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March 2008
Volume 54, Number 8
Publication No:
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The
IEEE North Jersey
Section Activities
March
2008
Mar. 3 – “Secrecy Capacity of Multi-terminal
Networks with Pricing” by Dr. Anand Santhanakrishnan, 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. 5 – “NJ Section Meeting”,
Mar. 11 – “Exploiting Link Rate
Diversity for High-Performance Wireless Meshes”
by Dr. Archan Misra, NJ Communications Chapter, 6:30 PM, New Jersey Institute
of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
Mar.
11-May 6 – “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. 12 – “Engineers Meet:
Jobs, Fading Opportunities & Ethics”
with Dr. Stephen H. Unger, NJ PACE, GOLD, WIE,
Mar. 25 – “Undergraduate Student Paper Contest”,
SAC, 5:30 PM, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Room M105 Auditorium, Muscarelle
Building, 1000 River Road, Teaneck, NJ.
Any and all questions can be emailed to the contest organizer,
northjerseysac “AT” ieee.org.
Mar. 26 – “Programmable RF Circuits
for Spectrum-Agile Radios” by Dr. Mona Mostafa Hella, NJ MTT-S/AP-S, 7:00
PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center
(Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), Har
Dayal , (973) 633-4618, har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com, or
Mar. 27 – “Graduate Student Paper Contest”,
SAC, 5:30 PM, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Room M105 Auditorium, Muscarelle
Building, 1000 River Road, Teaneck, NJ. Any
and all questions can be emailed to the contest organizer, northjerseysac “AT”
ieee.org.
Mar. 27 – “Simulation, Virtual
Instruments in Design” by Patrick Noonan, NJ Consultants' Network,
Upcoming
Meetings
Apr. 1 – “Optimal State Feedback Stabilization Gain
Selection of Networked Control Systems with Time Delay and Packet Losses”
by Professor Mo-Yuen Chow, NJ Control Systems Chapter,
Apr. 2 – “NJ Section Meeting”,
Apr. 9 – “Electron Devices in Astronomy”
by Dr. Lucian Kasprzak, NJ EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM, New Jersey Institute
of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
Apr. 24 – “How We Survived a Professional Website Redesign”
by Pat Banker, NJ Consultants' Network,
Apr. 25 – “Harmonics Seminar”,
NJ PES/IAS, 9:00AM to 2:00PM, PSE&G - Hadley Road Facility, 4000 Hadley
Road, South Plainfield, NJ. Ronald W.
Apr. 25
& 26 – “Region 1 Student
Conference”, NJ SAC-GOLD-WIE, Time TBA,
Apr. 26-27
– “Trenton Computer
Festival”, Saturday 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Sunday 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, The
College of New Jersey in Ewing, NJ.
Allen Katz, TCF Speaker Program Chairperson, a.katz@ieee.org
or (609) 771-2666.
Apr. 28-30
– “2008 Sarnoff Symposium”,
Nassau Inn,
May 4 – “NJ Section Awards
Reception” -
Members and Non-Members Welcome
PLEASE POST
NJ Communications Society:
Secrecy Capacity of Multi-terminal Networks with Pricing
On
About the Talk
Secrecy
capacity is a measure of the information theoretic capacity of a key-less
secure channel. It is the maximum
information transfer rate such that the receiver error probability approaches
zero while an eavesdropper's error probability goes to 1/2. Most approaches in the literature study
secrecy capacity for a single source-destination pair in the presence of a
single eavesdropper. In this talk, we
present secrecy capacity results for multi-terminal networks considering the
multi-access interference due to multiple source-destination pairs. We propose a pricing function to limit the
transmit powers of the transmitters. We
present mathematical conditions on the pricing parameters that result in
optimal power allocation to maximise the secrecy capacities. We further show that the solution to the
power allocation problem is independent of the location of the
eavesdropper. It is also observed that
the pricing model improves the secrecy of the weakest transmit-receive pair.
