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February 2004
Volume 50, Number 8
Publication No: USPS 580-500
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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
(973) 822-3219
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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” sprynet.com)
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
February
2004
Feb. 4 – “NJ Section 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.
Feb. 9-10
– “TCP/IP:
The Protocol Suite Driving the Internet” - 1:00-5:00 PM, Meeting
Rooms 108/109 Magill Commons, Monmouth University. Dr. Amruthur Narasimhan (732) 957 0850 (anarasimhan “AT”
ieee.org).
Feb. 11 – “Engineers Meet: Contract Engineering - An Alternate Form of
Employment” - NJ PACE, 6:15-9:00 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).
Feb. 16-Apr. 12 –
“Introduction to JAVA
Programming” - North Jersey Section, Monday Evenings, 8 sessions, 6:30-9:00
PM, High Performance
Technologies, Inc., 3159 Schrader Rd, Dover, NJ 07801 (Exit 35 on Rt 80 West). Bhanu Chivakula (b.chivakula “AT” computer.org).
Feb. 18 – “LDMOS as Radio Frequency Power Device” -
EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15PM), NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark,
NJ. Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207
(RS Microwave), Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu) or Dr.
Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT).
Feb. 18-Apr. 14 – “Project Management” - North Jersey Section,
Wednesday Evenings, 8 sessions, 6:30-9:00 PM, High Performance Technologies, Inc., 3159 Schrader Rd,
Dover, NJ 07801 (Exit 35 on Rt 80 West). Bhanu Chivakula (b.chivakula “AT”
computer.org).
Feb. 19 – “Tomo-Gravity” - NJ Communications Chapter,
6:15 PM, NJIT, 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.
Feb. 24 –
“Model Driven Architecture
(MDA) - A Practical Perspective” - NJ Computer Chapter, 7:00 PM, Public
Meeting Room, Morris County Library, 30 E. Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ. Seth Jakel (973) 731-1902 (sgjakel “AT”
comcast.net) or Vivek Shaiva (908) 229-6125 (vshaiva “AT” computer.org).
Feb. 25 –
“Student Presentation Contest”
- 5:30 PM (free dinner provided), NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Amit Patel (a.j.patel “AT” ieee.org). Check http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/sac
for the latest updates.
Feb. 26 – “A Modular Approach to Proposals” - 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.
Upcoming Meetings
Mar. 3 – “NJ Section
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.
Mar. 18 –
“NJ Energy Auctions”
- NJ IAS/PES Chapters, 7:00PM, Eaton/Cutler Hammer, 690 Rahway Ave, Union,
NJ. Ron Quade (212) 833-0268.
Mar. 25 –
“Small Power Transformer
Technical Seminar” - NJ IAS/PES Chapters, 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM, JCP&L,
Punchbowl Room, 300 Madison Avenue, Morristown, NJ. Ronald W. Quade, PE, (212) 833-0268 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
Mar. 25 – “How an Engineer Ends Up In Court: The Expert Witness” - 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.
Apr. 16 –
“Power Quality Technical Seminar”
- NJ IAS/PES Chapters, time and location TBA.
Details to follow in the March Newsletter.
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PES Life
Luncheon
PES Life Luncheon – Steve
Mallard (L), Max Schramm and Carl Fruehling share conversation at the recent
Life Member/Senior Member/Fellow Luncheon Program sponsored by the Power
Engineering Chapter for their life grade members
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NJ
Computer Chapter:
Model Driven Architecture (MDA) - A Practical Perspective
On Tuesday, February 24th,
2004, the IEEE North Jersey Section Computer Chapter will host a presentation
on “Model Driven Architecture (MDA) - A Practical Perspective” by Frank
Middleton.
About the Talk
MDA has the potential to
radically change the way software systems are constructed, enabling significant
reuse, eliminating defects, and dramatically reducing implementation and
maintenance costs. Join us for a survey
of the state of the art in MDA, looking at various standards and products, some
better known than others. The talk will
finish up with experience from the field using one of the lesser known (but
mature) tools used to implement a large commercial system.
UML based MDA is limited to
real time systems today, but there is no reason it can't be used for general IT
solutions, and it can be. We'll look at
the primary contenders for the MDA market and discuss limitations and benefits
of each, looking at UML2 and how apparently dissimilar methodologies map into
each other.
This talk should be of
interest to anyone who has project oversight for any system sufficiently
complex to require modeling.
