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March 2007
Volume 53, 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 Floor, New York, NY
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SECTION OFFICERS
Chair......................................................... Kirit Dixit
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“AT” ieee.org (201) 669-7599
Vice-Chair-1................................ Bhanu
Chivukula
b.chivukula
“AT” computer.org (732) 718-3818
Vice-Chair-2........................................... Amit Patel
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“AT” ieee.org
Treasurer................................. Dr. Sanghoon
Shin
s.shin
“AT” ieee.org (973) 492-1207 Ext. 22
Secretary.......................................... Russell
Pepe
rpepe
“AT” att.net (201) 669-7599
Members-at-Large:
Pete
Donegan (doneganp “AT” ieee.org)
Katherine Duncan (kb2zoo “AT” hotmail.com)
Seth
Jakel (sgjakel “AT” comcast.net)
The North Jersey
Section Executive Committee usually meets the first Wednesday (except holidays
and December) of each month at 7:00 PM. Meetings are open to all members. For information on meeting agenda contact
Secretary Russell
Pepe (201) 669-7599, rpepe “AT” att.net.
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IEEE North Jersey
Section Activities
March
2007
Mar. 1 – “Nanotube Field-Effect Devices and Beyond: Learning the Physics of Interfaces”
by Professor Slava V. Rotkin, NJ LEOS Chapter, 5:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Professor H. Grebel, (973) 596-3538, grebel
“AT” njit.edu.
Mar. 6 – “A Unified Framework for
Data Hiding in Compressed Media” by Dr. Bijan Mobasseri, NJ SP Society, 2:00
PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 212, 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” stevenstech.edu).
Mar. 7 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Russell
Pepe at rpepe “AT” att.net.
Mar. 14 – “Engineers Meet:
Reflections on Leadership” - 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.
14-May. 9 – “Project Management”
by Dr. Donald Hsu, North Jersey Section, Tuesday Evenings, 8 sessions,
6:30-9:00 PM, NJ International Bulk Mail Center, 80 County Rd, Jersey City,
NJ. Donald Hsu (yanyou “AT”
hotmail.com).
Mar. 20 – “North Jersey Spring 2007 Student Presentation
Contest”, Room M105 in the auditorium in the Muscarelle
Building, FDU, Teaneck, NJ. Russell Pepe
(northjerseysac “AT” ieee.org).
Mar. 20 – “GOLD Networking Mixer”,
location: see http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/gold,
registration required. Amit Patel a.j.patel “AT” ieee.org.
Mar. 26-27
– “10th Communications and
Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS 2007)”, see http://www.scs.org/confernc/springsim/springsim07/springsim07.htm.
Mar. 27 – “Statistical and Geometric Methods in
Passive-blind Image Forensics” by Tian-Tsong Ng, NJ SP Society, 4:30 PM, New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 212, 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” stevenstech.edu).
Mar. 29 – “Clients First: Identifying and Focusing on Solving their
Pain” 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.
Mar. 30 – “Mission Critical Power Technical Series -
Uninterruptible Power Supplies Seminar” by Kit Killingsworth,
NJ IAS/PES, 9:00
AM - 2:00 PM, PSE&G Training Center, 234 Pierson Avenue, Edison NJ. Ronald
W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
Upcoming Meetings
Apr. 4 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Russell
Pepe at rpepe “AT” att.net.
Apr. 25 – “Global Stability
Analysis and Stabilization of Power Amplifiers”
by Professor Almudena Suarez, EDS/C&S & MTT-S/AP-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), Har Dayal
(973) 633-4618 (BAE Systems), or Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT”
njit.edu).
Apr. 27 – “Mission Critical Power
Technical Series - Generators Seminar”, NJ IAS/PES, 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM, PSE&G Training Center, 234 Pierson Avenue, Edison NJ. Ronald
W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
May 6 – “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.
May 25 – “Mission Critical Power Technical
Series - Paralleling Switchgear Seminar” by Ron Hilbert, NJ
IAS/PES, 9:00
AM - 2:00 PM, PSE&G Training Center, 234 Pierson Avenue, Edison NJ. Ronald
W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
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NJ Consultants'
Network:
Clients First: Identifying and Focusing on Solving their
Pain
On
Thursday, March 29, 2007, the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ is
pleased to present ”Clients First: Identifying and Focusing on Solving their
Pain”, by Ed McCauley.
About the Talk
Pain
& pleasure, in the past, present, and in the future, are fundamental
motives that cause people to act.
