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June 2006
Volume 52, Number 12
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The North Jersey
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and December) of each month at 7:00 PM. Meetings are open to all members. For information on meeting agenda contact
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IEEE North Jersey
Section Activities
June
2006
June 7 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive
Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Seth Jakel at sgjakel “AT” comcast.net.
June 15 – “Introduction to 802.16 – WiMAX”
– by Steve Crain, NJ VTS Chapter, 7:00 PM (dinner at 6:30 PM), Lucent
Technologies, 67 Whippany Rd, Whippany, NJ.
Stephen Wilkowski, Lucent Technologies, (973) 386-6487, swilkowski “AT”
lucent.com, Arthur Greenberg, (973) 386-6673, ahg1 “AT” lucent.com.
June 25-28
– “The International
Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2006)”,
IEEE Computer Society, Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PA. Chandra
Kintala, General Chair - DSN 2006, Stevens Institute of Technology, ckintala
“AT” stevens.edu.
June 29 – “RoHS - Implementation
and Compliance” by Keith James and Tom Rainone, NJ
Consultants' Network, 7:30 PM, Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated Products, 60 S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. Robert
Walker (973) 728-0344 or www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
Upcoming Meetings
July 5 – “Online Task Scheduling
for Fault Tolerant Low-Energy Real Time System”
by Dr. Piyush Mishra, NJ Communications Chapter, 4:00 PM, New Jersey Institute
of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr.
Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670 (nirwan.ansari "AT" njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates..
July 17 – “Modeling and Simulation
Strategies in Electromagnetics: Teaching
via Virtual Tools” by Dr. Levent Sevgi, NJ MTT-S/AP-S Chapter,
6:30-8:30 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center,
Newark, NJ. Dr. Edip Niver (973)
596-3542 (NJIT), Kirit Dixit (201) 669-7599, kdixit "AT" ieee.org,
or Har Dayal (973) 633-4618, har.dayal "AT" baesystems.com.
Aug. 2 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Seth
Jakel at sgjakel “AT” comcast.net.
TBA – “Energy Conservation
Series - Power Factor Correction” by Ron Quade, PE, NJ IAS/PES Chapters, 6:30 PM, Eaton Electrical (Cutler-Hammer), 690 Rahway Ave, Union, NJ. Ronald
W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org
Sep.
16-Dec. 2 – “C# .NET Programming”
by Dr. Donald Hsu, North Jersey Section, Saturday Mornings, 10 sessions, 9:00
AM-12:00 PM, Avtech, 130 Clinton Road, Second Floor, Fairfield, NJ. Donald Hsu (yanyou “AT” hotmail.com).
Sep. 20 – “Wireless Sensor Networks”
by Dr. Martin Haenggi, NJ EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 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).
Oct. 17 – “Chip-Package Co-Design of RF Microsystems”
by Professor P.R. Mukund, NJ EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 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).
Oct. 27 – “National Electrical Code Update” by Won Kim, NJ PES/IAS, 9:00AM - 2:00PM, Jersey
Central Power & Light Company, 300 Madison Avenue, Morristown, NJ 07962. Ronald
W. Quade (732) 205-2614 or RWQuade “AT” IEEE.org.
Oct.
17-Dec. 5 – “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).
Nov. 8 – “Theory and Applications
of SEM/FIB DualBeam Instrumentation” by Dr. Lucille A.
Giannuzzi, EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 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).
Dec. 18-21
– “9th
International Conference on Information Technology (CIT 2006)”,
see http://www.citconference.org
and http://www.cs.unt.edu/~smohanty/CIT2006.
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NJ Communications Chapter:
Online Task Scheduling for
Fault Tolerant Low-Energy Real Time System
On Wednesday,
July 5, 2006,
the North Jersey Chapter of the IEEE Communications Society will host a
presentation titled “Online Task Scheduling for Fault Tolerant Low-Energy Real
Time System” by Dr. Piyush Mishra.
About the Talk
In
the past need for reliability has been more stringent in mission critical
applications, for example, in space and military domains. But, due to the deployment of an ever
increasing number of embedded systems in daily life products, expectancy of
failures has reduced significantly even in non-critical applications. On other hand, their susceptibility to
radiation-induced faults is increasing due to increasing level of integration,
reducing size of transistor features, and lowering of voltage levels. Common examples include mobile devices and
sensor networks deployed in open fields which operate under harsh environmental
conditions and suffer frequent jolts and exposure to radiations. In this talk we investigate fault tolerance
in hard real-time embedded systems.
Provisioning
for fault tolerance in real-time embedded systems is a challenging problem,
particularly in battery-powered systems, where fault detection and correction
overheads have an adverse impact on both time and energy constraints. In this talk we present two low-complexity
fault-aware scheduling algorithms that combine feasibility analysis of Rate
Monotonic Algorithm (RMA) schedules and DVS-based frequency scaling using exact
characterization of RMA algorithm. These
algorithms lay the foundation for highly efficient online schemes that minimize
energy consumption by adapting DVS policies to runtime behavior of tasks and
fault occurrences without violating the offline feasibility analysis. Simulation results demonstrate energy savings
up to 60% over energy-efficient offline scheduling algorithms. Significance and impact of online scheduling
schemes will be presented and future directions for research will be discussed.
About the Speaker
Dr.
Piyush Mishra is an assistant professor with the Department of ECE at Michigan Technological University. He has published over 15 papers and a book
chapter. He is currently an editor for
the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, and has also guest edited for the
IEEE Communications Magazine and the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on
Communications. He is also a frequent
presenter at several IEEE Design Automation and Communications Society flagship
conferences such as IEEE DAC, ICCAD, ICC and Globecom. He is a recipient of the IEEE DAC graduate
scholarship and CISCO Information Assurance Group Scholarship. He is a Member of IEEE, IEEE Communications
Society, IEEE Security and Privacy Society, ACM SIGDA and has over 50 national
and international research citations to his name. His current research interests include
resource-optimum fault-tolerance, efficient and reliable sensor networking, and
hardware-based security.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend. Bring your friends and network during the
free pre-meeting buffet starting at 6 PM.
