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March 2006
Volume 52, Number 9
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
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SECTION OFFICERS
Chair....................................................... Har
Dayal
har.dayal
“AT” baesystems.com (973) 633-4618
Vice-Chair-1................................ Bhanu
Chivukula
b.chivukula
“AT” computer.org (732) 718-3818
Vice-Chair-2............................................. Kirit Dixit
kdixit
“AT” ieee.org (201) 669-7599
Treasurer................................. Dr. Sanghoon
Shin
s.shin
“AT” ieee.org (973) 492-1207 Ext. 22
Secretary............................................... Seth Jakel
Sgjakel
“AT” comcast.net (973) 731-1902
Members-at-Large:
Pete
Donegan
Amit
Patel (a.j.patel “AT” ieee.org)
The North Jersey
Section Executive Committee usually meets the first Wednesday (except holidays
and December) of each month at 7:00 PM. Meetings are open to all members. For information on meeting agenda contact
Secretary Seth
Jakel (973) 731-1902, Sgjakel “AT” comcast.net.
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IEEE North Jersey Section
Activities
March
2006
Mar. 1 – “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.
Mar. 8 – “Engineers Meet:
American Engineering Association – Introduction”
by Mark Carangi, NJ PACE & GOLD, 6:30 – 9:00 PM, Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ. Paul
Ward, (973) 790-1625 (PWard1130 “AT” aol.com) or Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954
(rftax “AT” verizon.net).
Mar. 8 – “An Integrated Total Quality Management Approach
to Innovative Product and Process Design with Practical Case Studies: Process Modeling, Customer Requirements
Analysis, and Risk Analysis with 3D Multimedia”
by Dr. Paul G Ranky, NJ EMS Chapter, 7:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room TBD, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Moncef Elaoud, (201) 841-0072, moncef
“AT” ieee.org.
Mar. 8 – “A Non-linear Method for Increasing the Wide Band
Efficiency of Electrically Small Antennas” by Joseph T Merenda
and Richie J Kumpfbeck, NJ MTT-S/AP-S Chapter, 6:30 – 8:30 PM, BAE Systems,
first floor meeting room, 164 Totowa Road, Wayne NJ. Har Dayal, (973) 633-4618, har.dayal “AT”
baesystems.com, or Kirit
Dixit, Microcom Sales, (201)
669-7599, kgdixit “AT” aol.com.
Pre-registration required.
Mar. 14-May
9 – “Project Management”
by Dr. Donald Hsu, North Jersey Section, Tuesday Evenings, 8 sessions,
6:30-9:00 PM, NJ International Bulk Mail Center, 80 County Rd, Jersey City,
NJ. Bhanu Chivukula (b.chivukula “AT”
computer.org).
Mar. 15 – “Energy Conservation Series - High Efficiency
Motors & Variable Frequency Drives” by John Hyfantis, PE,
NJ IAS/PES Chapters, 6:30 PM, Eaton Electrical, 690 Rahway Ave, Union, NJ. Ronald
W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
Mar. 21 – “Spring 2006 Student Presentation Contest”,
free dinner starts at 5:30PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Amit Patel - NNJ SAC, a.j.patel “AT” ieee.org.
Mar. 22 – “Innovations in Light-Emitting Diodes for
Solid-State Lighting Applications” by Dr. E. Fred Schubert, 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).
Mar. 24 – “Electric Power Transfer Switch Seminar”
by Mr. Ronald Schroeder, NJ IAS/PES Chapters, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM,
Automatic Switch Co., 50 Hanover Rd, Florham Park, NJ 07932. Ken
Oexle, (973) 386-1156 or k.oexle “AT” worldnet.att.net.
Mar. 24 – “Seminar - Learning and Mining from Multimodality
Signals” by Dr. Ching-Yung Lin, NJ SP Chapter, 11:00 AM
to 12:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center,
Newark, NJ. Dr. Yun Shi (973) 596-3501
(shi “AT” njit.edu), Dr. Alfredo Tan (201) 692-2347 (tan “AT” mailbox.fdu.edu),
Dr. Hong Man (201) 216-5038 (hman “AT” stevens-tech.edu).
Mar. 27-28
– “2006 IEEE Sarnoff
Symposium” – see www.sarnoffsymposium.org
for details.
Mar. 28 – “Broadband Wireless
Access - The Next Wireless Revolution” by Dr. Benny Bing, NJ
Communications Chapter, 6:15 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.
Mar. 29 – “Semantic HIFI
Consortium: Source Separation and
Browsing by Lyrics on Future Hifi Systems” by Dr. Ofer Hadar, NJ
Communications Chapter, 6:15 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.
Mar. 30 – “Professional Networking
101” by Ed McCauley, 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
Apr. 3 – “Adaptive Pre-Distorters for Linearization of
High Power Amplifiers in OFDM Wireless Communications”
by Professor Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, 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).
