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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/.
About the Speaker
Mark Carangi is a Senior Member of the IEEE
with over 25 years experience in digital design and product test. Mark has an MSEE from Ohio University and an MBA from FDU. He has curious desire to enhance the
profession.
Mark participates on the IEEE-USA Workforce
Committee as a corresponding member and supports the North Jersey Section PACE
activities.
Mark believes the engineering profession
needs help if it’s going to offer a viable career and profession for current
and future Engineers. The old status quo
will not work.
All Welcome!
Members and students from all professional
societies and engineering disciplines are welcome. We now have attendees from IEEE, ASME, NSPE,
ASCE and AEA. For information about
these groups see:
www.aea.org
www.ieeeusa.org/policy/care/
www.ieeeusa.org
web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
www.asme.org/sections/northjersey
Time: 6:30 to 9:00 PM, Wednesday, March 8, 2006. Refreshments will be served.
Place: Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ, (973) 772-5500.
Information: Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625 (PWard1130 “AT” aol.com) or Richard F. Tax,
(201) 664-6954 (rftax “AT” verizon.net).
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NJ PES/IAS Chapters:
Energy Conservation
Series - High Efficiency Motors & Variable Frequency Drives
On
March 15, 2006, 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 High Efficiency Motors and Variable Frequency Drives by John
Hyfantis, PE.
About
the Meeting
The
first part of the presentation will focus on the performance and efficiency
improvements offered by high efficiency motors (HEM). A “replace versus repair” analysis, including
the NJ Smart Start incentives, will be demonstrated using the “MotorMaster +”
software (free downloads are available from a USDOE website).
The
second part of the presentation will focus on the application of Variable
Frequency Drives (VFD) to centrifugal loads, such as fans and pumps. A VFD payback analysis will be demonstrated,
including a comparison of VFD speed control versus mechanical speed control,
harmonic filtering and VFD interaction with “inverter-grade” motors.
About
the Speaker
The
presenter will be John Hyfantis, PE.
Mr.
Hyfantis’ first career path was in the electronic engineering field, 1961 to
1975. Employed by the Southern New
England Telephone Co, US Army Electronics Command, Electronic Associates,
RCA-Astro Electronics, Dow Jones and Co and Intec, Inc. With Johnson and Johnson ESDP, power
distribution engineering was added to the career path.
Mr.
Hyfantis is President of Energistics, LLC, since 1978. Energistics provides engineering consulting
services to commercial, industrial and institutional clients in the
Mid-Atlantic region. Engineering
services include HVAC equipment replacement and upgrade analysis; process and
space conditioning VF drive design and installation; building management system
design; building commissioning; compressed air system analysis; and power
allocation surveys. Energistics also
provides workshops, covering the topics of motors, motor controls, energy
reduction and power quality.
Time: 6:30
PM, Wednesday, March 15, 2006. A
pre-meeting buffet will be available starting at 6:00PM.
Place: Eaton
Electrical, 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 Signal
Processing Chapter:
Seminar - Learning and Mining from Multimodality
Signals
On
March
24, 2006,
the IEEE North Jersey Section Signal Processing Society Chapter along with NJIT
will host a seminar on " Learning and Mining from Multimodality
Signals." The speaker will be Dr.
Ching-Yung Lin.
About
the Talk
The
main objective is to advance progress on making machines to process and learn
from enormous amount of multimodality sensing data, similar to or beyond what
human beings can do. In order to
organize, realize and extract intelligence out of the huge amount of continuous
multimodality streams that a person, a company, or a community receives, we
consider real-world machine learning and distributed signal processing as the
keys. Real-world machine learning
focuses on multimodality machine learning from imperfect and continuous sensing
data. Distributed signal processing
allows machines to classify large-scale data based on the learned models. Future machine cognition techniques have to
be scalable, autonomous, and general enough to be able to handle diverse types
of data, such as video, text, speech, sensor signals, human activity logs, etc.
First
to be presented will be recent progress on autonomous learning, whose goal is
to avoid human involvement on learning concept models. A step beyond the semi-supervised learning,
the approach is to explore the weak correlations between multimodality
representations of an instance, event or an activity. In experiments, this approach demonstrated
comparable results with the supervised learning methods in the application of
visual concept learning.