About the Speaker
Anand
Santhanakrishnan completed his Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree from
All Welcome!
You do not have
to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time:
Place: New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
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
NJ Communications Society:
Exploiting Link Rate Diversity for High-Performance Wireless Meshes
On Tuesday, March 11, 2008, the IEEE Communications Society will host a presentation titled “Exploiting Link Rate Diversity for High-Performance Wireless Meshes”. The speaker will be Dr. Archan Misra.
About the Talk
Multi-hop
wireless meshes may provide a low-cost access architecture for many urban
communities; however, the low traffic capacity and high latency of multi-hop
wireless networks continues to be a critical challenge. In this talk, we’ll discuss advances for
supporting broadcast/multicast-based applications in such meshes, specifically
focusing on the consequences of allowing individual mesh nodes to dynamically
adjust their link transmission rate for link-layer broadcasts. We shall demonstrate how the tradeoff between
the transmission rate and the coverage area motivates the use of Rate-Area
Product (RAP) as a metric for choosing evaluating the effectiveness of various
broadcast rates. We’ll show that
exploitation of such multi-rate capability can a) lower the broadcast latency
by as much as 60-80%, and b) increase the admissible multicast traffic load by
~50%. Moreover, we shall point out
interesting interactions between rate diversity and channel diversity in
wireless environments. Also, the use of
rate diversity must be balanced with reliability, as the end-to-end delivery
rates may otherwise prove to be unacceptably low. We shall describe early work suggesting how
wireless meshes may be architected to achieve the right balance between raw
capacity and reliable delivery.
About the Speaker
Archan
Misra is a Researcher at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center,
All Welcome!
You do not have to
be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time:
Place: New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
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
NJ Consultants' Network:
Simulation, Virtual Instruments in Design
On
About the Topic
Virtual
Instrument technology has widely been used for test, measurement and system
level design. National Instruments is
pioneering a new use of Virtual Instrumentation – the use of advanced
measurement and instrumentation techniques that can be used in conjunction with
SPICE based simulation technology to improve the overall design, development
and testing of circuit level designs.
Several
design scenarios will be given in the area of analog, digital and mixed signal
designs to highlight the capability and feasibility of using Virtual
Instrumentation techniques in the design flow.
A demonstration of a board level Sigma-Delta design using SPICE and
Virtual Instrumentation technology will be showcased to highlight these
concepts. Both the SPICE based
simulation and board level design of the Sigma Delta will be demonstrated and
discussed in the session.
About the Speaker
The
talk will be given by Patrick Noonan, Business Development Manager,
representing National Instruments –
Electronics Workbench Group.
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:
Place: Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated
Products,
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.
NJ Consultants' Network:
How We Survived a Professional Website Redesign
On
About the Topic
Ever
considered having your website designed by a professional? Are you afraid it
might cost too much, or be a lot of work? Come hear the tell-all story of one
consulting firm's voyage through these perilous waters.
In
the world of consulting today, your website is a key marketing tool. Lots of us can put together a site. After all, we are engineers. But unfortunately many of our sites look like
they were put together by an engineer.
Worse yet, they don't bring in work.
A good site is better than the phone book, better than a snail-mail
flyer, better than cold calling! Better, that is, if it gets noticed, presents
the right information, and makes prospects call you. To do all that, it takes a pro.
Beginning
in the spring of 2007, Banker Coté set out to redesign a dated and
unmaintainable website. The new site
went live at the end of the summer and the first job came in soon after. Topics to be covered include:
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The decision to hire a pro
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Finding and choosing a designer
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Going to contract
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Step by step through the design process
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Expectations vs. reality
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The aftermath
About the Speaker
Pat
Banker honed her firmware development skills with 35 years experience designing
embedded systems for a wide variety of applications. Her partner Art Coté is a nearly 40-year
veteran electronics design engineer with in-depth product design experience
including digital and analog circuitry, data acquisition, and digital signal
processing. Together they founded Banker
Coté in 1995 to provide convenient outsourcing of product design tasks to
companies in a broad range of industries.
