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April 2005
Volume 51, 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................................................ Har
Dayal
har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com (973) 633-4618
Vice-Chairman-1......................... Bhanu Chivukula
b.chivukula “AT” computer.org (732)
718-3818
Vice-Chairman-2...................................... Kirit Dixit
kdixit
“AT” ieee.org (201) 669-7599
Treasurer................................. Dr. Sanghoon
Shin
s.shin
“AT” ieee.org (973) 492-1207 Ext. 22
Secretary.......................................... Russell
Pepe
rpepe
“AT” att.net (201) 960-6796
Members-at-Large:
Dr.
Nirwan Ansari (nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu)
Gary Hojell (gary.hojell “AT” itt.com)
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 Russell Pepe at (201) 960-6796, rpepe
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IEEE North Jersey Section
Activities
April
2005
Apr. 5 – “Identifying Movie Pirates: Forensic Watermarking and the Motion Picture
Industry” - NJ Signal Processing Chapter, 4:45
PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 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. 6 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive
Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT,
100
Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Russell Pepe at rpepe “AT” worldnet.att.net.
Apr. 7 – “Self-Healing
Software Systems” - NJ Communications Chapter, 6:30 PM (refreshments at
6:00 PM), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center,
Newark, NJ. Dr. Nirwan
Ansari (973) 596-3670 (nirwan.ansari
“AT” njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates.
Apr. 13 – “Engineers
Meet: Off Shoring: A different view”
- NJ PACE & GOLD, 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. 14 – “Design and Performance of
Microwave and Millimeter-Wave High Efficiency Power Amplifiers” –
EDS/C&S, & MTT-S/AP-S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 PM), NJIT, 202
ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Richard
Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave) or Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT).
Apr. 18-19
– “2005 IEEE Sarnoff
Symposium” - 8:00
AM-10:00 PM, Nassau Inn, Princeton, NJ. Gerhard
Franz, (609) 936-1919, sarnoff2005 “AT” agfranz.com.
Apr. 21 – “Security:
Defending your network from Hackers, Crackers, and Slackers”
- 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)
229-6125 (vshaiva “AT” computer.org).
Apr. 21 – “Laptop Antenna Design
and Evaluation for WLAN Applications” - NJ VTS &
MTT-S/AP-S Chapters, 7:00 PM
(pre-meeting buffet at 6:00 PM), Lucent
Technologies, Room wh-4A-323, 67 Whippany Rd,
Whippany, NJ. Stephen Wilkowski,
Lucent Technologies, (973) 386-6487, Arthur Greenberg (973) 386-6673 (ahg1 “AT”
lucent.com), Kirit Dixit, Microcom Sales Llc., (201) 669-7599, Willie Schmidt, (973) 492-0371.
Apr. 22-23 – “The
Fourteenth Wireless and Optical Communications Conference” - 8:00
AM-5:50 PM, Wyndham Hotel, Newark, NJ. Dr.
Hongya Ge, (973) 642-4990 (ge
“AT” njit.edu) or see http://www.wocc.org for additional details.
Apr. 28 – “Performance through
Resource Management” - 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.
Apr. 29
& May 20 – “Motor And Motor Controls Seminar” - NJ IAS/PES Chapters, 9:00
AM – 3:30 PM, PSE&G
Training Center,
234 Pierson Avenue, Edison
NJ.
Ronald Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade
“AT” ieee.org.
Upcoming Meetings
May 1 – “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 4 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30
PM, “Executive Committee
Meeting” - 7:00
PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Russell Pepe at rpepe “AT” worldnet.att.net.
May 12 – “Spring 2005 Packaging
Symposium” – registration 12:00 - 1:00 PM, papers from
1:00 - 5:30 PM, buffet dinner 5:30 - 7:30 PM, Lucent Technologies, Bell
Laboratories, 600 Mountain Ave, Murray Hill, NJ. See http://www.imaps.org/chapters/garden
for details. Michael Salloum
(msalloum “AT” rdcircuits.com).
May 19 – “HIFET-An Innovative approach for High-Voltage,
High-Power, Broadband Amplifiers” – EDS/C&S, & MTT-S/AP-S Chapters, 7:00
PM (buffet at 6:15 PM),
NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Richard Snyder (973)
492-1207 (RS Microwave) or Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT).
May 26 – “Marketing Ideas Workshop” - 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.
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2005
IEEE NORTH JERSEY FELLOWS
Jeff D. Bude
“for contributions to the deep submicron MOSFETs.”
Jeff Bude was
born in St. Louis, Missouri
in 1966. He received his BS degree with
Highest Honors in 1987 and PhD degree in 1992, both at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1992 he joined Bell Laboratories in Murray
Hill, NJ, as a Member of the
Technical Staff and became a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in
1999. Since 2000 he has been a Director
of the High Speed Electronics Device Research Department and the Advanced RF
Power Device Department at Agere Systems. In 2005 he became an IEEE Fellow for
contributions to the deep sub-micron MOSFET.
His research interests are in computational physics and semiconductor
device physics. He has been involved in
the simulation, design and implementation of novel memories, transistors and
photo-detectors, and in research emphasizing nano-transistor
physics, hot carrier effects and reliability.
Nicholas
Geoffrey Duffield
“for contributions to the measurement, analysis and
management of telecommunications networks.”
Nick Duffield was awarded a BA in Natural
Sciences in 1982 and the Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics in 1983 by
the University of Cambridge, U.K. He was awarded a PhD in 1987 by the
University of London, U.K., for a study of
non-equilibrium phase-transitions in biological systems. He held postdoctoral positions in Heidelberg,
Germany, and Dublin,
Ireland, before joining the
faculty of the School of Mathematical
Sciences in Dublin
City University,
Dublin, Ireland
in 1991. He moved to AT&T
Labs-Research in 1995, where he is a Senior Technical Consultant in the
Internet and Network Systems Research Laboratory. His current research focuses on performance
measurement, inference and analysis of communications networks. He is active in the IETF and was charter
Chair of its working group on Packet Sampling.
