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February 2009
Volume 55, Number 7
Publication No:
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“The IEEE
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SECTION OFFICERS
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Patel
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“AT” ieee.org
Vice-Chair-1............................. Dr.
Sanghoon Shin
s.shin
“AT” ieee.org (973) 492-1207 Ext. 22
Vice-Chair-2.............................. Dr. Naresh
Chand
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Katherine Duncan (kduncan “AT” ieee.org)
Dr.
Mengchu Zhou (zhou “AT” njit.edu)
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, rcpepe “AT” ieee.org.
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IEEE North Jersey
Section Activities
February
2009
Feb. 4 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 77 River Rd, Clifton, NJ. Russell
Pepe at rcpepe “AT” ieee.org.
Feb. 5 – “Region 1 Southern Area Industry
Day”, NJ Section, 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM, 444 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ. For
more information see http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/princeton-centraljersey/ieee_industry_day.htm.
Feb. 10 – “Petri Net-based Supervisory Controller Design to
Enforce Production Ratio and Deadlock-free Operation in Manufacturing”,
NJ Control Systems Chapter, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit
Streets), Newark, NJ. Professor Timothy
Chang (973) 596-3519, chang “AT” njit.edu, or Professor Mengchu Zhou (973)
596-6282.
Feb. 11 – “Engineers Meet:
The Employment Transition” by Amy M. Duncan, NJ PACE, GOLD, & WIE, 6:30 PM to 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,
rtax “AT” verizon.net.
Feb. 16 – “Dependable Sensor
Networks” by Dr. Grace Guiling Wang, NJ Communications
Society, 6:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE
Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670
(nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or Yanchao Zhang (973) 642-7817. Also check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates.
Feb. 19 – “Media Content Analysis for Semantic Indexing and
Detection” by Dr. Alexander Loui, NJ SP, 4:45 PM, New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection
between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Yun Shi (973) 596-3501 (shi “AT” njit.edu),
Alfredo Tan (201) 692-2347 (tan “AT” fdu.edu), and Hong Man (201)-216-5038
(hman “AT” stevens-tech.edu).
Feb. 20 – “Selective Coordination Seminar”
by Alton Baum, PE, NJ PES/IAS, 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Jersey Central Power and
Light, Punch Bowl Room, 300 Madison Ave, Morristown, NJ. Ronald W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
Feb. 23 – “Engineering Optical Networks in the Metropolitan
Environment” by Professor Neo Antoniades, NJ LEOS Chapter,
5:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ.
Professor H. Grebel (973) 596-3538 (grebel “AT” njit.edu).
Feb. 26 – “Effective Energy Harvesting using Photovoltaic
and Piezoelectric Sources” by Professor Dinesh Bhatia, NJ EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM, New Jersey Institute
of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren &
Summit Streets), 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. 26 – “Financial and Insurance
Considerations for Small Business Owner” by Bob Stadeck, NJ
Consultants' Network, 6:00 PM, Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated Products, 60 S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. Robert
Walker (973) 728-0344 or www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
Upcoming
Meetings
Mar. 2 – “Trusted Access to Information in a Diverse
Services Environment— A High-Value Mobile Application Enabler”
by Stan Moyer, NJ Communications Society, 6:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren &
Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Dr. Nirwan
Ansari (973) 596-3670 (nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or Yanchao Zhang (973)
642-7817. Also check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates.
Mar. 4 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive
Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 77 River Rd, Clifton, NJ. Russell Pepe at rcpepe “AT” ieee.org.
Mar. 5 – “First Digit Law and Its Application to Digital
Forensics” by Dr. Yun Qing Shi, NJ SP, 4:45 PM, New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between
Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ.
Yun Shi (973) 596-3501 (shi “AT” njit.edu), Alfredo Tan (201) 692-2347
(tan “AT” fdu.edu), and Hong Man (201)-216-5038 (hman “AT” stevens-tech.edu).
Mar. 10 – “North Jersey Spring 2009 Student Presentation
Contest”, NJ SAC, 6:00 PM, Room M105 Auditorium,
Muscarelle Building, Farleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ. For more information email northjerseysac
“AT” ieee.org.
Mar. 11 – “Solar Energy Conversion”
by Dr. Vikram Dalal, NJ EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM, New Jersey Institute
of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren &
Summit Streets), 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).
Mar. 24 – “Chaos and Its
Applicability to Communications Security” by Dr. Stamatios
Kartalopoulos, NJ Communications Society, 6:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren &
Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Dr. Nirwan
Ansari (973) 596-3670 (nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or Yanchao Zhang (973)
642-7817. Also check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates.
Mar. 30 –
Apr. 1 – “2009 IEEE Sarnoff
Symposium”, Nassau Inn, Princeton, NJ. Kyriakos Manousakis (Telcordia Applied
Research) kyriakos@research.telcordia.com
or David G. Daut (Rutgers University) daut@ece.rutgers.edu.
Apr. 25-26
– “34th Annual Trenton
Computer Festival”, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, The College of NJ, Ewing,
NJ. www.tcf-nj.org.
May 1-2 – “The 18th Wireless and Optical Communications
Conference”, NJ Communications Society, New Jersey
Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ.
Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html. Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670
(nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu).
May 3 – “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
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NJ
Communications Society:
Dependable
Sensor Networks
On
Monday, February 16, 2009, the IEEE Communications Society will host a presentation titled “Dependable
Sensor Networks.” The speaker will be
Dr. Grace Guiling Wang.
