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February 2005
Volume 51, 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. Headquarters: 3 Park Avenue,
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SECTION OFFICERS
Chairman................................................ Har Dayal
har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com (973)
633-4618
Vice-Chairman-1......................... Bhanu Chivakula
b.chivakula “AT” computer.org (732)
718-3818
Vice-Chairman-2...................................... Kirit Dixit
kdixit “AT” ieee.org
(201) 669-7599
Treasurer................................. Dr. Sanghoon Shin
s.shin “AT” ieee.org (973)
492-1207 Ext. 22
Secretary.......................................... Russell
Pepe
rpepe “AT” att.net (201) 960-6796
Members-at-Large:
Dr.
Nirwan Ansari (nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu)
Gary
Hojell (gary.hojell “AT”
itt.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 Russell Pepe at (201) 960-6796, rpepe
“AT” att.net.
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IEEE North Jersey Section
Activities
February
2005
Feb. 2 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM,
“Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00
PM, ITT, 100
Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Russell Pepe
at
rpepe “AT” worldnet.att.net.
Feb. 9 – “Engineers
Meet: American Engineering Alliance - A
New Hope for the Engineering Profession” - NJ PACE & GOLD, 6:30 – 9:00 PM, Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ. Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625
(PWard1130 “AT” aol.com) or Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954 (rtax
“AT” AEA.org).
Feb. 10 – “Wireless
Networking with Selfish Agents” - 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.
Feb. 15 – “Paper Submission Deadline for WOCC 2005”
- 8:00 AM-5:50 PM,
Wyndham Hotel, Newark, NJ. Dr. Hongya Ge, (973) 642-4990 (ge
“AT” njit.edu) or see http://www.wocc.org
for additional details.
Feb. 22 – “Scenario Planning Techniques for Dealing
with the Forces of Convergence” - NJ Computer and EMS Chapters, 7:00 PM
(pre-meeting buffet at 6:00 PM), Lucent Technologies, 67 Whippany Road, Room
Number TBA, Whippany, NJ. Seth Jakel (973) 731-1902, (sgjakel “AT” comcast.net) or Vivek
Shaiva (908) 229-6125 (vshaiva
“AT” computer.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 Chivukula (b.chivakula “AT” computer.org).
Feb. 23 – “Modeling and Simulating an
Integrated, C4ISR On-the-Move, Networked System of Systems” – EDS/C&S,
& MTT-S/AP-S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 PM), NJIT, 202 ECE Center,
Newark, NJ. Dr.
Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave) or Dr. Edip
Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT).
Feb. 24 – “Marketing Ideas 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.
Upcoming Meetings
Mar. 2 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM,
“Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00
PM, ITT, 100
Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Russell Pepe
at
rpepe “AT” worldnet.att.net.
Mar. 8 – “North Jersey Spring 2005 Student Presentation Contest”
- NJ Student Activities Committee, starting with dinner at 5:30
PM,
FDU, room TBD, Teaneck, NJ. Amit Patel (a.j.patel
“AT” ieee.org).
Mar. 31 – “Online Business Development and
Management - If you build it, they will come.
BULL!” - 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. 22-23 – “The Fourteenth Wireless and Optical
Communications Conference” - 8:00
AM-5:50 PM, Wyndham Hotel, Newark, NJ. Dr. Hongya Ge, (973) 642-4990 (ge
“AT” njit.edu) or see http://www.wocc.org
for additional details.
May 1 – “NJ Section Awards
Reception” - 3:00 to 6:00 PM at
the Birchwood Manor, 111 North Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. Anne Giedlinski
(973) 377-3175.
Members and
Non-Members Welcome
PLEASE
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NJ
Communications Society:
Wireless
Networking with Selfish Agents
On
February 10, 2005, the IEEE North Jersey Section
Communications Society Chapter along with NJIT will host a presentation on
“Wireless Networking with Selfish Agents.”
The speaker will be Dr. Li (Erran) Li.
About the Talk
Traditionally
wireless network protocols and architectures have been designed under the
assumption that end users and network entities are cooperative. However, as
wireless networks get more and more decentralized and pervasive, networking
solutions must include and cope with entities who want to optimize their own
utilities. We model these entities as
selfish agents or players in game theory.
In this talk, I will show how spectrum access can be made more efficient
by the involvement of selfish agents in both 3G wireless networks and WiFi networks.
Dr.
