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November 2010
Volume 57, Number 4
Publication No: USPS 580-500
“The IEEE Newsletter” (North Jersey Section),
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Dr. Katherine Duncan (kduncan “AT” ieee.org)
Dr. Mengchu Zhou (zhou “AT”
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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 (201) 960-6796, rcpepe “AT” ieee.org.
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IEEE North Jersey
Section Activities
November 2010
Nov. 1 – “Network
Selection for Secondary Users in Cognitive Radio Systems” by Dr. Chonggang Wang,
NJ Communications Society, 5:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Professor Nirwan Ansari, (973) 596-3670. Check
http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html for latest updates.
Nov.
3 –
“NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, Clifton
Public Library - Allwood Branch, 44 Lyall Road, Clifton, NJ 07012. Russell Pepe at rcpepe “AT” ieee.org.
Nov.
6 –
“Student Branch
Leadership Training Workshop”,
Region 1 SAC, 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM, The City College of New York, Steinman Hall,
140th Street and Convent Ave, New York, NY. Register at http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/3303. Jignasa Ray, jignasa.ray “AT” ieee.org.
Nov.
10 – “Photocurrent
and Noise Analysis as Alternative Approaches to Understanding OFET Behavior” by Professor John
Kymissis, NJ EDS/C&S, 5:00, New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection
between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Dr. Durga Misra, (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT”
njit.edu) or Dr. Edip Niver, (973) 596-3542 (NJIT),
Nov.
10 –
“Engineers Meet: How to Interface with Congress and Make an
Impression – Part 2” with Paul Ward and Richard Tax, NJ PACE, 6:30 PM to
9:00 PM, Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ. Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625, peward “AT”
ieee.org, Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954, rtax “AT” aea.org.
Nov.
12 – Dec. 17 –
“Introduction to Cisco
Networking” by Dr. Joseph Miao,
5:40 - 9:55 PM, Polaris Microsystems, Inc., 2337 Lemoine Avenue, Fort Lee,
NJ. Donald Hsu, yanyou “AT” hotmail.com.
Nov.
17 –
“English Free Choice
Items: ‘Any’ and ‘Wh+ever’” by Professor Veneeta
Dayal, NJ SP Society Chapter, 12:30 – 1:30 PM, Burchard Building, Room 430,
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ.
Hong Man, (201) 216-5038, hman “AT” stevens.edu.
Nov.
18 –
“Development of a Gait
Rehabilitation System” by Dr. Zhiming Ji, NJ
Control Systems Chapter, 6:30 – 8:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit
Streets), Newark, NJ. Professor MengChu
Zhou, (973) 596-6282, zhou “AT” njit.edu.
Nov.
18 –
“Optical and Wireless
Integration: A Passive Optical Network
(PON) Time Synchronization Overview”
by Dr. Yuanqiu Luo, NJ Communications Society, 6:15 PM, New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, KUPF, Newark, NJ. Professor Nirwan Ansari, (973) 596-3670. Check
http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html for latest updates.
Nov.
29 –
“Stochastic Routing for
Delay Tolerant Networks” by Professor Zygmunt
J. Haas, NJ Communications Society, 2:30 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Professor Nirwan Ansari, (973) 596-3670. Check
http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html for latest updates.
Nov.
30 – “Global
Mains Wiring for Electrical Equipment” by Mark R. Chrusciel,
NJ IMS, 6:30 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Russell C. Pepe, 201-960-6796, rcpepe “AT”
ieee.org.
Upcoming Meetings
Dec.
1 – “NJ
Section Annual End-Of-Year Workshop”,
location TBD. Amit Patel, a.j.patel “AT”
ieee.org.
Members and Non-Members Welcome
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NJ Communications Society:
Network
Selection for Secondary Users in Cognitive Radio Systems
On November 1, 2010, the IEEE NJ Communications
Society Chapter will host a presentation titled “Network Selection for
Secondary Users in Cognitive Radio Systems.”
The speaker will be Dr. Chonggang Wang.