Time: 4:00 PM, Wednesday, July 5, 2006.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973)
596-3670 (nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html for the latest updates.
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NJ
Consultants' Network:
RoHS
- Implementation and Compliance
On
Thursday, June 29, 2006, the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ is
pleased to present ”Reduction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) - Implementation
and Compliance”, by Keith James and Tom Rainone.
About the Talk
The
IEEE CNNNJ has organized two speakers to share their experiences with the
implementation of Reduction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS). Hopefully, you are well into your RoHS
initiative and will use this meeting as a final check for your efforts. If not, you will learn what it will take to
reach compliance. A small sampling of
what you will learn:
1.
Where to start?
2.
Who to contact?
3.
What documentation is required?
4.
Should I pursue exemptions?
5.
How do I show compliance?
6.
What about the China, US and Canada RoHS?
7.
What is required to maintain long-term compliance?
8.
What is QC 080000 Certification?
About the Speakers
Keith James, Crestron Electronics
Keith presently works for
Crestron Electronics, the world’s leading manufacturer of advanced control and
automation systems. He is a designer and
engineering liaison directing Manufacturing Engineering, Test Engineering, SAP
Master Data and Quality Engineering departments for sustaining existing
products and leading New Product Introductions. Keith is the RoHS Committee Chairperson
leading Crestron’s initiatives to comply with Environmental laws and
regulations within the global marketplace.
He has been an active member with the Society of Manufacturing Engineers
and Northern New Jersey Chapter of APICS for over 10 years.
Crestron began their RoHS
initiatives 2 years ago by first placing an emphasis on materials management,
procurement, and configuration enhancements with their SAP system. The overall RoHS roadmap consisted of capital
expenditure, training, and design of experiments. They have more than 750 active products
considered RoHS production ready with a combined compliant component total of
over 10,000 line items. Crestron has
been producing lead-free and RoHS product since April 2005.
Tom Rainone, Contract Manufacturing Services (CMS)
Tom has over thirty years
experience in corporate management of manufacturing companies. Prior to founding CMS in 2003, Tom owned a
mid-sized contract manufacturing company for ten years, which gives him a
unique insight into the problems and issues of achieving RoHS compliance. He holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical
Engineering, and is a Certified IECQ Implementer for Hazardous Substance
Process Management (RoHS Compliance to QC 080000).
About the Consultants’ Network
Founded in 1992, the IEEE Consultants Network of
Northern NJ encourages and promotes the use of independent technical
consultants by business and industry.
All Welcome!
Everyone welcome. No registration needed. Free admission.
Time: 7:30 PM, Thursday, June
29, 2006.
Place: Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated
Products, 60 S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany,
NJ.
(Entrance at rear of building)
Information: For directions and up-to-date
meeting status, call Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or visit our website at www.TechnologyOnTap.org. To download a map to KDI, go to: http://www.mcekdi-integrated.com/directions.htm.
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NJ EDS/C&S Chapters:
Wireless
Sensor Networks
On
September 20, 2006, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems
Chapters together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk
on “Wireless Sensor Networks: A New
Paradigm for Ubiquitous Sensing and Information Processing." The speaker will be Dr. Martin Haenggi.
About the Talk
Due
to the advances in wireless communications and electronics in recent years, the
development of networks of low-cost, low-power, and multifunctional sensors has
received increasing attention. These
sensors gather and process data, and communicate with each other over a
wireless channel. Various hardware
platforms have already been designed to test the many ideas spawned by the
research community and to implement applications in many fields of science and
technology. This presentation gives a
general introduction to sensor networks.
We will discuss their properties, emphasizing the differences to other
types of wireless networks, including WLANs and ad hoc networks. An overview of existing hardware solutions
for sensor networks will be given, and we will conclude by discussing future
directions and developments.
About the Speaker
Martin Haenggi received the
Dipl. Ing. (M.Sc.) degree in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology (ETH) in 1995.
In 1995, he joined the Signal and Information Processing Laboratory at
ETH as a Teaching and Research Assistant.
Between 1996 and 1998, he continued his studies and earned the Dipl. NDS
ETH (post-diploma) degree in information technology. In 1999, he completed his PhD thesis on the
analysis, design, and optimization of cellular neural networks. After a postdoctoral year at the Electronics
Research Laboratory at the University of California in Berkeley, he joined the
faculty of the electrical engineering department at the University of Notre
Dame as an assistant professor in January 2001.
He is a senior member of the IEEE, a professional member of the ACM and
the ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education), and a reviewer for
numerous international journals and conferences. Recently he joined the Editorial Board of the
Elsevier Journal of Ad Hoc Networks. For
both his MSc and his PhD theses, he was awarded the ETH medal, and he received
an NSF CAREER award in 2005. His
scientific interests include networking, wireless communications, and dynamical
systems, with an emphasis on ad hoc and sensor networks. His publications include 3 book chapters, 21
journal publications, and 36 conference papers.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, September
20, 2006. 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. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973)
596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
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NJ EDS/C&S Chapters:
Chip-Package
Co-Design of RF Microsystems
On
October 17, 2006, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems
Chapters together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk
on “Chip-Package Co-Design of RF Microsystems." The speaker will be Professor P.R. Mukund.
About the Talk
The
design of systems that contain both RF circuitry and digital circuitry, either
in a single integrated circuit or a single package, poses challenges that are
difficult to overcome with traditional design tools. For an efficient design methodology, it is
imperative that an early design component be incorporated into the design
cycle. Further, the chip and the package
have to be designed concurrently. In
this talk, a chip package co-design methodology and a resultant software tool
will be presented. This research was
sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Semiconductor
Corporation. In addition, related topics
of built-in self test and self calibration of RF I.C.s will also be discussed.
