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November 2008
Volume 55, Number 4
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The
IEEE North Jersey
Section Activities
November
2008
Nov. 5 – “NJ Section Meeting”,
Nov. 6 – “Bioelectronics, Imaging,
and Control: Challenges and
Opportunities” by David Jamieson, Haim Grebel, Leonid
Tysbeskov, Raquel Perez-Castillejos, Sotirios Ziavras, Timothy Chang, Atam Dhawan,
Durga Misra, and Marek Sosnowski, NJ Control Systems Chapter, 5:00-6:00 PM, New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection
between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Professor Timothy Chang (973)596-3519, chang
“AT” njit.edu.
Nov. 6 – “X-Parameters:
A new Paradigm for Interoperable Measurement, Modeling, and Simulation
of Nonlinear Microwave and RF Components” by Dr. David E. Root,
NJ MTT-S/AP-S Chapters, 7:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets),
Newark, NJ. Dr. Edip Niver, (NJIT),
(973) 596-3542 , Har Dayal, (973) 633-4618,
har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com or Kirit Dixit, (201) 669-7599, kdixit “AT” ieee.org.
Nov. 10 – “Alice and Bob Get
Physical: Insights into Physical Layer
Security” by Dr. Wade Trappe, NJ Communications Society,
6:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
Nov. 12 – “Engineers Meet:
Working in the 21st Century – A Few Tips to Survive and Ways to Improve
IEEE” by Evelyn
Nov. 13 – “Intelligent Agents for Battle Command Services”
by Dr. Israel Mayk, NJ SMC Society, 7:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT), Room 202,
Nov. 18 – “Engineers Meet:
Design for Six Sigma Seminar” by
Nov. 21 – “Automatic Transfer
Switch Seminar” by Cathy Clausen, NJ PES/IAS, 9:00AM to
2:00PM, PSE&G, 80 Park Plaza, Newark, NJ.
Ronald W.
Upcoming
Meetings
Dec. 11 – “Timing Covert
Communications: A Method for Keyless Security”
by Dr. Shamik Sengupta, NJ Communications Society, 6:00 PM, New Jersey
Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
Dec. 12 – “Adjustable Frequency
Drives Seminar” by Dan Kupersmith, NJ PES/IAS, 9:00AM to
2:00PM, PSE&G, 80 Park Plaza, Room 101, Newark, NJ. Ronald W.
Members and Non-Members Welcome
PLEASE POST
North Jersey Section Recognizes
Naz Simonelli for 40+ Years of Service
On
Naz has enjoyed a long and
distinguished tenure in two IEEE Section Executive Committees.
He joined the Long Island
Section 1958, and continued to work on their Executive Committee from 1964
until 1994. During that time he served
as Section Secretary, Treasurer, Society Coordinator, and as chairman of
several different committees and society chapters.
In 1995 Naz relocated to
The North Jersey Section
Executive Committee thanks Naz for all of his hard work and dedication throughout
the years!
NJ Communications Society:
Alice and Bob Get Physical: Insights into Physical Layer Security
On
About the Talk
Although
conventional cryptographic security mechanisms are essential to the overall
problem of securing wireless networks, these techniques do not directly
leverage the unique properties of the wireless domain to address security
threats. The properties of the wireless
medium are a powerful source of domain-specific information that can complement
and enhance traditional security mechanisms.
Recently, the fact that the radio channel decorrelates rapidly in space,
time and frequency has led to a growth of new security research "at the
physical layer". In this talk, we
present an overview of authentication and confidentiality services that
operate at the physical layer and can be used to facilitate cross-layer
security paradigms. Specifically, for
authentication services, we show how channel probing techniques can verify the
authenticity of a transmitter (thus thwarting spoofing attacks), as well as
provide a means to ensure that a transmitter claims a single identity (thus
thwarting Sybil attacks). Similarly, for
confidentiality, we examine several strategies for establishing shared
secrets/keys between two communicators using the wireless medium. These strategies range from extracting keys
from channel state information, to utilizing the channel variability to
secretly disseminate keys. We present
the results of validation efforts to support these techniques, including real
system implementations involving a customized 802.11a platform, which uses
channel impulse responses estimated from preambles to establish secret bits at
a rate of 1b/sec in a typical indoor office environment. Lastly, in the spirit of good security
research, we identify potential "security pitfalls" with physical
layer security-- problems that suggest that the physical layer security field
has a lively future ahead of it.
