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February 2004
Volume 50, Number 8
Publication No: USPS 580-500
“The IEEE Newsletter” (North Jersey
Section), is published monthly except June and July by The Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
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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
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” 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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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.
