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January 2009
Volume 55, 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: 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
Chair....................................................... Amit
Patel
a.j.patel
“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
naresh.chand “AT” baesystems.com (973) 636-7408
Treasurer......................................... Pete
Donegan
doneganp
“AT” ieee.org
Secretary.......................................... Russell
Pepe
rcpepe
“AT” ieee.org (201) 960-6796
Members-at-Large:
Katherine Duncan (kduncan “AT” ieee.org)
Seth
Jakel (sgjakel “AT” comcast.net )
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
January
2009
Jan. 7 – “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.
Jan. 14 – “Engineers Meet:
Stocks; Methods for Your Trading
Strategy”, 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.
Jan. 29 – “Getting Started as a Consultant”,
NJ Consultants' Network, 6:45-8:15
PM, Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated
Products, 60
S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. Robert
Walker (973) 728-0344 or www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
Upcoming
Meetings
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. 16 – “Dependable Sensor
Networks”, 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. 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.
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”,
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. 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.
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).
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Newly Elected IEEE
Fellows
The
North Jersey Section IEEE congratulates the following members who were elected
to the Fellow grade:
Professor Nirwan Ansari
“for contributions to broadband networks and communications”
Dr. Yves Baeyens
“for contributions to the broadband and millimeter-wave circuits for
optical and wireless communications”
Dr. Anwar Elwalid
“for contributions to multimedia traffic in telecommunication networks”
Dr. Thomas Woo
“for contributions to network security and mobile data services”
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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 Consultants' Network:
Getting
Started as a Consultant
On
Thursday,
January 29, 2009,
the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ (www.technologyontap.org) will be hosting a
panel on getting started as a consultant.
About the Topic
How
do I get started as a consultant? Why
should I? Is it for me? What are the benefits and the downsides? The panelists will describe what motivated
them to become enter independent practice as consultants and how they did
it. Discussion will address topics such
as: forming a business, finding clients,
setting fees, insurance, bookkeeping, marketing and promotional materials. Audience participation and questions are
welcome.
About the Panelists
Pat Banker of Banker Coté, LLC, has been
involved in design of circuits and firmware for embedded systems, specializing
in 8 & 16-bit uCs and DSPs. Her
services include new product design and analysis/updating of existing products,
in the area of microcontroller and DSP firmware/hardware, signal processing,
real-time code. Pat can be reached at
pbanker “AT” bankercote.com or (201) 307-9212.
Art Greenberg of Silver RF Consulting
offers his services in highly specialized field of microwave and RF
design. Art can be reached at
a.h.greenberg “AT” ieee.org
Eric Holme of Mechanical & Elec.
Systems Analysis specializes in high voltage generators and motors as well as
in power plant electrical equipment.
Eric offers services in maintenance, failure analysis, testing and
repair, in addition to litigation and forensic investigation. Eric can be reached at e.holme “AT” ieee.org
or (201) 568-5717.
Peter Schutz of Schutz Engineering Corp.
is designing, developing and testing new products in instrumentation, medical
and laboratory equipment. Beyond
electronics, his expertise includes: mechanical components and systems,
plastics, pneumatic and fluid systems, thermal design and analysis, packaging,
enclosures and prototypes. Peter can be
reached at SchutzE “AT” compuserve.com or (908) 638-3300.
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: 6:45-8:15 PM, Thursday,
January 29, 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 www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
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NJ Control Systems Chapter:
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:
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 Section PACE, GOLD, WIE:
Engineers
Meet:
Stocks; Methods for Your Trading Strategy
On
Wednesday,
January 14, 2009
the North Jersey Section Professional Activities Committee, Graduates of the Last
Decade and Women in Engineering will host a meeting to discuss systematic
methods for your trading strategy. Our speaker will be Bill Purvin, a representative from Charles
Schwab and Company.
About the Meeting
A
disciplined approach to trading is essential in any market, particularly in
today’s volatile climate. The discussion
will move beyond the basics of technical analysis and learn how to incorporate
a systematic method into your trading strategy.
You
will learn risk management techniques, how to use Schwab tools to help you
identify potential trading opportunities and how to use charts to help you
determine buy/sell signals.
Bring
your associates, friends and spouses.
About
the Speaker
Bill Purvin is an Active
Trader Relationship Manager serving Charles Schwab offices in the New York metropolitan area. Bill has worked in the financial services
industry for over twenty years with Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns and Charles
Schwab and Co., Inc.
Much of his experience has
been with Schwab trading and making markets in NASDAQ stocks for Schwab Capital Markets L.P. (now known as UBS Securities LLC). Bill also traded at a proprietary trading
firm in Westchester, NY.
He has a Bachelor of Arts
degree in Economics from Rutgers University and has completed courses
in advanced technical analysis with New York Institute of Finance. He is currently studying to complete his
Certified Financial Planner and Certified Market Technician designations.
All Welcome!
