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February 2008
Volume 54, Number 7
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
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“AT” ieee.org (201) 669-7599
Vice-Chair-1........................................... Amit
Patel
a.j.patel
“AT” ieee.org
Vice-Chair-2............................. Dr. Sanghoon
Shin
s.shin
“AT” ieee.org (973) 492-1207 Ext. 22
Treasurer......................................... Pete
Donegan
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Secretary.......................................... Russell
Pepe
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Members-at-Large:
Katherine Duncan (kb2zoo “AT” hotmail.com)
Seth
Jakel (sgjakel “AT” comcast.net)
Howard
Leach (h.leach “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 (201) 960-6796, rpepe “AT” att.net.
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IEEE North Jersey
Section Activities
February
2008
Feb. 6 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 77 River Rd, Clifton, NJ. Russell
Pepe at rpepe “AT” att.net.
Feb. 13 – “Engineers Meet:
For a Members Social”, NJ PACE, GOLD, WIE, 6:30 – 9:00 PM, Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ. Paul
Ward, (973) 790-1625, PWard1130 “AT” aol.com, Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954,
rftax “AT” verizon.net.
Feb. 18 – “Financial Industry and IT”
– by Muhammad Mirza, NJ Communications Chapter, 5:30 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. 20 – “Automated Design of Microfluidics-Based
Biochips: Connecting Biochemistry to
Electronics CAD” by Professor Krishnendu Chakrabarty, NJ
EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 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. 21 – “Boost Your Bottom Line-
How to Secure More Projects and Manage Time, Employees and Clients Effectively”,
NJ Education Committee, 12:00 Noon with replays at 7:00 PM and 10:00 PM, http://www.actionbusinesspartners.com/ieeereg.htm. Ronald W. Donald Hsu, yanyou “AT”
hotmail.com.
Feb. 22 – “Power Monitoring Solutions Seminar”,
NJ PES/IAS, 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Automatic Switch Company, 50 Hanover Road, Florham Park, NJ. Ronald
W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
Feb. 28 – “Getting Started as a Consultant”,
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 – “Secrecy Capacity of
Multi-terminal Networks with Pricing” – by Dr. Anand
Santhanakrishnan, NJ Communications Chapter, 6:15 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
Mar. 5 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 77 River Rd, Clifton, NJ. Russell
Pepe at rpepe “AT” att.net.
Mar.
11-May 6 – “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. 25 – “Undergraduate Student Paper Contest”,
SAC, 5:30 PM, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Room M105 Auditorium, Muscarelle
Building, 1000 River Road, Teaneck, NJ.
Any and all questions can be emailed to the contest organizer,
northjerseysac “AT” ieee.org.
Mar. 27 – “Graduate Student Paper Contest”,
SAC, 5:30 PM, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Room M105 Auditorium, Muscarelle
Building, 1000 River Road, Teaneck, NJ.
Any and all questions can be emailed to the contest organizer,
northjerseysac “AT” ieee.org.
Apr. 9 – “Electron Devices in Astronomy”
by Dr. Lucian Kasprzak, NJ EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 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).
Apr. 25 – “Harmonics Seminar”,
NJ PES/IAS, 9:00AM to 2:00PM, Facility in North Jersey to be determined. Ronald W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
Apr. 25
& 26 – “Region 1 Student
Conference”, NJ SAC-GOLD-WIE, Time TBA, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1000 River Road, Teaneck, NJ. Russell
Pepe, rpepe “AT” att.net.
Apr. 26-27
– “Trenton Computer
Festival”, Saturday 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Sunday 10:00
AM to 4:00 PM, The College of New Jersey in Ewing, NJ. Allen Katz, TCF Speaker Program Chairperson, a.katz@ieee.org
or (609) 771-2666.
Apr. 28-30
– “2008 Sarnoff Symposium”,
Nassau Inn, Princeton, NJ. See
details at http://www.sarnoffsymposium.org.
Members and Non-Members Welcome
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The North Jersey Section
Congratulates Dr. Durga Misra
Dr.
Durga Misra, a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
at NJIT, has been elected to serve as IEEE Southern Area Chair for the next 2
years (2008-2009). The Southern Area of
IEEE Region 1 consists of 6 sections: North
Jersey, Jersey Coast,
Princeton/Central Jersey, New York, Long
Island
and Connecticut. During 2004 and 2005, Dr. Misra served as
Chair of the North Jersey Section. Presently
he serves as Co-Chair of the EDS/CAS Chapter and Chair of the Intersection
Committee in the North Jersey Section.
