The IEEE
Newsletter 
A Publication of the IEEE North Jersey Section
January 2003 Newsletter
North Jersey Section Activities
NJ Communications Society: Digital Audio Broadcasting
NJ
EMS and Computer Chapter: Managing Emerging Technologies
North
Jersey Spring 2003 Student Presentation Contest
North Jersey Student Activities Committee and GOLD Seek Volunteers and Speakers
North
Jersey EXCOM Holiday Party Photos
NJ
Consultants' Network: Getting Started in Consulting
NJ
EDS, C&S Chapters: Cost Effective UHF Switched Filter with Constant
Bandwidth
Resolve
To Advance To Senior Member Grade In 2003
NJ
Section PACE: Unemployed Engineers
NJ
Consultants' Network: Setting and Maximizing Price On Your Consulting Services
E-Week
2003 Kits Now Available
Accessing
IEEE Technical Information - Free Web Conference Coming in February
PES/IAS: Integrated Electrical Assemblies
IEEE
North Jersey Section Seminar: OBJECT-ORIENTED C# DESIGN & PROGRAMMING
REGISTRATION: OBJECT-ORIENTED C# DESIGN & PROGRAMMING
IEEE North Jersey Section Seminar: JAVA PROGRAMMING
REGISTRATION: Java Programming
January
2003
Volume 49, 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 10016-5997. $1.00 per member per year (included in annual dues) for each member of the North Jersey Section. Periodicals-class postage paid at New York, NY and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster send address changes to: "The IEEE Newsletter", 445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331. USPS 580-500 (ISSN 1076-3732).
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SECTION
OFFICERS
Chairman: Dr. Durga Misra, mailto:dmisra@njit.edu, (973) 596-5739
Vice-Chairman-1: Rodney Cole, mailto:rgcole@ieee.org, (973) 299-9022 Ext. 2257
Vice-Chairman-2: Har Dayal, mailto:har.dayal@baesystems.com
Treasurer: Dr. Edward (Ted) Byrne, mailto:flatland@compuserve.com (973) 822-3219
Secretary: Dr. Sanghoon Shin, mailto:s.shin@ieee.org (973) 492-1207 Ext. 22
Members-at-Large:
Bhanu Chivakula (b.chivakula@computer.org)
Naz Simonelli (naz@sprynet.com)
Dr. Richard Snyder (r.snyder@ieee.org)
The North Jersey Section Executive Committee usually meets the first Wednesday (except holidays and December) of each month at 7:00 PM. Meetings are open to all members. For information on meeting agenda contact Secretary Dr. Sanghoon Shin at (973) 492-1207 Ext. 22, mailto:s.shin@ieee.org.
IEEE North Jersey Section Activities
January 2003
Jan. 8-"Unemployed Engineers" - NJ
PACE, 6:30 - 8:30 PM, Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton,
NJ. Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954 (mailto:rtax@bellatlantic.net),
Paul Ward (973) 790-1625 (mailto:PWard1130@aol.com), Mike
Rinaldi (973) 515-8195 (mailto:MikeRinald@aol.com).
Jan. 13-"Managing Emerging
Technologies" - NJ EMS and Computer Chapters, 7:00 PM, Public Meeting
Room, Morris County Library, 30 E. Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ. Howard Leach (973) 540-1283 (mailto:h.leach@ieee.org).
Jan. 21-"Digital Audio
Broadcasting" - NJ Communications Chapter, 4:30 PM, NJIT, 202 ECE Center,
Newark, NJ. Dr. Hongya Ge, (973)
642-4990 (mailto:ge@njit.edu). Please check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html for the latest
updates.
Jan. 29-Apr. 2-"JAVA Programming" -
North Jersey Section, Wednesday Evenings, 10 sessions, 6:30-9:00 PM, Ramada Inn
Clifton, 265 Route 3 East, Clifton, NJ.
Bhanu Chivakula (mailto:b.chivakula@computer.org).
Jan. 30-"Getting Started In
Consulting" - NJ Consultants' Network, 7:30 PM, MCE/KDI Triangle, 60 S.
Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. Robert
Walker (973) 728-0344 or http://www.technologyontap.org/.
Upcoming
Meetings
Feb. 5-"NJ Section Executive Committee
Meeting" - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Dr. Sanghoon Shin at (973) 492-1207 Ext. 22
or mailto:s.shin@ieee.org.
Feb. 12-"Cost Effective UHF Switched
Filter with Constant Bandwidth" - EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00PM (buffet at
6:15PM), NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ.
Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207, Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (mailto:dmisra@njit.edu),
or Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542.
Feb. 27-"Setting and Maximizing Price On
Your Consulting Services" – NJ Consultants' Network, 7:30 PM, MCE/KDI
Triangle, 60 S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ.
Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or http://www.technologyontap.org/.
Mar. 11-Apr. 29-"Object-Oriented C#
Design & Programming" – North Jersey Section, Tuesday Evenings, 8
sessions, 6:30-9:00 PM, Ramada Inn Clifton, 265 Route 3 East, Clifton, NJ. Bhanu Chivakula (mailto:b.chivakula@computer.org).
Mar. 12-"IEEE Sarnoff Symposium 2002 -
Advances in Wired and Wireless Communications" - Time TBA, The College of
New Jersey, Ewing, NJ. Dr. Gerhard
Franz (609) 936-1919 (mailto:g.franz@ieee.org).
Mar. 15 - 2004 IEEE Fellow Nominations Due.
Mar. 20-"Integrated Electrical
Assemblies" - NJ IAS/PES Chapters, 7:00PM, Eaton/Cutler Hammer, 690 Rahway
Ave, Union, NJ. Ron Quade (212)
886-0275.
Apr. 25 & 26-"The 12th Annual
Wireless and Optical Communications Conference", Time TBD, Wyndham Hotel,
Newark, NJ. Dr. Hongya Ge, (973)
642-4990 (mailto:ge@njit.edu)
or see http://www.wocc.org/
for additional details.
Members
and Non-Members Welcome
PLEASE POST
The North Jersey Section IEEE congratulates
the following members who were elected to the Fellow grade:
Dr. Will Edward Leland
"For contributions to the
characterization of traffic on data networks."
Dr. Thomas Louis Marzetta
"For contributions to the theory of multidimensional
signal processing and multiple-antenna communications."
Dr. Mengchu Zhou
"For contributions to Petri nets and
their applications."
2003 IEEE John von Neumann Medal
Alfred Aho
"For contributions to the foundations of
computer science and to the fields of algorithms and software tools."
Digital Audio Broadcasting
On January 21, 2003, the IEEE North Jersey
Section Communications Society Chapter along with NJIT will host a presentation
on "Digital Audio Broadcasting."
The speaker will be Dr. Carl-Erik W. Sundberg.
About
the Talk
The move to digital is a natural progression
taking place in all aspects of broadcast media. This is no less true for audio broadcasting which has taken a
unique development path in the United States.
This path has been heavily influenced by a combination of regulatory and
migratory (from analog to digital) requirements specific for the US market.
This has resulted in a unique set of requirements on source coding, channel
coding and digital modulation methods to make these systems a reality.
This talk outlines the technical development
of the terrestrial wireless broadcasting systems in the US providing details on
specific channel coding designs and adding perspective on why specific designs were selected. AM and FM systems are about to be introduced
in the market place. These so called
in-band on-channel systems are also briefly compared to other systems such as
Eureka 147 and DRM.
References
[1] C-E. W. Sundberg et al "Technical Advances in Digital Audio
Radio Broadcasting", Proceedings of the IEEE, pp 1303-1333, August 2002.
About
the Speaker
Carl-Erik W. Sundberg received MSEE and Dr.
Techn. Degrees from the University of Lund, Lund, Sweden in 1966 and 1975
respectively. From 1977 to 1984 he was
a Research Professor (Docent) in Telecommunication Theory, University of Lund. From 1984 to 2000 he was a Distinguished Member
of Technical Staff (DMTS) at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, and during
2001 he was a DMTS at Agere Systems, Murray Hill. Currently he is a Senior Scientist at SundComm, Chatham, NJ, and
at iBiquity Digital Corp., Warren, NJ.
His research interests include source and channel coding, digital
modulation, fault-tolerant systems, digital mobile radio, digital audio
broadcasting, spread-spectrum, digital satellite systems and optical
communications. He has published over
95 journal papers and contributed over 140 conference papers. He has 67
patents, granted and pending. He is a coauthor of Digital Phase Modulation,
(New York: Plenum, 1986), Topics in Coding Theory, (New York: Springer-Verlag,
1989) and Source-Matched Digital Communications (New York: IEEE Press,
1996). In 1986 he received the IEEE
Vehicular Technology Society's Paper of the Year Award and in 1989 he was
awarded the Marconi Premium Proc. IEE Best Paper Award. Two of his papers were
selected for inclusion in the IEEE Communications Society 50th
Anniversary Journal Collection Volume 2002.
