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April 2009
Volume 55, Number 9
Publication No: USPS 580-500
“The IEEE Newsletter” (North Jersey Section),
is published monthly except June and July by The Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, Inc.
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SECTION OFFICERS
Chair....................................................... Amit
Patel
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“AT” ieee.org
Vice-Chair-1............................. Dr.
Sanghoon Shin
s.shin
“AT” ieee.org (973) 492-1207 Ext. 22
Vice-Chair-2.............................. Dr. Naresh
Chand
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“AT” baesystems.com (973) 636-7408
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Secretary.......................................... Russell
Pepe
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Members-at-Large:
Dr. Katherine Duncan (kduncan “AT” ieee.org)
Dr. Mengchu Zhou (zhou “AT”
njit.edu)
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 (201) 960-6796, rcpepe “AT” ieee.org.
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IEEE North Jersey
Section Activities
April 2009
Apr. 1 – “NJ Section Meeting”,
6:30 PM, “Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, Clifton Public Library - Allwood Branch, 44 Lyall Road, Clifton, NJ, (973)
471-0555. Russell Pepe at rcpepe “AT” ieee.org.
Apr.
2 – “Sensor
Networks: Underlying Present and Future
Challenges” by Sachi
Desai,
NJ AESS Chapter, 7:00
PM,
BAE Systems, 164
Totowa Road,
Wayne, NJ 07474. Dr. Naresh Chand, (973) 636-7408,
naresh.chand “AT” baesystems.com.
Apr.
6 – “Cellular-scale
Dynamics: Kinetics and Hydrodynamics” by Professor Howard Stone,
NJ LEOS Chapter, 3:30 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), NJIT
Campus Center Ballroom B, Newark, NJ.
Professors Raquel Perez-Castillejos, raquelpc “AT” njit.edu, H. Grebel,
grebel “AT” njit.edu.
Apr.
8 – “Engineers
Meet: Options: Methods for increasing income and protecting
your portfolio” by Bill Purvin, NJ
PACE, GOLD, & WIE, 6:30 PM to
9:00 PM, Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ. Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625, PWard1130 “AT” aol.com,
Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-0803, rftax “AT” verizon.net, Dr. Katherine Duncan,
(973) 209–8607, kduncan “AT” ieee.org.
Apr.
13 – “Wireless
Network Communications: Unifying Source,
Channel and Network Coding” by Dr. Tiffany Jing Li,
NJ Communications Society, 3:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670
(nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or Yanchao Zhang (973) 642-7817. Also check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html for the latest updates.
Apr.
21 – “Wildland
Fire Monitoring Using Remote Sensing Images” by Dr. Ying Li, NJ SMC
Society, 7:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE
Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Dr. Mike Liechenstein (973-471-0721) or
E-Mails: itsmikesju “AT” aol.com or zhou “AT” njit.edu.
Apr.
24 –
“Low Voltage Circuit
Breakers Seminar” by Thomas Domitrovich,
NJ PES/IAS, 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Punch Bowl Room at Jersey Central Power and
Light, 300 Madison Ave, Morristown, NJ.
Ronald W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
Apr.
25-26 –
“34th Annual Trenton
Computer Festival”, 9:00
AM to 5:00 PM,
The College of NJ, Ewing, NJ. www.tcf-nj.org.
Apr.
29 – “Renewable
Energy Projects in New Jersey”
by Mr. George Dzurina, NJ SMC Society, 7:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Dr. Mike Liechenstein (973-471-0721) or
E-Mails: itsmikesju “AT” aol.com or zhou “AT” njit.edu.
Apr.
30 – “Hitting
Bottom is the Best Thing that Can Happen to You – But I Wouldn’t Wish It on
Anyone” by Randi Altschul, NJ
Consultants' Network, 6:00 PM, Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated Products, 60 S.
Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. Robert
Walker (973) 728-0344 or www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
Upcoming
Meetings
May
1-2 – “The
18th Wireless and Optical Communications Conference”, NJ Communications
Society, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html. Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670
(nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu).
May
3 –
“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
6 – “Convex
Programming in Controller Design for Flexible Structures” by Dr. Tarunraj Singh,
NJ Control Systems Chapter, 5:00-6:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit
Streets), Newark, NJ. Professor Timothy
Chang, (973) 596-3519, chang “AT” njit.edu.
May
19 – “USL
For Fun and Profit” by Frank Middleton, NJ
Computer Chapter, 7:00 PM, Public Meeting Room, Morris County Library, 30
E. Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ, (973) 285-6930. Michael Malm, (201) 355-6167, mmalm “AT”
ieee.org, Seth Jakel (973) 731 1902, (973) 820-1865, sgjakel “AT” comcast.net,
or Howard Leach (973) 540-1283, hhleach “AT” ieee.org.
May
22 –
“Superconductor Power
Cables Seminar” by Jack McCall, NJ
PES/IAS, 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM, PSE&G Training Center, 234
Pierson Ave,
Edison NJ. Ronald W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or
rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
May
28 – “Recent
Developments in US Patent Law”
by Kevin M. Curran, Esq., NJ Consultants' Network, Dinner 7:00 PM, Presentation
8:00 PM, Olive Restaurant, Parsippany Hilton, One Hilton Court, Parsippany, NJ
07054, 973-267-7373, www.parsippany.hilton.com. RSVP by Tuesday, May 26. Contact Robert Walker at r.d.walker “AT”
ieee.org or (973) 728-0344. Specify
whether you will be attending the dinner portion of the meeting
(recommended). Dinner - $25 per person,
Presentation – Free.
June
18 – “NBTI
in p-MOSFETs: Characterization, Modeling
and Material Dependence” by Dr. Souvik
Mohapatra, NJ EDS/C&S Chapters, 5:00
PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS
Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973)
596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
Sep.
17 – “Nanowire
Biosensors” by Professor Mark A.
Reed, NJ EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00
PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS
Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973)
596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
Members and Non-Members Welcome
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2008 IEEE
North Jersey Fellows
Professor Nirwan Ansari
“for contributions to broadband
networks and communications”
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Nirwan
Ansari received the BSEE degree (summa cum laude, gpa=4.0/4.0) from the New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, in 1982, the MSEE degree
from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, in 1983, and the PhD
degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1988.