About the Speaker
Professor P.R. Mukund is the
Director of the RF, Analog and Mixed-signal Laboratory (RAMLAB) at R.I.T. In this capacity, he is the principal
investigator of five research projects, sponsored by both industry and
government agencies. He is currently
supervising the research of five PhD students, whose work is based on close
interaction with companies such as LSI Logic, Freescale Semiconductors,
National Semiconductors and Kawasaki LSI.
Dr. Mukund has a BSEE, MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from
the University of Tennessee and has seven years of industrial experience, in
addition to seventeen years of academic experience. He has co-edited IEEE Computer, chaired
several IEEE international conferences and is currently on the Steering
Committee of the IEEE International SoC Conference. He has published in the area of analog and RF
integrated circuit design, in refereed forums.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Tuesday, October 17,
2006. 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. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973)
596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
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NJ EDS/C&S Chapters:
Theory
and Applications of SEM/FIB DualBeam Instrumentation
On
November 8, 2006, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems
Chapters together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk
on “Theory and Applications of SEM/FIB DualBeam Instrumentation." The speaker will be Dr. Lucille A. Giannuzzi.
About the Talk
The
basic concepts of ion-solid interactions and focused ion beam (FIB)
instrumentation and theory will be presented.
Examples of basic FIB milling and the uses of gases for chemical vapor
deposition and gas enhanced etching will be given. The first uses of FIB in the semiconductor
industry for device modification and circuit repair have extending into many
applications, materials research, and industrial markets. The applications of FIB and DualBeam usage on
multiple material systems in numerous industries have been realized, and
examples of FIB milling for many material systems will be shown. Uses of the DualBeam platform for
nanotechnology applications will be described, showing that the utilization of
such a tool is limited only by one’s imagination. FIB milling techniques for specimen
preparation for scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron
microscopy (TEM), and other analytical tools will be presented. In particular, the ex-situ lift-out and
in-situ lift-out TEM techniques will be presented in detail, and the
applications of these specimen preparation methods for many TEM and Scanning
TEM techniques will be emphasized. The
concepts and advantages of a dual platform FIB and scanning electron microscope
(SEM) will be discussed. In particular,
the development of the combined FIB/SEM DualBeam instrumentation as a nano-lab
and a 3D characterization tool which including microstructure, elemental
composition, and crystallographic information will be given. Examples of using the DualBeam as a 30 keV
scanning transmission electron microscope will also be presented.
About the Speaker
Lucille A. Giannuzzi
received her BE and MS Degrees from SUNY Stony Brook, and her PhD Degree from
The Pennsylvania State University. She
spent ten years at the University of Central Florida where she was the
recipient of an NSF Career Award. As
Professor of Mechanical Materials & Aerospace Engineering, her primary
research interests included ion/solid interactions and the microstructural
evaluation of materials using focused ion beams and transmission electron
microscopy. She has been with FEI
Company as a field product marketing engineer for FIB/DualBeam systems for the
past three years. She is on the
editorial board of the journal, Microscopy and Microanalysis and participates
as an instructor in the Lehigh Microscopy School. She is active in the local and national
chapters of AVS, MSA and MAS. She has
been a local affiliate speaker for both MSA and the MAS and is co-editor of a
book entitled, “Introduction to Focused Ion Beams.”
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, November
8, 2006. 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. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973)
596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
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NJ
MTT-S/AP-S Chapter:
Modeling
and Simulation Strategies in Electromagnetics:
Teaching via Virtual Tools
On
July
17, 2006,
the IEEE NJ Section MTT/S/AP-S will host a talk on “Modeling and Simulation
Strategies in Electromagnetics: Teaching
via Virtual Tools." The speaker
will be Dr. Levent Sevgi.
About
the Talk
This
short overview provides a tutorial
introduction into modeling and simulation strategies pertaining to complex
electromagnetic problems and supply several user-friendly Matlab-based virtual
tools which are believed to be very effective
in teaching lectures such as EM Wave Theory, Transmission Lines, Antennas,
Radiowave Propagation, etc. Modeling and
simulation concepts, strategies and challenges in electromagnetic engineering
will be discussed. Topics to be covered
include fundamental concepts such as accuracy, precision, resolution, physical
problems and modeling, discrete environment, analytical models, numerical
models, deterministic and stochastic modeling, simulation, validation, and
verification, etc. Canonical tests and
examples will be included to illustrate range of validity, parameter
optimization, and time and frequency domain comparisons. The 2D groundwave virtual propagators can
handle user-specified terrain irregularities as well as atmospheric
refractivity. The antenna array of
isotropic radiators virtual tool can be used to visualize radiation patterns as
well as beam forming and beam steering capabilities. The virtual TD Reflectometer tool can be used
to investigate termination and fault effects along Transmission Lines.
About
the Speaker
Levent
Sevgi (IEEE SM) was born in Akhisar. He
received his BSEE, MSEE and PhD degrees in Electronic Engineering from Istanbul
Technical University (ITU) in 1982, 1984 and 1990, respectively.
In
1982 he joined the faculty as a research assistant. In 1987, while working on his PhD he was
awarded a fellowship that allowed him to work with Prof. L. B. Felsen at Weber
Research Institute/New York Polytechnic University York for two years. His work at the Polytechnic concerned the propagation
phenomena in non-homogeneous open and closed waveguides. He became assistant, associate and full
professor in 1991, 1996 and 2002, respectively.
Since Feb 2002, he has been with Electronics and Communication
Engineering Department of Engineering Faculty of the Doğuş University
in Kadıkoy - Istanbul. His research study has focused on propagation
in complex environments, analytical and numerical methods in electromagnetics
and radar systems, EMC/EMI modeling and measurement, surface wave HF radars,
FDTD, TLM, SSPE and MoM techniques and their applications, RCS modeling,
bio-electromagnetics. He is also
interested in novel approaches in engineering education, teaching
electromagnetics via virtual tools.
Recently, he started to teach popular science lectures like Science,
Technology and Society. He is the author
or co-author of more than 50 journal and 50 conference papers.
All
Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 6:30-8:30
PM, Wednesday,
May 10, 2006. A free buffet dinner will be available to 6:00
PM.