Li will first present an architecture and protocol that allows 3G service
providers to host efficient content distribution services. In this architecture, contents are offloaded
to ad hoc networks composed of 3G subscribers.
This alleviates the demand of 3G wireless spectrum from content
distribution. Since the participants of
this data distribution network act as selfish agents, we model caching as a
market sharing game. We show that the
selfish behavior of computationally bounded agents results in outcomes that are
bounded within 50% of the social optimal.
Dr.
Li will then present mechanisms for efficient spectrum sharing in WiFi networks. Each
access point (AP) in a WiFi network must be assigned
a channel for it to service users. There
are only finitely many possible channels that can be assigned. Moreover, neighboring access points must use
different channels so as to avoid interference.
Channel conflicts among APs operated by
different entities are currently resolved in an ad hoc manner or not resolved
at all. We view the channel assignment
problem as a game, where the players are the service providers and APs are acquired sequentially. We consider the price of anarchy of this
game, which is the ratio between the total coverage of the APs
in the worst Nash equilibrium of the game and what the total coverage of the APs would be if the channel assignment were done by a
central authority. We provide bounds on
the price of anarchy depending on assumptions on the underlying network and the
type of bargaining allowed between service providers.
About the Speaker
Li
(Erran) Li received the BE degree in Automatic
Control from Beijing Polytechnic University in 1993, ME in Pattern Recognition
from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1996, and PhD in
Computer Science from Cornell University in 2001, respectively. During his graduate study at Cornell University, he worked at Microsoft Research, Bell-Labs
Lucent as an intern and AT&T Research Center at ICSI Berkeley as a
visiting student. He is presently a
member of the Networking Research Center in Bell Labs. His research interests are in networking with
a focus on wireless networking and mobile computing.
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), Thursday, February 10, 2005.
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 Computer and EMS Chapters:
Scenario Planning Techniques for Dealing
with the Forces of Convergence
On Tuesday,
February 22nd, 2005, the North Jersey
Chapters of the IEEE Computer and Engineering Management Societies will jointly
host a presentation titled “Scenario Planning Techniques for Dealing with the
Forces of Convergence” by Dr. Tom Oser.
About the Talk
This session addresses
the merits and challenges of how technical leaders can use scenario analysis
and strategic planning techniques to “make the business case” of technically
strategic initiatives and align the directions of technology development and
deployment with overall business strategy.
Currently, CEO’s, CFO’s and other traditionally non-technical enterprise
executives are becoming more technically savvy and aware. They understand and are acting on their
understanding of the strategic role of technology in the company’s overall
strategy. But it is incumbent upon the
technologists to also be more aware and savvy of the business issues, methods
of business problem framing. They need
to do so to effectively communicate the technical choices in a business context
that will make the difference in guiding the business decisions.
The presentation discusses
Strategic Planning Under Uncertainty (SPUU) as a
method of scenario planning that accepts unpredictable futures as a premise,
and builds upon the development of alternative future scenarios. These are taken into account in the process
of strategy, planning and investment strategies and decision-making. Technology is considered one category of
major forces that affect strategy and success of organizations, along with
those related to society, economics, environment, and regulation/policy. Attendees will learn how broader strategic
thinking through scenario analysis methods can help technologists to more
effectively sit at the executive round table and affect the agenda and
strategic decision-making processes of their organizations.
About the Speaker
Tom Oser
is the Consulting Practice Leader for the Telecommunications, Technology and
Media (TTM) industries at Decision Strategies International, Inc. He has a
background in operations management and engineering in the telecommunications
industry, as well as over a decade of consulting experience in management and
technology for Fortune 500 clients. His
clients include companies spanning multiple industries, including financial
services, healthcare, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals, in addition to the
core areas of TTM.
Prior to joining DSI, he
provided strategy, marketing and management consulting services for early-stage
technology companies in the venture capital and private equity markets. Also, as a Vice President Ernst & Young /
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, he served global clients in his role as a thought
leader in the telecommunications practice and eCommerce consulting. He advised clients on strategy and planning
with "a bias toward action" that drove clients beyond paper plans to
timely execution of applied business solutions.
He was the founding
director of the graduate studies program in Telecommunications Management as
well as a member of the faculty at Stevens Institute of Technology. He has lectured on telecommunications,
information systems and strategic management.
