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January 2008
Volume 54, Number 6
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:
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Leach (h.leach “AT” ieee.org)
The
IEEE North Jersey
Section Activities
January
2008
Jan. 2 – “NJ Section Meeting”,
Jan. 9 – “Engineers Meet:
Interview Communication Skills” by Amy Duncan - NJ
PACE, GOLD, WIE,
Jan. 31 – “Develop More Products Without More Resources”,
NJ Consultants' Network,
Jan. 31 – “How Light Emerges from an Illuminated Array of
Sub-Wavelength Apertures” by Dr. Girsh Blumberg, NJ LEOS Chapter, 5:00
PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
Jan. 31 – “A Small-Gain Methodology for Robust Nonlinear
Control” by Dr. Z.P. Jiang, NJ SMC Chapter, 7:00 PM,
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Weston Lecture Hall #1 (Intersection
between
Upcoming
Meetings
Feb. 6 – “NJ Section Meeting”,
Feb. 20 – “Automated Design of Microfluidics-Based
Biochips: Connecting Biochemistry to
Electronics CAD” by Professor Krishnendu Chakrabarty, NJ
EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room
202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Richard
Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or
Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
Feb. 22 – “Power Monitoring
Solutions Seminar”, NJ PES/IAS, 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Automatic
Switch Company,
Mar. 14-May
9 – “Project Management”
by Dr. Donald Hsu, North Jersey Section, Tuesday Evenings, 8 sessions,
6:30-9:00 PM, NJ International Bulk Mail Center, 80 County Rd, Jersey City,
NJ. Donald Hsu (yanyou “AT” hotmail.com).
Members and Non-Members Welcome
PLEASE POST
Newly Elected IEEE Fellows
The
North Jersey Section IEEE congratulates the following member who was elected to
the Fellow grade:
Dr. Ronald Brachman
“for leadership in knowledge representation and reasoning in computer
science and artificial intelligence.”
NJ Consultants' Network:
Develop More Products Without More Resources
On
Thursday, January 31, 2008, the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ is
pleased to present ”Develop More Products Without More Resources”, by Donald A.
Borcherding.
About the Talk
Development
teams are challenged to develop more products, in shorter timeframes with the
same or fewer resources. As we all know, this is a difficult challenge and, if
not properly addressed, will create a fast paced, dynamic and often chaotic and
frustrating environment.
A
new solution is emerging which looks at how well the organization’s approach
stacks up against the challenges of their development environment and
introduces a new term called Product Focus.
Product
Focus is the idea that organizations tend to exhibit a consistent behavior when
planning and executing projects and as you would expect, organizations are most
effective when their Product Focus matches their Development Environment.
All
attendees will have an opportunity to complete a survey to identify your
organization’s Product Focus. An overview on how to interpret your Product
Focus will be provided along with methods and practices to shift and change
your focus to better match the environment.
Recently
compiled industry results will be used to characterize different size companies
and identify which companies are most likely to use consultants and
contractors.
About the Speaker
Donald
A. Borcherding has a BSEE from the University of Missouri at Rolla and over 20
years experience in new product development. He has successfully optimized
Systems, Software, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering performance in the
Medical Device, Semiconductor, Defense, Marine and Broadcast Video industries
in both small and medium size organizations.
Don
founded NexSummit, LLC to help organizations reduce development cost and
improve time to market. His primary focus has been to understand an
organization’s Product Focus versus their Development Environment to make
improvements that provide the greatest benefit.
About the Consultants’ Network
Founded in 1992, the IEEE Consultants Network of
Northern NJ encourages and promotes the use of independent technical
consultants by business and industry.
All Welcome!
Everyone welcome. No registration needed. Free admission. Refreshments and pastries will be available
during the course of the evening. As
always during the year-end workshops, there will be no pre-meeting dinner for
members
Time:
Place: Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated
Products,
Information: For directions and up-to-date
meeting status, call Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or visit our website at www.TechnologyOnTap.org. To download a map to KDI, go to: http://www.mcekdi-integrated.com/directions.htm.
NJ EDS/C&S Chapters:
Automated Design of Microfluidics-Based Biochips: Connecting Biochemistry to Electronics CAD
On
February 20, 2008, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems
Chapters together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk
on “Automated Design of Microfluidics-Based Biochips: Connecting Biochemistry to Electronics
CAD." The speaker will be Professor
Krishnendu Chakrabarty.
About
the Talk
Microfluidic
biochips are revolutionizing laboratory procedures for high-throughput DNA
sequencing, protein crystallization, drug discovery, immunoassays, etc. As these biochips mature into multifunctional
devices with reconfiguration capabilities, automated design and ease of use
become extremely important. There is a
need to deliver the same level of computer-aided design (CAD) support that the
semiconductor industry now takes for granted.
These CAD tools will allow designers and users to harness the new
technology that is rapidly emerging for integrated biofluidics.
This
talk will present ongoing work on design techniques for microfluidic
biochips. First, the speaker will
provide an overview of electrowetting-based digital microfluidics. Next, the speaker will describe synthesis
tools that can map behavioral descriptions to a droplet-based microfluidic
device and generate an optimized schedule of bioassay operations, the binding of
assay operations to functional units, as well as the layout and droplet
flow-paths for the biochip. Techniques
for pin-constrained chip design, fault detection, and dynamic reconfiguration
will also be presented. An automated
design flow allows the biochip user to concentrate on the development of nano-
and micro-scale bioassays, leaving implementation details to design automation
tools.
About
the Speaker
Krishnendu
Chakrabarty received the B. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur, in 1990, and the MSE and PhD degrees from the
Professor
Chakrabarty is a Fellow of IEEE (Class of 2008), a Distinguished Visitor of the
IEEE Computer Society for 2005-2007, and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE
Circuits and Systems Society for 2006-2007.
He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design
of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and System I, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits
and Systems, and the ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing
Systems. He also serves as an Editor of
IEEE Design & Test of Computers and of the Journal of Electronic
Testing: Theory and Applications
(JETTA).
All
Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time:
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202,
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).
NJ LEOS Chapter:
How Light Emerges from an Illuminated Array of Sub-Wavelength Apertures
On