The company’s core expertise is designing products that incorporate 8
and 16 bit microprocessors, microcontrollers, or digital signal processors
(DSPs). Since its inception, Banker Coté
has had the privilege of helping many companies in industry,
telecommunications, and healthcare develop and launch exciting new products.
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:
Place: Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated
Products,
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.
NJ Control Systems:
Optimal
State Feedback Stabilization Gain Selection of Networked Control Systems with
Time Delay and Packet Losses
On
About the Topic
Data
networking technologies have been widely applied in the control of various
applications such as manufacturing plants, automobiles, and aircrafts. Network control systems (NCS)
connecting/integrating components such as distributed sensors, distributed controllers,
and distributed actuators, via networks to effectively reduce the complexity of
the systems with nominal economical investments, usher in an amazing era of
prosperity, innovation, and collaboration, by providing optimized system
performance with low cost through distributed information utilizations, and
enable real-time monitoring, control and operation globally. This presentation will focus on the state
feedback stabilization problem for a class of NCSs with time delays and packet
losses. The memoryless state feedback
controller is considered, and the resulting closed-loop NCS is modeled as a
discrete-time switched system. By
defining a state-dependent Lyapunov function, the stability conditions are
derived for NCSs in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMI). Based on the obtained stability conditions,
the corresponding controller design is completed in two stages. The first stage is an iterative procedure to
generate control gains that guarantee the NCSs are asymptotically stable, then
the second stage uses the EDA optimization algorithm to select the stable gain
that optimize the control performance. Simulation
and experimental results will also be presented to demonstrate the
effectiveness of the proposed methodology.
About the Speaker
Mo-Yuen Chow earned his
degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison (B.S., 1982); and
All Welcome!
Everyone welcome. No registration needed. Free admission.
Time:
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202,
Information: Professor Timothy Chang,
(973) 596-3519, changtn “AT” njit.edu.
NJ EDS/C&S Chapters:
Electron Devices in Astronomy
On
April 9, 2008, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems
Chapters together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk
on “Electron Devices in Astronomy."
The speaker will be Dr. Lucian Kasprzak.
About
the Talk
Gazing at the stars has
intrigued man since the dawn of the first civilizations. Available technology and mathematics have
helped man posit answers to the questions of man’s place in the universe, how
it came about, where it is headed and what it means. Ancient cultures used the solar and lunar
cycles, as well as the cycle of the stars, to perfect agriculture and attempt
to predict the future as well as posit theories of the universe. Modern man is no exception and continues this
paradigm.
Electron devices, in the
twenty first century, are present in literally everything that touches man,
both directly and indirectly. Electron
devices in many embodiments have also brought astronomy to new heights of
observational perfection. The precision
now achievable, facilitated by the use of electron devices, permits a new level
of refinement for both theory and experiment.
The largest earthbound telescopes in use today are typically 10 meters,
compared to Hubble Space Telescope at 2.4 meters. New telescopes, in the 25, 50 and 100 meter
range, are in design or construction around the world. The specific electron device applications
used in modern telescopes include detectors, encoders, actuators, feedback
control systems, custom computers and computer programs. These devices and innovations have enabled a
series of telescope improvements, such as, active optics (mirror shape
correction), adaptive optics (atmospheric turbulence correction),
interferometry and large baselines.
Since one objective of
astronomy is observation, the question of resolution and sensitivity of the
tools for observing become a paramount concern for those doing the
observation. The theoretical resolution
of a telescope is the diffraction limited distance between two discernable
objects. This limit is rarely even
approached for telescopes with primary diameters greater than about 20 cm. The problem has to do with nature of the
objects being imaged (points of light) and the aberrations inherent in optical
instruments, which are dependant upon the perfection of the curvature of the
lenses or reflectors used to form the image.