He is a frequent speaker at national conferences and corporate client
events. He currently lectures on IT
Strategy at the Wharton/University of Pennsylvania Masters in Technology Management
program. He earned a PhD in Computer
& Information Engineering and a Bachelor of Engineering from Stevens
Institute of Technology; MS in Telecommunications Systems from Southern
Methodist University; MBA in finance and strategy from the Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania. His hobbies include opera singing, skiing and
boating.
All are 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
P.M.
Time: 7:00 PM, Tuesday, February 22, 2005 (pre-meeting
buffet starting at 6:00 PM).
Place:
Lucent Technologies, 67 Whippany Road, Room Number TBA, Whippany, NJ.
Information: Seth Jakel (973)
731 1902 (sgjakel “AT” comcast.net), Vivek Shaiva (908) 229-6125 (vshaiva “AT” computer.org), or Arthur Greenburg (973) 386-6673
(ahg1 “AT” lucent.com). Registration in
advance is recommended with full name, affiliation and nationality so that an
admission badge will be available for you on arrival.
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NJ Consultants' Network:
Marketing Ideas
Workshop
On February
24, 2005, the IEEE Consultants’ Network of Northern NJ
(CNNNJ) will host a workshop on Marketing Ideas. The speaker will be Peter K. Schutz, P.E.
About the Talk
Marketing is one of the
things that technical consultants find the hardest to do. One of the primary functions of CNNNJ is to
make the services provided by CNNNJ members visible and attractive to potential
customers, for example, by the existing periodic mailing and through the web
site. What other marketing efforts could
CNNNJ make? We'll discuss our plans, but
also ask what do consultants think is the most important thing that their
prospective customers should be made aware of?
Some examples:
·
"Optimizing efficiency through use of
technical consultants"
·
"Using technical consultants to your
advantage"
·
"Proper use of consultants for small
technology businesses"
·
"How to find the right consultant"
·
"Effective outsourcing"
Join our workshop and
give us your ideas so that CNNNJ can provide you the best value for your
membership dollars!
About the Speakers
The workshop will be led by Peter Schutz, Vice Chairperson of the CNNNJ executive
committee. Peter is a mechanical
engineer who has been working as an independent consultant for the last 20
years. He specializes in the
development of new products, especially in the areas of medical and laboratory
equipment, instrumentation, prototypes, and special machinery. Some of his areas of technical expertise
include: electronics packaging, fluid systems, and thermal analysis. Peter has a BSME from Lehigh
University
and a MSME from NJIT. He survived his
first year of consulting by eating rice.
He has been a member of CNNNJ for the last 6 years.
All CNNNJ members and visitors are welcome to
participate and help make this a successful 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.
NJ
Consultants' Network:
Online Business Development and
Management
“If you build
it, they will come”
BULL!
On March
31, 2005,
the IEEE Consultants’ Network of Northern NJ (CNNNJ) will host a talk on “If
you build it, they will come.
BULL!” The speaker will be
Richard A. Feldman.
About the Talk
Whoever told you that if you build a website
you'll have a constant traffic flow and you'll generate sales or leads 24 hours
a day, 7 days a week lied!
Internet traffic flow and sales requires a
careful understanding of how to influence prospects and draw them away from
competitive sites, convert your visitors into purchasing clients and entice
them into repeat business.
Generating leads and calls for consultants
are no different from generating product sales.
The ways and means are identical because people are people, buyers are
people, clients are people and no matter what needs to be generated, the
generator has a vested interest in producing more of it.
About the Speaker
Mr. Richard A. Feldman represents Special Graphics, an agency known for
its work in direct mail, consumer product packaging, trade show display, and
publicity. A consultant in his own
right, Mr. Feldman draws on his current success in online business development
for one of his clients, USHC®, an online consumer product marketer, to
illustrate how to harness the power of the pay-per-click world and use the internet
as a powerful leads and sales generator.
Additional information can be found by visiting the agency’s website at www.specialgraphics.com.
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 31, 2005.
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 &
MTT-S/AP-S Chapters:
Modeling and
Simulating an Integrated, C4ISR On-the-Move, Networked System of Systems
On February
23, 2005, the IEEE
NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters together with
MTT/S/AP-S and the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on
“Modeling and Simulating an Integrated, C4ISR On-the-Move, Networked System of
Systems." The speaker will be Dr.
Barry S. Perlman.
