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December 2004
Volume 51, Number 6
Publication No:
USPS 580-500
“The IEEE
Newsletter” (North Jersey Section), is published monthly except June and July
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SECTION OFFICERS
Chairman....................................... Dr.
Durga Misra
dmisra
“AT” njit.edu (973) 596-5739
Vice-Chairman-1.................................... Har
Dayal
har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com (973)
633-4618
Vice-Chairman-2......................... Bhanu
Chivakula
b.chivakula “AT” computer.org (732)
718-3818
Treasurer........................ Dr. Edward (Ted)
Byrne
flatland “AT”
compuserve.com (410) 778-2768
Secretary................................. Dr. Sanghoon Shin
s.shin “AT” ieee.org (973)
492-1207 Ext. 22
Members-at-Large:
Dr.
Nirwan Ansari (nirwan.ansari
“AT” njit.edu)
Naz Simonelli (naz
“AT” ieee.org)
Dr.
Richard Snyder (r.snyder “AT” ieee.org)
The North Jersey Section
Executive Committee usually meets the first Wednesday (except holidays and
December) of each month at 7:00 PM.
Meetings are open to all members.
For information on meeting agenda contact Secretary Dr. Sanghoon Shin at (973) 492-1207 Ext. 22, s.shin
“AT” ieee.org.
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IEEE North Jersey
Section Activities
December
2004
Dec. 2 – “Annual Planning Meeting & Workshop”
- NJ Consultants' Network, 7:30
PM, Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated
Products, 60 S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. Robert Walker (973)
728-0344 or www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
Dec. 7 – “Reduced-Rank
Multi-User Detectors for CDMA Systems” - NJ Communications Chapter, 6:15 PM
(refreshments at 6:00 PM), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Nirwan Ansari
(973) 596-3670 (nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or check
http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj for the
latest updates.
Dec. 8 – “Minter
Electronic Aircraft Safety Warning System” - NJ Section, 7:00 PM
(pre-meeting buffet at 6:00 PM), Public Meeting Room, Morris County Library, 30
E. Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ, (973)
285-6930. Howard Leach (973) 540-1283, h.leach “AT” ieee.org..
Dec. 8 – “Elements
of Aided Inertial Navigation” - NJ Control Systems Society, 5:00
– 6:00 PM,
NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Professor Timothy Chang (973) 596-3519 (changtn “AT”
njit.edu).
Dec. 8 – “Engineers
Meet: Contract Engineering - An
Alternate Form of Employment” - NJ
PACE/GOLD/SAC, 6:30 – 9:00 PM, Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ. Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625
(PWard1130 “AT” aol.com) or Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954 (rtax
“AT” AEA.org).
Dec. 9 – “Distributed Generation
Using Gaseous Fueled Reciprocating Engine-Generators” - NJ IAS/PES
Chapters, 7:00PM (buffet at 6:30 PM), Eaton Electrical, 690 Rahway Ave, Union, NJ. Ronald W. Quade,
P.E., (732) 205-2614 (RWQuade “AT” IEEE.org).
Dec. 13 – “Fuzzy
Reasoning Petri Nets for Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems” - NJ SMC Society, 7:00 PM (light refreshments at 6:45 PM), NJIT,
202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Mike
Liechenstein (973) 471-0721 (m.liechenstein “AT”
ieee.org), Dr. Meng Chu
Zhou (mengchu.zhou “AT” njit.edu), or Dr. Meimei Gao
(gaomeime “AT” shu.edu).
Dec. 14 – “The
Impact of Automation on the Healthcare System” - NY IM & EMBS Chapters, 7:30 PM (pre-meeting reception with
refreshments at 6:30 PM), Manhattan College, LEO Engineering Building, Scala Academy Room,
Manhattan, NY. 718-862-7153.
Upcoming Meetings
Jan. 5 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM,
“Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00
PM, ITT, 100
Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Dr. Sanghoon
Shin at (973) 492-1207 Ext. 22 or s.shin “AT”
ieee.org.