One of the other goals is to build a
distributed system to semantically monitor large-scaled of multimodality
streams. A key design requirement is the
ability to handle tens of gigabytes of multimedia data per second. A distributed framework will be introduced
which includes the hardware implementation of smart video camera, the
algorithmic improvement of speeding up SVM classification in the order of 10s
to 1000s, and the software improvement on the feature extraction.
About
the Speaker
Dr.
Ching-Yung Lin received his PhD Degree from Columbia University
in Electrical Engineering. Since October
2000, he has been a Research Staff Member in IBM
T. J. Watson Research Center,
New
York,
where he is currently leading projects on the IBM Large-Scale Video Semantic
Filtering System. He is also an Adjunct
Associate Professor at Columbia University
and an Affiliate Associate Professor at the University
of Washington, Seattle.
His
research interest is mainly focused on multimodality signal processing and
understanding, with applications on distributed computing, embedded vision
system, social computing, and security.
Dr. Lin led the first large-scale video semantic annotation project,
which includes 23 worldwide research institutes in 2003. His multimedia semantic mining project team
has performed best in the US National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) semantic video concept detection benchmarking since 2002. Dr. Lin is the Editor of the Interactive
Magazines (EIM) of the IEEE Communications Society (2004-2006), an Associate
Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Multimedia (2004-), and an Editorial Board Member
of the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (2005-). He served as a Guest Editor of the
Proceedings of IEEE -- Special Issue on Digital Rights Management, June 2004, a
Guest Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Applied Digital Signal Processing --
Special Issue on Visual Sensor Network, 2006, and the Technical Program
co-chair of IEEE ITRE 2003. Dr. Lin is a
recipient of 2003 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Outstanding Young Author
Award and IBM Invention Achievement Awards in 2001 and 2003. He is the (co-)author of 100+ journal
articles, conference papers, book, book chapters and public release software. Dr. Lin is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a
member of ACM, INSNA and AAAS.
Time: 11:00
AM to 12:00 PM (refreshments and pizza available at 10:45
AM),
Friday,
March 24, 2006.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center, Newark,
NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: 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).
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North Jersey Spring 2006 Student Presentation
Contest Set for Late March
This
year's North Jersey Section Contest will be open to graduate and undergraduate
student and the first/ second/third place prizes will be awarded in both
categories of $100/$75/$50. The contest
is not accepting abstracts and the required registration of student talks. The only registration form can be found on
the website: http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/sac/ieee.html.
Additional
topic and contest information is also available. Feel free to email any questions to the
organizers.
Time: Tuesday,
March 21, 2006
(free dinner at 5:30PM).
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center, Newark,
NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Registration
is now open, all presenters must register.
Winners from the section contest can progress to the regional
competition. Details are at Region 1
Student Activities Website.
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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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Notice to NJ Section Engineers
Paul
Ward, a member of the NJ Section IEEE USA and Co-chair of its PACE committee,
is looking for (a donation of) electronic test equipment that can be used for
teaching electronics and electricity to students with learning disabilities
(LD) at the Craig Upper School in Lincoln Park, NJ. This school is a private institution that
receives its operating funds from either the parents of the students or some
governmental subsidy.
The
Craig Upper School is a school dedicated to teaching LD students at the high
school level, preparing them to continue on to college or to enter the work
force. It teaches a full curriculum,
i.e., English, History, Mathematics, Science, and special courses directed at
LD students. The staff is limited to
approximately fifteen (15) including office, nurse, and guidance with the
student population that ranges in the upper fifties (50) which is expected to
grow. This ratio of student-to-staff
helps to keep class size small and manageable, a class rarely exceeds seven
(7).
Paul
is trying to accumulate a couple of oscilloscopes, multimeters (analog or
digital), oscillators, and function generators, so that a Basic EE course could
be put together for a technical course and added to the present academic
curriculum. The course would help the student
to connect what he or she learned in Mathematics and Science into a practical
experience.
The
equipment does not have to be in perfect condition, just safe and usable.
If
you can donate such equipment, please send it to the following address:
Craig
Upper School
Attn: Paul Ward
200
Comely Road
Lincoln
Park, NJ 07035
Alternatively,
contact Paul Ward at (973) 790-1625 or PWard1130 “AT” aol.com. He will pick it up if needed.