About the Talk
The
mission of CERDEC, Ft. Monmouth is to develop and integrate Command,
Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance,
Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Technologies that enable Information Dominance and
Decisive Lethality for the Networked Warfighter. An important component of this mission is
modeling and simulating the performance of electronics (e.g. Microwave/RF, Analog
and Digital) in a tactical battlefield environment. Modeling and simulating a large-scale C4ISR
system of systems (SoS) is
essential and critical to perform ‘what if’ experiments in support of network
centric warfare (NCW). The scope of this
mission is diverse including large scale, multiple coupled domains. The magnitude, complexity, and importance of
C4ISR requires the use of HPC to generate data sets
that allow us to do the Constructive, Virtual and Live (C/V/L), analysis, test,
and experimentation on a SoS scale. Historically, CERDEC has been involved in the
use of HPC and has had outstanding support since 1993 from the DoD HPCMO and their outstanding
HPC physical assets. Use of HPC to
support analysis and simulation of the electronic battlespace
has been underway as part of the HPCMO’s CHSSI effort
with two programs, specifically the CEN (Computational Electronics and Nanoelectronics) CTA and EBE (Electronic Battlefield
Environment) portfolio. This work has
allowed the parallelization of many serial M&S tools thus permitting HPC
assets to come into play and approach real time in their execution. CERDEC together with its service partners,
NIWA, AFRL and SPAWARS has been an early and consistent supporter and proponent
of this strategy. This has led to
groundbreaking results. Some examples
include high fidelity models of complex antennas using advanced finite element
and hybrid CEM, high fidelity RF propagation and channel modeling using
parabolic wave and asymptotic techniques and the mitigation of co-site
interference effects using multi-resolution time domain techniques. In all cases the objective was and remains
achieving interactive and real time utilization of HPC assets to enable
intelligent preparation of the C4ISR battlespace. This work continues today thru the auspices
of the HPCMO as part of EBE in the area RF mission planning and parallel
Network Simulation, e.g. EBE-4 and EBE-5 respectively. Current EBE portfolio work is critical to two
RDECOM STOs, CERDEC’s
COMPOSER and RDECOM SOSI’s MATREX which will be key to successful C4ISR on the move, and its application as
an enabler to the Current and Future Force.
Complementary modeling and simulation includes nanoelectronics,
physics based RF/microwave devices, circuits, including antennas, sensors and
intelligent subsystems, communication networks and operational modeling and
software for C2 applications. Research
continues to accurately represent C4ISR technologies and phenomena across the
spectrum of fidelity and operations, and the appropriate insertion of those
representations in the C/V/L experimentation space.
About the Speaker
Dr
Barry S. Perlman is an Associate Director for
Technology and DARPA and HPC Programs at U.S. Army CERDEC/RDECOM, Fort Monmouth, NJ. His focus and mission is to develop and
leverage advanced technology to support the force in the integrated C4ISR
arena. Dr. Perlman currently provides leadership and
oversight management and liaison to many HPC and DARPA programs supporting Army
requirements. Most notably has been his
support to the manager of the DARPA FCS Communication program. Results of this on-the-move communications
effort, including live experimentation and validation at Lakehurst and Ft. Dix, NJ, have been incorporated
into various facets of the current C4ISR strategy and its implementation. Current requirements include wearable
antennas and antenna placement optimization studies which again drive/require
HPC utilization. Current CERDEC
facilities include a System of Systems Lab and a C4ISR on the move Test Bed at Fort Dix, NJ as well as a local Linux
Beowulf cluster and a Origin 2000 platform.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a
member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, February 23, 2005. 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) or Dr. Edip Niver
(973) 596-3542 (NJIT).
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NJ Section PACE & GOLD:
Engineers Meet: American Engineering Alliance - A New Hope for the Engineering
Profession
On Wednesday, February 9, 2005 the North Jersey Section Professional Activities Committee and
Graduates of the Last Decade will host a meeting with officers and representatives
of the American Engineering Alliance (AEA).
They will provide an introduction and answer questions. See www.aeaworld.org/ for pre-meeting information.
About the Meeting
Not just another engineering organization. A preview of www.aeaworld.org/ will prepare you for the introduction and give you an idea of their
depth and capabilities.
Our speakers will be Salvatore R. Galletta,
and Louis Comunelli.
Both are Founding Members and officers of AEA.
Subjects of the meeting will be AEA’s Purpose,
Objectives, Plans, Membership, Jobs, Action, and more.