Apr. 5 – “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.
Apr. 19 – “Electromagnetics and Semiconductor Device
Simulations” by Dr. Ramesh K. Agarwal, 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).
Apr. 21 – “Lighting Seminar”
by John Hyfantis, PE, NJ IAS/PES Chapters, 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM, PSE&G
Training Center, 234 Pierson Avenue, Edison, NJ. Ronald W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or RWQuade “AT” ieee.org.
Apr. 24 – “XML Schema”
by Frank Middleton, NJ Computer Chapter, 7:00 PM, Public Meeting Room, Morris
County Library, 30 E. Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ, (973) 285-6930. Seth Jakel – home (973) 731-1902, cell (973)
820-1865, or office (908) 740-4683 (sgjakel “AT” comcast.net), Howard Leach
(973) 540-1283 (hhleach “AT” aol.com).
Apr. 27 – “Embedded Linux”
by Frank Middleton, 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.
Apr. 27 – “Microwave Applications of Metamaterial
Structures” by Dr. Tatsuo Itoh, NJ MTT-S/AP-S Chapter,
6:45 – 8:30 PM (buffet at 6:15 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.
May 7 – “NJ Section Awards
Reception” - 3:00 to 6:00 PM at the Birchwood Manor, 111 North Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. Anne
Giedlinski (973) 377-3175.
Members and Non-Members Welcome
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NJ
Communications Chapter:
Broadband Wireless Access - The Next
Wireless Revolution
On Tuesday, March 28,
2006, the North Jersey Chapter of the IEEE Communications Society will host a
presentation titled “Broadband Wireless Access - The Next Wireless Revolution”
by Dr. Benny Bing.
About the Talk
Broadband
wireless access is the third wireless revolution, after cellphones (1990s) and
Wi-Fi (2000s). It is viewed by many
carriers and cable operators as a “disruptive” technology and rightly so. The broadcast nature of wireless transmission
offers ubiquity and immediate access for both fixed and mobile users, clearly a
vital element of next-generation quadruple play (i.e., voice, video, data, and
mobility) services. Unlike wired access
(copper, coax, fiber), a large portion of the deployment costs is incurred only
when a subscriber signs up for service.
An increasing number of municipal governments around the world are
financing the deployment of multihop wireless networks with the overall aim of
providing ubiquitous Internet access and enhanced public services.
This
presentation will provide a comparative assessment of the key issues and
technologies underpinning promising broadband wireless access solutions such as
802.16 (Wi-Max), long-range/multihop 802.11 (Wi-Fi), wireless DOCSIS, 3G/4G,
mobile TV, digital TV broadcast, 802.20 (mobile broadband), 802.21 (media
independent handoff and interoperability), and the emerging 802.22 (wireless
regional area networks) standard. Key
topics include licensed and unlicensed spectrum consideration; reliable physical
layer transmission using multiple antennas; multichannel medium access
protocols with QoS provisioning; wireless access topologies: point-to-point,
point-to-multipoint, peer-to-peer multihop (mesh); wireless multimedia
services: wireless video, wireless VoIP; mobility; cognitive radio technologies;
advanced wireless security; wireless/wireline integration.
About the Speaker
Dr. Benny Bing is an associate
director of the Georgia Tech Broadband Institute. He is also a research faculty member with the
School of ECE at Georgia Tech. He has
published over 40 papers and 10 books.
His publications have also appeared in the IEEE Spectrum. His books on wireless networks are highly
regarded by many technology visionaries.
They contain forewords from both chairmen of the IEEE 802.11 Working
Group since its inception, the inventor of Internet technology, and the
inventor of the first wireless protocol.
In early 2000, his groundbreaking book on wireless LANs was adopted by
Cisco Systems to launch the Cisco-Aironet Wi-Fi product. The product has since enjoyed phenomenal
success, dominating the corporate arena and capturing over 60% of the Wi-Fi
market share. He was subsequently
invited by Qualcomm Inc. in San Diego,
CA to conduct a customized course on wireless LANs for its engineering
executives. He was again invited to
conduct a similar course for the Office of Information Technology. In 2002, his edited book on wireless LANs was
extensively reviewed by the IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Network, and ACM
Networker, the first time a book has been reviewed by all three journals. 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. In addition, he was featured in the MIT
Technology Review in a special issue on wired and wireless technologies as well
as the Atlanta Business Chronicle and the IEEE Spectrum. He has served on the wireless networking
panel for National Science Foundation (NSF) and was selected as one of the 10
best wireless designers in the United States by Building Industry Consulting
Services International (BICSI), a 22,000-industry member telecommunication
association based in Tampa, Florida. He
was invited by NSF to participate in an NSF-sponsored workshop on “Residential
Broadband Revisited: Research Challenges in Residential Networks, Broadband
Access and Applications”, held on October 2003.