Jan. 28 – “Seminar
- Electrical System Reliability Analysis, Reliability-Centered-Maintenance
(RCM) Concepts and Performance-Based Maintenance” - NJ IAS/PES Chapters, Time
TBA in January Newsletter, JCP&L, Morristown, NJ.
Ronald Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
Feb. 22-Apr. 19 – “Marketing Research” – North
Jersey Section, Tuesday Evenings, 8 sessions, 6:30-9:00 PM, NJ International
Bulk Mail Center, 80 County Rd, Jersey City, NJ. Bhanu Chivakula (b.chivakula “AT”
computer.org).
Members and
Non-Members Welcome
PLEASE
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NJ
Communications Society:
Reduced-Rank Multi-User
Detectors for CDMA Systems
On December 7, 2004, the
IEEE North Jersey Section Communications Society Chapter along with NJIT will
host a presentation on “Reduced-Rank Multi-User Detectors for CDMA
Systems.” The speaker will be Dr. Hongya Ge.
About the Talk
Due to the high dimensionality of the
measurement data sets as well as the changing dynamics of wireless
communication systems, computationally efficient reduced-rank solutions are
preferred to their full-rank counterparts in applications such as channel
estimation, system synchronization, multi-user detection, and adaptive
beam-forming.
This talk introduces the framework of
designing reduced-rank multi-user detectors for wireless DS/SS CDMA
systems. With the notion of expanding
subspaces, we construct the reduced-rank multi-user detectors progressively
using the simple structure of filter banks (analysis filters and synthesis
filters) – the discrete-time filter vectors contained in the expanding Krylov subspaces. We
further provide computationally efficient iterative methods for implementing
the reduced-rank multi-user detectors along with the geometric interpretations
on the filter evolution and error reduction.
We prove the existence (sufficient and necessary conditions) of warp
convergence in the reduced-rank multi-user detectors for designed CDMA systems,
as well as in the adaptive beam-former for multi-sensor array systems. Finally, application examples are presented
to demonstrate the enabling capability of the warp convergence in designed
communication systems, i.e. the reduced-rank solution delivers the full-rank
performance.
About the Speaker
Hongya Ge received her BS degree
from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China; MS degree from the Nanjing
University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China; and PhD degree from the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, in 1982, 1985, and 1994, respectively, all in
electrical engineering. From 1986 to
1990, she was with the Department of Information and Electronics at the Zhejiang University, as a lecturer, teaching and researching in Radar
Signal Processing, Communication Theory, and Numerical Analysis. Since 1995, she has been with the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, where she is currently an associate professor. During the academic year of 2000-2001, she
was a visiting scientist in the Applied Research Department of Telcordia Technologies, Inc., NJ, working on broadband wireless
access, MIMO transceiver systems, and wireless network security projects. During the academic year of 2003-2004, she
spent her sabbatical leave with the Colorado State University and the Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore. Her
research interests are in the general areas of Statistical Signal and Array
Processing, Transceiver Design for Wireless Communications and Reduced Rank
Adaptive Subspace Methods for Detection, Estimation, Synchronization, Tracking,
Adaptive Beamforming and Interference Suppression.
Dr.
Ge has published 70+ technical papers in
International Journals and Conference Proceedings. She currently serves as a member of the IEEE
Technical Committee on Sensor Array and Multichannel
(SAM) Signal Processing, the Editorial Board of the EURASIP Journal on Wireless
Communications and Networking, and the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions
on Signal Processing. From 1998-2001,
she was the Vice Chair and Chair for the Chapter of Communications Society of
IEEE North Jersey Section. Since 1999,
she has been on the Planning Committee for the Annual Wireless and Optical
Communications Conference (WOCC). She
was the Chair for the Wireless Program of the WOCC-2003.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend. Bring your friends.
Time: 6:15 PM (refreshments start at 6:00 PM), Tuesday,
December 7, 2004.
Place: New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available
at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670 (nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj for the
latest updates.
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NJ Consultants'
Network:
Annual Planning
Meeting & Workshop
On December
2, 2004, the
IEEE Consultants’ Network of Northern NJ (CNNNJ) will host their Annual
Planning Meeting & Workshop.