For
18 years, Bottom Line Technologies Inc has worked with business owners and
senior executives:
·
Challenged to meet aggressive, sometimes
nightmare schedules.
·
Struggling with technologies they lack the
experience to effectively manage.
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Frustrated by a lack of resources to achieve
their goals.
·
Risking lost market share, lost contracts,
customers, or worse should they fail.
Do
these folks sound like they’re in PAIN?
You bet they are!
BLT
designs chips, boards, and complete systems for commercial, industrial, and
military Clients seriously committed to quality product development.
Come
hear BLT’s president, Ed McCauley, share how they execute on their prime
directive: “Acting in the Client’s best interest” by understanding and treating
their Client’s pain.
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During
the second half of the meeting, Chris Mesibov of the IEEE Consultants' Network
of Northern NJ will be presenting a brief overview of his consulting
practice, Techgenesis. Chris can be emailed at chris “AT”
techgenesis1.com or reached by phone at (914) 584-2659.
About the Speaker
Ed
McCauley is President of BLT.
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 29,
2007.
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 & MTT-S/AP-S Chapters:
Global Stability
Analysis and Stabilization of Power Amplifiers
On
April
25, 2007,
the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters together
with MTT/S/AP-S and the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on
“Global Stability Analysis and Stabilization of Power Amplifiers." The speaker will be Professor Almudena
Suarez.
About the Talk
Power
amplifiers often exhibit instabilities giving rise to frequency division by two
or oscillations at incommensurate frequencies.
These phenomena, observed from a certain level of input power, cannot be
detected through a small-signal stability analysis of the circuit. Instead, a large-signal stability analysis
must be performed. Other behaviors, like
hysteresis and chaotic solutions, can also be obtained when the input power is
varied. The qualitative changes in the
output-power spectrum are due to bifurcations or qualitative stability changes
in the circuit solution or in the number of solutions when the parameter is
varied. The talk introduces the local
and global stability concepts and the analysis techniques, based on harmonic
balance. The first objective is to allow
a good comprehension of the different phenomena. The second objective is to provide practical
simulation tools for an efficient prediction and elimination of the undesired
behavior. Different approaches for the
local-stability analysis of nonlinear regimes will be presented, with emphasis
on the pole-zero identification. Then,
techniques will be shown for the detection of the most common types of
bifurcations in power amplifiers. The
final goal will be the stabilization of the circuit and the design corrections
in order to suppress the undesired phenomena will also be presented.
For
illustration, the simulation tools will be applied to two different switching
amplifiers developed at California Institute of Technology. These amplifiers have remarkably high
efficiency, but in intermediate input-power range they exhibited different
undesired phenomena. The first amplifier
is a Class-E/F amplifier, which showed oscillations, hysteresis and chaos. The second amplifier is a Class-E amplifier,
which showed jumps in the power transfer curve and sideband noise
amplification. After the application of
the different techniques, the two amplifiers were globally stabilized for all
the expected operating values of the amplifier bias voltage and input
power. This was achieved with negligible
degradation of the amplifier performance, in terms of output power and drain
efficiency. The stable behavior obtained
in simulation was experimentally confirmed.
About the Speaker
Almudena Suarez is a Professor
at the University of Cantabria Communications Engineering Department and is a
MTT-S Distinguished Lecturer.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, April 25, 2007. 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), Har Dayal (973) 633-4618 (BAE
Systems), or Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
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NJ
LEOS Chapter:
Nanotube Field-Effect
Devices and Beyond: Learning the Physics
of Interfaces
On
March 1, 2007, the IEEE NJ Lasers And Electro-Optics Chapter together with the
Electronic Imaging Center at NJIT will host a talk on “Nanotube Field-Effect
Devices and Beyond: Learning the Physics
of Interfaces." The speaker will be
Professor Slava V. Rotkin.
About the Talk
A
new family of semiconductor and metallic nanostructure materials - carbon
single-wall nanotubes (SWNTs) – has been in the focus of attention of
physicists, material scientists and engineers for more than a decade. Intensive study of SWNT based materials that
show superior electronic properties has been followed by the characterization
of SWNT device prototypes that outperform many of semiconductor analogs. Thinking of a possible integration of SWNT
devices with the Si, we talk about a single aspect of the problem: the physics of the interface of the SWNT
materials with the technologically important Si and SiO2 substrates. Several critical phenomena will be detailed,
including charge scattering by the interface polaritons, remote Coulomb
impurity scattering and associated SWNT mobility; surface charge trapping and
related hysteresis effects, and gate capacitance coupling in single-tube
field-effect devices being compared to the nearly ideal SWNT array in the
thin-film transistor (TFT) applications.