Place: New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark,
NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr.
Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), Kirit
Dixit
(201) 669-7599, kdixit “AT” ieee.org, or Har Dayal (973) 633-4618, har.dayal
“AT” baesystems.com.
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NJ
PES/IAS Chapters:
Energy
Conservation Series - Power Factor Correction
On
TBA, as part of an ongoing series of free seminars on the topic of energy
conservation, the PES and IAS Chapters will sponsor an evening discussion on
energy savings associated with power factor correction by Ronald W. Quade, PE.
About
the Meeting
The
seminar will provide the basics of power factor correction:
·
What is Power Factor?
·
Should I Be Concerned About Low Power
Factor?
·
What Can I Do to Improve Power Factor?
·
How Much Can I Save by Installing Power
Capacitors?
·
How Can I Select the Right Capacitors for My
Specific Application Needs?
·
How Much kVAR Do I Need?
·
Where Should I Install Capacitors in My
Plant Distribution System?
·
Can Capacitors Be Used in Non-Linear,
Non-Sinusoidal Environments?
·
What About Maintenance?
About
the Speaker
Ron
Quade, PE, is an Industrial and Utility Sales Manager for Eaton Electrical, a
manufacturer of electrical equipment. He
has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University and an MS in Power
Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is also a registered professional engineer
in the State of NJ. His prior experience
includes Power Quality Engineer with Jersey Central Power and Light and
consulting engineering with Burns & Roe Industrial Services Company..
Time: Postponed
indefinitely. A new meeting date will
likely be sometime in the fall.
Place: Eaton
Electrical (Cutler-Hammer), 690 Rahway Ave, Union, NJ. Directions:
Route 82 Morris Avenue from either Springfield or Union to Rahway
Ave.
Information: Ronald
W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
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NJ VTS Society:
Introduction to
802.16 – WiMAX
On
Thursday, June 15, 2006, the Vehicular Technology Society will host a talk on
“Introduction to 802.16-WiMAX”. The
speaker will be Steve Crain.
About
the Talk
The
IEEE 802.16 2004 standard specifies air interfaces for Broadband Wireless
Access systems and is expected to energize the BWA industry and open many
opportunities to deploy systems more cost effectively. WiMAX enables multiple services in a wireless
Multiple Access Network such as wireless backhaul, E1/T1 replacements and
wireless DSL. The ability to generate,
detect, demodulate and troubleshoot physical layer signals is critical to this
emerging technology and the overall success of WiMAX applications.
This
presentation is of special interest to engineers familiar with single carrier
digital modulation who would like a better understanding of the Orthogonal
Frequency Division Multiplexing schemes being implemented in 802.11 and
802.16. The presentation will begin with
OFDM basics and then provide an overview and comparison of the physical layers
for WLAN 802.11 a/g, and WiMAX 802.16d
and 802.16e. Equipment will be available
to demonstrate measurement solutions for all of these applications.
About
the Speaker
Steve
Crain is a RF and Microwave Applications Engineer for Agilent Technologies where
he specializes in complex waveform generation and analysis. Prior to joining the Agilent team in March of
2000, Steve was a senior development engineer for Raytheon Company, responsible
for the integration and test of both missile and communication systems. He earned his BSEE from Northeastern
University in 1990.
All
Welcome!
Free
admission. You do not have to be a
member of IEEE to attend.
Advance
Registration Suggested
Please
email swilkowski “AT” lucent.com or ahg1
“AT” lucent.com with full name (first and last) , affiliation, citizenship so
that a guest badge is ready.
Time: 7:00
PM, Thursday, June 15, 2006. Pre-meeting
dinner will start at 6:30 PM.
Place: Lucent Technologies, 67 Whippany Rd,
Whippany, NJ.
Information/RSPV: Stephen
Wilkowski, Lucent Technologies, (973) 386-6487, swilkowski “AT” lucent.com,
Arthur Greenberg, (973) 386-6673, ahg1 “AT” lucent.com.
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IEEE
Computer Society:
The International
Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2006)
INVITATION
TO ATTEND AND PARTICIPATE
The
2006 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2006),
the leading conference on dependable computing since 1971, will be held in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, from June 25 to 28, 2006. Dependability is a
vital attribute of computing and communication systems that pervade every
aspect of our daily lives. As we are increasingly relying on reliable and
secure functioning of these systems and networks, there have been increasing
concerns about malicious exploitation of imperfect systems and networks as well
as the traditional concerns for inadvertent or accidental faults, errors, and
failures. The focus of this year's conference is on topics related to the
question, "How can we make our computer systems and networks more
dependable, reliable and trustworthy and thus make our businesses, homeland and
society more safe and secure?"
The
DSN 2006 program offers a keynote talk by a business and technology leader,
research papers, industry sessions, panels, tutorials, workshops, fast
abstracts, and a student forum. On behalf of the organizing committee, it is my
pleasure to invite you to join us in Philadelphia for DSN 2006.
http://www.dsn.org/
Time: Sunday June 25 - Wednesday
June 28, 2006.
Place: Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PA.
Information:
Chandra Kintala, General Chair
- DSN 2006, Stevens Institute of Technology, ckintala “AT” stevens.edu
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New
Public Announcements - Mailing for North
Jersey
Section!
A
new North Jersey Section non-IEEE members mailing list for public announcements
has been created. The purpose of this
mailing list is to disseminate to the North New Jersey section information
pertinent to their professional and technical enhancement. It also provides information about IEEE
membership services, benefits, social events, networking opportunities,
technical and professional meetings, and contests. All events are open for the benefit of the
membership and potential new membership.