He is also a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Electron Device Society. The IEEE North Jersey Section EXCOM
appreciates his valuable service to the Section and is looking forward to
working with him as the Southern Area Chair.
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NJ
Communications Society:
Financial
Industry and IT
On
Monday,
February 18, 2008,
the IEEE Communications Society will
host a presentation titled “Financial Industry and IT”. The speaker will be Muhammad Mirza.
About the Talk
Working
in the financial industry is one of the most challenging jobs out there in the
market. With the emergence of Internet,
different types of electronic trading are conducted almost round the
clock.
Network
down for more than few minutes could cost a company millions of dollars and can
cost you your job. IT plays an important
role in making sure that the trades are running smoothly.
The
amount of latest technologies that you can get your hands on is insurmountable
due to each company’s resiliency requirements.
IT encompasses diverse areas, but for this discussion, we will be
concentrating only on the networking side.
We are going to start our seminar with what a student should expect when
he/she graduates.
What
are these companies looking for in their network engineers and lastly how to
ace the technical interview?
About the Speaker
Muhammad
A. Mirza completed the BS in Computer Science in 2002 and the MS in
Telecommunications in 2005, all at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has been working in the field of
networking in the financial industry for over 6 years.
All Welcome!
You do not have
to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time:
5:30 PM, Monday, February 18, 2008.
Refreshments will be available at 5:15 PM
Place: New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center
(Intersection between Warren
& Summit
Streets), 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/comm.html for the latest updates
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NJ
Communications Society:
Secrecy
Capacity of Multi-terminal Networks with Pricing
On
Monday,
March 3, 2008,
the IEEE Communications Society will
host a presentation titled “Secrecy Capacity of Multi-terminal Networks with
Pricing”. The speaker will be Dr. Anand
Santhanakrishnan.
About the Talk
Secrecy
capacity is a measure of the information theoretic capacity of a key-less
secure channel. It is the maximum
information transfer rate such that the receiver error probability approaches
zero while an eavesdropper's error probability goes to 1/2. Most approaches in the literature study
secrecy capacity for a single source-destination pair in the presence of a
single eavesdropper. In this talk, we
present secrecy capacity results for multi-terminal networks considering the
multi-access interference due to multiple source-destination pairs. We propose a pricing function to limit the
transmit powers of the transmitters. We
present mathematical conditions on the pricing parameters that result in
optimal power allocation to maximise the secrecy capacities. We further show that the solution to the
power allocation problem is independent of the location of the
eavesdropper. It is also observed that
the pricing model improves the secrecy of the weakest transmit-receive pair.
About the Speaker
Anand
Santhanakrishnan completed his Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree from College
of Engineering
Guindy, Anna University, Chennai,
India
and his Master of Engineering (ME) and PhD degrees from the Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore,
India. His thesis was on radio resource allocation
in cellular networks, with focus on dynamic channel allocation in channelized
cellular networks and admission control and power and rate allocation in
cellular CDMA. He has also participated
in the 3GPP forums on system architecture evolution for UMTS-LTE system with
focus on IP mobility. He has also
participated in the IEEE 802.20 mobile broadband wireless access (MBWA)
forums. He is currently working as a
post doctoral researcher in MSyNC lab in the Department of ECE in Stevens
Institute of Technology. His current
areas of interest include resource allocation, network selection and secrecy
capacity in cognitive radio networks. He
also particpates in the 1900 A study group activities for dynamic spectrum
access.
All Welcome!
You do not have
to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time:
6:15 PM, Monday, March 3, 2008.
Refreshments will be available at 6:00 PM
Place: New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center
(Intersection between Warren
& Summit
Streets), 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/comm.html for the latest updates
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NJ
Consultants' Network:
Getting
Started as a Consultant
On
Thursday,
February 28, 2008,
the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ (www.technologyontap.org) will host a panel
on getting started as a consultant.
About the Topic
How
do I get started as a consultant? Why
should I? What are the benefits and the
downsides? The panelists will describe
what motivated them to become consultants and how they did so. They will address topics such as: forming a business, finding clients, setting
fees, insurance, bookkeeping, marketing and promotional materials. Audience participation and questions will be
welcomed.
About the Panelists
The
panelists include:
George Hacken,
with a PhD in Physics from Columbia and over 35 years of computer applications
experience involving science, algorithms, avionics, simulation, automation,
finance and business applications. Dr.
Hacken continues to lead a successful consulting practice. He is conversant in classic and contemporary
methodologies; maintaining currency in relevant technologies, such as satellite
communications, formal methods and parallel processing. George can be reached at Hacken@ieee.org,
(973) 633-1840.
Ed McCauley
of Bottom Line Technologies, Inc.
