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April 2009

 

 

 

 

Newsletter Information

 

Activities Calendar

 

 

 

2008 IEEE North Jersey Fellows

AESS:

Sensor Networks:  Underlying Present and Future Challenges

Communications:

New! Wireless Network Communications:  Unifying Source, Channel and Network Coding

Computer:

New! USL For Fun and Profit

Consultants':

Hitting Bottom is the Best Thing that Can Happen to You – But I Wouldn’t Wish It on Anyone

Consultants':

New! Recent Developments in US Patent Law

Control Systems:

New! Convex Programming in Controller Design for Flexible Structures

EDS/C&S:

New! NBTI in p-MOSFETs:  Characterization, Modeling and Material Dependence

EDS/C&S:

New! Nanowire Biosensors

LEOS:

New! Cellular-scale Dynamics:  Kinetics and Hydrodynamics

PACE, GOLD, WIE:

Engineers Meet:  Options:  Methods for increasing income and protecting your portfolio

SMC:

Wildland Fire Monitoring Using Remote Sensing Images

SMC:

Renewable Energy Projects in New Jersey

 

New! North Jersey Spring 2009 Student Presentation Contest

 

Time for Action on New Jersey Mathematics Education

 

New Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS) Formed for North Jersey Section

 

NJIT Course on Microwave Filters and Networks

 

Region 1 Award Nominations

 

North Jersey Section Seeks Committee Chairs and Volunteers

 

Update! NJ Section Seeks Training Facility

News from IEEE-USA

IEEE-USA Commends Congress, Administration for Investing in Science & Technology to Create Jobs, Bolster U.S. Innovation & Competitiveness

 

34th Annual Trenton Computer Festival

 

WOCC 2009

 

Globalization Forum 2009

PES/IAS Course:

Superconductor Power Cables Seminar

PES/IAS Course:

Low Voltage Circuit Breakers Seminar

 

IEEE Awards Reception

 

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Update!

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IEEE North Jersey Section

 

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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.   Headquarters:  3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY  10016-5997.  $1.00 per member per year (included in annual dues) for each member of the North Jersey Section.  Periodicals-class postage paid at New York, NY and at additional mailing offices.  Postmaster send address changes to:  “The IEEE Newsletter”, 445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ  08855-1331.  USPS 580-500 (ISSN 1076-3732).

 

NEWSLETTER STAFF

Editor........................................... Keith Saracinello

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SECTION OFFICERS

Chair....................................................... Amit Patel

                                             a.j.patel “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

naresh.chand “AT” baesystems.com  (973) 636-7408

Treasurer......................................... Pete Donegan

                                          doneganp “AT” ieee.org

Secretary.......................................... Russell Pepe

                   rcpepe “AT” ieee.org  (201) 960-6796

 

 

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).

 

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2008 IEEE North Jersey Fellows

 

Professor Nirwan Ansari

“for contributions to broadband networks and communications”

 

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.

 

 

Dr. Yves Baeyens

“for contributions to the broadband and millimeter-wave circuits for optical and wireless communications”

 

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.

 

 

 

Dr. Anwar Walid

“for contributions to multimedia traffic in telecommunication networks”

 

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.

 

  

 

Dr. Thomas Woo

“for contributions to network security and mobile data services”

 

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 Section PACE, GOLD, WIE:

Engineers Meet:

Options:  Methods for increasing income and protecting your portfolio

On Wednesday, April 8, 2009 the North Jersey Section Professional Activities Committee, Graduates of the Last Decade and Women in Engineering will host a meeting to discuss systematic methods for your trading strategy.  Our speaker will be Bill Purvin, a representative from Charles Schwab and Company.

About the Meeting

A disciplined approach to trading is essential in any market, particularly in today’s volatile climate.  The discussion will move beyond the basics of technical analysis and learn how to incorporate a systematic method into your trading strategy.

You will learn risk management techniques, how to use Schwab tools to help you identify potential trading opportunities and how to use charts to help you determine buy/sell signals.

Bring your associates, friends and spouses.

About the Speaker

Bill Purvin is an Active Trader Relationship Manager serving Charles Schwab offices in the New York metropolitan area.  Bill has worked in the financial services industry for over twenty years with Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns and Charles Schwab and Co., Inc.

Much of his experience has been with Schwab trading and making markets in NASDAQ stocks for Schwab Capital Markets L.P. (now known as UBS Securities LLC).  Bill also traded at a proprietary trading firm in Westchester, NY.

He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Rutgers University and has completed courses in advanced technical analysis with New York Institute of Finance.  He is currently studying to complete his Certified Financial Planner and Certified Market Technician designations

All Welcome!

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.aea.org

www.ieeeusa.org/policy/care

www.ieeeusa.org

www.programmersguild.org

http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/

www.asme.org/sections/northjersey

 

CARE is the Congressional Advocacy Recruitment Effort CARE is a voluntary network of IEEE members who are interested in public policy.  To help and for information go to  www.ieeeusa.org/policy/care/.

 

Time:  6:30 PM to 9:00 PM, Wednesday, April 8, 2009.  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, Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-0803, rftax “AT” verizon.net, Dr. Katherine Duncan, (973) 209–8607, kduncan “AT” ieee.org.


 

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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.

 

Time:

9:00 AM to 2:00 PM (lunch is included), Friday, May 22, 2009.

Place:

PSE&G Training Center, 234 Pierson Avenue, Edison NJ

Directions:

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

Information:

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

ü                    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.

 

Time: 

9:00 AM to 2:00 PM (lunch is included), Friday, April 24, 2009.

Place: 

Punch Bowl Room at Jersey Central Power and Light, 300 Madison Ave, Morristown, NJ  07960

Directions: 

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.

Information: 

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:  _______________________________________________________________

 

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 Yes, please send me directions to the Birchwood Manor

 

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