About the Talk
Dependability
is a fundamental requirement in designing sensor networks. Specifically, a sensor network should
successfully detect the phenomena of interest, e.g., intruding enemy, and
reliably transmit the detection results to users. To achieve the above goals, the network must
have sufficient coverage, which enables prompt and accurate detection of the
phenomena; the network must also be secure to defend against attacks from an
adversary such that the detected events can be transmitted back to the base
station without being modified. In this
talk, the speaker will first present two distributed algorithms for efficient
deployment of mobile sensor nodes to achieve a desired level of coverage. Then the speaker will present a light-weight
and compromise-resilient authentication protocol.
About the Speaker
Grace
Guiling Wang received her BS degree from Nankai University, China. She received the PhD degree in Computer
Science and Engineering and a minor in Statistics from the Pennsylvania State
University in May 2006. She is currently
an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at the New Jersey
Institute of Technology. Her research
interests include network security, wireless networks and mobile computing,
with a focus on wireless sensor networks.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 6:00 PM, Monday, February
16, 2009. Refreshments will be available
at 5:45 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 Yanchao Zhang (973) 642-7817. Also check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates.
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NJ Communications Society:
Trusted
Access to Information in a Diverse Services Environment— A High-Value Mobile
Application Enabler
On
Monday, March 2, 2009, the IEEE Communications Society will host a presentation titled “Trusted
Access to Information in a Diverse Services Environment— A High-Value Mobile
Application Enabler.” The speaker will
be Stan Moyer.
About the Talk
As
the number of mobile phone users continues to increase dramatically, the number
of mobile application service providers is also rapidly growing. To be able to offer new and innovative
services that have high enduser value, mobile application service providers
(MASPs) will need access to sensitive and/or confidential wireless subscriber
information (e.g., medical records, financial data, location information,
equipment IDs) that owners of the information will be unwilling to provide
without a “guarantee” that the end‐user
(subscriber) has authorized use or release of the information. Therefore, there is a need for a trusted,
neutral, third party that can broker and authorize access to this information. A mechanism that can enable new and
innovative applications that provide substantial benefits to end‐users
while also protecting the end‐user’s
privacy interests would help allay many fears that are arising in both the
press and the government.
I
will present some motivating examples in the form of several mobile phone
applications, requirements, and an architecture for a solution to this problem,
in form of a system we call TASER — Trusted Access to Sensitive End‐user
information Repositories. This system
provides mediated access to sensitive or confidential information and allows
end‐users
to authorize use of that information through a variety of “opt‐in”
mechanisms that are currently employed today for various mobile application
services and promotions.
About the Speaker
Stan
Moyer is Executive Director and strategic research program manager in the
Applied Research area of Telcordia Technologies, where he has worked since
1990. Currently, Stan is the product
manager for the Telcordia Mobile Messaging and Application Solution, a hosted
service for mobile marketing and affinity messaging and mobile web
applications. In the past, he has led
research and business development activities related to digital content
services and home networking. On these
and other topics, Stan has been a frequent speaker at events such as the IEEE’s
Consumer Communications and Network Conference (CCNC), IETF, The Broadband Home
conferences, and other conferences and technical workshops. Prior to that he worked on ATM switch
hardware, broadband network architectures and protocols, middleware, Internet
network and application security, Internet QoS, and voice over IP.
Stan
is currently president of the OSGi™ Alliance.
Stan is also a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE
Communications Society. He is a member
of the board and treasurer for the IEEE Communications Society, vice‐chair
of the IEEE CCNC steering committee, and a member of the IEEE Technical
Activities Board Finance Committee.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 6:00 PM, Monday, March 2,
2009. Refreshments will be available at
5:45 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 Yanchao Zhang (973) 642-7817. Also check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates.
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NJ Communications Society:
Chaos and
Its Applicability to Communications Security
On
Tuesday,
March 24, 2009, the IEEE Communications Society will host a presentation titled “Chaos and
Its Applicability to Communications Security.”
The speaker will be Dr. Stamatios Kartalopoulos.
About the Talk
The
number of security breaches and network attacks increases as well as the
sophistication of intruders and bad actors.
To increase information integrity and network security, very complex
processes are employed in cryptographic systems, such as chaos theory and
quantum theory.
Chaos
is based on the particular behavior of certain non‐linear
functions, which for a minute change of a parameter they produce a very large
and unstable output, known as the chaotic regime. However, this chaos is reproducible, which
makes it attractive to secure communications.
In addition, we have identified certain peculiarities with chaos
functions that the user needs to know of a priori.
In
this talk we explain chaos and chaotic processes with simple examples. We also describe two cases for which the
chaos functions may exhibit an undesirable state.
About the Speaker
Stamatios
V. Kartalopoulos, PhD, is currently the Williams Professor in
Telecommunications Networking with the University of Oklahoma. His research emphasis is on optical
communication networks (long haul, FSO, and FTTH), optical technology including
signal performance sensors, optical metamaterials, as well as chaotic
processes, optical network security, including quantum networks and chaotic
quantum cryptography. Prior to this, he
was with Bell Laboratories where he defined, led and managed research and
development teams in the areas of DWDM networks, SONET/SDH
and ATM, Cross‐connects,
Switching, Transmission and Access systems.
He has received the President’s Award and many awards of Excellence.
Dr
Kartalopoulos holds nineteen patents related to communications networks and
technology, and has published more than hundred fifty research papers, nine
reference textbooks, and chapters to other books.
He
has been an IEEE and a Lucent Technologies Distinguished Lecturer and has
lectured at international Universities, at NASA and conferences. He has been keynote speaker of major
international conferences, has moderated executive forums, and has organized
symposia, workshops and sessions at major international communications conferences.