He has been elected a member of IFIP Working Group 7.3. He is a co-inventor of the Smart Sampling
technologies that lie at the heart of AT&T's scalable Traffic Analysis
Service.
Laurence W.
Nagel
“for contributions to the field of integrated circuit
simulation.”
Dr. Nagel has 30 years of experience in the integrated
circuit industry. While earning his BS,
MS, and PhD degrees at the University of
California, he developed the SPICE
circuit simulation program and launched a cottage industry of SPICE simulation
tools. Dr. Nagel then began a 20 year
career at Bell Laboratories which included developing the ADVICE circuit
simulation program; participating in the development of process and device
simulation tools; participating in the development of the Kull-Nagel
bipolar model; designing analog circuits for submicron NMOS processes; working
in the AT&T Intellectual Property Division on assertion of patents and
negotiation of patent licenses; and serving as project manager in the
development of the Celerity circuit simulation program. Dr. Nagel then joined Anadigics,
Inc., where he worked on supporting simulation of RF integrated circuits;
modeling and characterization of GaAs MESFET device
processes; and importing silicon CMOS design tools and foundry support. Dr. Nagel now is an independent consultant.
Mohammad S.
Obaidat
“for contributions to adaptive learning, pattern recognition
and system simulation.”
Professor Mohammad S. Obaidat is an
internationally well known academic, researcher, and scientist. He received his PhD and MS degrees in
Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from The Ohio State
University, Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Obaidat is
currently a full Professor of Computer Science at Monmouth
University, NJ. Among his previous positions are Chair of the
Department of Computer Science and Director of the Graduate Program at Monmouth
University and a faculty member at the
City University of New York. He has
received extensive research funding and has published about three hundred (300)
refereed technical articles in scholarly international journals and proceedings
of international conferences. He has
written five books and over three hundred (300) refereed scholarly journal and
conference articles. Dr. Obaidat has served as a consultant for several corporations
and organizations worldwide and is editor of many scholarly journals including
the International Journal of Communication Systems published by John
Wiley. In 2002, he was the scientific
advisor for the World Bank/UN Workshop on Fostering Digital Inclusion. He was an IEEE Distinguished Visitor/Speaker
and has been serving as a National ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
distinguished Lecturer since 1995.
Recently, Dr. Obaidat was awarded the
distinguished Nokia Research Fellowship and the Distinguished Fulbright
Scholarship.
Kadangode K. Ramakrishnan
“for contributions to congestion control and traffic
management in communication networks.”
Dr. K. K. Ramakrishnan is a Technology Leader at AT&T Labs.-
Research in Florham Park, New Jersey. He joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1994 and has been with AT&T Labs
Research since its inception in 1996.
Between 2000 and 2002, he was at TeraOptic
Networks, Inc., as Founder and Vice President.
Prior to 1994, he was a Technical Director and Consulting Engineer in
Networking at Digital Equipment Corporation.
At AT&T Labs Research, he is involved in several technical and
strategic activities in networking, including Quality of Service, Congestion
Control, Signaling, Virtual Private Networks, IP Telephony and Metro Area
Networks. He has published nearly 100
papers and has 69 patents issued. His
contributions on congestion control, channel access protocols (for Ethernet and
cable), network interfaces, operating system support for network I/O, signaling
and IP Telephony have been adopted and implemented in the industry. His work on the “DECbit”
congestion avoidance mechanism was recognized in the 1995 retrospective issue
of ACM Sigcomm Computer Communication Review as one
of the 16 most important papers published over the last 25 years in ACM Sigcomm publications.
K.K. has an MS degree from the Indian Institute of Science (1978), and
an MS (1981) and PhD (1983) in Computer Science from the University
of Maryland, College
Park. K.K. has been
on the editorial board of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and IEEE
Network Magazine and has been a member of the National Research Council Panel
on Information Technology for NIST. He
has participated in numerous standards bodies working on communication
networks.
Amy
Ruth Reibman
“for contributions to the transport of video over networks.”
Amy R. Reibman received the BS, MS and PhD degrees in electrical
engineering from Duke University
in 1983, 1984, and 1987, respectively.
From 1988 to 1991, she was an assistant professor in the Department of
Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. In 1991 she joined AT&T Bell
Laboratories, and became a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in
1995. She is currently a Technical
Consultant in the Communication Sciences Research Department at AT&T
Laboratories.
She was
elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2005, for her contributions to video transport
over networks. In 1998, she won the IEEE
Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award. She was the Technical
co-chair of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing in 2002; the
Technical Co-chair for the First IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing
in 1997; and the Technical Program Chair for the Sixth International Workshop
on Packet Video in 1994.
Dr. Reibman's research interests include
video compression systems for transport over packet and wireless networks, and
video quality metrics.
Yun Q. Shi
“for contributions to multidimensional signal processing.”
Dr. Yun Q.
Shi has been a member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark,
NJ, since 1987, and is
currently a professor there. He obtained
his BS degree and MS degree from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China; his MS and PhD degrees from the
University of Pittsburgh, PA. His research interests include visual signal
processing and communications, digital multimedia data hiding and information
assurance, applications of digital image processing, computer vision and
pattern recognition to industrial automation and biomedical engineering, theory
of multidimensional systems and signal processing. Some of his research projects are currently
supported by several federal and New Jersey
State funding agencies. He is an author/coauthor of more than 160
papers in his research areas, a book on Image
and Video Compression, three book chapters on Image Data Hiding and one book
chapter on Digital Image Processing.
He holds
two U.S. patents and has eight U.S. patents pending.
