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October 2006
Volume 53, Number 4
Publication No:
USPS 580-500
“The IEEE Newsletter”
(North Jersey Section), is published monthly except June and July by The
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Headquarters: 3 Park Avenue,
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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
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“AT” ieee.org (201) 669-7599
Treasurer................................. Dr. Sanghoon
Shin
s.shin
“AT” ieee.org (973) 492-1207 Ext. 22
Secretary............................................... Seth Jakel
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“AT” comcast.net (973) 731-1902
Members-at-Large:
Pete
Donegan (doneganp “AT” ieee.org)
Amit
Patel (a.j.patel “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 Seth
Jakel (973) 731-1902, Sgjakel “AT” comcast.net.
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IEEE North Jersey
Section Activities
October
2006
Oct. 4 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Seth
Jakel at sgjakel “AT” comcast.net.
Oct. 5 – “2006 MTT/AP Symposium and Mini-Show”
– MTT-S/AP-S Chapter, 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM, Birchwood Manor, 111 N. Jefferson Road, Whippany, NJ. Kirit Dixit (201) 669-7599 (kdixit “AT” ieee.org), Art
Greenberg (973) 386-6673 (ahg1 “AT” lucent.com), Har Dayal (973) 633-4618
(har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com), or George Kannell (973) 386-4170 (gkk “AT”
lucent.com).
Oct. 10 – “Digital Image Forensics”
by Dr. Yun Q. Shi, NJ SP Chapter, 4:45 PM (buffet at 4:30 PM), New Jersey
Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Yun Shi (973) 596-3501 (shi “AT”
njit.edu), Dr. Alfredo Tan (201) 692-2347 (tan “AT” mailbox.fdu.edu), Dr. Hong
Man (201) 216-5038 (hman “AT” stevens-tech.edu).
Oct. 11 – “Studying Brain
Connectivity with Multimodal NeuroImaging for Better Understanding Neural
Networks of Human Cognitive Process” by Dr. Zhishun Wang,
NJ SP Chapter, 4:45 PM (buffet at 4:30 PM), New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ.
Dr. Yun Shi (973) 596-3501 (shi “AT” njit.edu), Dr. Alfredo Tan (201)
692-2347 (tan “AT” mailbox.fdu.edu), Dr. Hong Man (201) 216-5038 (hman “AT”
stevens-tech.edu).
Oct. 11 – “Engineers Meet: Your Business”
- 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” verizon.net).
Oct. 17 – “Chip-Package Co-Design of RF Microsystems”
by Professor P.R. Mukund, NJ EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 PM),
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark,
NJ. Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207
(RS Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973)
596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
Oct.
17-Dec. 5 – “Project Management”
by Dr. Donald Hsu, North Jersey Section, Tuesday Evenings, 8 sessions, 6:30-9:00
PM, NJ International Bulk Mail Center, 80 County Rd, Jersey City, NJ. Donald Hsu (yanyou “AT” hotmail.com).
Oct. 18 – “Energy Conservation
Series - Retro-Commissioning” by Keith Rinaldi, PE, NJ IAS/PES Chapters, 6:30 PM, Eaton Electrical (Cutler-Hammer), 690 Rahway Ave, Union, NJ. Ronald
W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
Oct. 20 – “iSpace - a Large Scale
Mechatronics System for Real-Time System-wise Optimal Control”
by Professor Mo-Yuen Chow, 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).
Oct. 26 – “All You Wanted to Know About Reliability
Engineering!” by Dan Kamdar, 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.
Oct. 26 – “Advances in Embedded Micro-Controllers &
Design” by John Magrane, NJ SMC Society, 7:00 PM
(light refreshments at 6:45 PM), NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Mike Liechenstein, (973) 471-0721,
(m.liechenstein “AT” ieee.org), or Mengchu Zhou (mengchu.zhou “AT” njit.edu).