About the Meeting
In a combined November/December meeting, the IEEE Consultants Network
of Northern NJ (CNNNJ) will plan the network’s direction and activities for the
year 2005. We will discuss ideas and set
expectations for the various network functions.
Network members and any consultants considering joining the network are
welcome to attend and participate.
Results of the annual election of officers will be announced at this
meeting.
Traditionally, this working session is an open, informal forum to
determine what the IEEE-CNNNJ is doing right, or wrong. The floor will be open to suggestions for
improvements, recommendations of new network directions and activities, and
proposals for new feature topics for the general meetings.
The functions performed by the IEEE Consultants Network throughout the
year include:
·
Monthly General Meetings – Suggested feature topics will be discussed.
·
Member Networking – Member presentations and alternate formats to
improve networking.
·
Group Marketing & Image Building – CNNNJ website, tri-fold and postcard mailing, CNNNJ’s free consultant referral service, and alternate
publicity methods.
We will have our end-of-year networking party, with
refreshments, at the close of the session.
All Welcome!
Everyone welcome. No
registration needed. Free
admission.
About the Consultants’ Network
Founded in 1992, the IEEE Consultants Network of
Northern NJ encourages and promotes the use of independent technical
consultants by business and industry.
Time: 7:30 PM, Thursday, December 2, 2004.
Place: Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated Products, 60 S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. (Entrance at rear of building)
Information: For directions and up-to-date
meeting status, call Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or visit our website at
www.TechnologyOnTap.org. To download a
map to KDI, go to: http://www.mcekdi-integrated.com/directions.htm.
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NJ Control Systems
Society:
Elements of Aided
Inertial Navigation
On December
8, 2004
the NJ Section IEEE Control Systems Society will present a talk on
"Elements of Aided Inertial Navigation." The speaker will be Jack Richman.
About the Talk
Modern navigation is the
process of accurately determining the continuous position, velocity, and
attitude of a moving vehicle with respect to a reference coordinate frame. Inertial components (accelerometers and
gyroscopes) provide continuous acceleration and angular rate information with
respect to an inertial coordinate frame.
Processing of this data produces continuous position, velocity and
altitude of the vehicle with respect to a reference navigation coordinate
frame. Since inertial component errors
tend to degrade performance over time, the navigation system must be aided with
occasional data from other external sources to maintain the overall accuracy.
This approach is known as “aided inertial navigation” and it has received much
attention and technical effort. This
talk is aimed at a general engineering/technology audience and covers the
following key topics:
·
Inertial
Components
·
The processing of
the inertial component data to form an Inertial Measuring Unit (IMU)
·
The errors
associated with an “un-aided” IMU
·
The Global
Positioning System (GPS)
·
Optimally
combining discrete GPS data with continuous IMU data via a Kalman
filter to form a GPS aided IMU
About the Speaker
Jack Richman is an
Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at NJIT and had been an Adjunct
Professor at Polytechnic University of New York for a number of years. He is a part time employee of the Applied
Research Laboratory of Penn State University and a full time consultant to BAE
Systems Corporation, an international aerospace company whose products include
communication, navigation and identification systems. Prior to this Jack
Richman was a Principal Scientist at the Kearfott
Guidance & Navigation Corporation for 35 years where had worked in the
areas of inertial navigation, modern control theory and optimal statistical
filtering. He is the author or coauthor
of numerous papers on these subjects and holds a U.S patent for a novel
navigation system.
Time: 5:00 to 6:00 PM, Wednesday, December 8, 2004.
Place: New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Professor Timothy Chang (973) 596-3519 (changtn “AT” njit.edu).
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NY IM &
EMBS Chapters:
The Impact of
Automation on the Healthcare System
On Tuesday, December 14 2004 , the New York Chapters of IM (Instrumentation & Measurement Society)
and EMBS (Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society) of the IEEE New York Section
will present a lecture on “The Impact of Automation on the Healthcare System.”
The speaker will be Dr. Gordon Silverman.
About the Talk
With healthcare assuming an ever-growing
share of GNP, rationing of medical services has become the way we have been
meeting this challenge. However,
instrumentation and automation provide an opportunity to address our needs,
provide more effective care, and reduce costs.
