similar program has since then been adopted
in many universities and national laboratories.
Dr. Kuo's research
activities cover several areas including microwave plasma interactions,
ionospheric and magnetospheric plasma physics, plasma sources, and plasma
aerodynamic effects on shock waves. He
conducted a novel experiment using rapidly created plasma to up-shift the
electromagnetic wave frequency. He also
showed analytically and experimentally that an added spatial-periodic
distribution in plasma density could trap a wave by downshifting the wave frequency. He originated the instability idea to enhance
the efficiency of a virtual ionospheric antenna to generate ELF/VLF waves for
underwater communication and for the exploration of the magnetosphere. He has patented a plasma torch module, which
can be used to form an array of plasma torches as a large-volume
atmospheric-pressure plasma source. This
module was installed on a wind tunnel model for on-board plasma generation to
study the plasma aerodynamics in a Mach 2.5 supersonic flow. The experiment showed that the shock wave
appearing normally in front of the model, which resembled a supersonic vehicle,
could be eliminated totally by the on-board generated plasma. The experimental discovery paves a new way
for solving aeronautic problems of sonic booms and severe wave drag in
supersonic flights.
Dr. Kuo has authored
over 150 journal papers and 60 proceedings issued articles, and has one
patent. He was an associate editor of
Radio Science from 1993 to 1996. He
received an outstanding research award from the New York Chapter of the Sigma
Xi in 1990, and was a recipient of the 1997 Tamkang Chair from Tamkang
University, R.O.C.
Wim
Sweldens
“for contributions to multiresolution methods for image and 3D geometry
compression.”
Wim Sweldens is the Computing Sciences
Research Vice President at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. He received his PhD in Applied Mathematics in
1994 from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and has been with Lucent
since 1995. His research is concerned
with wavelets and multiscale analysis and its application in numerical
analysis, signal processing, computer graphics, and wireless
communications. He is the inventor of
the lifting scheme, a new design and implementation technique for wavelets,
which now is part of the JPEG2000 standard.
MIT's “Technology
Review” recently chose him as one of 100 most promising young innovators. More recently he has been leading the
computer science and software research activities in Bell Labs, which focuses
on security, software quality, systems, and scientific computing.
Wim Sweldens is the
Computing Sciences Research Vice President at Bell Laboratories, Lucent
Technologies. He heads the computer
science and software research activities in Bell Labs with focus on security,
software quality, systems, and scientific computing. He also manages the relationship between Bell
Labs Research and the Lucent Worldwide Services business unit and is
responsible for bringing Bell Labs innovations into services. Wim has been with Bell Labs since 1995.
Stuart K.
Tewksbury
“for contributions to telecommunications and interconnections in high
performance digital systems.”
Stuart Tewksbury received his BS
and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of Rochester in 1964 and 1969, respectively. He was with the research division of AT&T
Bell Laboratories from 1969 through 1990.
Following retirement, he was on the faculty of the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at West Virginia from 1990 through 1998,
when he joined Stevens Institute of Technology where he is Chair of the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
His
research at Bell Laboratories started in the area of the emerging topic of
digital signal processing systems and extended to audio coding (delta
modulation and higher order delta-sigma coding). His interests in the interplay between
emerging/future technologies and systems architectures evolved as a common
thread underlying his research, which included studies related to high
temperature semiconductor interconnects, optical interconnects, wafer-scale
integration, hybrid wafer-scale packaging (MCMs), 3-D stacked IC microsystems,
and related topics. He has also explored
the topic of parallel processing architectures and their underlying network infrastructures
for small-scale , highly parallel computational systems. Following his transition to an academic
career, he developed an interest in the educational opportunities enabled by
the rapidly evolving Internet technologies and in the delivery of educational
material to a broad audience (beyond the traditional classroom).
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NJ Communications Society:
Pico Radios - What Does it Take to Design a Link Between Them?
On April 1, 2004, the IEEE North
Jersey Section Communications Society Chapter along with NJIT will host a
presentation on “Pico Radios - What Does it Take to Design a Link Between
Them?” The speaker will be Lizhi Charlie Zhong.
About the Talk
Wireless sensor
networks change the way we live: in
building environments, these tiny radios can work together to create a
personalized micro-climate; in home health care, a doctor can monitor the
health of his patients attributed to the networks of medical sensors in their
homes; sensor networks can also be used to control traffic, mitigate disaster
as well as improve the efficiency of the energy-generation, distribution, and
consumption infrastructure.
To these pico
radios, the power consumption is crucial.