He
joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NJIT, as
Assistant Professor in 1988, and has been Full Professor since 1997. He has also assumed several administrative
positions at NJIT. He authored Computational Intelligence for Optimization (Springer,
1997) with E.S.H. Hou, and edited Neural Networks in
Telecommunications (Springer, 1994) with B. Yuhas. He is a Senior Technical Editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine (the flagship publication of
IEEE Communications Society), and also serves on the Advisory Board of Journal of Communications, and on the
editorial board of Computer Communications,
the ETRI Journal, Wireless
Communications and Mobile Computing, and the Journal of
Computing and Information Technology. He has been a guest editor of several
special issues on various emerging technologies. His current research focuses on various
aspects of broadband networks and multimedia communications. He is leading an international
collaboration with Japan on “Advanced Security Technologies for Next
Generation Ubiquitous Networks”, jointly funded by the Strategic
International Cooperative Program between NSF and JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency). He has been frequently invited to deliver
keynote addresses, distinguished lectures, tutorials, and invited talks. He is a co-inventor of over twenty issued
and pending patents. He has also
contributed over 300 technical publications, in which over one third are
widely cited refereed journal and magazine articles. Many of these works would not have been
possible without contributions from over twenty doctoral advisees he has
guided and many colleagues/collaborators both within and beyond NJIT.
Professor
Ansari is an active contributor to the IEEE.
He initiated (as the General Chair) the First IEEE International
Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE2003); was
instrumental, while serving as its Chair, in rejuvenating the North Jersey
Chapter of the IEEE Communications Society which received the 1996 Chapter of
the Year Award and a 2003 Chapter Achievement Award; served as Chair of the
IEEE North Jersey Section and in the IEEE Region 1 Board of Governors during
2001–2002; has been Chair and TPC Chair of several conferences/symposia/ workshops;
and is Cluster Chair of COMSOC Technical Committee Networking Cluster, and
Chair of COMSOC Technical Committee on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks. His recent recognitions include an IEEE
Fellow (Communications Society), an IEEE Leadership Award (2007, from
Princeton/Central Jersey Section), the NJIT Excellence Teaching Award in
Outstanding Professional Development (2008), an IEEE MGA Leadership Award (2008), and designation as an IEEE
Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer.
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Dr. Yves Baeyens
“for contributions to the
broadband and millimeter-wave circuits for optical and wireless communications”
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Yves Baeyens received his PhD
degree in electrical engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven
(K.U.Leuven), Belgium in
1997. His PhD work was performed in
collaboration with the Interuniversity Micro Electronics Center (IMEC), Leuven, Belgium. Dr. Baeyens was a visiting scientist at the
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid-State Physics in Freiburg, Germany in
1997.
Since 1998, he has been with Bell
Laboratories, now a Division of Alcatel-Lucent. He is currently the technical manager for
the High-Speed Electronics Design Research Group at Murray Hill, NJ. His group is conducting long-term research
in advanced microwave, mixed-mode, analog and digital circuits for
next-generation lightwave and wireless systems. Dr. Baeyens main research interest is in
the design of ultra-wideband sources and receivers for ultra-high-speed
optical and (sub-) millimeterwave wireless applications.
Dr. Baeyens authored or
co-authored close to 100 publications on high-speed semiconductor
technologies and circuits. He is a
reviewer for several IEEE Journals, a technical program committee member of
international conferences such as the IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium and
was the Guest Editor for the October 2004 Special Issue of IEEE Journal of
Solid-State Circuits. In 2008, he was
inducted as a member of the Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy (ALTA).
Since 2003, Yves Baeyens has been an adjunct associate professor at the
Department of Electrical Engineering of Columbia University, New York City,
NY, where he teaches a graduate course on advanced microwave circuit design.
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Dr. Anwar Walid
“for contributions to multimedia
traffic in telecommunication networks”
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Anwar
Walid is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff with the Mathematics of
Networks and Communications Research Department at Bell Laboratories,
Alcatel-Lucent, Murray Hill, New Jersey, and a member of Alcatel-Lucent Academy. He joined Bell Labs in 1991 after receiving
the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, New York, and the BS degree in
Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University of New York. He developed theory and algorithms for
resource management and QoS support for several products. He has seven issued patents and six pending
patent applications on network feedback congestion control, scheduling,
admission control and information processing in IP/MPLS networks. He received multi-year research funding
from DARPA on traffic engineering and routing, and network modeling and
optimization. Dr. Walid received the
Best Paper Award in ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP Performance 1995 on statistical
modeling and analysis of multi-media traffic.
He contributed to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), wrote
RFC's and helped in creating the Traffic Engineering Working Group. He served on NSF panels and on executive
and technical program committees of IEEE, MPLS and SPIE conferences, and was
a guest editor of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
(JSAC). Dr. Walid gave invited
tutorials in IEEE INFOCOM and in INFORMS Telecommunications Conferences and
was an adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
Polytechnic of NYU. He is an elected
member of Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honor Society) and IFIP Working
Group 7.3.
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Dr. Thomas Woo
“for contributions to network
security and mobile data services”
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Thomas
Woo is a Director in the Networking Research Laboratory at Bell Labs. He has over 15 years of research and
development experience in data networking, spanning both wireline and
wireless areas. At Bell Labs, he has
led a number of data networking projects, including Wireless Data Server, a
system for providing advanced data services over wide-area wireless data
services, VIPER, a high-density IP edge router supporting fine-grained QoS,
and an all IP media server. Most
recently, he is involved in an Alcatel-Lucent venture.
Prior
to his current tenure at Bell Labs, he spent two years in RedWave Networks, a
Silicon Valley startup, as Chief Network Architect and VP of Software
Engineering, Dr. Woo has received more than 10 US patents, and served on the
program committees for various premier networking conferences, including ACM
SIGCOMM and IEEE INFOCOM. Dr. Woo is
an Editor of IEEE Wireless Communications and is an adjunct faculty member at
the University of Pennsylvania. In
2005, Dr. Woo received the prestigious ACM Software System Award for his
contribution to secure sockets. Dr.
Woo received a BSc degree in Computer Science (First Class Honor) from the
University of Hong Kong, and MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the
University of Texas at Austin.
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NJ AESS:
Sensor
Networks: Underlying Present and Future
Challenges
On April 2,
2009, the IEEE NJ Section Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society Chapter
will host a talk on “Sensor Networks: Underlying
Present and Future Challenges." The
speaker will be Sachi Desai.
About the Talk
This talk will
discuss sensors and sensor network, and provide a brief background on sensors,
sensing algorithms, the purpose of sensors for added situational awareness,
sensor implementation in a network format, the present and future challenges
with sensor networks.
About the Speaker
Sachi Desai received his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering
with concentrations in Microelectronics/ Photonics. Since 2002, he has been working at U.S. Army
RDECOM-ARDEC where he is involved with acoustic based programs and exploiting
signal processing techniques to increase the capability of disparate sensing
technologies to provide added situational awareness to warfighters. His duties include acquisition/sustainment of
acoustic sensor systems for sniper detection and the development of algorithms
for impulsive based events. Currently he
is a subject matter expert for utilization of acoustic sensors to provide added
information from impulsive based explosions such as mortar/artillery. Much of his work has been published in SPIE, MSS,
NDIA, IEEE, and JASA journals and has resulted in algorithms transitioned to
fielded systems in OIF & OEF military operations.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend the talks but you
need to email your name, address, and citizenship to Dr. Naresh Chand by March
30. In your email, please use your
subject as “IEEE AESS talk”. A free
buffet dinner, starting at 6:00 PM, will be provided. Come and bring your friends.
