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May 2005
Volume 51, Number 11
Publication No:
USPS 580-500
“The IEEE
Newsletter” (North Jersey Section), is published monthly except June and July
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SECTION OFFICERS
Chairman................................................ Har Dayal
har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com (973) 633-4618
Vice-Chairman-1......................... Bhanu Chivukula
b.chivukula “AT” computer.org (732)
718-3818
Vice-Chairman-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.......................................... Russell Pepe
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“AT” att.net (201) 960-6796
Members-at-Large:
Dr.
Nirwan
Ansari
(nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu)
Gary Hojell
(gary.hojell “AT” itt.com)
Dr.
Richard Snyder (r.snyder “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 Russell Pepe at (201) 960-6796, rpepe
“AT” att.net.
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IEEE North Jersey Section
Activities
May
2005
May 4 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30
PM, “Executive Committee
Meeting” - 7:00
PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Russell Pepe at rpepe “AT” worldnet.att.net.
May 11 – “Engineers Meet: Region 1 Director Elect About Afghanistan –
The Latest” - 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 (rtax “AT”
bellatlantic.net).
May 11 – “Power
Systems Operation and Control:
Challenges and Future Directions” – NY I&M Chapter, 7:30 PM,
Manhattan College, NY. Gordon Silverman (718) 862-7153 (gsilverman “AT” ieee.org).
May 12 – “Spring 2005 Packaging
Symposium” – registration 12:00 - 1:00 PM, papers from
1:00 - 5:30 PM, buffet dinner 5:30 - 7:30 PM, Lucent Technologies, Bell
Laboratories, 600 Mountain Ave, Murray Hill, NJ. See http://www.imaps.org/chapters/garden
for details. Michael Salloum
(msalloum “AT” rdcircuits.com).
May 17 – “Innovative Hybrid Model
of Risk Analysis in Supply Chains” - NJ SMC Society, 7:00
PM (light refreshments at 6:45 PM),
NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Mike Liechenstein, (973) 471-0721, m.liechenstein “AT” ieee.org or Dr. Mengchu
Zhou, mengchu.zhou “AT” njit.edu.
May 19 – “HIFET-An Innovative approach for High-Voltage,
High-Power, Broadband Amplifiers” – EDS/C&S, & MTT-S/AP-S Chapters, 7:00
PM (buffet at 6:15 PM),
NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Richard Snyder (973)
492-1207 (RS Microwave) or Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT).
May 20 – “Day 2 - Motor And Motor Controls Seminar” - NJ IAS/PES Chapters, 9:00
AM – 3:30 PM, PSE&G Training
Center, 234
Pierson Avenue, Edison NJ. Ronald Quade, PE,
(732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
May 26 – “Marketing Ideas Workshop” - 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.
May 31 – “Desktop Linux – the Time
Has Come!” - NJ Computer Chapter, 7:00 PM (pre-meeting
buffet at 6:00 PM), Public Meeting Room, Morris County Library, 30 E. Hanover
Ave, Whippany, NJ. Seth
Jakel (973) 731-1902, (sgjakel
“AT” comcast.net) or Vivek Shaiva
(908) 229-6125 (vshaiva “AT” computer.org).
Upcoming Meetings
June 1 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30
PM, “Executive Committee
Meeting” - 7:00
PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Russell Pepe at rpepe “AT” worldnet.att.net.
June 30 – “Promotional Materials Workshop” - 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.
Sept.
? – “Field
Programmable Gate Array Seminar” - NJ Section, Time, Date and Location TBA. See http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
and upcoming Newsletters for updates.
Sept.
? – “Oracle
Database Concepts Including SQL for Programmers” - NJ Section, Time,
Date and Location TBA. See http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
and upcoming Newsletters for updates.
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June Newsletter will be electronic only.
If you have a valid email address on record, you will receive a
Newsletter web-update notice via email.
To update your email address, go to
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As
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NJ
Computer Chapter:
Desktop Linux – the Time Has Come!
On
Tuesday, May 31, 2005, the
IEEE North Jersey Section Computer Chapter will host a presentation entitled
“Desktop Linux – the Time Has Come!” by Frank Middleton.
About
the Talk
For
years, the main complaint about Unix/Linux on the desktop has been the supposed
lack of applications. This isn't true
any more. For example, this write-up and
the presentation were developed and will be given entirely using Unix/Linux and
Unix/Linux based tools.