About the
Speaker
Dr. Slava V. Rotkin is the
Frank J. Feigl Junior Faculty Scholar and Assistant Professor of Physics at the
Physics Department and the Primary Member of the Center for Advanced Materials
and Nanotechnology, Lehigh University. He received his MSc (Summa Cum Laude) in 1994
in Optoelectronics and Electronics from the Electro-technical University in St. Petersburg, Russia and his PhD in Physics and
Mathematics in 1997 from Ioffe Institute (St. Petersburg, Russia). He has been at the Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, since 2004. Dr. Rotkin is a recipient of scientific
awards, including: (2004) Frank J. Feigl Junior Faculty Scholarship; (2000)
Beckman Fellowship; (1995) Grant of Government Support Program for Leading
Scientific Schools of Russia; (1995) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences fellowship;
(1994-96) President and Government Grant for Young Scientists of Russia. He is a member of IEEE, APS, MRS, ECS and
SPIE.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 5:00 PM, Thursday, March 1, 2007. Free pizza will be available starting at 4:45 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Professor H. Grebel, (973) 596-3538, grebel
“AT” njit.edu.
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NJ PACE & GOLD Chapters:
Engineers
Meet: Reflections on Leadership
On
Wednesday,
March 14, 2007
the North Jersey Section Professional Activities Committee and Graduates of the
Last Decade will host a meeting to discuss leadership.
Our
guest speaker will be Region 1 IEEE Professional Activities Coordinator, Dr.
Robert W. Sadowski.
About
the Meeting
The
talk is designed to introduce members to PACE activities within the Region and
provide and overview of leadership theory and real-world practice. Beginning with a brief overview of
professional activities within IEEE Region One, Dr. Sadowski will discuss what
PACE is and how members can get involved.
The second portion of the talk will be a discussion of leadership
traits, techniques, and activities.
Although important, these soft-skills are rarely covered in a formal
engineering curriculum. The talk
contains reflections and real-world examples gathered over twenty years of
active military service.
You
are encouraged to attend and invite your associates.
About
the Speakers
LTC
Robert W. Sadowski is currently an associate professor in the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the United
States Military Academy
at West
Point
where he serves as the Electrical Engineering Program Director. He is a distinguished graduate of U.S.
Military Academy and received his MS and PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University
as a Hertz Fellow. He has deployed twice
to Iraq
designing strategic coalition communications systems. His research interests include non-linear
fiber optics, optical information processing and integrated sensor
technology. He is a Fannie and John
Hertz Fellow, senior member of the IEEE, Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Kappa Phi, and Sigma
Xi member.
LTC
Sadowski’s career has spanned over twenty years where he has served in a
variety of command and staff positions from platoon leader in the 82nd Airborne
Division to company commander to task force commander during Operation Desert
Thunder. He has spent 27 months in Southwest
Asia
managing Army/joint communications. In
2004, he deployed to the central Baghdad
area serving as the Iraq
country lead with a mixed team of civilian and military engineers who designed
coalition communication upgrades and infrastructure. His military awards include the Bronze Star
and Meritorious service medals.
All
Welcome!
Members
and students from other professional societies and engineering disciplines are
always welcome. We now include members
from IEEE, ASME and AEA. For more
information about these groups see:
www.aea.org
www.ieeeusa.org
http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
www.asme.org/sections/northjersey
http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/1/
Time: 6:30
to 9:00 PM, Wednesday,
March 14, 2007. 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) 664-0803
(rftax “AT” verizon.net).
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/
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NJ SP
Society:
A Unified Framework
for Data Hiding in Compressed Media
On
Tuesday,
March 6, 2007,
the IEEE North Jersey Section Signal Processing Society along with NJIT will
host a talk on “A Unified Framework for Data Hiding in Compressed Media.” The speaker will be Dr. Bijan Mobasseri.
About
the Meeting
In
recent years algorithms have been developed to embed invisible signatures in
digital media. The challenge of data
hiding is to find a subspace in the cover media with enough redundancy to
accept additional data. The problem is
that often media is released in compressed form to the extent that the raw
format is not even available. Therefore,
to apply existing data hiding techniques requires decompressing the cover media
first, embedding the data and then recompressing. In this talk we propose a unified framework
to embed digital watermarks directly in the compressed bitstream. We have discovered that the code spaces of
most compression standards go mostly unused.
