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May 2007
Volume 53, Number 11
Publication No:
USPS 580-500
“The IEEE
Newsletter” (North Jersey Section), is published monthly except June and July
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The
IEEE North Jersey
Section Activities
May
2007
May 2 – “NJ Section Meeting”,
May 6 – “NJ Section Awards Reception” -
May 7 – “Theory and Performance of ‘Pick-up’ Transistors
and its Potential to Transform Macroelectronics and Biosensing”
- NJ EDS/C&S, 5:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are
available at http://www.njit.edu. 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).
May 9 – “Engineers Meet:
New Directions at IEEE” - NJ PACE & GOLD,
May 15 – “Spring 2007 Packaging Symposium”
– registration 12:00 - 1:00 PM, papers from 1:00 - 5:30 PM, Lucent
Technologies, Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Ave, Murray Hill, NJ. See http://www.imaps-gs.org/
for details. Voya Markovich,
voya.markovich “AT” eitny.com or (607) 755-1978.
May 16 – “Advances in WDM LANs for
Avionics Applications: Standards
Development and Technology Challenges” by Dr. Sarry Habiby,
NJ AES,
May 16 – “OCDM-Based Photonic
Layer “Security” Scaleable to 100 Gb/s for Existing WDM Networks”
by Dr. Sarry Habiby, NJ AES, 7:00 PM, BAE Systems, 164 Totowa Road, Wayne,
NJ 07474. Dr. Naresh Chand, (973) 636-7408,
naresh.chand “AT” baesystems.com.
May 18 – “Montclair High School Robotics Teams'
Presentation”,
May 24 – “Web Marketing for the
Independent Professional” by Mike Moran, NJ Consultants' Network,
May 25 – “Mission Critical Power Technical
Series - Paralleling Switchgear Seminar” by Ron Hilbert, NJ
IAS/PES,
May 31 – “Open Source Comes to
Business Process Management” by Arthur J. Hedge III, NJ Computer and EMS
Chapters, 7:00 PM, Public Meeting Room, Morris County Library, 30 E. Hanover
Ave, Whippany, NJ. Seth Jakel - (973)
731 1902 – home, (973) 820-1865 – cell, or Howard Leach (973) 540-1283, (h.leach “AT” ieee.org).
Upcoming
Meetings
June 6 – “NJ Section Meeting”,
Members and Non-Members Welcome
PLEASE POST
NJ AES Chapter:
Advances in WDM LANs for Avionics Applications: Standards Development and Technology Challenges
OCDM-Based Photonic Layer “Security” Scaleable to 100 Gb/s for Existing WDM Networks
On Wednesday, May 16, 2007,
the North Jersey Chapter of the IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society
will sponsor the following two talks:
1.
“Advances in WDM LANs for Avionics
Applications: Standards Development and
Technology Challenges” by Dr. Sarry Habiby
2.
“OCDM-Based Photonic Layer
“Security” Scaleable to 100 Gb/s for Existing WDM Networks” by Dr. Shahab
Etemad
About the Talks
Advances
in WDM LANs for Avionics Applications:
Standards Development and Technology Challenges
This talk provides a review
of status and advances in the development of WDM LAN standards for avionic and
aerospace network applications. It
provides a synopsis of the scope, charter and recent activities of the WDM LAN
Task Group of the Society of Automotive Engineering (SAE) and highlights key
challenges in WDM technology and standardization. The standardization objective is to enable
design and implementation of a WDM LAN that will facilitate flexible, high
bandwidth, low cost, and low weight communication links on aircraft platforms
for military, commercial as well as space vehicles. Some of the key challenges are the
development of technology and systems that can deliver the desired performance
yet withstand the stringent environmental requirements encountered in aerospace
applications.
OCDM-Based
Photonic Layer “Security” Scaleable to 100 Gb/s for Existing WDM Networks
The ability to access and
modify optical phase with high resolution is opening exciting new opportunities
in the optical communications, optical signal processing, and RF-photonics
arenas. Optical demultiplexing with a
resolution better than 1 GHz allows overlay optical communications scenarios
compatible with the existing transparent WDM optical networks. We here review the use of such
high-resolution control of the optical phase of mode-locked laser frequency
combs as an enabling technology for a new class of Optical Code Division
Multiplexing (OCDM) systems. A network
based on such systems is compatible with and has a comparable spectral
efficiency to existing DWDM networks, and can even occupy the unused bandwidth
of an existing single channel DWDM window.
Through inverse multiplexing of 10 Gb/s tributaries we are demonstrating
a security-enhanced optical transmission over metropolitan area at 40 Gb/s that
is scalable to 100 Gb/s and beyond.
About the Speakers
Dr. Sarry Habiby is an
Optical Networking professional with nineteen years experience in research and
management of optical technology programs.
