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November 2005
Volume 52, Number 5
Publication No:
USPS 580-500
The IEEE
Newsletter (North Jersey Section), is published monthly except June and July
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SECTION OFFICERS
Chair....................................................... Har
Dayal
har.dayal
AT baesystems.com (973) 633-4618
Vice-Chair-1................................ Bhanu
Chivukula
b.chivukula
AT computer.org (732) 718-3818
Vice-Chair-2............................................. Kirit Dixit
kdixit
AT ieee.org (201) 669-7599
Treasurer................................. Dr. Sanghoon
Shin
s.shin
AT ieee.org (973) 492-1207 Ext. 22
Secretary.......................................... Russell
Pepe
rpepe
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
November
2005
Nov. 2 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.
Nov. 5 IEEE CT Mini-Conference
- Control Systems Theory and Applications
IEEE CT Section, 9:00 AM 3:00 PM, Bartel Hall Alumni Lounge and Conference
Center, University of New Haven, CT.
Oscar Tonello, IEEE-CT CS/IA/RA Chair, (203) 386-8216 (ot AT
ieee.org), or Thomas Freund, IEEE-CT Consultants Network Chair, (860) 232-1614
(WriteNCook AT aol.com).
Directions: http://www.newhaven.edu/directions.html.
Nov. 7 Trustworthy Systems through Quantitative
Software Engineering - NJ Computer Chapter, 7:30 PM, Barnes and Noble, 2nd Floor Mezzanine, Clifton
Commons, Route 3 East, Clifton, NJ, (973)
779-5500. Seth Jakel, (973) 731-1902,
(973) 820-1865 (sgjakel AT comcast.net), or Vivek Shaiva (908) 229-6125
(vshaiva AT computer.org).
Nov. 9 GaN-based Microwave Field Effect Transistors
EDS/C&S, & MTT-S/AP-S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 PM), New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 220, Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS
Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), Har Dayal (973) 633-4618
(har.dayal AT baesystems.com), or Kirit Dixit (201) 669-7599 (kdixit AT ieee.org).
Nov. 9 Engineers Meet:
Business Engineering GOLD or Fools Gold? - 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).
Nov. 10 Signal Processing Primer for Radio Design
VTS & MTT-S/AP-S Chapters, 7:00 PM (dinner at 6:00 PM), Lucent
Technologies, Room TBA, 67 Whippany Rd, Whippany, NJ. Stephen Wilkowski, Lucent Technologies, (973)
386-6487, Arthur Greenberg (973) 386-6673 (ahg1 AT lucent.com), Kirit Dixit, RF Electronics, (201) 669-7599, or Har Dayal
(973) 633-4618 (har.dayal AT baesystems.com).
Nov. 14 Making A Many-Colored
Processing Engine: Signal Processing
with Optical Filters - NJ LEOS Chapter, 5:00 PM (pizza will be available at 4:45 PM), NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ.
Professor H. Grebel, (973) 596-3538 (grebel AT njit.edu).
Nov. 16 Advancements in Wall-Climbing Robots
- 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).
Nov. 18 Upgrade of Generator Protection to Comply With IEEE Guides Technical
Seminar - NJ IAS/PES
Chapters, 9:00 AM 1:00 PM, PSE&G Training Center, 234 Pierson Ave, Edison NJ. Ronald Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade
AT ieee.org.
Nov. 21 GENI: The NSF Initiative to Re-build the Internet
- NJ Communications Chapter, 2:30 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT), Room 3730, GITC, Newark, NJ.
Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670 (nirwan.ansari AT njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj
for the latest updates.
Nov. 22 Video Compression and Delivery A Discussion
- NJ Communications and SP Chapters, 6:15 PM (refreshments at 6:00 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
for the latest updates.
Nov. 29 Electrical Power Distribution Automation
- NJ Control Systems Chapter, 5:00-6:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ.
Professor Timothy Chang (973) 596-3519 (changtn AT njit.edu).
Upcoming Meetings
Dec. 8 Annual Meeting
- 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.
Dec. 8 Learning-based Disassembly Process Planner for
Uncertainty Management - NJ Control Systems Chapter, 5:00-6:00 PM,
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark,
NJ. Professor Timothy Chang (973)
596-3519 (changtn AT njit.edu).
Feb.
18-May 6 C# .NET Programming North Jersey Section, Saturday Mornings, 10
sessions, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, location TBA.
Bhanu Chivukula (b.chivukula AT computer.org).
Mar.
14-May 9 Project Management North Jersey Section, Tuesday Evenings, 8 sessions,
6:30-9:00 PM, NJ International Bulk Mail Center, 80 County Rd, Jersey City, NJ. Bhanu Chivukula (b.chivukula AT
computer.org).
Mar. 27-28
2006 IEEE Sarnoff
Symposium see www.sarnoffsymposium.org for details.
May 7 NJ Section Awards Reception - 3:00 to 6:00 PM
at the Birchwood Manor, 111 North Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. Anne Giedlinski (973) 377-3175.