Founded in 1985 by one of the original Xilinx Field Application
Engineers, the continuing mission of Bottom Line Technologies Inc (BLT) is to
offer clients premium quality design services on aggressive schedules at a
competitive price. Bottom Line is a full
service design services firm which specializes in Xilinx, FPGA, DSP, PCI, HS
Logic and FW Design. BLT believes that
when designs are done well, promptly and cost effectively, it’s bottom line and
that of it’s clients are well served. Ed
can be reached at sales.cnnnj@bltinc.com,
(908) 479-1200 X-222.
John R. Redmon
of John R. Redmon, Inc. is experienced in all aspects of electric power
transmission and distribution in utility, commercial and industrial
systems. He provides short circuit &
relay coordination studies, load flow, stability, reliability, failure
analysis, economic studies, control system modifications, startup testing of
substation, traction power and signal systems for transit systems, and due
diligence for mergers and acquisitions.
John can be reached at john.redmond1@verizon.net,
(973) 271-5963.
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 28, 2008.
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:
Automated
Design of Microfluidics-Based Biochips:
Connecting Biochemistry to Electronics CAD
On
February 20, 2008, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems
Chapters together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk
on “Automated Design of Microfluidics-Based Biochips: Connecting Biochemistry to Electronics CAD." The speaker will be Professor Krishnendu
Chakrabarty.
About
the Talk
Microfluidic
biochips are revolutionizing laboratory procedures for high-throughput DNA
sequencing, protein crystallization, drug discovery, immunoassays, etc. As these biochips mature into multifunctional
devices with reconfiguration capabilities, automated design and ease of use
become extremely important. There is a
need to deliver the same level of computer-aided design (CAD) support that the
semiconductor industry now takes for granted.
These CAD tools will allow designers and users to harness the new
technology that is rapidly emerging for integrated biofluidics.
This
talk will present ongoing work on design techniques for microfluidic
biochips. First, the speaker will provide
an overview of electrowetting-based digital microfluidics. Next, the speaker will describe synthesis
tools that can map behavioral descriptions to a droplet-based microfluidic
device and generate an optimized schedule of bioassay operations, the binding
of assay operations to functional units, as well as the layout and droplet
flow-paths for the biochip. Techniques
for pin-constrained chip design, fault detection, and dynamic reconfiguration
will also be presented. An automated
design flow allows the biochip user to concentrate on the development of nano-
and micro-scale bioassays, leaving implementation details to design automation
tools.
About
the Speaker
Krishnendu
Chakrabarty received the B. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur, in 1990, and the MSE and PhD degrees from the University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He is now Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at Duke University.
Prof. Chakrabarty is a recipient of the National Science Foundation
Early Faculty (CAREER) award, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator
award, the Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation, Germany, and several best papers awards at IEEE conferences. His current research projects include: testing and design-for-testability of
system-on-chip integrated circuits; digital microfluidics, circuits and systems
based on DNA self-assembly, and wireless sensor networks. He has authored seven books on these topics,
published over 250 papers in journals and refereed conference proceedings, and
given over 100 invited, keynote, and plenary talks.
Professor
Chakrabarty is a Fellow of IEEE (Class of 2008), a Distinguished Visitor of the
IEEE Computer Society for 2005-2007, and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE
Circuits and Systems Society for 2006-2007.
He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design
of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and System I, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits
and Systems, and the ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing
Systems. He also serves as an Editor of
IEEE Design & Test of Computers and of the Journal of Electronic
Testing: Theory and Applications
(JETTA).
All
Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Tuesday, February 20, 2008. Free buffet will be starting at 6:15 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room
202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark,
NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
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 EDS/C&S Chapters:
Electron
Devices in Astronomy
On
April 9, 2008, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems
Chapters together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk
on “Electron Devices in Astronomy."
The speaker will be Dr. Lucian Kasprzak.
About
the Talk
Gazing at the stars has
intrigued man since the dawn of the first civilizations. Available technology and mathematics have
helped man posit answers to the questions of man’s place in the universe, how
it came about, where it is headed and what it means. Ancient cultures used the solar and lunar
cycles, as well as the cycle of the stars, to perfect agriculture and attempt
to predict the future as well as posit theories of the universe. Modern man is no exception and continues this
paradigm.
Electron devices, in the
twenty first century, are present in literally everything that touches man,
both directly and indirectly. Electron
devices in many embodiments have also brought astronomy to new heights of
observational perfection. The precision
now achievable, facilitated by the use of electron devices, permits a new level
of refinement for both theory and experiment.