Members and students from
all professional societies and engineering disciplines are welcome. We now have attendees from IEEE, ASME, NSPE,
ASCE and AEA. For information about
these groups see:
www.aea.org
www.ieeeusa.org/policy/care
www.ieeeusa.org
www.programmersguild.org
http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
www.asme.org/sections/northjersey
CARE is the Congressional
Advocacy Recruitment Effort CARE is a voluntary network of
IEEE members who are interested in public policy. To help and for information go to www.ieeeusa.org/policy/care/.
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM, Wednesday, January 14, 2009. Refreshments will be
served.
Place: Clifton
Memorial Library, 292
Piaget Ave,
Clifton,
NJ,
(973) 772-5500.
Information: Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625, PWard1130 “AT”
aol.com, Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954, rtax “AT” aea.org, Kate Duncan, (973)
209–8607, kduncan “AT” ieee.org.
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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 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.
- Tuesday, March 10, 2009 starting at 6:00 PM with dinner at 5:30 PM
- FDU, Teaneck, NJ (Free Parking
available)
- Room M105
Auditorium, Muscarelle Building
- 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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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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Director of Electrical Engineering
opportunity - leading Neuromodulation Company
St. Jude Medical develops medical technology and
services that focus on putting more control into the hands of those who treat
cardiac, neurological and chronic pain patients worldwide. The company employs
more than 13,000 people worldwide and has five major focus areas that include:
cardiac rhythm management, atrial fibrillation, cardiac surgery, cardiology and
neuromodulation. St. Jude Medical has been named to FORTUNE Magazine's list
of America's Most Admired Companies for the last four years. In 2007 and 2008,
FORTUNE named St. Jude Medical the No. 1 most admired company in the Medical
Products or Equipment category.
St. Jude Neuromodulation is a recognized technological
leader in spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain and is currently
investigating the use of its technology in the treatment of such conditions as
Parkinson’s disease, Essential Tremor, Migraines, Depression and Obesity.
Please visit our website at www.sjmneuro.com more information about our company. We offer
competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package. Relocation
assistance will be provided.
The Director of Electrical Engineering is responsible
for effectively managing multi-project product development and implementation
efforts of the organization, including management of the financial and
technical resources required to accomplish specific Electrical Engineering
assignments. This individual will provide technical leadership, detailed
project planning, and overall organization of R & D group resources to
facilitate the engineering of products and processes which meet corporate
quality, cost, and scheduling objectives.
JOB KNOWLEDGE / EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
Master’s preferred. • Twelve years minimum experience in a high technology
manufacturing environment is required. Experience in the medical device
industry is preferred. A minimum of two plus years of demonstrated experience
at a supervisory/managerial level is required. • Five plus years technical
design leadership required. Strong experience in engineering and product
development with demonstrated capability and thorough understanding of the
product development process. • Requires highly developed leadership skills and
experience, including the ability to map task interdependencies, multi-task,
prioritize such tasks, meet deadlines, and develop, monitor and live within
budgets as well as the demonstrated ability to forecast major milestones. Must
be skilled at delegation, follow-up, and team building. • Demonstrated
knowledge of sound design principles, regulatory requirements, and product and
process validation procedures. • Demonstrated proficiency with computer aided
design software and hardware familiarity. Formal training on systems and
software is desired.
•Exemplary analytical, organizational, written and
oral communication skills are a must.
Qualified
candidates should apply online via our website at http://www.sjmneuro.com and
reference position #ANS1107. No
agencies or phone calls, please
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NJ Section Seeks Training Facility
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New IEEE Award Sponsored by Toyota
Recognizes Environmental and Safety Technologies
The IEEE Foundation recently
announced that Toyota Motor Corporation will sponsor a new IEEE award, the IEEE
Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies. This award will recognize outstanding
accomplishments in the application of technology in the IEEE fields of interest
that improve the environment and/or public safety.
Toyota donated $300,000 to support
the awarding of the IEEE Medal to an individual recipient, or a team of
recipients up to three in number, each year, for the years 2010 through 2019.
“One of Toyota Motor
Corporation’s core values has been to focus our research and development
efforts on automotive environmental and safety technologies. This philosophy prompted us to work with
IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional association, to create the
Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies and recognize individuals and
organizations that are making a difference, globally,” said Toyota Motor
Corporation spokesperson. “Together with
IEEE, we look forward to promoting this global movement on sustainability, and
the successes achieved by each winner.”
Criteria considered for the
award include: public benefits of the
contribution; degree of improvement in important performance metrics;
innovative design; development or application engineering; favorable influence
of the contribution on technical professions.
It is relevant to a wide community including power electronics, intelligent
transportation systems, wireless communications, sensor networks control,
control and automation, computing, and signal processing.
Each recipient of the IEEE
Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies will receive a gold medal, a
bronze replica, a certificate and honorarium.
In the event that a team up to three in number is selected, the
honorarium will be equally divided.
“A truly joint effort, we
are honored to partner with Toyota to bring this award to the
global market as an opportunity to recognize outstanding contributions in
environmental and safety technologies,” said Lew Terman, President, IEEE. “We hope the IEEE Medal for Environmental and
Safety Technologies will inspire individuals and organizations to develop
innovative technologies that will benefit humanity, globally.”