About the Speaker
Wade
Trappe received his BA degree in Mathematics from The University of Texas at
Austin in 1994, and the PhD in Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing
from the
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time:
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202,
Information: Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670
(nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or Yanchao Zhang (973) 642-7817. Also check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates.
NJ Communications Society:
Timing Covert Communications: A Method for Keyless Security
On
About the Talk
Covert
channels primarily refer to the concept of stealth channel and hidden
information. For example, timing covert
channels are secret operations existing in a normal communication channel where
the output alphabet is constructed from different inter-arrival timing of the
packets. Thus timing covert channels
does not use header or payload embedded information to encode covert
messages. Due to its special capability
of key-less security and camouflaging, covert channels are gaining popularity
recently in wireless networking to secure information. However, currently, there is little
understanding on how such a timing covert networking with multiple timing
covert communications simultaneously would operate so as to make the system
secure from defense and security perspectives amidst foreign adversaries in
dynamic spectrum access systems.
In
this research, we present a game-theoretic framework to model an attack-defense
scenario in tactical network dynamic spectrum access system with multiple
timing covert channels based on cognitive radio nodes. An attacker (eavesdropper), which might
possibly be another cognitive radio node from a competitor network or a
competitor agent (e.g., terrorist organization), wants to sense the real time
secret messaging by sensing/snooping into the spectrum bands and upon
successful detection, tries to destroy (jam) the ongoing timing covert
operations. To defend the attack
successfully, DSA system, on the other hand, can potentially enable multiple
auxiliary cognitive radio node communications in the spectrum bands dynamically
that help the timing covert communications in each of the spectrum bands to
camouflage. We analyze the scenario with
twotier game model: i) sensing game (with passive eavesdropper) and ii) jamming
game (with active destroyer). With
regard to the aforementioned secrecy model, we propose a dynamic minimax
camouflaging strategy for DSA system and sensing and jamming strategies for
attacker to capture the conflict of interest between attacker and the DSA
system, both of whom try to maximize their respective net utilities. We show that even in such a greedy and
non-cooperative behavioral game model, it is in the best interest of the
attacker and DSA system to adhere to the proposed strategies to achieve
equilibrium point. Through numerical
analysis and simulation results, we show that how game strategies can be used
as an effective tool for developing secure timing covert networking based on
DSA
About the Speaker
Shamik
Sengupta (Shamik.Sengupta “AT” stevens.edu) is presently appointed as a
Post-Doctoral researcher in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, with Prof. R. Chandramouli. Prior to that, Shamik Sengupta received his
PhD from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the
University of Central Florida in 2007 under the guidance of Prof. Mainak
Chatterjee. His research interests
include keyless security in wireless networking, dynamic spectrum access,
cognitive radio, network economics, auction and game theories, and WRAN
technologies. Currently, Shamik Sengupta
serves on the organizing and technical program committee of several IEEE
international conferences.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 6:00 PM, Thursday,
December 11, 2008. Refreshments will be
available at 5:45 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets),
Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670
(nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or Yanchao Zhang (973) 642-7817. Also check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates.
NJ Control Systems Chapter:
Bioelectronics, Imaging, and Control: Challenges and Opportunities
On
November 6, 2008, the IEEE NJ Control Systems Chapter together with the New Jersey
Institute of Technology will host a seminar on “Bioelectronics, Imaging, and
Control: Challenges and
Opportunities." The speakers will
be David Jamieson, Haim Grebel, Leonid Tysbeskov, Raquel Perez-Castillejos,
Sotirios Ziavras, Timothy Chang, Atam Dhawan, Durga Misra, and Marek Sosnowski.
.
About
the Talk
Bioelectronics brings
together the best of both worlds: the strengths of biology and biochemical
interactions are combined with electronic signal detection, processing and
analysis. This leads to new applications in medicine, diagnostics and
therapeutics that would never be imaginable within the limitations of each
separated domain. Experts say that the healthcare industry and the economy will
be transformed by enterprises involved in designing and manufacturing of
biomedical sensors and bioelectronics devices and systems, involving micro- and
nano-electronic materials, for biomedical imaging (at cellular, molecular and
organ levels), control, diagnostic, therapeutic, and other clinical applications.
This seminar features 9 industry/academic speakers, to present broad spectrum
of important issues including career, research, and education. This seminar is
to open to IEEE members, science and engineering students/communities as well
as the general public.