The technique known as active optics makes corrections to the curvature
of the primary mirror to reduce or eliminate these aberrations. Properly placed and monitored electron
devices have made active optics a reality for modern telescopes.
Sensitivity of a telescope
implies how faint an object can be resolved or seen. It depends upon the detector, signal and noise,
as well as how well the object in question can be tracked as it moves across
the night sky. Modern low noise CCD
detectors and precise tracking mechanisms opened a new era in telescope imaging
and photometry.
Seeing, as used astronomy,
means how much is the image blurred by turbulence in the air between the
telescope and the vacuum of space. The
Hubble Space Telescope sees very well because it is in orbit above the earth’s
atmosphere. Earth bound telescopes today
use adaptive optics (AO) to correct for this blurring. AO uses the turbulence information, from a
guide laser in the direction of the object being viewed, to make real time
correction to the image received by the CCD detectors. This method is so effective that properly
instrumented earth bound telescopes can see objects as well as, or in some
cases, better than the Hubble Space Telescope.
The contribution of
electron devices, to these advances and others, will be presented in the
context of the general objectives of astronomy.
About
the Speaker
Dr. Kasprzak worked for
IBM from 1965 to 1995. He obtained his
PhD on an IBM Resident Fellowship in 1972 from Stevens Institute of
Technology. He taught at Franciscan
University from 1992 to 1996. Since 1996
he has worked in the healthcare industry, first on solid state x-ray detectors
for Direct Radiography Inc.(an eventual subsidiary of Hologic Inc.), and now on
large clinical chemistry analyzer instruments for Dade Behring, recently
purchased by Siemens.
His work has focused on
the physics and materials of electron devices.
In practice he has developed reliability tests to reveal the limitations
of electron devices, materials, VLSI circuits and PCBs. In 1973 he discovered the hot electron effect
in very short (1.25 micron n-channel) MOSFETs.
He has taught Astronomy
and Cosmology as well as Physics and Materials at Franciscan University. His experience, coupled with his interest and
study of astronomy, brings a unique perspective to the application of electron
devices in astronomy.
He is the founder of IEEE
transactions on Device and Materials Reliability, treasurer of IEEE
transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, a member of the Board of Directors
of the International Reliability Physics Symposium and a Fellow of the IEEE.
All
Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00
PM, Wednesday, April 9, 2008.
Free buffet will begin at 6:15 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark,
NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS
Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973)
596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
NJ MTT-S/AP-S Ch:
Programmable RF Circuits for Spectrum-Agile Radios
On March 26, 2008, the IEEE NJ Section MTT/S/AP-S along with NJIT will host a talk on “Programmable RF Circuits for Spectrum-Agile Radios." The speaker will be Dr. Mona Mostafa Hella.
About
the Talk
The increasing consumer
demand for multi-functional portable devices has forced industry to almost seek
"the ideal" radio: low-power, low-voltage and multi-standard. New standards such as software defined radios
(SDR) and cognitive radios (CR) will reshape the wireless market in the next
few years. The common features of such
systems are frequency agility, wideband and/or multi-band operation and
re-configurability to adapt to different standards. In this talk, we will focus on the
programmability of the power amplification and signal generation functions in
the RF Front-end. First the discrete
power synthesis (DPS) as a technique for digital to RF conversion that is
applicable to RF power amplifiers in polar loop transmitters and then the
frequency agility by presenting our work on compact, low voltage multi-band
oscillators will be presented.
The Envelope construction
in polar transmitters has traditionally been done through varying the power
supply either using DC-DC converters or linear regulators. Switch-mode DC-DC converters suffer from the
drop in efficiency at low input amplitudes.
Linear regulators on the other hand are inherently inefficient, and
suffer from nonlinearity of the pass transistors. We will discuss on-chip power combiners and
compare the performance of the parallel to series combiners in terms of chip
area and combining efficiency. We will
also discuss the limitations of power combining techniques when applied to
scaled amplifier stages rather than identical stages.