Dr. Sundberg is a Fellow of the IEEE and is listed in Marquis Who's Who
in America.
All
Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to
attend. Bring your friends.
Time:
4:45 to 6:00 PM (refreshments start at 4:30 PM), Tuesday, January 21,
2003.
Place:
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark,
NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/.
Information:
Dr. Hongya Ge, (973) 642-4990 (mailto:ge@njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html for the latest
updates.
Managing Emerging Technologies
On Monday, January 13th, 2003, the IEEE North
Jersey Section Engineering Management Society and Computer Chapters will host a
presentation on "Managing Emerging Technologies" by Joe Chizmarik.
About
the Talk
Managing new IT technology is becoming more
of a challenge as it requires not only integration with existing operations but
also business process redesign from an enterprise perspective. However, the rewards of a new strategic
infrastructure make it all worthwhile.
The presentation will cover the following:
* Survey of key business technology areas:
XML, Web Services & Privacy
* Secure Computing & Communications
Platforms
* Business Process Management, Six Sigma
& ROI
* Knowledge Management / Business-on-a-Chip /
Industry-on-a-Chip
* Conclusions
About
the Speaker
Mr. Joe Chizmarik, founder of The Knowledge
Sculptors, an Information Technology consultancy, has served as the firm's
President since its inception in 1988.
Also known as 'BJ The Cyber DJ', Mr. Joe
Chizmarik hosts his own broadcast and webcast edutainment radio talk show,
'Cyber On! America!' discussing the Internet and its social ramifications. Mr. Chizmarik also has been a panelist
speaking on XML as well as on the Humanistic Uses of Technology.
He is currently on the graduate faculty of
the Management Department, Polytechnic University, NY, NY. Mr. Chizmarik's honors include placement in
The International Who's Who of Information Technology (1998-2003) and in the
Who's Who Among Executives & Professionals, Millennium Edition.
All
Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to
attend. Bring your friends. There will
be a short Computer Chapter business meeting prior to the talk to elect new
officers.
Time:
7:00 PM, Monday, January 13, 2003.
Pre-meeting dinner at 6:00 PM.
Place:
Public Meeting Room, Morris County Library, 30 E. Hanover Ave, Whippany,
NJ, (973) 285-6930.
Information:
Howard Leach (908) 540-1283 or h.leach@ieee.org.
North Jersey Spring
2003 Student Presentation Contest
The new Spring 2003 Student Presentation
Contest is coming up! The North Jersey Section
will be holding a presentation contest scheduled for late-February or
early-March of 2003. This contest has
been held in years past and its overwhelming success in generating student
participation and interest make it an fantastic event for up and coming
engineers. This year's contest will
feature similar prizes ($$$) and have graduate and undergrad categories.
The main focus of the presentation contest is
to give students an opportunity to sharpen their communication skills, and help
prepare for real life situations as practicing engineers and researchers. Additionally, the North Jersey Section
contest provides an excellent chance for students to practice for the Region I
Student Paper contest in the spring.
The contest at the North Jersey Section level
is also supplemented by awarding cash prizes to the three best presentations in
both graduate and undergrad categories.
All engineering students are encouraged to participate in submitting
team or individual presentations on any project work related to
engineering. This local contest does
NOT require students to write a full paper, just a slide-based presentation on
technical or non-technical work is sufficient.
Senior design projects, lab projects, personal engineering hobbies,
engineering policy, etc., are great topics to submit. Moving onto the regional contest requires submitting a short
written paper.
The details of contest rules, judging
criteria, viable topics for presentations, and abstract form will be 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
in the archive section.
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.
The exact date and time will be announced at they become available. All participants must submit an abstract by
filling in the form available at the SAC website to qualify as a contest
participant.
Any and all questions can be emailed to the
contest organizer, mailto:a.j.patel@ieee.org and check out the website: http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/sac
North Jersey Student Activities Committee and GOLD Seek Volunteers and Speakers
The NNJ IEEE SAC and GOLD are seeking new
volunteers to help conduct business at the section level for the benefit of
students in the North Jersey section and surrounding areas. Additionally local student chapters are
seeking speakers to give talks on professional and technical topics.
If you would like to speak on professional
topics ranging from career development, time or project management, engineering
experiences, and many more, or have specific technical topics and developments
you would like to contribute, or even have some pet topics of your own, please
contact the organizer below.
Additionally, the NNJ SAC is seeking
volunteers to get involved at the section level to help organize local events
for students and the GOLD membership in the NY-NJ Metro area. If you would like to help out even for short
periods of time or maybe take on leading a committee in the section, please
contact the organizer Amit Patel (mailto:a.j.patel@ieee.org) to find
out more and come to a section business meeting.