Members and Non-Members Welcome
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Message
from the Section Chair
At the IEEE Sections
Congress in Tampa, it was stated that the rate of ballot returns is about the
same as last year, which unfortunately means that the apathy surrounding IEEE
elections continues. Last year 15-16% of
members in Region 1 voted. In these
final 2 weeks, I would like to encourage our section members to vote for the
IEEE positions through e-mail or ballot
mail. I stress the importance of voting
and selecting a candidate of your choice who can steer IEEE direction towards
the benefit of the working Engineers.
Usually Engineers complains a lot but do not participate in the voting. Please cast your vote early.
Har Dayal
- Section Chair
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NJ
Communications Chapter:
GENI: The NSF Initiative to Re-build the Internet
On November 21, 2005, the
IEEE North Jersey Section Communications Society along with NJIT will host a
discussion on GENI: The NSF Initiative to Re-build the Internet. The speaker will be Dr. Sirin Tekinay.
About
the Talk
The Global Environment
for Network Investigations (GENI); an initiative announced by the NSF in August
2005, has the ambitious yet timely objective of re-building the Internet. The approach is simply that of a "clean
slate." The new Internet will not "have a wireless portion,"
rather, it will largely "be wireless." Data flows, mobility and location
management, computing requirements, in addition to the well observed channel
imperfections faced by wireless users, sensors, and other embedded wireless
devices will clearly require a brand new network reference framework than the
current central network model.
Cooperation among the components of the new, wireless Internet will not
only be defined by the layer at which it is implemented, but will in turn
define the layers of the new reference model.
This talk will give the vision of the new research areas and goals for
GENI.
About
the Speaker
Sirin Tekinay joined the
Division of Computing and Communications Foundations (CCF), National Science
Foundation as the Program Director for Theoretical Foundations in
Communications Research in September 2005.
She has been on faculty at Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology since 1997, where she is
currently an associate professor. She was
the recipient of NJITs Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award in 2003. Before joining the academia, she worked at
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and NORTEL.
Sirin received her PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
from George Mason University in 1994.
She holds MS (1991) and BS (1989) degrees in Electrical Engineering from
Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Her current research interests include cross layer wireless
communication and network system design and analysis, traffic modeling,
mobility and location problems, ad hoc and sensor networks. She holds seven patents. She has authored numerous publications,
developed and offered courses. She is on
the editorial boards of the IEEE Communications Magazine, and the IEEE
Communications Surveys and Tutorials.
She is a senior member of the IEEE, and the Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi
honor societies..
All
Welcome!
You do not have to be a
member of the IEEE to attend. Bring your
friends.
Time: 2:30
PM, Monday, November 21, 2005.
Place: New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 3730, GITC, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr.
Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670 (nirwan.ansari AT njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates.
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Communications and SP Societies:
Video Compression and Delivery A
Discussion
On November 22, 2005, the
IEEE North Jersey Section Communications Society and Signal Processing Chapters
along with NJIT will host a discussion on Video Compression and Delivery. The speaker will be Dr. Sankar Subramanian.
About
the Talk
This talk will focus on
contemporary video compression and delivery techniques. The following topics will be discussed:
· Fundamentals
of video compression
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Spatial aspects
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Temporal aspects
· Differences
in compression used in
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Video streaming
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Digital broadcast television
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Video on demand
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Video conferencing
· Transport
for video delivery
· Constraints
on the network for video delivery
· Video
quality The end-user experience
About
the Speaker
Sankar Subramanian
received his PhD in Computer Engineering from SUNY, Stony Brook in 1994 and his
Masters in Computer Engineering from SUNY, Stony Brook in 1991. Sankar works at the Verizon Technology
Laboratories in White Plains NY. His
interests include Video Compression and Delivery, Network Security, Network
Management Systems, Voice-Data Integrations, and Call Center technologies.
All
Welcome!
You do not have to be a
member of the IEEE to attend. Bring your
friends.
Time: 6:15
PM (refreshments start at 6:00 PM), Tuesday, November 22, 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: Dr.
Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670 (nirwan.ansari AT njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates.
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NJ
Computer Chapter:
Trustworthy Systems through
Quantitative Software Engineering
On
Monday, November 7, 2005, the IEEE North Jersey Section Computer Society
Chapter and the Barnes and Noble book store in Clifton will jointly host a
presentation titled Trustworthy Systems through Quantitative Software
Engineering by Lawrence Bernstein.
About
the Talk
Software
system development is too often focused solely on schedule and cost. Sometimes performance and functional
technical requirements become an issue.
Rarely is trustworthiness considered.
Not only must software designers consider how the software will perform
they must account for consequences of failures. Trustworthiness encompasses
this concern. This talk defines
trustworthiness in terms of Safety, Reliability and Safety. A means for doing quantitative analysis of
requirements and for quantitative software engineering will be presented. This talk is part of a book discussion of the
speaker's new book at Barnes and Noble in Clifton.