About the Talk
Existing studies have demonstrated that uneven and
dynamic usage patterns by the primary users of license-based wireless
communication systems can often lead to temporal and spatial spectrum
underutilization. This provides an
opportunity for the secondary users (SUs) to tap into underutilized frequency
bands provided that they are capable of cognitively accessing systems without
colliding or impacting the performance of the primary users (PUs). When there are multiple networks with spare
spectrum, secondary users can opportunistically choose the best network to
access, subject to certain constraints.
In cognitive radio systems, this is referred as the network selection
problem for secondary users.
This talk will present our recent research results
on network selection problem.
Specifically, model-based and measurement-based solutions are proposed for
cognitive network selection, that aim to optimize secondary users throughput
and energy-efficiency subject to a target collision probability for the primary
users. It has demonstrated that the
proposed new approaches achieve better performance than Greedy and Random
network selection.
About the Speaker
Chonggang Wang received his PhD in computer science
from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He is currently a senior staff engineer in
InterDigital Communications, Inc. Before
joining InterDigital, he had conducted research with NEC Laboratories America,
AT&T Labs Research, University of Arkansas and Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology. His research
interests include Internet of things, ad hoc and sensor networks, cognitive/cooperative
networks and future Internet. He has
published more than eighty journal/conference articles and book chapters. He is on the editorial board of several
international journals including IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Networks
Magazine, ACM/Springer Wireless Networks, Wiley Wireless Communications and
Mobile Computing, and Wiley Security and Communication Networks. He serves as the director of IEEE ComSoc MMTC
E-Letter board. He has been
co-organizing several special issues including "Advances in Passive
Optical Networks" for IEEE Communications magazine, “Future Internet
Service and Applications” for IEEE Network Magazine, “Evolution of Air-Link
Technologies for Futuristic Wireless Communications” for IET Communications,
and “Advances in Wireless Mesh Networks” for ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and
Application. He also serves as TPC co-chair for IEEE
INFOCOM 2011 Workshop on Cloud Computing, TPC co-Chair for IEEE ISCC 2011, Symposium co-chair for WOCC2011 Wireless
Communications and Networking Symposium, and Symposium co-Chair for IEEE
Globecom 2010 Communications Quality, Reliability and Modeling Symposium. He served in the technical program committee
for numerous IEEE conferences including ICNP, INFOCOM, GLOBECOM, ICC and
WCNC. He is a senior member of the IEEE.
Time: 5:00 PM, Monday, November 1, 2010. Refreshments will be available starting 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/about/visit/gettingtonjit.php.
Information: Professor Nirwan
Ansari, (973) 596-3670.
Check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html for latest updates.
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NJ Communications Society:
Optical and Wireless Integration: A Passive Optical Network (PON) Time
Synchronization Overview
On November
18, 2010,
the IEEE NJ Communications Society Chapter will host a presentation titled
“Optical and Wireless Integration: A
Passive Optical Network (PON) Time Synchronization Overview.” The speaker will be Dr.
Yuanqiu Luo.
About the Talk
With an ever growing bandwidth demand for emerging
services, access network is expected to provide much higher bandwidth and
protect legacy investment. These
requirements motivate the research and standard of Passive Optical Networks
(PONs). This talk starts with a brief
introduction of broadband access and PONs.
Various PON implementations will be examined with a focus on Optical and
Wireless Integration (OWI). Time
synchronization over PON is critical for OWI.
After a discussion of the key challenges, the solution of PON time synchronization
will be described and its performance will be investigated. The standard progress in the International
Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) and
the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) will be reviewed. Directions for future research will be
presented in the last part of this talk.
About the Speaker
Yuanqiu Luo is a senior research engineer in the
advanced technology department of Huawei Technologies USA, Bridgewater, NJ. Before joining Huawei, she was
with NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, NJ. Her research interests are in
the areas of broadband access networks, next generation optical access, network
modeling, and integrated optical/wireless networks. She is actively involved in the standards of
next generation passive optical networks.
She is a co-editor of ITU-T G.987, G.987.3 and a clause editor of IEEE
802.1AS. She received both her Bachelor
degree in electronics and information systems and her Master degree in
electrical engineering from Shandong University, China. Her PhD degree in electrical
engineering was received from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ.