Time: 7:00 PM, Thursday,
April 2, 2009. Free buffet will begin at
6:00 PM.
Place: BAE
Systems, 164 Totowa Road,
Wayne, NJ 07474.
Information: Dr. Naresh Chand, (973) 636-7408, naresh.chand
“AT” baesystems.com.
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NJ Communications Society:
Wireless
Network Communications: Unifying Source,
Channel and Network Coding
On Monday,
April 13, 2009,
the IEEE Communications Society will host a presentation titled “Wireless
Network Communications: Unifying Source,
Channel and Network Coding.” The speaker
will be Dr. Tiffany Jing Li.
About the Talk
The information world is undergoing an exciting paradigm shift from
point-to-point to network communication and from centralized to distributed
architecture. While the new paradigm
promises unprecedented communication capabilities, it imposes new challenges on
the way we collect, disseminate, represent and process information. One
example of network information processing is wireless user cooperation, where
multiple wireless users share antennas to exploit cooperative diversity over
(time-limited) fading channels and to extend the dynamic transmit range.
We present two innovations for wireless user cooperation using ideas
from channel coding, Slepian-Wolf coding and network coding. The first is the development of
"Slepian-Wolf (SW) Cooperation" -- the first practical compress-and-forward
(CF) coding scheme in literature. We
discuss a general framework which makes clever use of the (high) correlation
between the (noisy) packet overheard by the relay and the original packet at
the source, and which efficiently exploits SW coding techniques to combat
inter-user outage. The second is the exploitation
of adaptive network coded cooperation (ANCC)
in wireless ad-hoc networks. The network
coding literature uses the prevailing assumption of static or lossless
networks, but real wireless networks comprising randomly-faded channels are
inherently unstable and unreliable. By
matching code-on-graph with network-ongraph in a distributed and real-time
manner, we show that network coding for ad-hoc networks is not only feasible,
but also highly beneficial. We further
extend ANCC through a simple but
powerful mechanism of integrative channel-and-network coding. In addition to remarkable performance gains,
the generalized scheme provides a constructive example for the notion that
channel coding (and source coding) must be unified with network coding
(routing) in order to achieve end-to-end optimality.
About the Speaker
Tiffany Li received the Bachelor's degree in computer science from Peking University, Beijing,
China,
and the Master's and PhD degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, College
Station, USA,
in 1997, 1999 and 2002, respectively. After
obtaining her PhD, she joined the electrical and computer engineering
department at Lehigh University, Bethlehem,
PA, where she is currently
an associate professor. She spent the
summer of 2000 and 2001 with Seagate Research, Pittsburgh,
PA, and with Tyco
Communications Laboratories, Eatontown,
NJ. Li's research interests include channel
coding, network coding, and distributed algorithms and strategies for wireless
networks. Li is the recipient of the TAMU
Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Award for Research in 2001. She is widely published in scientific
journals and conferences, and has served a number of professional roles,
including a symposium co-chair for IEEE Globecom 2006, IEEE WirelessCom 2006, ChinaCom
2006 and IEEE ICC 2008..
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 3:00 PM, Monday, April 13, 2009. Refreshments will
be available at 2:45 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center
(Intersection between Warren
& Summit
Streets), 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 Yanchao Zhang (973)642-7817. Also check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates.
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NJ Computer Society:
USL For Fun and Profit
On Tuesday, May 19th, 2009, the IEEE North Jersey Section Computer
Society Chapter will host a presentation entitled “USL For Fun and Profit”
by Frank Middleton.
Universal Systems Language (USL) was covered
extensively by its creators in the Dec 2008 issue of IEEE Computer Magazine, in
the article entitled "Universal Systems Language: Lessons Learned from
Apollo". Our guest speaker, Frank Middleton of Apogee Communications
Technologies has extensive experience using USL.
About the Talk
From its
beginnings at MIT Draper Lab., USL, and its companion
Integrated Development Environment, 001,
has evolved to be a formidable combination of the best of Object and
Functional programming, and continues to be the way to build error free systems
(of systems) in a robust and scalable way.
This
presentation will go over some USL basics, and demonstrate
the technology in use to build the kind of application for which one might use
Ruby on Rails, and show how much simpler it is, not only conceptually, but to
build, extend, and maintain systems defined and built with USL/001. The speaker will also
showcase his Universal Schema Tool that leverages the power of USL and 001 to make an easy to
use XML editor that round trips both XML and RDBMS Schemas from USL Type Maps.
USL is based on a simple
mathematical framework that is remarkably easy to understand and use, yet
represents, for many people, a whole new paradigm for the entire development
cycle. Anyone involved in systems development, from embedded microprocessors to
large-scale distributed applications, will find this talk interesting and
valuable.
About the Speaker
Frank Middleton is the founder and president of Apogee Communications
Technologies, a consultancy that has specialized in the use of USL
to provide solutions in the Financial Services Industry and others.
Mr. Middleton's client roster includes companies in wide ranging
industries and markets, among them security and surveillance systems, financial
services, telecom and communications. He has led technology projects that have
both advanced a company's core business and enabled companies to embrace and
utilize technology for the purpose of achieving significant cost savings and
revenue growth.
Having obtained a BSc in Electronics from the University of Kent at
Canterbury, England, Mr. Middleton went on to acquire a Masters in Computer
Science from the Courant Institute of Mathematics at New York University, NYC,
Mr. Middleton keeps abreast of a diverse array of technologies through his
professional memberships in the IEEE, ACM and AMA.
USL is a favorite topic of
Mr. Middleton; you may contact him if you would like him to discuss it with
your colleagues, by email (f.middleton@apogeect.com) or phone (973 796
2754). You can also get more information at http://www.apogeect.com and HTI's
website (http://www.htius.com).
USL, 001, and TMap are
trademarks of Hamilton Technologies, Inc (HTI)..
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,
May 19, 2009. Free pre-meeting buffet
will begin at 6:00 PM.
Place: Public Meeting Room, Morris County Library,
30 E. Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ, (973)
285-6930.
Information: Michael Malm, (201) 355-6167, mmalm “AT”
ieee.org, Seth Jakel (973) 731 1902, (973) 820-1865, sgjakel “AT” comcast.net,
or Howard Leach (973) 540-1283, hhleach “AT” ieee.org.