In
the presentation we will briefly go over the history of Unix and GNU/Linux (as
it is properly called) and the Open Source Software (OSS) movement, look at the
pros and cons of various major GNU/Linux distributions, and the many and varied
OSS licenses and what they mean. As time
permits, we will demonstrate some of the important desktop applications that
make Linux a compelling option today not just on the desktop, but also as the
home entertainment center, and for use in SOHO businesses for server based
applications, such as email.
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, including Linux,
and process management through Model Driven Architecture. 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.
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 6:00 PM.
Time: 7:00
PM, Tuesday, May 31, 2005
(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, sgjakel
“AT” comcast.net, home - (973) 731 1902, cell - (973) 820-1865, office - (908)
243-8715, or Vivek Shaiva,
(908) 229-6125, vshaiva “AT” computer.org.
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NJ
Consultants' Network:
Marketing Ideas Workshop
On
May 26, 2005, the IEEE
Consultants’ Network of Northern NJ (CNNNJ) will host a Marketing Ideas
Workshop. The workshop will be led by
Peter Schutz.
About the
Workshop
Marketing
and sales are some of the things that technical consultants find the hardest to
do. One of the primary functions of
CNNNJ is to make the services provided by CNNNJ members visible and attractive
to potential customers, for example, by the existing periodic mailing and
through the web site. What other
marketing efforts could CNNNJ make?
We'll
discuss our plans to visit companies in the area, special challenges we are
confronted by, and associated ideas. If
time permits, we will also hold a discussion on basic sales and marketing practices
that we, as individuals, have found to be helpful.
Join
our workshop and give us your ideas so that CNNNJ can provide you the best
value for your membership dollars! This
meeting was originally planned for February 2005 but was canceled due to inclement
weather.
About the
Panelist
The workshop will be led by
Peter Schutz, Vice Chairperson of the CNNNJ executive
committee. Peter is a mechanical
engineer who has been working as an independent consultant for the last 20
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 a MSME from NJIT. He survived his
first year of consulting by eating rice.
He has been a member of CNNNJ for the last 6 years.
All CNNNJ members and
visitors are welcome to participate and help make this a successful program!
All Welcome!
Everyone
welcome. No registration needed. Free admission.
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.
Time: 7:30 PM, Thursday,
May 26, 2005.
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:
Promotional Materials Workshop
On June
30, 2005, the IEEE Consultants’ Network of Northern NJ (CNNNJ) will
host a workshop on Promotional Materials.
The speaker will be Deborah Mesibov.
About the
Workshop
Design
of corporate materials, brochures, direct mail, and advertising requires a
careful understanding of how to influence prospects so that the materials can
generate leads and draw them to your business.
Bring your current materials to this workshop and we will select items
from these materials for instructional and constructive criticism.
• Learn how copy, color, and
appropriate graphics catch the eye and create inquiry.
• See a demonstration of layout
organized by emphasis.
• Understand the reasoning behind
common yet important visual signals.
About the
Speaker
Deborah Mesibov
is the founding partner of Special Graphics, an agency known for its work in
direct mail, advertising, consumer product packaging, trade show display, and
publicity. As an award-winning art
director and designer for nearly 30 years, Deb has created numerous promotions,
advertising and direct mail campaigns, and package designs which have
catapulted businesses into growth spurts by leveraging their own strengths.
Additional information can be
found by visiting the agency’s website at www.specialgraphics.com.
All Welcome!
Everyone
welcome. No registration needed. Free admission.
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.
Time: 7:30 PM, Thursday,
June 30, 2005.
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:
HIFET-An Innovative approach for
High-Voltage, High-Power, Broadband Amplifiers
On May
19, 2005, 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 “HIFET-An Innovative approach for High-Voltage, High-Power,
Broadband Amplifiers." The speaker
will be Dr. Amin Ezzeddine.
About the Talk
HIFET*
(High Voltage FET) is an innovative power combination technique to achieve
high-voltage, high-power and broadband amplification. It stacks up the
individual FETs both DC and RF in series. The source
of the top FET becomes the drain of the bottom FET. Therefore, both the DC bias
voltage and RF impedance of the FETs are added to a
high value. By proper choice of the device configuration, it is possible to
achieve near 50-ohm RF impedance for very broadband amplification. The
challenge of designing the HIFET is to ensure that: a) Each FET in series sees
the optimal load impedance to achieve optimal output power and efficiency, b).