Time: 6:15
PM, Thursday, November 18, 2010.
Refreshments will be available starting at 6:00
PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, KUPF, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/about/visit/gettingtonjit.php.
Information: Professor
Nirwan Ansari, (973) 596-3670.
Check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html for latest updates.
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NJ Communications Society:
Stochastic Routing
for Delay Tolerant Networks
On November 29, 2010, the IEEE NJ
Communications Society Chapter will host a presentation titled “Stochastic
Routing for Delay Tolerant Networks.”
The speaker will be Professor Zygmunt J. Haas.
About the Talk
In this talk,
Professor Haas will discuss selected research results in the area of Stochastic
Routing. Professor Haas will concentrate
on the use of Stochastic Routing as it applies to Delay/Disruption Tolerant
Networks (DTNs). DTNs are useful for
applications with lenient requirements on message latency and Stochastic
Routing is especially well suited for mobile DTNs. Professor Haas will compare some of the
Stochastic Routing schemes and discuss a number of potential applications.
Gossiping, an
example of Stochastic Routing, is a technique where each node resends the
received message with some probability.
In fact, flooding is a limiting case of Gossiping where the
retransmission probability equals 1.
Numerous variants of Gossiping have been proposed and optimized to
implement efficient broadcasting, multicasting, and anycasting.
Epidemic Routing,
another example of a Stochastic Routing scheme, has been proposed as a routing
protocol for DTNs. Unrestricted Epidemic
Routing results in shortest packet delivery
time and high packet delivery probability at the destination nodes. However, this comes at the cost of excessive
number of packet copies in the network, which leads to wasteful energy
consumption at the nodes. Professor Haas
will introduce and present the performance of several schemes which, in
different ways, restrict the Epidemic Routing in the number of generated packet
copies. The schemes are compared in
regards to the tradeoff between energy consumption and delivery delay, while
maintaining fixed delivery rate.
Another drawback of
Epidemic Routing is that the energy consumption is unequal at the different
network nodes. Consequently, the
system’s lifetime is reduced. I will
discuss several of our approaches to extend the system lifetime of Epidemic
Routing.
About the Speaker
Professor Zygmunt
J. Haas received his PhD in 1988 from Stanford University, at which time he joined
the AT&T Bell Laboratories pursuing research in wireless communications,
mobility management, fast protocols, optical networks, and optical
switching. In 1995, he joined the
faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at Cornell University. He heads the Wireless Network Laboratory
(wnl.ece.cornell.edu), a research group with extensive contributions in the
area of Ad Hoc Networks and Sensor Networks.
Recently, he has been serving as an NSF Program Director in the
Engineering Directorate.
Dr. Haas is a
Fellow of the IEEE and an author of over 200 technical conference and journal
papers. He holds eighteen patents in
the areas of wireless networks and
wireless communications, optical switching, optical networks, and high-speed
networking protocols. He has organized
numerous workshops, chaired and
co-chaired several key conferences in the communications and networking
areas, and delivered many tutorials at major IEEE and ACM conferences. His interests include: mobile and wireless communication and
networks, modeling and performance evaluation of large and complex systems, and
biologically-inspired networks.
Time: 2:30 PM, Monday,
November 29, 2010.
Refreshments will be available starting at 2:15 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/about/visit/gettingtonjit.php.
Information: Professor Nirwan
Ansari, (973) 596-3670.
Check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html for latest updates.
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NJ Control Systems Chapter:
Development of a Gait Rehabilitation System
On November
18, 2010,
the IEEE NJ Control Systems Chapter will host a presentation titled “Development
of a Gait Rehabilitation System.” The
speaker will be Dr. Zhiming Ji.
About the Talk
The majority of movement problems caused by stroke,
spinal cord injury, or aging, require specialized therapies to improve limb
functioning. Movement therapy for lower
limbs face more challenges than that for upper limbs, because of the critical
roles played by the low limbs during standing and walking. Currently, the rehabilitation of walking
involves the use of braces or body weight supported treadmill training. Lower extremity braces available today cannot
provide the patient the experience of typical movement patterns. Body weight supported treadmill training conducted
manually by therapists is very time intensive and costly. A gait training system based on a pair of
identical gait generation and mechanical timing mechanism currently under
development will be presented. Due to
its closed-loop kinematics and low degree of freedom, this system is much safer
to use and allows simpler operation, which helps to increase the duration of
training at low cost. With active and
passive modes in various actuation schemes, it could enhance gait retraining
and orthotic intervention in stroke and other patients in the home and
community settings.