About
the Speaker
Lawrence
Bernstein is a recognized expert in software engineering, software technology, project management, and
technology conversion. He is Industry Research
Professor of Computer Networks and Software Engineering at Stevens Institute of
Technology in Hoboken, NJ. He directs
the Stevens Quantitative Software Engineering program. He is director of the New Jersey Center for
Software Engineering.
He
consults on software process improvement.
For one company he recommended the split between R&D and software
assets when it acquired another company.
He was an expert witness in two arbitration cases where he assessed the
quality and origins of a large operations support software system, and advised
another company on the unreasonableness of their claims in a software product
dispute. He has worked with the Price
Waterhouse Coopers' Technology Center for several clients.
He
had a 35-year distinguished career at Bell Laboratories in managing large
software projects and since retirement heads his own consulting firm. At Bell Labs he became a Chief Technical
Officer of the Operations Systems Business Unit and an Executive Director. In parallel with these Bell Labs positions he
was the Operations Systems Vice President of AT&T Network Systems from
1992-1996. He is a Fellow of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) and a Fellow of
the leading software organization, the Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM). He is a member of the Russian
Information Academy; a visiting Associate of University of Southern
California's Center for Software Engineering and an Industrial Fellow of Ball
State Center for Information and Communication Sciences. He is a member of the honor societies Tau
Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu and is listed in Who's Who in America. He was awarded the coveted Bell South
"Eagle" for seminal contributions to their automatic service
provisioning systems. He was awarded the
Patriotic Civilian Service Award, by the US Army, for outstanding performance
on the SAFEGUARD software project.
All
Welcome!
Attendance
is free of charge, and you do not have to be a member of the IEEE to
attend. Bring your friends and network
both before and after the presentation.
Time: 7:30 PM, Monday, November 7,
2005.
Place: Barnes and Noble, 2nd Floor
Mezzanine, Clifton Commons, Route 3 East, Clifton, NJ, (973) 779-5500.
Information: Seth Jakel, (973) 731-1902, (973)
820-1865 (sgjakel AT comcast.net), or Vivek Shaiva (908) 229-6125 (vshaiva
AT computer.org).
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NJ Consultants' Network:
Annual Meeting
On Thursday, December 8,
2005, the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ will conduct its annual Planning Meeting and
Workshop.
About the Talk
The
combined November/December meeting of the IEEE Consultants' Network is designed
as a strategic planning event for Network members and for consultants who are
considering membership in the Consultants' Network.
The
main purpose of the meeting will be to discuss ideas and expectations for the
various Network functions in the upcoming year.
Results of the annual election of officers will be announced at the
time.
This
Working Session is traditionally an open, informal forum to determine what the
IEEE-CNNNJ is doing right or wrong. The floor will be open to suggestions for
improvements, recommendations of new Network directions and activities and
proposals of new feature topics for the general meetings.
The
major functions performed by the IEEE Consultants' Network that will be
discussed are:
Monthly General Meetings - Suggested feature
topics will be discussed.
Member Networking - Member presentations and
alternate general meeting formats that improve networking.
Group Marketing & Image Building - CNNNJ
Website, tri-fold and postcard mailing, CNNNJ's free consultant referral
service, and alternate publicity methods.
Refreshments
and pastries will be available during the course of the evening and there will
be no pre-meeting dinner for members as is customary.
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, December
8, 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
Control Systems Chapter:
Electrical Power Distribution
Automation
On Tuesday, November 29,
2005, the IEEE North Jersey Section Control Systems Chapter will host a
presentation titled Electrical Power Distribution Automation. The speaker will be Dr. Radhakrishna
Chebiyam.
About
the Talk
The customer demand for
electrical energy with adequate reliability, quality and the growing cost of
investment required for distribution of energy have driven the electrical power
utilities to go for automated distribution systems. Basically, Distribution
Automation System (DAS) can be considered as a system that enables an electric
utility to remotely monitor, coordinate and operate distribution components, in
a real time mode. Even though about 40
distribution functions for automation are identified in literature, the
following five main DA functions are short listed here for further discussion:
Substation Automation, Feeder Automation, Load Control, Feeder Volt and Var
Control and Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) at large customers. The equipment required for implementation of
DA functions other than Dispatch Center and Communication equipment is proposed
to be discussed. The communication
system requirements of DAS will then be presented. DAS has significant impact on distribution,
transmission and generation areas of utility and offers a number of potential
benefits to electric utility. The
potential benefits of DAS are categorized into three types: Capital Deferred
Benefits, Operation & Maintenance Benefits and Customer Related Benefits. Ten important benefits of DAS are identified. A set of equations are developed to estimate
the different benefits of each DAS function based on logical reasoning, system
operation practices, historical data and heuristic judgment. An economic evaluation of different functions
of DAS is necessary. Hence, a
methodology is evolved which takes into account the present worth of costs and
benefits of the automated system as the distribution system is expanded through
the study period. The proposed DA scheme
is demonstrated through a case study on a typical rural distribution
network. Based on the investigations of
DAS, conclusions are presented.