Dr. Shi is the
chairman of Signal Processing Chapter of IEEE North Jersey Section, an
editorial board member of International
Journal of Image and Graphics, a member of IEEE CASS Technical Committee
of Visual Signal Processing and Communications, Technical Committee of
Multimedia Systems and Applications, and Technical Committee of Life Science,
Systems and Applications, a member of IEEE SPS Technical Committee of
Multimedia Signal Processing, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits
and Systems II. He was an IEEE CASS
Distinguished Lecturer, a co-general chair of the IEEE 2002 International
Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, a formal reviewer of the Mathematical
Reviews, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, the
guest editor of several special issues on several journals, and one of the
contributing authors in the area of Signal and Image Processing to the
Comprehensive Dictionary of Electrical Engineering.
Walter
Willinger
“for the analysis and mathematical modeling of Internet
traffic.”
Walter Willinger is a member of the
Information and Software Systems Research Center at AT&T Labs - Research, Florham
Park, NJ. Before that, he was a Member
of Technical Staff at Bellcore (1986-1996). He received the Diplom
(Dipl. Math.) from the ETH Zurich,
Switzerland, and the MS and
PhD degrees from the School of Operations
Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell
University, Ithaca,
NY. He
has been a leader of the work on the self-similar (“fractal”) nature of
Internet traffic and has focused more recently on investigating the topological
structure of the Internet and on developing a theoretical foundation for the
study of large-scale communication networks such as the Internet. He is a co-recipient of the 1996 IEEE W.R.G.
Baker Prize Award from the IEEE Board of Directors and the 1994 W.R. Bennett
Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society.
Thomas
H. Wood
“for contributions to high performance optical communications
systems.”
Thomas H. Wood
received an ScB in physics
from Brown University in 1975 and a PhD
in physics from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1980. He worked 18 years in Lucent’s Bell Labs
Research area. In 1983, he co-invented
the Multiple Quantum Well Electro-Absorption (MQW EA) optical modulator, which
was integrated with a semiconductor laser to make the Electroabsorption-Modulated
Laser (EML). These EMLs
are now widely deployed as data sources in long-distance fiber systems. While in Bell Labs Research, he also invented
and characterized several novel Fiber-to-the-Home architectures.
In 1998, he joined
Lucent’s Optical Networking Group as a Senior Manager. He headed a group which demonstrated advanced
Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (WDM) transmission technologies for Lucent’s
new long-haul fiber system, LambdaXtreme
Transport™. In 2003 he moved to
Lucent’s Government Communication Laboratory, where he is currently leader of
the Optical Design Group.
In addition to
being named an IEEE Fellow “for contributions to high performance optical
communications systems,” he was awarded the Bell Labs Distinguished Member of
Technical Staff award in 1991 and was elected a Fellow of the Optical Society
of America in 1997.
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NJ Communications Society:
Self-Healing Software Systems
On
April 7, 2005, the IEEE North
Jersey Section Communications Society Chapter along with NJIT will host a
presentation on “Self-Healing Software Systems.” The speaker will be Dr. Angelos
Keromytis.
About the Talk
Dr.
Keromytis will discuss research in self-healing
software systems that automatically diagnose and identify the root cause of
their failures, and prevent them from repeating in the future through automatic
structural modifications of the system itself.
The talk will focus on two such systems:
a software self-patching system that can protect against zero-day worm
attacks (that is, attacks that were not previously known and for which no
software patch exists), possibly without human intervention; and an
emulator-based system that can learn and recover from broader classes of common
software failures. I will discuss the
capabilities and limitations of our current systems, and outline future
directions for the work.
About the Speaker
Angelos Keromytis has been an assistant professor with the
Department of Computer Science at Columbia
University since 2001, and director of
the Network Security Laboratory. He
received his BSc in Computer Science from the
University of Crete, Greece, and his MSc and PhD from the Computer and Information Science (CIS)
Department, University
of Pennsylvania. His current research interests revolve around
systems and network security, and cryptography.
Previous research interests include active networks, trust management
systems, and systems issues involving hardware cryptographic acceleration. His recent work has been on survivable system
and network architectures. For a full
CV, see http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~angelos/cv.html.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend. Bring your friends.
Time: 6:30
PM (refreshments start at 6:00 PM),
Thursday, April 7, 2005.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center,
Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information:
Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670 (nirwan.ansari
“AT” njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates.
NJ
Computer Chapter:
Security: Defending your network from Hackers,
Crackers, and Slackers
On
Thursday, April 21, 2005, the
IEEE North Jersey Section Computer Chapter will host a presentation on “Security:
Defending your network from Hackers, Crackers, and Slackers” by Arthur J. Hedge
III.
About the Talk
Personal
and corporate networks are under ever increasing attacks. With network failures, data losses, and
privacy concerns in the news on a regular basis, one needs to ask, “Are you
prepared?”. As
more and more organizations provide connectivity to their employees from
anywhere at any time, this becomes more important on a daily basis.
In
this presentation, we will discuss the threats that exist, a survey of
solutions, and a framework to remain vigilant.
The solutions will describe the tools on the market, how they can be
utilized, and a methodology for implementing and maintaining lasting defenses. The discussion will be geared towards corporate
networks and the latest methods of defense.
About the Speaker
Arthur
J. Hedge III is currently President of Castle Ventures and Principal of
Southport Communications LLC. He focuses
on helping companies reduce costs and operate more effectively by improving
their business processes. Mr. Hedge has
over 20 years of consulting expertise, focused on large-scale application
development. He is also a member of the
AIIM Document Management standards committee.
Mr. Hedge is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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, Thursday, April 21, 2005
(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 or Vivek Shaiva, (908) 229-6125, vshaiva “AT” computer.org.