Basic mailing list commands for subscribing and unsubscribing to the
mailing list are initiated by email:
TO: listserv@listserv.ieee.org
JOIN
BODY: subscribe northjerseypublic
firstname lastname
LEAVE
BODY: signoff northjerseypublic
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North
Jersey
Section Seeks Committee Chairs and Volunteers
The
NNJ IEEE Section ExCom is seeking new volunteers to help conduct business at
the section level for the benefit of its membership in the North
Jersey
section and surrounding areas. There are
a variety of volunteer positions open and available. They range from long-term to short-term,
technical to non-technical, leadership or just participatory. All activities have varying levels of time
commitment. For 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 NNJ IEEE
Section, please contact the persons listed below for additional information and
questions. You can even 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
of the positions currently open and available are:
·
Engineering in Medicine
& Biology Chair/Vice-Chair. Contact Har Dayal (har.dayal “AT”
baesystems.com).
·
Solid State Circuits
Chair/Vice-Chair. Contact Har Dayal (har.dayal “AT”
baesystems.com).
·
Historian Committee seeks help collecting IEEE
historical information and specifically IEEE North Jersey Section History. Contact Al Stolpen (a.stolpen “AT” ieee.org)
Additionally,
if interested volunteers would like to get more general information about other
activities in our section, visit the North Jersey Section website for
newsletter information http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
or contact Har Dayal, har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com.
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2007
National Electrical Safety Code Available For Advanced Orders
The National Electric Safety Code (NESC(R)) has been
updated and is now available for advance orders ahead of its on-sale date of 1 August 2006. The code,
which is used throughout the United States and in more than 100 countries, offers practical guidance on how to
safeguard employees and the public when electrical supply and communication
lines are designed, installed, operated and maintained. It is updated every
five years to reflect changes in the electrical and communications industries.
The 2007 version includes new appendices on loading and conductor movement,
extreme wind loading, and maximum over-voltage at a work site. For more
information, visit: http://standards.ieee.org/nesc/nescproducts.html.
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News from IEEE-USA:
IEEE-USA
Disappointed with Senate Bill Increasing H-1B Visas; New, Expanded Permanent
Immigration Proposals' Impact on U.S. Engineering Unknown
Washington
(26 May 2006) - IEEE-USA is disappointed that the comprehensive immigration
reform bill passed by the U.S. Senate on Thursday expands the annual H-1B visa
cap from 65,000 to 115,000, adds an automatic cap escalator and includes a new
exemption for foreign nationals with high-tech graduate degrees without
strengthening safeguards for foreign and domestic technology workers.
IEEE-USA
President Ralph W. Wyndrum, Jr. said: "We don’t understand why the Senate
wants to expand a program that numerous government reports have found leaves
U.S and foreign workers open to exploitation. Fraud, abuse and misuse of the
visas is rampant. The program should be fixed before it is expanded."
Combined
with the H-1B visa increases, the Senate bill also includes substantial increases
in legal permanent immigrant admissions that could have a major impact on the U.S. information technology
workforce and engineering enterprise, according to IEEE-USA.
Dr.
Wyndrum added: "The bill opens the spigot on numerous skilled visa
categories. The question is how many high-tech workers can the United States absorb annually without driving up
unemployment and driving down wages? The Senate demonstrated its concern about
the number of unskilled workers it would allow into our country; it should show
the same concern for skilled employees."
For
more information on IEEE-USA's H-1B position, go to http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/issues/H1bvisa/index.html.
IEEE-USA
advances the public good and promotes the careers and public-policy interests
of more than 220,000 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 360,000 members in 150 countries.
For
more information on IEEE-USA, go to http://www.ieeeusa.org.
Contact: Chris McManes, IEEE-USA Senior Public
Relations Coordinator
Phone: (202) 530-8356
E-mail: c.mcmanes@ieee.org
Contact: Pender M. McCarter, IEEE-USA Public Relations
Director
Phone: (202) 530-8353
E-mail: p.mccarter@ieee.org
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News from IEEE-USA:
IEEE-USA
President Urges Concerted, Sustained Action on Adoption of "New
Internet"
Washington
(24 May 2006) - Just as "visionaries" of the Age of Enlightenment in
18th century Europe pursued progress through rationality, the 21st Century's
"New Internet" will "benefit the public good by balancing the
needs of users and society," according to Dr. Ralph W. Wyndrum, Jr.,
IEEE-USA's 2006 President. Delivering a keynote address on 19 May to some 125
attendees at the Federal IPv6 Summit in Reston, Va., Wyndrum praised the
development of the new Internet Protocol (IP) that will exponentially increase
the number of assignable IP addresses on the Web. He cited advantages of the
new protocol, known as IPv6, including these: simplified mobility, reduced
network administration costs, and improved overall network efficiency.
The
IEEE-USA president projected that IPv6 could lead to new jobs and serve as a
stepping stone for the next "killer Web application." He cited as
examples "Internet on demand" and "the development of new
consumer devices," including appliances that can be controlled on the Web.
According to Wyndrum, IPv6 "allows every device to have its own unique
identity"; and the new protocol will allow for immediate notification each
time personal bank accounts are charged, helping to transform e-commerce and
online banking.
The
IEEE-USA president noted that IPv6 is now a global product and other nations
"are hard at work transforming the new Internet." He stressed that
the United States must lead in setting standards for the new
protocol. Wyndrum stated that the IEEE's "Standard for Wireless Access in
Vehicular Environments" takes advantage of the enlarged spaced offered by
IPv6, and that the new technology is important "to many of the IEEE's
standards projects -- one we're open to exploring further."
With
a recent Frost & Sullivan study projection that the Internet will exhaust
the old protocol's -- IPv4 -- addresses by 2012, the IEEE-USA president called
for a concerted and orderly transition to the new protocol. He pointed to the
U.S. Office of Management and Budget mandate that all federal networks must be
able to send and receive IPv6 packets by mid-2008, and that Lucent estimates it
will need three more years -- until 2009 -- to convert its customer mobility
applications to support IPv6.
Wyndrum
concluded with another historical reference to the development of the telephone
by one of the first IEEE members, Alexander Graham Bell. He contrasted Bell's almost accidental
discovery while working on a hearing device for the deaf with the development
of the new Internet. The IEEE-USA president said the new technology will
"not be the product of a single person, organization or politician -- nor
luck or serendipity," but will require a sustained, collaborative effort.