North Jersey EXCOM
Holiday Party Photos
The North Jersey Section (Education Committee) is looking for conference room facilities to hold their training seminars. The seminars are being held on one weeknight from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM. In lieu of providing the conference facility for free, the organization can get free registration up to three members in the course/seminar. Please contact Bhanu Chivakula, Co-chair, Education Committee at b.chivakula@computer .org for suggestions or discussions, if interested.
Getting Started in Consulting
On Thursday evening, January 30th, IEEE
Consultants' Network of Northern NJ will hold its monthly meeting, featuring a
panel discussion titled "Getting Started in Consulting."
About
the Talk
Due to downsizing and budget cuts, an
increased number of companies are considering consultants to fulfill their
needs, while at the same time many engineers look at independent contracting as
an alternative career path. The discussion will explore issues facing
prospective consultants, such as motivation and risks, logistics and
organization of business, marketing and contracts.
About
the Panelists
Some of CNNNJ's long-term members will offer
their thoughts on operating a consulting business and share their personal
experiences.
Laurie Cox is the President of RLC Designs,
Inc. and has been consulting for more than 10 years. Laurie specializes in FPGA design of digital signal processing
algorithms, and also provides software services in C/C++, Vbasic and assembly
languages for embedded designs and PC-based applications. She can be reached at (973) 663-5778, mailto:lcox@rlcdesigns.com.
Dr. Ira J. Pitel, President of Magna-Power
Electronics, is responsible for contract R&D and manufacturing of his
company's line of 3.3-750 kW DC power supplies. Ira holds many patents in the field of power electronics and is a
Fellow of the IEEE. He can be reached
at (973) 263-0017, mailto:i.pitel@ieee.org.
Peter Schutz of Schutz Engineering
specializes in office, medical and laboratory equipment. Peter's area of expertise includes: mechanical
components and systems, plastics, pneumatic and fluid systems, thermal design
and analysis, packaging of electronics, enclosures, process control systems,
CAD and prototypes. He can be reached
at (908) 277-4100, mailto:shutze@compuserve.com.
Robert Walker of RD Walker Engineering has
been offering analog and digital design services since 1987. Robert's expertise
includes sensing, conditioning, control and telecommunication equipment, utilizing
discrete design as well as embedded controllers and FPGA's. Contact: (973) 728-4500mailto:,
robert@rdwalker.com.
About
the Consultants' Network
The IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ
was founded in 1992 to encourage and promote the use of independent technical
consultants by business and industry.
All
Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE or
of the Consultants' Network to attend.
Admission is free.
Time:
7:30 PM, Thursday, January 30th, 2003.
Place:
MCE/KDI Triangle, 60 S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ.
Information: For directions and up-to-date meeting status, call Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or visit our website at http://www.technologyontap.org/. To download a map to KDI, go to: http://www.kditriangle.com/directions.htm.
Cost Effective UHF Switched Filter with
Constant Bandwidth
On February 12th, 2003, the IEEE NJ Section
Electron Devices, and Circuits and Systems Chapters together with the New
Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on "Switched Filter with
Constant Bandwidth." The speaker
will be Dr. Jim Benjamin of BAE Systems.
About
the Talk
Dr. Benjamin will talk about a digitally
tuned filter, tuning from 225 to 400 MHz, reconfigurable in step size and
bandwidth, good intercept point......a true state of the art device
As part of the design of a modern
communications system, measures must be taken to mitigate the effects of other
collocated systems. These systems may
be of the same design and operate in common frequency bands. The physical separation between these
collocated systems may be minimal. Operation under these conditions require
both attention to the linearity of the RF system design (very high IP3 points )
and the incorporation of adequate filtering.
In the military bands the frequency
assignments can vary. Many of the
radios have either of both LPI and A/J modes of operation. This leads to frequency-hopped radios, a
situation not generally dealt with in the commercial world. The filters must, of necessity, be more
complex and frequency agile. This
agility can significantly increase the cost and complexity of a system.
In this talk I will address the design of a
cost effective frequency agile filter.
Several of these filters were implemented in a recent system. The filter contains two sections using
ceramic resonators and lumped constant input/output/interstage coupling. The coupling has been designed to minimize
the bandwidth change with frequency.
The filter is tuned with a capacitance decade switched using PIN
diodes. The tuning range is almost an
octave.