About
the Speaker
Professor Radhakrishna
Chebiyam obtained his BE (Electrical Engineering) and ME (Electrical Power
Systems) from the National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India in 1965 and
1967, respectively, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur, India in 1981. He is
currently the Director (Technical) at Global Energy Consulting Engineers
Private Limited, Hyderabad, India.
Earlier, he held different academic positions like Professor, Head of
the Dept, Chairman Board of Studies in Electrical Engineering and Director of
UGC Academic Staff College at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University,
India. He also served for about two
years as Dean of Studies and Director of Central Institute of Rural
Electrification Corporation under Ministry of Power, Government of India. Dr. Radhakrishna has authored and co-authored
approximately 90 technical papers in International and National Journals /
Conferences. He is a recipient of many
academic awards such as Department of Power Prize, CBIP Medal & Merit
Awards, Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Research Award, Engineer of the year
2001 Award, and Best Teacher Award in 2003.
His main current areas of interest include: Electrical Distribution
System Management, Optimization and Automation, Load Research, IRP & DSM,
Risk Management in Power Utilities and Power Quality.
Time: 5:00-6:00 PM, Tuesday, November 29, 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: Professor Timothy Chang (973) 596-3519
(changtn AT njit.edu).
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NJ
Control Systems Chapter:
Learning-based Disassembly Process
Planner for Uncertainty Management
On Thursday, December 8,
2005, the IEEE North Jersey Section Control Systems Chapter will host a
presentation titled Learning-based Disassembly Process Planner for Uncertainty
Management. The speaker will be Dr. Ying
Tang.
About
the Talk
As product lifecycles are
getting shorter and shorter, manufacturers are facing a great deal of economic
and political pressure to reclaim and recycle their obsolete products.
Disassembly, as one of the natural solutions, is of increasing importance in
material and product recovery. However, this process is fraught with many
uncertainties (e.g., variations in product structure and condition, and human
factors). The development of an effective modeling and management tool for such
involved factors is very critical in moving disassembly towards a more
efficient and automated regime. The proposed approach undertakes this problem.
More specifically, a fuzzy Petri net model is introduced to explicitly
represent the dynamics inherent in disassembly. Instead of presuming the pertinent
data in the model is already known, a self-adaptive disassembly process planner
and associated computationally effective algorithms are designed in a way to:
(1) accumulate the past experience of predicting such data, and at the same
time, (2) exploit the knowledge captured in the data to choose the best
disassembly plan and improve the overall disassembly performance. To ensure the
robustness of the learning procedure, variable memory length is further
introduced. The proposed methodology and algorithms are illustrated through the
disassembly of a batch of flashlights in a prototypical disassembly system.
About
the Speaker
Dr. Ying Tang is an
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rowan University.
She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Northeastern University, P. R.
China, in 1996 and 1998, respectively, and Ph. D degree from New Jersey
Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in 2001. Her research interests include
modeling and scheduling of computer-integrated systems, Petri nets and
applications, Reconfigurable systems design, hardware and software co-design,
software security, and Networking and communication. She has led and
participated in several research and education projects funded by National
Science Foundation, Lockheed Martin Corporation and US Navy (NAVSEA). Her work
has resulted in over 50 publications and one book chapter. She has chaired
several technical sessions, and served/been serving on organizing and program
committees for many conferences.
Time: 5:00-6:00 PM, Thursday, December 8, 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: Professor Timothy Chang (973) 596-3519
(changtn AT njit.edu).
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NJ
EDS/C&S & MTT-S/AP-S Chapters:
On
November 9, 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 GaN-based Microwave Field Effect Transistors." The speaker will be Dr. Michael Shur.
About the Talk
Wurtzite
(hexagonal) symmetry makes the device physics of GaN/AlN/InN heterostructure
field effect transistors (HFETs) to be quite different from that from more
conventional GaAs/InAs/InP and Si based transistors. Spontaneous and piezoelectric polarizations
at AlGaN/GaN or AlGaI nN/GaN lead to the formation of two-dimensional (2D)
electron gas or 2D hole gas (depending on the surface polarities). These 2D electrons have a higher mobility compared to that for three
dimensional electrons but a reduced peak velocity. In high electric fields, electron runaway
effects and overshoot and ballistic effects play a dominant role. A field dependent penetration of the electron
wave function from the device channel into the wide band gap barrier layer
strongly affects the real space transfer and device breakdown voltage. Quantum well designs (e.g. incorporating an
InGaN quantum well between the wide band gap AlGaN barrier layer and GaN buffer
and thin AlN barrier) might be required to control this wave function
penetration and the real space transfer.
High electric field at the gate edges leads to the additional strain and
hot electron effects causing the current collapse and gate lag. Optimized field plate and recessed gate
designs (including the use of textured AlGaN for easily controlled etching)
help solving this problem and improve the device reliability. Inverted HFET designs might result in reduced
access resistance, a large current carrying capability, lower gate leakage and
better thermal control. Large energy gap
discontinuities at heterointerfaces allow for obtaining very large densities of
2D electrons (exceeding those at AlGaAs/GaAs heterointerfaces by a factor of 10
to 20) with a commensurate increase in the output power. Such large densities make the insulated gate
design MOSHFET - (with the dielectric layer separated from the active channel
by the wide band gap barrier layer) practical, since one can tolerate a much
higher density of the surface states.