He is also a frequent presenter at several IEEE Communications Society
flagship conferences such as IEEE Infocom and IEEE Globecom. He is a recipient of the Lockheed-Martin
Fellowship for his PhDstudies at the University of Maryland, College Park and a
best paper award at the 1998 IEEE International Conference on ATM. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and has over
100 international research citations to his name. His current research interests include
broadband access, wireless LANs, cognitive radio, mobile TV, and queueing
theory.
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: 6:15 PM, Tuesday, March 28,
2006. Pre-meeting buffet starting at
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. 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 Communications Chapter:
Semantic HIFI
Consortium*: Source Separation and
Browsing by Lyrics on Future Hifi Systems
On Wednesday,
March 29, 2006,
the North Jersey Chapter of the IEEE Communications Society will host a
presentation titled “Semantic HIFI Consortium*:
Source Separation and Browsing by Lyrics on Future Hifi Systems” by Dr.
Ofer Hadar.
About the Talk
In
the context of large-scale digital music distribution, the goal of the project
is to develop a new generation of HIFI systems, offering new functionality for
browsing, interacting, rendering, personalizing and editing musical
material. This next generation of
hard-disk based HIFI systems will drastically change the home users’
relationship to music and multimedia content.
They will be able to interact with music, blurring the traditional
limits between playing, performing and remixing. These HIFI systems will be as much open
instruments as listening stations. In
this seminar Dr. Hadar will begin with a short description of the main
consortium's tasks such as: personalized
classification and content-based management of music pieces; query by humming,
automated playlist generation specified by global and content-based criteria,
automatic production of musical summaries; browsing within musical pieces
through the analysis of their content: temporal maps, browsing by lyrics,
advanced variable speed playback, navigation within the orchestral polyphony
with spatial audio rendering, and more.
The
rest of the seminar will be focused on the main tasks of BGU at the project:
Source Separation and Browsing by Lyrics (BbL).
Three new approaches are presented for the purpose of musical source
separation and decomposition. The first
is top-down analysis, in which analysis priority is given to higher notes. The second is temporal alignment of the
analysis based on previous knowledge of the score. The third approach is harmonic sharing. A large number of notes in a composition
share harmonics. This fact is taken into
consideration. Priority is given to
lower harmonics, i.e. the fundamental, and decreases towards the overtones of
the note. A demonstration of source
separation will be presented.
The
Browsing by Lyrics main idea is to let the user play the song by following the
lyrics. It gives the possibility to skip
or search in the music with regards to the lyrics. Also, it is a tool to edit the time that the
lyrics will show on/off. A demonstration
of the functionality of browsing by lyrics will be also presented in the end of
the seminar.
About the Speaker
Ofer
Hadar received the BSc, the MSc (cum laude) and the PhD degrees from the Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev, Israel,
in 1990, 1992, and 1997, respectively, all in electrical and computer
engineering. The prestigious Clore
Fellowship supported his PhD studies.
His PhD dissertation dealt with the effects of vibrations and motion on
image quality and target acquisition. From
August 1996 to February 1997, he was with CREOL at Central Florida University, Orlando,
FL, as a Research Visiting
Scientist, working on angular dependence of sampling MTF and over-sampling
MTF. From October 1997 to March 1999, he
was Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer at the
Communication Systems Engineering Department at Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev. His research interests include: image
compression, video compression, rate control, H.264 coding, packet video,
transmission of video over IP networks, video rate smoothing and multiplexing,
video quality measures, and signal processing in audio and Hi Fi Systems. Hadar also works as a consultant for several
Hi-tech companies such as, EnQuad Technologies Ltd in the area of MPEG-4, and
Scopus in the area of video compression and transmission over satellite
network.
Hadar is a member of IEEE
and SPIE.
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: 6:15 PM, March 29, 2006. Pre-meeting buffet starting at 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. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670
(nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html for the latest updates.
* This consortium is supported by European
project under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). The partners of the project
are: IRCAM, Sony CSL, Native Instruments, Sony EuTEC, Music Technology Group,
and Ben Gurion University
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NJ
Computer Chapter:
XML
Schema
On
Monday, April
24th, 2006, the IEEE North Jersey
Section Computer Chapter will host a presentation entitled “XML Schema” by
Frank Middleton.
About the Talk
XML is the lingua
franca of today's computing milieu.
However, XML isn't a language of itself, but merely a syntax. The semantics of the message need to be
described, and one way to do this is to use a meta-language such as W3C's XML
Schema, a highly complex artifact designed by committee. This talk will unravel the mysteries of XML
Schema, explain why it should be used, and how a useful subset can actually
make it easy to publish your XML semantics and create/manage XML, with
real-world examples.