The choice of a switched filter as opposed to
a voltage or veracter tuned filter tuned filter allows the unit to operate
under a modest level of power, a condition required for effective co-site
mitigation.
In this talk we will discuss in basic details
the design of the filter. The results
of simulations performed and test results of fabricated filters. The reasons
for the deviations from simulations and results will be highlighted.
About
the Speaker
Dr. Jim Benjamin is a researcher at BAE
Systems and previously was a professor at Marquette.
All
Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to
attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, February 12,
2003. Free buffet will be starting at
6:15 PM.
Place:
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark,
NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/.
Information: Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave), Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (mailto:dmisra@njit.edu) or Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT).
Resolve To Advance To
Senior Member Grade In 2003
To become a Senior Member, you need ten years
experience. A Bachelors Degree counts
for three of those years and Master and Doctorate Degrees each count for one
more year of experience. You don't have to be an IEEE member for ten
years. In order to qualify for Fellow
grade, you must be a Senior Member. The dues for Senior Members, Members and
Associates are the same.
New Senior Members will receive an engraved
wood and bronze Senior Member plaque from the IEEE.
To get information and an application, contact Don Weinstein, Kulite Semiconductor, One Willow Tree Road, Leonia, NJ 07605-2239, (201) 461-0900 ext 234 mornings, FAX (201) 461-0990, email mailto:don@kulite.com. Please include your mailing address.
Unemployed Engineers
On Wednesday, January 8th, the North Jersey
Section Professional Activities
Committee will meet to discuss the unemployment situation for engineers and
members of the engineering community.
You do not have to be unemployed to attend. All jobs are being threatened.
About the Meeting
This meeting provides an opportunity to meet
and discuss the unemployment situation.
High on the IEEE-USA list of subjects is unemployment and the
displacement of American citizens by foreign workers imported under the H-1B
legislation. This year the legislation
increased the number of H-1B workers to about 200,000 while citizens have been
discarded and replaced by foreign workers.
And, please do not confuse this as an "immigration" issue.
This is all about money and wage busting.
We need input and views from the unemployed
on this important issue. We will also
like you to confirm your attendance via e-mail or telephone. When we reach a suitable attendance we will
invite the press to give visibility to the employment situation here in New
Jersey.
Our PACE meeting is open to discuss
professional needs. PACE provides the
opportunity to meet, address, discuss and perhaps improve the professional
aspects of the engineering profession.
We should take advantage of the opportunity to have a place and time to
meet. Invite your associates to join
us.
According to PACE Leaders "Employment
Assistance and Career Development are high on their list of
priorities." More on these
projects can be found at http://www.ieeeusa.org/
"Today's Immigrant - Tomorrow's
Victim" see http://www.aea.org/.
All
Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to
attend. Members of other professional societies
and engineering disciplines are always welcome.
Time:
6:30 to 8:30 PM, Wednesday, January 8, 2003.
Place:
Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ 07011 772-5500
Information/Registration: Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954 (mailto:rtax@bellatlantic.net), Paul Ward (973) 790-1625 (mailto:PWard1130@aol.com), Mike Rinaldi (973) 515-8195 (mailto:MikeRinald@aol.com).
Setting and Maximizing Price On Your
Consulting Services
On Thursday evening, February 27, 2003, IEEE
Consultants' Network of Northern NJ will hold a panel discussion and presentation
on "Setting and Maximizing Price On Your Consulting Services." Our expert members of the Northern NJ
Consultants' Network, with many years of consulting experience will unlock the
secrets of how you should set your price and how you can maximize it.
About
the Talk
By popular demand, we are bringing this hot
topic once again to bring you up to date on the latest information. The most prevalent dilemma among independent
technology consultants, both novices and veteran consultants alike, is deciding
how much to charge their next client for their services. Putting a price tag on
yourself can be a daunting and uncertain process. Too high a price, and you
lose a contract. Too low a price and
you are giving up the money that you deserve.
A panel of consultants from the Northern NJ Consultants' Network will
discuss the various methods that they have used in their practices. Among the topics to be covered:
* Data and charts for range of prices charged
by various specialties
* Flat fee pricing vs. Time & Materials
pricing
* The Contract Engineer vs. the Expert
Consultant
* Street Smarts in Price Determination
* Maximizing the Price and Profit
* Negotiation Factor: To Haggle or Not to
Haggle
About the
Consultants' Network
The IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ
was founded in 1992 to encourage and promote the use of independent technical
consultants by business and industry.
All
Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE or
of the Consultants' Network to attend.
Networking after the meeting is encouraged. There is no charge for admission. Bring your friends.