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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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The
IEEE North Jersey Section has been helping fellow engineering professionals for
the last fifty
years. The Education Committee has
successfully conducted software and engineering training courses over the last
few decades. The Committee is committed
to professional development of the members and the instructors for the courses
are very qualified and experienced in their respective fields. Classes are arranged on weekday evenings or
on Saturdays provided at least fifteen candidates are available. Completion certificates are issued by IEEE
Headquarters with CEU credits for the number of training hours.
Due to the slow growth of
the economy and several other factors, registration for these courses has
diminished over the last few years. I
would urge members to send their feedback regarding what courses they would be
interested in, the format, location, and day/time, etc., by email to
b.chivukula “AT” computer.org.
Regards,
Bhanu
Chivukula
Chair,
Education Committee
Vice
Chair, IEEE North Jersey Section
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Conference
Rooms Needed!
The North Jersey Section (Education
Committee) is looking for conference room facilities to hold their training
seminars. The seminars are being held on
one weeknight from 6:30 PM to 9:00
PM. In return for providing
the conference facility for free, the organization can get free registration up
to three members in the course/seminar.
Please contact Bhanu
Chivukula,
Education Committee Chair, at b.chivukula “AT” computer.org for suggestions or
discussions, if interested.
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CARE - Congressional Advocacy Recruitment
Effort
Calling All IEEE Members!
In 2004 over 2,000 American IEEE members
contacted their elected officials on behalf of their profession. In 2005, IEEE-USA needs you to join them.
CARE is a voluntary network of IEEE members
who are interested in public policy.
Each year Congress and state legislatures debate hundreds of bills that
could, if passed, directly impact technology engineers. From promoting broadband to regulating our
electrical grid; from funding basic research to providing scholarships to
engineering students, the legislative decisions impact engineers’ careers in an
unlimited number of ways.
CARE gives you an opportunity to influence your
legislator’s decisions before bills become law.
By joining CARE you are giving IEEE-USA permission to contact you when
legislation affecting you is being considered.
When necessary, IEEE-USA will send you Legislative Action Alerts
containing information on what’s being discussed, how it will affect technology
engineers, and what you can do about it.
We then give you an opportunity to quickly make your views known through
an e-mail system that automatically links you to your state and federal legislators.
CARE members are not obligated to respond to
Action Alerts sent by IEEE-USA. The
Alerts just tell you what is happening.
Doing something about it is your decision.
Joining CARE is easy. Just go to our Legislative Action Center
and sign in using your IEEE web accounts log-in. All you have to do is respond to one of our
active Action Alerts, and you will automatically listed as a CARE member. As new Alerts are posted, you will be
notified by e-mail and given a easy way to respond.
http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/care/
Contact:
Russ
Harrison
IEEE-USA
(202)
785-0017
r.t.harrison@ieee.org
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North Jersey Student Activities Grant Awarded
The IEEE North Jersey Section Student
Activities Committee Grant for IEEE North Jersey Student Branch Local
Activities for the calendar year of 2006 has been awarded. The student branch at FDU in Teaneck,
NJ was the winner for 2006.
The purpose of this grant is to fund
well-defined activities planned by a North Jersey Section university student
branch for one calendar year. These
activities are to promote the student branch's ability to conduct activates for
the benefit of its IEEE student membership, the advancement of engineering, and
related goals. Applications are
available on the North Jersey Section Student Activities Committee
website. A 2007 grant will become
available for application in late 2006.
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Memorial
Gift Encourages Girls to Follow Their Dream
In an effort to both encourage girls with an
aptitude for science and engineering to pursue their dreams, and honor her
Aunt’s memory, Gale Hannigan recently donated $25,000 to the IEEE
Foundation. Thanks to Dr. Hannigan’s
generosity, female students attending John Adams High
School, Queens, NY,
USA now have the Edith Hannigan-McHale
Scholarship to aid them in attaining their dream.
Annually, the IEEE Women in Engineering
Committee (WIE) will oversee the selection of the Edith Hannigan-McHale
Scholarship winner. Female students in
their senior year at John Adams High
School,
who have enrolled in, and been accepted to, an accredited four-year college or
university, are eligible to apply.
Applicants must present evidence of academic accomplishments, two
letters of referral, a personal statement that reflects the candidate’s career
goals and designate a major or program of study in a field of engineering,
physics or math.
To
learn more about the Edith Hannigan-McHale Scholarship or to discuss how you
too can set up a scholarship program in your area of interest, contact the IEEE
Development Office at (732) 562-3915 or email supportieee@ieee.org.