Dr
Kartalopoulos is an IEEE Fellow, chair and founder of the IEEE ComSoc
Communications & Information Security Technical Committee, series editor of
IEEE Press/Wiley, and he has served as editor‐in‐chief
of IEEE Press, chair of ComSoc Emerging Technologies and of SPCE Technical
Committees, Area‐editor
of IEEE Communications Magazine, and VP of IEEE Neural Networks Council.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 6:00 PM, Tuesday, March
24, 2009. Refreshments will be available
at 5:45 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 Yanchao Zhang (973) 642-7817. Also check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates.
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NJ Consultants' Network:
Financial
and Insurance Considerations for Small Business Owner
On
February 26, 2009, the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ (www.technologyontap.org) will be holding a
meeting featuring a talk on financial and insurance issues of importance to a
small business owner. Bob Stadeck will
be the speaker.
About the Topic
Our
speaker, Bob Stadeck, will provide an overview of the economic upheaval of 2008
and offer an outlook for the opportunities and challenges of 2009. Bob will discuss practical ways to protect
what you have worked so hard to acquire, reducing or containing company health
and disability costs and reviewing some owner sponsored/employee paid
supplemental benefit programs that can provide significant long term financial
gain.
Small
consulting businesses often have limited "exit strategies". Bob will offer concrete suggestions on ways
to attract and retain key employees that can be the best source of potential
buyers. Funding mechanisms to help pass
assets to family members that may not be capable of managing or interested in
retaining your company can be a significant component in funding your own
retirement. Sufficient time will be
allocated for questions and answers.
About the Speaker
Bob
Stadeck is a Financial Representative with Northwestern Mutual Investment
Services in Summit. Northwestern
Mutual’s small business unit assists entrepreneurs in providing comprehensive
entry level benefits packages to their employees, addresses the particular
risks of "key employee" operations, and assists owners in maximizing
the long term value of their companies, all with an appreciation of the cash
flow constraints involved with start-up operations.
Bob has over 20 years of experience as an
entrepreneur and small business owner; his prior manufacturers representative
organization has served a number of our member companies. He can be reached at robert.stadeck “AT”
nmfn.com.
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.
CNNNJ Invites You to Join the Network For 2009
The
IEEE Consultants’ Network of Northern NJ invites all engineers engaged in
independent practice to join its ranks.
We have recently revised our membership structure, hoping to make it
even more worthwhile to participate.
For
more details on member benefits and on sign-on requirements, please visit our
website at www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
All Welcome!
Everyone
welcome! No registration needed! Free admission.
Time:
6:00-8:00 PM, Thursday, February 26, 2009.
Place: Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated Products, 60 S.
Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. (Entrance at
rear of building). To download a map to
KDI, go to: http://www.mcekdi-integrated.com/directions.htm.
Information: For directions and up-to-date meeting status,
call Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or visit our website at www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
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NJ Control Systems:
Petri
Net-based Supervisory Controller Design to Enforce Production Ratio and
Deadlock-free Operation in Manufacturing
On February 10, 2009, the
IEEE NJ Control Systems Chapter together with the New Jersey Institute of
Technology will host a seminar on “Petri Net-based Supervisory Controller
Design to Enforce Production Ratio and Deadlock-free Operation in
Manufacturing." The speaker will be
Mr. Hesuan Hu.
About
the Talk
This work presents a new
class of Petri nets, namely Ratio-enforced weighted Augmented Marked Graphs (RAMG),
and solves ratio control and liveness-enforcing supervision problems for
automated manufacturing system together.
In such systems, assembly operations are allowed so that several
independently operating sub-processes can be activated and re-combined through
splitting and merging activities. RAMG
can ensure any required product ratios as demanded by production planners. Since deadlock of such systems can be
attributed to the overuse of certain preemptive resources, a supervisor is
introduced such that the shared resources can be properly allocated to prevent
any deadlock occurrence. We
theoretically prove that ratio and supervisory controllers for such Petri nets
can be separately designed. Their design
methods are presented. Examples are
given to illustrate them. Prior to the
presentation of our research results, Petri nets are introduced as an important
class of modeling tools for discrete event systems.
About
the Speaker
Mr.
Hesuan Hu received the BS degree and MS degree from Xidian University, Xi'an,
China, in 2003 and 2005, respectively.
Currently, he is a PhD candidate at Xidian University and also a
visiting scholar at New Jersey Institute of Technology. From 1997 to 2000, he was an Assistant
Engineer at the Department of Metrology of Xi'an Aircraft Engine Control
Engineering Co., Ltd, where he was appointed as the Director of Electrical
Laboratory from 2001 to 2002. His
research interests include Petri nets, discrete event dynamic systems and their
supervisory control techniques. In the
above areas, he authored or co-authored nearly 30 papers on various
peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Also, he is an active reviewer for more than
10 international journals including several IEEE Transactions as well as many
conferences. Since 2008, he has served
as a program committee member for a number of conferences.
All
Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 11:30
AM - 1:00 PM, Tuesday, February 10, 2009.
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: Professor Timothy Chang (973) 596-3519, chang
“AT” njit.edu, or Professor Mengchu Zhou (973) 596-6282.
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NJ EDS/C&S:
Effective
Energy Harvesting using Photovoltaic and Piezoelectric Sources
On
February 26, 2009, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems
Chapters together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk
on “Effective Energy Harvesting using Photovoltaic and Piezoelectric
Sources." The speaker will be IEEE
Distinguished Lecturer, Professor Dinesh Bhatia.