He is currently active in research programs in optical transport and
switching, WDM network requirements, and transparent network simulation and
modeling. Prior to joining Telcordia,
Sarry worked at Tellium, a leading provider of optical switching solutions for
telecom operators' core networks. At
Tellium, Sarry was director of a technical sales engineering team. Prior to Tellium, Sarry was a researcher at
Bellcore; as a task leader for the systems engineering task in the DARPA-funded
MONET project, Sarry had responsibility for network specifications of DWDM
transport, optical amplifier, OADM and optical switching network elements, and
requirements for systems and network interfaces. He also led a simulation effort for DWDM
networks, validating network specifications and requirements. Sarry has participated in SAE standards for
optical networks in avionics since 2004 and leads a WDM LAN sub-group focused
on avionic network requirements. Sarry
is a member of the IEEE and SID (Society for Information Displays).
Dr. Shahab Etemad is a
Chief Scientist and Director at Telcordia to which he moved at its inception
from Bell Laboratories. Dr. Etemad has a
BS in Physics from
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a
member of the IEEE to attend the talks
but you need to email your name, address, and citizenship to Dr. Naresh Chand
for obtaining security clearance by May 15.
A free buffet dinner, starting at
Time:
Place: BAE Systems,
RSVP
Required: email your name, address,
and citizenship to Dr. Naresh Chand for obtaining security clearance by May 15
Information: Dr. Naresh Chand, (973) 636-7408,
naresh.chand “AT” baesystems.com
NJ
Computer and EMS
Chapters:
Open Source Comes to Business Process Management
On
About the Talk
Business Process Management
is a key enterprise software category that has emerged over the past several
years. There are over 100 vendors that
develop products in this market. BPM tools
allow organizations to design, automate, and manage the activities of knowledge
workers from within one platform.
Several vendors have released open source versions of their BPM suites.
In this presentation, we
will present a detailed description of the various software elements that
together comprise a BPM solution. We
will discuss the BPM market today and why several companies are developing open
source BPM toolsets.
About the Speaker
Arthur J. Hedge III is
President of Castle Ventures. He focuses
on helping companies reduce costs and operate more effectively by improving
their business processes. Mr. Hedge has
over 20 years of consulting expertise, focused on large-scale application
development. He is also a member of the
AIIM Document Management standards committee.
Mr. Hedge is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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
Time:
Place: Public Meeting Room,
Information: Seth Jakel, (973) 731-1902 [home], (973)
820-1865 [cell], or Howard Leach (973) 540-1283, (h.leach “AT” ieee.org).
NJ Consultants' Network:
Web Marketing for the Independent Professional
On
Thursday, May 24, 2007, the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ is pleased
to present ” Web
Marketing for the Independent Professional”, by Mike Moran.
About the Talk
It's
not easy being a consultant. You must
keep your clients happy. You have to
keep up with your field of expertise.
You must collect your bills. Who
has the time or money for marketing?
Few successful consultants make it without
some kind of marketing. In the old days,
it was a good resume and who you knew, but today, you need a Web site--a good
Web site. And you need to know how to
get attention for your Web site. It may
seem overwhelming or beyond your budget, but it doesn't have to be.
The
good news about Web marketing is that it doesn't have to break your bank. Free or low-cost hosting of blogs, Web sites,
podcasts and videos give you ways to get your marketing message out. Search marketing takes some time, but not
much money. Find out how to create a Web
site that conveys the image you want and delivers the message prospective
clients need to hear. Learn how Web
marketing can set you apart among the sea of consultants looking for
engagements.
About the Speaker
Mike
Moran is an IBM Distinguished Engineer who has worked on the Web since its
inception, including eight years at ibm.com where he most recently was Manager
of Web User Experience. Mike is
currently a Product Manager for OmniFind, IBM's enterprise search product, and
is an expert in search marketing--co-author of the best-selling book Search
Engine Marketing, Inc., columnist for Revenue magazine and WebProNews. His new book on Internet marketing, Do It
Wrong Quickly, will be available in September.
Mike can be reached at his Web site (mikemoran.com), which is also home
to his Biznology newsletter and blog.
Consultants' Network Member Presentation
During
the second half of the meeting, Jim Boyd, Chairperson of the IEEE Consultants'
Network of Northern NJ will be presenting a brief overview of his consulting
practice.
Since
founding XL Research Inc. in 1978, Jim Boyd (www.picconsult.com)
has been designing microcontroller-based products for consumer and industrial
applications. Jim has background in
analog, digital and power design and has focused his consulting practice on
PIC-based applications since becoming an Authorized Consultant for Microchip
Technologies in 1998. He is also a
Certified HiTech C Consultant and former Consulting Editor for Electronic
Design magazine. (Contact: 973-584-0329,
j.boyd “AT” ieee.org).
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 EDS/C&S Chapters:
Theory and Performance of ‘Pick-up’ Transistors and its Potential to Transform Macroelectronics and Biosensing
On
About the Talk
In
recent years, there has been significant interest in fabricating thin-film transistors
on flexible substrates in the emerging field of large-area
macro-electronics. Applications include
displays, e-paper, e-clothing, pressure-sensitive skin, large-area chemical and
biological sensors, flexible and shape-conformable antennae and radar, as well
as intelligent and responsive surfaces with large-area control of temperature,
drag and other properties. And of the
many technology choices, the so-called nanocomposite ‘pick-up stick’
transistors, based polymers saturated with nanosticks of Silicon Nanowire
(Si-NW) or Carbon Nanotubes of various orientation, appears to be a
particularly promising candidate with almost monthly reports of ground-breaking
research results for this new technology.