It might be OK to charge your cell phone every day, but it would be a
nightmare to replace the batteries of hundreds of pico radios every day or even
every month. If the power consumption of
such a radio can be kept sufficiently low (e.g., < 100uW), power obtained
through energy scavenging techniques will be enough to keep it
self-powered. The outcome is very
exciting: maintenance will be much
easier and the network operation will be more robust, free from the impact of
dead nodes. However, it is no easy task
to bring the overall power consumption down to such a low level. Designers of sensor networks have attempted
to optimize the power consumption of a component of a system in an isolated
fashion, only to find that when the power consumption of a component is pushing
down, the power consumption of another component goes up. It has become evident to the designers that
how the overall power consumption depends on the design parameters of the
components is the most important question in power-aware designs.
In this talk, a
two-step approach to the above problem will be presented. In the first step, a system is divided into
smaller subsystems based on functionality.
For each component, an analytical model is developed. In the second step, the models of different
components are integrated. This
integration (often ignored by other designers) is essential to the disclosure
of the overall power consumption's dependency on the design parameters. In this integration process, an interface is
first defined for every model, after which the interactions between the
components are modeled with mathematical equations. The existence of the closed feedback loops
makes the integration much harder. I
will show that they can be solved using the fixed point theorems and an
"optimization after integration" technique.
We can use the
insights gained from the above modeling framework to obtain guidelines for
power-efficient designs. In fact, the
guidelines from our analysis have already had a real impact on the design of an
actual sensor network. For examples, the
speaker will introduce several emerging designs developed in the Berkeley
Wireless Research Center, including a channel hopping scheme and an adaptive
sleep discipline.
About the Speaker
Lizhi Charlie Zhong (BSEE 93, MSEE 95) is a
PhD candidate in electrical engineering and computer science at the University
of California at Berkeley. His
dissertation is on the analysis and design of energy-aware data-link layer for
wireless sensor networks. From June 2002
to present, he is with STMicroelectronics Central R&D Berkeley Research
Laboratory. He is currently developing a
MAC proposal to be submitted to the IEEE802.11n task group by June 2004. His research at ST also includes the MAC
design for cognitive radios. From
January 1995 to August 1998, he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories. His research interests were in the area of
digital wireless communications systems.
Mr. Zhong has three technical patents on CDMA. He also received two awards from Bell
Laboratories in 1996, including a Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award for
extraordinary achievements on the CDMA program.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of
the IEEE to attend. Bring your friends.
Time: 7:00 PM
(refreshments start at 6:45 PM), Thursday, April 1, 2004.
Place: New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670 (nirwan.ansari
“AT” njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj for the latest updates.
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NJ Computer Chapter:
The Rational Unified Process Software Development Methodology
On Tuesday, April 27, 2004,
the IEEE North Jersey Section Computer Chapter will host a presentation on “The
Rational Unified Process Software Development Methodology” by Vivek Shaiva.
About the Talk
The Rational Unified Process
software development methodology captures many of the best practices in modern
software development to ensure the development of high quality software within
a predictable schedule and budget. The
talk provides an overview of the process and its application in several real
world projects. The shortcomings of
traditional waterfall based software development methodologies that have been
addressed by RUP are covered. The talk
describes the use of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and object oriented
design in association with the methodology.
Finally, the major pitfalls associated with the incorrect use of the RUP
are described.
About the
Speaker
Vivek
Shaiva is currently a Software Architect with NBC in New York. Mr. Shaiva has architected technical
application frameworks and best practices that have been used as the basis for
design and implementation of many enterprise wide applications. He has a diverse range of business experience
with a focus on media, finance and telecommunications. Vivek holds an MBA in Information Systems
from the Indian Institute of Management.
Vivek is also Programs Chairman for the IEEE North Jersey Section
Computer Chapter.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a
member of the IEEE to attend. Bring your
friends and network during the free pre-meeting buffet starting at 6:00 PM.
Time: 7:00 PM,
Tuesday, April 27, 2004. Pre-meeting
buffet starting at 6:00 PM.
Place: Public
Meeting Room, Morris County Library, 30 E. Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ, (973) 285-6930.
Information:
Seth Jakel (973) 731-1902 (sgjakel “AT” comcast.net), Vivek Shaiva (908)
229-6125 (vshaiva “AT” computer.org).
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NJ Consultants' Network:
Lightning Protection
On
Thursday, April 29, 2004, the IEEE Consultants’ Network of Northern NJ (CNNNJ)
will host a talk on “Lightning Protection.”
The
speaker will be Jacob K. Struck.
About the Talk
Lightning is a phenomenon
that impacts our lives, not only in the realm of personal safety, but also the
safety and reliability of technology.
Mr. Struck will speak on the science of lightning, its history, and the
present and emerging technologies of lightning protection. The presentation will address the following
topics:
·
History of lightning protection
·
Existing lightning regulations
·
Dynamics of a lightning strike
·
Conventional lightning protection
·
Unconventional lightning protection (Voodoo science)
·
Emerging protection methods and technology
·
Simple precautions to avoid lightning injury & damage
A question and answer period
will follow.