The RF output voltages of each FET are in phase to achieve efficient power
combination, and c). To achieve high degree of
stability.
AMCOM
has developed discrete HIFETs for 14V and 28V DC
voltage with output power up to 8W, and HIFET MMICs
with 3W output power from 25MHz to 2,500MHz with 20V DC bias voltage, and 5W
output power at 1.5-1.7GHz GPS band.
The
HIFET is a methodology, which is not limited only to FET. It also applies to
PHEMT, GaN, LDMOS, …etc.
This
talk will cover the principle of HIFET and AMCOM HIFET products.
About the
Speaker
Dr.
Amin Ezzeddine received his
Bachelor of Science from Ain-Shams
University, Cairo,
in 1976, his Master and ScD degrees from MIT in 1979 and 1983 respectively.
Dr.
Ezzeddine is the Executive vice president, chief
engineer and co-founder of AMCOM Communications. Prior to founding Amcom
Communications he worked with Comsat Corporation for 10 years where he held
several management and research positions at COMSAT Laboratories and Comsat
RSI.
Dr.
Ezzeddine has over 20 years experience in designing
MMIC & MIC components, over 20 published technical papers and several
microwave and millimeter-wave circuit patents.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00
PM, Thursday, May
19, 2005.
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/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS
Microwave) or Dr. Edip Niver
(973) 596-3542 (NJIT).
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NJ
Section PACE & GOLD:
Engineers Meet:
Region
1 Director Elect About Afghanistan
– The Latest
On Wednesday,
May 11, 2005, the North Jersey Section GOLD and PACE committees will
host a meeting with Barry L. Shoop, Region 1
Director-Elect.
He will discuss military - educational efforts in Afghanistan. He will also
ad-dress your concerns for Region 1 IEEE activities.
About the Meeting
Central to nation-building efforts in Afghanistan
is the need to create new national military institutions that are founded on
principles that support a new constitution and are compatible with the liberal
democracies they will ultimately serve.
The key to this effort is to create institutions that will foster the
inculcation of the concept of service within their nascent officer corps. Rather than expecting to be served by society
because of their position, officers in the new Afghan National Army (ANA) must
understand and embrace the concept that they are servants of society. This concept of national service contrasts
sharply with the history of militias loyal to specific ethnic groups or
individuals. To help create these
institutions in Afghanistan,
coalition and Afghan leaders turned to the U.S. Military Academy at West
Point.
COL Barry L. Shoop spent
the summer of 2004 in Afghanistan helping to establish the National Military
Academy of Afghanistan (NMAA), returning on 22 March 2005 for the Opening
Ceremony. COL. Shoop
will discuss his experiences in Afghanistan,
including his work to help establish the NMAA.
His "boots-on-the-ground" perspective is much different than
what you get from watching TV news.
As Director-Elect of Region 1, COL Shoop will also provide insight into what IEEE is doing at
the Regional, National, and International level.
About the Speaker
Barry L. Shoop
is a Colonel in the U.S. Army, Professor of Electrical Engineering, and the
Electrical Engineering Program Director at the United
States Military Academy
at West Point. He
earned the BS degree from the Pennsylvania
State University
in 1980, the MS from the US Naval Postgraduate School in 1986, and PhD from Stanford
University in 1992, all in
electrical engineering.
He is a Fellow of the OSA and SPIE and a
Senior Member of the IEEE. He is
currently the IEEE Region 1 Director-Elect and will assume responsibilities of
Region 1 Director in January 2006.
All Welcome!
Members and students from
all professional societies and engineering disciplines are welcome. We now have attendees from IEEE, ASME, NSPE,
ASCE, NSPE, and AEA. For information about
these groups see
www.aeaworld.org/
www.aea.org/chapters/nj/
www.ieeeusa.org
web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
www.asme.org/sections/northjersey
Time: 6:30
to 9:00 PM, Wed., May 11,
2005. 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 (rtax “AT” bellatlantic.net).
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North Jersey SMC Society:
Innovative Hybrid Model of Risk
Analysis in Supply Chains
On Tuesday,
May 17, 2005, the NJ Systems, Man and Cybernetics
(SMC) Chapter will host a talk
on “Innovative Hybrid Model of Risk Analysis in Supply Chains.” The speaker will be Dr. Azzam
ul Asar.