About
the Talk
Wireless
applications are an integral part of our lives, and are only growing as
technology enables smaller, lower power and more capable devices. One of the areas that is popular today and is
finding new applications is wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The widespread need for WSNs is evident from
the proliferation of short-range wireless standards such as Bluetooth, ZigBee,
Wi-Fi, and RFID. Sensor nodes for
wireless personal area network (WPAN) that utilize smart mesh network protocols
are traditionally designed to optimize
for low cost and low power. Each
wireless node is intended for deployment in large quantities at remote
locations to sense critical data and relay its measurements to other network
nodes for monitoring and control purposes.
As more applications proliferate, it will become necessary to deploy
sensor nodes in hard to reach places.
Once thousands of low-cost RF sensors are deployed for any given
application, replacing batteries will become an impractical task. Therefore, self-sufficient devices that can
operate for an indefinite period of time will be required.
Energy
harvesting (EH) from solar, wind, vibrations, thermal, etc. to power wireless
devices has been attracting considerable interest in the past few years. While solar energy provides relatively higher
energy density outdoors, its efficiency under indoor conditions is considerably
lower. Similarly, vibrational EH using
piezoelectric bimorphs, and electromagnetic and electrostatic generators
require high excitation energy to provide reasonable power levels (of the order
of a few mWs). This talk will focus on design and implementation
of systems operating on harvested energy.
We will present efficient power management and power electronic circuits
for effective conditioning and storage of harvested energy.
About
the Speaker
Dinesh
Bhatia is on the faculty of the electrical engineering department at the
University of Texas at Dallas. He
directs research activities within the Embedded and Adaptive Computing group
and is also a member of Center for Integrated Circuits and Systems at the
University of Texas at Dallas. His
research interests include all aspects of biomedical electronics and systems,
medical devices, natural energy scavenging, applications of wireless sensor
networks, reconfigurable and adaptive computing, architecture and CAD for field
programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and physical design automation of VLSI
Systems. He is very interested and is
constantly exploring disruptive technologies for next generation living
environments. He has extensive
experience in building large scale embedded and reconfigurable systems. Some of these activities include principal
designer and investigator for RACE
and NEBULA systems for Wright Laboratories of USAF, principal investigator for
DARPA funded REACT program, Co-PI on AFRL funded SPARCs program and several
more. He has collaborated on phase 1 and
phase 2 SBIR programs to build product prototypes. He has published extensively in leading
journals and conferences and continues to serve on program committees of
several conferences. He is a senior
member of IEEE, Computer Society, Circuits and Systems Society, Eta Kappa Nu,
and recently served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on
Computers. He was an IEEE Circuits and
Systems society’s Distinguished Lecturer for 2007-2008.
All
Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Thursday, February
26, 2009. 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 EDS/C&S:
Solar
Energy Conversion
On March 11, 2009, the IEEE
NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters together with the
New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on “Solar Energy
Conversion." The speaker will be Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Vikram Dalal.
About
the Talk
In this talk, Dr. Dalal will describe the worldwide energy picture, showing how we
are reaching the end of the era of inexpensive fossil fuels. Production of petroleum from traditional
petroleum resources is on a decline, and newer sources such as tar sands and
shale oil are very expensive to extract.
Even coal, which is presumed to be plentiful, has a very limited
lifetime, measured in <100 years. Dr.
Dalal will explain why we are running out of fossil resources, and
address the demand side push on prices of all fossil fuels. When one combines this scenario with the
global warming due to emission of carbon dioxide (and soot) from fossil fuels,
solar energy becomes the only choice for the longer term (defined here as 50
years from now). Dr. Dalal will describe the various strategies for solar energy
utilization, the status of various technologies, and address the critical
R&D needs for both the U.S. and for India.
About
the Speaker
Vikram
Dalal is Whitney Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State
University. He obtained his B.Engr.(EE)
degree from University of Bombay, India in 1964, and his PhD in EE from
Princeton University in 1969. He also
holds a MPA degree from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton where he studied
Economics.
Dr.
Dalal has extensive experience as research scientist in the field of
semiconductors and solar energy conversion.
He has worked in industry (RCA Labs, Princeton, NJ) and several small
companies in New Jersey and Massachusetts) and at Universities (U. of Delaware
and Iowa State), he has been at Iowa State University since 1988.
Dr.
Dalal works in the fields of energy in general, and solar PV energy conversion
in particular.
He
holds 11 U.S. patents and has published about 170 papers and has mentored 25
PhD students and 35 MS students at Iowa State, in addition to teaching about
1500 undergraduate students.
Dr.
Dalal is an IEEE Electron Devices Society Distinguished Lecturer, and a Fellow
of IEEE.
All
Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00
PM, Wednesday, March 11, 2009. 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 LEOS Chapter:
Engineering
Optical Networks in the Metropolitan Environment
On
February 23, 2009, the IEEE NJ Lasers And Electro-Optics Chapter together with
the Electronic Imaging Center at NJIT will host a talk on “Engineering Optical
Networks in the Metropolitan Environment."
The speaker will be Professor Neo Antoniades.
About the Talk
The
talk will present concepts on the design, engineering and evaluation of
end-to-end performance of circuit-switched wavelength division multiplexing
(WDM) optical regional/ metropolitan area networks. Concepts like wavelength-, time-domain
simulation and Q-budgeting will be presented in the context of Dense WDM (DWDM)
optical networking. Current research
work on the engineering and design of such networks as well as the interaction
of physical and management layers of optical networks will be presented.