The unused portion varies from media to media but it often exists. If no unused portion is available it is
possible to create a derivative code space with unused capacity. By mapping used entropy codes to the unused
region of code space we are in effect creating a watermark. The resulting file remains syntax compliant,
viewable by any standard viewer and might even show a reduction in size. We investigate three code spaces; JPEG, MPEG-2
and H.264 and point out the challenges to the underlying theory.
About
the Speaker
Bijan
Mobasseri graduated from Purdue University
with a PhD in Electrical Engineering. He
is currently a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Villanova University, Villanova,
PA
and a senior member of IEEE. His
research interests are in multimedia signal processing, image and video
compression, digital watermarking and multimedia security. He has been funded by the US Air Force,
Office of Naval Research, and DARPA.
Time: 2:00
PM, Tuesday,
March 6, 2007. Pizza and refreshments will be served at 1:45
PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
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”
stevenstech.edu).
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NJ SP Society:
Statistical and
Geometric Methods in Passive-blind Image Forensics
On
Tuesday,
March 27, 2007,
the IEEE North Jersey Section Signal Processing Society along with NJIT will
host a talk on “Statistical and Geometric Methods in Passive-blind Image Forensics.” The speaker will be Tian-Tsong Ng.
About
the Meeting
In
this talk, three works in his PhD thesis on "Statistical and Geometric
Methods in Passive-blind Image Forensics" will be covered. Those are image splicing detection using
higher-order statistics, photographic images and computer graphics
classification using physics-motivated features, and the single-color-channel
camera response function estimation.
With an anticipation of the audience interest, more emphasis will be
given to image splicing detection.
About
the Speaker
Tian-Tsong
Ng received his M.Phil. degree from Cambridge University
in 2001. He will soon be graduating with
his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University. His research focuses on passive-blind image forensics. His paper on distinguishing photographic and
computer graphic images received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2005 ACM
Multimedia Conference.
Time: 4:30
PM, Tuesday,
March 27, 2007. Pizza and refreshments will be served at 4:15
PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 212, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
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”
stevenstech.edu).
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North Jersey Spring 2007 Student Presentation
Contest
The
Spring 2007 Student Presentation Contest is coming up! The North Jersey Section will be holding a
presentation contest scheduled for March
20, 2007. This contest has been held in years
past. Its overwhelming success in
generating student participation and interest makes it a fantastic event for up
and coming engineers. This year's
contest will feature similar prizes ($$$) and have graduate and undergrad
categories.
The
main focus of the presentation contest is to give students an opportunity to
sharpen their communication skills, and help prepare for real life situations
as practicing engineers and researchers.
Additionally, the North Jersey Section contest provides an excellent
chance for students to practice for the Region I Student Paper contest in the
spring.
The
contest at the North Jersey Section level is also supplemented by awarding cash
prizes to the three best presentations in both graduate and undergrad
categories. All engineering students are
encouraged to participate in submitting team or individual presentations on any
project work related to engineering.
This local contest does not require students to write a full paper, just
a slide-based presentation on technical or non-technical work is
sufficient. Senior design projects, lab
projects, personal engineering hobbies, engineering policy, etc., are great
topics to submit. Moving onto the
regional contest requires submitting a short written paper.
The
details of contest rules, judging criteria, viable topics for presentations,
and abstract form will be same as last year.
Also if you would like to get an idea of what topics would be
appropriate or how you can prepare your abstract, take a look at winners from
past years at the NNJ IEEE SAC homepage http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/sac/ieee.html
This
year's North Jersey Section Contest will be open to graduate and undergraduate
students and first/second/third place prizes will be awarded in each category
of $100/$75/$50. All participants MUST
REGISTER by submitting an abstract by filling in the form available at the SAC
website to qualify as a contest participant.
Time: 5:30 PM, Tuesday, March 20, 2007.
Place: Room M105 in the auditorium
in the Muscarelle Building, FDU, Teaneck, NJ. Directions available at http://www.fdu.edu/visitorcenter/directions/teaneck_map.html. Free parking is available.
Information: Email the contest organizer, Russell Pepe, at
northjerseysac “AT” ieee.org
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Spring 2007 Region 1 GOLD Conference April 27-29
at FDU-Teaneck, NJ
Attention
all members, the upcoming regional student paper conference this year will be
held locally in the North Jersey Section.
It is planned for the weekend of April 27-29 at Fairleigh Dickinson University
in Teaneck,
NJ. This year's Region 1 GOLD conference will be
held jointly with the student conference at the same location.