The largest earthbound telescopes in use today are typically 10 meters,
compared to Hubble Space Telescope at 2.4 meters. New telescopes, in the 25, 50 and 100 meter
range, are in design or construction around the world. The specific electron device applications
used in modern telescopes include detectors, encoders, actuators, feedback
control systems, custom computers and computer programs. These devices and innovations have enabled a
series of telescope improvements, such as, active optics (mirror shape
correction), adaptive optics (atmospheric turbulence correction),
interferometry and large baselines.
Since one objective of
astronomy is observation, the question of resolution and sensitivity of the
tools for observing become a paramount concern for those doing the
observation. The theoretical resolution
of a telescope is the diffraction limited distance between two discernable
objects. This limit is rarely even
approached for telescopes with primary diameters greater than about 20 cm. The problem has to do with nature of the
objects being imaged (points of light) and the aberrations inherent in optical
instruments, which are dependant upon the perfection of the curvature of the
lenses or reflectors used to form the image.
The technique known as active optics makes corrections to the curvature
of the primary mirror to reduce or eliminate these aberrations. Properly placed and monitored electron devices
have made active optics a reality for modern telescopes.
Sensitivity of a telescope
implies how faint an object can be resolved or seen. It depends upon the detector, signal and
noise, as well as how well the object in question can be tracked as it moves
across the night sky. Modern low noise
CCD detectors and precise tracking mechanisms opened a new era in telescope
imaging and photometry.
Seeing, as used astronomy,
means how much is the image blurred by turbulence in the air between the
telescope and the vacuum of space. The
Hubble Space Telescope sees very well because it is in orbit above the earth’s
atmosphere. Earth bound telescopes today
use adaptive optics (AO) to correct for this blurring. AO uses the turbulence information, from a
guide laser in the direction of the object being viewed, to make real time
correction to the image received by the CCD detectors. This method is so effective that properly
instrumented earth bound telescopes can see objects as well as, or in some
cases, better than the Hubble Space Telescope.
The contribution of
electron devices, to these advances and others, will be presented in the
context of the general objectives of astronomy.
About
the Speaker
Dr. Kasprzak worked for
IBM from 1965 to 1995. He obtained his
PhD on an IBM Resident Fellowship in 1972 from Stevens Institute of
Technology. He taught at Franciscan
University from 1992 to 1996. Since 1996
he has worked in the healthcare industry, first on solid state x-ray detectors
for Direct Radiography Inc.(an eventual subsidiary of Hologic Inc.), and now on
large clinical chemistry analyzer instruments for Dade Behring, recently
purchased by Siemens.
His work has focused on
the physics and materials of electron devices.
In practice he has developed reliability tests to reveal the limitations
of electron devices, materials, VLSI circuits and PCBs. In 1973 he discovered the hot electron effect
in very short (1.25 micron n-channel) MOSFETs.
He has taught Astronomy
and Cosmology as well as Physics and Materials at Franciscan University. His experience, coupled with his interest and
study of astronomy, brings a unique perspective to the application of electron
devices in astronomy.
He is the founder of IEEE
transactions on Device and Materials Reliability, treasurer of IEEE
transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, a member of the Board of Directors
of the International Reliability Physics Symposium and a Fellow of the IEEE.
All
Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00
PM, Wednesday, April 9, 2008.
Free buffet will begin at 6:15 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets),
Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
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 Education Committee:
Boost Your
Bottom Line- How to Secure More Projects and Manage Time, Employees and Clients
Effectively
On
February 21, 2008, the IEEE Education Committee is offering a one-hour Teleseminar
titled “Boost Your Bottom Line - How to Secure More Projects and Manage Time,
Employees and Clients Effectively.” The
speaker will be George Sierchio.
About
the Talk
Many
business owners and independent consultants, especially those in technical
fields, have the problem of being good at working “in” their business but
struggle working “on” their business.
This
way of managing a business leads to slow, flat or declining growth as well as
employee/contractor issues and constant time crunches.
We
will explore a number of proven ways to shorten the sales cycle, put more
projects in the hopper on a regular basis and gain the time to work “on” the
business. We will also go over a few
client management issues that will help in securing more work with current and
former clients.
All
attendees will leave with several tools to help them with these critical
business survival issues and the opportunity for a free business analysis.
About
the Speaker
George
Sierchio has a BSEE from NJ Institute of Technology with over 15 years of
experience as an owner of a variety of businesses including those in the
technology based consulting and service industry. He had profitably built his businesses using
processes and systems borrowed from successful businesses in other industries,
tailoring them to his high skilled consulting business model.
Mr.