This event is especially of interest to students, recent graduates and
those looking for a career and support for their profession.
You are encouraged to attend and invite your associates.
About the Speakers
Salvatore Galletta, is a professional engineer licensed in NY and CA. He has been practicing engineering for over
30 years. His extensive experience in
the design and construction of major Civil Engineering projects includes
airports, roads, high rise buildings and industrial structures.
Mr. Galletta is a graduate of Columbia University where he received a BS and MS in Civil Engineering.
His dream is to see a unified engineering profession serving the public
and being duly recognized and respected by it.
Mr. Galletta is totally dedicated to elevating
the role of the engineer in our society not only because it is beneficial to
the engineering profession but also because an active, engaged, and influential
engineering profession is essential to the viability and long term interests of
our country.
Lou Comunelli has practiced Engineering for
over 37 years. He graduated with a
Bachelor of Engineering Degree from The City College of New York, and is
currently registered as a Professional Engineer in NY, NJ, CT and PA
He is currently working as a Project Engineer for a private Consultant
firm, after serving 27 years in Civil Service for the New York City and New York State Departments of Transportation.
His goal is to unite engineers from all
disciplines. “AEA was founded with the
intent to transform the Engineering Profession in this country.”
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.aeaworld.org/
www.aea.org/chapters/nj/
www.ieeeusa.org
web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
www.asme.org/sections/northjersey
Time: 6:30 to 9:00 PM, Wednesday,
February 9, 2005.
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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North Jersey Spring
2005 Student Presentation Contest
The
new spring-05 student presentation contest is coming up! The North Jersey Section will be holding a
presentation contest scheduled for early-March of 2005. This contest has been held in years past and
its overwhelming success in generating student participation and interest make
it an fantastic event for up and coming
engineers. This year's contest will
feature similar prizes ($$$) and have graduate and undergrad categories.
The
main focus of the presentation contest is to give students an opportunity to
sharpen their communication skills, and help prepare for real life situations
as practicing engineers and researchers.
Additionally, the North Jersey Section contest provides an excellent
chance for students to practice for the Region I Student Paper contest in the
spring.
The
contest at the North Jersey Section level is also supplemented by awarding cash
prizes to the three best presentations in both graduate and undergrad
categories. All engineering students are
encouraged to participate in submitting team or individual presentations on any
project work related to engineering.
This local contest does NOT require students to write a full paper, just
a slide-based presentation on technical or non-technical work is sufficient. Senior design projects, lab projects, personal
engineering hobbies, engineering policy etc. are great topics to submit. Moving onto the regional contest requires
submitting a short written paper.
The
details of contest rules, judging criteria, viable topics for presentations,
and abstract form will be same as last year.
Also if you would like to get an idea of what topics would be
appropriate or how you can prepare your abstract, take a look at winners from
past years at the NNJ IEEE SAC homepage.
This
year's North Jersey Section Contest will be open to graduate and undergraduate
students and first/second/third place prizes will be awarded in each category
of $100/$75/$50. All participants MUST REGISTER by submitting an abstract by filling in
the form available at the SAC website to qualify as a contest participant.
Time: Tuesday,
March 8, 2005, starting with dinner at 5:30 PM.
Place: FDU, Teaneck, NJ
(free parking available), room TBD. http://www.fdu.edu/visitorcenter/directions/teaneck_map.html.
Information:
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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Princeton Engineer, Inventor Becomes IEEE-USA
President, Cites Innovation and Offshoring as Major
Concerns
Washington (6
January 2005) -- Dr. Gerard A. Alphonse of Princeton, NJ, an IEEE Fellow who
holds more than 50 U.S. patents, became IEEE-USA president on New Year's Day.
One of
Alphonse's major goals is for IEEE-USA to tackle issues relating to innovation
and offshore outsourcing (offshoring). He hopes to bring together technical workers
and key stakeholders from government, industry and academia to advance
equitable solutions to the transfer of high-value, high-wage jobs overseas.
"It's more
than just a jobs issue," Alphonse said.
"Even more fundamental is how the United States and other nations
will ensure their economic prosperity, national defense and standard of living
in an increasingly competitive, technology-based global economy. Success requires that the United States be
more productive and innovative than our competitors.
"My goal
as IEEE-USA's 2005 president is to make sure key decision makers are aware of the
needs of the U.S. technical workers who are responsible for that technological
innovation."