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NJ
Consultants' Network:
Performance through Resource Management
On
April 28, 2005, the IEEE
Consultants’ Network of Northern NJ (CNNNJ) will host a meeting on “Performance
through Resource Management.” The
speaker will be Donald A. Borcherding.
About the Talk
Rapid
and effective product development requires the right combination and balance of
engineering talent, project planning and a well thought out development
process. However, for organizations that
need to share resources across multiple projects and product lines,
implementing a resource planning and management process can provide surprising
benefits in gaining the competitive edge.
This talk will cover five basic process areas (i.e., requirements
management, requirements development, supplier management, project planning and
validation) to improve product development effectiveness which free up
engineering resources and increase the productivity of the organization. These five topics will be presented to show
why they are important to both clients and consultants.
About the Speaker
Donald A. Borcherding is the
founder of NexSummit LLC. He has a BSEE
from the University of Missouri
at Rolla and has over 12 years of hands-on experience in Engineering
development projects, resource management, project management, process
development and continuous process improvements. You can reach Don at dborcherding_1@msn.com
or (908) 684-8914.
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,
April 28, 2005.
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:
Marketing Ideas Workshop
On
May 26, 2005, the IEEE
Consultants’ Network of Northern NJ (CNNNJ) will host a Marketing Ideas
Workshop. The workshop will be led by
Peter Schutz.
About the Workshop
Marketing
and sales are some of the things that technical consultants find the hardest to
do. One of the primary functions of
CNNNJ is to make the services provided by CNNNJ members visible and attractive
to potential customers, for example, by the existing periodic mailing and
through the web site. What other
marketing efforts could CNNNJ make?
We'll
discuss our plans to visit companies in the area, special challenges we are
confronted by, and associated ideas. If
time permits, we will also hold a discussion on basic sales and marketing
practices that we, as individuals, have found to be helpful.
Join
our workshop and give us your ideas so that CNNNJ can provide you the best
value for your membership dollars! This
meeting was originally planned for February 2005 but was canceled due to
inclement weather.
About the Panelist
The workshop will be led by
Peter Schutz, Vice Chairperson of the CNNNJ executive
committee. Peter is a mechanical
engineer who has been working as an independent consultant for the last 20
years. He specializes in the
development of new products, especially in the areas of medical and laboratory
equipment, instrumentation, prototypes, and special machinery. Some of his areas of technical expertise
include: electronics packaging, fluid systems, and thermal analysis. Peter has a BSME from Lehigh
University and a MSME from NJIT. He survived his first year of consulting by
eating rice. He has been a member of
CNNNJ for the last 6 years.
All CNNNJ members and
visitors are welcome to participate and help make this a successful program!
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 26, 2005.
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 &
MTT-S/AP-S Chapters:
Design and Performance of Microwave and
Millimeter-wave High Efficiency Power Amplifiers
On April
14, 2005, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems
Chapters together with MTT/S/AP-S and the New Jersey Institute of Technology
will host a talk on “Design and Performance of Microwave and Millimeter-wave
High Efficiency Power Amplifiers."
The speaker will be Dr. James J. Komiak.
About the Talk
Device
technologies covered include Si BJT, MESFET, HBT,
PHEMT, InP, MHEMT, and Wide Bandgap (SiC, GaN). Content includes principles of operation,
structures, characteristics, and state of the art benchmarks. Power amplifiers utilizing these device
technologies covering L-band through W-band are described including state of
the art benchmarks.
About
the Speaker
James
J. Komiak received a PhD degree in Electrical
Engineering from Cornell University
in 1978. His PhD research was directed
towards a novel broadband matching technique for arbitrary loads using measured
data directly, the "Real Frequency Technique".
Dr.
Komiak is an Engineering Fellow in the Microwave
Electronics Group at BAE Systems. His
current activities are in MMIC, module, and sub-system design for EW,
communication, and radar system applications.
Principally known for work in power, Dr. Komiak
has designed over 100 MMICs achieving state of the
art results. Prior to consolidation at
Sanders and the subsequent sale to BAE Systems, Dr. Komiak
was with the Lockheed Martin/Martin Marietta/General Electric Electronics
Laboratory.
Dr.
Komiak has been active with MTT-S and the IMS TPC
with MTT-5/SC-19 High Power Amplifier Components. He was with the IEEE GaAs
IC Symposium TPC and ExCom and was Symposium Chairman
in 2000. He is also active as an
Accreditation Board for Engineering & Technology IEEE-sponsored University
Electrical Engineering Program Evaluator.
He has 65 publications and 6 patents relating to circuit theory, GaAs MMIC devices and technology, high power amplifiers,
solid-state apertures, and RF/microwave design.
Dr. Komiak received the 2001 BAE Systems
Silver Chairman’s Award for Innovation for "Blue Force Locator and
Monitor", the 1993 Martin Marietta Jefferson Cup Award for
"Outstanding Technical Leadership in Development and Demonstration of High
Power and High Efficiency MMIC Amplifiers and T/R Modules for Phased Array
Radar", and his work is represented in the MTT Symposium MMIC Historical
Exhibit as "World's First Octave Band MMIC with Power Output in Excess of
10 Watts (1989)".
All
Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00
PM, Thursday, April 14, 2005. 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/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS
Microwave) or Dr. Edip Niver
(973) 596-3542 (NJIT).
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NJ EDS, C&S &
MTT-S/AP-S Chapters:
HIFET-An Innovative approach for
High-Voltage, High-Power, Broadband Amplifiers
On May
19, 2005, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems
Chapters together with MTT/S/AP-S and the New Jersey Institute of Technology
will host a talk on “HIFET-An Innovative approach for High-Voltage, High-Power,
Broadband Amplifiers." The speaker
will be Dr. Amin Ezzeddine.