About the Talk
Risk
analysis in supply chains is the process of identifying threats and system
vulnerabilities to analyze consequences and estimate the expected loss. Supply chains need to be modeled at various
degrees of abstraction in order to arrive at strategic, tactical, or
operational level decisions. Therefore,
a complete structure and an inference engine are required to determine the most
probable path and the relative probabilities of occurrence for any chain of
events. The proposed approach introduces
a multi-paradigm system based on a discrete event
formalism for simulating a supply chain as a complex adaptive system. It utilizes a Petri net approach to model the
discrete event behavior of supply chain, fuzzy logic to incorporate subjective
probabilities of contributor events/ conditions, and Bayesian approach for
structuring the probabilistic relationships among events involving conditional
probabilities that quantify the strength of dependencies. The proposed approach generates its model based
on matrices and performs fuzzy reasoning automatically. The proposed model uses subjective
probabilities based on MIL standards and produces compatible results under a
much adaptable and flexible environment.
The results are being applied to several military supply chain
scenarios.
About the Speaker
Dr. Azzam ul Asar received his PhD and MSc degrees from the University
of Strathclyde,
Gllasgow, U.K. He did his BSc
Engineering in Electrical from the NWFP
University of Engineering &
Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan. He is currently a visiting Professor in the
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the New Jersey Institute of
Technology, New Jersey. His areas of research are intelligent
systems, neural networks, and artificial intelligence, with applications to
industrial systems. He has published
over 20 technical papers in international journals and conference
proceedings. He is currently conducting
research on adaptive Petri nets and has been active in modeling risk analysis
of supply chain networks by integrating Petri nets, Bayesian networks, and
fuzzy logic into an innovative methodology.
All Welcome!
You need not be a
member of IEEE to attend, and there is no charge for admission. Light refreshments will be served starting at
6:45 PM.
Time: 7:00 PM (light
refreshments at 6:45 PM), Tuesday,
May 17, 2005.
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/RSVP: Dr.
Mike
Liechenstein,
(973) 471-0721, m.liechenstein “AT” ieee.org, or Dr. Mengchu Zhou, mengchu.zhou “AT”
njit.edu. Please also check electronic
newsletter for any possible changes in room, etc.
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Spring 2005 Student
Presentation Contest Late, But a Success
The North Jersey Section
student presentation contest for spring 2005 was held on Tuesday, March 22nd at
FDU in Teaneck, NJ,
after being delayed by the ice storm on March 8th.
The contest was well
attended and had a good number of participants.
There were a total of 15 graduate and undergraduate student presenters
covering a wide variety of topics. A
group of five judges volunteered their time to grade each of the speakers. The purpose of the contest is to help
students improve their communication and presentation skills. Each presenter received the judge's comment
sheets for constructive feedback.
The contest started with
dinner and then moved right into the graduate and undergraduate
categories. Many different topics were
covered and this year's students showed great expertise in using animated and
concise slide presentations. Topics included
everything from tutorials on nanotechnology and its applications, wireless
credit card systems, to PLC controllers, and 4G mobile communications.
The winners, titles, and
short abstracts can be found below.
Winners in both categories were awarded 1st/2nd/3rd place prizes. All participants were given a career planning
tutorial on CD. The next round of
competition will be the regional contest to be held at SUNY Buffalo, NY, on
April 9/10. All the details of their
program can be found off the SAC website
http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/sac/ieee.html
The North Jersey Section
Presentation contest will be again held next spring. Greater participation is hoped and the call
for presentations will start early in November.
All North Jersey Grad/Undergrads are welcome to participate for
prizes. Special thanks goes to our
judges, Maurice Baker, Har Dayal,
David Hessig, Stephen Wilkowski,
and Mel Lewis for taking their time to support local students. Find below pictures of some participants of
the presentation contest, judges, and some winners.