A review of the current status of instrument uses will be provided and a
system for reeducating patients with neuromotor
disorders such as stroke will be discussed in more detail. This system provides distance capabilities
with numerous advantages including a significant reduction in the cost of
delivery of rehabilitation services.
About the Speaker
Dr. Silverman has close to 50 years of background in the practice of
engineering including experience in industry, research, teaching, and academic
administration. For a number of years,
he was Co-Director of the Microprocessor Laboratory at The Rockefeller
University which was supported by the National Institutes of Health. While at Rockefeller he pioneered in new
computer-based instrument architectures for Biomedical
laboratory environments. He has
published extensively including four books.
His latest endeavor is as co-author of a soon to be published text
entitled “Cognitive Science: Theories of the Mind.” He has served on Review
Panels for the National Science Foundation and, in addition to his role as
Founding Partner in PhysMed Systems Inc., he is currently Chair of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at Manhattan College, and of the New York IEEE IM chapter.
His immediate interests include instrument systems for Telemedicine as
well as automation in the delivery of healthcare.
Dr. Silverman is currently Chief Scientist and Founding Director of Physmed Systems, Inc.
Time:
7:30 PM (pre-meeting
reception with refreshments at 6:30 PM), Tuesday, December 14, 2004.
Place: Manhattan College, LEO Engineering Building
(Directions below), Scala Academy Room, parking available.
Directions:
By Train:
Take the Broadway #1 line to 238th Street. Walk West on 238th St one
(short) block to Corlear Ave. Turn right., LEO
Engineering is directly ahead.
By Car:
Take Major Deegan to Exit 11 (Van Cortlandt
Park So.). Proceed due West on Van Cortlandt Park So. past Broadway
to Corlear Ave. (Van Cortlandt
Park will be on your right as you proceed West. Do not follow sign to Manhattan College but proceed directly under the elevated subway line at
Broadway. Just past the elevated subway,
turn left onto Corlear Ave. LEO Engineering is on your right. Parking lot is just beyond the LEO Building.
Information/Reservations: Dr.
Gordon Silverman (718) 862-7153.
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NJ Section PACE
& GOLD:
Engineers Meet:
Contract
Engineering - An Alternate Form of Employment
On Wednesday, December 8, 2004 the North Jersey Section Professional Activities
Committee and Graduates of the Last Decade will meet to discuss contracting
engineering and the job market. Bob
Glynn and Paul Lorenzen will be our guest speakers
from a local contract firm.
They will present their views about contract work
and the job market, and be available to answer questions from the audience.
About
the Meeting
One of our most
successful meetings is being repeated.
This meeting will bring you face to face with a representative from one
of the local contract firms. Attendees will
have an opportunity to discuss contract engineering, the relationship between
the contract firm, client company and the contract
engineer.
Topics include: the current state of the employment market
for engineers, resource tools for advertising, your availability, dealing with
job shops - do's and don'ts, networking - it is a contact sport, accepting
positions far from home. Why this is
something everyone should consider. How
sending jobs offshore and importing foreign workers under the H-1B and L1
legislation have affected the business.
This meeting is NOT a job
fair. Resumes can be e-mailed at a later
date, but will not be necessary for the meeting.
You are encouraged to
attend and bring your spouse and associates.
This is especially of
interest to students, recent graduates and those looking to expand job opportunities.
About
the Speakers
Bob Glynn and Paul Lorenzen
of HEPCO will be our guest speakers.
They are involved in all aspects of the Company with particular focus on
client marketing.
HEPCO is a thirty-one year old company,
headquartered in Rutherford, NJ, and currently serving clients in twenty-two
states, with the balance of their work being done in the Connecticut to Virginia area. Their
strategic hiring focus is across the entire spectrum of the engineering
disciplines. This includes the major
disciplines such as civil, electrical, environmental, and mechanical as well as
subsets of these disciplines such as administrators, estimators, designers,
facilities, inspectors, planners, reliability, safety, schedulers, stress
analysts, and structural engineers.
HEPCO provides their clients with both direct hires and consultants, who
will work on a specific client project as HEPCO employees until that project is
completed.