About the
Speaker
Frank Middleton is the
President and Founder of Apogee Communications Technologies, Inc., an
established IT consulting services provider based in New
Jersey
that specializes in reducing costs and improving productivity and security in
small to midsize companies by leveraging best of breed technologies, such as
LAMP, and process management through Model Driven Architecture. Current focus is on XML and XML Schema
technology and creation of a tool to generate XML Schemas from XML documents
and manage the results. OASIS has
ratified the OpenDoc XML based document format – now you need a way to access
that XML! For more information, visit http://www.apogeect.com
and also subscribe to his newsletter by sending an email with subject
"subscribe" to news-request@apogeect. com. Frank has many years of experience in IT at various
companies including Deloitte, Citibank and others, and holds a Masters in
Computer Science from the Courant Institute of Mathematics, NYU, and has been a
member of IEEE, IEEE/CS and the ACM for longer than he wants to remember. He can be reached at (973) 796-2754 or by
email at f.middleton “AT” apogeect.com.
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: 7:00 PM, Monday, April 24, 2006. Pre-meeting buffet starting at 6:00 PM.
Place: Public Meeting Room, Morris County Library, 30 E. Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ, (973) 285-6930.
Information: Seth Jakel – home (973)
731-1902, cell (973) 820-1865, or office (908) 740-4683 (sgjakel “AT” comcast.net),
Howard Leach (973) 540-1283 (hhleach “AT” aol.com).
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NJ Consultants' Network:
Professional
Networking 101
On
Thursday, March 30, 2006, the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ will
present “Professional Networking 101”, presented by Ed McCauley of Bottom Line
Technologies.
About the Talk
You’re
an expert in your field. So how do you
turn your expertise into business?
One
simplistic way of solving this problem is to connect the supplier of expertise
(you) with those who need your help.
That’s called networking.
Now
if you’re like me, you’re probably more comfortable with Ethernet, 802.11, or
SONET than the human form of the networking.
In fact, while professional networking can provide incredible returns
for us as business owners / consultants, obviously, it’s not for everyone.
By
now you may be thinking “This is definitely not for me!” If so, you’re not
alone!
Many
of us find dealing with the technical aspects of our consulting businesses much
more comfortable than the interpersonal or business aspects. However, given that most of us enjoy learning
new technologies, try considering networking as simply a systematic and
repeatable process by which we, as business owners, can interact with our
world. While this may be awkward for
some, the horizons that networking may open for you are likely to far exceed
the price of any short-term discomfort you may experience.
Sounds
like fun eh? Actually, after you get the
hang of it and understand some of the ground rules, yes, it can be fun, and
rewarding too, and not just professionally!
So
please, you’re among friends and colleagues.
Come out and join us for an evening of being uncomfortable together!
About the Speaker
Ed
McCauley is President and Founder of Bottom Line Technologies Inc. (BLT), a
16-year old design services corporation offering FPGA, board, and complete
system solutions for commercial, industrial, and military clients seriously
committed to quality product development.
Ed is also an associate trainer for the Sandler Sales Institute.
Ed
began his career at Datatel, a datacom startup that grew from 3 to 300 people
and an acquisition. Next he joined then
start-up "Xilinx" as FAE covering the northeastern US. After their IPO, he left to start BLT. Ed is an alumnus of The U.S. Naval Academy,
Rutgers and Drexel Universities, a longtime member of CNNNJ, and can be
contacted at (908) 479-1200 or via email: ed.mccauley “AT” bltinc.com.
After the Talk
Members
are invited to share their experiences with the group. Come prepared to share, in 30 seconds and, if
you dare, for 3-5 minutes, what your business is all about. Why companies hire you. To kick things off, here is the bio of our
first after-talk speaker:
Peter
Schutz is a mechanical engineer who has been working as an independent
consultant for the last 21 years. He
specializes in the development of new products, especially in the areas of
medical and laboratory equipment, instrumentation, prototypes, and special
machinery. Some of his areas of
technical expertise include: electronics packaging, fluid systems, and thermal
analysis. Peter has a BSME from Lehigh
University and an MSME from NJIT. He has
been a member of CNNNJ for the last 7 years and is presently serving as the
Vice Chairman. His company, Schutz
Engineering Corp., is located in High Bridge, NJ. He can be reached at 908-638-3300 or schutze
“AT” compuserve.com.
About the Consultants’ Network
Founded in 1992, the IEEE Consultants Network of
Northern NJ encourages and promotes the use of independent technical
consultants by business and industry.
All Welcome!
Everyone welcome. No registration needed. Free admission.
Time: 7:30 PM, Thursday, March 30,
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 Consultants' Network:
Embedded
Linux
On
Thursday, April 27th, 2006, the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ is
pleased to present ”Embedded Linux”, by Frank Middleton of Apogee Communications Technologies, Inc.