For
more information on the IPv6 summit, go to http://www.usipv6.com/.
IEEE-USA
advances the public good and promotes the careers and public-policy interests
of more than 220,000 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 360,000
members in 150 countries. For more information, go to http://www.ieeeusa.org.
Contact: Pender M. McCarter, APR, Fellow PRSA, MIPRA
IEEE-USA
Director of Communications & Public Relations/Washington
Voice: (202) 530-8353
FAX: (202) 785-0835
Web: http://www.ieeeusa.org
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News from IEEE-USA:
H-1B
Program Hurts Small U.S. Businesses, New Jersey Entrepreneur Says
Washington
(16 May 2006) - The H-1B program hurts small U.S. high-tech business’ ability
to compete, engineer entrepreneur Oscar McKee said in recent visits to Capitol
Hill.
McKee
is owner and president of O-MC Signal Research in Bloomfield, N.J., a company that specializes in wireless
communication and the research, design and development of high-speed Internet
and local area networks. He met with Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) and a member
of Sen. Robert Menendez’s (D-N.J.) staff during IEEE-USA’s Career Fly-In on 3
May.
McKee,
a 37-year IEEE member, said it is difficult for his company to compete against
other U.S. companies that use large
numbers of H-1B visa engineers. Because these firms often pay H-1B holders less
than the market wage for U.S. engineers, they are able to bid lower on
the same projects as O-MC.
“We
have found that we are at a distinct competitive disadvantage when bidding
against companies that use H-1Bs,” said McKee, who served for 20 years in the
U.S. Air Force and retired as a captain. “We have been told a number of times
that our bids must be lowered if we want a certain contract, yet we find that
impossible to do using American engineers.”
The
H-1B program is supposed to help U.S. companies fill positions
when no qualified U.S. technical professionals are available.
However, very few companies have to comply with this requirement, and the
government leaves it to them to determine the “prevailing wage.” The latter
makes it possible for companies to pay H-1B holders less than what they would
have to pay a similarly skilled U.S. citizen. Rep. Pascrell
has proposed a bill, which IEEE-USA supports, that would correct many of the
flaws in the H-1B program and strengthen essential safeguards for foreign and
domestic workers.
“The
misuse of the H-1B program’s intent dilutes the salaries of American engineers
and injures their ability to support their families,” McKee said.
McKee
also warned that when the economy inevitably takes a downturn, it is the
higher-wage, U.S. workers who are more likely to be laid off,
not their lower-paid, foreign co-workers. In a quick review of some companies
employing large numbers of H-1B radio frequency engineers, McKee found that his
competitors were paying their H-1B workers 17 to 31 percent less than he has to
pay to hire U.S. engineers.
“The
lack of meaningful scrutiny of the H-1B program places my company at a decided
competitive disadvantage in the marketplace,” McKee said. “Congress should
adopt reforms that allow small companies like mine -- that employ U.S. engineers -- to compete fairly with
companies that don’t. Under current law, it is extremely difficult for me to
stay in business and keep Americans employed.”
IEEE-USA
advances the public good and promotes the careers and public policy interests of
more than 220,000 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 360,000 members in 150 countries. For more information, go to http://www.ieeeusa.org.
Contact:
Chris McManes
IEEE-USA
Senior Public Relations Coordinator
Phone:
(202) 530-8356
E-Mail:
c.mcmanes@ieee.org
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News from IEEE-USA:
IEEE-USA
Offers Resources to Assist Tech-Based Entrepreneurs
Washington (4
May 2006)
- The new IEEE-USA Entrepreneurs Village is an online portal designed to provide high-tech
entrepreneurs with tools and resources conducive to innovation and company
growth. It links high-tech entrepreneurs with their peers, and prospective
entrepreneurs with mentors.
Village
members can seek advice and information on such topics as organization,
funding, marketing, human resources, asset requirements, growth, best
practices, and legal and government issues. A search engine will assist you in
finding the right match to your needs. Experienced entrepreneurs are encouraged
to become mentors.
IEEE-member
entrepreneurs who make up the IEEE-USA Entrepreneurial Activities Committee
(EAC) administer the virtual village.
“The
Village allows you to conduct live chats and exchange useful Web links and
articles with other entrepreneurs,” said David Ostfeld, who co-chairs EAC with
Mauro Togneri. “The networking and knowledge-gathering capabilities are
endless.”
The
interactive Village provides access to networking and resources that will help
new and established business owners. Members can post discussion items, link to
articles, meet other entrepreneurs and find out about local entrepreneurial
groups already established within U.S. IEEE Sections.
“Seventy-five
percent of all innovation comes from small business, and successful small
businesses become large businesses,” Togneri said. “Expanding technology-based
entrepreneurial business is critical to the U.S. economy and IEEE
members’ career vitality and employment.”
Visit
the Village at http://www.ieeeusa.org/careers/entrepreneurs/.
IEEE-USA
advances the public good and promotes the careers and public policy interests
of more than 220,000 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 360,000
members in 150 countries. For more information, go to http://www.ieeeusa.org.
Contact:
Chris McManes
IEEE-USA
Senior Public Relations Coordinator
Phone:
(202) 530-8356
E-Mail:
c.mcmanes@ieee.org
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IEEE-USA in Action:
Senators
Highlight Engineering at IEEE-USA Cosponsored R&D Symposium
Washington
(18 May 2006) - Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.)
offered congressional perspectives on the importance of federal investment in
engineering research and development in speeches at the Engineering R&D
Symposium on Wednesday. IEEE-USA is a lead sponsor of the event, which
concluded today at the Hyatt Regency Hotel-Capitol Hill.
"R&D
spending has a positive growth effect on the economy," Alexander said. He
and Bingaman are major cosponsors of the three "Protecting America's
Competitive Edge" (PACE) bills being considered by congressional
committees.