About
the Speakers
The following speakers are
scheduled:
·
David Jamieson:
“Careers in bioelectronics”
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Haim Grebel:
"Optical detection of bio-species"
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Leonid Tysbeskov:
" Auger-mediated bio-chemical reactions"
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Raquel
Perez-Castillejos: "Micro/Nanotechnologies for interfacing live
cells"
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Sotirios Ziavras:
"Reconfigurable computing in computational biology".
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Timothy Chang:
"Nonlinear oscillations and bio-control"
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Atam Dhawan:
"Medical imaging"
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Durga Misra:"
Bioelectronics: from devices to circuits”
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Marek Sosnowski:
“Bioelectronics programs”
All
Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 5:00-6:00
PM, Thursday, November 6, 2008.
Refreshments will be served at 4:45 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets),
Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Professor Timothy Chang (973)596-3519, chang
“AT” njit.edu.
NJ MTT-S/AP-S Chapters:
X-Parameters: A new Paradigm for Interoperable Measurement, Modeling, and Simulation of Nonlinear Microwave and RF Components
On
November 6, 2008, the IEEE NJ Section MTT/S/AP-S chapters and the New Jersey
Institute of Technology will host a talk on “X-Parameters: A new Paradigm for Interoperable Measurement,
Modeling, and Simulation of Nonlinear Microwave and RF Components." The speaker will be Dr. David E. Root.
About
the Talk
X-parameters are the
mathematically rigorous superset of S-parameters, applicable to nonlinear (and
linear) components under both large-signal and small-signal conditions. X-parameters take into account mismatch at fundamental
and harmonic frequencies, and correctly predict effects of source harmonics on
DUT response. X-parameters enable the
hierarchical design of chains of nonlinear components under large-signal drive,
such as multi-stage power amplifiers, multi-chip RF modules, and RF systems
including amplifiers and mixers.
This lecture presents the
basics of X-parameter theory, describes practical X-parameter measurements
using a novel Nonlinear Vector Network Analyzer instrument, and demonstrates
how this data can be used directly in commercial nonlinear simulators for the
design of nonlinear circuits and systems.
Each piece (measurement, mathematical formalism, and simulation) of the
puzzle has been created, and they now fit together, seamlessly. This results in an automated,
high-throughput, interoperable system for predictable measurement-based (and
simulation-based) nonlinear design with X-parameters [4]. X-parameters can be immediately used to
reconstruct the time-domain waveforms (even under very large compression),
estimate nonlinear figures of merit (FOM) such as IP3 and ACPR, design multiple
stage amplifiers and RF subsystems, and optimize system performance as a
function of the DUT characteristics and design parameters. The simulation is accomplished by an auto-configurable
nonlinear frequency-domain simulation block, based on an extended Poly-Harmonic
Distortion (PHD) framework for black-box nonlinear behavioral modeling
[1-4]. The PHD framework enforces
required DUT properties such as time invariance and Volterra constraints for
extrapolation to very low signal levels.
The efficacy of
X-parameters is demonstrated by predicting the nonlinear effects of
power-dependent mismatch of cascaded amplifiers from measured X-parameter data
of the individual components. The
X-parameter method for characterizing output match under drive is evaluated,
quantitatively, and demonstrated to be superior to the “hot S22” method that is
shown to be incomplete.
About
the Speaker
Dr. David E. Root received
BS degrees in physics and mathematics, and, in 1986, the PhD degree in physics,
all from MIT. He joined the
Hewlett-Packard Company (now Agilent Technologies, Inc.), in 1985, where he has
held both technical and management positions.
He is presently Principal Research Scientist and Modeling Architect at
Agilent’s High Frequency Technology Center in Santa Rosa, CA. His current responsibilities include
nonlinear behavioral and device modeling, large-signal simulation, and
nonlinear measurements for new technical capabilities and business
opportunities for Agilent. Dr. Root is a
Fellow of the IEEE. He is Vice-Chair of
the IEEE MTT-S Committee on CAD(MTT-1) and a member of the Technical Program
Committee of the International Microwave Symposium. He co-edited the recent book Fundamentals of
Nonlinear Behavioral Modeling for RF and Microwave Design, Artech House,
2005. He holds an appointment as
2006-2008 IEEE MTT-S “Distinguished Microwave Lecturer.” Recently, David was
named the recipient of the 2007 IEEE ARFTG Technology Award for contributions
to nonlinear RF and microwave device measurement and behavioral modeling.
All
Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00
PM, Thursday, November 6, 2008.
Free buffet will begin at 6:30 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets),
Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr. Edip Niver, (NJIT), (973) 596-3542 , Har
Dayal, (973) 633-4618, har.dayal “AT”
baesystems.com or Kirit Dixit, (201) 669-7599, kdixit “AT” ieee.org.