About the Talk
Linux
has become a popular and robust platform for hosting embedded applications on a
variety of hardware. Such hardware has become very inexpensive and makes it
practical to use a general purpose O/S for many uses. One such
hardware/software platform is the Gumstix, a $200 box with serial and USB
ports, using the Strong ARM processor.
The talk will cover experiences
with this device, and the GNU tool chain used to develop applications for it
using a cross-platform development kit that itself runs on Linux, in this case
an AMD based laptop running Fedora that will also be used to give the
presentation.
About the Speaker
Frank
Middleton is the President and Founder of Apogee Communications Technologies,
Inc., an established IT consulting services provider based in New Jersey that specializes
in reducing costs and improving productivity and security in small to midsize
companies by leveraging best of breed technologies, such as
Linux/Apache/MYSQL/Perl (LAMP). For more
information, visit http://www.apogeect.com and also subscribe
to his newsletter by sending an email with subject "subscribe" to
news-request@apogeect.com. Frank has
many years of experience in IT at various companies including J&J,
Deloitte, Citibank and others, and holds a Masters in Computer Science from the
Courant Institute of Mathematics, NYU, and has been a member of IEEE, IEEE/CS
and the ACM for longer than he wants to remember. He can be reached at (973) 796-2754 or by
email at f.middleton “AT” apogeect.com.
After the Talk
Members are invited
to share their experiences with the group.
Come prepared to share, in 30 seconds and, if you dare, for 3-5 minutes,
what your business is all about. Why companies
hire you. This month - Pat Banker.
Pat Banker spent 23
years designing firmware and managing engineering projects for various
companies in NJ and NY before founding Banker Coté in 1995 with her “partner in
all things”, Art Coté. Since then they
have had the good fortune to assist many clients in meeting their technical and
business goals. Specializing in embedded
firmware development for 8/16 bit DSPs and microcontrollers, the company's
technical portfolio includes signal processing, real time control, user
interfaces, and data communications in many forms. Pat is passionate about producing high
quality code - well organized, cleanly structured, thoroughly tested, and fully
documented. She holds BSEE and MSEE
Degrees from Rutgers
and Stevens Tech. Pat is a Senior Member
of CNNNJ and has served as both Secretary and Chair in prior years. Contact at (201) 307-9212 or pbanker “AT”
bankercote.com.
About the Consultants’ Network
Founded in 1992, the IEEE Consultants Network of
Northern NJ encourages and promotes the use of independent technical
consultants by business and industry.
All Welcome!
Everyone welcome. No registration needed. Free admission.
Time: 7:30 PM, Thursday, April 27, 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:
Innovations in Light-Emitting Diodes
for Solid-State Lighting Applications
On March 22, 2006,
the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters together
with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on “Innovations in
Light-Emitting Diodes for Solid-State Lighting Applications." The speaker will be Dr. E. Fred Schubert.
About the Talk
The use of highly
efficient semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) suitable for illumination
applications will enable huge energy savings, reduction in green-house gas
generation, and
reduction of
environmental pollution. Luminous source
efficiencies exceeding 300 lm/W and color-rendering indices (CRIs) greater 90
are feasible with solid-state sources.
This talk discusses critical issues in solid-state lighting, including
practical limits to efficacy and efficiency, and scalability of chip size and
current density. Possible solutions to
current device-performance limitations are presented: A new type of
triple-layer omni-directional reflector (ODR) with a mirror loss that is two
orders of magnitude lower than the mirror losses of either metal reflectors or
distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs). One
layer of the reflector consists of a new class of dielectric materials,
low-refractive-index materials, with a very low refractive index, close to that
of air. The low-index material is based
on highly porous SiO2 and is deposited by oblique-angle evaporation. We will also present results on white LEDs
with remote phosphor distributions. Such
phosphor distributions offer higher efficiency than conventional proximate
phosphor distributions. Solid-state
sources based on LEDs have advantages not offered by conventional light
sources, namely tunability and adaptability.
In contrast to conventional incandescent and fluorescent sources, future
smart light sources based on LEDs offer control of their spectral composition,
spatio-chromatic emission pattern, temporal modulation, polarization, and color
temperature. This will allow for
fundamental innovations in bio-imaging, communications, circadian lighting, and
the optimization of light sources for specific applications. Several specific application areas will be
discussed.
About the
Speaker
E. Fred Schubert received his PhD in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart (Germany) in 1986. From 1981 to 1985 he worked on compound
semiconductor crystal growth at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State
Research, Stuttgart, as a Member of Scientific Staff. During 1985 to 1995, he was a Post-doctoral
Fellow, Member of Technical Staff, and Principal Investigator at AT&T Bell
Laboratories in Holmdel and Murray Hill, New Jersey. In 1995, he joined Boston University as a
Professor of Electrical Engineering. He
joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2002 where he is the Wellfleet
Senior Constellation Professor of the Future Chips Constellation with
appointments in the Electrical Engineering Department and in the Physics
Department.