Multi-band frequency
generation is classified in three main categories: switched resonator tanks,
post processing of the generated signal using frequency dividers and mixers,
and MEMS-based solutions. In this talk,
two alternative techniques which we have recently developed for multi-band
oscillators will be discussed. The first
uses double tuned, double driven transformers to operate over multiple bands
while having a wide tuning range in each band.
The concept is validated through measurement results from a fabricated
prototype in 0.25μm CMOS technology.
The VCO has a measured tuning range of 1.94 to 2.55 GHz for the
low-frequency band and 3.6 to 4.77GHz for the high-frequency band. The second technique uses a band limited
negative resistance approach to move the band switching task from the tank to
the negative resistance portion of the oscillator. Thus, the frequency selectivity properties of
the tank, is not degraded by the additional switching. To the best of our knowledge, this is the
first circuit level multi-band VCO example that eliminates the role of the tank
in the band switching process. Our
initial results in 0.13um CMOS technology shows comparable phase noise numbers
to published data, at multiple bands while operating from a supply as low as
0.7V.
About
the Speaker
Dr. Mona Mostafa Hella
received the B.Sc., and Masters degrees with Honors from
From 1993 to 1997, she was
a teaching and research assistant at
She joined the Electrical,
Computer and Systems Engineering department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
as an Assistant Professor in 2004. Her
research interests include the areas of mixed-signal and RFIC design for
wireless and wire-line applications.
All
Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time:
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202,
Information: Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), Har
Dayal , (973) 633-4618, har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com, or
NJ Section PACE, GOLD, WIE:
Engineers Meet:
Jobs, Fading Opportunities
& Ethics
On
About
the Meeting
Jobs
of American engineers are fading away due to two interrelated processes. One is the importing of engineers from
low-pay countries, and the other is the exporting of jobs. Manufacturing jobs are also disappearing,
along with many other middle class jobs, due to the "globalization"
process--also called "free trade"--that has been dismantling our
industrial base. This is not due to the
operation of natural laws. It is the
result of a political process controlled by powerful corporate interests.
A
seemingly unrelated subject is the plight of engineers who try to practice
their profession in an ethical manner and, as a result, find themselves in
trouble with their employers. An example
is that of Michael DeKort, whose efforts to correct serious defects in
equipment, being produced, for the US Coast Guard led to a dramatic struggle
with his employer, the Lockheed Martin Corporation.
The
link between these subjects is that individuals acting alone in conflict with
large organizations are seldom going to succeed. Engineers need to band together in
democratically run organizations to generate the clout necessary to defend
their livelihoods, and their rights to carry out their professional duties in a
manner acceptable to their consciences
Bring
your associates, friends and spouses.
About
the Speaker
Our speaker will be Dr.
Stephen H. Unger. Dr. Unger is a Professor
of Computer Science (and Electrical Engineering) at
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.asme.org/sections/northjersey
CARE is the Congressional Advocacy Recruitment Effort. CARE is a voluntary network of IEEE members who are interested in public policy. To help go to www.ieeeusa.org/policy/care/.
Time:
Place:
Information: Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625, PWard1130 “AT”
aol.com, Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954, rftax “AT” verizon.net.
NJ Section Seeks Training Facility
Region 1 Award Nominations
Nominate
a colleague. Region 1 of IEEE offers a
variety of awards to recognize the engineering accomplishments of members. Specific award categories include:
technological innovation, engineering organization, academic teaching,
enhancement of IEEE image in the public or industry and sustained IEEE
service. To obtain additional
information about these categories visit the Region 1 website
Once
at the site click on Section Information on the far right column. On the Section page click on Region 1 Awards
Information. We will assist you. To nominate a qualified individual prepare a
200-word summary (including the individual’s name, IEEE number and IEEE
Send the summary to our Awards Chair
Ken
Oexle
prior
to May 1. The North Jersey Awards
Committee will review the summary; suggest any changes; complete the nomination
form; and forward it to the Region 1 Awards committee with a Section
endorsement.