Sierchio started Action Business Partners, Inc. 4 years ago to continuously
build on the experience that made his businesses a success and transfer that
knowledge to other entrepreneurs with a similar technical background. He is a certified and seasoned coach/advisor
to technology based consulting and service business owners looking to grow
their businesses by 20% or more each year, work less hours per week and develop
a lucrative exit strategy.
All
Welcome!
This
talk is free and designed for business owners and independent consultants.
You
do not need to be an IEEE member but you must notify Education Chair Donald
Hsu, yanyou “AT” hotmail.com and follow this link to register for the
teleseminar http://www.actionbusinesspartners.com/ieeereg.htm.
Time: Noon with replays at 7:00 PM and 10:00 PM (60
minute time length), Thursday, February 21, 2008.
Place: http://www.actionbusinesspartners.com/ieeereg.htm
Information: Donald Hsu, yanyou “AT”
hotmail.com.
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NJ Section PACE,
GOLD, WIE:
Engineers
Meet:
For a Members Social
On
Wednesday, February 13, 2008, the North Jersey Section Professional Activities
Committee, Graduates of the Last Decade, and Women in Engineering will meet for
a social, with pizza, soda, and refreshments.
About
the Meeting
This meeting is about
getting members of the Section together for a light evening of discussion and
hospitality. Basically we will hold a
brainstorming session to discuss future meetings and activities. Meeting’s offer lively discussions among engineering
professionals. 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 Speaker
Everyone will have an
opportunity to express their views about the profession, jobs and
opportunities.
All
Welcome!
Members and students from
all professional societies and engineering disciplines are welcome. We now have attendees from IEEE, ASME, NSPE,
ASCE and AEA. For information about
these groups see:
www.aea.org
www.ieeeusa.org/policy/care/
www.ieeeusa.org
www.programmersguild.org
http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
www.asme.org/sections/northjersey
CARE
is the Congressional Advocacy Recruitment Effort. CARE is a voluntary network of IEEE members
who are interested in public policy. To
help go to www.ieeeusa.org/policy/care/.
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM, Wednesday, February 13,
2008. Pizza and 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, Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954, rftax “AT” verizon.net.
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NJ Section Seeks Training Facility
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North
Jersey Spring 2008 Student Presentation Contest
The
Spring 2008 Student Presentation Contest is coming up! The North Jersey Section will be holding
presentation contests scheduled for March 25 for undergraduate students and on
March 27 for graduate students. This contest
has been held in years past. Its
overwhelming success in generating student participation and interest make it a
fantastic event for up and coming engineers.
This year's contest will feature similar prizes ($$$) and have graduate
and undergraduate 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 undergraduate
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 IEE SAC homepage archive.
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 25, 2008
(Under-Graduate Students), and Thursday, March 27, 2008. (Graduate Students), starting with dinner at
5:30 PM.
Place: Fairleigh Dickinson University, Room M105 Auditorium,
Muscarelle Building, 1000 River Road, Teaneck, NJ (Free Parking
available). http://www.fdu.edu/visitorcenter/directions/teaneck_map.html
Information: Any and all questions can be emailed to the
contest organizer, northjerseysac “AT” ieee.org.
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North Jersey Section Seeks Committee Chairs and
Volunteers
The
North Section is seeking new volunteers to help conduct business for the
benefit of its membership. There are a
variety of volunteer positions open and available. They range from technical to non-technical,
leadership or just participatory. For
Society Chapter Chairs, you MUST be a member of the corresponding IEEE Society.
If
you would like to become involved with volunteering in some of these efforts or
positions or just become more informed about what is happening at the North
Jersey Section, please contact Dr. Chandra Gupta at c.gupta AT ieee.org. You are welcome to attend the Section
business meeting held the first Wednesday of every month to find out more and
other volunteer activities that require some help.
Some
committees needing volunteers include the following. Please contact the person indicated for
additional information.
·
Engineering In Medicine and Biology Chapter Chair - contact c.gupta
below.
·
GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade) Affinity Group Volunteers and
Committee members needed - contact northjerseygold AT ieee.org
·
WIE (Women in Engineering) Affinity Group Volunteers and Committee
members needed - contact kduncan AT ieee.org
Additionally,
if interested volunteers would like to get more general information about the
Section, including a complete listing of all chapters and committees, visit the
North Jersey Section website http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/,
or contact Dr. Chandra Gupta c.gupta AT ieee.org.