About the Talk
HIFET*
(High Voltage FET) is an innovative power combination technique to achieve
high-voltage, high-power and broadband amplification. It stacks up the
individual FETs both DC and RF in series. The source
of the top FET becomes the drain of the bottom FET. Therefore, both the DC bias
voltage and RF impedance of the FETs are added to a
high value. By proper choice of the device configuration, it is possible to
achieve near 50-ohm RF impedance for very broadband amplification. The
challenge of designing the HIFET is to ensure that: a) Each FET in series sees
the optimal load impedance to achieve optimal output power and efficiency, b).
The RF output voltages of each FET are in phase to achieve efficient power
combination, and c). To achieve high degree of
stability.
AMCOM
has developed discrete HIFETs for 14V and 28V DC
voltage with output power up to 8W, and HIFET MMICs
with 3W output power from 25MHz to 2,500MHz with 20V DC bias voltage, and 5W
output power at 1.5-1.7GHz GPS band.
The
HIFET is a methodology, which is not limited only to FET. It also applies to
PHEMT, GaN, LDMOS, …etc.
This
talk will cover the principle of HIFET and AMCOM HIFET products.
About
the Speaker
Dr.
Amin Ezzeddine received his
Bachelor of Science from Ain-Shams
University, Cairo,
in 1976, his Master and ScD degrees from MIT in 1979 and 1983 respectively.
Dr.
Ezzeddine is the Executive vice president, chief
engineer and co-founder of AMCOM Communications. Prior to founding Amcom
Communications he worked with Comsat Corporation for 10 years where he held
several management and research positions at COMSAT Laboratories and Comsat
RSI.
Dr.
Ezzeddine has over 20 years experience in designing
MMIC & MIC components, over 20 published technical papers and several
microwave and millimeter-wave circuit patents.
All
Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00
PM, Thursday, May
19, 2005.
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/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS
Microwave) or Dr. Edip Niver
(973) 596-3542 (NJIT).
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NJ
Section PACE & GOLD:
Engineers Meet:
Off
Shoring: A different view
On Wednesday,
April 13, 2005, the North Jersey Section Professional Activities
Committee and Graduates of the Last Decade committees will host a meeting with
Mark C. Hehl.
He will discuss the philosophy: “There are ways to keep operations at home!”
About the Meeting
Mr. Hehl
will discuss these topics:
· Factors that are forcing offshore manufacturing. It is not just labor costs.
· The current state of manufacturing in China
and other low cost areas.
· Disadvantages of manufacturing offshore
· Advantages of offshore manufacturing
· Hidden costs that many never consider and measure
· Future of China/Asia - risks
· The future of Latin America -
risks
· Avenues to keep manufacturing in North America
- the danger of cost cutting & tools that will improve operations &
automatically reduce costs
· The final decision - financial analysis & capturing
all hidden costs
About the Speaker
Mark C. Hehl
is President of Hehl Associates, which provides
offshore supply chain development consulting services. His efforts produced significant increases in
quality, meaningful reductions in lead times, and cost savings.
He holds a BS in EE from the
NYIT and MS in Management from the Polytechnic Institute of NY.
His work has been included
in such fields as aerospace, plastics, metal parts, and pharmaceuticals. He works with companies in both China,
and Latin America.
All Welcome!
This event is especially of
interest to all engineers, students, recent graduates and those looking for a
career and support for their profession.
You are encouraged to attend
and invite your associates.
Members and students from
all professional societies and engineering disciplines are welcome. We now have attendees from IEEE, ASME, NSPE,
ASCE and AEA.
For information about these
groups see:
www.aeaworld.org/
www.aea.org/chapters/nj/
www.ieeeusa.org
web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
www.asme.org/sections/northjersey
Time: 6:30
to 9:00 PM, Wed., April 13,
2005. Refreshments will be
served.
Place: Clifton
Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton,
NJ, (973) 772-5500.
Information: Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625 (PWard1130 “AT” aol.com) or
Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954 (rtax “AT”
bellatlantic.net).
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NJ
Signal Processing Chapter:
Identifying Movie Pirates: Forensic Watermarking and the Motion Picture
Industry
On April
5, 2005, the IEEE North Jersey Section Signal Processing
Society Chapter along with NJIT will host a presentation on " Identifying Movie
Pirates: Forensic Watermarking and the
Motion Picture Industry." The
speaker will be Dr. Jeffrey A. Bloom.
About the Talk
The unauthorized trading of pirate copies of
Hollywood movies on the Internet is becoming more common
as bandwidth to the home increases. In
the most damaging cases, the source of the piracy is an insider who is, at
best, betraying the trust of the studies or, at worst, stealing proprietary
intellectual property. In this talk, we
will discuss this problem and present a solution based on Sarnoff's
robust forensic watermark that was developed for the challenging digital cinema
environment.
About the Speaker
Jeffrey Bloom is a researcher
at Sarnoff Corporation in Princeton, NJ. He has been working in the field of digital
watermarking research since 1998. He was
one of the primary designers of the Galaxy watermark for DVD copy control and
was the principal investigator on a NIST-sponsored effort at Sarnoff to develop
a watermark appropriate for digital cinema applications. Dr. Bloom holds a number of patents in the
field of watermarking, has published numerous technical articles, and has given
many invited talks on digital watermarking to industry, academic, and
government groups. He is co-author of a
text book on digital watermarking.
"Digital Watermarking", published by
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers in 2001, is considered the standard text in the
field. Dr. Bloom holds BS and MS degrees
in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and a PhD from
the University of California,
Davis.
He has expertise in the areas of signal and image processing, image and
video compression, and human visual models.
His current research interests include digital watermarking, digital
rights management, machine learning, and data mining. Dr. Bloom is a member of IEEE, Sigma Xi, and
AAAI.