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The
Grainger Foundation Gift to Benefit Power Engineering Students
Thanks
to a $150,000 three-year pledge from The Grainger Foundation and matching funds
designated from the IEEE Power Engineering Society, the Grainger-IEEE PES
Student Program was established. The
2006—2008 funded program will benefit student participation at IEEE Power Engineering
Society meetings, such as the Transmission and Distribution Conference, North
American Power Symposium and the IEEE-PES General Meeting. The Grainger
Foundation gift will create professional growth, encourage interaction
between students, faculty, and practicing engineers and raise the level of
interest in electric power engineering as a career among students. In
addition to offering student travel grants to these activities, the
Grainger-IEEE PES Student Program will fund special student program activities including energy-related
facility/technical tours, project oriented poster sessions, and
student/faculty/industry discussion panel sessions, and luncheons.
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NEWS from IEEE-USA:
IEEE-USA Commends Senators Ensign, Lieberman
for Introducing “National Innovation Act of 2005”
Washington
(15 December 2005) - IEEE-USA commends Sens. John Ensign (R-Nev.) and Joseph
Lieberman (D-Conn.) for introducing the “National Innovation Act of 2005” today
on Capitol Hill. The legislation
includes provisions that will strengthen U.S. competitiveness in the 21st
Century.
The
“National Innovation Act” responds to recommendations in the National
Innovation Initiative Report “Innovate America,” published by the Council on
Competitiveness in 2004. The Act focuses
on three primary areas: increasing investment in basic research; improving science
and technology talent; and developing a robust innovation infrastructure.
The
legislation would, among other things, establish a President’s Council on
Innovation; make permanent the Research and Experimentation Tax Credit; nearly
double research funding for the National Science Foundation by FY 2011;
authorize funding for new and existing Professional Science Master’s Degree
Programs; and encourage the development of regional clusters of technology
innovation.
For
a summary of the legislation, go to http://lieberman.senate.gov/documents/bills/051215niasummary.doc.
IEEE-USA
advances the public good and promotes the careers and public policy interests
of the 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
Senior Public Relations
Coordinator
Phone: (202) 530-8356
E-Mail: c.mcmanes@ieee.org
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NEWS
from IEEE-USA:
Trends Likely
to Affect Us All in 2006: IEEE-USA
Today’s Engineer Online Article
Washington
(13 January 2006) - Changes and trends in eight major areas likely to affect
how we live, work and play are examined in the latest issue of IEEE-USA Today’s
Engineer Online.
In
“What Lies Ahead: Forecast for 2006,” Today’s Engineer author George McClure
examines technology, energy, climate change, work force, employment benefits,
immigration, infrastructure and the economy.
McClure, a noted expert on technology careers and retirement benefits,
looks at where things are today and where they’re likely headed. A sampling:
· The
United States has the lowest savings rate among developed nations, implying a
lack of savings for retirement and children’s college costs. McClure points out the trend of greater
consumer spending than consumer income “works for only so long, and will cease
to be a source of consumption funding as interest rates rise to combat
inflation.”
· Significant
upgrades are needed to repair the United States’ crumbling infrastructure,
including $50 billion to improve the national power grid over the next five
years. “As power demand increases by 50
percent in 20 years,” McClure writes in Today’s Engineer, “so will the problem
of getting it to the user, as well as the prospect for further blackouts, if
reliability is not improved.”
· Retirement
security is gaining more societal importance as the first baby boomers approach
full retirement age in five years.
Concerns about fewer workers to replace those retiring, and retirees
wondering about having enough money to live comfortably in retirement point
toward more older Americans working at least part-time past age 65. The prospect of partial retirement -- in
which a person works reduced hours while drawing a partial pension -- could
help alleviate these concerns, “but requires changes in the law,” according to
McClure.
To
read the entire article, go to www.todaysengineer.org. To subscribe to Today’s Engineer Online, IEEE
members can go to http://ewh.ieee.org/enotice/options.php?LN=IEEEUSA. Non-members can visit http://www.todaysengineer.org/emailupdates/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, 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
Applauds President’s American Competitiveness Initiative
Washington
(1 February 2006) - IEEE-USA commends President George W. Bush for the American
Competitiveness Initiative announced during his State of the Union address
Tuesday night. The initiative is
designed to spur U.S. innovation and better equip our nation to compete in the
global marketplace.