Oct. 27 – “National Electrical Code
Update” by Won Kim, NJ PES/IAS, 9:00AM - 2:00PM, Jersey
Central Power & Light Company, 300 Madison Avenue, Morristown, NJ 07962. Ronald
W. Quade (732) 205-2614 or RWQuade “AT” IEEE.org.
Upcoming Meetings
Nov. 1 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Seth
Jakel at sgjakel “AT” comcast.net.
Nov. 2– “Life Grade Luncheon”
- 11:30 AM, Hamilton Park Conference Center, 175 Park Ave, Florham Park, NJ. Ken Oexle (973) 386-1156.
Nov. 8 – “Theory and Applications
of SEM/FIB DualBeam Instrumentation” by Dr. Lucille A.
Giannuzzi, EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 PM), New Jersey
Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS
Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973)
596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
Nov. 8 – “Efficient Simulation-based Stochastic
Optimization and Its Application to Network Design and Management”
by Professor Chun-Hung Chen, NJ Control Systems Chapter, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM,
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Professor Timothy Chang (973) 596-3519
(changtn “AT” njit.edu) or Professor Mengchu Zhou (973) 596-6282.
Nov. 15 – “Course -
Navigation: Land, Sea, Air and Space”
by Dr. Myron Kayton, AES Chapter, 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM, L-3Com Space and Navigation, 450 Clark Drive, Budd Lake, NJ, 07828, (973)
446-4000, www.L-3Com.com/Spacenav. Dr. Naresh Chand, (973) 636-7408,
naresh.chand “AT” baesystems.com.
Dec. 18-21
– “9th
International Conference on Information Technology (CIT 2006)”,
see http://www.citconference.org
and http://www.cs.unt.edu/~smohanty/CIT2006.
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NJ AES Chapter:
Navigation: Land, Sea, Air and Space
On Wednesday,
November 15, 2006,
the IEEE NJ Section of Aerospace, Electronics and Systems (AES) Technical
Society together with the L-3Com will host a short course on Navigation: Land,
Sea, Air and Space. The instructor is
Dr. Myron Kayton.
About the Course
The
course will include: Overview of navigation, Coordinate Frames, Absolute
navigation versus dead reckoning, Guidance versus navigation, Tailoring
navigation to the vehicle, Terrestrial radio systems, GPS and DGPS, timing,
Dead reckoning, compass, gyroscopes and accelerometers, gimbal sets, strap-down
configurations, sensor processing, Cell-phone positioning, Spacecraft
navigation, coasting flight, powered flight, land navigation, Testing,
Calibration, initialization, and alignment, Cost and accuracy, Animal navigation,
Future trends, Bibliography: books, journals, and web sites.
About the Instructor
Dr.
Myron Kayton has 50 years of experience designing and testing avionic,
navigation, communication and computer-automation systems. He is a Consulting Engineer for his own
company. From 1968 to 1981, he was a
member of the senior staff at TRW where he served as Chief Engineer for
Spacelab avionics and head of System Engineering for Space Shuttle avionics
among scores of assignments. From 1965
to 1969, he served as Deputy Manager for Lunar Module Guidance and Control at
NASA's Johnson Space Center. From 1960 to 1965, he was Section Head at
Litton's Guidance and Control Division where he designed and analyzed some of
the earliest multi-sensor navigation systems, for example the SRAM cruise
missile. Dr. Kayton is a Life Fellow of
the IEEE, served on its Board of Directors and as President of the Aerospace
and Electronic Systems Society, and received numerous awards and honors. He is an AESS Distinguished Lecturer, has
taught at UCLA and published more than 80 papers; two books, Avionics
Navigation Systems (two editions); Navigation: Land, Sea, Air and Space; and
several handbook chapters.
All Welcome!
All
are welcome but seats are limited (first come-first served)! You do not have to
be IEEE member to attend the course.
Early registration, latest by October 31, is required to help L-3Com for
security review and allowing you access to their building.
Cost: $10 for
IEEE-AES members, unemployed and students.
$25 for all others. You are
welcome to join AES Society and pay the reduced rate.
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM, Wednesday, November 15, 2006.
Refreshments will be provided.