NJ Section PACE, GOLD, WIE:
Engineers Meet:
Working in the 21st Century –
A Few Tips to Survive and Ways to Improve IEEE
On
Wednesday, November 12, 2008, the North Jersey Section of Professional
Activities Committee, Graduates of the Last Decade and Women in Engineering
will host a meeting to discuss engineering careers now and into the
future. Our guest speaker will be Evelyn
Hirt, IEEE-USA President-Elect, 2009.
About the Meeting
The talk is based on a talk she co-presented with Bala
Prasanna at the August 2008 Region 1 meeting.
It will consist of two parts: 1) how to approach career planning, and 2)
making choices in a turbulent career environment. She has tips to share and is open to an
audience willing to actively engage in a lively discussion of the topic. Time permitting and as the audience wishes;
she will discuss her experiences in IEEE and ask the audience's advice on ways
to improve IEEE-USA.
Bring your associates, friends and spouses.
About the Speaker
Evelyn Hirt IEEE-USA
President-Elect, 2009, received the B.E.E., cum laude, University of Detroit,
and M.E.M, Washington State University.
Ms. Hirt's professional
experiences bridge the industrial, government, and academic communities. She is currently a Principal Professional and
Engineer at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and has prior experience
with BDM International (engineering consulting); University of New Mexico
(control analysis software); Sperry Defense Systems (flight/fire control
systems); Rockwell Collins (GPS user equipment); USAF Wright Aeronautical
Laboratories (man-in-the-loop flight simulation); and General Motors
(product/process design and test). She
describes her over 35-year career in engineering as multi-disciplinary, and
that her interests center on systems and controls, and engineering management.
Her honors include listings
in ten "Who's Who" directories, Eta Kappa Nu (member and Board of
Governors Member-at-Large), the 2008 IEEE Nanotechnology Council Distinguished
Service Award, and thirteen outstanding performance awards from three different
employers.
Ms. Hirt has been an active
IEEE volunteer from her time with the University of Detroit Student Branch
through her term on the IEEE Board of Directors as a Region Director in 2003 04
and beyond. Her volunteer activities
have been far ranging and cross cutting and including serving as the Section
Chair in two different Sections; Professional Activities Chair in three
Sections; and holding several Chapter, Society, and Technical Council
offices. In 2007, she founded and is
currently the Chair of the first Chapter of the IEEE Sensors Council. In 2008, she is completing her term as member
of the IEEE Publications, Services and Product Board and Editor-in-Chief of the
IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Systems Magazine. We will know the election
results prior to the meeting that will determine if she was elected 2009
IEEE-USA President-Elect, i.e., IEEE-USA President in 2010.
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 and
for information go to www.ieeeusa.org/policy/care/.
Time: 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM,
Wednesday, November 12, 2008.
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, Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954, rtax “AT” verizon.net, Kate Duncan,
(973) 209-8607, kduncan “AT” ieee.org.
NJ Section PACE, GOLD, WIE & EMS:
Engineers Meet:
Design for Six Sigma Seminar
On Tuesday, November 18, 2008, the North Jersey Section of Professional Activities Committee, Graduates of the Last Decade, Women in Engineering, and Engineering Management Society will offer a free seminar on the "Design for Six Sigma" (DFSS). The course is one in a series of IEEE Expert Now Educational Courses. You will earn IEEE Continuing Education Units and Professional Development hours for attending the course and seminar.
About the Course
The course will be
accompanied by a lecture on applying the tools of Six Sigma to real world
examples in the Information Technology industry and other transactional and
process based problem domains. This will
be contrasted with the traditional application of Six Sigma in manufacturing
domains. It will also compare the DMAIC,
DFSS and Lean "flavors" of Six Sigma.
After the seminar, the
attendee should understand the core concepts and key processes of Six Sigma and
tools needed to accomplish transaction and reliability improvements as well as
understand how they are applied to different problem domains.
Six Sigma improves both
product and process quality, reducing defects using a suite of tools that span:
statistical, analytical, and collaborative domains. The Six Sigma process has been extended to
take the initiative in developing better designs that avoid problems rather
than having to go back and correct them.
This is the Design-for-Six Sigma (DFSS) initiative.
About the Speaker
Kathi Kivi is president of
Superior Project Solutions Inc., which provides consulting services in IT
security, Six Sigma and project management.