About
the Speaker
Professor Antoniades
received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from Columbia
University. His PhD work focused on
modeling of optical components and fiber optic communication systems and
networks. He spent several years in the
industry working for Bellcore (currently Telcordia Technologies) as well as
Corning Inc. In Bellcore, Dr. Antoniades
was involved with the construction of the first experimental prototype
multi-wavelength optical networks (MONET and ONTC), the large-scale US
government-supported research projects of the 90s that led to the expansion of
the fiber optic networks as we know them today.
At Corning Inc. his activities included design, engineering, and
prototyping support of novel WDM solutions for the regional and metro optical
networking space, product techno/economic value propositions and modeling of
transmission impairments. Since 2003 Dr.
Antoniades has been an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the
Engineering Science and Physics department at CSI/CUNY.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a
member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 5:00 PM, Monday, February
23, 2009. Pizza will be offered at 4:45
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: Professor H. Grebel (973) 596-3538 (grebel
“AT” njit.edu).
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NJ SAC:
North
Jersey Spring 2009 Student Presentation Contest
The
Spring 2009 Student Presentation Contest is coming up! The North Jersey Section will be holding
presentation contests scheduled for March 10 for undergraduate and 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 the 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 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 10, 2009 starting at 6:00 PM with dinner at 5:30 PM.
Place: Room M105 Auditorium, Muscarelle Building,
Farleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ (Free Parking available).
Information: See http://www.fdu.edu/visitorcenter/directions/teaneck_map.html. Any
and all questions can be emailed to the contest organizer, northjerseysac “AT”
ieee.org.
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NJ SP:
Media
Content Analysis for Semantic Indexing and Detection
On
February 19, 2009, the IEEE NJ Signal Processing Chapter together with the New
Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on “Media Content Analysis for
Semantic Indexing and Detection."
The speaker will be Dr. Alexander Loui.
About the Talk
The
increase popularity of smart media devices and social networking has led to an
explosion in the amount of digital media content being created. This has resulted in large personal and
public multimedia databases in which it has become increasingly difficult to
retrieve specific content and browse the large collections. Current content management systems only
provide simple browsing and navigation capability based on manual annotations,
which severely limits the search and other advanced functionality. Our research is focused on semantic content
understanding and analysis to enable easy browsing, searching, composing, and
sharing of content and personal memories.
In this talk, I will describe some recent work on semantic event
detection and image value indexing.
We propose a novel semantic event detection
approach by considering an event-level Bag-of-Features (BOF) representation to
model typical consumer events. Based on
this BOF representation, semantic events are detected in a concept space
instead of the original low-level visual feature space. There are two advantages to our approach: we
can avoid the sensitivity problem by decreasing the influence of difficult or
erroneous images or videos in measuring event-level similarity; also we can
utilize the power of higher-level concept scores in describing semantic
events. The ability to automatically
assess image characteristics is another important function for content
management, building photo albums, and retrieval of specific visual content. We proposes a novel approach to assess and
rate images based on multidimensional characteristics including image quality,
social relationships, aesthetic quality, important events, and usage. This new approach provides additional
flexibility for end user applications that utilize different aspects of image
characteristics. Specifically, we
describe a method for assessing image quality based upon technical
characteristics of the image, and for predicting the significance of an image
based upon the people portrayed in the image.
About the Speaker
Alexander C. Loui obtained
his BASc (Honors), MASc, and PhD, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering
from the University of Toronto, Canada.
In 1990, he joined Bellcore as a Member of Technical Staff working on audiovisual
compression and VOD technologies. He joined Kodak Research Labs in 1996. Since then he has led and contributed to
pioneering research on digital image management including event detection,
auto-albuming algorithms, and multimedia composition systems. His research interests span the areas of
semantic content understanding, multimedia indexing and retrieval, intelligent
systems, and video communications. He
has been an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems, and SPIE Journal of Electronic
Imaging. He was Chair (2005) of the
Rochester Chapter of IEEE Signal Processing Society. He has been the Vice Chair (2009) and
Treasurer (2007-08) of the IEEE Rochester Section. He is a Kodak Distinguished Inventor (with
over 50 granted and pending patents), and a Fellow of IEEE “for contributions
to digital image content management systems.”
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 4:45 PM, Thursday, February
19, 2009. Pizza will be offered at 4:30 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: Yun Shi (973) 596-3501 (shi “AT” njit.edu),
Alfredo Tan (201) 692-2347 (tan “AT” fdu.edu), and Hong Man (201)-216-5038
(hman “AT” stevens-tech.edu).
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NJ SP:
First Digit
Law and Its Application to Digital Forensics
On
March 5, 2009, the IEEE NJ Signal Processing Chapter together with the New
Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on “First Digit Law and Its
Application to Digital Forensics."
The speaker will be Dr. Yun Qing Shi.
About the Talk
In
our digital age, digital media have been being massively produced, easily
manipulated, and swiftly transmitted to almost anywhere in the world at
anytime. While the great convenience has
been appreciated, information assurance has become an urgent and critical issue
faced by the digital world. The data
hiding, cryptography, and combination of both have been shown not sufficient in
many applications. Digital data
forensics, which gathers evidence of data composition, origin, and history, is
hence called for. Although this new
research field is still in its infancy stage, it has started to attract
increasing attention from the multimedia-security research community.
This
seminar addresses the first digit law and its applications to digital
forensics. First, the Benford law and
generalized Benford law are introduced.
Second, their applications to detection of JPEG compression history for
given BMP images and detection of double JPEG compression are presented. Finally, the application of first digit law
to detection of double MPEG video compression is discussed.