Award
nominations are evaluated and approved at the Region 1 Summer Meeting and
plaques are presented at the following North Jersey Section Annual Awards
Reception.
North Jersey Spring 2008 Student Presentation Contest
The
Spring 2008 Student Presentation Contest is coming up! The North Jersey Section will be holding
presentation contests scheduled for March 25 for undergraduate students and on
March 27 for graduate students. This
contest has been held in years past. Its
overwhelming success in generating student participation and interest make it a
fantastic event for up and coming engineers.
This year's contest will feature similar prizes ($$$) and have graduate
and undergraduate categories.
The
main focus of the presentation contest is to give students an opportunity to
sharpen their communication skills, and help prepare for real life situations
as practicing engineers and researchers.
Additionally, the North Jersey Section contest provides an excellent
chance for students to practice for the Region I Student Paper contest in the
spring.
The
contest at the North Jersey Section level is also supplemented by awarding cash
prizes to the three best presentations in both graduate and undergraduate
categories. All engineering students are
encouraged to participate in submitting team or individual presentations on any
project work related to engineering.
This local contest does not require students to write a full paper, just
a slide-based presentation on technical or non-technical work is
sufficient. Senior design projects, lab
projects, personal engineering hobbies, engineering policy etc. are great
topics to submit. Moving onto the
regional contest requires submitting a short written paper.
The
details of contest rules, judging criteria, viable topics for presentations,
and abstract form will be same as last year.
Also, if you would like to get an idea of what topics would be
appropriate or how you can prepare your abstract, take a look at winners from
past years at the NNJ IEE SAC homepage archive.
This
year's North Jersey Section Contest will be open to graduate and undergraduate
students and first/second/third place prizes will be awarded in each category
of $100/$75/$50. All participants must
register by submitting an abstract by filling in the form available at the SAC
website to qualify as a contest participant.
Time: Tuesday, March 25, 2008
(Under-Graduate Students), and Thursday, March 27, 2008. (Graduate Students), starting with dinner at
5:30 PM.
Place: Fairleigh Dickinson University, Room M105
Auditorium, Muscarelle Building, 1000 River Road, Teaneck, NJ (Free Parking
available). http://www.fdu.edu/visitorcenter/directions/teaneck_map.html
Information: Any and all questions can be emailed to the
contest organizer, northjerseysac “AT” ieee.org.
North Jersey Section Seeks Committee Chairs and Volunteers
The
North Section is seeking new volunteers to help conduct business for the
benefit of its membership. There are a
variety of volunteer positions open and available. They range from technical to non-technical,
leadership or just participatory. For
Society 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 North
Jersey Section, please contact Dr. Chandra Gupta at c.gupta AT ieee.org. You are welcome to 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
committees needing volunteers include the following. Please contact the person indicated for
additional information.
·
Engineering In Medicine and Biology Chapter Chair - contact c.gupta
below.
·
GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade) Affinity Group Volunteers and
Committee members needed - contact northjerseygold AT ieee.org
·
WIE (Women in Engineering) Affinity Group Volunteers and Committee
members needed - contact kduncan AT ieee.org
Additionally,
if interested volunteers would like to get more general information about the
Section, including a complete listing of all chapters and committees, visit the
North Jersey Section website http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/,
or contact Dr. Chandra Gupta c.gupta AT ieee.org.
2008 R1
Student/GOLD /WIE Conference April 26, FDU-Teaneck , NJ
Attention
all members, the upcoming regional student conference with paper contest and
micromouse competition will be held locally in the IEEE North Jersey
Section. It is planned for Saturday,
April 26, at
There
will be parallel programs of activities, introduction to GOLD, and WIE,
GOLD/WIE affinity group leadership training, a variety of seminars on different
topics, a career fair, 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://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/1/gold/conference. Don't miss this opportunity to participate in
a Regional event, locally right here in