About the
Speaker
Frank
Middleton is the President and Founder of Apogee Communications Technologies,
Inc., a 10-year old IT consulting services provider based in New Jersey that
specializes in reducing costs and improving productivity and security in small
to midsize companies by leveraging best of breed technologies, including
process management through MDA. For
more information, visit http://www.apogeect.com
and also subscribe to his newsletter by sending an email with subject
"subscribe" to news-request@apogeect.com. Frank has many years of experience in IT at
various companies including Citibank and AT&T, a Masters in Computer
Science from the Courant Institute of Mathematics, NYU, and is a member of the
IEEE, the IEEE/CS, and the ACM.
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, February 24, 2004. Pre-meeting
buffet starting at 6:00 PM in the Public Meeting Room, Morris County Library.
Place: Public Meeting
Room, Morris County Library, 30 E. Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ, (973) 285-6930.
Information: Seth Jakel,
(973) 731‑1902 (sgjakel “AT” comcast.net) or Vivek Shaiva, (908) 229-6125
(vshaiva “AT” computer.org).
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NJ Communications Society:
Tomo-Gravity
On February 19, 2004, the IEEE
North Jersey Section Communications Society Chapter along with NJIT will host a
presentation on "Tomo-Gravity."
The speaker will be Dr. Yin Zhang.
About the Talk
Traffic
matrices, which specify the amount of traffic between origin and destination in
a network, have tremendous potential utility for many IP network engineering
applications, such as capacity planning, traffic engineering, and network
reliability analysis. However, it is
often difficult to directly measure traffic matrices in large operational IP
networks. So there has been a surge of
interest in inferring traffic matrices from link loads and other more easily
measured data. Unfortunately, this is a
non-trivial task. The challenge lies in
the ill-posed nature of the problem:
the number of constraints (i.e., the link measurements) is typically
much smaller than the number of unknowns (i.e., the matrix elements to be
estimated). So the problem is massively
under-constrained for large networks.
In
this talk Dr. Zhang will present a new method for practical and rapid inference
of traffic matrices in IP networks from link load measurements, augmented by
readily available network and routing configuration information. The method, "tomo-gravity",
combines the advantages of transportation modeling (gravity models) with
tomo-graphic methods such as those applied in medical imaging (CAT scans) and
seismology. It has a firm theoretical
foundation in information theory, and we have shown that it is remarkably fast,
accurate, flexible and robust on test data from AT&T's North American
backbone network.
About the Speaker
Yin
Zhang is a senior technical staff member of the Networking Research Department
at AT&T Labs Research. He earned
his BS from Peking University in July 1997, and PhD from Cornell University in
August 2001, both in Computer Science.
His research interests lie in computer networks, with emphasis on
network management, traffic engineering, performance measurement, and anomaly
detection. He is a member of ACM and
IEEE.
Time: 6:15 PM
(refreshments start at 6:00 PM), Thursday, February 19, 2004.
Place: New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/about/visiting/driving.php.
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:
A Modular Approach to Proposals
On
Thursday, February 26, 2004, the IEEE Consultants’ Network of Northern NJ (CNNNJ)
will host a talk on “A Modular Approach to Proposals.” The speaker will be Paul Rota.
About the Talk
Paul Rota will present a
proven approach for creating effective written proposals.
The techniques for writing an
effective proposal are not necessarily self-evident. Some consultants acquired their proposal-writing skills from
previous employers, others through trial and error. All of us who struggle through the proposal process would welcome
a simple and accessible methodology or template.
Paul Rota will speak on the
modular approach to proposals (MAP), a uniform and organized process for
developing a document and easing the proposal-writing process.
Originated by the Defense
industry to ease preparation of written proposals for Federal Government
agencies, MAP has been successfully applied to technical reports, handbooks,
business plans, and project plans. The
methodology is highly structured but flexible enough to leave room for
creativity. It reduces the time and
cost to prepare a document and provides a genuine picture of what the document
will look like before a single word is written. Besides easing the writing process, MAP improves readability and
enhances the management of large documents.
About the
Speaker
Paul Rota has been an
independent computer consultant for 25 years, serving Fortune 500 companies and
smaller organizations. He recently
completed a six-year assignment with the NYSE and AMEX helping develop wireless
LAN systems. He specializes in systems
analysis, discrete system simulation, and in documenting user requirements,
functional requirements, and general design specifications. He has presented papers at national symposia
and private seminars. Mr. Rota
previously worked in the defense industry.