Large electron densities in the HFET channels also minimize the 1/f
noise making it to be smaller than in doped GaN films. Insulated gate designs makes devices superior
for DC and RF power applications.
Deep
understanding of this new physics of GaN/AlN/InN HFETs is a prerequisite for
the optimization of their design, improving their reliability and performance,
and achieving a higher frequency operation.
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Number of
GaN/InN/AlN publications
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Polarization
doping (1993)
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About the Speaker
Michael
Shur received his MSEE (engineer) degree (with honors) from St. Petersburg
Electrotechnical Institute, PhD in Physics and Mathematics and Doctor of
Science in Physics and Mathematics degree, both from A. F. Ioffe Institute. He has held research or faculty positions at
A.F. Ioffe Institute, Cornell, Oakland University, University of Minnesota, and
University of Virginia, where he was John Money Professor of Electrical
Engineering and served as Director of Applied Electrophysics Laboratories. He is now Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts
'48 Professor of Solid State Electronics, Professor of ECSE, Professor of
Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Director of Center for Broadband Data
Transport Science and Technology, and co-Director of the NSF I/UCR Center Connection One. In 2001-2002, he served as Acting Director
of Center for Integrated
Electronics at RPI. Dr. Shur
is Fellow of IEEE,
Fellow and life member
of the American Physical Society,
Fellow of Electrochemical Society, Fellow of World Innovation Foundation, AAAS,
Life Member of IEEE MTT, of Sigma Xi, and of Humboldt Society of America,
member of Eta Kappa Nu, and Tau Beta Pi, Electromagnetic Academy, Materials
Research Society, ASEE, Sigma Xi, elected member and former Chair of US
Commission D, International Union of Radio Science (URSI), and elected member
of NRC of URSI (2003-2004). Dr. Shur is
Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems
and of the book series on Selected Topics in Electronics and Systems (World
Scientific), Regional Editor of physica status solidi, Member of the Honorary
Board of Solid State Electronics, member of the International Advisory
Committee of Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, Vice-President
for publications of the IEEE Sensor Council, and member (1999-2003) and Chair
(2004-2005) of the IEEE Prize Papers/Scholarships Award Committee. He is also Distinguished Microwave Lecturer
of IEEE MTT and Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE EDS. In 1990-1993, he served as an Associate
Editor of IEEE ED Transactions.
Dr.
Shur has also served as Chair, Program Chair, Organizing and Program Committee
Member of many IEEE conferences. He is
one of co-developers of AIM-Spice (with over 60,000 users world wide) and
co-founder of Sensor Electronics Technology, Inc. In 1994, the Saint Petersburg State Technical
University awarded him an Honorary Doctorate.
He has published many technical papers, authored, co-authored or edited
33 books and 28 book chapters, and has been awarded over 30 patents on
semiconductor devices and circuits.
Several of his technical publications received the best paper
awards. Among his other awards are the
Gold Medal of the Russian Ministry of Education, several A. F. Ioffe Best Paper
Awards, van der Ziel Award, Senior Humboldt Research Prize, Pioneer Award from
Compound Semi, RPI School of Engineering Research Award, and Commendation for
Excellence in Technical Communications.
Dr. Shur is listed by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) as a
highly cited researcher in engineering.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, November
9, 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.
Information: Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave),
Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), Har Dayal (973) 633-4618 (har.dayal AT
baesystems.com), or Kirit Dixit (201) 669-7599 (kdixit AT ieee.org)..
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NJ LEOS Chapter:
Making
A Many-Colored Processing Engine: Signal
Processing with Optical Filters
On
Monday, November 14, 2005, the IEEE North Jersey Section Lasers and
Electro-Optics Chapter will host a presentation titled Making A Many-Colored
Processing Engine: Signal Processing
with Optical Filters. The speaker will
be Professor Christi K. Madsen.
About the Talk
The
ultimate information capacity of optical fibers is far beyond currently deployed
systems even with the exponential growth in system capacity over the past 20
years. Even now, the performance of
high-capacity, long-distance wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) networks
depends significantly on reconfigurable optical filters for bandwidth
management and adaptive filters for compensating analog impairments. Optical filters are also key elements in
optical code generation and detection with applications in optical packet
header processing. Whether the end goal
is for communications or high-speed signal processing, optical filters that can
operate on amplitude, phase and polarization are critical to unleashing the
full potential of optical systems. To be
practical, a cost-effective implementation that can scale in optical circuit
integration density and functionality is required. This talk addresses optical filters in the
context of their analog and digital relatives.