Student Presentation Contest Judges
Student Presentation Contestants
Student Presentation Contest Winners
________________________
Tias Kundu
– 1st Place
Graduate
New Jersey Institute of
Technology
“Hydrogen/Deuterium
Implantation for Si/SiO2 Interface Passivation”
The
Si-SiO2
interface has become a focus of study with the trend to even smaller devices
with thin gate oxides (<7nm region) in VLSI technology. One of the major defects giving rise to the
interface states in the silicon band gap is the dangling bonds. Passivation of
these bonds with hydrogen had been found to diminish their effect but leads to
degradation of the device due to the effect of hot electron. Deuterium annealing has proved to improve the
life time of the MOS devices for one level metal-dielectric structure but this
technique is not very effective for a multi-level metal-dielectric
structure. The present work investigates
and optimizes incorporation of deuterium by ion implantation into the silicon
substrate before the growth of thin gate oxides. Different implantation conditions were used
for optimization to effectively passivate the silicon
dangling bonds. Hydrogen implantation
has also been carried out to study the isotope effect. The improvement in electrical and reliability
characteristics of deuterium implanted deices were investigated. The deuterium implanted devices showed an
enhanced interface passivation. Soft and hard breakdown characteristics of
deuterium implanted device yielded better results compared to hydrogen
implanted devices further confirming the isotope effect.
________________________
Purushothaman Srinivasan
– 2nd Place
Graduate
New Jersey Institute of
Technology
“Modeling and Simulation of SiGe Photodetector for Optical
Communication”
The
objective is to model and simulate the SiGe
Photodiode using a Device Simulator (Taurus-Device, a Synopsys
based TCAD tool) and understand the steady-state and transient characteristics
of the device with i) changes in the doping
concentration of the intrinsic layers ii) doping concentration of SiGe layers, iii) thickness of SiGe/Si
superlattice structure (SLS) and iv) mole fraction of
SiGe. The
parameter that is studied to optimize them is the dark current of the
photodiode. By dark current
characteristics it is possible to estimate the electrical performance by
observing the reverse bias breakdown voltage and reverse saturation
current. The main application of this
photodiode is for optical communications and hence it is essential that the
parameters involved needs to be optimized in order to have maximum
efficiency. The behavior of the diode is
therefore studied for its wavelength and intensity variations as a measure of
its optical performance.
________________________
Mubashir Syed
– 3rd Place
Graduate
Stevens Institute of
Technology
“Utilizing Beamforming for Random Access - A Cross-Layer Paradigm”
Adaptive
beamforming has been shown to substantially improve
the performance of many a packet radio systems.
We present here, a slotted Aloha based random access protocol designed
to be employed in conjunction with adaptive beamforming,
for use in a sectorized cellular wireless
system. The focus is on a cross-layer
design approach, in which information about the status of packet transmissions
is utilized to dynamically adapt antenna beams among the sectors in a cell. This scheme is especially robust against
network inefficiencies due to uneven and time-varying traffic load densities
within the sectors of a cell. Simulation
results demonstrate the substantial enhancement in throughput and delay
performance accorded by the proposed scheme.
________________________
Brenda Kasigwa
– 1st Place
Undergrad
Fairleigh Dickinson
University
“Voice Over
Internet Protocol”
Voice
Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is one form of Internet
telephony which encompasses voice, video, and data. VoIP has gained popularity for the obvious
reason of being cost effective especially through the intranets. Other reasons include the need to integrate
voice and data networks, and the demand for multimedia communication. Some of the issues inhibiting popularity of
VoIP include absence of standards, resulting in incompatibility of some
systems, problems in voice quality, lack of security, and problems with
integration with the public switched telephone networks. For the future, the most promising areas for
VoIP are within corporate intranets and commercial extranets that control who can use the network.
With the need for multimedia conferencing, ways will be found to ensure
that VoIP is the trend of the future.
________________________
Edgar Argueta
– 2nd Place
Undergrad
Fairleigh Dickinson
University
“Energy Conservation Using Compact Fluorescent
Bulbs”
Fluorescent
lights have been around for a while.
They are used in most buildings and they consist of a
ballast and a gas filled tube.
The ballast, usually magnetic or electronic, “sparks” the gas making the
tube glow with ultraviolet light exciting a white phosphor coating on the
inside of the tube giving visible light.
Compact Fluorescent lamps (CFL’s) are a
smaller version of the standard fluorescent lamps with the difference that they
can directly replace standard incandescent bulbs. The CFL’s have the
same brightness and color retention as that of the incandescent with the
difference that it uses less energy to give the same amount of light output and
lasts10 times longer. CFL’s are very energy friendly and replacing an
incandescent bulb with a CFL of equal light output lessens energy consumption,
reducing energy costs. If every
household were to replace its incandescent bulbs with CFL's,
the reduction of pollution would be equivalent to removing 1 million
automobiles.