There
will be parallel programs of activities, introduction to GOLD, GOLD affinity
group leadership training, a variety of seminars on different topics, a career
fair, resume workshops and social events.
The
committee is still seeking corporate sponsors and career fair participants,
booths are still available, see the website below for contact information.
The
details of the program, registration, and pricing for the GOLD conference can
be found online at the Region 1 GOLD website linked from here
http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/gold
Don't
miss this opportunity to participate in a Regional event, locally right here in
North Jersey. Register now!
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IEEE
Personal Email Alias
The
IEEE offers a personal e-mail Alias service in which IEEE members can register
or instantly update a personal alias of their choice (subject to availability
and on a "first-come, first-served" basis). Messages addressed to the alias@ieee.org will
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This
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You
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Advantages of a Personal IEEE E-Mail Alias:
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the IEEE.
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News from IEEE-USA:
Former IEEE-USA
President Cites Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship as Career Keys
for U.S. Engineers in BusinessWeek
Washington
(22 January 2007) - U.S. engineers need to hone their competitive edge through
continuing education and focus on productivity, innovation and entrepreneurship
to maintain rewarding careers, 2006 IEEE-USA President Dr. Ralph W. Wyndrum Jr.
told BusinessWeek magazine.
“America’s
leadership in technology has underpinned our economic prosperity for the past
half century,” Wyndrum said.
“But
we have no monopoly on smart people, capital investment or the will to
succeed. As developing economies use
comparative labor cost and other advantages to build competing industries based
on mature technologies, the United States can best create new jobs and new
opportunity by leading the way with new technology.”
“Keeping
Research and Leadership at Home,” by Duke University’s Vivek Wadhwa, looks at
what the United States can do to maintain its technological leadership and
remain on the cutting edge of innovation.
Wyndrum
shared his perspective alongside Intel Chairman Craig Barrett; Charles Vest,
president-elect of the National Academy of Engineering; and Rick Rashid,
Microsoft senior vice-president of research, among others.
The
article is available at
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jan2007/sb20070118_135378.htm
Wyndrum’s
portion is on page 9.
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’s New
President Seeks to Bolster U.S. Competitiveness to Preserve Engineering Jobs,
Maintain America’s High Standard of Living
Washington
(29 January 2007) - John W. Meredith, PE, who became IEEE-USA president on New
Year’s Day, said he will devote his presidency to helping U.S. engineers cope
with the impact of globalization.
“Our
profession within the United States is in a continuing struggle to deal with
the effects of global competition,” said Meredith, a product development
engineer with Agilent Technologies in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
“While
the U.S. economy has shown improvement since the infamous dot-com bust of
2000-01, our national competitiveness in the high-tech sector is increasingly
challenged.”
Meredith
will work closely with 2006 IEEE-USA President Ralph W. Wyndrum Jr. of Fair
Haven, NJ, and IEEE-USA President-Elect Russell J. Lefevre of Redondo Beach,
CA. The three are committed to
bolstering the career prospects of U.S. electrical and computer engineers in
the face of global competition in high-tech industries.
“This
competition was initially in manufacturing but is now moving more and more into
design and development work,” Meredith said.
“Because
labor rates are lower in many countries that compete with the United States, we
are losing high-tech jobs. We must act
strategically as a nation to improve U.S. competitiveness. This is necessary to preserve jobs for U.S.
engineers and to maintain the standard of living that Americans have enjoyed
for several generations.”
Meredith
defines competitiveness, as it relates to our nation, as a concerted drive to
compete with other countries in selling our goods and services. While the United States has been the world’s
leading high-tech incubator, other countries have made advances that challenge
our position.
“My
highest priority is to take steps to ensure the competitiveness of U.S.
industry in our fields of interest,” Meredith said. “This is a big challenge because developing
countries are now competing in jobs that are higher up the high-tech ‘food
chain.’”
Read
more about Meredith’s 2007 vision for IEEE-USA at http://www.ieeeusa.org/communications/presidentscolumn/Meredith/jan07.html.
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IEEE-USA
is in year two of its strategic plan to address U.S. competitiveness. The organization will continue to work with
Congress to enact comprehensive legislation promoting U.S. innovation and
competitiveness. It will also recommend
that Congress reform high-tech immigration and correct significant flaws in the
H-1B guest worker program.
The
IEEE-USA Innovation Institute, which will begin this year, will promote
innovation through training and mentoring tomorrow’s technology leaders.