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Spring 2008 Region 1 SAC-GOLD-WIE Conference
Coming Soon
Attention
all members! The upcoming regional
student conference this year will be held locally in the North Jersey
Section. It is planned for the weekend
of April 25-26, 2008 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 and WIE 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, social events. The details of the program are being
finalized, as well as separate registration for GOLD participants. More information about the upcoming Spring
joint conference will be posted online at http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/gold/
and future newsletters and email postings will publish the agenda.
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Call for TCF-2008 Speakers
TCF-2008,
the 33rd Trenton Computer Festival (http://www.tcf-nj.org),
is scheduled for Saturday & Sunday April 26th & 27th, with an
affiliated IT Professional Conference http://princetonacm.acm.org/tcfpro/
on Friday April 25th. All events will be
held at The College of New Jersey in Ewing, NJ.
The
focus this year will be on providing "hands on experiences" at
TCF. We are looking for talks and
tutorial workshop proposals on all forms of digital and
information/communications technology (including robotics, computer control of
home, environment, etc.), education, podcasting, gaming and digital home
entertainment, digital photography, digital wireless technology, networking and
VOIP. We are also planning a special
speaker track on robotics.
If
you have an idea for a talk or workshop/tutorial session for a general audience
at the TCF Saturday/Sunday sessions, please fill out the Speaker Application
Form at: http://www.tcf-nj.org/spkr_reg.html.
If
you are interested in presenting at the Friday IT Professional Conference,
which focuses on briefings intended for those working in the computer industry,
please see http://princetonacm.acm.org/tcfpro/speaker.html
and contact David Soll at dsoll@omicron.com.
Proposals
must be received by February 3rd.
Corporate sponsorship is also invited.
For more information contact:
Allen Katz, TCF Speaker Program Chairperson, email: a.katz@ieee.org,
telephone: (609) 771-2666, fax: (609)
631-0177, US Mail: Dr. Allen Katz, School of Engineering, The College of New
Jersey, PO Box 7718, Ewing, NJ
08628-0718.
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North Jersey Workshop and New Officers
The Section Executive Committee and guests held their end of the year
Workshop on December 4th, at the Hanover Manor, East Hanover, NJ, where the new
Section officers for 2008 where unanimously elected. The following 2008 elected Officers as well as
the 2008 Committee, Affinity Group, Society Chapter Chairman were also
appointed or reappointed as shown in the tables below. New volunteers are always welcome. Please feel free to contact the chairman of
any Affinity Group or Society Chapter if you are interested in providing
speakers or help with the planning of meetings this year.
Newly elected 2008 Section Officers (L-R): Russell Pepe, Secretary,
Howard Leach, Member at Large, Kirit Dixit, Chairman (lower), Amit Patel, Vice
Chairman 1, Seth Jakel, Member at Large, Catherine Duncan, Member at Large,
Peter Donegan, Treasurer, and Sanghoon Shin, Vice Chairman 2.
Appointed 2008 Society Chapter and Affinity Group Chairs (L-R): Dr.
Durga Misra, Dr. Nirwan Ansari, (lower),
Saumil Vyas, (upper), Russell Pepe, Ron Quade, Dr. Richard Snyder, Keith
Saracinello, Kirit Dixit, (seated), Seth Jakel, Goran Djuknic, Ken Oexle, Har
Dayal, Art Greenberg, Dr. Michael Liechenstein, Catherine Duncan, and Amit
Patel.
North Jersey Past Section Chairs (L-R): Art Greenberg, Dr. Michael
Liechenstein, Dr. Durga Misra (seated),
Dr. Richard Snyder, Howard Leach, Kirit Dixit, Anne Giedlinski (seated),
Har Dayal, Dr. Nirwan Ansari,
Dr. Chandra Gupta (seated), Ken Oexle, Dr. Fred Chichester, Alan Stolpen
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2008
IEEE North Jersey Section Officers and Committee, Affinity Group, and Society
Chapter Chairs
Feel free to contact any of the people below if you
have questions or suggestions.
http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/excom_officers.htm
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2008 Sarnoff Symposium
www.sarnoffsymposium.org
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NJ Power Engineering
Society/Industry Applications Society
Power
Monitoring Solutions Seminar
The
PES and IAS Chapters will sponsor a technical seminar on the topic of power
monitoring solutions. The session will
be held on Friday, February 22, 2008 at Automatic Switch Company, 50 Hanover
Road in Florham Park, NJ.
Topics
Power
Monitoring Solutions
ü
Why Monitor?
ü
What to Monitor?
·
Commercial Buildings
·
Construction
·
Universities
·
Large Industrials
·
Hospitals
·
Critical Power Systems
About the Instructor
The instructor will be Jeanne Ziobro
from Square D/ Schneider Electric.