Now
in its fourth year, the Engineering R&D Symposium brings together leaders
from prominent U.S. engineering organizations to gain firsthand knowledge of
the administration's R&D priorities and the potential impact of the
President's 2007 budget request on the science, engineering and technology
community. Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, director of the Department of Energy's Office
of Science, delivered the keynote address.
IEEE-USA
volunteers play key roles in the symposium. Emily Sopensky moderated a
presentation on engineering R&D in the FY 07 budget; and Dr. Martin
Sokoloski moderated a presentation on R&D, innovation and competitiveness.
Sokoloski's panel included Dr. C.D. Mote, Jr., president of the University of Maryland; and Philip Ritter, a
senior vice president with Texas Instruments.
Mote
discussed the National Academies' Oct. 2005 report, "Rising Above the
Gathering Storm." The report, which he helped produce, formed the basis
for the PACE legislation and contributed to the President's American
Competitiveness Initiative.
The
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) serves as the directorate for
the symposium and manages the Web site, http://www.engineeringpolicy.org/.
Chris
McManes, Senior Public Relations Coordinator, IEEE-USA
1828 L Street N.W.,
Suite 1202, Washington, DC 20036-5104, USA
Phone: (202) 530-8353
E-mail: p.mccarter@ieee.org
Web: http://www.ieeeusa.org
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IEEE-USA in Action:
Organization's
"2005 Annual Report" On Building Careers, Shaping Public Policy
Published Online
Last
year was a banner year for IEEE-USA as it was building careers and shaping
public policy. U.S. IEEE members and others can review online the Washington,
D.C.-based organization's efforts, as reported in its "2005 Annual
Report."
These
activities cover the gamut -- from helping the U.S. Congress enact new energy
legislation, to proposing a new legal standard adopted by the U.S. Supreme
Court; from introducing new career publications and online courses, to
supporting precollege math and science teachers; from promoting engineering in
national media outlets, to helping shape TV news spots on IEEE technologies.
Read
IEEE-USA's "2005 Annual Report" at http://www.ieeeusa.org/about/annual_report/2005.pdf
For
more information on IEEE-USA, visit http://www.ieeeusa.org
Pender
M. McCarter, APR, Fellow PRSA, MIPRA
IEEE-USA
Director of Communications & Public Relations
Phone: (202) 530-8353
E-mail: p.mccarter@ieee.org
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Project Management and C#.NET Photos
A
final presentation of the Project Management course at the New Jersey Bulk Mail Center, Jersey City, NJ
Engineers
taking the C #.NET Programming "hands-on" course at Avtech, Fairfiled NJ
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Call For Papers
9th
International Conference on Information Technology (CIT 2006)
Bhubaneswar,
India, December 18-21, 2006
http://www.citconference.org
http://www.cs.unt.edu/~smohanty/CIT2006/
co-sponsored
by
CIT
(Conference on Information Technology) is a premier international forum for
high quality research in the areas of Information Technology. CIT2006 is being jointly organized by the
Orissa Information Technology Society (http://www.oits.org) and the Institute of Technical Education and Research, Bhubaneswar, India (http://www.iterindia.com). Researchers, developers, and practitioners
from academia and industry are invited to present their research findings on
various topics of IT and its Applications.
Four types of submissions are solicited: regular papers, short papers,
poster papers and tutorials.
Conference Tracks: CIT encourages
submissions in all the areas of information technology. However, the papers in the following 6 tracks
will be primary focus of this year conference (CIT2006). The submissions in each track could be on any
of the topics listed, but are not limited to them.
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Novel applications in Bioinformatics, Data Mining and
Statistical Modeling of biological data, Visualization of Biological Processes
and Data, Management, Migration and Integration of Biological Databases,
Biological Database search/indexing.
Communication Networks and Protocols: Broadband Multimedia Communications, Wireless Ad hoc/Sensor
Networks, Network Security, Wireless and Mobile Communications, Emerging IT Networks.
Language Processing: Character recognition, text to speech conversion, speech
synthesis, Signal and Image Processing.
Security, Content Protection, and Digital Rights Management: Watermarking, Steganography, Cryptography, Biometrics,
Digital Libraries.
Databases, Information Warehousing and Data Mining: Intelligent Databases, Query and Constraint-based Data
Mining, Mining Spatial and Temporal Data, Mining of Data Streams, Feature
Extraction, Collaborative filtering/personalization, Cost-based Decision
making, Visual Data Mining, Privacy Sensitive Data Mining.
Application Specific Software and Hardware Systems: Embedded Information Systems, Hardware/Software/Firmware
issues, Nano-technology and Applications, Quantum Information Processing.
Paper Submission: Online submissions of original and unpublished papers are
encouraged. Three types of papers of
papers will be considered: regular papers (6-pages), short papers (4-pages),
poster papers (2-pages). Regular papers
will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (by
Springer-Verlag). Short/poster papers
and 1-page tutorial-abstracts will be printed by Tata-McGraw-Hill (TMH). All submitted papers will undergo DOUBLE-BLIND-REVIEW
by a strong team of reviewers and program committee members consisting of
leading researchers around the globe.
Authors of papers need to prevent identity disclosure in many ways: (1)
not list names and affiliations of authors, (2) not say "my work" or
"our work" in the text while citing self references, and (3) not write
acknowledgments such a way that identity of authors are implied. Author information should ONLY be included in
the submission form.
Best Paper Awards: Three awards will be conferred with due recommendations from
the program committee from the papers presented in the conference. Each award will carry cash prize and
citations. Amiya K. Pujari Award is
provided for the Best Paper of the conference.
Narayan Misra Award is given to the best paper from Orissa. One student best paper award will be awarded
from the papers with students as the leading authors.
Fellowships: The Steering
Committee will award limited number of fellowships to students based on need
and merit, to partially cover expenses of attendees from India. Applications must be submitted before the
fellowship application deadline using the conference website.