Toyota
Motor Corporation acknowledges the cooperation and advice of Prof. Fumio
Harashima, Prof. Hiroyuki Sakaki, and Prof. Toshio Fukuda in the establishment
of this award. To learn more about this
and other IEEE Awards, visit http://www.ieee.org/awards.
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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.
Contact: 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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News from IEEE-USA:
Creating a Sustainable Energy Infrastructure to be Featured at IEEE Energy
2030 Conference in Atlanta
Washington (13 November
2008) - With rising energy prices and concerns about future power supplies and
the impact burning fossil fuels might have on the climate, the need to develop
clean, reliable and affordable energy sources has become paramount.
The IEEE Energy 2030
Conference (http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/energy2030/)
will examine the technology, policy and economic framework required to create a
global sustainable energy infrastructure by 2030. More than 125 original papers and
presentations are expected.
IEEE
Energy 2030 is slated for 17-18 November at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis.
Sustainable
energy meets the power needs of the present without depleting it for the
future. Renewable energy sources such as
solar, wind, nuclear, geothermal, hydro and biomass are typically
included. Sustainable energy efforts
usually entail technologies that improve energy efficiency.
Georgia
Tech Professor Dr. Deepak Divan, conference chair and president-elect of the
IEEE Power Electronics Society, said the strong interest the event has
generated points to the need for a forum focusing on energy sustainability.
“The
interdependencies of technology, resources, economics and policy no longer
allow simpler models to work effectively, requiring a holistic approach to
defining solutions,” said Divan, director of Georgia Tech’s Intelligent Power
Infrastructure Consortium (IPIC).
Topics
of discussion include reduced carbon generation; public policy for
sustainability; smart grid and energy efficiency; demand management; plug-in
hybrid electric vehicles; economics of sustainability; energy storage; power
electronics; renewable energy; and distributed energy resources.
Speakers
will include, among others, David Ratcliffe, chairman, president and CEO of
Southern Company, one of America’s largest electricity producers; Clark
Gellings, vice president of technology, Electric Power Research Institute
(EPRI); and Patricia Hoffman, principal deputy assistant secretary for the
Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability.
IEEE
Energy 2030 was initiated and sponsored by the IEEE TAB New Technology
Directions Committee. Sponsors include
EPRI, Georgia Tech, Vestas, ABB, AWEA, INNOVOLT, IPIC,
NEETRAC, SEI,
Siemens, Southern Company, UTRC and UWIG.
IEEE
co-sponsors are IEEE-USA, the IEEE Standards Association, IEEE Power
Electronics Society and IEEE Power and Energy Society.
IEEE-USA
advances the public good and promotes the careers and public policy interests
of more than 215,000 engineers, scientists and allied professionals who are U.S.
members of the IEEE. IEEE-USA is part of
the IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional society with 375,000
members in 160 countries. See http://www.ieeeusa.org.
Contact:
Chris McManes
IEEE-USA Public Relations
Manager
Phone: (202) 530-8356
E-mail: c.mcmanes@ieee.org
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IEEE-USA in Action:
IEEE-USA Applauds NASA on Space Agency's 50th Anniversary, in Commemorative
Publication and Public Radio Announcements
Washington (30 October 2008)
- IEEE-USA is commending NASA on its 50th anniversary in 2008, through tributes
in a commemorative publication and in public radio announcements. A 368-page commemorative publication,
"NASA: 50 Years of Exploration & Discovery," was distributed at
all of the space agency's anniversary celebrations, events and galas, as well
as to multiple NASA facilities and contractors, and to members of Congress.
In
an advertisement appearing in the publication, IEEE-USA noted: "U.S.
members of the IEEE, the world’s leading technical professional association,
have been contributing scientific, technical and engineering know-how to NASA
since the space agency began -- from the first NASA launch in 1958, to Apollo
11 (1969), to the Mars Exploration Rovers (2004)." Copies of the ad are
available on request to <p.mccarter@ieee.org>.
In
addition, IEEE-USA is highlighting the space agency's anniversary in four
IEEE-USA promotional announcements on WETA-FM, the U.S.
capital's only all-classical music station, with some 400,000 Washington,
D.C.-area listeners. The public radio
announcements, which also recognize NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
in Greenbelt,
Md.,
are scheduled in November and December on WETA-FM (90.9).
Two
announcements will be aired during NPR newsbreaks at 8 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) on Monday, 3 November;
and at 8 a.m. ET
on Monday, 1 December. Two more
announcements will be included on the WETA-FM radio simulcast of PBS' "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer" at 6:59 p.m. ET
on Friday, 7 November; and on the afternoon opera between 1:00-5 p.m. ET
on Saturday, 6 December.
To
listen to the radio programs and IEEE-USA announcements online, go to http://www.weta.org/fm. IEEE National Capital Area volunteers are
also participating in two WETA fall pledge drives to help raise funds for the
public television and radio station.
Contact: 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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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?
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Protection vs. Selectivity
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Phase vs. Ground Fault Protection
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Equipment Protection (Conductors, Transformers, Motors)
ü
The Coordination Study and relativity with Arc Flash
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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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