All
Welcome!
Guests, members and students from other
professional societies and engineering disciplines are always welcome. We
now include members from IEEE, ASME and AEA.
For more information about these groups see:
www.aea.org
www.asme.org/sections/northjersey
www.ieeeusa.org
web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
Time: 6:30 to 9:00 PM, Wednesday, December 8, 2004.
Refreshments will be served.
Place: Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ, (973) 772-5500.
Information: Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625 (PWard1130 “AT” aol.com)
or Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954 (rtax “AT”
AEA.org).
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NJ PES/IAS
Chapters:
Distributed
Generation Using Gaseous Fueled Reciprocating Engine-Generators
On December 9, 2004, the Power Engineering and Industrial Applications Chapters will
present a discussion on Distributed Generation using Lean-Burn, gas fired,
spark ignited “Recips” to burn either:
1. Purchased, Natural Gas
or
2. “Free” Biogas from
landfills, sewage plants etc.
The leader of the discussion
will be Ron Williamson.
About the Talk
The discussion will focus on
Lean-Burn, gas-fired power plants up to 15-20 megaWatts
using reciprocating engines in the 300kW to 3mW range. Systems burning Biogas usually sell electric
power back to the utility company.
Systems burning natural gas usually generate Combined Heat & Power
(CHP) to make the economics viable. The
majority of these systems operate in parallel with the electric utility grid.
Topics to be covered:
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NJ SOTA emission requirements
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Grant money available
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Lean-Burn technology
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Heat recovery equipment in a typical CHP plant
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Electrical interconnection
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Engine efficiency
Ř
Characteristics of Gas Turbines compared to Reciprocating Engines
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Wellesley College CHP installation
About the Speaker
The leader of the discussion
will be Ron Williamson. Ron has a BS
degree in Electrical Engineering and over 25 years experience in paralleling
engine-generators with each other and with the utility grid. Ron presently works for Northeast Energy
Systems, a division of Penn Detroit Diesel Allison in Philadelphia. NES is
Authorized Distributor for G.E. Jenbacher Gaseous
Fueled Power Systems. Ron is the Sales
Engineer for the NY/NJ metropolitan area.
Time: 7:00 PM, Thursday, December
9, 2004. A pre-meeting buffet will be available at 6:30 PM.
Place: Eaton Electrical, 690
Rahway Ave,
Union,
NJ. Directions:
Route 82
Morris Ave from either Springfield
or Union to Rahway
Ave.
Information: Ronald W. Quade, P.E.,
(732) 205-2614 (RWQuade “AT” IEEE.org).
North Jersey SMC Society:
Fuzzy Reasoning
Petri Nets for Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems
On
Monday, December
13, 2004, the NJ Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Chapter will host a talk
on “Fuzzy Reasoning Petri Nets for Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems.” The speaker will be Dr. Meimei
Gao.
About the Talk
Fuzzy rule-based systems,
consisting of a set of fuzzy if-then rules, provide the basis for so-called
“expert systems” which are widely used in many fields, such as control,
diagnosis, and decision making. Petri nets is a graphic and mathematical tool
to model and analyze discrete event systems, such as distributed systems,
communication networks, transportation systems, and manufacturing systems. In this talk, the connection between fuzzy
rule-based systems and Petri nets will be explored and discussed. A particular kind of extended Petri net
format - Fuzzy Reasoning Petri Net (FRPN) model for fuzzy rule-based systems
will be described. The graphic structure
of an FRPN model makes the model of a fuzzy rule-based system simple and
legible. A formal reasoning algorithm
based on the model for automatic fuzzy reasoning will be discussed. The algorithm has parallel reasoning
ability. An example from a system’s
fault diagnosis is used to illustrate the concepts and reasoning method.