A lack of predictive transport models, however,
has stymied the translation of the laboratory experiments to practical,
disruptive technology. The challenge is
that the classical theory of carrier transport in semiconductors, developed
over last 50 years in close collaboration with experimentalists, device
physicists, numerical analysts, and computer scientists, is no longer
appropriate for this new class of transistors with spatially inhomogeneous
transport properties. In this talk, Dr. Alam will
discuss our recent efforts to develop a comprehensive theoretical framework to
describe the performance of transistors and show that an intuitive
generalization of finite-size stick percolation theory to nonlinear regime can
consistently interpret a broad range of experimental data reported in the
literature. Implications of our results
for potential microwave applications of these transistors as well as relevance
to problems of genome sequencing will also be discussed.
About the Speaker
Muhammad Ashraful Alam is a Professor of ECE at Purdue University where his
research and teaching focus on physics, simulation, characterization and
technology of classical and novel semiconductor devices including theory of
oxide reliability, nanocomposite thin film transistors and nano-bio sensors. From 1995 to 2001, he was with Bell
Laboratories, Lucent Technologies,
Dr. Alam has published over 80 papers in international journals
and has presented many invited and contributed talks at international
conferences. He was elected IEEE Fellow
for contribution to physics of CMOS reliability and simulation of
optoelectronic devices and received the 2006 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award for
contributions to device technology for communication systems. He is a Distinguished Lecturer (DL) of IEEE
Electron Device Society.
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. 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 PACE & GOLD Chapters:
Engineers Meet: New Directions at IEEE
On
About
the Meeting
The
talk will introduce members to the new directions at IEEE by our future IEEE
President.
The
IEEE has been very successful. It is the
world's largest technical professional society, with 375K members in over 150
countries around the world, producing over 30% of the world's technical
literature in the relevant fields of interest, and holding over 400 conferences
worldwide. It has recovered dramatically
from the downturn at the beginning of the decade.
But
the IEEE exists in a very dynamic and competitive world. There are many challenges from competition to
its services, major shifts occurring due to emerging economies such as China
and India, the ubiquitousness of the internet and the resulting global
communication, and the changing ways in which members of the technical
community work. This talk will focus of
the current position of the IEEE and the development of strategies to react to
these challenges
You
are encouraged to attend and invite your associates.
About
the Speaker
Lewis
Terman received the BS in Physics and the MS and PhD degrees in EE from
Stanford in 1956, 1958, and 1961 respectively.
He joined the IBM Research Division in 1961, where he worked on
solid-state circuits, semiconductor technology, memory design and technology,
digital and analog circuits, and processor design. He did two tours of duty on the Research
Division technical planning staff, 1979-1980 and 1991-1993. He was manager and senior manager of groups
working in MOS logic and memory design and technology, and was involved in a
number of programs leading to products.
He received nine major IBM technical awards, including three Corporate
awards. He was elected to the IBM Academy
of Technology in 1991, and served as president in 2001-2003. He became Associate Director, IBM Research
Systems Department in 2003, and retired in 2006. He is a member of the US National Academy of
Engineering.
Mr.
Terman’s IEEE activities include:
S’58-M’61-SM’74-F’75-LF’97. His
offices include IEEE Board of Directors, 2001, 2004-05; Division I Director,
2004-05.
Lewis
Terman has a background too extensive to publish here. More on this can be found at http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/execs/index.html#terman
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.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) 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/
Montclair
Montclair
High School
The Montclair Society of
Engineers is hosting its annual Montclair High School (MHS) Robotics team
demonstration on
About
the Demonstration
The
MHS Robotic Teams entered two Robots various FIRST (For Inspiration and
Recognition of Science and Technology) competitions held throughout the
country. The Robots are programmed to go
to a rack and hang an inner tube from it without any external control. Then they are divided up into teams for an
exciting game of Rack and Roll, played under the remote control.
The
students will give a presentation followed by a demonstration of the Robots.
About
the Speakers
MHS
Robotics is divided into two teams. The
students designed, programmed and fabricated the Robots themselves.
The
two teams are the seven year old coed, Judy and Josh Weston & Montclair
Board of Education Team 555, winners of this years Colorado Regionals and all
female Credit Suisse & Montclair Board of Education Team 1929, who won
rookie honors last year in the Hartford Regional.
About
the
The Montclair Society of
Engineers is an active organization of men and women engaged in all disciplines
of the engineering and scientific professions. The society was founded in 1924
to promote friendly associations among engineers, to contribute professional
knowledge and experience to the solution of community problems, and to assist
students in the study of engineering and allied sciences. It is not affiliated with the IEEE.
All Welcome
You do not have to be a
member of the Montclair Society of Engineers or the IEEE to attend.
Time:
Place: Union Congregational Church,,
Information: Bob Chamberlin (973) 748-0385, Peter Donegan
(973)783-7998 montclairengineer “AT” yahoo.com, http://www.montclairengineers.org/