About the
Speaker
Jacob K. Struck, a
world-renowned expert in the science of protecting munitions from lightning
strikes, is the leader of the Lightning Technology Team at U.S. Army Picatinny
Arsenal. Mr. Struck has received
numerous awards from the U.S. government for his work. He graduated with an EE Degree from NJIT.
About the
Consultants’ Network
Founded in 1992, the IEEE
Consultants Network of Northern NJ encourages and promotes the use of independent
technical consultants by business and industry.
All Welcome!
Everyone welcome. No registration needed. Free admission.
Time: 7:30 PM, Thursday, April 29, 2004.
Place: Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated Products, 60 S.
Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. (Entrance at
rear of building)
Information: For directions and up-to-date meeting status, call
Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or visit our website at www.TechnologyOnTap.org. To download a map to KDI, go to: http://www.mcekdi-integrated.com/directions.htm.
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NJ
Consultants' Network:
Collections: How to Get Paid
On
Thursday, May 20, 2004, the IEEE Consultants’ Network of Northern NJ (CNNNJ)
will host a talk on “Collections: How to
Get Paid” The speaker will be Brian R. Quentzel, Esq.
About the Talk
Mr. Brian R. Quentzel, Esq.,
will tell us what we can do to ensure we get paid for the work done for our
clients. He will also describe the
collection services that he offers as an attorney.
This is a repeat visit to the
CNNNJ for Mr. Quentzel.
A question and answer period
will follow the talk.
About the
Speaker
Mr. Quentzel is a local
attorney specializing in helping people recover money owed to them. In business for over ten years, he offers his
services on a contingency basis, so that no fee is due unless and until he
collects the money owed from his client’s debtor. When he is successful, Mr. Quentzel charges a
fee of one-third the amount recovered.
Mr. Quenzel can be reached at
(201) 816-1901. His office is located at
46 West Clinton Avenue, Tenafly, NJ 07670.
All Welcome!
Everyone welcome. No registration needed. Free admission.
About the
Consultants’ Network
Founded in 1992, the IEEE
Consultants Network of Northern NJ encourages and promotes the use of
independent technical consultants by business and industry.
Time: 7:30 PM, Thursday, May 20, 2004.
Place: Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated Products, 60 S.
Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. (Entrance at
rear of building)
Information: For directions and up-to-date meeting status, call
Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or visit our website at www.TechnologyOnTap.org. To download a map to KDI, go to: http://www.mcekdi-integrated.com/directions.htm.
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NJ EDS, C&S Chapters:
Evolution and Recent Advances in RF/Microwave Transistors
On April 28th,
2004, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters
together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on
“Evolution and Recent Advances in RF/Microwave Transistors." The speaker will be Distinguished Lecturer,
Dr. Juin J. Liou.
About the Talk
The development of
RF/microwave transistors went almost unnoticed until early 1980’s because,
unlike Si VLSI, there were no mass consumer markets for such devices. Most applications for RF/microwave
transistors had been military or exotic scientific projects. Recently, this has
been changed drastically due to the explosive growth in the civil wireless
communications and internets. This talk
covers the evolution and current status of semiconductor devices for
RF/microwave electronics systems.
Important background, development and major milestones leading to modern
RF/microwave transistors are first presented.
This is followed by the discussions of the concept of heterostructure, a
feature used frequently in RF/microwave devices. Different transistor types, including Si-,
III-V-, and wide bandgap-based devices, and their figures of merit are then
addressed. Finally the outlooks of
RF/microwave semiconductor devices and their future applications are given.
About the
Speaker
Juin J. Liou received the BS
(honors), MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Florida, Gainesville, in 1982, 1983, and 1987, respectively. In 1987, he joined the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Central Florida,
Orlando, where he is now a Professor.
His current research interests are semiconductor device
modeling/simulation, RF device/IC design, and semiconductor manufacturing.
Dr. Liou has published six
textbooks (another in progress), more than 180 journal papers (including 12
invited articles), and more than 130 papers (including 35 keynote or invited
papers) in international and national conference proceedings. He has been awarded more than $4.5 million of
research grants from federal agencies (i.e., NSF, DARPA, Navy, Air Force, Army,
NIST), state government, and industry (i.e., Semiconductor Research Corp.,
Intersil Corp., Intel Corp., Lucent Technologies, Texas Instruments, Lockheed
Martin), and has held consulting positions with research laboratories and
companies in the United States, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore. In addition, Dr. Liou serves as a technical
reviewer for various journals and publishers, as well as a chair or member of
the technical program committee for several international conferences. Currently, he is an associate editor for the
Simulation Journal in the area of VLSI and circuit simulation, and a regional
editor (in USA, Canada and South America) for the Microelectronics Reliability,
an international journal published by Elsevier Science.