I will show how well-known filter types are related to the underlying
interference mechanisms and how digital filter theory concepts are beneficially
translated to the optical domain. Then,
the present capabilities of integrated optics for implementing adaptive optical
filters and an overview of some challenges ahead will be discussed. Adaptive filters implemented using
high-index-contrast silica-on-silicon planar waveguides with applications to
tunable chromatic dispersion compensation and polarization monitoring, control
and polarization mode dispersion compensation will be used as examples. With state-of-the-art integrated optical
filters, we have the ability to realize a many-colored, high-speed and
cost-effective processing engine that truly harnesses the power of photonics.
About the Speaker
Christi
K. Madsen, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University,
IEEE Senior Member, OSA Fellow. Christi
Madsen received the Bachelors degree from The University of Texas at Austin in
1986, the Masters degree from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1987, and
the PhD degree from Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, in 1996, all in
electrical engineering. She joined
AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1987 and worked for the submarine systems
business unit. After completing her PhD,
she transferred to the integrated photonics research department at Bell
Laboratories. Since then, her research
has focused on the application of digital filter and signal processing
techniques to optical filters for high-speed, high-capacity optical
communication systems. In 1998, Madsen
invented a class of tunable, multi-stage optical allpass filters that allow any
phase response to be approximated and have application in chromatic dispersion
compensation and polarization mode dispersion compensation. She has given a short course on Optical
Filters for WDM Systems: Theory,
Technologies, and Applications at OFC and was the 2004 General Chair for the
Integrated Photonics Research (IPR) Conference.
She was promoted to Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Bell
Laboratories in 2002 and achieved Fellow ranking in the Optical Society of
America in 2003. She holds 16 U.S.
patents and has given over 70 technical talks and papers. She is now a professor at Texas A&M
University in College Station, TX.
Time: 5:00 PM, Monday, November 14,
2005. Pizza will be available at 4:45
PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Professor H. Grebel, (973) 596-3538 (grebel
AT njit.edu).
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NJ Section PACE & GOLD:
Engineers
Meet:
Engineering
GOLD or Fools Gold?
On Wednesday, November 9, 2005 the North Jersey Section
Professional Activities Committee and Graduates of the Last Decade will meet to
discuss the engineering profession. Is
it gold or iron pyrites? Our speaker
will be a graduate of the last decade (GOLD).
Its time to hear from a recent entrιe to the profession.
Our speaker will present his views about engineering,
education, IEEE, the job market, and be available to answer questions from the
audience.
About the Talk
Topics include: the current
state of the employment market for entry level EEs and trends in engineering
careers.
This is especially of
interest to students, recent graduates and those looking to expand job
opportunities
About the Speaker
Matthew Nissen, a 2003
graduate from Brooklyn Polytechnic University with a degree in Electrical
Engineering, will be the speaker.
Matthew is active in IEEEs
New York Section as their PACE Chair. He
is currently working for EME Group Consulting Engineers in NYC. EME is primarily an MEP (Mechanical Electrical
Plumbing) Design and Energy Services Consulting Firm involved in construction,
development, and infrastructure:
All Welcome!
Members and students from
other professional societies and engineering disciplines are always
welcome. We now include members from
IEEE, ASME and AEA. For more information
about these groups see:
www.aea.org/chapters/nj/
www.ieeeusa.org
web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
www.asme.org/sections/northjersey
Time: 66:30
to 9:00 PM, Wednesday, November 9, 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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NJ
PES/IAS Chapters:
Energy
Conservation Technical Discussion Series
Beginning
January 2006, the PES and IAS Chapters will sponsor a FREE monthly series of
discussions on the topic of Energy Conservation. Industry leaders will discuss various topics
including but not limited to:
Δ
utility
incentives
Δ
high
efficiency lighting
Δ
high
efficiency transformers, motors & variable frequency drives
Δ
solar, wind,
and wave power
Δ
hybrid
vehicles
Δ
plus many
more timely topics
The
FREE sessions will be held on a recurring monthly evening at a host facility
centrally located near Edison, NJ.
The
discussions will begin at 6:30PM preceded by a pre-meeting buffet starting at
6:00PM.
Look
for additional details in the December Newsletter.
Interested
presenters should contact Ronald W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade AT
ieee.org.
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NJ SMC Society:
Advancements
in Wall-Climbing Robots
On
Wednesday, November 16, 2005, the NJ
Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Chapter will host a talk on Advancements in
Wall-Climbing Robots. The speaker will
be Dr. Jizhong Xiao.
About
the Talk
Most
of the mobile robots nowadays essentially move in 2D plane without
wall-climbing capability. It has been a long-time
dream to develop miniature climbing robots with the ability to climb walls,
walk on ceilings, crawl through pipes, and transit between different surfaces,
thus transforming the present 2D world of mobile rovers into a new 3D universe. This talk will present some novel climbing
robots that emerged recently, which include the biologically inspired climbing
robots, vortex climber, and Flipper and Crawler robots developed at
Michigan State University. The talk will
also report the research progress and technical achievements by a
multi-disciplinary team at The City College of New York (CCNY) in developing
novel climbing robots which overcome the limitations of previous climbers, and
surpass them in terms of robot capability, modularity, control performance, and
intelligence to carry out various defense, security, and inspection missions.