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NJ Consultants' Network:
Hitting Bottom
is the Best Thing that Can Happen to You – But I Wouldn’t Wish It on Anyone
On Thursday, April 30, 2009, the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern
NJ (www.TechnologyOnTap.org) will be holding its
monthly meeting, beginning at a new time: 6pm. We will feature a talk by Randi Altschul
about her exciting approach to new product development.
About the Topic
Randi Altschul offers unorthodox
views on new product development – something of great interest to independent
engineering practitioners. She spoke to
the Consultants’ Network in the past; this presentation is a follow-up to her
well-received talk on entrepreneurship in 2000.
In her own words:
“Over the past few years my life
has been a roller coaster ride from which I have emerged better than I ever was
before. Smarter, Stronger, More
Energized than I’d ever thought possible.
During this time I lost everything I owned and the two people I loved
more than anything, but all in all I wouldn’t change a thing because I’m in a
really good place, I own several new companies and am developing groundbreaking
product for industries I never thought I’d enter. Conceive it, Believe it, Achieve it! And
never let them get you down.
“Our discussion will take you
through the creation and development of incredible products to the pitfalls
along the way and the realization that they can take everything away but as
long as you have your brain and your reputation you can make miracles happen.”
About the Speaker
Randice-Lisa Altschul is an
inventor of new products and author of books and intellectual properties. She created the disposable cell phone, the
credit card phone, the programmable debit card, the paper laptop, and other new
products and properties which range from games and game shows to high tech
electronics and everything in between, including food, gifts, etc. She has licensed more than 250 projects
around the World and has been associated with major licenses since she started
her first company, Dieceland, in 1985.
Her first major project was the
Miami Vice game, which put her on the map in the toy industry. She went on to create games and shows for the
likes of Tonka, Coleco, Ohio Art, Toy Biz, and NBC.
Randi has written several books,
including her memoir, “Financiers, Lawyers and Other Assorted Snakes” and her
latest novel, “Sorry, You Can’t Enter Heaven”.
She was the first inventor represented by William Morris Agency and the
first inventor contracted by NBC to develop merchandise-based television
programs. Randi has two patents on
Interactive Cereal and numerous patents in the telecommunication / technology
fields.
Randi Altschul established
herself as a creative resource to virtually any market from simple toys and
games, to television, medical and high-tech industries. She also teaches classes on How to Make Money
from Your Ideas. For more information,
visit www.inventing411.com.
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:
6:00-8:00 PM, Thursday, April 30, 2009.
Place: Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated Products, 60 S. Jefferson
Rd, Whippany, NJ. (Entrance at rear of
building). To download a map to KDI, go
to: http://www.mcekdi-integrated.com/directions.htm.
Information: For directions and up-to-date meeting status,
call Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or visit our website at www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
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NJ Consultants' Network:
Recent
Developments in US Patent Law
On Thursday, May 28, 2009 the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern
NJ (www.TechnologyOnTap.org) will be holding a dinner meeting at a new
location, beginning at a new time.
About the Topic
Would you like to write your own
patent application or just learn more about US patent law?
The presentation will deal with
a variety of changes in US patent law that have arisen over the past year or so
and the potential consequences thereof. The
presentation will begin, however, with a brief introduction to patent law.
Recent developments in patent
law revolve around case law that addresses issues including: USPTO changes to
patent practice rules; inequitable conduct during patent prosecution; the scope
of patentable subject matter; obviousness and standards of patentability; and
the availability of permanent injunctions against infringers.
Time will be reserved at the end
for questions from the audience, to discuss topics of particular interest.
About the Speaker
Kevin M. Curran, Esq., received
a BA in Integrated Science from Northwestern University; an MA in International
Studies from the Loyola University Chicago Graduate School of Political
Science; and a JD from the Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Kevin is a Patent Attorney
registered to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark
Office. Having practiced law over eleven
years, Kevin has extensive Intellectual Property (“IP”) experience in prosecution,
litigation, client counseling, transactions, and Sarbanes-Oxley (“SOX”)
compliance. Among the areas handled in
his practice are patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Kevin worked for four years as senior
in-house IP counsel at SAP, the world’s largest
multinational business application software provider. After returning to the US, he launched his own
solo legal practice (Curran Patent Law).
Kevin can be reached at Kevin@CurranPatentLaw.com or (650) 283-0469.
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.
May 2009 Meeting Venue
The CNNNJ is investigating new
venues and new approaches for its monthly events. This May, we will meet for
dinner, followed by our feature presentation, in the Olive Restaurant at the
Parsippany Hilton, located off Route 10 West in Parsippany, NJ. The restaurant
is situated in the south side of main atrium.
Although not required, all
attendees are strongly encouraged to participate in the pre-meeting networking
dinner, to avail themselves of the opportunity to socialize, talk with the
speaker and acquaint with members of our organization. Your presence at the
dinner will help ensure Network’s ability to continue holding future events at
the Hilton. Depending on expected number of participants, the restaurant will
provide either a dinner buffet for only $25 per person or menu selections at
similar prices.
Since seating is limited and we
expect a strong turnout, we advise that you contact us as soon as possible to
reserve a seat, even if not participating in the dinner.
All Welcome!
Everyone welcome!
Time: Dinner
- 7:00-8:00 PM, Presentation - 8:00-9:00 PM, Thursday, May 28, 2009.
Place: Olive Restaurant,
Parsippany Hilton, One
Hilton Court, Parsippany, NJ 07054,
973-267-7373, www.parsippany.hilton.com.
Registration & Information: RSVP by Tuesday, May 26. Contact Robert Walker at r.d.walker “AT”
ieee.org or (973) 728-0344. Specify
whether you will be attending the dinner portion of the meeting (recommended). Dinner - $25 per person, Presentation – Free.
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NJ Control Systems Society:
Convex
Programming in Controller Design for Flexible Structures
On May 6, 2009, the IEEE NJ
Control Systems Chapter together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology
will host a seminar on “Convex Programming in Controller Design for Flexible
Structures." The speaker will be
Dr. Tarunraj Singh.
About the Topic
Systems such as the James Webb
Space Telescope, the replacement of the Hubble telescope, the Millipede (next
generation storage device), cranes, hard disk drives, high-speed tape drives
etc., are characterized by vibrations excited by the motion of the
structure. These vibrations can
negatively influence the performance of the system. This talk will focus on using convex programming
technique for the design of controllers which minimize residual vibrations at
the end of a maneuver in the presence of uncertainties in the dynamic model of
the system. Linear programming and
Linear Matrix Inequalities are used to study rest-to-rest maneuvers of lightly
damped flexible structures and systems subject to friction.
