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February 2007
Volume 53, 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,
17th Floor, New York, NY
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SECTION OFFICERS
Chair......................................................... Kirit Dixit
kdixit
“AT” ieee.org (201) 669-7599
Vice-Chair-1................................ Bhanu
Chivukula
b.chivukula
“AT” computer.org (732) 718-3818
Vice-Chair-2........................................... Amit Patel
a.j.patel
“AT” ieee.org
Treasurer................................. Dr. Sanghoon
Shin
s.shin
“AT” ieee.org (973) 492-1207 Ext. 22
Secretary.......................................... Russell
Pepe
rpepe
“AT” att.net (201) 669-7599
Members-at-Large:
Pete
Donegan (doneganp “AT” ieee.org)
Katherine Duncan (kb2zoo “AT” hotmail.com)
Seth
Jakel (sgjakel “AT” comcast.net)
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 (201) 669-7599, rpepe “AT” att.net.
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IEEE North Jersey
Section Activities
February
2007
Feb. 7 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Russell
Pepe at rpepe “AT” att.net.
Feb. 13 – “IPTV and Beyond”
by Anurag Srivastava, NJ Communications Society, 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/comm.html
for the latest updates.
Feb. 14 Canceled! – “Engineers Meet:
For a Members Social” - NJ PACE & GOLD, 6:30 – 9:00 PM, Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ. Paul
Ward, (973) 790-1625 (PWard1130 “AT” aol.com) or Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954
(rftax “AT” verizon.net).
Feb.
17-Apr. 28 – “C# .NET Programming”
by Dr. Donald Hsu, North Jersey Section, Saturday Mornings, 10 sessions, 9:00
AM-12:00 PM, Avtech, 130 Clinton Road, Second Floor, Fairfield, NJ. Donald Hsu (yanyou “AT” hotmail.com).
Feb. 20 – “IEEE COMSOC
Distinguished Lecture: An Overview of IT
Security Forensics” by Dr. Manu Malek, NJ Communications Society,
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/comm.html
for the latest updates.
Feb. 21 – “Deuterium at the
Si-Dielectric Interface in Nanoscale Devices”
by Dr. Durgamadhab (Durga) Misra, NJ EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at
6:15 PM), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center,
Newark, NJ. Dr. Richard Snyder (973)
492-1207 (RS Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga
Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
Feb. 22 – “Building the Foundation
For a Successful Consultant Marketing Plan” by Greg Ratta, 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.
Feb. 22 – “Architectural Supports
to Resolve Physical Problems (Power, Temperature, and Soft error)”
by Prof. Sung Woo Chung, NJ Communications Society, 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/comm.html
for the latest updates.
Feb. 23 – “Predictive Diagnostics
Seminar” by Gabriel J. Paoletti, PE, NJ PES/IAS, 9:00
AM - 1:00 PM, Punch Bowl Room at Jersey Central Power and Light, 300 Madison
Ave, Morristown, NJ. Ronald W. Quade,
PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
Upcoming Meetings
Mar. 7 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive
Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Russell Pepe at rpepe “AT” att.net.
Mar.
14-May. 9 – “Project Management”
by Dr. Donald Hsu, North Jersey Section, Tuesday Evenings, 8 sessions,
6:30-9:00 PM, NJ International Bulk Mail Center, 80 County Rd, Jersey City,
NJ. Donald Hsu (yanyou “AT”
hotmail.com).
Mar. 20 – “North Jersey Spring 2007
Student Presentation Contest”, Room M105 in the auditorium in the Muscarelle
Building, FDU, Teaneck, NJ. Russell Pepe
(northjerseysac “AT” ieee.org).
Mar. 26-27
– “10th Communications and
Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS 2007)”, see http://www.scs.org/confernc/springsim/springsim07/springsim07.htm.
Mar. 29 – “Clients First: Identifying and Focusing on Solving their
Pain” by Ed McCauley, 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.
Mar. 30 – “Mission Critical Power Technical Series
- Uninterruptible Power Supplies Seminar” by Kit Killingsworth, NJ IAS/PES, 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM, PSE&G Training Center, 234 Pierson Avenue, Edison NJ. Ronald
W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
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NJ
Communications Chapter:
IPTV
and Beyond
On
Tuesday,
February 13, 2007,
the North Jersey Chapter of the IEEE Communications Society will host a
presentation titled “IPTV and Beyond” by Anurag Srivastava.
About the Talk
Telecom
service providers are relying on IPTV to counter voice, video and data
("Tripleplay") threat of Cable operators by offering these services
over their hybrid fiber/DSL access infrastructure. In the first half of this talk, I will
provide an overview of the new emerging and exciting area of IPTV, and describe
the key components that make up an end-to-end IPTV system.