Jeanne received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering
from Lehigh University in 1991 and a Masters of Science degree in Management of
Technology from Lehigh University in 2001.
Jeanne has over 16 years of industry experiences including positions
such as Substation Designer/ Relay Engineer at Metropolitan Edison; Relay
Designer and tester, application engineer at ABB Power T&D; Protective
Relay Product Line Manager at Eaton/Cutler Hammer and recently Power Management
Specialist at Square D/ Schneider Electric.
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The registration fee for this seminar
prior to February 8th will be $150 for non-IEEE members, $100 for IEEE Members,
$75 for GOLD Graduates (last 1-10 years) and $25 for students with valid
ID. The fee will be waived for IEEE Life
Member Grades with verification at the seminar.
Registrations after February 8th must include an additional late fee of
$25. The seminar fee includes lunch,
refreshments and handouts. Non-members
joining IEEE within 30 days of the seminar will be rebated 50% of the IEEE
registration charge.
If desired, IEEE Continuing Education
Units will be offered for this course - a small fee of $25 will be required for
processing. A total of 0.4 CEUs will be
offered. Please indicate if desired
below.
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Time:
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9:00 AM
to 2:00 PM (lunch is included), Friday, February 22, 2008.
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Place:
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Automatic Switch Company, 50 Hanover Road,
Florham Park, NJ 07932 (973-966-2000)
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Directions:
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From Route 80 Take I-287 to Exit 37 (NJ 24 East -
Springfield). Take NJ 24 East to Exit
2B (Columbia Turnpike). Proceed 2.2
miles to Hanover Road (6th set of traffic lights). Turn left on Hanover Road (AAA
Building). Automatic Switch will be on
the right (0.4 mile). Enter first
driveway-marked shipping/receiving and proceed to visitor parking lot on the
left. Follow sidewalk on the left hand
side of the parking lot to office entrance door.
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Information:
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Ronald W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade
“AT” ieee.org
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Registration: Power Monitoring Solutions Seminar 2/22/2008
Register
via US mail to: Ronald W.
Quade, PE
Eaton Electrical
379 Thornall St, 8th Floor
Edison,
NJ 08837
Name____________________________________________________________________________________
Address__________________________________________________________________________________
Phone__________________
Email____________________________________________________________
IEEE
#_________________ Student @________________ Non IEEE_____ Life Member______
Continuing Education Units: Yes $25 No
If CEUs are chosen, please include a $25 processing
fee
Payment Enclosed $_______________ Add $25 late
registration after February 8, 2008
Make checks payable to North Jersey Section IEEE (Credit
Cards cannot be processed at this time).
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NJ Power Engineering
Society/Industry Applications Society
Harmonics
Seminar
The PES and IAS Chapters will
sponsor a technical seminar on the topic of harmonics. The session will be held on Friday, April 25, 2008, at a location in Northern NJ to be determined.
Topics
Power
System Harmonics: A Practical
Perspective
ü
Harmonic symptoms, sources and solutions – an overview of harmonics
ü
Testing harmonic solutions – a side-by-side comparison
ü
IEEE Std 519 considerations
ü
Harmonic resonance and solutions
ü
Energy savings and harmonics – what is real
ü
Case Studies – harmonic issues alive and well
About the Instructor
The instructor will be Daniel
J. Carnovale from Eaton. Dan is the
Power Quality Solutions Manager for Eaton’s Electrical Group. Dan has developed Eaton’s Power Quality Experience Center and Lab where PQ problems
are created and mitigated for demonstration and testing purposes. He has developed and teaches CEU certified,
technical seminars on Power Systems and Power System Analysis and he has
conducted several hundred Power Quality site investigations for commercial,
industrial and utility power systems: evaluating PQ issues and applying
solutions.
Prior to Eaton, Dan worked
for Westinghouse Engineering Services and ABB Power T&D where he performed
Power Quality field investigations and electrical distribution system
analysis.
Dan received his B.S. Degree
in Electrical Engineering from Gannon University in Erie, PA, his M.S. Degree in Power
Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic University in Troy, NY and an M.B.A. from Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, PA. He is a registered Professional Engineer in
the states of Pennsylvania, California and Alaska, a Certified Energy Manager
(CEM) and a Senior Member of IEEE. He
has published many technical papers and presented more than 100 seminars on
Power Quality and harmonics.
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The registration fee for this
seminar prior to April 11th will be $150 for non-IEEE members, $100 for IEEE
Members, $75 for GOLD Graduates (last 1-10 years) and $25 for students with
valid ID. The fee will be waived for
IEEE Life Member Grades with verification at the seminar. Registrations after April 11th must include
an additional late fee of $25. The
seminar fee includes lunch, refreshments and handouts. Non-members joining IEEE within 30 days of
the seminar will be rebated 50% of the IEEE registration charge.