“We
are at a crucial crossroads in our nation’s future,” IEEE-USA President Ralph
W. Wyndrum Jr. said in response to the initiative. “The United States can no longer take for
granted the competitive edge that our scientific and technological capabilities
have provided us in the past. The
President’s remarks indicate that he understands this, and plans to take
definitive steps towards protecting and preserving our global leadership in
innovation and competitiveness.”
President
Bush mentioned several key proposals Tuesday that IEEE-USA endorses, including
doubling federal spending on basic physical science and engineering research
over the next 10 years; permanently extending the research and development tax credit;
and significantly improving math, science and technological education in our
nation’s schools. Similar bipartisan
legislation addressing American competitiveness has been introduced in the U.S.
Senate. Sens. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.),
Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.)
introduced the “Protecting America’s Competitive Edge (PACE) Act” last week;
and Sens. John Ensign (R-Nev.) and Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) introduced the
National Innovation Act in December.
IEEE-USA
has endorsed both the PACE Act and National Innovation Act, and continues to
offer guidance and counsel to Senate staff as the bills work their way through
Congress.
For
more on the American Competitiveness Initiative, go to http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/01/20060131-5.html.
According
to the White House, the American Competitiveness Initiative commits $5.9
billion in FY 2007 and more than $136 billion over 10 years. Other key points include encouraging up to
30,000 math and science professionals to become adjunct high school teachers;
fostering a business environment to encourage entrepreneurship and protect
intellectual property; and providing self-managed Career Advancement Accounts
of up to $3,000 that workers and prospective workers can use for training and
other employment services.
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
Commends Sens. Domenici, Bingaman, Alexander, Mikulski for Introducing
"Protect America's Competitive Edge (PACE) Act"
Washington
(24 January 2006) - IEEE-USA commends Sens. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.), Jeff
Bingaman (D-N.M.), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), and Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.)
for introducing the "Protect America's Competitive Edge (PACE) Act,"
to be introduced tomorrow (25 January) on Capitol Hill. The legislation includes a package of three
bills aimed at helping the U.S. maintain its leading edge in science and
technology.
The
"PACE Act" will implement 20 recommendations contained in the
National Academies of Science and Engineering report, "Rising Above the
Gathering Storm," released last October.
The National Academies warned that "the scientific and technical
building blocks of our economic leadership are eroding at a time when many
other nations are gathering strength." According to the report,
"because other nations have the competitive advantage of a low-wage
structure, the United States must compete by optimizing its knowledge-based
resources, particularly in science and technology."
Provisions
in the bills include: doubling federal funding for basic research; competitive,
merit-based scholarships for future math and science teachers; visa reform for
foreign science and math students; and an extension of the research and
development tax credit.
In
a letter to be released tomorrow, on 25 January, commending Sens. Domenici,
Bingaman, Alexander and Mikulski for introducing the "PACE Act,"
IEEE-USA President Ralph W. Wyndrum, Jr. states: "With the PACE package,
we are encouraged to see Congress not only solicit the advice of the
engineering and science community, but also to adapt that advice into a
comprehensive legislative initiative.
IEEE-USA believes technological leadership is one of the most important
issues facing our country today, and as such, we urge the Senate, the House of
Representatives, and the Bush administration to act on this package during this
session of Congress."
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
IEEE-USA Director of
Communications & Public Relations
Phone: (202) 530-8353
E-Mail: p.mccarter@ieee.org
Contact: Chris McManes
IEEE-USA Senior Public
Relations Coordinator
Phone: (202) 530 8356
E-Mail: c.mcmanes@ieee.org
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NJ
Power Engineering Society/Industry Applications Society
Lighting
Seminar
The
PES and IAS Chapters will sponsor a technical seminar covering lighting
sources, systems, and performance. The
session will be held on Friday, April 21, 2006, at the PSE&G Training
Center, 234 Pierson Avenue, Edison, NJ.
Topics
· Efficient Lighting Practices
· The Nature of Light
· Determining Lighting Levels
· Comparison of Lamps (incandescent,
fluorescent, metal halide, sodium and LED)
· Ballast Performance and
Rating
· Commercial office fixtures,
Low Bay and High Bay Luminaires
· Lighting Controls
(occupancy, daylighting, dimming)
· Lighting Maintenance
· Lighting Surveys
About the Instructor
The instructor will be John Hyfantis, PE.