Kathi has over 20 years of experience in housing, telecommunications and
government in the U.S. and Canada. Her
experience is multi-faceted in information security, Six Sigma business
operations process improvement, managing web applications, analysis, planning,
disaster recovery and business continuity, business systems, network
administration and operations, systems analysis and applications development,
managing human resources, as well as outsourcing planning, execution and
management. As an applications manager
with Sony Electronics she became a Six Sigma Black belt and certified
Greenbelt. Six Sigma process
improvement projects in both IT and business focused on increasing customer
satisfaction and bottom-line performance resulting in measurable savings of
over $1 million in less than one year.
She is a member of IEEE, (ISC)2, ISSA, Infragard, and PMI. She is a Certified Information Systems
Security Professional (CISSP) and has been a U.S. Researcher for Information
Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA).
She received a Business Data Processing diploma from Confederation
College, a BS in MIS from Regents College, and a MS in Telecommunications from
Iona College. Kathi may be contacted at
kkivi@SuperiorProjectSolutions.com. Company website is www.superiorprojectsolutions.com.
All Welcome!
This talk is free to
attend, you do not have to be an IEEE member, invite your friends. But you MUST
register at ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/gold to insure an accurate count
of attendees.
Time: 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM,
Tuesday, November 18, 2008. Free pizza
and soda will be served.
Place: Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave,
Clifton, NJ, (973) 772-5500.
Information: northjerseygold “AT” ieee.org, Paul Ward,
(973) 790-1625, PWard1130 “AT” aol.com, Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954, rtax
“AT” verizon.net.
NJ SMC Society:
Intelligent Agents for Battle Command Services
On
November 13, 2008, the NJ Systems, Man & Cybernetics (SMC) Chapter will be
hosting a seminar titled “Intelligent Agents for Battle Command Services.” Dr. Israel Mayk, a research scientist at the
US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), Fort Monmouth,
NJ, will be the presenter.
About the Talk
In
this presentation we’ll provide a brief background on intelligent agent
technology and describe the approach, design and initial implementation results
obtained from prototyping intelligent agents as part of a suite of battle
command services. These services are
currently under development as part of the Tactical Information Technology for
Assured Network Operations (TITAN) Army Technology Objective - Development
(ATO-D) Program focused on Information Dissemination and Management (ID&M)
for Battle Command (BC) Services. The
Program was initiated by the Army in October 2008 leveraging the results of the
Army Intelligent Agent Sub-IPT to span and integrate available resources
associated with ID&M, Network Management (NM) Information Assurance (IA)
technologies. This talk, however, will
be limited to ID&M area. The objective
of TITAN IM&D is to develop a set of core BC Services that will reside with
the BC Common Services servers to be fielded as part of the Army Current Force
BC systems in support of net-centric BC interoperability and
collaboration. This core set consists of
the following BC services: a) OPORD Service, b) Battle Book Service, c) Alert
and Warning Service, d) Smart filtering Service, e) Workflow Orchestration
Service, f) Initialization and Continuity of Operations Service and g) Product
Dissemination Service, The primary approach of this effort is to leverage
intelligent Agent Technology and build upon the success of the previous related
programs. TITAN software agents are
responsible for the functionality and behavior of TITAN BC Services. In this paper we will describe four types of
computational behaviors associated with Commander’s Critical Information
Requirements (CCIR) that were derived in response to general requirements
associated with the Military Decision Making Process. They include area protection, route
protection, hotspot recognition and route deviation.
About the Speaker
Dr.
Israel Mayk is an Electronics Engineer/Research Scientist and Technical Manager
with the Command and Control Directorate, U.S. Army Research, Development and
Engineering Command (RDECOM), Communications-Electronics Research, Development
and Engineering Center (CERDEC) at Fort Monmouth NJ. He is responsible for research and
development of battle command knowledge-based decision architectures. In particular, he is currently the Chair of
the Intelligent Agents sub-IPT of the RDECOM Network IPT, the Technical Manager
of several Exploratory Development Programs and of the U.S. Army Technology
Objective Program called Tactical Information Technology for Assured NetOps
(TITAN). Dr. Mayk’s R&D efforts
support several key Army/CERDEC C2 Programs including Current Force and Future
Force Programs of Record. Since 1976 he
has been working on numerous interoperability issues associated with Army,
Joint and Coalition tactical data systems.