If desired, IEEE Continuing
Education Units will be offered for this course - a small fee of $25 will be
required for processing. A total of 0.4
CEUs will be offered. Please indicate if
desired below.
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Time:
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9:00
AM to 2:00 PM (lunch is included), Friday, April 25, 2008.
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Place:
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TBD
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Directions:
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Information:
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Ronald
W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org
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Registration: Harmonics Seminar 4/25/2008
Register
via US mail to: Ronald W.
Quade, PE
Eaton Electrical
379 Thornall St, 8th Floor
Edison,
NJ 08837
Name____________________________________________________________________________________
Address__________________________________________________________________________________
Phone__________________
Email____________________________________________________________
IEEE
#_________________ Student @________________ Non IEEE_____ Life Member______
Continuing Education Units: Yes $25 No
If CEUs are chosen, please include a $25 processing
fee
Payment Enclosed $_______________ Add $25 late
registration after April 11, 2008
Make checks payable to North Jersey Section IEEE (Credit
Cards cannot be processed at this time).
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IEEE North Jersey Section
Course
Project Management
Tuesday Evening, March 11, 2008 through May
6, 2008
Eight weekly classes (March 11, 25, April 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, May
6, 2008
USPS, NJ
International Bulk Mail Center, 80 County Road, Jersey City, NJ 07097
(Checks should not be
mailed to this address)
IEEE North Jersey Section thanks USPS, NJIBMC for sponsoring this
course at its site
The North Jersey Section IEEE
is offering an evening course entitled "Project Management". Dice.com
lists 5500+ Project related jobs in the New York tri-state area daily! This
course will help you to break down a master project into manageable tasks,
pinpoint possible solutions, and provide information to keep the project under
control. Using Microsoft Project
software, you will learn to accomplish various project plans. In addition, it
will greatly enhance your business, communications and interpersonal skills.
You will receive the IEEE
certificate of completion when you finish the course. You may wish to take two
Certification exams, one in Project Management administered by Project
Management Institute and the other in IT Project+ by CompTIA Inc from the
knowledge you learned in this course.
(This is not an exclusive PMP-PMI examination prep course. No PDUs are
issued for PMP eligibility. CEU credits would be given by IEEE)
Instructor: Donald
Hsu, Ph.D., has been a corporate manager for 11 years and is an experienced
trainer. Since 2000, he has trained 650 people in IT Project+, MS Project 2007, Project Management and Global E-Commerce
courses in eight organizations.
TOPICS
1.
Explain the need for a project manager in different industries
2.
Define SOW, PERT, GANTT, CPM, and Scope of the project
3.
Identify the team members, resources and plan for the strategy
4.
Calculate schedule, budget variances, and monitor project progress
5.
Manage changes, estimates, and communications
6.
Employ the use of MS Project 2007, MS Visio 2007 and related software
7.
Set a baseline, import tasks from MS Excel, export Project files to MS
Word
8.
Create and modify custom reports, templates and combination views
9.
Approve updates and conclude a project plan
10. Market global E-commerce
projects
11.
Present final projects from the participants
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WHERE:
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NJ International Bulk Mail Center, Jersey City,
NJ. (Checks should not be mailed to
this address)
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WHEN:
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8 Tuesdays, March 11, 25, April 1, 8, 15, 22, 29,
May 6, 2008, from 6:30 to 9:00 PM.
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COST:
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IEEE (& affiliate) members $430; Non-IEEE
members $480.
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CONTACT:
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Donald Hsu: yanyou “AT”
hotmail.com
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REGISTRATION: Project Management
Please mail the completed registration form with the
check (payable to “North Jersey Section IEEE”) to:
Donald Hsu
Co-Chair, Education Committee
IEEE North Jersey Section
PO Box 2093
Fort Lee, NJ 07024
Name: / Mr. /
Mrs. / Miss / Ms. / _____________________________________________ _________________________________
ÿ Non-member Çemail
addressÈ
ÿ IEEE Member Member
#:_________________________ Member
of _____________________________ technical society
Employer:___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Employer
Address:____________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Home
Address:______________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Business (day) telephone
#:___________________________________
Home telephone #:________________________________
Please enclose required fee payable to: North
Jersey Section IEEE
As soon as a completed registration form and the
payment are received, you are officially registered for this course.
Registration status will be emailed to you for confirmation.
ÿ I wish to receive IEEE
Completion Certificate
Signature:___________________________________________