About the Speaker
Tarunraj Singh is a Professor with the
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the State University of
New York at Buffalo. He received his PhD
in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and has been
a von Humboldt fellow, a JSPS fellow and a NASA Fellow. His research interests are in the areas of
vibration control of maneuvering structures, uncertainty modeling and characterization,
target tracking, and nonlinear estimation.
He has authored or co-authored more than 150 journal and conference
articles. He has recently completed a
book entitled “Optimal Reference Shaping for Dynamical Systems: Theory and
Applications”..
Time: 5:00-6:00 PM, Wednesday, May 6, 2009.
Place: New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection
between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Professor Timothy Chang, (973) 596-3519,
chang “AT” njit.edu.
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NJ EDS/C&S:
NBTI in p-MOSFETs: Characterization, Modeling and Material
Dependence
On June 18,
2009, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters
together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on “NBTI
in p-MOSFETs: Characterization, Modeling and Material Dependence." The speaker will be Distinguished Lecturer,
Dr. Souvik Mohapatra.
About the Talk
Negative Bias
Temperature Instability (NBTI), causing shifts in device parameters such as
drain current and threshold voltage, is a serious reliability concern for
p-MOSFETs. Though identified more than
40 years ago, NBTI has become the most severe front end reliability issue only
recently, as gate oxide thickness is scaled below 2nm, and Nitrogen is
incorporated into the gate oxide to prevent Boron penetration and leakage. Besides Si oxynitride/poly-Si devices, NBTI
is also a serious concern for high-k/metal gate devices as well.
Like other
reliability issues (like HCI), device lifetime under NBTI is determined by
accelerated stress tests done at short time, and extrapolating the degradation
under operating condition to end of life.
It is very important to choose proper stress condition such that defects
responsible for NBTI are only accelerated and no new defects are formed. As NBTI degradation recovers (unlike HCI)
after stress is turned off for measurement, conventional stress-measure-stress
methods give erroneous results, and fast methods must be implemented. It is important to understand and model NBTI
physical mechanism, so that proper physics-based models can be developed for
reliable determination of device lifetime.
It is also important to understand the process / material dependence of
NBTI to develop robust, NBTI safe gate insulators that meet other (leakage,
mobility) requirements. The talk will
address some of these issues.
About the Speaker
Souvik Mahapatra received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Indian
Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), India in 1999. From 2000 to 2001 he was at Bell
Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ. From 2002 he is with the Department of
Electrical Engineering, IITB, where he is presently a Professor. He is also an Adjunct Professor of ECE Department
at Purdue University. His research
interests are electrical characterization of defects in
dielectric-semiconductor interfaces; hot-carrier and bias temperature
instability in CMOS
devices; high-k and novel dielectrics for CMOS;
and Flash EEPROMs. He has published more
than 85 papers in refereed international journals and conferences, was invited
to speak at several major international conferences including the IEDM, was a
tutorial presenter at IRPS and has worked as a reviewer for many international
journals and conferences. Dr. Mahapatra
is an IEEE Electron Device Society Distinguished Lecturer.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to
attend.
Time: 5:00 PM, Thursday, June 18, 2009.
Refreshments will begin at 4:45 PM.
Place: New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between
Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ.
Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr.
Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542
(NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
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NJ EDS/C&S:
Nanowire
Biosensors
On September
17, 2009, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters
together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on
“Nanowire Biosensors." The speaker
will be Distinguished Lecturer, Professor Mark A. Reed.
About the Talk
Nanoscale electronic
devices have the potential to achieve exquisite sensitivity as sensors for the
direct detection of molecular interactions, thereby decreasing diagnostics
costs and enabling previously impossible sensing in disparate field
environments. Semiconducting
nanowire-field effect transistors (NW-FETs) hold particular promise, though
contemporary NW approaches are inadequate for realistic applications. We present here a novel approach using
complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology that has not
only achieved unprecedented sensitivity, but simultaneously facilitates
system-scale integration of nanosensors for the first time. This approach enables a wide range of
label-free biochemical and macromolecule sensing applications, including cell
type discrimination through the monitoring of live, stimulus-induced cellular
response, and specific protein and complementary DNA recognition assays. An important achievement is the introduction
of real-time, unlabeled detection capability, allowing for fundamental studies
of cellular activation, and specific macromolecule interactions at
<femtomolar concentrations. Important
aspects of microfluidic integration and Debye screening will be discussed,
along with the demonstration of live cell peptide-specific immunoresponse.
About the Speaker
Professor Mark A. Reed received his PhD in Physics from Syracuse
University in 1983, after which he joined Texas Instruments. In 1990 Mark joined Yale University where he
holds the Harold Hodgkinson Chair of Engineering and Applied Science, and is
the Associate Director of the Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum
Engineering. His research activities
have included the investigation of electronic transport in nanoscale and mesoscopic
systems, artificially structured materials and devices, molecular scale
electronic transport, plasmonic transport in nanostructures, and chem/bio
nanosensors. Mark is the author of more
than 180 professional publications and 6 books, has given 19 plenary and over
260 invited talks, and holds 25 U.S. and foreign patents on quantum effect,
heterojunction, and molecular devices.
He has been elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and
Engineering and Who's Who in the World.
His awards include; Fortune Magazine “Most Promising Young Scientist”
(1990), the Kilby Young Innovator Award (1994), the Fujitsu ISCS Quantum Device
Award (2001), the Yale Science and Engineering Association Award for
Advancement of Basic and Applied Science (2002), Fellow of the American
Physical Society (2003), the IEEE
Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology (2007), and Fellow of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2009).
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to
attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Thursday, September 17, 2009. Free
buffet will begin at 6:15 PM.
Place: New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection
between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr.
Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542
(NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
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NJ LEOS Chapter:
Cellular-scale
Dynamics: Kinetics and Hydrodynamics
On April 6, 2009,
the IEEE NJ Lasers And Electro-Optics Chapter together with the Electronic
Imaging Center at NJIT will host a talk on “Cellular-scale Dynamics: Kinetics and Hydrodynamics." The speaker will be Professor Howard Stone.
About the Talk
Professor Stone will discuss several microfluidic approaches for
addressing dynamical questions raised by cellular-scale phenomena. The necessary background for thinking about
the main themes in the talk will be introduced, and the major ideas and
approaches we have taken will be highlighted.
In particular, (i) we demonstrate a microfluidic technique for measuring
Michaelis-Menten kinetic rate constants, which should be broadly applicable to
enzymatic reactions, and investigate the idea using experiments, numerical
simulations, and scaling arguments. In
addition, (ii) we consider the influence of shear stress on the kinetics of ATP
release from red blood cells that flow through constrictions (i.e. regions of
high shear stress), which may be helpful for understanding extracellular ATP
transport and signaling. These
microfluidic projects have in common the use of hydrodynamic principles to
explore quantitatively new questions in nonlinear chemical kinetics and
cellular mechanotransduction.