Place: L-3Com Space and Navigation, 450 Clark Drive, Budd Lake, NJ, 07828, (973)
446-4000, www.L-3Com.com/Spacenav.
Information:
Dr. Naresh Chand, (973) 636-7408, naresh.chand
“AT” baesystems.com.
REGISTRATION: Navigation: Land, Sea, Air and Space by Myron
Kayton
Please mail the completed registration form
with the check (payable to “North Jersey Section IEEE”) to: Dr. Naresh Chand, BAE SYSTEMS, M/S 100A2, 164 Totowa Road, Wayne, NJ 07474
Name: Dr. / Mr./ Mrs./ Miss / Ms./____________________________________________
Email address:
____________________________________
Telephone #
Business:_________________________ Home:______________________
Member of IEEE-AES Technical Society: Yes
No
If no, do you want to join AES Technical
Society: Yes
IEEE Member Member #:____________________
Member of _____________________________
technical society
Employer:_______________________________________________________________
Employer address:________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
Home
Address:___________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
Please enclose required fee payable to: North Jersey Section IEEE
As soon as a fully completed registration form
and the payment are received, you are officially registered for this course.
Registration status will be mailed through email.
Tuition receipt will be mailed only if this
box is checked
I wish to receive IEEE Completion
Certificate
Signature:___________________________________________
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NJ Consultants' Network:
All You Wanted to Know
About Reliability Engineering!
On Thursday,
October 26, 2006, the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ is pleased to present
” All You Wanted to Know About Reliability Engineering!”, by Dan Kamdar.
About the Talk
CNNNJ is pleased to
present a technical presentation about reliability & maintainability
engineering, systems safety, and logistics.
The Discussion will describe various terms, such as MTBF & MTTR,
Parts Stress Analysis, screening to enhance MTBF, Failure Modes Effect and
Criticality Analysis (FMECA), software reliability, associated standards,
HALT/HASS accelerated testing for earlier identification of failures, three
levels of maintenance concept, BIT analysis and demonstration, safety risks and
mitigations, Hazard Analysis, and logistics supportability and management. Software tools for performing these analyses
will also be described.
About the
Speaker
Dan Kamdar is the
President and CEO of Affordable Engineering Services, LLC, a one-stop
multi-disciplined engineering company.
He has received MBA, MSEE, BSEE and BSME degrees. His company provides consulting services in
reliability, maintainability, test, circuit design/ analysis, quality
assurance, lo¬gistics and component engineering. He has extensive background in aerospace and
defense systems, such as fighter and transport aircrafts, rockets, missiles,
space station and helicopters.
Dan can be reached
at (973) 890-8915 or by email at dkamdar “AT” affordservices.com; Affordable
Engineering Services' web site is http://www.affordservices.com.
About the
Consultants’ Network
Founded
in 1992, the IEEE Consultants Network of Northern NJ encourages and promotes
the use of independent technical consultants by business and industry.
All Welcome!
Everyone welcome. No registration needed. Free admission.
Time: 7:30 PM, Thursday, October 26, 2006.
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:
iSpace - a Large Scale
Mechatronics System for Real-Time System-wise Optimal Control
On October
20, 2006,
the IEEE North Jersey Section Control Systems Chapter will host a presentation
titled “iSpace - a Large Scale Mechatronics System for Real-Time System-wise
Optimal Control.” The speaker will be
Professor Mo-Yuen Chow.
About the Talk
This
presentation describes a novel concept iSpace (Intelligent Space), which is a
large scale Mechatronics System, for real-time system-wise optimal performance
using distributed sensors, distributed actuators, and distributed
controllers. The space under
consideration can be a physical space such as manufacturing plants, hospitals,
offices, universities, or a virtual space linked by communication networks
(e.g., Internet) to fuse a manufacturing plant operation in Germany with the
supervisory controller in US. The
seminar will described several challenges including the real-time integration
of distributed sensors information, distributed controller coordinators, and
collaborative distributed actuators control, and opportunities such as global
manufacturing, intelligent healthcare faculties. An unmanned ground vehicle path tracking in
iSpace at North Carolina State University will be used to
facilitate the discussions of iSpace concept.