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, February 26, 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 Consultants' Network:
How an Engineer Ends Up In Court:
The Expert Witness
On
Thursday, March 25, 2004, the IEEE Consultants’ Network of Northern NJ (CNNNJ)
will host a talk on “How an Engineer Ends Up In Court: The Expert Witness.” The speaker will be Laurence W. Nagel.
About the Talk
Intellectual property is a
critical asset that technology companies safeguard through a combination of
patents, copyrights, and trade-secret protections. If a company suspects that its intellectual property is being
misappropriated, it may seek recourse through a lawsuit charging patent
infringement, trade secret misappropriation, or copyright misuse. The technological aspects of the issues
involved in these lawsuits are often beyond the grasp of a judge or jury,
calling for testimony of an expert witness to interpret matters of fact, but
not matters of law.
Mr. Nagel will explain the
tools for protecting intellectual property – patents, copyrights, and trade
secrets – and the crucial role of the expert witness in litigation.
About the
Speaker
Laurence W. Nagel, an expert
witness in patent and trade secret litigation and a 29-year veteran of the
integrated circuit industry, is proprietor of Omega Enterprises, consultants in
analog and RF integrated circuit design, a company he founded in 1998. Mr. Nagel previously served a distinguished
career at Bell Laboratories, where he asserted patents and negotiated patent
licenses on behalf of the AT&T Intellectual Property Division. Among other accomplishments at Bell Labs, he
developed the ADVICE circuit simulation program and served as project manager
for development of the Celerity circuit simulation program.
Mr. Nagel earned BS, MS, and
PhD degrees at the University of California, where he launched the cottage
industry of simulation tools by developing the SPICE circuit simulation
program.
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, March 25, 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
EDS, C&S Chapters:
LDMOS as Radio Frequency
Power Device
On February 18th, 2004,
the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters together
with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on “LDMOS as Radio
Frequency Power Device." The
speaker will be Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. M. Ayman Shibib.
About the Talk
This lecture will focus on
the DMOS devices applied in RF power amplifiers mainly in cellular base
stations. DMOS devices are well
established as discrete and integrated high voltage and power devices and find
numerous applications in analog and mixed signal. DMOS devices are made in vertical and lateral configurations,
each having specific advantages. For RF
applications, Lateral DMOS offers unique advantages prime amongst them is a
very low, gate to drain, or Miller
capacitance. The structure and
characteristics of typical RFLDMOS devices will be reviewed from a device and
technology perspective.
About the
Speaker
M. Ayman Shibib is a
Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Agere Systems in Allentown, PA,
involved in the design and development of silicon based RFLDMOS devices for
base station power amplifier applications.
After receiving his PhD in electrical engineering, he was an adjunct
assistant professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and in 1980 he
joined Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff.
He has been involved for over
23 years in the device and technology development of analog and power
integrated circuits. He developed and
introduced to manufacture the first 600 V IC for the #5ESS™. He also developed several generations of
analog and mixed signal Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS technologies used in several
applications including Analog Line Cards for telecommunications switching
systems. All those technologies were
introduced to high volume manufacturing and used the DMOS device as the
workhorse for these technologies.
Dr. Shibib is an IEEE Fellow,
an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, and EDS Distinguished
Lecturer. He is the Chairman of the
North America East Subcommittee for Regions and Chapters of the Electron
Devices Society that includes Regions 1,2,3 and 7. He holds 22 U.S. patents and has several others pending. He was awarded the IEEE Third Millennium
Medal Award and received several Bell Labs awards. Dr. Shibib has also served as the Lehigh Valley Electron Devices
Society Chairman from 1993 to 1998 and the Lehigh Valley Section Vice-Chairman
and Chairman for 1987-1989, and on the AdCom of EDS from 1996-2000. He has been on the advisory and technical
committees of many IEEE sponsored technical meetings including IEDM, PESC and
ISPSD and has presented numerous papers in these meetings.
He also has more than 40
technical publications in the archival literature.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a
member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, February 18, 2004. Free buffet will be starting at 6:15 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are
available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr. Richard
Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave), Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra
“AT” njit.edu) or Dr. Edip Niver (973)
596-3542 (NJIT).