About the Speaker
Dr. Meimei
Gao is currently an
Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ. She
received her BS and MS degrees from Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi’an, China, in 1994 and 1997,
respectively, and PhD Degree in Control Theory and Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2000, and PhD Degree
in Computer Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in 2003. Her research interests include discrete-event
systems, Petri nets and applications, artificial intelligence, decision making,
computer integrated manufacturing and de-manufacturing, and lifecycle
engineering. She has published over 20
journal and conference proceedings papers in the above research areas. She has served as a Program Committee member
for several international conferences including IEEE International Conference
on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics and IEEE International Conference on
Networking, Sensing and Control. She won
Best Student Technical Paper Award from 2003 IEEE International Symposium on
Electronics and the Environment & the IAER Electronics Recycling Summit, Boston, MA, May 2003. She is a member of IEEE and ACM.
All Welcome!
You
need not be a member of IEEE to attend, and there is no charge for
admission. Light refreshments will be
served starting at 6:45 PM.
Please RSVP
prior to the presentation since space is limited.
Time: 7:00 PM (light refreshments at 6:45
PM),
Monday, December
13, 2004.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information/RSVP: Dr. Mike Liechenstein, (973)
471-0721, (m.liechenstein “AT” ieee.org), Dr. Meng Chu Zhou (mengchu.zhou “AT” njit.edu), or Dr. Meimei
Gao (gaomeime
“AT” shu.edu). Please also check
electronic newsletter for any possible changes in room, etc.
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The NJ Section
Education Committee Requests Your Feedback
The IEEE North Jersey Section has been
helping fellow engineering professionals for the last fifty years. The Education Committee has successfully
conducted software and engineering training courses over the last few decades. The Committee is committed to professional
development of the members and the instructors for the courses are very
qualified and experienced in their respective fields. Classes are arranged on weekday evenings or
on Saturdays provided at least fifteen candidates are available. Completion certificates are issued by IEEE
Headquarters with CEU credits for the number of training hours.
Due to the slow growth of the economy and
several other factors, registration for these courses has diminished over the
last few years. I would urge members to
send their feedback regarding what courses they would be interested in, the
format, location, and day/time, etc., by email to b.chivakula
“AT” computer.org.
Regards,
Bhanu Chivakula
Chair,
Education Committee
Vice
Chair, IEEE North Jersey Section
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New Jersey City FIRST!
Volunteer and Mentoring Opportunities
IEEE is a proud supporter of FIRST, the organization that celebrates the
achievements of young men and women working smart in science and technology.
Share your technical expertise, your
organizational skills, your energy, and your heart. Everyone has something to contribute to New Jersey’s youth who represent
tomorrow’s future engineering workforce:
Ř
Be a mentor with a New Jersey high school participating in the FIRST Robotics Competition,
January–March
Ř
Be a mentor to a team of New Jersey middle school students participating in the FIRST
LEGO League design challenge, October - February
Ř
Be a volunteer at the 2005 New Jersey FIRST Robotics Competition, March 17-19, 2005
Ř
Be a volunteer at the 2004 New Jersey FIRST LEGO League Tournaments, December 11, 2004
For more information
about FIRST and its nationwide programs engaging young people in the creative
process of technological innovation, please visit: www.usfirst.org.
If you would like to be a New Jersey FIRST! volunteer or team mentor,
please contact Kevin Nolan at Johnson & Johnson by e-mail at knolan “AT” ncsus .jnj.com, or by
phone at (908) 655-4182.
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Conference Rooms
Needed!
The North Jersey Section (Education Committee) is looking for conference
room facilities to hold their training seminars. The seminars are being held on one weeknight
from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM. In return for
providing the conference facility for free, the organization can get free
registration up to three members in the course/seminar. Please contact Bhanu Chivakula, Education Committee Chairman, at b.chivakula “AT” computer.org for suggestions or
discussions, if interested.
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MTT/AP 19th Annual
Symposium and Mini-Show
Sharing product information
about new releases and upgrades
Live demonstration of new
software applications
An abundance of
technology and applications offered by exhibitors
Willie Schmidt (left) reviews technical program
with Har Dayal
Kirit Dixit (left), Event
Chair, with Gerhard Franz, Area B Chair, IEEE Region 1
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Life Member Luncheon
Section Life Members met at
a luncheon on November 8th to celebrate the Section’s 50th
anniversary and to hear Roger Sullivan, Region I Director, discuss some of
issues that the IEEE Board of Directors will be reviewing. Also, Jerry Minter was recognized as
organizing and chairing the first Northern New Jersey Subsection of the IRE in
October of 1947.