Mr. Hyfantis’ first career path was in the electronic
engineering field, 1961 to 1975. Employed by the Southern New England Telephone
Co, US Army Electronics Command, Electronic Associates, RCA-Astro Electronics,
Dow Jones and Co and Intec, Inc. With
Johnson and Johnson ESDP, power distribution engineering was added to the
career path.
Mr. Hyfantis is President of Energistics, LLC, since 1978.
Energistics provides engineering consulting services to commercial, industrial
and institutional clients in the Mid-Atlantic region. Engineering services
include HVAC equipment replacement and upgrade analysis; process and space
conditioning VF drive design and installation; building management system
design; building commissioning; compressed air system analysis; lighting system
analysis; and power allocation surveys. Energistics also provides workshops,
covering the topics of motors, motor controls, lighting, energy reduction and
power quality.
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The registration fee for this seminar prior to April 7th
will be $150 for non-IEEE members, $100 for IEEE Members, $75 for GOLD
Graduates (last 1-10 years) and $25 for students with valid ID. The fee will be
waived for IEEE Life Member Grades with verification at the seminar. Registrations after April 7th must include an
additional late fee of $25. The seminar
fee includes lunch, refreshments and handouts.
Non-members joining IEEE within 30 days of the seminar will be rebated
50% of the IEEE registration charge.
If desired, IEEE Continuing Education Units will be offered
for this course - a small fee of $15 will be required for processing. A total of .6 CEUs will be offered. Please indicate if desired below.
Registration: Lighting Seminar 4/21/2006
Register via US mail to: Ronald W. Quade, P.E.
Eaton Electrical
379 Thornall St, 8th Floor
Edison, NJ 08837
Name____________________________________________________________________________________
Address__________________________________________________________________________________
Phone__________________ Email____________________________________________________________
IEEE #_________________
Student @________________ Non IEEE_____ Life Member______
Continuing Education Units: Yes $15 No
If CEUs are chosen, please
include a $15 processing fee
Payment Enclosed
$_______________ Add $25 late registration after April 7, 2006
Make checks
payable to North Jersey Section IEEE
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NJ Power Engineering Society/Industry Applications Society
Electric
Power Transfer Switch Seminar
The
PES and IAS Chapters will present a technical seminar on the design, operation
and application of industrial grade low – medium voltage (120 thru 15000 volt)
Power Transfer Switches and Power Control Systems. The session will be held at Automatic Switch
50 Hanover Road in Florham Park, NJ
07932 on Friday, March 24, 2006 beginning at 9:00AM.
Topics
·
Power Transfer Switch Design and Construction
·
Transfer Switch Ratings
·
Power Switching Applications
·
Controls and Communication Systems for Transfer Switching
·
Power Control Systems
·
Connectivity
·
Tour of ASCO/Emerson Switch Assembly and Test Facility
About the Instructor
Mr. Ronald Schroeder, Director – Product Management, Power,
Switching and Controls, will lead the seminar and be assisted by other members of
the staff at ASCO Power technologies (a Division of Emerson Electric). Ron has over 34 years of experience in the
design and application of power transfer switches to meet specific project
requirements. A graduate of Union
College and Kean University, he is a Senior Member of IEEE.
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The registration fee for this seminar prior to March 10,
2006 will be $175 (non-IEEE members), $125 (IEEE Members), and $50 (students
with valid ID). The fee will be waived
for IEEE Life Member Grades with verification at the seminar. Registrations after March 10th
must include an additional late fee of $25.
The seminar fee includes lunch, refreshments and handouts. Non-members joining IEEE within 30 days of
the seminar will be rebated 50% of the IEEE registration charge
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Time:
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9:00 AM to 3:00 PM,
Friday, March 24, 2006.
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Place:
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Automatic Switch Company,
50 Hanover Road, Florham Park, NJ
07932 (973-966-2000).
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Directions:
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From Route 80 Take I-287
to Exit 37 (NJ 24 East - Springfield).
Take NJ 24 East to Exit 2B (Columbia Turnpike). Proceed 2.2 miles to Hanover Road (6th set
of traffic lights). Turn left on
Hanover Road (AAA Building). Automatic
Switch will be on the right (0.4 mile).
Enter first driveway-marked shipping/receiving and proceed to visitor
parking lot on the left. Follow
sidewalk to office entrance door.