Network time delay compensation using Gain Scheduling Middleware and
real-time Edge detection and Harmonic Potential Field for path-planning and
goal seeking in iSpace will be addressed.
About the Speaker
Mo-Yuen Chow earned
his degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison (BS, 1982); and Cornell University (M. Eng., 1983;
PhD, 1987). Upon completion of his PhD
degree, Dr. Chow joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at North
Carolina State University
as an Assistant Professor. He became an
Associate Professor in 1993, and a Professor since 1999. He worked in U.S. Army, TACOM/TARDEC Division
as a Senior Research Scientist during the summer of 2003. He spent his sabbatical leave as a Visiting
Scientist in 1995 in ABB Automated Distribution Division. Dr. Chow's core technology is mechatronics,
control, diagnosis and computational intelligence. Dr. Chow has been applying his core technology
to areas including motor systems, power distribution systems, network-based
distributed control systems, and unmanned vehicles. He has served as a Principal Investigator in
several projects supported by the National Science Foundation, BD Technologies,
Center for Advanced Computing and Communication, Nortel Company, Electric Power
Research Institute, Duke Power Company, ABB Company, Electric Power Research Center,
NASA, and Army. Dr. Chow has established
the Advanced Diagnosis, Automation and Control Laboratory at NC State
University. He has published one book,
five book chapters, and over one hundred journal and conference articles
related to his research work. He is the
Vice President for Publication of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, an
Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He is the General Chair of IEEE IECON05. Dr. Chow served as a guest editor for the
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Special Issue on Distributed
Network-Based Control Systems and Applications in 2003, for the Special Issue
on Motor Fault Detection and Diagnosis (Vol. 47, no. 5, 2000), and for the
Special Issue on Application of Intelligent Systems to Industrial Electronics
(Vol. 40, no.2, 1993). He has received
the IEEE Eastern North Carolina Section Outstanding Engineering Educator Award,
and the IEEE Region 3 Joseph M. Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator
Award.
Time: Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30
PM, Friday,
October 20, 2006
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) or Professor Mengchu Zhou (973) 596-6282.
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NJ Control Systems Chapter:
Efficient
Simulation-based Stochastic Optimization and Its Application to Network Design
and Management
On
November 8, 2006, the IEEE North
Jersey Section Control Systems Chapter will host a presentation titled
“Efficient Simulation-based Stochastic Optimization and Its Application to
Network Design and Management.” The
speaker will be Professor Chun-Hung Chen.
About the Talk
Discrete-event
simulation is a popular tool for designing large, complex, stochastic systems,
since closed-form analytical solutions generally do not exist for such
problems. While the advance of new
technology has dramatically increased computational power, efficiency is still
a big concern when using simulation for large system design, in which case many
alternative designs must be simulated.
This presentation gives our new development to address such an
efficiency issue. A key component of our
methodologies is a new control-theoretic simulation technique called Optimal
Computing Budget Allocation invented by the speaker. Another key technique is
Ordinal Optimization, which concentrates on finding a subset of good designs by
approximately evaluating a parallel set of designs and obtains an exponential
convergence rate. We will demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach via a
series of network design problems. We
will also present an on-going project about efficient simulation and management
of the US
air traffic network.
About the Speaker
Dr.
Chen received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University.
Dr. Chen is an Associate Professor of Systems Engineering & Operations
Research at George Mason University, Fairfax,
VA. He was an
Assistant Professor of Systems Engineering at the University
of Pennsylvania before joining
GMU. His research interests include stochastic systems modeling and simulation,
optimization, network management, systems design under uncertainty, and air
traffic management. Dr. Chen currently leads NSF-sponsored research in
developing efficient network simulation methodologies, and leads NASA-sponsored
research in national air transportation simulation modeling. Dr. Chen won the
1994 Harvard University Eliahu I. Jury Award for the Best Thesis in the field
of Control. He is one of the recipients of the 1992 MasPar Parallel Computer
Challenge Award and 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation Best Paper Award. He is an IEEE senior member and is listed in
Who'sWho in America,
Who'sWho in Finance and Business, Who'sWho in Science and Engineering, and
Who'sWho in Education.