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Todd DeLuck
– 3rd Place
– Undergrad
Fairleigh Dickinson
University
“Using Power Line Structures
for Distributed AM Broadcasting”
Current AM radio broadcast schemes use multi-tower arrays commonly
located in wetlands. These plant
locations have become less desirable with recent concerns for environmental
impact. Power line structures, which are
in nearly all communities, can offer an alternate method of broadcast that
would alleviate many environmental concerns and provide better coverage and
reliability for broadcasters. Using the
natural loop or slot created by lines passing from tower to tower small
antennas can be created. By careful
selection of antenna location, power and phasing a distribution network can be
installed. These antennas can be fed
with low power digital transmitters controlled by computer from a studio location. With computer modeling software, current
coverage patterns can be duplicated or improved, faults in the system can be
compensated for and environmental impact can be virtually eliminated. On the down side this proposed system would
require a large upfront investment and a change in regulation by the FCC to
begin implementation.
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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:
• LEOS Chapter Chair. Contact Har Dayal (har "DOT" dayal
"AT" baesystems "DOT" com)
• Controls Chapter Chair. Contact Howard Leach (Hhleach
"AT" aol
"DOT" com)
• GOLD Affinity Group Chair. Contact Dick Tax (rtax "AT" bellatlantic
"DOT" net)
• Historian Committee seeks help collecting
IEEE historical information and specifically IEEE North Jersey Section
History. Contact Al Stolpen
(a "DOT" stolpen "AT" ieee "DOT" org)
• Student Activities Committee seeks new
volunteers for North Jersey. Contact Amit Patel (a
"DOT" j "DOT" patel
"AT" ieee "DOT" 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 "DOT" dayal
"AT" baesystems "DOT" com.
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The NJ Section Education
Committee Requests Your Feedback
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 Chairman, at b.chivukula “AT”
computer.org for suggestions or discussions, if interested.
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Dr. Durga Misra
Selected as EDS Distinguished Lecturer!
Congratulations
to Dr. Durgamadhab Misra on
being selected as Electron Devices Society (EDS) Distinguished Lecturer. Dr. Misra has been
very active in the North Jersey Section and currently sits as Junior Past
Chair, Vice-Chair of the North Jersey Section EDS Chapter, and former Treasurer
and Member-At-Large amongst numerous other IEEE activities. Dr. Misra was
recently selected as a recipient for a 2004 IEEE Regional Activities Board
Leadership Award. He is currently a
professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
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IEEE-USA
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.
Contact:
Russ
Harrison
IEEE-USA
(202)
785-0017
r.t.harrison
“AT” ieee.org
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IEEE-USA:
U.S.
Government Agency's Approval of Unauthorized Visas Cuts U.S.
Jobs
WASHINGTON (18 March
2005) - IEEE-USA "is extremely discouraged to learn that the United States
Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security has accepted and approved more than 75,000 H-1B visa petitions for
Fiscal Year 2005 even though they were capped at 65,000,"
said IEEE-USA Career Activities Vice President Ron Hira,
an assistant professor of public policy at the Rochester, NY, Institute of
Technology.
The IEEE-USA Vice
President stressed: "We're not sure just how or why this excess in
authorized visas occurred. But this
certainly isn't the first time that the Federal agency charged with
responsibility for administering the nation's immigrant and non-immigrant
admissions programs has failed to enforce a very plain and straightforward
law. How hard can it be to count to
65,000 and stop issuing visas?"
Dr. Hira
continued: "This
excess in approved visas defeats the purpose of one of the most
important safeguards for American workers.
By increasing the number of visas issued, the USCIS has unilaterally
reduced job opportunities for American workers at a critical time, when the job
market is still very soft." He also noted: "Several years ago, the
USCIS predecessor agency -- the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) --
issued 20,000 more H-1B visas than it was supposed to have approved, and added
this additional number into the following year's total."
IEEE-USA's Hira also applauded Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) and
others in Congress "for moving quickly to hold the USCIS accountable for
its actions." In a 7 March letter to USCIS Director Eduardo Aguirre,
Senator Grassley expressed dismay that the agency seems to have ignored
Congress' intent with respect to the visa cap.
The senator also asked for the numbers of H-1B visa applications that
have been approved, and called for an explanation of how the agency intends to
ensure that issuance of more visas than authorized does not occur again.