About the Speaker
Yun Qing Shi has joined New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ since 1987, and is currently
a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He obtained his BS and MS from Shanghai Jiao
Tong University, Shanghai, China; his PhD from University of Pittsburgh, PA,
USA. His research interests include
digital multimedia data hiding, steganaysis, forensics and information
assurance; visual signal processing and communications; theory of
multidimensional systems and signal processing; applications of image
processing and pattern recognition to industrial automation and biomedical
engineering. Some of his research
projects have been funded by several federal and NJ State agencies.
He is an author/coauthor of
more than 200 papers, one book, and four book chapters. He holds four awarded US patents, and has 24
US patents pending (20 of these pending patents have been licensed to third
party by NJIT). In addition to
workshop/conference paper presentation, he has been invited to deliver 70 speeches/seminars/tutorials
around the world. He is the chairman of
Signal Processing Chapter of IEEE North Jersey Section, the founding
editor-in-chief of LNCS Transactions on
Data Hiding and Multimedia Security (Springer), an editorial board member
of Journal on Multidimensional Systems
and Signal Processing (Springer), a member of several IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society (CASS)’s technical committees,
and a fellow of IEEE.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 4:45 PM, Thursday, March
5, 2009. Pizza will be offered at 4:30 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: Yun Shi (973) 596-3501 (shi “AT” njit.edu),
Alfredo Tan (201) 692-2347 (tan “AT” fdu.edu), and Hong Man (201)-216-5038
(hman “AT” stevens-tech.edu).
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NJIT Course on Microwave Filters and Networks
Taught by Prof. Richard V.
Snyder (RS Microwave), this course will take the student through microwave
filter and network design for lumped and distributed elements, covering passive
and active implementations. In order to
offer this course in Fall 2009, NJIT requires a minimum enrollment of six
students. If you are interested in
finding out more about the course content, contact Ralph Giffone (ralph.giffone@gdsatcom.com, 814-360-3733) for a
33-page PDF file containing a course abstract, bibliography and excerpts from
the course notes.
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IEEE NJ/Central Jersey Section:
Region 1
Southern Area Industry Day
IEEE
Region 1 Southern Area Industry Day is jointly sponsored by Jersey Coast,
Princeton/Central Jersey, North Jersey and New York Sections.
Selected
high profile industry leaders and academicians are invited to this seminar,
held at 444 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ, on February 5,
2009.
Please
Register via EDAS website: https://edas.info/register.php?c=7021
Sign-up
of EDAS ID before you register (if you do not have an existing ID): https://edas.info/newPerson.php?noauth=1&
For
more information see http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/princeton-centraljersey/ieee_industry_day.htm
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Region 1 Award Nominations
Nominate
a colleague. Region 1 of IEEE offers a
variety of awards to recognize the engineering accomplishments of members. Specific award categories include:
technological innovation, engineering organization, academic teaching, enhancement
of IEEE image in the public or industry and sustained IEEE service. To obtain additional information about these
categories visit the Region 1 website www.ieee.org/r1
Once
at the site click on Section Information on the far right column. On the Section page click on Region 1 Awards
Information. We will assist you. To nominate a qualified individual prepare a
200-word summary (including the individual’s name, IEEE number and IEEE US
postal mail address) specifying the accomplishment of the candidate.
Send the summary to our Awards Chair Ken
Oexle, 11 Deerfield Road, Whippany, NJ 07981, prior to May 1. The North Jersey Awards Committee will review
the summary; suggest any changes; complete the nomination form; and forward it
to the Region 1 Awards committee with a Section endorsement.
Award
nominations are evaluated and approved at the Region 1 Summer Meeting and
plaques are presented at the following North Jersey Section Annual Awards
Reception.
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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.
·
Power Electronics Society 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
·
EMBS (Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Society) is seeking a chair and active committee volunteers - contact c.gupta
“AT” ieee.org.
·
Membership Development Committee Chair and
Volunteers - contact c.gupta below.
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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NJ Section Seeks Training Facility
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5th
Annual Washington Career Fly-In
IEEE-USA
will be holding its 5th annual Washington Career Fly-In on March 23 and
24. All IEEE members in the United States
are invited to join us on Capitol Hill to discuss high-skill immigration with
your members of Congress.
For
nearly a decade, IEEE-USA has been the strongest voice in Washington pushing
for reforms to our skill-based immigration system. Over the past two years the debate about
high-skill immigration reform shifted dramatically in our favor. But now we face a new Congress with an
unusually large number of new members.
These new members have probably never heard of an H-1B visa, never given
any thought to high-skill immigration and likely don’t know what IEEE is. This is your opportunity to tell them.
Studies
have shown that the single best way to influence a member of Congress is to
meet with them in person. The Career
Fly-In gives IEEE members an easy way to ensure that your concerns and opinions
are heard by your elected leaders.
Fly-In
participants will meet on the afternoon of March 23rd for a complete briefing
on skill-based immigration policy and to learn how to meet with members of Congress
(hint: it is easy). On March 24th,
participants will spend the day on Capitol Hill meeting with their
legislators. IEEE-USA will arrange all
meetings. All you have to do is hold
them.
All
IEEE members in the United States are welcome and encouraged to attend. Students, retired members and even IEEE
members who are not American citizens are needed.
In
2009, IEEE-USA will be trying to convince Congress to adopt our “Green cards
not Guest workers” program by expanding access to green cards for immigrants
who earn a masters or PhD from an American university. Our goal is to shift the focus of American
immigration policy away from short-term work visas towards permanent green
cards, especially for international students.