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NJ Section PACE:
Engineers Meet: Contract Engineering - An Alternate Form of Employment
On
Wednesday, February 11, 2004 the North Jersey Section Professional Activities
Committee will meet to discuss Contracting Engineering and the job market. A panel of speakers from local contract
firms will present their views about contract work and be available to answer
questions from the audience.About
the MeetingThis
meeting will bring you face to face with representatives from some 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 will be: 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 to these firms at a
later date, but will not be necessary for the meeting.
You are encouraged to attend and bring your spouse and
associates.
About the
Speakers
David B. du Pont, Chairman & CEO of HEPCO, will be
one of our panelists. Mr. du Pont is a
graduate of the University of Pennsylvania '67 (BA), US Army 1st Lt.
(1967-1970), Wharton '72 (MBA Marketing).
He has eighteen years corporate finance experience (Citibank 1972-1975,
Goldman Sachs 1975-1983, Prudential Bache 1983-1985, and Drexel Burnham
1985-1990). He acquired HEPCO in
1992. He is involved in all aspects of
the Company with particular focus on client marketing.
HEPCO is a thirty one year old company, headquartered
in Rutherford, New Jersey 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 would include the major disciplines
such as civil, electrical, environmental, and mechanical as well the subsets of
these disciplines to include administrators, estimators, designers, facilities,
inspectors, planners, reliability, safety, schedulers, stress analysts, and
structural engineers. They provide
their clients with both permanent candidates and consultants, who will work on
a specific client project as HEPCO employees until that project is completed
Daniel J. Muhlfelder, another panelist, has been
employed by L. J. Gonzer Associates (LJGA) since 1977. His career with LJGA has progressed from
Recruiter, to Employment Manager, to Vice President of Personnel, to his
current position of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.
Mr. Muhlfelder was an active member of the New Jersey
Chapter of the National Technical Services Association (NTSA) for many years
and was involved in national NTSA events since 1995. He served as a member of the NTSA National Board of Directors
from 2001-2003.
For over 40 years L. J. Gonzer Associates (LJGA) has
placed thousands of professional contractors in technical positions in small
companies, large corporations, government agencies and institutions all across
America.
Founded in 1961 by Lawrence J. Gonzer (BSME, PE) LJGA
has held to the highest standards of quality and integrity in serving its
employees and customers, forming a bond of trust that has built a reputation
for performance and reliability.
LJGA’s recruiting and project management staff has an
average length of service of over 20 years, therefore affording both job
applicants and clients the stability and professionalism they deserve. LJGA’s staff knows the industries they serve
and how to successfully bring the contractor and client together to produce
mutually productive placements.
All Welcome!
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.ieeeusa.org,
web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
www.asme.org/sections/northjersey
Time:
6:15 to 9:00 PM, Wednesday, February 11, 2004.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)
664-6954,
rtax “AT” AEA.org.
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NJ PES/IAS Chapters:
NJ Energy Auctions
The
Power Engineering and Industrial Applications Chapters will sponsor a technical
meeting on March 18th concerning forces that are affecting the cost
of electric energy in New Jersey. The
speaker is Peter Yochum of New Jersey Board of Public Utilities.
About the Talk
In 1999 New
Jersey enacted deregulation legislation to make the retail natural gas and
electric markets competitive. The New
Jersey Board of Public Utilities (“BPU”) was charged with the responsibility of
implementing this legislation. There
were two basic aspects of implementation.
The process portion: enrollment, metering, billing and consumer
protection produced what is generally considered a workable framework for
competition. However in the area of
rate design, fixed retail commodity rates during a period of rising wholesale
costs hindered the ability of retail suppliers to compete.
The Board is now implementing
new initiatives including an internet-based auction process to secure
market-based prices, and pricing certain larger customers on an hourly
basis. The Board will be conducting its
third electric supply auction in February 2004. Peter Yochum's presentation will focus on the outcome of the
latest auction, the reasons behind and the future of hourly pricing.
Time: 7:00 PM, Thursday, March 18, 2004. A pre-meeting buffet will be available at
6:30 PM.
Place: Eaton/Cutler Hammer
690 Rahway Ave Union, NJ.
Directions: Route 82 Morris
Avenue from either Springfield or Union to Rahway Ave.
Information/Map: Ron Quade (212) 833-0268.
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IEEE
PES/IAS Chapters
Present
Power
Quality Technical Seminar
April
16, 2004
The
PES and IAS Chapters will sponsor a one-day seminar covering various topics
related to power quality. The session
will be held on Friday, April 16, 2004.