About the Speaker
Professor
Howard A. Stone received the Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering
from the University of California at Davis in 1982 and the PhD in Chemical
Engineering from Caltech in 1988 (advisor was Gary Leal). Following a postdoctoral year in the
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of
Cambridge (with John Hinch) Howard joined the Harvard faculty in 1989. He is currently Vicky Joseph Professor of
Engineering and Applied Mathematics. In
1994 he received both the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Award and the Phi Beta
Kappa teaching Prize, which are the only two teaching awards given to faculty
in Harvard College. In 2000 he was named
a Harvard College Professor for his contributions to undergraduate education.
Professor
Stone's research interests are in fluid dynamics, especially as they arise in
research and applications at the interface of engineering, chemistry and
physics. During his 20 year career he has
published more than 200 papers in archival journals. He has received the NSF Presidential Young
Investigator Award, is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), and is past Chair of the
Division of Fluid Dynamics of the APS. For ten years he served as an Associate
Editor for the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and is currently on the editorial
board of New Journal of Physics, Soft Matter, and Physics of Fluids. He is the first recipient of the G.K.
Batchelor Prize in Fluid Dynamics, which was awarded in August 2008. In 2009 he was elected to the National
Academy of Engineering. Beginning in
July 2009 Professor Stone will join the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Department at Princeton University.
All Welcome!
You do not have
to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 3:30 PM, Monday,
April 6, 2009.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
NJIT Campus Center Ballroom B.
Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Professors Raquel Perez-Castillejos, raquelpc
“AT” njit.edu, H. Grebel, grebel “AT” njit.edu.
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NJ SMC Society:
Wildland Fire
Monitoring Using Remote Sensing Images
On April 21, 2009, the NJ Systems, Man & Cybernetics (SMC) Chapter
will be hosting a seminar at NJIT on the topic noted above. Dr. Ying Li, a lead
system designer at GE Healthcare, will be the presenter.
About the Talk
Wildland fire can have important climate and ecological effects via gas
and particle emissions and changes to plant communities. The most practical and economically feasible
manner of monitoring wild land fire globally is through remote sensing. To date, remote fire detection has been an
active research field for many years and a number of algorithms have been
proposed for processing satellite and airborne image data. This presentation describes a novel hybrid
contextual fire detection algorithm for airborne and satellite thermal
images. The proposed algorithm
essentially treats fire pixels as anomalies in images and can be considered a
special case of the more general clutter or background suppression problem. It utilizes the local background around a potential
fire pixel and discriminates fire pixels based on the Mahalanobis distance in
multi-spectral feature space.
About the Speaker
Ying Li received the BS, ME degrees from the University of Science and
Technology of China, Hefei, China in 1997, and 2000, respectively, and PhD
degree in Imaging Science from Rochester Institute of Technology, in 2006. From 2001 to 2005 she was a research
assistant in Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science focus on remote sensing
image processing. In 2006, She was an
intern researcher in Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ. She is now working in GE Healthcare,
Piscataway, NJ, as a lead system designer of a project to automatically analyze
microscope images of zebra fishes for pre-clinical toxicity/efficacy testing of
new drugs in the early discover phase.
Her research interests lie in the area of digital image processing,
pattern classification, and image segmentation.
All Welcome!
You need not be a member of IEEE to attend, and there is no charge for
admission.
Time: 7:00
PM, Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Light
refreshments will be offered at 6:45 PM.
Place: New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection
between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr.
Mike Liechenstein (973-471-0721) or E-Mails: (itsmikesju “AT” aol.com or zhou
“AT” njit.edu). Please RSVP and check
the electronic newsletter for any changes.
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NJ SMC Society:
Renewable
Energy Projects in New Jersey
On April 29, 2009, the NJ Systems, Man & Cybernetics (SMC) Chapter will
be hosting a seminar at NJIT on the topic noted above. Mr. George Dzurina, the President of Triple G
Energy (TGE) & the Founder and President of G-CREW LLC., will be the
presenter.
About the Talk
Renewable energy systems have been one of the hottest research and
application topics in the recent years.
This seminar will present
·
Overview
of current pending projects in New Jersey
·
The
G-CREW 12 Step Plan for Quick Estimation for Solar Electric Systems
·
A pictorial
review of Solar Electric Systems for Residential and Commercial Facilities
About the Speaker
Mr. George Dzurina is the President of Triple G Energy (TGE) & the
Founder and President of G-CREW LLC. He
is a Senior Member of the Association of Energy Engineers. TGE is a research company specializing in
Renewable Energy Solutions and Energy Audits.
G-CREW specializes in marine terminal efficiencies & ops management,
consults & trains on solar electric systems. Previously, Mr. Dzurina was a General Manager
at APM Terminals & A.P. Moller Maersk, where he managed ship to shore (STS)
& rail mounted gantry (RMG/RTG) cranes.
He has over 10 years of experience with Ford Motor as the Manufacturing
Engineering Manager and a total productive and reliability centered maintenance
(TPM, RCM) expert and lean champion in the auto industry. He holds a Six Sigma Black Belt and has
managed projects utilizing robotics, PLC's,
automation & vision systems. He is
an Electrical Engineer & Technical Manager with over 20 yrs of experience
in managing labor unions (UAW & ILA).
He was also a Controls Engineer at Syncro Machine in the wire &
cable industry.
All Welcome!
You need not be a member of IEEE to attend, and there is no charge for
admission.
Time: 7:30 PM, Wednesday, April 29, 2009.
Light refreshments will be offered at 7:15 PM.
Place: New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection
between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr.
Mike Liechenstein (973-471-0721) or E-Mails: (itsmikesju “AT” aol.com or zhou
“AT” njit.edu). Please RSVP and check
the electronic newsletter for any changes.
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North Jersey Spring 2009 Student Presentation
Contest
The Spring 2009 Student Presentation Contest was
held this year on March 10, 2009 at Farleigh Dickinson University (FDU) in
Teaneck, NJ. This year, presenters
joined us from FDU and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). The Contest is judged separately for
Undergraduate and Graduate students, with cash awards of $100, $75 and $50 for
first, second and third place, respectively for Undergraduate and Graduate
Categories. This contest has been held in years past. Its overwhelming success
in generating student participation and interest make it a fantastic event for
up-and-coming engineers. The main focus
of the presentation contest is to give students an opportunity to sharpen their
communication skills, and help prepare for real life situations as practicing
engineers and researchers. Additionally, the North Jersey Section Contest
provides an excellent chance for students to practice for the Region I Student
Paper contest in the spring.
The IEEE
North Jersey Section Student Act ivies Committee would like to thank FDU for
hosting the Paper Contest this year. We
would especially like to thank Dr. Gloria Reinish of FDU for making all the
arrangement necessary to make this event successful.