Dr. Schubert has made pioneering
contributions to the field of compound semiconductor materials and devices in
particular to the fields of alloy broadening, delta-doping, resonantcavity
light-emitting diodes, enhanced spontaneous emission in Er-doped Si/SiO2
microcavities, elimination of unipolar heterojunction band discontinuities,
p-type superlattice doping in AlGaN, polarization-enhanced ohmic contacts,
omni-directional reflectors, light-emitting diodes, and solid-state lighting.
He is inventor or co-inventor of 28 issued US
patents and has authored and co-authored more than 200 publications. He authored the book Doping in III–V
Semiconductors (1993), Delta Doping in Semiconductors (1996),
and Light-Emitting Diodes (2003).
He is a Fellow of the APS, IEEE, OSA, and SPIE. He received the Alexander von Humboldt Senior
Research Award, Discover Award, R&D 100 Award, Boston University Provost
Innovation Fund Award, and VDE Literature Award for the book Doping in III–V
Semiconductors.
All Welcome!
You do not have to
be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, March 22, 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 Har Dayal (973) 633-4618 (har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com).
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NJ EDS/C&S Chapters:
Adaptive Pre-Distorters
for Linearization of High Power Amplifiers in OFDM Wireless Communications
On April 3, 2006, the
IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters together with
the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on “Adaptive
Pre-Distorters for Linearization of High Power Amplifiers in OFDM Wireless
Communications." The speaker will
be Professor Rui J. P. de Figueiredo.
About the Talk
Orthogonal
Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) has several desirable attributes which
makes it a prime candidate for a number of emerging wireless communication
standards. However, one of the major
problems posed by OFDM is its high Peak-to-Average-Power Ratio (PAPR), which
seriously limits the power efficiency of the High Power Amplifier (HPA) because
of the nonlinear distortion resulting from high PAPR. The present paper provides a new mixed computational/analytical
approach for adaptive compensation of this nonlinear distortion for cases in
which the HPA is a Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier (TWTA) and Solid State Power
Amplifier (SSPA). TWTAs are used in wireless
communication systems when high transmission power is required as in the case
of the digital satellite channel, and SSPAs are generally used in mobile
communication systems. Compared to
previous pre-distorter techniques based on LUT (Look-Up Table) or adaptive
schemes, our approach relies on the analytical inversion of the Saleh’s TWTA
model and Rapp’s SSPA model in combination with a nonlinear parameter
estimation algorithm. This leads to a
sparse and yet accurate representation of the pre-distorter, with the
capability of tracking efficiently any rapidly time-varying behavior of the
HPA. Computer simulations results
illustrate and validate the approach presented.
About the
Speaker
Professor Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, BS and MS
(Electrical Engineering), M.I.T., and PhD (Applied Mathematics), Harvard
University, is Research Professor (Above Scale) of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Prior to joining UCI in 1990, Dr. de
Figueiredo served as Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mathematical
Sciences at Rice University, Houston, Texas (1965-90). Professor de Figueiredo has won numerous
honors for his fundamental contributions to the theory and applications of
nonlinear signal/image processing and communications, and for his role as an
educator and as a leader in his field and in his profession. These honors include: election to the UN-sponsored International
Informatization Academy (2003),
the 1999 IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society Golden Jubilee Medal,
the 2000 IEEE Tri-Millennium Medal, the 2003 Gh. Asachi Medal from
the Technical University of Iasi (TUI), Romania, from which he also received
the title of Honorary
Professor (2003), the IEEE Fellow
Award (1976), the 1994 IEEE CAS Technical Achievement Award,
the 2000 IEEE Neural Networks Transactions Best Paper Award, the 2003 IEEE Circuits
and Systems Transactions Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award, the 2002 IEEE CAS
Society M. E. Van Valkenburg Society Award, the 1988 NCR Educator-of-the-Year Award,
his election to President of IEEE CAS Society in 1998, and, last bit not least, his selection by IEEE to be one
of its fifty leaders, among its nearly 350,000 members, to present the IEEE
vision of the new century in the book ENGINEERING TOMORROW: Today’s Technology Experts Envision
the Next
Century, Janie Fouke, Editor, IEEE Press, 2000.
All Welcome!
You do not have to
be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Monday, April 3, 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:
Electromagnetics and
Semiconductor Device Simulations
On April 19, 2006,
the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters together
with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on
“Electromagnetics and Semiconductor Device Simulations." The speaker will be Dr. Ramesh K. Agarwal.