More
information on IEEE-USA immigration proposals can be found here: http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/issues/immigration/
To
learn more about the IEEE-USA Career Fly-In and to register for the event,
visit us at http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/careerflyin.
For
more information, contact Russell T. Harrison, Senior Legislative
Representative - Grassroots Affairs, IEEE-USA, (202) 530-8326.
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IEEE-USA in Action:
IEEE-USA Participates in Technology-Enhancement Meeting with Obama
Transition Team
Washington
(11 December 2008) - The United States should deploy universal broadband and increase
energy efficiency, among other things, to promote economic growth and spur job
creation, two IEEE-USA presidents said in a letter presented to President-Elect
Barack Obama’s transition team.
IEEE-USA
made some of its recommendations in a meeting with four members of Obama’s
Science, Technology and Innovation Transition Task Force at AeA’s Washington
headquarters on 5 December. IEEE-USA was
one of roughly 50 organizations invited to share ideas on what the new
administration could do to stimulate the economy within Obama’s first 60 days
in office.
“Technology
and innovation remain the cornerstone of our nation’s economy,” 2008 IEEE-USA
President Russ Lefevre and 2009 President Gordon Day wrote. “Any plan for creating jobs and economic
growth begins with encouraging innovation that promotes those new ideas and
products and, ultimately, results in jobs.”
IEEE-USA
made recommendations in six areas: research & development investments,
broadband, health care, energy infrastructure, small business and long-term
priorities.
By
expanding ubiquitous broadband access into rural areas, more people could
compete for technology-based jobs without relocating. Plus, the incentive for high-tech companies
to establish operations in these lower-cost areas is enhanced. This helps keep jobs in the United States.
“As
with the universal deployment of electricity and telephone service, universal
broadband service, coupled with new Internet applications, will generate
economic and social gains that far exceed the investment in the enabling
infrastructure,” the presidents wrote.
IEEE-USA
believes that by investing in such things as Smart Grid technologies, plug-in
hybrid electric vehicles and clean, renewable energy sources, U.S. energy
efficiency will increase.
“We
also need to increase our electricity reliability by upgrading our aging
national transmission grid,” presidents Lefevre and Day wrote. “These steps can stimulate economic activity,
create jobs and ensure that our country has abundant supplies of reliable and
affordable electric power.”
The
letter is available at http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/policy/2008/120508.pdf.
Chris McManes, IEEE-USA
Public Relations Manager, 1828 L Street N.W., Suite 1202, Washington, DC
20036-5104,
(202) 530-8356,
c.mcmanes@ieee.org, www.ieeeusa.org.
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IEEE-USA in Action:
Winning Entry in 'How Engineers Make a World of Difference' Online Video
Scholarship Competition Featured on 'Design Squad' Web Site
Washington
(18 November 2008) - The winning entry in the 2008 IEEE-USA "How Engineers
Make a World of Difference" Online Engineering Video Scholarship
Competition can be seen on the PBS "Design Squad" Web site at http://pbskids.org/designsquad/special/ieee/ieee.html.
Engineering
Undergraduates Ben Toler and Emile Frey of Louisiana Tech University, Ruston,
La., split the IEEE-USA competition's $2,500 first prize. Their entry was deemed most effective in
reinforcing for an 11-to-13-year-old audience how engineers improve the quality
of life and how engineering can be a creative and rewarding career.
With
two teams of high-school students competing to solve a new engineering
challenge each week, "Design Squad" was created by PBS to reach the
same 11-to-13-year-old audience. The
program is in its third season on PBS with the IEEE continuing funding support.
Additionally,
IEEE-USA is awarding $5,000 in scholarship prizes in the second year of its
online engineering video competition.
Entries must be submitted through YouTube by U.S. undergraduate students
in engineering, computer science and information technology no later than 16
January 2009. For more information on
how to enter, go to http://www.ieeeusa.org/communications/video_competition.
Pender M. McCarter,
Senior Public Relations Counselor, IEEE-USA/Washington, DC, (202) 530-8353,
p.mccarter@ieee.org, http://www.ieeeusa.org.
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IEEE Personal Email Alias
The
IEEE offers a personal e-mail Alias service in which IEEE members can register
or instantly update a personal alias of their choice (subject to availability
and on a "first-come, first-served" basis). Messages addressed to the alias@ieee.org will
automatically be forwarded to the members real Internet e-mail address at their
ISP. Over 100,000 members received more than 200
million messages using this service in 2003.
See http://eleccomm.ieee.org/.
Free Virus Scanning
9,000,000
Virus-Infected Messages Detected in 2005!
The
virus-scanning feature helps prevent you from receiving viruses in the first
place. Attachments within e-mail sent to
your IEEE alias will be scanned, and if a virus is found, the attachment will
be deleted. An alert is then sent to
both the sender and recipient. While the
IEEE cannot guarantee that every virus will be caught, the virus scanning
software is updated daily. A service
like this typically costs $20 to $30 per year, but as an IEEE member, it is
yours FREE
of charge.
Free Spam Tagging
Members
have the option of adding a new feature to help IEEE members manage the amount
of unsolicited commercial email (UCE), or spam, they receive. Members who elect to take advantage of this
new service have the option of either tagging or blocking possible UCE. The service also now supports black and white
listings.
This
e-mail forwarding service is available to IEEE members to simplify the myriad
number of constantly changing computer e-mail addresses.
You
may choose your alias name, but are encouraged to use a construction of your
family and given names whenever possible, to make it easier for people to
contact you.