The H-1B temporary work
visa program was established by Congress to enable U.S.
employers to hire foreign nationals with knowledge and skills deemed to be in
short supply in the United States. H-1B visas are valid for up to six years and
are currently capped at 65,000 per year.
Educational institutions and related not-for profit research
organization are not subject to the 65,000 cap.
Late last year, an additional 20,000 H-1B visas were set aside for
applicants with Masters and PhD degrees from U.S.
colleges and universities.
IEEE-USA is an
organizational unit of the IEEE. It was
created in 1973 to advance the public good and promote the careers and public
policy interests of the more than 220,000 technology professionals who are U.S.
members of the IEEE. The IEEE is the
world's largest technical professional society.
For more information, go to http://www.ieeeusa.org.
CONTACT:
Pender
M. McCarter, APR, Fellow PRSA
IEEE-USA
Communications & Public Relations Director
PHONE: (202) 785-0017, ext. 8353
E-MAIL: p.mccarter “AT”
ieee.org
Chris D. McManes
IEEE-USA
Senior Public Relations Coordinator
PHONE: (202) 785-0017, ext. 8356
E-MAIL: c.mcmanes “AT”
ieee.org
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IEEE-USA White Paper: U.S. Prosperity at Risk; Gigabit Networks Should
be National Priority
WASHINGTON (8 April 2005)
- The United States should deploy widespread wired and wireless gigabit
networks as a national priority, according to a white paper from the IEEE-USA
Committee on Communications and Information Policy (CCIP).
"Providing
Ubiquitous Gigabit Networks in the United States,"
issued 14 March, says that our nation must act promptly to ensure that a new
generation of broadband networks of gigabit per second speed is ubiquitous and
available to all. Failure to act will
"relegate the U.S.
telecommunications infrastructure to an inferior competitive position" and
undermine the future of the U.S.
economy.
"Priority deployment
of gigabit networks is essential for the United
States to maintain its world leadership in the
knowledge economy," IEEE Life Fellow and IEEE-USA CCIP member Dr. John
Richardson said. "Information
drives our lives and our prosperity. The
problem is that current networks aren't fast enough to distribute that
information properly."
Digital data rates, or
speeds, are typically expressed as megabits per second (Mb/s) or gigabits per
second (Gb/s).
A megabit is one million bits; a gigabit is one billion bits. Current broadband networks, such as DSL or
cable modems, have an asymmetric speed of about 2 Mb/s. Gigabit networks are capable of digital rates
50 to 5,000 times as fast, with equal upstream and downstream speed. Symmetric speed means information can be
downloaded and uploaded at the same rate.
With asymmetric systems, upstream speeds lag behind downstream delivery
rates.
Omnipresent U.S.
gigabit networks, readily achievable by deploying optical fiber and high-speed
wireless, would carry numerous benefits.
These include providing the U.S.
economy with superior ability to compete globally; stimulating economic
activity in digital home entertainment; enhancing online education and
training; and facilitating health care remote diagnosis and consultation
(telemedicine).
Congress, the Executive Branch
and private-sector initiatives could secure these benefits for our nation's
global competitiveness and quality of life by adopting "principles leading
to ubiquitous, symmetric gigabit availability as a national priority,"
according to the CCIP white paper (http://www.ieeeusa.org/volunteers/committees/ccip/docs/Gigabit-WP.pdf). Such principles include regulatory
flexibility and encouragement of user-owned networks.
"The key fact of
modern telecommunications is the convergence of voice, data, image and video
into digital bit streams," said Richardson, a former chief scientist at
the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. "We need faster networks to carry these
bit streams to users. Broadband speed and penetration in the United
States are pitiful compared to levels in Japan
and South Korea. This means that U.S.
prosperity is at risk because it depends, in large part, on fast and easy
exchange of information."
IEEE-USA is an
organizational unit of the IEEE. It was
created in 1973 to advance the public good and promote the careers and public
policy interests of the more than 220,000 technology professionals who are U.S.
members of the IEEE. The IEEE is the
world's largest technical professional society.
For more information, go to http://www.ieeeusa.org.
Contact: Chris McManes
Senior
Public Relations Coordinator
Phone:
(202) 785-0017, ext. 8356
E-Mail: c.mcmanes “AT”
ieee.org
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North Jersey Section
Oracle SQL Programming 101
Seminar Objective
This 4 hour course will teach you
how to work with data within an Oracle Database using SQL and SQL*Plus.