Time: 4:45 PM
(refreshments and pizza available at 4:30
PM), Thursday,
April 5, 2005.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE
Center,
Newark,
NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
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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VTS
& MTT-S/AP-S Chapters:
Laptop Antenna Design and Evaluation for
WLAN Applications
On Thursday, April 21, 2005 the
Vehicular Technology Society together with MTT/S/AP-S will host a
presentation entitled “Laptop Antenna Design and Evaluation for WLAN
Applications” by Dr. Duixian Liu.
About the Talk
Wireless
Wide Area Network (WLAN) use has increased tremendously for the past several
years. Almost all new laptops are now
equipped with integrated WLAN systems.
Many antenna types can be used for laptop integrated wireless
applications. However, the most popular
ones are the inverted-F (INF) and slot antennas, or the many variations of
these two types due to their simple design, easy integration, low cost and
overall performance. The laptop antennas
are very different from the cellphone antennas. This talk will discuss the commonly used
single or dualband antennas in laptops, the method of
antenna evaluations, and future directions of laptop integrated wireless
systems.
About the Speaker
Duixian Liu
(S'85-M'90-SM'98) received his BS degree in electrical engineering from XiDian University in Xi'an, China
in 1982, MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the Ohio State
University in Columbus, Ohio in 1986 and 1990, respectively. From 1990 to 1996 he worked for Valor
Enterprises Inc. in Piqua, Ohio
first as an electrical engineer and then the chief engineer. He designed an antenna product line ranging
from 3 MHz to 2.4 GHz for the company, a very important factor for the
prestigious Presidential “E” Award for Excellence in Exporting in 1994. He has been with IBM at Thomas
J. Watson Research
Center as a research staff member since
April 1996. His research interests are antenna design,
electromagnetic modeling, digital signal processing, and communications
technology. He twice received the IBM's
outstanding technical achievement awards in 2001 and 2002, and IBM Corporate
Award (IBM's highest technical award) in 2003 for contributions to the
integrated antenna subsystems for laptop computers. He has fifteen patents issued and sixteen
patents pending. He has published more
than forty journal and conference papers and organized and chaired many sessions
in several international conferences.
All Welcome!
Free admission. You do not have to be a member of IEEE to
attend.
Pre-Registration Strongly
Suggested
Please email swilkowski
“AT” lucent.com or
kdixit “AT” microcomsales.com with full name (first
and last) , affiliation, citizenship so that a guest badge is ready.
Time: 7:00 PM,
Thursday, April 21, 2005. Pre-meeting dinner will start at 6:00
PM.
Place: Lucent Technologies, Room wh-4A-323, 67
Whippany Rd, Whippany, NJ 07981.
Information: Stephen Wilkowski, Lucent Technologies, (973) 386-6487, Arthur
Greenberg (973) 386-6673 (ahg1 “AT” lucent.com), Kirit Dixit, Microcom Sales Llc., (201) 669-7599,
Willie Schmidt, (973) 492-0371.
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North
Jersey Section Seeks Committee Chairs and Volunteers
The
NNJ IEEE Section ExCom is seeking new volunteers to
help conduct business at the section level for the benefit of its membership in
the North Jersey section and surrounding areas. There are a variety of volunteer positions
open and available. They range from
long-term to short-term, technical to non-technical, leadership or just
participatory. All activities have
varying levels of time committment. For Chapter Chairs, you MUST be a member of
the corresponding IEEE Society.
If
you would like to become involved with volunteering in some of these efforts or
positions or just become more informed about what is happening at the NNJ IEEE
Section, please contact the persons listed below for additional information and
questions. You can even attend the
section business meeting held the first Wednesday of every month to find out
more and other volunteer activities that require some help.
Some
of the positions currently open and available are:
·
LEOS Chapter Chair. Contact Har Dayal (har "DOT" dayal "AT" baesystems
"DOT" com)
·
Controls Chapter Chair. Contact Howard Leach (Hhleach
"AT" aol "DOT" com)
·
GOLD Affinity Group Chair. Contact Dick Tax (rtax
"AT" bellatlantic "DOT" net)
·
Historian Committee seeks help collecting IEEE historical information
and specifically IEEE North Jersey Section History. Contact Al Stolpen
(a "DOT" stolpen "AT" ieee "DOT" org)
·
Student Activities Committee seeks new volunteers for North
Jersey. Contact Amit Patel (a "DOT" j
"DOT" patel "AT" ieee "DOT" org)
Additionally, if interested volunteers would like to get more general
information about other activities in our section, visit the North Jersey
Section website for newsletter information http://www-ec.njit.edu/~ieeenj/ or contact Har Dayal,
har "DOT" dayal
"AT" baesystems "DOT" com.
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The NJ Section Education Committee
Requests Your Feedback
The IEEE North Jersey Section has been
helping fellow engineering professionals for the last fifty years. The Education Committee has successfully
conducted software and engineering training courses over the last few
decades. The Committee is committed to
professional development of the members and the instructors for the courses are
very qualified and experienced in their respective fields. Classes are arranged on weekday evenings or
on Saturdays provided at least fifteen candidates are available. Completion certificates are issued by IEEE
Headquarters with CEU credits for the number of training hours.
Due to the slow growth of the economy and
several other factors, registration for these courses has diminished over the
last few years. I would urge members to
send their feedback regarding what courses they would be interested in, the
format, location, and day/time, etc., by email to b.chivukula
“AT” computer.org.
Regards,
Bhanu
Chivukula
Chair,
Education Committee
Vice
Chair, IEEE North Jersey Section
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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 return for providing
the conference facility for free, the organization can get free registration up
to three members in the course/seminar.
Please contact Bhanu Chivukula, Education Committee Chairman, at b.chivukula “AT” computer.org for suggestions or
discussions, if interested.