About
the Speaker
Dr.
Jizhong Xiao is currently an assistant professor and the founding director of
CCNY Robotics Lab at the Department of Electrical Engineering, The City
College, City University of New York. He
is also a CUNY Doctoral Faculty in both Engineering Program and Computer
Science Program. He received the PhD in
Electrical and Computer Engineering from Michigan State University, in 2002,
and Masters degrees from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and East
China Institute of Technology. Dr.
Xiaos research interests are in the areas of robotics and control, embedded
system design, intelligent systems, and computer vision. His research has been supported by the NSF
and US Army Research Office and CUNY grants.
He is a member of IEEE, New York Academy of Sciences and Sigma Xi.
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), Wednesday, November 16, 2005.
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/RSVP: Dr. Mike Liechenstein, (973) 471-0721,
(m.liechenstein AT ieee.org).
Please RSVP prior to the presentation since space is
limited, as well as for getting instructions for accessing the secured parking
deck at NJIT. Also check electronic
newsletter for any possible changes in room, etc.
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NJ VTS & MTT-S/AP-S Chapters:
Signal
Processing Primer for Radio Design
On
Thursday, November 10, 2005 the Vehicular Technology Society together with
MTT/S/AP-S will host a presentation entitled Signal Processing Primer for
Radio Design by Sean Gallagher.
About
the Talk
Engineers
that are coming to digital signal processing from other disciplines may be
overwhelmed by the concepts and language of digital signal processing. This
presentation is designed to demystify the concepts that are basic to
understanding digital signal processing while using math that is no more
complicated then high school trigonometry.
Topics covered include a proof that youve been doing convolution since
grammar school, why I and Q signals are needed when base banding signals,
decimation of base banded signals, poly-phase decomposition, how the discreet
Fourier transform really works, and other topics as time permits.
About
the Speaker
Sean
Gallagher earned his MSCE from Villanova University in 1995 where he did thesis
work on implementing algorithms in fpgas.
He currently is a senior DSP Specialist for Xilinx Inc where he works on
fpga implementations of algorithms ranging from digital communications to radar
applications. Sean has taught digital
signal processing as an adjunct professor at Temple University and is currently
developing a hardware DSP course for Villanova University. Sean resides in the Philadelphia suburbs with
his family and enjoys sailing, guitar, and model railroading in his free time.
All
Welcome!
Free
admission. You do not have to be a
member of IEEE to attend.
Pre-Registration
Strongly Suggested
Please
email swilkowski AT lucent.com or
kdixit AT rfsales.com with full name (first and last) , affiliation,
citizenship so that a guest badge is ready.
Time: 7:00 PM,
Thursday, November 10, 2005. Pre-meeting
dinner will start at 6:00 PM.
Place: Lucent
Technologies, Rm TBA, 67 Whippany Rd, Whippany, NJ 07981.
Information: Stephen
Wilkowski, Lucent Technologies, (973) 386-6487, Arthur Greenberg (973) 386-6673
(ahg1 AT lucent.com), Kirit Dixit
(201) 669-7599 (kdixit AT microcomsales.com), or Har Dayal (973) 633-4618
(har.dayal AT baesystems.com).
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2006 Officer
Ballot
Instructions for Casting Ballots
Completed
ballots should be mailed to the North Jersey Section Newsletter Editor as
follows:
Keith
Saracinello
IEEE
North Jersey Section Newsletter Editor
Agilent
Technologies Inc.
1
Cragwood Rd
South
Plainfield, NJ 07080
The
ballot MUST be filled out completely with members name, membership number, and
signature. The ballots are invalid without
this information. Xerox copies of the
ballot are acceptable as long as they are filled out completely. Ballots received after November 30, 2005,
will not be counted.
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Chairperson: (choose one)
............................. Har
Dayal
............................. (write-in)__________________________
Vice Chairman-1: (choose one)
................. Bhanu
Chivakula
............................. (write-in)__________________________
Vice Chairman-2:
(choose one)
.............................. Kirit Dixit
............................. (write-in)__________________________
Treasurer: (choose one)
............. Dr.
Sanghoon Shin
............................. (write-in)__________________________
Secretary: (choose one)
.......................... Gary
Hojell
............................. (write-in)__________________________
Members-At-Large: (choose three)
.................... Pete
Donegan
........................... Seth
Jakel
............................ Amit Patel
............................. (write-in)__________________________
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Member
Name________________________________ Member No. ______________
Signature
____________________________________ Date ____________________
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New Site Searches for Job Listings Far and Wide
If
you're looking for a new job, you've probably found a few Web sites that list
positions in your field, but with more than 100 000 job sites on the Internet,
you can't possibly peruse them all.
Wouldn't it be great if there were an IEEE site that gathers the
pertinent information for you? There
is. Find out more at http://boldfish.ieee.org:80/u/1007/00679498
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Nominate a Colleague for Fellow
It's
never too early to start thinking about nominating a colleague who is a senior
member for the 2007 class of IEEE Fellows.