Today,
TV subscription is tied to a household instead of a subscriber and thus, a
subscriber typically cannot access his favorite programming outside his home
location. In the second half, I will
introduce the concept of TV roaming which enables a subscriber to carry his TV
subscription to any other place (e.g. Hotel, Friend's house), or any other
device (TV, Laptop, handheld). With just
a few keystrokes of a remote-control or laptop, a subscriber can watch his
favorite channel on any device. I will
describe the architecture of the MiViewTV system (an on-going project at Bell
Labs) and its key components.
About the Speaker
Anurag
Srivastava received his BE (EE) and MS (Comp Sci) from the Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore
in 1997 and 1999, respectively. He has
been working as Member of Technical Staff at Networking and Network Management
Center of Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies since 2000. His research interests are in the area of
video delivery over IP networks, location based technologies in wireless
networks, MPLS and SONET/SDH networks, and in solving routing and optimization
problems in IP and Optical networks. He
has published extensively in those areas and has over 15 patents awarded or
pending. Mr. Srivastava speaks regularly
at major telecom conferences and presents his research work in industry trade
shows.
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: 6:00 PM, Tuesday, February 13, 2007. Pre-meeting buffet starts at 5:45 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973)
596-3670 (nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html for the latest updates.
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NJ Communications Chapter:
IEEE
COMSOC Distinguished Lecture: An
Overview of IT Security Forensics
On
Tuesday,
February 20, 2007,
the North Jersey Chapter of the IEEE Communications Society will host a
presentation titled “An Overview of IT Security Forensics” by Dr. Manu Malek.
About the Talk
Organizations
increasingly rely on computing and intelligent networking infrastructures as
keystones to their operations. Although
the use of this technology provides many advantages, the Internet poses a
unique set of vulnerabilities. Security
attacks, such as virus, worm and other malware attacks, are examples of threats
encountered daily by various institutions.
Against
this backdrop, it is clear that security is one of the most important IT
concerns today. Security forensics is a
discipline to identify the attackers and document their activity with
sufficient reliability to justify appropriate technical, business, and legal
responses. The discipline involves
identification, preservation and analysis of evidence of security attacks. Forensic activity takes place in a complex,
legal and social context which must be understood to fully appreciate its power
and value.
This
talk will provide an overview of security forensics and address some of the
methodologies involved. Some simple
tools will also be demonstrated as examples.
About the Speaker
Manu
Malek is Industry Professor of Computer Science and Director, Certificate in
CyberSecurity Program, at Stevens Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Stevens, he was
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies Bell
Laboratories. He has more than 20 years
of experience in teaching, practicing, and research in communication networks
design, optimization, operations, and management. He has held various academic positions in the
US
and overseas, as well as technical management positions with Bellcore (now
Telcordia Technologies) and AT&T Bell Laboratories.
He
is the author, co-author, or editor of seven books, co-holder of two patents,
and the author or co-author of more than fifty published technical papers and
numerous technical reports in the areas of network design, computer
communications, and network operations and management.
Dr.
Malek is a Fellow of the IEEE, an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished
Lecturer, and the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Network and Systems
Management. He earned his PhD in EE/CS
from University
of California, Berkeley.
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: 6:00 PM, Tuesday, February 20, 2007. Pre-meeting buffet starts at 5:45 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973)
596-3670 (nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html for the latest updates.
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NJ Communications Chapter:
Architectural
Supports to Resolve Physical Problems (Power, Temperature, and Soft error)
On
Thursday,
February 22, 2007,
the North Jersey Chapter of the IEEE Communications Society will host a
presentation titled “Architectural Supports to Resolve Physical Problems
(Power, Temperature, and Soft error)” by Prof. Sung Woo Chung.
About the Talk
As
process technology scales down, process/circuit techniques are not enough to
resolve physical problems – power, temperature, and soft error. In this talk, I would like to present some of
my recent architectural contributions to these issues.
1)
Power: Leakage power in instruction caches is reduced by the drowsy cache
concept and the proposed new wakeup prediction policy that utilizes branch
prediction information. The key insight
is that branch prediction can be used to selectively wake up only the needed
cache line.
2)
Temperature: a) The number of CMOS
sensors is limited due to the design budget.
The “soft” thermal sensor that is based on the activity and simple
regression can augment CMOS sensors. b) To
evaluate OS-level scheduling policies in Linux, a new thermal simulation
environment was proposed, which will be explained. c) A thermal virus can potentially incur malfunctions
and eventually hardware failure. Its
possibility and solution will be presented.
3)
Soft Error: Regarding the soft errors in
the instruction cache. Soft errors in
the instruction caches are shown to be changed into refetching with negligible
performance degradation. On the soft
errors in the logic, idle pipeline paths can be used for fault tolerance with
dissipating only small amount of power.
About the Speaker
Dr.