Dr. Liou received ten
different awards on excellence in teaching and research from the University of
Central Florida and five different awards from the IEEE Electron Device
Society. In the summer of 1992, 1993,
and 1994, Dr. Liou was selected as an Air Force Summer Research Fellow at the
Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, where he conducted research on
modeling and reliability of AlGaAs/GaAs heterojunction bipolar
transistors. In the Fall of 1997, Dr.
Liou took a sabbatical leave and held a position as a Visiting Professor in the
Electrical Engineering Dept. at National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Dr. Liou is an IEEE EDS
Distinguished Lecturer, an IEEE EDS Administrative Committee member, an IEEE
EDS Ex-Officio Administrative Committee member, a senior member of the IEEE,
and a courtesy professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology,
China.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member
of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, April 28,
2004. Free buffet will be starting at
6:15 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr. Richard
Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave), Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra
“AT” njit.edu) or Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT).
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NJ EDS, C&S & LEOS Chapters:
Silicon-Germanium Three-dimensional Nanostructures: Against All Odds
On April 1, 2004, the IEEE NJ
Section Electron Devices, and Circuits and Systems Chapter, Laser and Electro Optics Chapter, together
with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on “Silicon-Germanium
Three-dimensional Nanostructures:
Against All Odds.” The speaker will be Dr. Leonid Tsybeskov.
About the Talk
This presentation is mainly
focused on two major problems with device quality SiGe nanostructures - lattice
mismatch and type-two band alignment.
Dr. Tsybeskov will discuss several possible solutions and new avenues in
SiGe research and device development.
About the
Speaker
Leonid Tsybeskov received his
MS in Physics in 1978 and PhD in Applied Physics in 1986 from Odessa
University, Odessa, Ukraine (former USSR).
From 1986 to 1991 he was with Physics Research Institute in Odessa,
Ukraine. From 1991 to 2001 he was a
post-doctoral research associate, visiting scientist, visiting research
professor, assistant research professor and director of Nanoscale Silicon
Research Initiative at University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. In 1999 he was on leave with Technical
University of Munich, Germany. In 2001
he moved to NJIT where he is an associate professor at ECE Department. He has received DAAD (German Academic
Exchange Service) research fellowship in 1999.
He is American Physical Society Fellow (elected in 2002).
His research is focused on
group IV (Si, Ge, SiGe, SiCGe) semiconductor nanostructures. He is author and co-author of more than 100
papers, two books and many book chapters.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be
a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 5:00 PM, Thursday, April 1, 2004. Free buffet will be starting at 4:45 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute
of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr.
H. Grebel (973) 596-3538 (grebel “AT” njit.edu).
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NJ EDS, C&S & LEOS Chapters:
Carbon Nanotubes
On May 12, 2004, the IEEE NJ
Section Electron Devices, and Circuits and Systems Chapter, Laser and Electro Optics Chapter, together
with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on “Carbon Nanotubes.” The speaker
will be Dr. Haim Grebel.
About the Talk
Carbon nanotubes have
stimulated much attention in the last few years due to their extraordinary
electrical, mechanical and chemical properties. These tiny tubes, with
diameters on the order of 1 nanometer, portray extremely high electrical
conductivity values and mechanical strength as good as diamond. Potential
applications span from electronic circuitry, one-electron logic gates, sensor
systems, special purpose coatings and ultra-fast optical switches. In this talk, Dr. Grebel will dwell on
present and future status of carbon nanotubes in the general context of
Nanotechnology.
About the
Speaker
Haim Grebel received his PhD
in Physics in 1985 from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. He is currently a Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering and a Director of the Imaging Center at NJIT.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be
a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, May 12, 2004. Free buffet will be starting at 6:15 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute
of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr. H. Grebel
(973) 596-3538 (grebel “AT” njit.edu).
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NJ MTT/AP Chapter:
Fundamentals of Electrical Noise
On April 22nd,
2004, the IEEE NJ MTT/S/AP-S Chapter together with the New Jersey Institute of
Technology will host a talk on "Fundamentals of Electrical
Noise." The speaker will be Kurt
Stern.
About the Talk
This talk will take you from
the basic definition of electrical noise to some of the common
applications. It will be limited to
Gaussian white noise.
Relationships between
electrical noise and power will be defined.
Various measurements performed with electrical noise will be
described. Some included items are: Nyquist's Theorem, noise measurements and the
switching Radiometer, how to devise a fundamental noise standard and use it to
calibrate working noise standards.