Nominating forms are due to the Fellow Committee by 1 March 2006.
The
IEEE Fellow grade is conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an
extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of
interest. The total number of Fellows
selected in any one year cannot exceed one-tenth of 1 percent of the total
voting IEEE membership.
To
obtain the IEEE Fellow Nomination Kit, visit the IEEE Fellow Activities Web
site at http://www.ieee.org/fellows
or send a message to fellow-kit@ieee.org.
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Notice to NJ Section Engineers
Paul
Ward, a member of the NJ Section IEEE USA and Co-chair of its PACE committee,
is looking for (a donation of) electronic test equipment that can be used for
teaching electronics and electricity to students with learning disabilities
(LD) at the Craig Upper School in Lincoln Park, NJ. This school is a private institution that
receives its operating funds from either the parents of the students or some
governmental subsidy.
The
Craig Upper School is a school dedicated to teaching LD students at the high
school level, preparing them to continue on to college or to enter the work
force. It teaches a full curriculum,
i.e., English, History, Mathematics, Science, and special courses directed at
LD students. The staff is limited to
approximately fifteen (15) including office, nurse, and guidance with the
student population that ranges in the upper fifties (50) which is expected to
grow. This ratio of student-to-staff
helps to keep class size small and manageable, a class rarely exceeds seven
(7).
Paul
is trying to accumulate a couple of oscilloscopes, multimeters (analog or
digital), oscillators, and function generators, so that a Basic EE course could
be put together for a technical course and added to the present academic
curriculum. The course would help the
student to connect what he or she learned in Mathematics and Science into a
practical experience.
The
equipment does not have to be in perfect condition, just safe and usable.
If
you can donate such equipment, please send it to the following address:
Craig
Upper School
Attn: Paul Ward
200
Comely Road
Lincoln
Park, NJ 07035
Alternatively,
contact Paul Ward at (973) 790-1625 or PWard1130 AT aol.com. He will pick it up if needed.
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North Jersey Section Seeks Committee Chairs
and Volunteers
The
NNJ IEEE Section ExCom is seeking new volunteers to help conduct business at
the section level for the benefit of its membership in the North Jersey section
and surrounding areas. There are a
variety of volunteer positions open and available. They range from long-term to short-term,
technical to non-technical, leadership or just participatory. All activities have varying levels of time
commitment. For Chapter Chairs, you must
be a member of the corresponding IEEE Society.
If
you would like to become involved with volunteering in some of these efforts or
positions or just become more informed about what is happening at the NNJ IEEE
Section, please contact the persons listed below for additional information and
questions. You can even attend the
section business meeting held the first Wednesday of every month to find out
more and other volunteer activities that require some help.
Some
of the positions currently open and available are:
·
Aerospace & Electronics
Chair/Vice-Chair. Contact Har Dayal (har.dayal AT
baesystems.com).
·
Engineering in Medicine
& Biology Chair/Vice-Chair. Contact Har Dayal (har.dayal AT
baesystems.com).
·
Solid State Circuits
Chair/Vice-Chair. Contact Har Dayal (har.dayal AT
baesystems.com).
·
Women in Engineering
Affinity Group Coordinator. Contact Har Dayal (har.dayal AT
baesystems.com).
·
GOLD Affinity Group Chair. Contact Dick Tax (rtax AT bellatlantic.net)
·
Historian Committee seeks help collecting IEEE historical information
and specifically IEEE North Jersey Section History. Contact Al Stolpen (a.stolpen AT ieee.org)
·
Student Activities Committee seeks new volunteers for North Jersey. Contact Amit Patel (a.j.patel AT ieee.org)
Additionally,
if interested volunteers would like to get more general information about other
activities in our section, visit the North Jersey Section website for
newsletter information http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
or contact Har Dayal, har.dayal AT baesystems.com.
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The
IEEE North Jersey Section has been helping fellow engineering professionals for
the last fifty years. The Education Committee has successfully
conducted software and engineering training courses over the last few
decades. The Committee is committed to
professional development of the members and the instructors for the courses are
very qualified and experienced in their respective fields. Classes are arranged on weekday evenings or
on Saturdays provided at least fifteen candidates are available. Completion certificates are issued by IEEE
Headquarters with CEU credits for the number of training hours.
Due to the slow growth of
the economy and several other factors, registration for these courses has
diminished over the last few years. I
would urge members to send their feedback regarding what courses they would be
interested in, the format, location, and day/time, etc., by email to
b.chivukula AT computer.org.
Regards,
Bhanu Chivukula
Chair, Education
Committee
Vice Chair, IEEE North
Jersey Section
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Conference Rooms Needed!
The North Jersey Section (Education
Committee) is looking for conference room facilities to hold their training
seminars. The seminars are being held on
one weeknight from 6:30 PM to 9:00
PM. In return for providing
the conference facility for free, the organization can get free registration up
to three members in the course/seminar.
Please contact Bhanu
Chivukula,
Education Committee Chair, at b.chivukula AT computer.org for suggestions or
discussions, if interested.