Time:
7:30 PM, Thursday, February 27, 2003.
Place:
MCE/KDI Triangle, 60 S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. (Entrance at rear)
Information: For directions and up-to-date meeting status, call Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or visit our website at http://www.technologyontap.org/. To download a map to MCE/KDI, go to: http://www.kditriangle.com/directions.htm.
E-Week 2003 Kits Now
Available
WASHINGTON
(27 November 2002) - Planning kits for National Engineers Week 2003 (16-22 February) are now available from
IEEE-USA and the E-Week Website.
The kit will guide you on conducting E-Week
activities in your area. It includes 50
ways you can participate in E-Week, a planning calendar, publicity program,
E-Week poster and a product catalog and order form.
The Discover "E" program provides
information for engineers who visit classrooms to help improve student interest
in science, technology, engineering
and mathematics. Information is also included on Introduce a
Girl to Engineering Day and the Future City Competition, which
IEEE-USA introduced to National Engineers Week in 1993.
To request your kit, contact Helen Hall at 202-785-0017, ext. 8354 or mailto:h.hall@ieee.org. You can also get one by visiting https://shop.eweek.org/eweek/ and clicking "Promotional Materials."
Accessing IEEE
Technical Information - Free Web Conference Coming in February
The IEEE will host a live Web Conference,
"Accessing IEEE Technical Information: The IEEE Member Digital
Library" on 11 February 2003 at 10:30AM EST, from the International
Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, CA, USA. As Internet attendance is limited, IEEE
sections and chapters are encouraged to invite members to central locations to
view the Web Conference to allow as many members to view the presentation as
possible.
IEEE members and others interested in viewing
the free web conference can register at http://www.ieee.org/ieeemdl.
For more information on the Web Conference, please contact Barbara Soifer, IEEE Sales & Marketing, at mailto:b.soifer@ieee.org or IEEE Member Services at mailto:mdlhelp@ieee.org.
IEEE-USA President Describes Threats Facing US Engineers at Summit on the US Science and Engineering Workforce
WASHINGTON (2 December 2002) - IEEE-USA
President LeEarl Bryant pointed to recent sharp increases in engineering
unemployment and declining real wages as serious threats to the long-term
viability of US engineering careers at the National Academies' Pan Organizational
Summit on the US Science and Engineering Workforce last month.
Bryant expressed serious concerns about the
potentially adverse, long-term effects of workforce utilization practices that
are making engineering jobs less secure and engineering careers more tenuous
than ever. She cited the increasing
reliance by employers on temporary foreign workers, non-standard employment
arrangements and outsourcing of engineering work to lower cost, offshore
locations. Non-standard employment
arrangements utilize contingent, part-time, or contract workers instead of
regular, full-time employees to reduce labor costs and facilitate just-in-time
delivery of high value-added products and services, Bryant explained.
Unfortunately, management's short-term emphasis
on labor flexibility seems to be creating long-term disincentives to continuing
participation by many of the nation's best and brightest in America's
engineering enterprise, the IEEE-USA president said.
Many aspiring and experienced engineers, when
confronted with the prospect of periodic unemployment and flat or declining
real wages, are voting with their feet and opting for careers in fields that
offer more long-term job security and higher real wages - fields such as
business administration, law and medicine.
Other important issues highlighted by the
IEEE-USA president included the need to:
provide timely information on engineering labor market conditions;
strengthen math and science education in grades K-12; expand engineering
educational and employment opportunities for women, minorities, handicapped and
older Americans; improve lifelong learning (continuing education) for
practicing engineers and scientists; and reform the nation's educational and
employment-based immigration system.
For the entire work, go to http://www.ieeeusa.org/forum/
POLICY/12nov02.pdf.
The 11-12 November invitational meeting was hosted by the National Academies' Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) and attended by representatives from more than 40 national organizations, including business associations, educational institutions, government agencies and professional societies. Its purpose was to enable stakeholders to identify causes and recommend solutions to problems affecting supply and demand for US scientists and engineers. For more information on GUIRR, go to http://www7.nationalacademies.org/guirr/.
Deadline:
15 March 2003
Recognizing the achievements of its members
is an important part of the mission of the IEEE. The IEEE grade of Fellow is conferred upon a person of
"outstanding and extraordinary qualifications and experience in IEEE
designated fields, and who has made important individual contributions to one
or more of these fields." The
total number of Fellows selected each year does not exceed 0.1% of the total
IEEE membership.