Common errors in noise measurements will be discussed.
Noise Figure Measurements
will be discussed. Included will be
fundamentals of these measurements, Y factor measurements, and twice power
measurements.
Noise amplification will be discussed. Concerns in maintaining noise quality when
amplifying will be explored.
About the
Speaker
Kurt Stern (LM'1996 -
LSM2003) received a BEE degree from the City College of New York. Kurt did graduate work at George Washington
University and the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.
He provided technology to
three successful new companies and was a founder of Noise Com Inc. He is founding Chief Engineer of Micronetics
Inc. and is currently Chief Engineer of Advanced Technical Materials Inc.
His previous activities
include:
·
Developing a product line of noise generators to 110 GHz. These were used for noise measurements, self
test, and countermeasures
·
At Airtron Kurt won a substantial contract with a state of the art
microwave detector
·
Manager of a microwave filter department at AEL.
·
Developing a large diplexer detector program
·
Manager of a microwave department at Amphenol
·
Designing the APC-7 precision connector in coordination with Hewlett
Packard
·
At Polarad, Kurt was manager of an engineering group that designed a 50
GHz - 100 GHz spectrum analyzer and developed the mixer diode for this program.
·
Winning two SBIR programs phase one and phase two for each.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a
member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Thursday, April 22, 2004. Free buffet will be starting at 6:00 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information:
Dr. Edip Niver
(973) 596-3542 (NJIT), Kirit Dixit (201) 400-2313, or Har Dayal (973)
633-4618.
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NJ Section PACE:
PACE, GOLD Meet - Part 2, Trends Affecting Engineering Professionals, Plus:
What we can do?
On Wednesday, April 14, 2004
the North Jersey Section will host the second joint PACE, GOLD & Membership
meetings. A panel of speakers from these
committees will review previous March 10, 2004 meeting issues, focus on
problems and develop current and future group activities to address these
concerns.
About the
Meeting
This second meeting will
bring you face to face with active members of the North Jersey Section’s
Executive Committee. After a brief
review from each committee chair, attendees will have an opportunity to voice
their views and their concerns.
Last months topics included
engineering specialties that are growing, shrinking, or remaining level
regardless of the economic environment.
Discussion emphasis was centered on national economic policy and general
business climate influencing these trends.
Now - our part in influencing
these trends policy and climate
Our goal: ideas shared over
our open discussion will help members develop activities and a career strategy
for the immediate and long term.
You are encouraged to attend
and bring your spouse and associates to this presentation
About the
Speaker
Alfonso Crincoli, Chair of
the North Jersey GOLD Committee, will discuss economic issues from a membership
perspective and compare them to those faced by members of the engineering
profession.
Gary Hojell, Chair of the
North Jersey’s Membership Committee, will address opportunities available
through the IEEE to improve their current and future situation.
Richard F. Tax, Chair of the
North Jersey PACE Committee and AEA VP, will review fluctuations in manpower
demand/supply issues and how attendees can become more effective in the
enhancement of their profession.
All Welcome!
This is an invitation and
open meeting. Guests, members and
students from other professional societies and engineering disciplines are
always welcome. We now include members
from IEEE, ASME and AEA. For more
information about these groups see:
www.aea.org
www.asme.org/sections/northjersey
www.ieeeusa.org
web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
Time:
6:30 to 9:00 PM, Wednesday, April 14, 2004.Place: Clifton Memorial
Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ, (973) 772-5500.
Information: Paul
Ward, (973) 790-1625, PWard1130 “AT” aol.com, Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954,
rtax “AT” AEA.org.
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NJ PES/IAS Chapters:
Power Management Control Systems
The
Power Engineering and Industrial Applications Chapters will present a program
on Power Management Control Systems for industrial and commercial markets on
Thursday evening May 20th.
The speaker will be Randy Bouwense.
About the Talk
Lower energy
costs, improved equipment performance, harmonic reduction, increased operating
efficiencies, improved working environment and less equipment down time are
some of the advantages associated with power management control systems.
Randy will
discuss the hardware, software, monitoring devices and output intelligence
generated by these Power Management Control Systems.
About the
Speaker
Randy Bouwense is
currently employed by General Electric Industrial Systems as Power Management
Systems Engineer. He has over 14 years
of experience with various assignments in Automation and Systems Integration.
Advance registration is
required three
days prior to the meeting. To RSVP, call
Ken Oexle at (973) 386-1156.
Time: 7:00 PM, Thursday, May 20, 2004. A pre-meeting buffet will be available at
6:30 PM.
Place: General Electric
Atlantic Region Office, 1st Floor, Maple Plaza 1, 4 Campus Dr,
Parsippany, NJ. Directions: Route 287 to Route 10 West to Dryden Drive.