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Wanted
WANTED - RF Engineers with background
in Radar systems, Antenna, high power microwave Magnetron, TWT Transmitters,
minimum 5 yrs experience in RF design & test; Bachelors degree required. Prefer experience in Military Systems. Job location:
Tobyhanna Army Depot, PA (1 hour from Parsippany).
Resume to: afford@optonline.net or call Dan Kamdar at 973-890-8915.
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In
Memoriam -
Rene Castenschiold, Life Fellow, IEEE
Rene Castenschiold
of New Vernon died February 2nd,
2005, after a short illness.
He was 81. He was born in Mt.
Kisco, NY, in
1923, and in 1942, he moved to Bernardsville, where he met and married his
wife, Martha.
During World War II, with a degree in
electrical engineering from Pratt Institute, he worked on the Manhattan
Project, one of the youngest of the engineers and scientists involved. After the war, he was a product designer for
the General Electric Co. in Schenectady, NY. In 1951, Mr. Castenschiold
joined the Automatic Switch Company, then in Orange,
now in Florham Park
where he became executive engineering manager. He served as the company representative to
NEMA, Underwriters Laboratories, the National Fire Protection Association, the
Canadian Standards Association and the Electrical Generating Systems
Association, where he worked on the standardization of automatic transfer
switches.
Mr. Castenschiold
was a leading authority on emergency and standby power systems for essential
electrical loads. After joining the
Automatic Switch Co., he pioneered in the research, design and standardization
of automatic transfer switches and emergency generator controls. His accomplishments increased the reliability
of emergency power for critical electrical loads in hospitals, airports and
communication facilities.
The recipient of 14 patents and author of 50
published papers and articles, he successfully advanced closed-transition
transfer switching for computer and other essential loads, which are vulnerable
to momentary losses of electrical power.
In recognition of his research and standardization of standby and
emergency power systems, the National Electrical Manufacturing Association
presented him with the prestigious James H. McGraw Award in 1986 and the IEEE
presented him with the Richard Harold Kaufmann Award in 1990. Mr. Castenschiold
was a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a former US
delegate to the International Electrotechnical
Commission. He was a board certified
forensic engineer and a licensed professional engineer in New
Jersey, New York
and Pennsylvania.
In 1986, Mr. Castenschiold founded LCR
Consulting Engineers, PA, where he and his associates specialized in electroforensics. He
retired as president in 2004.
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NEWS
from IEEE-USA:
Four U.S.
IEEE Members Begin IEEE-USA Government Fellowships
Washington (24 February 2005) - Randall Brouwer, Gordon Day, Norman Schneidewind
and Nick Zayed began their IEEE-USA Government
Fellowships in January. Each is advising
government leaders on key technology policy issues and helping them understand
the key role engineers play in national security, innovation and economic
prosperity.
Brouwer,
professor and former chair of the engineering department at Calvin
College in Grand
Rapids, MI, is advising Rep. Dana
Rohrabacher (R-CA). The congressman is a
member of the House Science Committee, chaired its Space and Aeronautics
Subcommittee for the past eight years, and authored the IEEE-USA-supported
Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act that President Bush signed into law on 23
December 2004. (See related
story at http://www.todaysengineer.org/2005/Jan/x-prize.asp.) Rep. Rohrabacher is also a member of the
Congressional Research and Development Caucus, of which IEEE-USA is an advisory
committee member.
Day, a retired division chief for the
National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, CO, is advising
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) on science and technology issues, particularly
communications and homeland security.
Sen. Rockefeller serves on the Senate Commerce, Science and
Transportation Committee, and is ranking member of the Aviation Subcommittee.
Schneidewind
is a professor of information sciences at the Naval
Postgraduate School
in Monterey, CA.
He's supporting Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI) and will act as the science adviser to
the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's Subcommittee
on Financial Management, the Budget and International Security.
Zayed is a communications systems engineer with the Northrop Grumman Corp.
in Redondo Beach, CA. He is working in the State Department's
Office of Science and Technology Cooperation.
The mission of the office is to provide, promote and facilitate policy
coordination and international science and technology cooperation among federal
technical agencies and their overseas counterparts.
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NEWS
from IEEE-USA
U.S.
Technical
Employment
Falls
by More Than
220,000 Workers from 2000 to 2004
Washington (3 March 2005) - The number of
employed U.S. technical workers has fallen by 221,000 in six major computer and
engineering job classifications from 2000 to 2004, according to data compiled
by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The largest drops occurred among computer
programmers, followed by electrical and electronics engineers, then computer
scientists and systems analysts. These
declines were offset by substantial employment increases for computer and
information systems managers, computer hardware engineers and computer software
engineers.
"The drop in computer programmers and
rise in managers reflects the trend toward offshoring
of programming jobs and the resulting need for professionals to manage
outsourced projects," IEEE-USA President Gerard A. Alphonse said.
According to the BLS, computer programmers
have taken the biggest hit, with a drop of more than 24 percent -- from 745,000
in 2000 to 564,000 in 2004. In addition,
the number of employed electrical and electronics engineers shrunk by 101,000,
from 444,000 in 2000 to 343,000 last year, a decrease of nearly 23
percent. Computer scientists and systems
analysts have experienced similar losses, dropping more than 16 percent, from
835,000 in 2000 to 700,000 in 2004.
However, employed computer and information
systems managers have jumped from 228,000 in 2000 to 337,000 last year, a
dramatic increase of almost 48 percent.
Computer hardware engineers rose from 83,000 in 2000 to 96,000 in 2004,
a nearly 16 percent increase. Employed
computer software engineers have risen by 74,000, from 739,000 in 2000 to
813,000 in 2004, a 10 percent increase.
The table below summarizes the BLS data:
|
Job Classification
|
2000
|
2004
|
Change
|
Pct.
|
|
Computer Hardware
Engineers
|
83,000
|
96,000
|
+13,000
|
+15.7
|
|
Computer & Info.