About the Speaker
Dr. Zhiming
Ji is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the
New Jersey Institute of Technology. He
received his BS degree from the Northeastern University, MS degree from the Southeast University and PhD degree from the Stanford University. Dr. Ji’s research interests
cover many aspects of Mechanical Design and System Integration.
Time: 6:30 –
8:00 PM, Thursday, November 18, 2010.
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/about/visit/gettingtonjit.php.
Information: Professor MengChu Zhou, (973) 596-6282, zhou “AT” njit.edu.
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NJ EDS/C&S:
Photocurrent and Noise Analysis as
Alternative Approaches to Understanding OFET Behavior
On November 10, 2010, the
IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters together with
the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on “Photocurrent and
Noise Analysis as Alternative Approaches to Understanding OFET Behavior."
The speaker will be Professor John Kymissis of Columbia University.
About the Talk
The characterization of organic field effect
transistors is complicated by the influence of the contacts on channel behavior
and the trap limited conduction mechanism which governs device performance.
In this presentation, several strategies for
probing OFETs will be discussed. In
particular, the use of spectrally resolved photocurrent spectroscopy will be
demonstrated as a strategy for the analysis of trap states in the device,
spatially resolved photocurrent will be presented as an approach for measuring
internal device potential, and noise spectroscopy will be presented as an
approach to evaluating the effect of trap states on channel conduction. These probes provide additional pathways for
analyzing OFET device and material behavior with different complicating
parasitics than incumbent characterization approaches.
About the Speaker
Ioannis (John) Kymissis graduated with his BS,
MEng., and PhD degrees from MIT. His
MEng thesis was done as a co-op at the IBM TJ Watson Research Lab
on organic thin film transistors, and his PhD was in the Microsystems
Technology Lab at MIT working on field emission displays. After graduation he spent three years as a
post-doc in MIT's Laboratory for Organic Optics and Electronics working on a
variety of organic electronic devices and as a consulting engineer for
QDVision, which is developing and commercializing a novel light emitting
architecture based on quantum dots. In
2006, John joined the Electrical Engineering department at Columbia University and leads the Columbia
Laboratory for Unconventional Electronics (CLUE) which focuses on the
development and applications of thin film electronic systems.
All Welcome!
You do not have to
be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 5:00 PM, Wednesday,
November 10, 2010. Pizza
and refreshments will be offered 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/about/visit/gettingtonjit.php.
Information: Dr. Durga Misra, (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu) or Dr. Edip Niver,
(973) 596-3542 (NJIT),
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NJ IMS:
Global Mains
Wiring for Electrical Equipment
On Tuesday, November 30,
2010, the IEEE North Jersey
Section of the Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS) is hosting a talk
entitled, “Global Mains Wiring for Electrical Equipment.” The speaker will be Donald Gies.
About the Talk
This talk explores
the different methods to connect electrical equipment such as information
technology equipment (ITE) to the AC and DC mains in the global
marketplace. It describes the
difference in AC power systems around the world, demonstrates single-phase and
three-phase power systems used worldwide, and describes IT power distribution
systems, and how to design and test electrical equipment for connecting to IT
power distribution systems. Also, this paper
discusses the different methods used for permanently connecting electrical
equipment to the mains in different regions of the world, and how to design
electrical equipment to accommodate the different installation methods.
About the Speaker
Don Gies has been a
Product Compliance Engineer for over 23 years.