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Information:
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Ken Oexle, (973) 386-1156
or k.oexle “AT” worldnet.att.net.
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REGISTRATION: Electric Power transfer switch Seminar 3/24/2006
Register via US mail to: K. Oexle
11 Deerfield Rd
Whippany, NJ
07981
Name____________________________________________________________________________________
Address__________________________________________________________________________________
Phone__________________ Email____________________________________________________________
IEEE
#_________________ Student @________________ Non IEEE_____ Life Member______
Payment Enclosed
$_______________ Add $25 late registration after March 10, 2006.
Make checks
payable to North Jersey Section IEEE
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IEEE North Jersey Section Course
Project
Management
Tuesday
Evenings, March 14, 2006 through May 9, 2006
Eight
weekly classes (March 14, 21, 28, April 4, 18, 25, May 2, 9, 2006)
USPS,
NJI & BMC,80 County Road, Jersey City, NJ
07097-9998 (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 3200+ 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.
The IEEE certificate of completion will be
given to you when you complete 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.
Instructor: Donald Hsu, Ph.D.,
has been a corporate manager for 11 years and is an experienced trainer. Since 1999, he has trained 300+ people in IT Project+, MS Project 2003, and Project
Management courses in eight organizations.
Effective Project Management:
Traditional, Adaptive, Extreme, Third Edition (Paperback) by Authors: Robert
Wysocki and Rudd McGary – would be given in the class.
(This is not an exclusive PMP-PMI examination
prep course even though project management processes and concepts are discussed
in the class. No PDUs are issued for PMP
eligibility. CEU credits would be given
by IEEE)
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 25 with a minimum of 15. Early registration is recommended. 5% Discount for the first 10
registrations. Phone reservations will
NOT be accepted. Reservations accepted
after March 3, 2006 will require a late fee of $25. No reservations will be accepted after March
9, 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, March 14, 21,
28, April 4, 18, 25, May 2, 9, 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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Bhanu Chivukula -email b.chivukula “AT” computer.org
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REGISTRATION: Project Management
Please mail the registration
form with the check (Checks payable to “North
Jersey Section IEEE”) to Bhanu Chivukula, PMP, Chair Education Committee, IEEE
North Jersey Section, 19 Prestwick Way, Edison, NJ 08820.
Name: / Mr. / Mrs. / Miss / Ms. /
_____________________________________________ _________________________________
˙ Non-member Çemail addressČ
˙ IEEE Member Member
#:_________________________ Member
of _____________________________ technical society
Employer:___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Employer
Address:____________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Home Address:______________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Business (day) telephone #:___________________________________ Home telephone
#:________________________________
Please enclose required fee
payable to: North Jersey Section IEEE
Registration status will be
emailed after March 10, 2006. Phone
inquiries concerning registration will NOT be honored. In general, the effective date of the
application corresponds to the date when BOTH a fully completed
application/registration and payment are received.
˙ Tuition receipt will be mailed only if this box is checked Signature:___________________________________________
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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 AWARDS RECEPTION
North Jersey
Section
May 7, 2006
Birchwood Manor, Whippany NJ
A time to relax, unwind and enjoy --
A time to pay tribute to our new Fellows --
A time to honor our Award Winners --
YES it's time for the Annual Section
Reception
The
Annual Section IEEE Awards Reception will be held at the Birchwood Manor, 111
North Jefferson Road,
Whippany again this year. The affair is
scheduled for Sunday,
May 7, 2006 from 3 to 6
PM. Tickets are $35.00
each. Spouses and guests are
welcome. We are limited to 90
attendees, so please make your reservations early.
Reservations are required by April 27, 2006. Complete the reservation form and return it
with your payment. If you would like
tickets mailed back to you, please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope. Otherwise, your tickets will be held at the
door for you. If any additional
information is required concerning the reception, contact Anne Giedlinski at
(973) 377-3175.
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Use
this form for Reception reservations. ENCLOSE A SELF-ADDRESSED STAMPED ENVELOPE
to receive tickets in advance.
Reservations are required by April 27, 2006. Mail reservation
request to:
Anne
Giedlinski
299 Brooklake Road
Florham
Park, NJ 07932
Enclosed
is __________ for ____ ticket(s) at $35.00 each (make check payable to North Jersey Section IEEE) for:
NAME:
___________________________________________________________________
ADDRESS: _______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
Yes, please send me directions to the Birchwood Manor
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