From 1985 to 1995 Dr. Mayk was a member of the Basic Research Group
(BRG) of the C3 Research and Technology Program sponsored by the Joint
Directors of Laboratories (JDL), Technical Panel for C3 (TPC3) and chaired the
C2 Reference Model (C2RM) Subgroup. His
experience in research, exploratory development and advance development at
CERDEC involves research and development of C2 computational environments
including mathematical models and efficient algorithms for decision-aids,
situation awareness, message and protocol design and simulation, communications
networks, spread-spectrum systems and distributed processing
architectures.
Dr.
Mayk is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of AFCEA, AUSA, and USNI. He holds a BA degree in physics (1970) from
Rutgers University, NJ, a MSc degree in nuclear physics (1973) from the
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and an EngScD in electrical engineering
(1985) from NJ Institute of Technology.
All Welcome!
You
need not be a member of IEEE to attend, and there is no charge for
admission.
Time: 7:00 PM, Thursday,
November 13, 2008. Light refreshments
will be offered at 6:45 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets),
Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information/RSVP: Dr. Mike Liechenstein (973-471-0721) or
E-Mails: (itsmikesju “AT” aol.com or zhou “AT” njit.edu). Please RSVP and check the electronic
newsletter for any changes.
2008 MTT Mini-Show
The
IEEE North Jersey Section, MTT/AP-Joint Chapter 23rd Annual
Symposium and Mini-Show was held on Thursday,
October 2, 2008, at the Hanover Manor, 16 Eagle Rock Ave, E. Hanover,
NJ The conference presented a series of
eight lectures describing the state of the art in Microwave, RF, Optical and
Wireless, technologies by leaders in their respective fields. Exhibitors presented their latest technical products within the MTT & AP areas.
The following were taken during the show.
IEEE
Connecticut Section Chair, Charlotte Blair (left), North Jersey Section Chair,
Kirit Dixit (center),
Nominations
Committee Chair, Dr. Chandra Gupta (right)
North
Jersey Section Secretary, Russell Pepe (left), Stephen Leung of Andrew
Corporation (center), and
Dr.
Fred Chichester, Audit Committee Co-Chair (right)
NJ
EDS/C&S Chair, Dr. Richard Snyder, leads a lecture on Practical Aspects of
Microwave Filter Development
Exhibitors
meet customers and demo products
IEEE MTT Graduate Fellowship Deadline - December
12th, 2008
The
purpose of the MTT graduate fellowship is to recognize and provide financial
assistance to graduate students who show promise and interest in pursuing a
graduate degree in microwave engineering.
Up
to six $6000 awards may be granted each year. The awards are presented at the
International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in June. Limited travel support is
available to enable the winners to attend the IMS.
For
more information please visit: http://www.mtt.org/
All
applications should be submitted by December 12th, 2008 to:
Prof.
John Papapolymerou
Georgia
Institute of Technology
85
5th Street -
e-mail:
papapol@ece.gatech.edu
Industry Liaison Chair Position Open for North Jersey Section
The
North Jersey Section is seeking new volunteers to help conduct business for the
benefit of it membership. There are a
variety of positions open and available.
My name is Russell Pepe. I was
the Industry Liaison for the North Jersey Section for several years. I recently took on two positions, as
Secretary and Student Activities Committee Chair. I am seeking my replacement as Industry
Liaison. The main function for the IEEE
Industry Liaison is to foster collaboration with Industry.
For
more information, please feel free to contact Russell Pepe at rpepe “AT”
att.net; or visit the North Jersey Section website at http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/. We also encourage you to join us at the
Monthly North Jersey Business Meeting, held during he first Wednesday of each
month at 7:00 pm (free buffet dinner served at 6:00 pm).
NJ Section Seeks Training Facility
North Jersey Section Seeks Committee Chairs and Volunteers
The
North Section is seeking new volunteers to help conduct business for the
benefit of its membership. There are a
variety of volunteer positions open and available. They range from technical to non-technical,
leadership or just participatory. For
Society Chapter Chairs, you MUST be a member of the corresponding IEEE Society.
If
you would like to become involved with volunteering in some of these efforts or
positions or just become more informed about what is happening at the North
Jersey Section, please contact Dr. Chandra Gupta at c.gupta AT ieee.org. You are welcome to attend the Section
business meeting held the first Wednesday of every month to find out more and
other volunteer activities that require some help.
Some
committees needing volunteers include the following. Please contact the person indicated for
additional information.
·
Engineering In Medicine and Biology Chapter Chair - contact c.gupta
below.