Left on Campus Drive to building # 4.
Information/Map: Ken Oexle (973) 386-1156.
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NJ Signal Processing Chapter:
Functional MRI Motor Mapping for Tumor Patients
On April 21, 2004, the IEEE North Jersey Section Signal
Processing Society Chapter along with NJIT will host a presentation on "
Functional MRI Motor Mapping for Tumor Patients." The speaker will be Dr. Wen-Ching Liu.
About the Talk
Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent (BOLD) fMRI is a
non-invasive technique to map the brain activation associated with
stimulation. This technique has been
demonstrated to be useful in many fields especially for neurosurgical treatment
planning. Currently, BOLD fMRI has been
employed in nuerosurgical operations in our hospital for neurosurgery and
radiosurgery to identify the eloquent cortex for tumor patients. Due to the influence of a tumor, the spatial
pattern of BOLD motor maps may vary a lot in different patients. However, this variation caused by the tumor
is still unclear yet. A new challenge of
using different tools to better understand the variations and properly identify
the functional tissue is critical in providing tumor patients a better chance
in preserving vital function during the surgery. This talk will cover the following topics:
1.
basic concepts
of BOLD fMRI
2.
implementation
of BOLD fMRI in clinical aspects
3.
BOLD signal
and tumor
About the
Speaker
Wen-Ching Liu, obtained his PhD in Medical Physics from
University of Cincinnati, 1992. He
pursued his postdoctoral training in MR imaging at Children’s Hospital Medical
Center, Cincinnati until 1995. Late
1995, Dr. Liu joined the Department of Radiology at University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School as an Instructor for
functional imaging. He was one of the
pioneers to establish the functional imaging laboratory in Radiology,
UMDNJ-NJMS. He was promoted to an
Assistant Professor in 1998.
Dr. Liu’s research interest
is to apply the functional MR imaging technology to various clinical applications. Currently, there are several on going studies
including
1.
fMRI for brain
tumor patients in treatment planning.
The purpose of this study is to properly identify the vital cortex (or
called eloquent cortex) near the tumor using fMRI. Once the eloquent cortex of a tumor patient
can be properly identified, this area may be better preserved during the
neurosurgical or radiological procedures and hopefully to improve the patient’s
quality of life.
2.
Functional
imaging for vagal nerve stimulator implanted epilepsy patients. In this study, functional imaging will be
used to detect the brain responses during the stimulation. The improving index for epilepsy patients
will be identified from the brain responses and used for optimizing the
treatment to epilepsy patients.
3.
Brain
responses induced by acupuncture stimulation.
It is desired that the functional imaging can reveal the secrets of the
ancient medical treatment and thus, its efficacy can be significantly improved.
Time: 4:45 PM
(refreshments and pizza available at 4:30 PM), Wednesday, April 21, 2004.
Place: New Jersey
Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr. Yun Shi (973)
596-3501 (shi “AT” njit.edu), Dr. Alfredo Tan (201) 692-2347 (tan “AT”
mailbox.fdu.edu), Dr. Hong Man (201) 216-5038 (hman “AT” stevens-tech.edu).
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Spring 2004 Student Presentation Contest
a Success
The North Jersey Section
student presentation contest for spring 2004 was held on Wednesday, February 25th
at NJIT in Newark, NJ.
The contest was well attended
and had a good number of participants.
There were a total of 9 graduate and undergraduate student presenters
covering a wide variety of topics. A
group of four judges volunteered their time to grade each of the speakers. The purpose of the contest is to help
students improve their communication and presentation skills. Each presenter received the judge's comment
sheets for constructive feedback.
The contest started with
dinner and then moved right into the graduate and undergraduate
categories. Many different topics were
covered and this year's students showed great expertise in using animated and
concise slide presentations. Topics
included everything from network congestion protocol analysis, microwave filter
cavity designs, to applications of MOSFET device defect prevention.
The winners, titles, and
short abstracts can be found below.
Winners in both categories were awarded 1st/2nd/3rd
place prizes and conference briefcases.
The next round of competition will be the regional contest to be held at
Stony Brook in Long Island, NY on April 10th. All the details of their program can be found
off the SAC website http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/ north_jersey/sac/ieee.html
The North Jersey Section
Presentation contest will be again held next spring. Greater participation is hoped and the call
for presentations will start early in November.
