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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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The
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
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,
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,
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”,
Apr.
28 – “The
Promising Role of Wireless Sensors in Achieving Net Zero Energy Buildings” by Dr. Bill Healy, NJ
IMS, 11:30 AM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center
(Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Russell Pepe, rcpepe “AT” ieee.org. Free
parking request please send to zhou “AT” njit.edu by April 26. Please RSVP and check the electronic newsletter
for any changes.
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,
Apr.
29 – “Opportunistic
Context-Aware Computing” by Dr. Alexander
Varshavsky, NJ SP Society, 3 - 4:00 PM, Stevens Institute of Technology, Babbio
Center, Room 110, Hoboken, NJ. Dr. Mike
Liechenstein (973-471-0721) or E-Mails: itsmikesju “AT” aol.com or zhou “AT”
njit.edu.
Apr.
30 (CANCELLED - presentation
rescheduled for June 25, 2009)– “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),
May
3 –
“NJ Section Awards
Reception” -
May
6 –
“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.
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,
May
22 –
“Superconductor Power
Cables Seminar” by Jack McCall, NJ
PES/IAS,
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
June
25 – “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.
Sep.
17 – “Nanowire
Biosensors” by Professor Mark A.
Reed, NJ
Members and Non-Members Welcome
PLEASE
POST
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 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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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,
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:
Information: Dr. Naresh Chand, (973) 636-7408, naresh.chand
“AT” baesystems.com.
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 (
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.
NJ Computer Society:
USL For Fun and Profit
On
Universal Systems Language (
About the Talk
From its
beginnings at MIT Draper Lab.,
This
presentation will go over some
About the Speaker
Frank Middleton is the founder and president of Apogee Communications
Technologies, a consultancy that has specialized in the use of
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.
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.
CANCELLED - presentation rescheduled
for
NJ Consultants' Network:
Hitting Bottom is the Best Thing that Can Happen to You – But I Wouldn’t Wish It on Anyone
On
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.
NJ Consultants' Network:
Recent Developments in US Patent Law
On
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
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:
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.
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.
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
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).
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 (
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).
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 (
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.