Alphonse is a
founder and senior vice president of advanced technologies for Medeikon Corp., a developer of optical technology for
medical diagnostics and therapy in Ewing, NJ.
For 43 years beginning in 1959, he worked in a broad range of technical
areas for the Sarnoff Corp., formerly RCA Laboratories. He was awarded four RCA/Sarnoff Technical
Achievement Awards.
In 1986
Alphonse invented and demonstrated the world's highest performance superluminescent diode.
The device is a broadband semiconductor light source and key component
of next-generation fiber optic gyroscopes, low coherence tomography for medical
imaging, and external cavity tunable lasers with applications to fiber optic
communications.
Alphonse taught
in the Electronic Physics Department at La Salle University's evening division
in Philadelphia from 1967-82. During his
last four years, he served as department head and also taught electrical engineering
courses in linear systems, communications and microwave theory at the College
of New Jersey in Ewing. He was appointed
a consultant to the National Science Foundation for a two-year term in 1975.
Alphonse began
his IEEE volunteer career in the 1960s as secretary/treasurer of the Princeton
Central Jersey Section, and became Section chair in 1970. He has worked on numerous IEEE committees and
boards, and in 2002-03, served as Region 1 director and member of the IEEE
Board of Directors. Alphonse is a member
of the IEEE Lasers and Electo-Optical Society and was
elected to the board of the IEEE Engineering Management Society in 2003. He received an IEEE Millennium Award in 2000.
Alphonse, who
speaks four languages, is a native of Haiti who came to the United States as a
college student in 1954 at age 18. He
arrived with two suitcases, one for books and one for clothes, and lived in a
New York University dormitory for four years.
Alphonse earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical
engineering from NYU in 1958 and 1959, respectively. He added a doctorate in electrophysics
from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1967.
The author or
co-author of more than 120 technical papers, Alphonse is a member of the Eta Kappa Nu, Tau
Beta Pi and Sigma Xi honorary societies and the Science & Art Committee of
Philadelphia's Franklin Institute.
For more on Alphonse's vision for IEEE-USA,
see http://www.ieeeusa.org/communications/presidentscolumn/Alphonse/alphonsejan05.html.
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Gerard A. Alphonse -
2005 IEEE-USA President
President's Column, January 2005
Greetings to
all. It is a great honor for me to have
the opportunity to serve you as 2005 IEEE-USA president. I am pleased that we have a dedicated group
of volunteers serving on the IEEE-USA Board of Directors, its Operating
Committee, and the 20-plus committees under the four IEEE-USA vice presidents,
as well as a talented and dedicated staff to carry out our programs. We hope to implement some outstanding
programs this year.
Over the past
several years, we have witnessed worldwide workforce shifts due to the
pressures of globalization. Technical
workforce issues, offshoring and guest worker visa
abuses remain difficult problems. We
seek a balance between the need of U.S. workers and engineers to preserve their
jobs, and the need of industry to access the talent pool necessary to sustain
economic growth. We seek fair treatment
for H-1B visa holders, while also seeking to prevent employer abuses of the
H-1B and L-1 programs.
We plan to
gather major stakeholders from government, industry and academia, and technical
workers to look at innovation and offshoring in an
effort to discover equitable solutions that satisfy the needs of all
parties. Such solutions could include
increased R&D to maintain the U.S. technological lead, and incentives for
companies that reinvest in their U.S. operations and workforce.
A recent Boeing
Co. paper, "Ensuring Workforce Skills of the Future: The Birth to Work
Pipeline," perhaps best summarized the challenge offshoring
presents to the United States: "As globalization drives businesses to
create relationships that take advantage of human and capital resources without
respect to borders, how will individual nations ensure their economic
stability, national defense, and standard of living for their own
citizens?"
We hope our
innovation and offshoring forum can help to answer
this question. To ensure the forum's
success, I have appointed a steering committee that has already begun to
develop plans and make contacts with key members of Congress.
I want to
promote a stronger relationship between IEEE-USA and the IEEE Regions and
Sections outside the United States. For
more than 30 years, IEEE-USA has developed programs to serve the professional
needs of the IEEE's U.S. members. These
programs are numerous and include services such as salary surveys, job search
programs, career activities and educational and training programs, as well as
programs to promote and support legislation for the benefit of society. Many of these services are generic to
engineering communities everywhere in the world. Last year we initiated efforts to share our
professional activities know-how with the IEEE worldwide. I intend to continue this outreach in 2005 in
the hope that all IEEE members will benefit.