For
more on IEEE-USA’s Innovation Initiative, go to http://www.innovation-institute.org/
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Meredith
is a registered professional engineer and a senior member of the IEEE. He is in his 27th year working for Agilent
Technologies (formerly Hewlett-Packard) in various management and engineering
positions. He has also worked for
Honeywell (1974-79), American Microsystems (1972-74) and General Electric
(1969-72). He has been an adjunct
professor of electrical engineering at the University of Colorado at Colorado
Springs (UCCS) for a number of years.
Meredith,
a native of Fayetteville, Ark., graduated from the University of Arkansas in
1965 with a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering. He added a master’s in the field from UCCS in
1981. He served in the United States
Navy, first as an assistant electronics officer aboard the USS Intrepid
(1965-67), and then as a projects officer in the Navy’s Electronics Laboratory
(1967-69).
Meredith
began his IEEE volunteer career in college and began doing section work in
1972. He has been a member of the
Educational Activities Board (2003); the Regional Activities Board (2004-05);
the IEEE-USA Operating Committee (2004); and the Membership Development Committee
(2002). He joined the IEEE and IEEE-USA
Board of Directors when he served as Region 5 director in 2004-05. He was honored with an IEEE Millennium Award
in 2000; an Educational Activities Board Meritorious Service Citation in 1995;
and a Regional Professional Leadership award in 1991. He was named Region 5’s Outstanding Member in
1998.
An
author of numerous technical and professional papers, Meredith’s interests
include high-speed analog integrated circuit design and lifelong learning.
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. See http://www.ieeeusa.org.
Contact: Chris McManes
IEEE-USA
Senior Public Relations Coordinator
Phone: (202) 530-8356
E-Mail: c.mcmanes@ieee.org
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IEEE-USA Commends Congress for
Increasing Investment in Innovation and Competitiveness Programs
Washington
(28 September 2006) - IEEE-USA President John Meredith commended congressional
leaders for including increased investments in innovation and competitiveness
in the proposed continuing budget resolution in a 31 January letter.
The
continuing resolution includes increased funding for research and development
(R&D) at the Department of Energy Office of Science, the National Institute
of Standards and Technology, and the National Science Foundation.
"We
are pleased to see that Congress recognizes the vital role that science and
technology R&D play in ensuring U.S. competitiveness, energy independence
and national security," Meredith wrote. "In addition, the need for a
strong and balanced federal R&D portfolio is critically important for the
United States to maintain its leadership role and assure future economic
prosperity in the emerging global economy."
IEEE-USA
encourages bipartisan cooperation and support for legislation promoting U.S.
innovation and competitiveness.
See
the letter at www.ieeeusa.org/policy/policy/2007/013107.pdf
Contact: Chris McManes
IEEE-USA
Senior Public Relations Coordinator
Phone: (202) 530-8356
E-Mail: c.mcmanes@ieee.org
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Qualifying for Life Member Status
To
qualify as a Life Member, an IEEE Member must be at least 65 years old, and the
sum of the member’s age and the number of years of paid membership effective
the following January must equal or exceed 100 years.
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Member Get a Member, get $15 Voucher
From
now through August 15, IEEE members can earn $15 for each professional member
that they recruit. Students members who
participate in the Student Get a Student program are eligible for a $5 for recruiting
2-4 students, $10 for 5-7 students and $15 for 8 or more students.
The
vouchers will be sent out in October, and can be used toward 2007 IEEE dues,
IEEE Society fees, the purchase of IEEE products and services, or a donation to
the IEEE Foundation.
In
order to qualify, completed applications (either print or online), with full
dues payment, must be submitted with the recruiter’s name and membership number
in the proper recruiter box that is provided on the application.
For
further information, contact Membership Chairman, Pete Donegan doneganp “AT”
ieee.org (973) 783-7998.
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GOLD Networking Mixer
Attention
all GOLD folks! The North Jersey Section
GOLD committee in conjunction with the New York Section GOLD/WIE committees is
co-sponsoring on Tuesday, March 20, 2007, in NYC, an after-work networking
mixer. This will be a good opportunity
to meet local GOLD members in the metro-area and network, interact, trade
stories, experiences, and make new contacts with folks of different sections.
Exact
location and registration (required, but no cost) information can be found at
the North Jersey section GOLD website at http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/gold
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NJ Power Engineering Society/Industry Applications Society
Mission
Critical Power Technical Series
Uninterruptible
Power Supplies Seminar
The PES and IAS Chapters
will sponsor a 3-month series of technical seminars on mission critical
power. This first seminar will be on the
topic of Uninterruptible Power Supplies.