Important Deadlines
Papers/tutorials
submission: June 15, 2006
Notifications
of review status: August 15, 2006
Camera
ready papers or tutorial-abstracts: September 15, 2006
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IEEE
North Jersey Section Course
C# .NET Programming
Saturday morning, September 16, 2006
through December 2, 2006
Ten weekly classes (September 16, 30, October
7, 14, 21, 28, November 4, 11, 18, December 2, 2006)
Place: Avtech, 130 Clinton Road, Fairfield, NJ (Checks should not be mailed to this
address)
IEEE North Jersey Section thanks Avtech for sponsoring this “hands-on” course at its
site.
The IEEE North Jersey Section
is offering a course entitled "C# .NET Programming". Since 2002, C#
.NET has generated significant headway in Fortune 1000 enterprise development
systems. Dice.com lists 650+ C# .NET jobs in the New York tri-state area daily! This
course will cover the fundamentals of C# language, the .NET framework, window
and web-based applications, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, and XML. It will be useful for
anyone to develop applications based upon these tools.
You will receive the IEEE
Certificate of Completion when you finish the course. Microsoft Corp. has MCAD
and MCSD certifications. You may wish to
get certified by taking the necessary Microsoft exams with the knowledge gained
from this course.
Instructor: Donald
Hsu, PhD, has been a corporate manager for 11 years and is an experienced
trainer. Since 2001, he has trained 350+ people in C++, Java, WebLogic, XML, C#
.NET courses in 7 organizations.
TOPICS
1. Compare
the enterprise development tools using C++, Java to C# .NET
2. Define
Visual Studio .NET Version 2002 through Version 2005
3. Identify
C# syntax, data type, control structures and common language runtime
4. Distinguish
methods, arrays, object-oriented programming
5. Build
graphical user interface, multithreading, files and streams
6. Explain the
benefit of using extensible markup language (XML)
7. Select
database, SQL server, and ADO .NET
8. Choose
ASP .NET, web forms, web controls, and web services
9. Operate
the network, streams-based socket and mobile toolkits
10. Search and
sort, data structures, generics and collections
11. Present
student Projects
Class size will be limited to a maximum of 16 with a minimum of 9. Early registration is recommended.
Registration accepted after September
3, 2006 will impose a late fee of $25. No registration will be accepted after September 9, 2006.
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WHERE:
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Avtech, 130 Clinton Road, Second Floor, Fairfield, NJ
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WHEN:
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10 Saturdays, September 16, 30, October 7, 14, 21,
28, November 4, 11, 18, December 2, 2006, 9:00 AM to 12 noon
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COST:
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IEEE (& affiliate) members $475; Non-IEEE
members $550.
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CONTACT:
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Donald Hsu, yanyou “AT” hotmail.com
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REGISTRATION: C# .NET Programming
Please mail the completed registration form with the
check (payable to “North Jersey Section IEEE”)
to:
Donald Hsu
Co-Chair,
Education Committee
IEEE North Jersey Section
PO Box 2093
Fort Lee, NJ 07024
Name: / Mr. /
Mrs. / Miss / Ms. /
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addressČ
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of _____________________________ technical society
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Continuing Education Units: Yes $15 No
If CEUs are chosen, please include a $15 processing
fee
Payment Enclosed $_______________ Add $25 late
registration after September 9, 2006, 2006
Please enclose required fee payable to: North
Jersey Section IEEE
As soon as a fully completed registration form and
the payment are received, you are officially registered for this course. Registration status will be mailed after September 9, 2006.
˙ Tuition receipt will be
mailed only if this box is checked
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IEEE
North Jersey Section Course
Project
Management
Tuesday Evenings, October 17, 2006
through December 5, 2006
Eight weekly classes (October 17, 24, 31,
November 7, 14, 21, 28, December 5, 2006)
Place:
USPS, NJ International Bulk Mail Center,80 County Road, Jersey City,
NJ
07097 (Checks should not be mailed to this address)
IEEE North Jersey Section appreciates USPS, BMC for sponsoring these
courses at their premises.
The North Jersey Section IEEE
is offering an evening course entitled "Project Management". Dice.com
lists 3800+ Project related jobs in the New York tri-state area daily! This
course will help you to break down a master project into manageable tasks,
pinpoint possible solutions, and provide information to keep the project under
control. Using Microsoft Project 2003
software, you will learn to accomplish various project plans. In addition, it
will greatly enhance your business, communications and interpersonal skills.
You will receive the IEEE
certificate of completion when you finish the course. You may wish to take two
Certification exams, one in Project Management administered by Project
Management Institute and the other in IT Project+ by CompTIA Inc from the
knowledge you learned in this course.
(This is not an exclusive PMP-PMI examination prep course. No PDUs are
issued for PMP eligibility. CEU credits would be given by IEEE)
Instructor: Donald
Hsu, PhD, has been a corporate manager for 11 years and is an experienced
trainer. Since 1999, he has trained 400+ people in IT Project+, MS Project
2003, and Project Management courses in eight organizations.
TOPICS
1. Explain
the need for a project manager
2. Define
SOW, PERT, GANTT, CPM, and Scope of the project
3. Identify
the team members, resources and plan for the strategy
4. Calculate
schedule, budget variances, and monitor project progress
5. Manage
changes, estimates, and communications
6. Set a
baseline, import tasks from MS Excel, export Project files to MS Word
7. Create
and modify custom reports, templates and combination views
8. Share
resources and create a master plan loaded to Project Server
9. Approve
updates and conclude a project plan
10. Analyze
global E-Commerce and present student Projects
Class size will be limited to a maximum of 20 with a minimum of 10. Early registration is recommended.
Registration accepted after October
5, 2006 will require a late fee of $25. No reservations will be accepted after October 10, 2006.
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WHERE:
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NJ International Bulk Mail Center, Jersey City, NJ. (Checks should not be mailed to this address)
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WHEN:
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8 Tuesdays, October
17, 24, 31, November 7, 14, 21, 28, December 5, 2006, 6:30-9:00 PM.
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COST:
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IEEE (&
affiliate) members $400; Non-IEEE members $480.
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CONTACT:
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Donald Hsu: yanyou “AT” hotmail.com
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REGISTRATION: Project Management
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