Seminar Design Outline
• Principal features of the Oracle database
• Query and manipulate an Oracle database
using Structured Query Language
• Code sophisticated query operations such as
join, grouping, case and more
• Update data with insert, update, delete,
and merge operations
• Create database tables with the major datatypes such as NUMBER, VARCHAR2
• Create B-Tree indexes to improve the performance
of query operations
• Query Oracle data dictionary tables such as
USER_TABLES
• Utilize transaction control statements such
as Commit, Rollback and Savepoint
• Create database objects such as tables,
views, indexes, synonyms and sequences
• Grant and Revoke object privileges
• Utilize SQL*Plus to query, update and
create database objects
• Use SQL*Plus scripting and report
generation features
About the Speaker
The speaker is scheduled to be Raj Agarwal, DBA.
Time: TBA, September 2005.
Place: TBA – see http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/ and upcoming Newsletters for updates.
Information:
see http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/ and upcoming Newsletters for updates.
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North Jersey Section
Field Programmable Gate Array Seminar
Seminar overview
FPGA stands for Field Programmable
Gate Array. FPGAs are becoming the de facto standard in
digital design. They are found in control, DSP and general purpose computing.
They offer designers the ability to go to layout before committing to the full
design.
This seminar will introduce FPGAs and provide a road map on how to learn and become
productive in the use of FPGAs. Development will be used by the instructor to
execute labs.
Seminar Design Outline
•
Introduction to FPGA
•
FPGA architecture
•
Xilinx
Design Flow
Ä
Architecture Wizard and Pace
Ä
Reading Reports
Ä
Global Timing Constraints
•
Synthesis Techniques
Ä
XILINX CORE Generator
Ä
Floorplanner:
Effective Layout
•
FPGA Editor: Viewing and Editing a Routed
Design
Ä
HDL Bencher
•
FPGA Design Techniques
•
Synchronous Design Techniques
About the Speaker
Mr. Chibane
Cherif, is a practicing engineer, speaker and
lecturer in telecommunications, wireless communication and Voice Over IP technology, business and market issues.
Pre-requisite
Basic
Digital design
Time: TBA, September 2005.
Place: TBA – see http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/ and upcoming Newsletters for updates.
Information:
see http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/ and upcoming Newsletters for updates.
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NJ Power Engineering Society/Industry Applications Society
Motor And Motor Controls Seminar
The PES and IAS Chapters will sponsor a two-part seminar
covering Motor and Motor Controls. The
sessions will be held on two Fridays, April 29 and May 20 at the PSE&G
Training Center
in Edison, NJ.
The seminar will cover the design and application,
protection and control of three-phase motors.
Topics
Day
1
Ä Operating conditions, insulation, voltage unbalance
Ä Three phase motor theory
Ä Protection (fuses, breakers, MCP, overloads)
Ä NEMA Premium Efficiency motors
Day
2
Ä Solid State
Starting
Ä Speed control, harmonics, inverter-grade motors
Ä Testing, maintenance and repair
About the Instructor
The instructor will be John Hyfantis,
President of Energistics LLC. Prior to
forming Energistics in 1978, John’s responsibilities included engineering and
management positions with Electronic Associates, RCA-Astro, Dow Jones &
Co., and Johnson & Johnson. John has
conducted this course previously for PSE&G, Conectiv, NYSERDA, Northeast
Utilities, Hoffmann-La Roche and Schering-Plough.
Mr. Hyfantis is past President and Chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the Energy Expo Inc. He is
also a charter member and twice past president of the New Jersey Association of
Energy Engineers.
His educational credits are a BS degree in Electrical
Engineering from Lafayette College,
1960, and a Masters Degree in Management from New York
University, 1970. He is a Certified Energy Manager, and is a
registered Professional Engineer in New Jersey,
New York, Connecticut
and Pennsylvania.
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The registration fee for this two-part seminar prior to
April 15th will be $175 for non-IEEE members, $125 for IEEE Members,
$100 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 received after April 15th 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 1.2 CEUs will be offered. Please indicate if desired below..
______________________________________________________________________
Registration:
Motor Seminar 4/29/2005
& 5/20/2005
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 $15 No
If CEUs are chosen, please include a
$15 processing fee
Payment Enclosed $_______________
Add $25 late registration after April 15th
Make checks payable to North Jersey Section IEEE
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