All North Jersey GRAD/UGRADS are welcome to participate for prizes. Special thanks goes to our judges, M. Baker,
S. Wilkowski, and S. Kalra for taking the time to support local students
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Vinit Bhansali – 1st
Place Undergraduate
New Jersey Institute of Technology
“Organic Search and Recommend
System”
The idea behind an organic
search and recommend system is to search through peer-data and intuitively
calculate ‘best recommendation’. I apply
a pattern-matching algorithm to search through primary data and match
multi-user homogeneous data and generate a ‘recommended’ list containing data
found in common with other user data-sets that test positive for the primary
data. This logic will be applied in
designing a pattern matching algorithm that uses data-sets containing multiple
homogeneous entries and generates results by applying each entry as a part of
the whole set. My algorithm is different
in that the resultant set contains data that relates to the query or is
organically similar to the query. This
system aims to reduce and eventually remove the problem of junk/non-homogeneous
data that comes up using common search algorithms. Junk data often crowds out the real
information that should have surfaced in the first place.
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Kanquor Hsiao, Cecylia Wati,
Pyung Choi – 2nd Place Undergraduate
New Jersey Institute of
Technology
“The Design, Simulation,
Prototyping, and Testing of a Complete Microwave-Frequency Filter Assembly”
Great interest in microwave
frequencies has arisen for a variety of reasons. Leading among these is the ever-increasing
need for more radio-frequency-spectrum space and the rather unique uses to
which microwave frequency circuits can be applied. This growing industry has increased the
demand for innovative filter designs that not only maximize performance, but
also minimize size. Our advisor, Dr.
Edip Niver, and his team have developed an exciting new filter conception. It makes use of cylindrical cavity
resonators in order to minimize overall filter dimensions. Our team of students is exploring the theory
for this particular filter and optimizing our own design application of this
filter in order to fall within a set of specified parameters. The simulation of our design has been
facilitated in Ansoft HFSS, a 3-D electromagnetic simulation software. Ultimately, this filter project will
culminate in the construction of a working prototype that will be tested for
real industry application.
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Yuanqiu Luo – 1st
Place Graduate
New Jersey Institute of
Technology
“Bandwidth Allocation over
Ethernet PON”
Ethernet Passive Optical
Networks (EPONs) are being considered as a promising solution for the last mile
access network. EPONs possess many
attractive qualities such as low cost, simple maintenance, and ease of adding a
new user. Our research investigates the
bandwidth allocation issue in the upstream direction from the Optical Network
Units (ONUs) to the Optical Line Terminal (OLT), purposing to effectively and
efficiently allocation the time slots among the Optical Network Units (ONUs).
Our proposal dynamically allocates the upstream bandwidth based on the number
of already buffered packets and the number of predicted incoming packets. The simulations verify that our proposal
outperforms other bandwidth allocation proposals in terms of the packet delay
and the queue length.
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Purushothaman Srinivasan – 2nd
Place Graduate
New Jersey Institute of
Technology
“Hot carrier reliability of
MOSFETs”
In this paper, I have
investigated the screening of hot carrier stress degradation in n-channel
MOSFETs when the devices were exposed to plasma processing. Devices with various antenna ratios were subjected
to current stress (both gate injection and substrate injection) while the
source and drain terminals were reverse biased by a screening potential
followed by hot carrier stress. It was
observed that screening of the drain edge was effective for both gate injection
and substrate injection at different screening potentials. The hot carrier lifetime is directly related
to interface state density (Dit), measured by charge pumping method. The results suggest that hot electron
degradation could be severe or mild for devices affected by plasma damage
depending on their exposure to the level of screening potential.
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Jin-Shyan Lee – 3rd
Place Graduate
New Jersey Institute of
Technology
A Multi-Paradigm Modeling Approach
for Hybrid Dynamic Systems
In the past years, modeling
and simulation of hybrid dynamic systems (HDS) have attracted much attention.
However, since simultaneously dealing with the discrete and continuous
variables is very difficult, most of the models result in a unified, but more
complicated and unnatural format.
Moreover, design engineers cannot be allowed to use their preferred
domain models. Based on the
multi-paradigm modeling (MPaM) concept, this paper proposed a Petri net (PN)
framework with associated state equations to model the HDS. In the presented approach, modeling schemes
of the hybrid systems are separated, but combined in a hierarchical way through
specified interfaces. Designers can
still work in their familiar domain-specific modeling paradigms and the
heterogeneity is hidden when composing large systems. An application to a rapid thermal process
(RTP) in semiconductor manufacturing is provided to demonstrate the
practicability of the developed approach.
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IEEE
North Jersey Section Turns 50
From left:
North Jersey and METSAC PACE Chair, and past Section Chair, Richard Tax
Section Chair, Durga Misra
Region 1 Director, Roger Sullivan
Past METSAC and Section
Chair, Alan Stolpen
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Interested in Being a North Jersey
Section Officer?