Details to follow in March Newsletter.
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Last Call for Registration for 2004 Student
Presentation Contest
If you missed the call for participants in last
month's newsletter, then here is a friendly reminder of the upcoming Student
Presentation Contest for Spring 2004.
If you would like to read more details about the types of presentations
that can be made, examples of last year's winning abstracts and topics, and
other venue information, be sure to check out the SAC website
http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/sac
Registration for this year's contest has
already begun. All participants MUST register
before they can be allowed to compete in the contest. Due to the fantastic demand that we had last year, this year, the
number of participants must be capped to a maximum. So if you want to be in this year's contest, you must register
right away before it fills up.
On the website listed below, you will find
details about the contest, some local guidelines to be used for the
presentations and judging forms for the criteria upon which the contestants
will be judged. The time limits given
are a maximum, and the limits will be enforced to ensure fairness, so remember
to practice. And of course, the
registration form is there!
Note: This year's Region 1 contest will be hosted by SUNY Stony Brook
in Long Island, NY on April 10, 2004.
Winners from the section contest can progress to the regional
competition. Details available at the
Stony Brook Region 1 IEEE Conference website
http://www.ieee.li/student/index.htm
Time: 5:30 PM, Wednesday, February 25, 2004. Free dinner will be provided.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Driving
directions and free parking available http://www.njit.edu/about/visiting/driving.php.
Information: Any and all questions can be emailed to the contest
organizer, a.j.patel "AT" ieee.org and check out the website: http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/sac
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2004
North Jersey Section Election Results
The votes have been tabulated and the North Jersey Section Officers
elected for 2004 are:
Chairman................................ Dr.
Durga Misra
Vice-Chairman-1.............................. Har Dayal
Vice-Chairman-2................. Bhanu Chivakula
Treasurer................... Dr. Edward (Ted)
Byrne
Secretary........................... Dr. Sanghoon
Shin
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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 lieu of 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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How Engineers Communicate
By Erica Vonderheid
If you spend
half your workday communicating with colleagues about your project and must
have face-to-face meetings to get the information you need, then you're typical
of most engineers, according to a new book from Wiley-IEEE Press.
Communications
Patterns of Engineers by Carol Tenopir and Donald W. King, published in
December, looks at all aspects of engineering communication, including how much
time engineers spend reading for their jobs and the kind of information they
produce as a result of their work.
"It's
clear that engineers communicate differently from [people in] other
professions," King says.
"Engineers tend to use scholarly literature less but use technical
reports, standards, and manuals more. They
communicate orally more than others."
When engineers
do turn to scholarly sources for a technical article, they're careful to hone
in on the facts and information they really need.
"Engineers'
ultimate purpose often is to create or build something, and so, when they're
seeking information, it's usually specific documents [they're after], such as
procedures and instructions," Tenopir says.
The authors
estimate that engineers spend approximately 55 percent of their workday
communicating, most often with colleagues on the same project. To arrive at this number, the authors
extracted data from more than 30 surveys they conducted on the communications
patterns of engineers and scientists between 1977 and 2003. In their analysis of those surveys, the
authors evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the ways engineers
communicate. Where engineers are
strong, for example, is in interpersonal communication while they tend to fall
off in writing skills.
Their findings
should be useful not only to technical professionals, but also to teachers,
professional associations, and book publishers. For instance, Tenopir adds that librarians and publishers need to
know how engineers use information that can help them design better products
and services. And to improve their
instruction of engineering students, educators need to know how engineers work
and learn.
The authors
also looked at how engineers find the information they need. Naturally, with the advent of the Internet
and online technical journals, the way all professionals, especially engineers,
do this has changed.
"In
recent years, when engineers need a specific article from a peer-reviewed
journal, they rely more on library-provided, electronic subscriptions than in
the past," Tenopir says. While most
publications are available electronically, engineers continue to get some
printed publications for their personal use, though they subscribe to far fewer
than in the past, King notes.
To order the
book, visit www.wiley.com. For members, the price is US$67.95; use
promotion code #38011. List price is
$79.95. The ISBN number is
0-4714-8492-X.