Left to
Right: Naz Simonelli, Ken Hendrix, Jerry Minter, Heinz Winters,
Richard Snyder, Fred Chichester, Wilhelm Schmidt,
Roger
Sullivan, Ken Oexle, Herb Blaicher,
Carl Sulzberger, Steve Mallard, Carl Fruehling, Joe Salko, and Max Schramm
Section and Subsection Past
Chairman also attended the Life member luncheon on November 8th to celebrate
the Section’s 50th anniversary. Jerry
Minter (shown below) organized and chaired the first Northern New Jersey
Subsection of the IRE in October of 1947, 57 years ago.
Left to
Right: Richard Snyder, Fred Chichester, Howard Leach, Jerry Minter, Herb Blaicher, Steve Mallard, and Ken Oexle
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A Bit of Section History
How we first got started
as a Subsection of the New York Section of the I.R.E.
Jerry Minter was recognized
for organizing and chairing the first Northern New Jersey Subsection of the IRE
in October of 1947, 57 years ago. At
that time, he contacted Dr. McReae of Bell labs and obtained the use of the new AT&T Murray Hill
Auditorium, NJ, for use by the new IRE Subsection. They also used the ITT Auditorium in Nutley, NJ, and the Westinghouse Auditorium in Bloomfield, NJ, for their meetings.
This IRE Subsection became
the Northern New Jersey Section of the IRE in 1954, chaired by Gordon P. McCouch 50 years ago.
The IEEE was formed on January 1, 1963 with the merger of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE)
founded in 1912 and the American Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (AIEE), founded in 1884 with Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell
among the first six Vice Presidents.
Left to Right:
Durga Misra, Section
Chair, Ken Oexle, Awards Chair, Jerry Minter, seated, Al Stolpen, Historian, and Howard Leach, Group Coordinator
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North Jersey Section:
Minter Electronic
Aircraft Safety Warning System
The
North Jersey Section of the IEEE and the Lone Eagle Composite Squadron of the Civil
Air Patrol will sponsor a talk on Wednesday, December 8th, entitled “Minter
Electronic Aircraft Safety Warning System” by Mr. Jerry B. Minter.
About the
Talk
The
aircraft transponder system in present operation worldwide has some serious
limitations as follows:
1.
The dependence on barometric pressure to determine relative altitude,
and
2.
The lack of instant horizontal location of other aircraft transponders.
The following U.S. Parents have been issued covering solutions to the
above limitations of the present transponder systems: 5,223,847; 5,506,509;
5,861,846, 5,889,491; 6,097,315; and 6,486,839.
The solution uses a multimode antenna system that can locate the
relative horizontal direction to another plane within one microsecond after
receiving the first transponder pulse.
Lab models of the two antenna systems will be on display,
however the associated electronic systems would require too much time to set up
for a working demo.
The system does not generate a radiation signal so no license is
required for operation.
About the
Speaker
Jerry B. Minter was first employed in 1935 by the Boonton Radio
Corporation, NJ, in the development of band-pass intermediate frequency
transformers. In 1936 he was involved in
the development of aircraft radio receivers at the Radio Frequency Laboratories
of Boonton, NJ. During the later part of
1936 he was employed by the Ferris Instrument Corp., NJ, to take charge of
several projects including development of a signal generator and a radio noise
and field-strength meter.
In 1939, Mr. Minter and some of his associates from Ferris Instrument
Corp organized the Measurements Corp. of Boonton, NJ, where he became Vice President and Chief Engineer. After much success with design and production
of test equipment, the stockholders decided to sell the Measurements Corp. to
the Edison Company in 1953. At that
time, he had a number of conversations with Charles Edison about his father,
Thomas Edison, and dined in the dining room of Edison’s West Orange Laboratory before it was turned over
to the National Park Service as a National Historic Site.
In 1954, Mr. Minter bought the Components Corp. and
entered into the audio business where he developed a series of special test
records. In the 1960’s, the company designed
and built miniature high voltage power supplies for use in high altitude probes
for NASA. They also developed a
high-reliability edgeboard connector called the “DigiKlip” that was used commercially in the Univac 1108,
DC-10, as well as in space and military programs.