·
GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade) Affinity Group Volunteers and
Committee members needed - contact northjerseygold AT ieee.org
·
WIE (Women in Engineering) Affinity Group Volunteers and Committee
members needed - contact kduncan AT ieee.org
Additionally,
if interested volunteers would like to get more general information about the
Section, including a complete listing of all chapters and committees, visit the
North Jersey Section website http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/,
or contact Dr. Chandra Gupta c.gupta AT ieee.org.
Advertise in the IEEE North Jersey Newsletter
The IEEE Newsletter is the non-profit professional publication of the
North Jersey Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
Inc.
Published monthly except June (electronic only) and July, it is
distributed to approximately 4,000 qualified members of the section.
Editorial content is pertinent and timely. It contains current information and details
about special meetings, field trips, and seminars scheduled during the month
and for future dates.
IEEE Newsletter readers are influential in the Electrical and
Electronics industries. They are in
decision-making positions or can influence decisions in this important field.
Demonstrate your support of their professional organization by
advertising in their Newsletter while reaching your customers and prospects.
Manufacturers can support local reps and distributors by using
cooperative advertising in the IEEE Newsletter. Classified ads and job postings
are welcomed!
Contact Keith Saracinello, IEEE North Jersey Section Business Manager,
at k.saracinello “AT” ieee.org for more details.
News from IEEE-USA:
IEEE RFID 2009 Conference Seeks Technical Papers
Washington
(17 September 2008) - Organizers of the 2009 International IEEE Conference on
RFID (IEEE RFID 2009) are seeking technical papers from authors presenting the
latest research, innovations and implementations related to the theory and
practice of RF-based identification and communication systems. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE
and presented at IEEE RFID 2009 (www.ieee-rfid.org/2009/),
which is co-located with RFID Journal Live! executive conference and exhibition
(http://www.rfidjournalevents.com/live/)
in Orlando, FL, 27-29 April, 2009. The
third-annual conference will address the technical and policy challenges of
RFID technologies and feature keynote speakers from RFID thought leaders, panel
discussions and presentations on technology advances.
Topics
of interest include antennas & propagation; circuits, devices and sensors;
communication protocols; security & privacy; system tools; RF-based
localization; RFID system architecture; policy & regulatory issues;
deployment issues and concerns; and applications.
RFID,
or “Radio Frequency Identification,” is an enabling technology. Tags storing information on a microchip
connected to a radio antenna are accessed by readers that use radio waves to
poll the tag and retrieve the data.
Authors
are invited to submit full 8-page papers in the IEEE conference format (http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/pubs/confpubcenter/pdfs/samplems.pdf).
Submissions
must describe original work not previously published or currently under review
for publication in another conference or journal.
Abstract
submissions are due 1 December 2008 and paper submissions 5 December. Acceptance notification is 13 February, 2009
and publication-ready papers are due 13 March, 2009.
IEEE-USA
and the IEEE Communications Society (http://www.comsoc.org/)
are financial co-sponsors for IEEE RFID 2009.
Questions
can be directed to 2009info@ieee-rfid.org.
IEEE-USA
advances the public good and promotes the careers and public policy interests
of more than 215,000 engineers, scientists and allied professionals who are
U.S. members of the IEEE. IEEE-USA is
part of the IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional society with
375,000 members in 160 countries. See http://www.ieeeusa.org.
Contact: Chris McManes
IEEE-USA Public Relations
Manager
Phone: (202) 530-8356
E-mail: c.mcmanes@ieee.org
News from IEEE-USA:
2009 IEEE Green Technology Conference Seeks Technical Papers
Washington (9 October 2008)
- The first IEEE Green Technology Conference will examine alternative energy
sources and energy-reduction technologies and their potential for helping the
world meet its growing demand for energy, while reducing carbon emissions. Conference organizers are seeking technical
papers on current and emerging technologies in environmentally friendly energy
sources, and on ways to better manage our energy resources.
Accepted papers will be
published by the IEEE and presented at the 2009 IEEE Green Technology
Conference (http://www.ieeegreentech.org/)
at the Holiday Inn Hotel Towers in Lubbock, Texas, USA, 16-17 April 2009. The conference will precede the annual IEEE
Region 5 Meeting.
Topics of interest include
the technical and policy challenges of renewable energy sources; alternative
vehicle power sources; home automation and energy management; commercial energy
management strategies; energy usage reduction; and integration of green energy
sources into the existing power grid.
The social and economic implications of renewable and reduced carbon
emission energy sources will also be examined.
Alternative energy keynote
speakers will address these challenges, as will panel discussions and
presentations on technology advances.