About the Talk
In recent years,
there has been considerable thrust toward the development of finite-difference
time-domain (FDTD) and finite-volume time-domain (FVTD) methods for the
numerical solution of Maxwell equations for electromagnetic scattering from
complex three-dimensional objects. Maxwell
equations are written in conservation form and solved on a three-dimensional
grid both inside and outside the scattering body. Higher-order spatial and temporal
discretization are generally employed to obtain accurate solutions efficiently
especially for large scattering bodies.
An important aspect of the calculations is the formulation and
implementation of the boundary conditions – both the radiation boundary
condition (RBC) and the material interface boundary conditions in discretized
form. Recent developments in boundary
conditions formulations and implementations will be reviewed and critically
examined. Three-dimensional examples
including complete aircraft configurations will be presented to demonstrate the
power of the FVTD approach.
About the
Speaker
Professor Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William
Palm Professor of Engineering and the director of Aerospace Research and
Education Center at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1994 to 2001, he was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished
Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation
Research at Wichita State University in Kansas.
From 1978 to 1994, he was the Program Director and McDonnell Douglas
Science and Engineering Fellow at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratory (MDRL)
in St. Louis. Dr. Agarwal obtained his
PhD from Stanford University in 1975.
Since then, he has worked in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational
Magneto-hydrodynamics and Electromagnetics, and Semiconductor Device Simulation.
Dr. Agarwal is a Fellow of eight societies -
American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American
Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS),
Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Society of Automotive Engineers
(SAE), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has served as a distinguished lecturer of
AIAA (1996-1999), ASME (1994-1997), and IEEE (1994-2006). He has received many honors and awards for
his research contributions including the ASME 2001 Fluids Engineering Award and
AIAA 2002 Sustained Achievement Award.
All Welcome!
You do not have to
be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, April 19, 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
EMS Chapter:
An Integrated Total
Quality Management Approach to Innovative Product and Process Design with
Practical Case Studies: Process
Modeling, Customer Requirements Analysis, and Risk Analysis with 3D Multimedia
On March 8, 2006,
the IEEE NJ Section Engineering Management Society will host a talk on “An
Integrated Total Quality Management Approach to Innovative Product and Process
Design with Practical Case Studies:
Process Modeling, Customer Requirements Analysis, and Risk Analysis with
3D Multimedia." The speaker will be
Dr. Paul G Ranky.
About the Talk
An introduction
will be made to an integrated, total quality management (TQM) approach to
innovative product and process design with practical, industrial case
studies. The emphasis is put on the
innovation process of novel product and process designs, as well as the
integration of advanced process modeling, customer requirements analysis and
risk analysis, within a TQM framework.
Furthermore, we will illustrate how these methods and software tools
coupled with web-based 3D interactive multimedia, 2D and 3D digital videos, and
other advanced methods can help throughout the entire project management cycle
to increase the success of any engineering project.
Our tested solution
integrates object-oriented process modeling, requirements and risk analysis,
statistical methods, design of experiments, and 3D interactive multimedia
methods and tools, and it is 100% web-compatible. Furthermore, our methods and software tools
are generic, in that they can be applied to a large variety of different
industries and systems, from automobile manufacturing and assembly, to telecom,
computing, hardware and software, aerospace, process engineering, such as the
oil business, and even service industries, such as product / process
maintenance.
During the live
demonstration of the tool-set several validated, practical examples will be
shown, using the active code spreadsheets and interactive 3D models. We are pleased to state, that during the past
10 + years our method has been successfully applied by thousands of
professionals world-wide, in a variety of different industries, including
pharma., automotive, aerospace, IT, manufacturing/assembly, service, and other
integrated engineering design management areas.
About the
Speaker
Professor Paul G Ranky, PhD. Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Department, and IT Department, NJIT, Newark Registered and Chartered
Professional Engineer, Member IEEE, ASEE (USA), IEE(UK), FEANI (Europe), USA
Editor IJCIM, Industrial Robot, Assembly Automation, Sensor Review, and
Founding Editorial Member of IJFMS.
All Welcome!
You do not have to
be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, March 8, 2006. Free buffet will be starting at 6:15 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room TBD, ECE Center, Newark, NJ.
Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr.
Moncef Elaoud, (201) 841-0072, moncef “AT” ieee.org.
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NJ
MTT-S/AP-S Chapter:
A Non-linear Method for
Increasing the Wide Band Efficiency of Electrically Small Antennas
On March
8, 2006,
the IEEE NJ Section MTT/S/AP-S will host a talk on “A Non-linear Method for
Increasing the Wide Band Efficiency of Electrically Small Antennas." The speakers will be Joseph T Merenda and
Richie J Kumpfbeck.