Any person, including nonmembers, is eligible
to serve as a nominator with the following exceptions: members of the IEEE Board of Directors,
members of the IEEE Fellow Committee, IEEE Technical Society/Council Fellow
Evaluating Committee Chairs, members of IEEE Technical Society/Council
Evaluating Committees reviewing the nomination, or IEEE staff. The deadline for nominations is 15 March
2003.
The candidate must be an IEEE Senior Member
at the time the nomination is submitted, and he/she must have completed 5 years
of service in any grade of IEEE membership.
All the necessary material to assist you in the nomination process is available on the IEEE Web site: http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/fellows/fellows.htm. If you prefer a hard copy, please send an e-mail to mailto:fellow-kit@ieee.org. Include your name, street address, city, state/province, postal code, country, and telephone/fax numbers.
PES/IAS: Integrated Electrical Assemblies
On March 20th, 2003, the Power Engineering
and Industrial Applications Chapters will sponsor a technical meeting on
"Integrated Electrical Assemblies."
The speaker will be Mr. Wayne Celeste.
About the Talk
Current trends in the electrical equipment
design arena require that engineers fit more electrical distribution and
control equipment into a smaller available space. Whether the project is a new construction retail store, or an electrical
upgrade to an existing water treatment plant, the need for additional floor
space is critical.
This speaker will explore several methods of
consolidating electrical distribution equipment into one, space-saving
assembly. Topics will include Integrated
UL 891 switchboards, UL 845 Motor Control Centers, and small unit substation
designs. In addition to floor space
savings, the speaker will discuss additional advantages these designs offer,
such as reduction in installed cost and time to project completion.
About the Speaker
Mr. Wayne Celeste is a District Application
Engineer at Cutler-Hammer.
Time:
7:00 PM, Thursday, March 20, 2003.
Place:
Eaton/Cutler Hammer, 690 Rahway Ave, Union, NJ. Directions: Route 82 Morris Avenue from
either Springfield or Union to Rahway Ave.
Information:
Ron Quade (212) 833-0268.
IEEE
North Jersey Section Seminar
OBJECT-ORIENTED C# DESIGN & PROGRAMMING
Tuesday Evenings, March 11, 2003 through April
29, 2003, Eight weekly classes (March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29)
from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM Ramada Inn Clifton, 265 Route 3 East, Clifton, NJ 07014 (Checks should not be mailed to this
address)
ABSTRACT
Microsoft has created a new programming
language, C# (Sea Sharp) as part of its new .NET development environment. Although MS still supports Visual basic and
C++ (and maybe Java), clearly C# is its language of choice for Windows and
Internet usage, and will be its best-supported language. C# is an Object-Oriented language of
course. It is more powerful than VB but
still allows simple programs to be created in the VB drag-and-drop tradition. It is simpler than C++ but still allows
complicated programs with more obvious code.
This course covers the C# language itself,
the sizeable libraries that support it, the ability to create screen images
(for console or internet) and use of the MS Visual .NET development suite. This course begins with the environment and
motivation for C# and mechanics of the language. It then describes C#'s ways to declare classes and use objects of
those classes. Special facilities for
creating Windows, or internet, programs are treated. A downloadable command line compiler can be used, however, the
elegant visual .NET development suite is also described.
Finally several C# software engineering
capabilities to enhance development efficiency and reliability are
covered. Design is covered using
UML. The course has a practical, "how-to-do-it"
approach.
TARGET AUDIENCE
This is not a course in how to program
computers. It is intended to extend the
capabilities of those who are already programmers so a familiarity with
foundation programming concepts will be very helpful. But O-O programming is still programming so the course will cover
concepts, implementation and practical aspects of using C#.
COURSE TOPICS
1. What is the programming environment today:
What is C#, why did Microsoft create it and where do they expect it to go.
2. C# classes and object instantiation:
Fields and constructor and other methods, visibility, how classes encapsulate
the real world and its characteristics.
3. Characteristics of code within
methods: names, data types, operators
and keywords, expressions and statements, control mechanisms for branching and
looping, how everything is a class, value and reference types, boxing.
4. Mechanics of program creation: compilers,
emulators, jit, formatting, layout, debugging, and testing, documentation and
comments, O-O design, UML, development tools.
5. Anatomy of a console C# program: main,
elementary input and output, static members.
6. Inheritance and derived classes: use of library classes, some special classes
such as string, namespaces and using, other object interaction.
7. Deeper into classes and objects: delegates, properties, overloading methods,
Interfaces, for each, containers and enumerators.
8. The concept of Windows programs: events
and handlers, use of the mouse, the large Forms library, commonality between
console and internet, examples of windows programs.