With increasing concerns about
fossil fuel costs, supplies and emissions, people the world over are more
closely examining the commercial viability of other energy sources. These include solar, wind, nuclear,
geothermal, hydro and biomass, among others, as well as alternative vehicle
power sources such as fuel cells, gasoline and liquid natural gas electric
hybrids and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
Authors are invited to
submit abstracts by 31 December 2008.
Accepted authors will be notified 31 January 2009, and full 8-page papers
in the IEEE conference format are due by 1 March 2009 (http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/pubs/confpubcenter/pdfs/samplems.pdf).
Submissions must describe
original work not previously published or currently under review for
publication in another conference or journal.
Send your submissions to green.tech09@gmail.com.
The 2009 IEEE Green
Technology Conference is sponsored by IEEE Region 5, the IEEE South Plains
Section and IEEE-USA.
IEEE-USA advances the public
good and promotes the careers and public policy interests of more than 215,000
engineers, scientists and allied professionals who are U.S. members of the IEEE. IEEE-USA is part of the IEEE, the world’s
largest technical professional society with 375,000 members in 160
countries. See http://www.ieeeusa.org.
Contact:
Chris McManes
IEEE-USA Public Relations Manager
Phone: (202)
530-8356
E-mail: c.mcmanes@ieee.org
IEEE-USA in Action:
Local TV Reports on Engineering, Science Highlight IEEE Technologies that Benefit Society
Washington
(30 September 2008) - As part of its public-awareness program to promote
engineering and technological literacy, IEEE-USA has helped to underwrite
almost 600 local television news reports on engineering and science since 2005. The "Discoveries & Breakthroughs
Inside Science" TV news reports are distributed to local U.S. television
stations in more than 100 cities, transit systems in seven U.S. cities, as well
as through the Voice of America and the Roo Online Video Network in more than
60 countries. Stations airing the
IEEE-related spots include a mix of ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, Univision, cable and
independent affiliates. IEEE-related
technology stories have their own Web site at http://www.aip.org/dbis/IEEE.
Recent
TV news reports on IEEE technologies that benefit society have included
segments on:
·
Engineers who have created a model to
forecast the progression of a future pandemic allowing researches to design the
best way to distribute food and vaccines to those in need
·
Engineers who have invented a device to
bring air samples into contact with genetically engineered biosensors to detect
dangerous biological agents
·
Environmental scientists and engineers who
have developed mathematical models to calculate the impact of pollution from
Europe and Asia on areas in the United States
·
Chemists and engineers who have designed a
technology that protects soil and helps promote plant growth to keep topsoil in
place over the long term.
Additional
TV news reports on IEEE technologies include:
·
Biomedical and safety engineers who, in
order to improve safety for children using seat belts, have added a more
lifelike abdomen to models representing youngsters between the ages of 4-8
·
Engineers who have developed a computer
program to track and schedule immunizations for infants
·
Pyschoacoustics researchers and industrial
technologists who use a pen computer to help visually impaired students learn
science and math
·
Engineers and scientists who have developed
a new technology that allows cardiologists to capture detailed pictures of the
heart in less than one second, revealing subtle changes in blood flow and
blockages in tiny blood vessels
·
Biomedical engineers who have used advanced
cone beam imaging technology to take a series of two-dimensional x-rays,
allowing dentists to create a detailed three-dimensional picture of a patient's
mouth
The
"Discoveries & Breakthroughs" TV news service was developed by
the American Institute of Physics (AIP) with a coalition of 23 technical
professional organizations including IEEE/IEEE-USA.The service delivers 12
vetted 90 second TV reports monthly --
in English and Spanish -- with a potential reach of up to 75 million TV
viewers, and an estimated 41 million online views per month. Academic research has documented that the
public obtains most of its information about engineering and science from local
TV news and that viewers of the "Discoveries & Breakthroughs"
service are more likely to support engineering and science than those who are
not viewers.
Former
IEEE-USA Mass Media Engineering Fellow Sourish Basu and former IEEE Washington
Internships for Students of Engineering Participant Elizabeth Johnston
participate with other society representatives in weekly telephone conferences
to develop and vet story ideas.
"Discoveries & Breakthroughs" is seeking new story ideas
to include in its TV reports incorporated in local TV news broadcasts. Pitches should be directed to Emilie
Lorditch, the series' manager and senior science editor, at elorditc@aip.org.
Contact: Pender M. McCarter, Senior Public Relations
Counselor, IEEE-USA/Washington, DC, (202) 530-8353.