This year,
awards were presented, as follows:
Undergraduate
First
Place - Tolulope Malik (FDU)
Second
Place - Brett Greenberg (FDU) & Dmitriy Kalantarov (FDU)
Third
Place - Thomas Cauttero (FDU) & Kevin Oseghale (FDU)
Graduate
First
Place - Grace Lilly Reddy (FDU)
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Time for Action on New Jersey Mathematics
Education
New Jersey is reconsidering its licensure requirements for public school
teachers, so now is the time for concerned citizens to register their
recommendations. Addresses follow. Currently there are no requirements for
prospective elementary school teachers to take any appropriate mathematics
courses, and their lack of knowledge of what their pupils should learn is
appalling.
IEEE members may want to recommend four courses in accordance with the
recommendations of the Combined Board of Mathematical Sciences: one each in arithmetic and number sense;
geometry; statistics, probability, and data analysis; and algebraic
reasoning. Or you may want to support
the recommendations of the New Jersey Association of Mathematics Teacher
Education: the first three listed above and a course in mathematical pedagogy.
In either case, write to Dr. Robert Higgins, Director, Office of
Licensure and Certification and to the State Board of Education. Both addresses are at the New Jersey
Department of Education, Box 500, Trenton, NJ 08625. The email addresses are Robert.higgins@doe.state.nj.us
and StateBD@doe.state.nj.us.
Currently, New Jersey elementary school teachers are foggy on fractions,
division, and subtraction, and not strong on addition. One nice prospective teacher in her last
college math class insisted that because in 1999 small trucks owned by
Americans averaged 20 mpg and sedans averaged 28 mpg that altogether they must
average 48 mpg. "Altogether"
means "add." Last year a fifth
grade teacher in a nice suburban town was observed drilling her pupils in
adding fractions by adding across the numerators and then adding across the
denominators. Unprepared teachers resort
to teaching key words and incorrect algorithms.
Elementary school teachers are eager to learn, and can learn quickly if
taught appropriately. However, they
emerged from our highly flawed system, and they need help if New Jersey's
children are to learn mathematics.
Please help by writing to the above addresses.
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New Instrumentation and Measurement Society
(IMS) Formed for North Jersey Section
On Tuesday, March 3, 2009, the Instrumentation and Measurement Society
(IMS) was officially formed for the North Jersey Section of the IEEE. Russell Pepe will hold the position as Chair;
and Dr. Santosh Mukherjee, as Vice Chair.
We are planning several stimulating talks, given by experts in the
industry. Announcements will be posted
as we organize these meetings. Please
contact Russell Pepe, IMS Chair (rcpepe “AT” ieee.org) should you be interested
in speaking or attending an upcoming IMS Meeting. All IEEE members and non-members are welcome
at our IMS meetings, in addition to IMS members.
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NJIT Course on Microwave Filters and Networks
Taught
by Prof. Richard V. Snyder (RS Microwave), this course will take the student
through microwave filter and network design for lumped and distributed
elements, covering passive and active implementations. In order to offer this course in Fall 2009,
NJIT requires a minimum enrollment of six students. If you are interested in finding out more
about the course content, contact Ralph Giffone (ralph.giffone@gdsatcom.com, 814-360-3733) for a
33-page PDF file containing a course abstract, bibliography and excerpts from
the course notes.
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Region 1 Award Nominations
Nominate a colleague. Region 1 of IEEE offers a variety of awards
to recognize the engineering accomplishments of members. Specific award categories include:
technological innovation, engineering organization, academic teaching,
enhancement of IEEE image in the public or industry and sustained IEEE
service. To obtain additional
information about these categories visit the Region 1 website www.ieee.org/r1
Once at the site click on
Section Information on the far right column.
On the Section page click on Region 1 Awards Information. We will assist you. To nominate a qualified individual prepare a
200-word summary (including the individual’s name, IEEE number and IEEE US
postal mail address) specifying the accomplishment of the candidate.
Send the summary to our Awards Chair Ken Oexle, 11 Deerfield Road,
Whippany, NJ 07981, prior to May 1. The
North Jersey Awards Committee will review the summary; suggest any changes;
complete the nomination form; and forward it to the Region 1 Awards committee
with a Section endorsement.
Award nominations are evaluated
and approved at the Region 1 Summer Meeting and plaques are presented at the
following North Jersey Section Annual Awards Reception.
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North Jersey Section Seeks Committee Chairs
and Volunteers
The North Section is seeking new volunteers to help conduct business for
the benefit of its membership. There are
a variety of volunteer positions open and available. They range from technical to non-technical,
leadership or just participatory. For
Society 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 North Jersey Section, please contact Dr. Chandra Gupta at c.gupta “AT”
ieee.org. You are welcome to 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 committees needing volunteers include the following. Please contact the person indicated for
additional information.
·
Power
Electronics Society Chapter Chair - contact c.gupta below.
·
GOLD
(Graduates of the Last Decade) Affinity Group Volunteers and Committee members
needed - contact northjerseygold “AT” ieee.org
·
WIE
(Women in Engineering) Affinity Group Volunteers and Committee members needed -
contact kduncan “AT” ieee.org
·
EMBS
(Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society) is seeking a chair and active
committee volunteers - contact c.gupta “AT” ieee.org.
·
Membership
Development Committee Chair and Volunteers - contact c.gupta below.
Additionally, if interested volunteers would like to get more general
information about the Section, including
a complete listing of all chapters and committees, visit the North Jersey
Section website http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/,
or contact Dr. Chandra Gupta c.gupta “AT” ieee.org.
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NJ Section Seeks Training Facility
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News from IEEE-USA:
IEEE-USA
Commends Congress, Administration for Investing in Science & Technology to
Create Jobs, Bolster U.S. Innovation & Competitiveness
Washington (18 February 2009) - IEEE-USA President Gordon Day commends
Congress and the administration for investing in science, technology, energy,
and education in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
President Barack Obama signed the legislation yesterday in Denver.
"IEEE-USA strongly endorses these much-needed investments in
research and our science and technology infrastructure," Day said. "We believe the investments will help
stimulate education, innovation and economic development across the country,
saving or creating jobs now and building a stronger America for the
future."
Energy projects and programs will receive billions of dollars to improve
energy efficiency, develop a “Smart Grid,” provide incentives to electrify
transportation and develop energy storage technology. The spending is consistent with IEEE-USA's
latest energy policy recommendations (http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/positions/energypolicy.pdf).
"We particularly welcome the investments in energy because energy
is central to three of the most important challenges we face as a nation:
prosperity, security and environmental health," Day said.
The law also takes important steps toward achieving universal access to
broadband data services through the Federal Communications Commission, the
Department of Commerce and the Department of Agriculture. IEEE-USA recently restated its commitment to
this initiative in http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/positions/broadband.pdf.