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Stay
Updated on Benefits with e-FAP Newsletter
Keeping up with the latest products and services offered by
the IEEE Financial Advantage Program has gotten easier, thanks to an e-mail
newsletter devoted to updates to its insurance, financial, home, and business
services. Read more at
http://www.theinstitute.ieee.org/portal/pages/tionline/legacy/inst2004/jan04/1w.fap.xml
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National
Engineers Week 2004 Goes International
By Chris McManes
As the lead society for
National Engineers Week (EWeek), the IEEE has created many activities with the
Eweek committee that will make the 22-28 February celebration much more than
just a U.S. event.
Founded by the National
Society of Professional Engineers, Eweek celebrates the engineering profession
and the engineers whose creative work improves people's lives. Its programs and activities are designed to
instill pride among all engineers, increase public awareness of the key role
engineers play, and spark an interest in the profession among youngsters.
"We live in an
increasingly global world, so it just makes sense to expand EWeek concepts
worldwide," says Joseph V. Lillie, IEEE member and EWeek 2004 chair. "We think the EWeek model we have
established can serve as a blueprint for engineers around the world."
An EWeek program that has
been arousing interest outside the United States is the Future City
competition, which challenges seventh- and eighth-grade students to build a
city of the future using engineering skills.
Through the participation of 36 U.S. IEEE sections, the competition
reaches more than 30,000 middle-school students in the United States. Three teams will compete in the national
finals of the Future City Competition in Washington, D.C., thanks to IEEE-USA
funding. Initiated by IEEE-USA in 1993,
Future City has inspired pilot programs in Egypt, India, Japan, and Sweden.
Another international
outreach effort includes expansion of the recognition program, "New Faces
of Engineering," to include engineers living outside of the United
States. A grant from the IEEE
Foundation is paying for an ad featuring these engineers in the International
Herald Tribune.
The IEEE through a grant from
its Life Member Committee also is funding a study to see what past Future City
winners are doing professionally, and is conducting a demographic analysis of
current participants to help gauge the program's success [learn more at www.futurecity.org]. In parallel, IEEE-USA and IEEE Spectrum
magazine have commissioned a survey of members and student members to find out
what they like about engineering; the findings will be reported in Spectrum's
February issue.
Meanwhile, the IEEE Women in
Engineering affinity group is promoting "Introduce a Girl to Engineering
Day," on 26 February. Women
engineers, along with their male colleagues, will encourage an estimated one
million girls that day and throughout the year to consider engineering. The following month, on 25 March, a United
Nations event in New York City will recognize programs that get more girls
interested in the engineering profession [see http://www.eweek.org/site/News/Eweek/real_benefit.shtml].
For more information on how
to get involved in EWeek events, visit www.eweek.org
or www.ieeeusa.org/eweek. Kits for volunteers are available at http://www.eweek.org/site/Engineers/kit.shtml.
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ElectronicaUSA at a Discount
Check out more than 8000 products, including
the latest semiconductor, interconnect, power, and other system technologies at
the largest systems design event in North America, ElectronicaUSA, which will
be combined with the Embedded Systems Conference from 29 March to 1 April in
San Francisco, CA. Or attend one of the
more than 300 tutorials, classes, and panel discussions focused on the
practical challenges in designing processor-based systems. IEEE members can use code UX45 to receive a
25 percent savings in the conference fee when registering at
http://www.electronicausa.com
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NJ PES/IAS:
Small Power Transformer Technical Seminar
The PES and IAS Chapters will sponsor a one-day seminar
covering the basics of Medium Voltage Small Power Transformers. The session will be held on Thursday, March
25th at JCP&L, 300 Madison Avenue, Punchbowl Room, Morristown,
NJ.
About the
Seminar
The seminar will cover the
basics of design and product selection of small power transformers for power
distribution systems for industrial and commercial facilities. The seminar will focus on the selection of
the various types of small power transformers, and how to configure the systems
to provide the proper level of reliability based on available project funding.