Since 1989, Mr. Gies has worked at AT&T-Bell Laboratories/Lucent
Technologies/Alcatel-Lucent as a Product Safety Engineer, responsible for
obtaining product safety certifications for his company’s telephone and
information processing equipment from domestic and international product safety
organizations. Mr. Gies has become a
leading subject matter expert for his company in the field of global product
safety compliance, working primarily with Alcatel-Lucent's wireless base
station equipment. Mr. Gies is a member
of the Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy. Prior to working at AT&T,
Mr. Gies was a Tempest Engineer for Honeywell-Signal Analysis Center, where he worked on
various secure communications projects for the US Army Communications -Electronics
Command. Mr. Gies, a lifelong resident
of the Jersey Shore, graduated from Rutgers University - College of Engineering as an Electrical
Engineer. He is an iNARTE Certified
Product Safety Engineer.
All Welcome!
Free
admission. Members and non-members
welcome.
Time: 6:30 PM, Tuesday,
November 30, 2010.
Free buffet will be provided at 6:00 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/about/visit/gettingtonjit.php.
Information: Russell C. Pepe, 201-960-6796, rcpepe “AT” ieee.org.
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NJ Section PACE:
Engineers
Meet:
How to Interface with
Congress and Make an Impression – Part 2
On Wednesday, November 10,
2010, the North Jersey
Section Professional Activities Committee (PACE) of IEEE will meet for a group
discussion concerning making things happen in Washington. Off Shoring of Manufacturing,
importing foreign engineers and discriminating against our U.S. engineers need to be
addressed. But, it isn’t enough to talk
among ourselves about these problems – we have to bring our concerns to our Washington representatives at the local level.
Our last (October) guest speaker Russell T. Harrison Senior Legislative
Representative - Grassroots Affairs, IEEE-USA, told us how.
About
the Meeting:
This meeting will be dedicated to successfully
interfacing with our Washington representatives at their
local office. Mr. Harrison said the
American political system is relatively easy to interact with – if you know a
few key rules and tricks. Regardless of
what your personal concerns are, this review will help you target your issues
and bring them to the attention of your representatives. As engineers we can play a role in making our
Representatives aware of our concerns.
All interested
parties are invited for an interesting and informative discussion.
About
the Speakers:
PACE Chairs, Paul
Ward and Richard Tax, will moderate the session.
All
Welcome!
Members and students from all professional
societies and engineering disciplines are welcome. We now have attendees from IEEE, ASME, NSPE,
ASCE and AEA. For information about
these groups see:
www.aea.org
www.ieeeusa.org/policy/care
www.ieeeusa.org
www.programmersguild.org
http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
www.asme.org/sections/northjersey
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM, Wednesday, November 10, 2010. Refreshments will be served.
Place: Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ, (973) 772-5500.
Information: Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625, peward “AT”
ieee.org, Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954, rtax “AT” aea.org.
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NJ SP Society:
English Free Choice Items: ‘Any’ and ‘Wh+ever’
On November
17, 2010, the NJ Signal Processing Society will be hosting a lecture at NJIT
titled “English Free Choice Items: ‘Any’
and ‘Wh+ever’”. The speaker will be
Professor Veneeta Dayal.
About the Talk
The distribution and behavior of ‘any’ and
‘wh+ever’ in positive contexts have several interesting properties,
independently and in relation to each other.
In generic/characterizing statements like (1a)-(1b) they are virtually
synonymous, suggesting a kind of indiscriminate reading on Bill’s part. In episodic contexts, however, they part
company: ‘any’ is unacceptable (1a) while ‘wh+ever’ is acceptable (1b), under a
reading where the identity of the individual books is unknown or
irrelevant. ‘Any’ is generally thought
to be licensed by modality, but this is clearly not sufficient, as shown by
differences between possibility and necessity modals in (3). Finally, ‘any’ in episodic and necessity
modal contexts can be redeemed by the presence of a modifier (4a)-(4b). To return to a comparison with ‘wh+ever’,
(5a)-(5b) show that they relate differently to prior discourse – ‘wh+ever’ but
not ‘any’ is comfortable in anaphoric contexts:
1a. Bill reads anything he buys.
b. Bill
reads whatever he buys.
2a. * Bill read any books.
b. Bill
read whichever books he’d bought.
3a. Bill can read any of these books.
b. *Bill
must read any of these books.
4a. Bill read any books that were lying around.
b. Bill
must read any books that the teacher recommends.