9. Engineering issues, garbage collection,
unmanaged code, attributes, finalize, threads, ref and out, file I/O,
efficiency and real-time.
10. Other actors in the game: XML, COM+,
SOAP, ADO, Regex
Class size will be limited to a maximum of
25. Early registration is
recommended. The members are required
to pre-register by calling Mr. Bhanu Chivakula on (732) 718-3818. Registration and checks are accepted only
after pre-registration.
WHERE:
Ramada Inn Clifton, 265 Route 3 East,
Clifton, NJ. (Checks should not be
mailed to this address)
WHEN:
8 Sessions, Tuesdays on March 11, 18, 25,
April 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29; Time: 6:30-9:00 PM
COST:
With textbook or notes: IEEE (&
affiliate) members $300; Non-IEEE members $400.
CONTACT:
Bhanu Chivakula - email mailto:b.chivakula@computer.org.
REGISTRATION: OBJECT-ORIENTED C# DESIGN & PROGRAMMING
Please send checks with this form to Bhanu
Chivakula, 19 Prestwick Way, Edison, NJ 08820.
Include the sender's address and mark the envelope "OBJECT-ORIENTED
C#." (Checks payable to "North Jersey Section IEEE" with
registration form should be mailed to this address)
Direct inquiries via email to mailto:B.Chivakula@computer.org.
Name:
/ Mr. / Mrs. / Miss / Ms. /
______________________________________
email address ___________________________________________________________
__ Non-member
__ 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 Registration
status will be mailed after March 4, 2003.
In general, the effective date of the application corresponds to the
date when BOTH a fully completed application/registration and payment are
received.
__ Tuition receipt will be mailed only if
this box is checked
Signature:___________________________________________
IEEE
North Jersey Section Seminar
JAVA PROGRAMMING
Wednesday Evenings, January 29, 2003 through
April 2, 2003, Ten weekly classes (Jan.
29, Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26, March 5, 12, 19, 26 and April 2) from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Ramada Inn Clifton, 265 Route 3 East, Clifton, NJ 07014 (Checks should not be
mailed to this address)
The North Jersey Section IEEE is offering an
evening seminar/course entitled "Java Programming." This course, however, will be for anyone
even if he/she has never taken a programming course. The instructor will provide the necessary software (compiler and
editor) for everyone to get started immediately from ground zero! More assignments and handouts are planned
this time.
Instructor:
Dr. Donald Hsu, PhD, has been a corporate manager for 11 years and is an
experienced trainer. Since 1997, he has
trained 150+ people in Java Programming and Advanced Java Programming courses
in five organizations.
TOPICS
Explain the dynamic growth in Java
Programming, contrast the importance of AWT, CGI, JavaScript and HTML, classify
the different types of Java applets vs Java applications, identify the control
structures, arrays and classes,
construct character strings and graphics
tools, define multithreading, files and streams, draw multimedia, animation and
swing images, build audio files, JavaBeans and networking applications,
distinguish Java utilities, error handling, serialization and reflection and
analyze real-world projects using SDK 1.3 development tools.
Class size will be limited to a maximum of
25. Early registration is
recommended. The members are required
to pre-register by calling Mr. Bhanu Chivakula on (732) 718-3818. Registration
and checks are accepted only after pre-registration.
WHERE: Ramada Inn Clifton, 265 Route 3 East,
Clifton, NJ. (Checks should not be
mailed to this address)
WHEN: 10 Sessions, Wednesdays on Jan. 29,
Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26, March 5, 12, 19, 26 and April 2; Time: 6:30-9:00 PM
COST: With textbook or notes: IEEE (&
affiliate) members $300; Non-IEEE members $400.
CONTACT: Bhanu Chivakula - email b.chivakula@computer.org.
REGISTRATION:
Java Programming
Please send checks with this form to Bhanu
Chivakula, 19 Prestwick Way, Edison, NJ 08820.
Include the sender's address and mark the envelope "Java
Programming." (Checks payable to "North Jersey Section IEEE"
with registration form should be mailed to this address ) Direct inquiries via
email to mailto:B.Chivakula@computer.org.
Name:
/ Mr. / Mrs. / Miss / Ms. /
______________________________________
email address ___________________________________________________________
__ Non-member
__ 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.
Registration status will be mailed after
January 10, 2002 In general, the
effective date of the application corresponds to the date when BOTH a fully completed
application/registration and payment are received.
__ Tuition receipt will be mailed only if
this box is checked
Signature:___________________________________________