Topics to be covered include:
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9:00 - 9:45
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Comparison
of Transformer Technologies, Dry Type and Liquid filled Technologies
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11:30 - 12:00
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Fluids:
Oil, Less Flammable, Biodegradable
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9:45 - 10:30
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Transformer
Overload Capability and System Coordination
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12:00 - 1:00
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Lunch
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Transformer
Thermal Characteristics
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1:00 - 1:45
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Short
Circuit Withstand Capability
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ANSI
C57.12.96 and C57.12.92
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Round
and Rectangular Construction
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10:30 - 10:45
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Break
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ANSI
Test Requirements
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10:45 - 11:30
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Testing, Commissioning and Maintenance
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Reliability
Expectations
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Transformer Diagnostics
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Available Gauges and the Importance of Each
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1:45 - 2:30
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Total
Ownership Costs:
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Reading and Understanding Gas in Oil Test Results
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Initial
Cost
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Field Testing
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Energy
Cost
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Insulation Age
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Maintenance
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Expected Remaining Life
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Retirement
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Power Upgrade
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About the
Instructors
The instructors will be Tommy
Nunn and Leon Plaster, ABB.
Tommy Nunn has a BS degree in
Electrical Engineering and comes to us with 26 years experience in the medium voltage
power equipment industry specializing in Small Power Transformers. His experience in the industry includes ITE,
Gould, Brown Boveri Corporation, PEMCO and presently he is the Commercial
Operations Manager for ABB’s Small Power Transformer Division.
Leon Plaster is now retired
but was the Westinghouse/ABB Engineering Manager for their Small Power
Transformer manufacturing facility in South Boston, VA. Leon is a Senior Member of IEEE, a IEEE
Working Group Chairman for C57.12.40 Network Transformers and Co-Chairman new
working group of IEEE C57.12.36 Distribution Substation Transformers. Leon brings 40 years of experience in
Transformer Design and manufacturing.
He has forgotten more about transformers than most of us will ever know.
The registration fee for this seminar prior to March 11th
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.
Registrations after March 11th must include an additional
late fee of $25. 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.
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Time:
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9:00 AM to 3:00 PM, Thursday March 25, 2004.
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Place:
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JCP&L,
300 Madison Avenue, Punchbowl Room, Morristown, NJ.
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Directions:
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Route 287 to Route 124 Exit
in Morristown. Follow signs toward Madison, JCP&L is about 1.5 mi on the left
side.
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Information:
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Ronald W. Quade, PE, (212) 833-0268 or
rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
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______________________________________________________________________
Registration: Small Power Transformers Seminar 3/25/2004
Register
via US mail to: Ronald W.
Quade, PE
Eaton Electrical
830 Third Avenue
Suite 920
New York, NY 10022
Name____________________________________________________________________________________
Address__________________________________________________________________________________
Phone__________________
Email____________________________________________________________
IEEE
#_________________ Student @________________ Non IEEE_____ Life Member______
Payment
Enclosed $_______________ Add $25 late registration after March 11th
Make
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IEEE North Jersey Section Course
Project Management
Wednesday Evenings, February 18, 2004 through April 14, 2004
(No class on March 3) 8 weekly classes (February 18, 25, March 10, 17, 24, 31,
April 7, 14, 2004) at High Performance
Technologies, Inc., 3159 Schrader Rd, Dover, NJ 07801 (Exit 35 on Rt 80 West)
(Checks should not be mailed to this
address)
The North Jersey Section IEEE
is offering an evening course entitled "Project Management". Dice.com lists 1500+ Project related jobs in
the New York tri-state area daily! This course will help you to break down a
master project into manageable tasks, pinpoint possible solutions, and provide
information to keep the project under control.
Using Microsoft Project 2002 software, you will learn to accomplish
various project plans. In addition, it
will greatly enhance your business, communications and interpersonal skills.
The IEEE certificate of
completion will be given to you when you finished this course. You may wish to take two Certification
exams, one in Project Management administered by Project Management Institute
and the other in IT Project+ by CompTIA Inc.
Instructor: Donald Hsu, Ph.D., has been a corporate
manager for 11 years and is an experienced trainer. Since 1999, he has trained 150+ people in IT Project+, MS Project 2002, and Project Management courses in
five organizations.
TOPICS
1.
Explain
the need for a project manager
2.
Define
SOW, PERT, GANTT, CPM, and Scope of the project
3.
Identify
the team members, resources and plan for the strategy
4.
Calculate
schedule, budget variances, and monitor project progress
5.
Manage
changes, estimates, and communications
6.
Set
a baseline, import tasks from MS Excel, export Project files to MS Word
7.
Create
and modify custom reports, templates and combination views
8.
Share
resources and create a master plan loaded to Project Server
9.
Approve
updates and conclude a project plan
10.
Analyze
Global E-Commerce and present student Projects
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 4, 2004 will require a late
fee of $25. No reservations will be
accepted after February 11, 2004.