Sung Woo Chung received his BS in Computer Engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul,
Korea
in 1996, and his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Seoul National University
in 2003. During his PhD courses, he
worked for IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown
Heights,
USA
as an intern for six months. After graduation,
he had worked for Samsung Electronics as a senior engineer for 2.2 years, where
he architecturally improved ARM1136 and AXI (AMBA 3.0) for Samsung's SoC (System
on Chip). In 2005, he worked as a
research scientist in University
of Virginia, Charlottesville,
USA. From 2006, he is an assistant professor in
Computer and Communication Engineering of Korea University, Seoul,
Korea.
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: 4:00 PM, Thursday, February 22, 2007. Refreshments at 3:45 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973)
596-3670 (nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html for the latest updates.
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NJ
Consultants' Network:
Building
the Foundation For a Successful Consultant Marketing Plan
On
Thursday, February 22, 2007, the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ is
pleased to present ”Building the Foundation For a Successful Consultant
Marketing Plan”, by Greg Ratta.
About the Talk
CNNNJ
is pleased to offer a non-technical presentation about building a solid
foundation for a consultant’s marketing plan.
Consultants work in a highly competitive and fast moving market where
success depends on the consultant’s ability to build an effective marketing and
delivery program around his or her particular expertise. Without self-analysis of what value one
brings to the market, there is no foundation for that program. Does your CV put your mother to sleep? Does it include generic phrases like, “self-starter”
or “works effectively alone or in teams”?
Are you a telecom engineer listening for the footsteps echoing outside
your office that will free you to strike out on your own? Are you unemployed and seeking a full time
position? If you answered “yes” to any
of these questions, this presentation has been designed for you!.
About the Speaker
Greg
Ratta is a Licensed Professional Engineer, knowledgeable about voice and data
network communication protocols, technologies and services. He is an experienced systems engineer – a
problem solver, who has provided consulting services to manufacturers and
service providers in the telecom and cable industries as well as to government
agencies within DHS and DoJ. His background
in hardware design, software development, systems analysis, network planning
and operational methods has allowed him to be an effective facilitator for his
clients in the planning and delivery of business systems and networking
solutions to satisfy business objectives and ongoing operations. He can be reached by email at greg.ratta “AT”
verizon.net or by phone at (732) 530-1874.
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.
All Welcome!
Everyone welcome. No registration needed. Free admission.
Time: 7:30 PM, Thursday., February
22, 2007.
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:
Clients
First: Identifying and Focusing on
Solving their Pain
On
Thursday, March 29, 2007, the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ is
pleased to present ”Clients First:
Identifying and Focusing on Solving their Pain”, by Ed McCauley.
About the Talk
Pain
& pleasure, in the past, present, and in the future, are fundamental motives
that cause people to act.
For
18 years, Bottom Line Technologies Inc has worked with business owners and
senior executives:
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Challenged to meet aggressive, sometimes
nightmare schedules.
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Struggling with technologies they lack the
experience to effectively manage.
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Frustrated by a lack of resources to achieve
their goals.
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Risking lost market share, lost contracts,
customers, or worse should they fail.
Do
these folks sound like they’re in PAIN?
You bet they are!
BLT
designs chips, boards, and complete systems for commercial, industrial, and
military Clients seriously committed to quality product development.
Come
hear BLT’s president, Ed McCauley, share how they execute on their prime
directive: “Acting in the Client’s best interest” by understanding and treating
their Client’s pain.
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During
the second half of the meeting, Chris Mesibov of the IEEE Consultants' Network
of Northern NJ will be presenting a brief overview of his consulting
practice, Techgenesis. Chris can be emailed at chris “AT”
techgenesis1.com or reached by phone at (914) 584-2659.
About the Speaker
Ed
McCauley is President of BLT.
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.
All Welcome!
Everyone welcome. No registration needed. Free admission.
Time: 7:30 PM, Thursday, March 29,
2007.
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:
Deuterium
at the Si-Dielectric Interface in Nanoscale Devices
On
February 21, 2007, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems
Chapters together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk
on “Deuterium at the Si-Dielectric Interface in Nanoscale Devices." The speaker will be Dr. Durgamadhab (Durga)
Misra.
About the Talk
After
the discovery of the hydrogen/ deuterium (H/D) isotope effect, passivation of
interfaces such as Si-SiO2 and Si-high-k by deuterium instead of hydrogen is
getting significant attention for scaled CMOS devices. Deuterium passivation brings significant
improvement in hot-carrier lifetime in metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS)
transistors. Annealing in deuterium
ambient or deuterium implantation is used to incorporate deuterium at the
Si/SiO2 interface. Various methods of
deuterium incorporation (recipes) at the interface for several device
applications (CMOS, photodiodes, TFTs) will be discussed. Some device characteristics improvement after
deuterium implantation at the Si/SiO2 interface when a thin oxide is grown on implanted
silicon substrate will also be addressed.
