PUBLICATION OF THE NORTH JERSEY SECTION OF THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS

Last Updated 8/13/06

August 2006

Newsletter Information

Activities Calendar

Consultants' Network:	National Instruments – “that GPIB Company”
EDS/C&S:	Wireless Sensor Networks
EDS/C&S:	Chip-Package Co-Design of RF Microsystems
EDS/C&S:	Theory and Applications of SEM/FIB DualBeam Instrumentation
GOLD:	North Jersey GOLD Sponsors Xilinx ISE Design and FPGA Implementation Workshop
PACE & GOLD:	Engineers Meet: Where Do We Go From Here? Setting the Fall meeting agenda
PES/IAS:	Energy Conservation Series - Power Factor Correction
Signal Processing:	Partitioning QoS Management for Secure Tactical Wireless Adhoc Networks
	Interested in Being a North Jersey Section Officer?
	IEEE COMSOC Technical Subcommittee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN)
	2006 Awards Banquet
NJ Section:	Call For Papers - 9th International Conference on Information Technology (CIT 2006)
NJ Section Course:	C# .NET Programming
NJ Section Course:	Project Management
PES/IAS Seminar:	National Electric Code Seminar
	Life Grade Luncheon
MTT/AP Minishow:	21st Annual Symposium and Mini-Show

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Update!	= Change to Meeting Time, Location, or Other Details

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August 2006

Volume 53, Number 2

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).

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IEEE North Jersey Section Activities

August 2006

Aug. 2 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Seth Jakel at sgjakel “AT” comcast.net.

Aug. 9 – “Engineers Meet: Where Do We Go From Here? Setting the Fall meeting agenda”, NJ PACE & GOLD, 6:30 – 9:00 PM, Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ. Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625 (PWard1130 “AT” aol.com) or Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954 (rftax “AT” verizon.net).

Upcoming Meetings

Sep. 6 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Seth Jakel at sgjakel “AT” comcast.net.

Sep. 13 – “Partitioning QoS Management for Secure Tactical Wireless Ad-hoc Networks” by Dr. George F. Elmasry, NJ SP Chapter, 4:45PM (pizza at 4:30 PM), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Weston Lecture Hall 1, Newark, NJ. Dr. Yun Shi (973) 596-3501 (shi “AT” njit.edu), Dr. Alfredo Tan (201) 692-2347 (tan “AT” mailbox.fdu.edu), Dr. Hong Man (201) 216-5038 (hman “AT” stevens-tech.edu).

Sep. 16-Dec. 2 – “C# .NET Programming” by Dr. Donald Hsu, North Jersey Section, Saturday Mornings, 10 sessions, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, Avtech, 130 Clinton Road, Second Floor, Fairfield, NJ. Donald Hsu (yanyou “AT” hotmail.com).

Sep. 20 – “Energy Conservation Series - Power Factor Correction” by Ron Quade, PE, NJ IAS/PES Chapters, 6:30 PM, Eaton Electrical (Cutler-Hammer), 690 Rahway Ave, Union, NJ. Ronald W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.

Sep. 20 – “Wireless Sensor Networks” by Dr. Martin Haenggi, NJ EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 PM), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, 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. 28 – “National Instruments – “that GPIB Company”” by Jeff Steele, NJ Consultants' Network, 7:30 PM, Aeroflex/KDIIntegrated Products, 60 S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or www.TechnologyOnTap.org.

Sep. 30 – “Xilinx ISE Design and FPGA Implementation Workshop”, NJ GOLD, 10:30 AM – 4:00 PM, Muscurell Building, Rm 207, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ. See http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/ north_jersey/gold or email Amit Patel at northjerseygold@ieee.org.

Oct. 5 – “2006 MTT/AP Symposium and Mini-Show” – MTT-S/AP-S Chapter, 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM, Birchwood Manor, 111 N. Jefferson Road, Whippany, NJ. Kirit Dixit (201) 669-7599 (kdixit “AT” ieee.org), Art Greenberg (973) 386-6673 (ahg1 “AT” lucent.com), Har Dayal (973) 633-4618 (har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com), or George Kannell (973) 386-4170 (gkk “AT” lucent.com).

Oct. 17 – “Chip-Package Co-Design of RF Microsystems” by Professor P.R. Mukund, NJ EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 PM), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, 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).

Oct. 17-Dec. 5 – “Project Management” by Dr. Donald Hsu, North Jersey Section, Tuesday Evenings, 8 sessions, 6:30-9:00 PM, NJ International Bulk Mail Center, 80 County Rd, Jersey City, NJ. Donald Hsu (yanyou “AT” hotmail.com).

Oct. 27 – “National Electrical Code Seminar” by Won Kim, NJ PES/IAS, 9:00AM - 2:00PM, Jersey Central Power & Light Company, 300 Madison Avenue, Morristown, NJ 07962. Ronald W. Quade (732) 205-2614 or RWQuade “AT” IEEE.org.

Nov. 2– “Life Grade Luncheon” - 11:30 AM, Hamilton Park Conference Center, 175 Park Ave, Florham Park, NJ. Ken Oexle (973) 386-1156.

Nov. 8 – “Theory and Applications of SEM/FIB DualBeam Instrumentation” by Dr. Lucille A. Giannuzzi, EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 PM), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, 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).

Dec. 18-21 – “9^th International Conference on Information Technology (CIT 2006)”, see http://www.citconference.org and http://www.cs.unt.edu/~smohanty/CIT2006.

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NJ Consultants' Network:

National Instruments – “that GPIB Company”

On Thursday, September 28, 2006, the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ is pleased to present ”National Instruments – “that GPIB Company””, by Jeff Steele.

About the Talk

The IEEE CNNNJ has invited Jeff Steele, National Instruments, to emcee the feature presentation for our September meeting, and we invite everyone to come to this special event!

· Who is National Instruments?

· What problems can they help you solve?

Depending on when you have looked at National Instruments you might say “They're that GPIB Company” or “They make LabVIEW””. Traditionally, National Instruments has been a Test & Automation company, but they have been expanding their capabilities to assist engineers in solving control and design problems. NI continues to expand the computing platforms that its development environments can target to include mobile, industrial, and embedded targets. NI also continues to expand its own hardware platforms for test, control and design.

Jeff, together with NI engineers, will be discussing and demonstrating NI’s various development environments and will show some NI’s hardware platforms, including FPGA-based PLCs, PC-based RF instruments, USB-based data acquisition plus others. Some of these platforms help engineers do rapid prototyping, hence decreasing time to market. Other platforms might make sense embedded into OEM products, helping to lower development costs.