The session will be held on Friday, March 30, 2007, at the PSE&G
Training Center, 234 Pierson Avenue, Edison, NJ.
Topics
Uninterruptible Power
Supplies:
ü Differentiating UPS
Technologies (Battery and Battery Free)
ü Decision Criteria for
Selecting a UPS
ü Relationship Between UPS
and Other Emergency Power Equipment
ü Evaluating Life Cycle Costs
of Different UPS Technologies
ü Predictive UPS Maintenance
ü Planning for Future - Expandable/Upgradeable Systems
ü Innovative Battery Free UPS
Technologies
About the Instructor
Kit Killingsworth is the Northeast
Regional Sales Manager for Active Power.
He has worked in various sales and field service positions in the UPS
industry since 1984. For the past eight
years with Active Power, he has developed into an expert in battery free,
flywheel UPS technology. Prior to that,
he worked for 10 years with MGE, a leading supplier of double conversion,
battery based UPS. He also worked for
Electronic Data Systems (EDS) maintaining UPS and battery systems as well as
ancillary HVAC systems. Kit is a
licensed electrician and has a degree in electronics engineering with extensive
study in HVAC, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning.
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The registration fee for this seminar
prior to March 16th 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 March 16th 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 $25 will be required for
processing. A total of 0.4 CEUs will be
offered. Please indicate if desired
below.
REGISTRATION: Uninterruptible Power Supplies Seminar 3/30/2007
Register
via US mail to: Ronald W. Quade, PE
Eaton
Electrical
379
Thornall St, 8th Floor
Edison,
NJ 08837
Name____________________________________________________________________________________
Address__________________________________________________________________________________
Phone__________________ Email____________________________________________________________
IEEE #_________________ Student @________________ Non
IEEE_____ Life Member______
Continuing
Education Units: Yes
$25 No
If
CEUs are chosen, please include a $25 processing fee
Payment
Enclosed $_______________ Add $25 late registration after March
16, 2007
Make checks payable to North Jersey Section IEEE (Credit Cards cannot be
processed at this time).
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NJ
Power Engineering Society/Industry Applications Society
Mission
Critical Power Technical Series
Generators
Seminar
The PES and IAS Chapters
will sponsor a 3-month series of technical seminars on mission critical
power. This second seminar will be on
the topic of Generators. The session
will be held on Friday, April 27, 2007, at the PSE&G Training Center, 234
Pierson Avenue, Edison, NJ.
Topics
Generator Sets:
ü A Historical Perspective
ü Engine and Generator
Fundamentals
ü Applications- Data Centers,
Healthcare, Utilities, Telecom, etc.
ü Selecting, Sizing and
Specifying a Generator Set
ü Installation Guidelines –
Enclosures, Controls, Fuel, Cooling, Exhaust, etc.
ü Paralleling Multiple
Generator Sets - Designing for Redundancy
ü Systems Integration -
Integrating Generator Sets with Other Critical Equipment (ATS, UPS, Switchgear,
etc.)
ü Regulations – EPA, NFPA, UL
and more
ü Remote Generator Set
Monitoring and Control
ü Equipment Testing and
Contingency Planning
About the Instructor
The instructors will be a
team from Caterpillar’s Electric Power Generation division and the New Jersey
Caterpillar dealer Foley Power Systems.
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The registration fee for this seminar
prior to April 13th 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 13th 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 $25 will be required for
processing. A total of 0.4 CEUs will be
offered. Please indicate if desired
below.
REGISTRATION: Generators Seminar 4/27/2007
Register
via US mail to: Ronald W. Quade, PE
Eaton
Electrical
379
Thornall St, 8th Floor
Edison,
NJ 08837
Name____________________________________________________________________________________
Address__________________________________________________________________________________
Phone__________________ Email____________________________________________________________
IEEE #_________________ Student @________________ Non
IEEE_____ Life Member______
Continuing
Education Units: Yes
$25 No
If
CEUs are chosen, please include a $25 processing fee
Payment Enclosed
$_______________ Add $25 late registration after April 13, 2007
Make checks payable to North Jersey Section IEEE (Credit Cards cannot be
processed at this time).
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NJ Power Engineering Society/Industry
Applications Society
Mission
Critical Power Technical Series
Paralleling
Switchgear Seminar
The PES and IAS Chapters will
sponsor a 3-month series of technical seminars on mission critical power. This third seminar will be on the topic of
Paralleling Switchgear. The session will
be held on Friday, May 25, 2007, at the PSE&G Training Center, 234 Pierson
Avenue, Edison, NJ.