5a. Bill bought some things. Sue liked whatever he bought.
b. Bill
bought some things. ??Sue liked anything
he bought.
In
this talk Professor
Dayal will propose a way to
account for the empirical generalizations illustrated above.
About the Speaker
Professor Dayal is with the Department of
Linguistics at Rutgers University. Her research interests are in
the areas of semantic theory, syntax-semantics interface, south Asian linguistics. Further details about her can be found at http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~dayal/
Time: 12:30 – 1:30 PM, Wednesday, November 17, 2010.
Place: Burchard Building, Room 430, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, http://www.stevens.edu/sit/maps/driving_directions.cfm.
Information: Hong Man, (201) 216-5038, hman “AT” stevens.edu.
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North Jersey Section Senior Member Drive On Dec 1.
Seeking Applicants and Reference Volunteers
The IEEE North Jersey Section is proud to announce it annual end of the
year workshop agenda and relevant changes affecting members. Each year, the election results for new
officers for the North Jersey section for the following year are announced
by the tellers committee at the December executive committee meeting. The new officers are then installed and take
office in the coming January.
This year will be
different from year's past with a newly expanded agenda for the December
executive committee meeting. Many
members have inquired how they can apply for a senior-member grade elevation
and go about obtaining required references for their senior member application.
With the membership
interests in mind, the end of the year executive committee meeting will have
its agenda changed to hold an information session on the Senior Membership
grade elevation process and an opportunity to interact with current senior
members to find that last missing reference match for those seeking senior
membership with an active application in process.
If you have not started
your senior membership application yet, start now and have your references completed
by the end of the year. See http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/senior/senior_requirements.html for senior member requirements and see http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/senior/senior_application.html for the application.
If you are having
trouble finding that last senior member reference, bring printed out hardcopies
of your full resume and senior member application portfolio with you to the
meeting for review by other senior members and to find that last reference.
All section members are
invited to attend, especially those who are current senior members and are
willing to serve as references, those interested in learning how to stay better
informed of section and area wide IEEE activities that are occurring. For those interested in becoming more active
in general IEEE activities, volunteering, or those seeking senior
membership. If you are interested in
serving as a reference contact a.j.patel@ieee.org and register below.
The event will be held
on Wednesday,
December 1, 2010,
6-9PM, there will be a free buffet dinner and an
opportunity to network with section members.
Seating is limited and registration is required. Find all detailed additional information, directions
and registration link here: http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/3479
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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.
·
Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Chair -
contact naresh.chand “AT” baesystems.com
·
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 jignasa.ray “AT” ieee.org
·
EMBS (Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society)
is seeking a chair and active committee volunteers - contact RaquelPC “AT”
njit.edu
·
Membership Development Committee Chair and
Volunteers - contact c.gupta “AT” ieee.org
·
Computer Society Chapter Committee Volunteers -
contact zhao “AT” fdu.edu
·
Technical Management Council Committee Volunteers -
contact saumil “AT” ieee.org
·
North Jersey Section Awards Committee Volunteers -
contact k.oexle “AT” verizon.net
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.
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From the North
Jersey Section’s Education Committee:
Hot courses can enhance your position in the job market
IEEE North Jersey
Education Committee ran programming and management courses since 1993. 252 IEEE members and non-members completed
these courses. Benefits: Some got jobs at AT&T and Microsoft
Corporation.
We need hot
courses, instructors and classrooms. If
you can teach a hot course (any course that can get people jobs), email your
one-page abstract and your resume. If
your NJ firm can provide a conference room, evening or Saturday morning,
contact Donald Hsu, Chair, yanyou “AT” hotmail.com. Thank-you and act NOW!
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NEWS from IEEE-USA:
Special
Session on Federal Cybersecurity Research Priorities to Follow IEEE Homeland
Security Conference
Washington (29 September
2010) - The federal Networking and Information Technology Research and
Development (NITRD) Program will present the strategic directions of U.S.
federal cybersecurity research immediately following the 2010 IEEE
International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST 10) in
November.
During this special
session, senior U.S. government officials will describe R&D themes
developed to orient federal cybersecurity research and to stimulate related
private sector cybersecurity activities.