Systems Managers
|
228,000
|
337,000
|
+109,000
|
+47.8
|
|
Computer Programmers
|
745,000
|
564,000
|
-181,000
|
-24.3
|
|
Computer Scientists &
Systems Analysts
|
835,000
|
700,000
|
-135,000
|
-16.2
|
|
Computer Software
Engineers
|
739,000
|
813,000
|
+74,000
|
+10.0
|
|
Electrical &
Electronics Engineers
|
444,000
|
343,000
|
-101,000
|
-22.7
|
|
Total
|
3,074,000
|
2,853,000
|
-221,000
|
-7.2
|
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NEWS
from IEEE-USA:
Offshoring Is
Major Cause of Technical Unemployment, IEEE-USA Survey Reveals
Washington (8
March 2005) - Offshoring is the
second-highest cause of unemployment among U.S.
technical professionals, according to the 2004 IEEE-USA Unemployment Survey
released today.
The leading cause of unemployment, cited by
62 percent of U.S. IEEE members who reported being laid off, was a business
downturn. Fifteen percent reported that
their jobs were transferred offshore, while 10 percent pegged merger or
acquisition as the cause of their layoff.
A correlation between results of the
Unemployment Survey and the 2004 IEEE-USA Salary & Fringe Benefit Survey,
which showed the first median income decline for U.S. IEEE members in 31 years,
revealed that people in industries reporting the largest drop in income also
reported the highest percentage of unemployment because of offshoring. The following chart illustrates this:
|
Industry Displacement
|
% Drop in Income
|
% Offshoring
|
|
Electrical/Electronic
Manufacturing
|
2.5
|
16.2
|
|
Computers
|
2.4
|
17.4
|
|
Communications
|
1.8
|
15.2
|
"This data supports our contention that
offshoring not only contributes significantly to U.S.
high-tech unemployment, but also suppresses wages," IEEE-USA President
Gerard Alphonse said. "Our concerns
extend beyond job loss and depressed incomes to threats to our nation's
innovation infrastructure. Because
innovation tends to follow jobs, key drivers of our economic prosperity could
be lost."
The 2004 Unemployment Survey was sent to
5,329 U.S. IEEE members who reported being laid off at some point in the
2003-04 membership year. This represents an 80.3 percent increase in
members reporting unemployment over the 2002 survey. Dr. Laura Langbein,
a professor of public affairs at The American University in Washington,
D.C., analyzed and reported the results, which
are posted at
http://www.ieeeusa.org/careers/pdf/EmploymentSurvey2004Report.pdf
Other findings reveal
that 37 percent of the 988 respondents said they
considered leaving engineering entirely, and 41 percent said they would not
recommend the profession to their children.
"Another trend
is that employers
are providing much less severance for laid-off workers
than they did
before," Langbein wrote. "Severance was provided in only 54
percent of the cases (compared with 90 percent in 2002) and extended benefits
in only 27 percent of the cases
(compared with 48 percent in 2002)."
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IEEE AWARDS RECEPTION
North Jersey
Section
May 1, 2005
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 1, 2005 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
20, 2005. 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 20, 2005. 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:
___________________________________________________________________
ADDRESS: _______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
Yes, please send me directions to the Birchwood Manor
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NJ Power Engineering
Society/Industry Applications Society
Motor And Motor Controls Seminar
The PES and IAS Chapters will sponsor a two-part seminar covering Motor
and Motor Controls. The sessions will be
held on two Fridays, April 29 and May 20 at the PSE&G
Training Center
in Edison, NJ.
The seminar will cover the design and application, protection and
control of three-phase motors.
Topics
Day
1
Ä Operating conditions, insulation, voltage unbalance
Ä Three phase motor theory
Ä Protection (fuses, breakers, MCP, overloads)
Ä NEMA Premium Efficiency motors
Day
2
Ä Solid State
Starting
Ä Speed control, harmonics, inverter-grade motors
Ä Testing, maintenance and repair
About the Instructor
The instructor will be John Hyfantis,
President of Energistics LLC. Prior to
forming Energistics in 1978, John’s responsibilities included engineering and
management positions with Electronic Associates, RCA-Astro, Dow Jones & Co.,
and Johnson & Johnson. John has
conducted this course previously for PSE&G, Conectiv, NYSERDA, Northeast
Utilities, Hoffmann-La Roche and Schering-Plough.
Mr. Hyfantis is past President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of
the Energy Expo Inc. He is also a
charter member and twice past president of the New Jersey Association of Energy
Engineers.
His educational credits are a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Lafayette
College, 1960, and a Masters Degree
in Management from New York University,
1970. He is a Certified Energy Manager,
and is a registered Professional Engineer in New Jersey,
New York, Connecticut
and Pennsylvania.
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The registration fee for this two-part seminar prior to April 15th
will be $175 for non-IEEE members, $125 for IEEE Members, $100 for GOLD
Graduates (last 1-10 years) and $25 for students with valid ID. The fee will be waived for IEEE Life Member
Grades with verification at the seminar.
Registrations received after April 15th must include an
additional late fee of $25. The seminar
fee includes lunch, refreshments and handouts.
Non-members joining IEEE within 30 days of the seminar will be rebated
50% of the IEEE registration charge.
If desired, IEEE Continuing Education Units will be offered for this
course - a small fee of $15 will be required for processing. A total of 1.2 CEUs will be offered. Please indicate if desired below..
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Registration:
Motor Seminar 4/29/2005
& 5/20/2005
Register via
US mail to: Ronald W. Quade,
PE
Eaton
Electrical
379 Thornall St,
8th Floor
Edison, NJ
08837
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IEEE
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Continuing Education Units: Yes $15 No
If CEUs are chosen, please include a
$15 processing fee
Payment Enclosed
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Make checks payable to North Jersey Section IEEE
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