About
the Talk
The
limitations on bandwidth and efficiency of electrically small antennas are well
known. However, those limitations are
based on linear circuit theory. In this
lecture a radiating system is described where electronic switches are embedded
in the radiating structure. The switches
operate at a rate significantly higher than the RF carrier frequency and are
used to digitally synthesize the radiating current waveform. In this non-linear radiating system both the
operating bandwidth and efficiency are not limited by antenna size. The efficiency of this approach is determined
by switch characteristics and the synthesis algorithm. This non-linear method offers significant
efficiency improvement compared to a passive electrically small antenna of the
same size when operating over a multi-octave bandwidth. The theory and fundamental limitations of
this approach are discussed. In
addition, the design and performance of prototype small antenna systems that
operate over multi-octave instantaneous bandwidths up to 120 MHz are described.
About
the Speakers
Joseph
T Merenda and Richie J Kumpfbeck both work in the Antenna Technology Department
at BAE SYSTEMS-CNIR, Green Lawn, NY.
All
Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend
Pre-Registration Required
Please
register in advance to attend the meeting by contacting Har Dayal or Kirit Dixit as listed below
Time: 6:30
to 8:30 PM, Wednesday, March
8, 2006. Free buffet will be starting at 6:00
PM
Place: BAE
Systems, first floor meeting room, 164 Totowa Road, Wayne NJ.
Information:
Har Dayal, (973)
633-4618, har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com, or Kirit
Dixit,
Microcom Sales, (201) 669-7599, kgdixit “AT” aol.com.
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NJ MTT-S/AP-S Chapter:
Microwave
Applications of Metamaterial Structures
On
April 27, 2006, the IEEE NJ
Section MTT/S/AP-S will host a talk on “Microwave Applications of Metamaterial
Structures." The speakers will be
Dr. Tatsuo Itoh.
About the Talk
Metamaterials are
artificial or man-made structures that have properties not found in naturally
existing materials. The most unusual
metamaterials are the Left-Handed ones, also called Double Negative or Negative
Refractive Index materials, which are characterized by simultaneously negative
permittivity and permeability. Many
interesting EM propagation phenomena result from the negativeness of the
constitutive parameters. For instance, the phase and the group velocities are
anti-parallel in a Left-Handed substance.
Fundamental theoretical research as well as research on possible
revolutionary applications for microwave and RF circuits is underway at various
organizations. Although the technology
is still in its infancy, novel practical developments have already been
proposed. The talk will contain a brief
historical account, fundamental concepts, adaptation to microwave environment
and emerging applications for antennas, passive components and active circuits
with unique features at microwave frequencies.
About the Speaker
Tatsuo Itoh
received a PhD Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University
of Illinois, Urbana
in 1969. He worked at University of Illinois,
SRI, University of Kentucky,
AEG Telefunken in Germany and The University
of Texas at Austin. In January 1991, he joined the UCLA as
Professor of Electrical Engineering and holder of the TRW Endowed Chair in
Microwave and Millimeter Wave Electronics.
He has visiting appointment with University of
Leeds, UK. Dr. Itoh is a Fellow of the IEEE, served as
the Editor of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques for
1983-1985, was President of the MTT Society in 1990 and was a founding
Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters from 1991 through
1994. He was elected as an Honorary Life
Member of MTT Society in 1994. He was
the Chairman of Commission D of the URSI for 1993-1996. He received a number of awards including
Shida Award from Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, Japan
and Japan Microwave Prize, IEEE Third Millennium Medal and IEEE MTT
Distinguished Educator Award. He is a
member of National Academy of Engineering. He is currently Distinguished
Microwave Lecturer for IEEE MTT Society on Microwave Applications of
Metamaterial Structures. He has over
1000 publications and generated 65 Ph.D’s in the area of microwave and
millimeter-waves, computational electromagnetics, antennas, microwave
photonics.EBG and Negative Index Materials.
All
Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend
Time: 7:00 PM, Thursday,
April 27, 2006. Free buffet will be starting at 6:30 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 Section PACE & GOLD:
Engineers
Meet:
American
Engineering Association – Introduction
On Wednesday, March 8, 2006, the North Jersey Section Professional Activities Committee and
Graduates of the Last Decade will host a meeting with members of the American
Engineering Association (AEA).
They will provide an introduction and answer questions. See www.aea.org for pre meeting information.
About the Meeting
AEA is not just another engineering
organization. A preview of
www.aea.org will prepare you for the
introduction and give you an idea of their involvement and capabilities.
Our speakers will be Mark Carangi and Paul
Ward. Both are involved in Section IEEE
PACE and AEA.
Subjects of the meeting will be AEA’s
purpose, goals structure, plans, membership, jobs, action, and more.
This event is especially of interest to
students, recent graduates and those looking for a career and support for their
profession.
You are encouraged to attend and invite your
associates. Special attention should be
directed to the IEEE-USA web: www.ieeeusa.org/policy/care/.
CARE is the Congressional Advocacy
Recruitment Effort CARE is a voluntary network of IEEE members who are
interested in public policy. To HELP go
to www.ieeeusa.org/policy/care/