The themes are: tailored trustworthy spaces, moving target, and cyber
economics and incentives. The session
will provide insights into those priorities and how they are shaping the
direction of federal cybersecurity research.
Speakers will come from the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence, the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of
Standards and Technology.
For the full story, see http://www.ieeeusa.org/communications/releases/2010/092910.asp.
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The Seventh
Annual Conference on
Long Island
Systems, Applications and Technology (LISAT2011)
http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/lisat/
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2011 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
25
Messenger Ln
Ringoes, NJ 08551
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 December 1, 2010, will
not be counted.
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Chairperson: (choose one)
€............... Dr.
Naresh Chand
€............................. (write-in)__________________________
Vice
Chairman-1: (choose one)
€...................... Russell
Pepe
€............................. (write-in)__________________________
Vice
Chairman-2: (choose one)
€............................. (write-in)__________________________
Treasurer: (choose one)
€........................... Paul
Ward
€............................. (write-in)__________________________
Secretary: (choose one)
€............. Dr.
MengChu Zhou
€............................. (write-in)__________________________
Members-At-Large: (choose three)
€.................... Douglas Hines
€........................ Jignasa Ray
€. Adriaan J. vanWijngaarten
€............................. (write-in)__________________________
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Member Name________________________________
Member No. ______________
Signature
____________________________________ Date ____________________
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Student Branch
Leadership Training Workshop
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IEEE North Jersey
Section Course
Introduction to Cisco Networking
November 12, 2010 through December 17, 2010
Six weekly classes (Nov. 12, 19, 26, Dec. 3, 10,
17, 2010)
Polaris Microsystems,
Inc., 2337 Lemoine Avenue, Fort Lee, NJ
(Checks should not be mailed to this address)
The
North Jersey Section IEEE offers an evening course entitled "Introduction to
Cisco Networking” for practical “hands-on” training using Cisco routers,
switches, and Cisco’s Packet Tracer to install, configure, operate,
troubleshoot, and design small to medium-size networks.
You
will receive the IEEE certificate of completion when you finish the course. You
may wish to take the CCNA exam from the knowledge and experience you gained in
this course. (This is not an exclusive CCNA
examination prep course. CEU credits would be given by IEEE)
Instructor
Dr. Joseph Miao, CCNA, CCNP, CCSP,
CCVP, CISSP, has trained and consulted for small to large organizations in
networking, security and voice for more than 15 years. In addition, he has
developed several commercial database applications.
Topics
1. OSI Model
2. Assembling and Cabling Cisco Devices
3 IP
Addressing & Subnetting, VLSM
4. Routing with RIP v1&v2, EIGRP, and OSPF
5. VLANs, Trunking and Spanning Tree Protocol
6. PPP, Frame-Relay,
Virtual Private Network
7. Access Lists & NAT
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WHERE:
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Polaris Microsystems, Inc. 2337 Lemoine Avenue, Fort Lee, NJ
(Checks should not be mailed to this address)
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WHEN:
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Six
Fridays, Nov. 12, 19, 26, Dec. 3, 10, 17, 2010, 5:40 – 9:55 PM
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COST:
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IEEE
(& affiliate) members $600; Non-IEEE members $650
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CONTACT:
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Donald
Hsu: yanyou “AT” hotmail.com
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REGISTRATION: Introduction to Cisco Networking
Please mail
the registration form with the check (Checks payable to “North
Jersey Section IEEE”) to
Donald Hsu, Chair Education Committee,
IEEE North Jersey Section, P. O. Box 2093, Fort Lee, NJ, 07024
Name: ____________________________________________
Email address:
_________________________________
˙ Non-member
˙ IEEE Member Member #:_________________________ Member of _____________________________
technical society
Employer:___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Employer
Address:____________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Home
Address:______________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Business (day) telephone
#:___________________________________
Home telephone #:________________________________
Please enclose required fee
payable to: North Jersey Section IEEE
As soon as a completed
registration form and the payment are received, you are officially registered
for this course. Registration status will be notified by email.
˙ Tuition receipt will be mailed only if this
box is checked Signature:___________________________________________
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