In case of annealing thermal budget is a limiting factor whereas for
implantation, energy and implantation dose significantly influence the
interface passivation. The challenges to
retain deuterium at the Si/SiO2 interface until the completion of CMOS
fabrication process will be analyzed.
About the Speaker
Dr. Durgamadhab (Durga)
Misra is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).
He served as the Director of Microelectronics Research Center at NJIT
for a year in 1996 and in 1997 he was on a research leave at the VLSI Research
Department of Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies at Murray Hill, New
Jersey. His general interests lie in the
areas of nanoelectronic and optoelectronic devices and circuits. His current focus is gate dielectric (both
SiO2 and high-k) reliability on Si and Ge substrates and their interfaces for
nanoscale CMOS devices. He has organized
many International Symposiums on Solid-State Science and Technology field
during the Technical Meetings of the Electrochemical Society and IEEE. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Distinguish
Lecturer in IEEE EDS, and a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, February
21, 2007. 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. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973)
596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
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NJ PACE & GOLD Chapters:
Engineers
Meet: For a Members Social
On
Wednesday, February 14,
2007 the North Jersey Section
Professional Activities Committee and Graduates of the Last Decade will meet
for a social, with pizza, soda & refreshments.
About the Meeting
This meeting is about
getting members of the Section together for a light evening of discussion and
hospitality. Basically we can hold a
brainstorming session to discuss future meetings and activities. A continuation of the December meeting’s lively discussion. All are invited. We shall encourage North Jersey Section
Ex-Com officers to attend. When they do,
our Section membership will have an opportunity to meet with them on a first
name basis.
Bring your associates,
friends and spouses.
About the Speakers
Everyone will have an
opportunity to express their views about the profession, jobs and
opportunities.
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
http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
www.asme.org/sections/northjersey
http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/1/
Time: 6:30
to 9:00 PM, Wednesday, February 14,
2007. 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) 664-0803 (rftax “AT”
verizon.net).
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North Jersey Spring 2007 Student Presentation
Contest
The Spring 2007 Student
Presentation Contest is coming up! The
North Jersey Section will be holding a presentation contest scheduled for March
20, 2007. This contest has been held in years
past. Its overwhelming success in
generating student participation and interest makes it a 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 http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/sac/ieee.html
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: 5:30 PM, Tuesday, March 20, 2007.
Place: Room M105 in the auditorium
in the Muscarelle Building, FDU, Teaneck, NJ. Directions available at http://www.fdu.edu/visitorcenter/directions/teaneck_map.html. Free parking is available.
Information: Email the contest organizer, Russell Pepe, at
northjerseysac “AT” ieee.org
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Spring 2007 Region 1 GOLD Conference Coming Soon
Attention
all members, the upcoming regional student paper conference this year will be
held locally in the North Jersey Section.
It is planned for the weekend of April 28-29, 2007 at Fairleigh Dickinson University
in Teaneck, NJ. This paper contest and micromouse competition
is open to undergraduate IEEE students (see http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/1/sac/
for more details).
This
year's Regional GOLD conference will be jointly held with the student
conference at the same FDU location and there will be a parallel program of
activities, seminars, leadership training, and social events. The details of the program are being
finalized, as well as separate registration for GOLD participants. More information about the upcoming Spring
GOLD conference will be posted on line at http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/gold/
and future newsletters and email postings will publish the agenda.
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2007 North Jersey Section, Society/Chapter and
Committee Officers
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Office
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Contact
Info
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Section
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Chair
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Kirit Dixit
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kdixit “AT” ieee.org
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Vice-Chair 1
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Bhanu Chivukula
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b.chivukula “AT” computer.org
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Vice-Chair 2
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Amit
Patel
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a.j.patel
“AT” ieee.org
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Secretary
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Russell
Pepe
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rpepe
“AT” att.net
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Treasurer
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Dr.
Sangoon Shin
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s.shin
“AT” ieee.org
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Member-at-Large
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Peter
Donegan
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doneganp
“AT” ieee.org
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Member-at-Large
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Katherine Duncan
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kb2zoo
“AT” hotmail.com
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Member-at-Large
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Jakel
Seth
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sgjakel
“AT” comcast.net
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Past
Chair
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Har
Dayal
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har.dayal
“AT” baesystems.com
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Society
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Aerospace
& Electronic Systems
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Chair
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Dr.
Naresh Chand
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naresh.chand
“AT” baesystems.com
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Antennas
& Propagation
Microwave
Theory & Techniques
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Chair
Co-Chair
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Har
Dayal
Kirit Dixit
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har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com kdixit “AT” ieee.org
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Circuits & Systems
Electronics Devices
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Chair
Co-Chair
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Dr. R. V. Snyder
Dr. D. Misra
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r.snyder “AT” ieee.org
dmisra “AT” njit.edu
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