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WHEN:
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8 Sessions, Wednesdays, February 18, 25, March 10,
17, 24, 31, April 7, 14, 2004,
6:30-9:00 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: Project
Management
Please email details to
b.chivakula “AT” computer.org and upon confirmation, the address where to mail
the checks with details as described under, would be replied (Checks payable to “North Jersey Section IEEE” with registration form should be
mailed to this address)
Bhanu
Chivakula, Chair Education Committee, IEEE North Jersey Section, 19 Prestwick
Way, Edison, NJ 08820
Name: / Mr. / Mrs. / Miss / Ms. /
_____________________________________________ _________________________________
˙ Non-member Çemail
addressČ
˙ IEEE Member Member #:_________________________ Member of _____________________________ technical society
Employer:___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Employer
Address:____________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Home
Address:______________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Business (day) telephone
#:___________________________________
Home telephone #:________________________________
Please enclose required fee
payable to: North Jersey Section IEEE
Registration status will be
mailed after February 11, 2004. Phone
inquiries concerning registration will NOT be honored. In general, the effective date of the
application corresponds to the date when BOTH a fully completed
application/registration and payment are received.
˙ Tuition receipt will be
mailed only if this box is checked
Signature:___________________________________________
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IEEE North Jersey Section Course
Introduction
to Java Programming
Monday Evenings, February 16, 2004 through April 12, 2004
(No class on March 1- eight weekly classes (February 16, 23, March 8, 15, 22,
29, April 5, 12, 2004) at High
Performance Technologies, Inc., 3159 Schrader Rd, Dover, NJ 07801 (Exit 35 on Rt 80 West)
(Checks should not be mailed to this address)
The North Jersey Section IEEE is offering an
evening course entitled "Introduction to Java Programming." Java
Programming has gained enormous popularity in corporate Information System applications
as well as in advanced Webpage Design since 1997. About 2.5 million Java Programmers are currently working on all
types of commercial projects in the world, ranging from cell phone applets, to
UNIX server, to business intelligence and mainframe data-warehouse access.
Java is an easier transition for C++
Programmers. This course, however, will
be for anyone who never took a
programming course. The instructor will
provide the necessary software (compiler and editor) for you to get started immediately!
Instructor: Donald
Hsu, Ph.D., has been a corporate manager for 11 years and is an experienced
trainer. Since 1997, he trained 350+
people in Java Programming and Advanced Java Programming courses in eight
organizations.
TOPICS
1.
Explain
the dynamic growth in Java Programming
2.
Contrast
the importance of AWT, CGI, JavaScript and HTML
3.
Classify
the different types of Java applets vs Java applications
4.
Identify
the control structures, arrays and classes
5.
Construct
character strings and graphics tools
6.
Define
multithreading, files and streams
7.
Draw
multimedia, animation and Swing images
8.
Build
audio files, JavaBeans and networking applications
9.
Distinguish
Java utilities, error handling, serialization and reflection
10.
Analyze
real-world projects using SDK 1.4 development tools
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 2, 2004 will require a late
fee of $25. No reservations will be
accepted after February 9, 2004.
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WHEN:
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8 Sessions, Mondays, February 16, 23, March 8, 15,
22, 29, April 5, 12, 2004, 6:30-9:00
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: Introduction to
Java Programming
Please email details to address
b.chivakula “AT” computer.org and upon confirmation, the address where to mail
the checks with details as described under, would be replied (Checks payable to “North Jersey Section IEEE” with registration form should be
mailed to this address)
Bhanu
Chivakula, Chair Education Committee, IEEE North Jersey Section, 19 Prestwick
Way, Edison, NJ 08820
Name: / Mr. / Mrs. / Miss / Ms. /
_____________________________________________ _________________________________
˙ Non-member Çemail
addressČ
˙ IEEE Member Member #:_________________________ Member of _____________________________ technical society
Employer:___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Employer Address:____________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Home
Address:______________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Business (day) telephone
#:___________________________________
Home telephone #:________________________________
Please enclose required fee
payable to: North Jersey Section IEEE
Registration status will be
mailed after February 9, 2004. Phone
inquiries concerning registration will NOT be honored. In general, the effective date of the
application corresponds to the date when BOTH a fully completed
application/registration and payment are received.
˙ Tuition receipt will be
mailed only if this box is checked
Signature:___________________________________________
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