Advantages of a Personal IEEE E-Mail Alias:
·
If you change your Internet Service Provider
and hence your e-mail address, you only have to send one correction - an update
to the IEEE.
·
If you change your employer or your location
within the company which results in a different e-mail address, you only have
to send one update - to the IEEE.
·
An e-mail address which is independent of
your service provider or employer.
·
Only one place to make changes to your
e-mail address.
·
IEEE aliases are usually easier to remember
and simpler to use than the real address.
An e-mail address which
associates you with the IEEE.
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Advertise in the IEEE North Jersey
Newsletter
The
IEEE Newsletter is the non-profit professional publication of the North Jersey
Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Published
monthly except June (electronic only) and July, it is distributed to
approximately 4,000 qualified members of the section.
Editorial
content is pertinent and timely. It
contains current information and details about special meetings, field trips,
and seminars scheduled during the month and for future dates.
IEEE
Newsletter readers are influential in the Electrical and Electronics
industries. They are in decision-making
positions or can influence decisions in this important field.
Demonstrate
your support of their professional organization by advertising in their
Newsletter while reaching your customers and prospects.
Manufacturers
can support local reps and distributors by using cooperative advertising in the
IEEE Newsletter. Classified ads and job
postings are welcomed!
Contact
Keith Saracinello, IEEE North Jersey Section Business Manager, at k.saracinello
“AT” ieee.org for more details.
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34th Annual Trenton Computer
Festival
http://www.tcf-nj.org/pc
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Sarnoff 2009 Symposium – Call for Papers
http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/princeton-centraljersey/2009_Sarnoff_Symposium/CFP_Sarnoff2009_b-1.pdf
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WOCC 2009 – The 18th Wireless and
Optical Communications Conference
http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/WOCC-2009.pdf
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NJ
Power Engineering Society/Industry Applications Society
Selective Coordination Seminar
The PES and IAS Chapters will sponsor
a technical seminar on the topic of Selective Coordination. The session will be held on Friday, February
20, 2009 in the Punch Bowl Room at Jersey Central Power and Light, 300 Madison
Ave, Morristown, NJ.
Topics
Selective
Coordination:
ü
What is Selective Coordination?
ü
Protection vs. Selectivity
ü
Phase vs. Ground Fault Protection
ü
Equipment Protection (Conductors, Transformers, Motors)
ü
The Coordination Study and relativity with Arc Flash
ü
Fuses vs. Circuit Breakers; Coordination Trip Intervals
ü
Emergency Systems (NEC Art. 700.27, 701.18)
ü
Critical Operations Power Systems (Art. 708.54)
ü
Healthcare Facilities Ground Fault Protection (Art. 517.17)
ü
Solution Tools
About the Instructor
The speaker will be Alton Baum, PE
from AB Engineering, LLC. Mr. Baum
carries over 20 years of utility generation and industrial power systems
experience working for Westinghouse, Eaton Electrical, and Square D.
After starting his career as a field engineer in large generators/excitation,
Mr. Baum focused in the area of power systems analyses, power quality
investigation/solution, and, most recently, arc flash analysis. In 2007,
Mr. Baum started an independent engineering consulting practice, AB Engineering,
LLC, which provides power engineering services to the industrial/commercial
markets. He has performed hundreds of short circuit, overcurrent
coordination, and arc flash studies, and has been teaching in these areas for
most of his career. Mr. Baum holds the
BS degree in Electrical Engineering from West Virginia Institute of Technology
(1987), the Master of Business Administration from Widener University (1998),
and the MSEE in Power Engineering from Drexel University (2003). He is a
member of IEEE, board member of the Delaware Valley Power Quality Group, and
holds Professional Engineer licenses in multiple states.
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The registration fee for this seminar
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. 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 20, 2009.
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Place:
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Punch
Bowl Room at Jersey Central Power and Light, 300 Madison Ave, Morristown, NJ.
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Directions:
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Route 287 to
Route 124 (Madison Ave exit). Head toward Madison. Jersey Central building is on the left
about 1.5 miles from the exit.
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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: Selective Coordination Seminar 2/20/2009
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 $_______________
Make checks payable to North Jersey Section IEEE (Credit
Cards cannot be processed at this time).
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IEEE Awards
Reception
North Jersey Section
May 3, 2009
Birchwood
Manor, Whippany NJ
A time to relax,
unwind and enjoy --
A time to pay tribute
to our new Fellows --
A time to honor our
Award Winners --
YES it's time for the
Annual Section Reception
The Annual Section IEEE Awards
Reception will be held at the Birchwood Manor, 111
North Jefferson Road,
Whippany again this year. The affair is
scheduled for Sunday,
May 3, 2009 from 3 to 6
PM. Tickets are $35.00
each. Spouses and guests are
welcome. We are limited to 90 attendees,
so please make your reservations early.
Reservations are required by April 24, 2009. Complete the reservation form and return it
with your payment. If you would like
tickets mailed back to you, please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope. Otherwise, your tickets will be held at the
door for you. If any additional
information is required concerning the reception, contact Anne Giedlinski at
(973) 377-3175.
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Use this form for Reception
reservations. ENCLOSE A SELF-ADDRESSED STAMPED ENVELOPE to receive tickets in
advance. Reservations are required by
April 24, 2009. Mail reservation
request to:
Anne Giedlinski
299 Brooklake Road
Florham
Park, NJ 07932
Enclosed is __________ for ____
ticket(s) at $35.00 each (make check payable to North Jersey Section IEEE) for:
NAME:
___________________________________________________________________
ADDRESS: _______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
Yes, please send me directions to the
Birchwood Manor
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