The IEEE
Sections Congress will bring IEEE delegates from all over the world to Tampa,
Fla., in October. We are working with
Sections Congress planners on sessions and speakers in which delegates can
discover parts of our programs they can model and adopt.
At the first
IEEE-USA Operating Committee meeting this month, we plan to refine our
high-priority activities for the year, including updating our strategic plan to
align it with the IEEE's strategic goals.
IEEE-USA will
continue to be your voice in Washington on career and technology policy issues,
lobbying Congress to protect U.S. innovation and cyber-security, and providing
federal lawmakers and Cabinet departments with advice and guidance. We will also continue our Congressional
Advocacy Recruitment Effort (CARE) to facilitate your communication with your
state representatives and those on Capitol Hill.
To learn more about what IEEE-USA is doing
for you, please visit our Web site (www.ieeeusa.org), and don't hesitate to share your thoughts
with me at galphonse1 “AT” comcast.net.
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IEEE-USA
Needs Help!
Early this year, Congress will begin
debating legislation that could profoundly effect
American engineering professionals.
We Need IEEE Members to Come to Washington
on March 8th and 9th to Help Us Defend Your Profession!
IEEE
engineers face an unprecedented challenge, and an equal opportunity, this
year. Done right, pending legislation
could strengthen America’s long-term competitiveness and
prosperity. Done wrong, these proposed
reforms could undermine job opportunities and retirement security for many
American professionals, including engineers and scientists. It all depends on what Congress decides to
do.
Among the many important issues that
Congress will debate this year the most important for engineers include
proposals to:
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Expand the country’s temporary work visa
program. Although it will target
low-skill workers, this proposal could substantially increase the number of
temporary visas available for foreign professionals.
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Partially privatize Social Security and
strengthen the nation’s defined pension system.
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Change the processing of visas international
students need to study in the U.S. Some proposals would make the student
admissions process more restrictive.
Others will expedite student admissions.
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Make it easier for foreign engineers and
scientists to become permanent residents of the U.S.
IEEE-USA will be working aggressively to
protect the interests of IEEE members, but we can’t do it alone. We need help from individual IEEE members who
are concerned about the future of their profession.
On the afternoon of March
8th, 2005
we invite all concerned engineers to meet us on Capitol Hill for an intensive
training session on key professional careers issues. Then on March 9th, you will visit with your
legislators to discuss the state of engineering in America and practical ways Congress can improve it.
All IEEE members in Regions 1 – 6 are
encouraged to participate, including students and retired engineers. No experience is necessary. All you need is a willingness to try to make
the country better. IEEE-USA will
provide you with background on pending legislation and tips on holding
successful meetings with members of Congress.
IEEE-USA held a very successful similar event last year. Only two of the participants had ever met a
lawmaker before, yet all were able to successful communicate personal concerns
and practical recommendations to their legislators.
More information on the 2005 IEEE-USA
Careers Fly-In, including how to register, can be found here: www.ieeeusa.org/policy/Careerflyin.
Limited support for a few IEEE members from key legislative districts
will also be available.
Questions?
Contact Vin O’Neil or Russ Harrison at (202)
785-0017 or e-mail Russ at r.t.harrison “AT” ieee.org.
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2006
IEEE Fellow Nominations
Deadline: 1
March 2005
Nominations
are being accepted for the 2006 class of IEEE Fellows. For the second year, nominations, references
and endorsements may be submitted electronically. The deadline is 1
March 2005.
At
its June 2003 meeting, the IEEE Board of Directors approved changes to the
process for nominating and electing IEEE members to Fellow grade. The change established a new nomination
category for individual contributions, with the goal of increasing nominations for members in industry and
encouraging nominations of application engineers or engineering practitioners
who have made contributions of unusual distinction to the profession.
The
board also established a Fellow
Nomination Resource
Center to
help nominators locate the required number of references to support a
nomination.
To
nominate an IEEE senior member or to learn more about the Fellow program, visit
www.ieee.org/fellows.
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IEEE-USA Provides $50,000 to
Support Engineering Public Awareness
Washington (30
December 2004) -- Three programs designed to promote public awareness of
engineers and engineering received $50,000 from the IEEE-USA Board of Directors
at its last meeting of the year in San Antonio.