The North Jersey Section
Nominating Committee will soon begin to consider candidates for section
officers for next year. We request that
those who are interested in a section office submit their name, office sought,
and qualifications to the Committee Chair, Dr. Fred Chichester, by mail at
56 Gordonhurst Ave
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
For further information, you may telephone
him at (973) 744-7340 between the hours of 8:00 AM and 9:00 PM.
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Conference Rooms Needed!
The
North Jersey
Section (Education Committee) is looking for conference room facilities to hold
their training seminars. The seminars
are being held on one weeknight from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM. In lieu of providing the conference facility
for free, the organization can get free registration up to three members in the
course/seminar. Please contact Bhanu
Chivakula, Education Committee Chairman, at b.chivakula “AT” computer.org for
suggestions or discussions, if interested.
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IEEE AWARDS RECEPTION
North Jersey
Section
May 2, 2004
Birchwood
Manor, Whippany NJ
A time to relax,
unwind and enjoy --
A time to pay tribute
to our new Fellows --
A time to honor our
Award Winners --
YES it's time for the
Annual Section Reception
The Annual Section IEEE Awards
Reception will be held at the Birchwood Manor, 111 North Jefferson Road,
Whippany again this year. The affair is
scheduled for Sunday, May 2, 2004 from
3 to 6 PM. Tickets are $35.00 each. Spouses and guests are welcome. We are limited to 90 attendees, so
please make your reservations early.
Reservations are required by April 23, 2004. Complete the reservation form and return it
with your payment. If you would like
tickets mailed back to you, please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope. Otherwise, your tickets will be held at the
door for you. If any additional
information is required concerning the reception, contact Anne Giedlinski at
(973) 377-3175.
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Use this form for Reception
reservations. ENCLOSE A SELF-ADDRESSED STAMPED ENVELOPE to receive tickets in
advance. Reservations are required by
April 23, 2004. Mail reservation request to:
Anne Giedlinski
299 Brooklake Road
Florham Park, NJ 07932
Enclosed is __________ for ____
ticket(s) at $35.00 each (make check payable to North Jersey Section IEEE) for:
NAME:
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ADDRESS: _______________________________________________________________
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NJ PES/IAS:
Electrical Transients &
Power Quality Seminar
The PES and IAS
Chapters will sponsor a one-day seminar covering Electrical Transients: Causes, Effects & Solutions and
Understanding Power Quality. The session
will be held on Friday, April 16, 2004 at the PSE&G Training Center, 234
Pierson Ave, Edison, NJ.
About the
Seminar
First
topic - Electrical Transients:
Causes, Effects, & Solutions
Do you depend on electrical and electronic equipment? If so, you’re probably familiar with these
problems: scrambled and lost data,
erratic equipment behavior, equipment failure, excessive repair and replacement
costs, frequent downtime, lightning damage.
This dynamic seminar teaches you how to stop the damage
today! Understand the transient
environment, surge suppression design, proper application of surge suppression
devices, the importance of system surveys.
Understand how to compare product specifications, how to recognize what
is important when writing bid specifications, how to evaluate let-through
voltages. Comprehend industry standards
and testing parameters. Witness on-site
testing. Join members of the industry’s
leading engineering team as they perform on-site testing. Watch various surge protection devices
undergo rigorous test procedures. Learn
why test results can be affected by lead length, phase angle, voltage polarity
and current. Review UL 1449, the
standard for transient voltage surge protection testing and ratings, and
ANSI/IEEE C62.41-1991, surge waveform standard.
The presenter will be Randall Raszick from Innovative
Technologies.
Second
topic - Understanding Power Quality
The terms power quality and power reliability have become
front-page news across the United States.
More importantly, we've learned how much power quality problems are
costing this nation, especially facilities with power-sensitive equipment and
computerized operations. The good news
is that by understanding, monitoring and managing power quality, those costs
can be controlled and power quality and reliability problems prevented. We will discuss how power quality and
reliability impact business, and what can be done about it. Within our presentation, we will deliver a
primer on how to identify power quality problems, typical power quality
disturbances and their impact on operating costs and equipment
performance. Planning and performing a
power quality survey will be addressed, as we "travel" through a
typical facility to identify common events and their characteristics. Power quality monitoring approaches and
techniques will be covered, including guidance on how to characterize, analyze
and report problems. Power monitoring is
a preventive maintenance approach, and this program will include many case
studies to support the information.
The presenter will be Thurman Bridgers from Dranetz-BMI.
There will be no
fee for this seminar but space will be limited. Advanced registration is required by April 2nd.
______________________________________________________________________
Registration: Electrical Transients & Power Quality
Seminar 4/16/2004
Register
via US mail to: Ronald W.
Quade, PE
Eaton Electrical
379 Thornall St
Edison, NJ 08837
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Address__________________________________________________________________________________
Phone__________________
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