Mr. Minter also worked on video systems, one within
a hospital area to reduce RF interference.
In another medical project , he modified VCR’s
to reduce their startup time in medical facilities within NYC. His most recent technical innovation is a
passive collision warning system for small aircraft. Jerry Minter holds 26 patents of which the
last six are on his aircraft collision avoidance system.
He received a BS in EE from MIT in 1934. He organized and chaired the first Northern
New Jersey Subsection of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) in 1947. Jerry Minter is a Fellow and past President
of the Radio Club of America. He is also
a past President of the Audio Engineering Society and has held memberships in
the Radio Electronic Television Manufacturing Association, the Society of
Automotive Engineers, the American Standards Association, and the American
Society of Metals.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE or the
Civil Air Patrol to attend. The North
Jersey Section of the IEEE will sponsor a free buffet starting at 6 PM.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, December 8, 2004. Pre-meeting buffet starts at 6:00 PM.
Place: Public
Meeting Room, Morris County
Library, 30 E.
Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ, (973)
285-6930.
Information: Howard
Leach (973) 540-1283, h.leach “AT” ieee.org.
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IEEE North Jersey Section Course
Marketing Research
Tuesday
Evenings, February 22, 2005
through April 19, 2005
(No class on March 22)
Eight
weekly classes (February 22, March 1, 8, 15, 29, April 5, 12, 19, 2005)
at NJ International
Bulk
Mail
Center,
80
County Road,
Jersey City,
NJ
(Checks
should not be mailed to this address)
The North Jersey Section
IEEE is offering an evening course entitled "Marketing
Research". Monster.com lists 450+
Market Research jobs in the New York tri-state area daily! This course deals
with the collection, evaluation and analysis of the market-related
information. Topics are: market research
industry, problem definition, research process, focus group, secondary
database, quantitative research, questionnaire design, sampling techniques,
statistical testing, bivariate and multivariate
correlation, communicating results and management reports. Using the SPSS software, you will learn to
perform detailed data analysis.
The IEEE certificate of completion will be
given to you when you finished this course.
In addition, you will be qualified to work as a market researcher in any
organization that needs your quantitative skills.
Instructor: Donald Hsu, PhD, has
been a corporate manager for 11 years and is an experienced trainer. Since 2000, he has trained 400+ people in Management, Marketing, Global Marketing, and Marketing
Research courses in five organizations.
TOPICS
1.
Describe the market research industry, problems and research process
2.
Understand the importance of primary data collection, secondary
database, and survey
3.
Define quantitative research, measurement technique and sampling
methods
4.
Explain the questionnaire design, data processing and statistical
testing
5.
Build the knowledge of bivariate regression
and multivariate data analysis
6.
Communicate results, manage ethical issues, and prepare reports
7.
Employ SPSS software for frequency analysis, ANOVA, T-test and others
8.
Review real-world marketing research using Harvard Business School cases
9.
Present final Group Project
Class size will be limited to
a maximum of 25 with a minimum of 15.
Early registration is recommended.
Phone reservations will NOT be accepted.
Reservations accepted after February 10, 2005 will require a late fee of $25.
No reservations will be accepted after February 15, 2005.
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WHERE:
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NJ International Bulk Mail Center, 80 County Road, Jersey City, NJ. (Checks should not be mailed to this
address)
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WHEN:
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8 Sessions, Tuesdays,
February 22, March 1, 8, 15, 29, April 5, 12, 19, 2005, 6:30-9:30 PM.
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COST:
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With textbook or notes:
IEEE (& affiliate) members $375; Non-IEEE members $475.
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CONTACT:
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Bhanu Chivakula -email b.chivakula “AT” computer.org
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REGISTRATION: Marketing Research
Please send the checks in the
name of North Jersey Section IEEE
with filled in registrations to:
Bhanu Chivakula,
19 Prestwick
Way, Edison, NJ 08820. Please email
inquiries to b.chivakula “AT” computer.org
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