The programs appeal to a variety of audiences using targeted media:
special events (for youngsters); movies (for youngsters and young adults); and
television news (for adults and the public-at-large). On 17 November, the Board also supported in
principle the IEEE emeritbadge program "to
provide a global non-discriminatory precollege
technology education program for boys and girls."
As part of the
$50,000 allotment, the IEEE-USA Board of Directors allocated $30,000 to support
two Engineers Week 2005 events including continuation of the Family Day
activity to be held on Saturday, 19 February, at the National Building Museum
in Washington, DC. The hands-on
opportunity helps youngsters appreciate how things work and grasp fundamental
engineering principles. In 1993, with
the EWeek Committee, the IEEE launched the first EWeek Family Night at Intelsat.
In 2004,
IEEE-USA and BE&K provided the bulk of funding to continue Family Day, when
the IEEE led EWeek with Fluor
Corp. More than 8,500 youngsters and
adults broke the previous record for attendance at any event at the Building
Museum. Youngsters interacted with
Washington-area engineers to build towers, compete in a robot competition,
explore a model of the Mars Rover, and meet PBS' "Zoom Into
Engineering" cast. The EWeek Committee is working with engineering society
volunteers in Washington to assume financial and organizational responsibility
for Family Day as soon as 2006.
Also in support
of EWeek 2005 (20-26 February), IEEE-USA underwrote
the preparation of animated slides to promote "Introduce a Girl to
Engineering Day." The slides will be shown in 157 Regal Cinema theatres in
eight major cities prior to and including Engineers Week: Los Angeles/Long
Beach 26; San Francisco/Hacienda Crossings; New York/Union Square;
Atlanta/Hollywood 24; Philadelphia/King of Prussia; Washington/Gallery Place
Stadium 14; Chicago/Lincolnshire; Dallas/Fossil Creek; and Boston/Bellingham.
EWeek 2005 "Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day," now
in its fifth year, is scheduled for Thursday, 24 February. The campaign encourage engineers,
particularly women, to make the world of engineering "come alive" for
girls. Since its inception, an estimated
one-million girls have experienced engineering firsthand each year. IEEE-USA is also lending its support to a
planned United Nations activity in support of EWeek
2005 Girl Day, having spearheaded the first such activity with EWeek in 2004.
In addition,
the Board provided $20,000 for IEEE-USA-supported engineering features in
American Institute of Physics syndicated news feeds for local news programs in
the top 108 U.S. television markets. The
"Discoveries and Breakthroughs" news service delivers twelve
90-second broadcasts with two audio tracks each month to the subscribing
stations. IEEE-USA involvement will
ensure that more engineering stories are included. An IEEE-USA staff member is now participating
in weekly editorial planning teleconferences to provide leads to IEEE experts
on IEEE technologies.
During 2004,
"Discoveries" provided a realistic image of how science, technology,
engineering and math professionals actively work to contribute to a better
quality of life. News stories have
covered improved technology that brings health benefits (38%), new technologies
that facilitate daily life (19%), better medical procedures (12%), improved
forecasting and air quality (12%), and answers to questions that we are curious
about (11%).
IEEE-USA is an organizational unit of the
IEEE. It was created in 1973 to advance
the public good and promote the careers and public-policy interests of the more
than 225,000 technology professionals who are U.S.
members of the IEEE. The IEEE is the
world's largest technical professional society.
For more information, go to http://www.ieeeusa.org.
Contact: Pender M. McCarter, APR, Fellow PRSA
IEEE-USA
Director of Communications and Public Relations
Phone: (202) 785-0017, ext. 8353
E-Mail: p.mccarter “AT” ieee.org
Contact: Chris McManes
IEEE-USA
Senior Public Relations Coordinator
Phone: (202) 785-0017, ext. 8356
E-Mail: c.mcmanes “AT” ieee.org
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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 Chivukula
Chair, Education Committee
Vice Chair, IEEE North Jersey
Section
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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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8 Sessions, Tuesdays,
February 22, March 1, 8, 15, 29, April 5, 12, 19, 2005, 6:30-9:30
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With textbook or notes:
IEEE (& affiliate) members $375; Non-IEEE members $475.
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REGISTRATION: Marketing Research
Please send the checks in the
name of North Jersey Section IEEE
with filled in registrations to:
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Way, Edison, NJ 08820. Please email
inquiries to b.chivakula “AT” computer.org
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