"Investing in universal broadband access will permit workers to
perform many jobs almost anywhere, and will provide new educational
opportunities and improved medical care everywhere," Day said.
The package also directs the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) to develop standards for a national health information
network, something IEEE-USA has long championed (http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/positions/NHINinteroperability.html.
"Having an interoperable health information network will not only
help medical professionals save lives and improve the quality of care, but will
also create a more effective marketplace for health services by enabling
consumer access to information on healthcare costs, quality and outcomes,"
Day said.
The law puts the budgets of NIST, the National Science Foundation and
the Department of Energy's Office of Science on track to double over the next
seven years.
"Funding the programs in science and mathematics education and
R&D that Congress authorized in the America COMPETES ACT of 2007 is an
essential step toward maintaining a healthy, innovation-driven economy, and
assuring a vibrant high-tech workforce for the future," Day said.
IEEE-USA advances the public good and promotes the careers and public
policy interests of more than 215,000 engineers, scientists and allied
professionals who are U.S. members of the IEEE.
IEEE-USA is part of the IEEE. See
http://www.ieeeusa.org.
Chris McManes, IEEE-USA
Public Relations Manager, (202) 530-8356, c.mcmanes@ieee.org.
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34th Annual Trenton Computer
Festival
http://www.tcf-nj.org/pc
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WOCC 2009 –
The 18th Wireless and Optical Communications Conference
http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/WOCC-2009.pdf
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Globalization
Forum 2009
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NJ Power Engineering Society/Industry Applications Society
Superconductor Power Cables Seminar
The PES and IAS Chapters will sponsor a technical
seminar on the topic of superconductor power cables. The session will be held on Friday, May 22,
2009 at the PSE&G Training Center, 234 Pierson Avenue, Edison, NJ.
Topics
Superconductor Power Cables – More Power, Less
Space, Fault Current Limiting
ü
Introduction to
superconductivity
ü
Quantify the unique
capabilities provided superconductor power cables
ü
Understand why utilities are
installing this capability today
ü
Review of current
superconductor cable installations and projects
ü
Identify the opportunities
for superconductor use
ü
Appreciate that these
systems are composed of commercial, off-the-shelf components
About the Instructor
Jack McCall
is the Director of T&D Systems for American Superconductor with
responsibility for superconductor cable systems, STATCOMs, SVCs, and related
FACTS solutions. Jack has over 25 years
experience in the utility T&D business holding a variety of product
engineering, product management, system engineering, business development,
marketing, and strategic planning roles.
He has his Master’s in Electric Power Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, Troy, NY, and his BSEE from Gannon University, Erie, PA. He is a member of the IEEE and CIGRE.
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The
registration fee for this seminar will be $150 for non-IEEE members, $100 for
IEEE Members, $75 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.
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 $25 will be required for processing.
A total of 0.4 CEUs will be offered.
Please indicate if desired below.
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Time:
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9:00 AM to 2:00 PM (lunch is included),
Friday, May 22, 2009.
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Place:
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PSE&G Training Center, 234 Pierson Avenue,
Edison NJ
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Directions:
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http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=234+pierson+ave,+edison,+nj++08837&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=32.472848,55.546875&ie=UTF8&ll=40.530714,-74.349353&spn=0.0076,0.013561&z=16&iwloc=addr
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Information:
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Ronald W. Quade, PE,
(732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org
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______________________________________________________________________
Registration: Superconductor Power Cables Seminar 5/22/2009
Register via US mail
to: Ronald W. Quade, PE
Eaton
Electrical
379
Thornall St, 8th Floor
Edison, NJ 08837
Name____________________________________________________________________________________
Address__________________________________________________________________________________
Phone__________________ Email____________________________________________________________
IEEE
#_________________ Student @______________________ Non IEEE_____ Life
Member______
Continuing Education Units: Yes $25 No
If
CEUs are chosen, please include a $25 processing fee
Payment
Enclosed $_______________
Make checks payable to North Jersey Section IEEE (Credit
Cards cannot be processed at this time).
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NJ Power Engineering Society/Industry Applications Society
Low Voltage Circuit Breakers Seminar
The PES and
IAS Chapters will sponsor a technical seminar on the topic of low voltage
circuit breakers. The session will be
held on Friday, April 24, 2009, in the Punch Bowl Room at Jersey Central Power
and Light, 300 Madison Ave, Morristown, NJ.
Topics
Low voltage circuit breakers:
ü
Standards
ü
Types – thermal magnetic vs.
electronic
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Molded Case, Insulated Case,
Power Breakers
ü
Application
ü
Arc Flash Mitigation
About the Instructor
The instructor will be Thomas A. Domitrovich. Thomas is an Application Engineer for Eaton
Corporation in Pittsburgh PA. Thomas
began his career in 1990, after graduating from Gannon University in Erie PA
with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (BEE), with Gilbert Commonwealth as
an electrical engineer. Thomas has
worked with electrical power systems from residential to large industrial and
utilities. He is a member of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), is involved with the National
Electrical Manufacturer's Association (NEMA) and the National Fire Protection
Association (NFPA). Thomas is an
Alternate member on NFPA 73 and has published industry articles as well as IEEE
white papers.
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The
registration fee for this seminar will be $150 for non-IEEE members, $100 for
IEEE Members, $75 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.
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 $25 will be required for processing.
A total of 0.4 CEUs will be offered.
Please indicate if desired below.
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Time:
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9:00 AM to 2:00 PM (lunch is included),
Friday, April 24, 2009.
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Place:
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Punch
Bowl Room at Jersey Central Power and Light, 300 Madison Ave, Morristown,
NJ 07960
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Directions:
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Route 287
to Route 124 (Madison Ave exit). Head toward Madison. Jersey Central building is on the left
about 1.5 miles from the exit.
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Information:
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Ronald W. Quade, PE,
(732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org
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______________________________________________________________________
Registration: Low Voltage Circuit Breakers Seminar 4/24/2009
Register via US mail
to: Ronald W. Quade, PE
Eaton
Electrical
379
Thornall St, 8th Floor
Edison, NJ 08837
Name____________________________________________________________________________________
Address__________________________________________________________________________________
Phone__________________ Email____________________________________________________________
IEEE
#_________________ Student @______________________ Non IEEE_____ Life
Member______
Continuing Education Units: Yes $25 No
If
CEUs are chosen, please include a $25 processing fee
Payment
Enclosed $_______________
Make checks
payable to North Jersey Section IEEE (Credit Cards cannot be processed at this
time).
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IEEE Awards
Reception
North Jersey Section
May
3, 2009
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 3, 2009 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 24, 2009.
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 24, 2009. 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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