Topics
Generator Paralleling
Switchgear:
ü Paralleling Switchgear
Basics
ü Emergency Generator
Paralleling
ü Closed Transition Transfers
ü Redundant Engine
Applications
ü Reliability in Paralleling
Switchgear Controls
ü Horizontal Through Bus Density
ü Differentiating UL 891 vs
UL 1558 for Paralleling Switchgear
ü Impact of NFPA 99 and 110
on Paralleling Switchgear
About the Instructor
The instructor will be Ron
Hilbert. Ron Is the Northeast Regional
Sales Manager for Caterpillar Switchgear.
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The registration fee for this seminar
prior to May 11th 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 May 11th 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 $25 will be required for
processing. A total of 0.4 CEUs will be
offered. Please indicate if desired
below.
REGISTRATION: Paralleling Switchgear Seminar 5/25/2007
Register
via US mail to: Ronald W. Quade, PE
Eaton
Electrical
379
Thornall St, 8th Floor
Edison,
NJ 08837
Name____________________________________________________________________________________
Address__________________________________________________________________________________
Phone__________________ Email____________________________________________________________
IEEE #_________________ Student @________________ Non
IEEE_____ Life Member______
Continuing
Education Units: Yes
$25 No
If
CEUs are chosen, please include a $25 processing fee
Payment Enclosed
$_______________ Add $25 late registration after May 11, 2007
Make checks payable to North Jersey Section IEEE (Credit Cards cannot be
processed at this time).
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IEEE North Jersey Section Course
Project
Management
Wednesday Evening, March 14, 2007 through May 9, 2007
Eight weekly classes (March 14, 21, 28, April 11, 18, 25,
May 2, 9, 2007
USPS, NJ
International Bulk Mail Center, 80 County Road, Jersey City, NJ 07097
(Checks should not be
mailed to this address)
IEEE North
Jersey Section thanks USPS, BMC for sponsoring this course at its site
The North Jersey Section IEEE
is offering an evening course entitled "Project Management". Dice.com lists 5500+ 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 software, you will learn to accomplish various
project plans. In addition, it will
greatly enhance your business, communications and interpersonal skills.
You will receive the IEEE
certificate of completion when you finish the course. You may wish to take two Certification exams,
one in Project Management administered by Project Management Institute and the
other in IT Project+ by CompTIA Inc from the knowledge you learned in this
course. (This is not an exclusive
PMP-PMI examination prep course. No PDUs
are issued for PMP eligibility. CEU
credits would be given by IEEE)
Instructor: Donald
Hsu, PhD, has been a corporate manager for 11 years and is an experienced
trainer. Since 1999, he has trained 450
people in IT Project+, MS Project 2003,
and Project Management courses in eight organizations.
TOPICS
1.
Explain the need
for a project manager
2.
Define SOW, PERT,
GANTT, CPM, and Scope of the project
3.
Identify the team
members, resources and plan for the strategy
4.
Calculate
schedule, budget variances, and monitor project progress
5.
Manage changes,
estimates, and communications
6.
Set a baseline,
import tasks from MS Excel, export Project files to MS Word
7.
Create and modify
custom reports, templates and combination views
8.
Share resources
and create a master plan loaded to Project Server
9.
Approve updates
and conclude a project plan
10.
Market global
e-Commerce projects
11.
Present student
Projects
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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 Wednesdays, March 14, 21,
28, April 11, 18, 25, May 2, 9, 2007, from 6:30 to 9:00 PM.
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COST:
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IEEE (& affiliate)
members $430; Non-IEEE members $480.
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CONTACT:
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Donald Hsu: yanyou “AT” hotmail.com
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REGISTRATION: Project Management
Please mail the completed
registration form with the check (payable to “North Jersey Section IEEE”) to:
Donald Hsu
Co-Chair,
Education Committee
IEEE North
Jersey Section
PO Box 2093
Fort Lee,
NJ 07024
Name: / Mr. / Mrs. / Miss / Ms. / _____________________________________________ _________________________________
ÿ Non-member Çemail addressÈ
ÿ 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
As soon as a fully completed
registration form and the payment are received, you are officially registered
for this course. Registration status
will be notified in an email format.
ÿ I wish to receive IEEE
Completion Certificate
Signature:___________________________________________
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IEEE AWARDS RECEPTION
North Jersey
Section
May 6, 2007
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 6, 2007 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 25, 2007. 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 25, 2007. 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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