Time: Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Wednesday,
November 8, 2006
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) or Professor Mengchu Zhou (973) 596-6282.
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NJ EDS/C&S Chapters:
Chip-Package
Co-Design of RF Microsystems
On
October 17, 2006, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems
Chapters together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk
on “Chip-Package Co-Design of RF Microsystems." The speaker will be Professor P.R. Mukund.
About the Talk
The
design of systems that contain both RF circuitry and digital circuitry, either
in a single integrated circuit or a single package, poses challenges that are
difficult to overcome with traditional design tools. For an efficient design methodology, it is
imperative that an early design component be incorporated into the design
cycle. Further, the chip and the package
have to be designed concurrently. In
this talk, a chip package co-design methodology and a resultant software tool
will be presented. This research was
sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Semiconductor
Corporation. In addition, related topics
of built-in self test and self calibration of RF I.C.s will also be discussed.
About the Speaker
Professor P.R. Mukund is the
Director of the RF, Analog and Mixed-signal Laboratory (RAMLAB) at R.I.T. In this capacity, he is the principal
investigator of five research projects, sponsored by both industry and government
agencies. He is currently supervising
the research of five PhD students, whose work is based on close interaction
with companies such as LSI Logic, Freescale Semiconductors, National
Semiconductors and Kawasaki LSI. Dr.
Mukund has a BSEE, MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the
University of Tennessee and has seven years of industrial experience, in
addition to seventeen years of academic experience. He has co-edited IEEE Computer, chaired
several IEEE international conferences and is currently on the Steering
Committee of the IEEE International SoC Conference. He has published in the area of analog and RF
integrated circuit design, in refereed forums.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Tuesday, October 17,
2006. Free buffet will be starting at
6:15 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS
Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973)
596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
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NJ EDS/C&S Chapters:
Theory
and Applications of SEM/FIB DualBeam Instrumentation
On
November 8, 2006, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems
Chapters together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk
on “Theory and Applications of SEM/FIB DualBeam Instrumentation." The speaker will be Dr. Lucille A. Giannuzzi.
About the Talk
The
basic concepts of ion-solid interactions and focused ion beam (FIB) instrumentation
and theory will be presented. Examples
of basic FIB milling and the uses of gases for chemical vapor deposition and
gas enhanced etching will be given. The
first uses of FIB in the semiconductor industry for device modification and
circuit repair have extending into many applications, materials research, and
industrial markets. The applications of
FIB and DualBeam usage on multiple material systems in numerous industries have
been realized, and examples of FIB milling for many material systems will be
shown. Uses of the DualBeam platform for
nanotechnology applications will be described, showing that the utilization of
such a tool is limited only by one’s imagination. FIB milling techniques for specimen
preparation for scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron
microscopy (TEM), and other analytical tools will be presented. In particular, the ex-situ lift-out and
in-situ lift-out TEM techniques will be presented in detail, and the applications
of these specimen preparation methods for many TEM and Scanning TEM techniques
will be emphasized. The concepts and
advantages of a dual platform FIB and scanning electron microscope (SEM) will
be discussed. In particular, the
development of the combined FIB/SEM DualBeam instrumentation as a nano-lab and
a 3D characterization tool which including microstructure, elemental
composition, and crystallographic information will be given. Examples of using the DualBeam as a 30 keV
scanning transmission electron microscope will also be presented.
About the Speaker
Lucille A. Giannuzzi
received her BE and MS Degrees from SUNY Stony Brook, and her PhD Degree from
The Pennsylvania State University. She
spent ten years at the University of Central Florida where she was the recipient
of an NSF Career Award. As Professor of
Mechanical Materials & Aerospace Engineering, her primary research
interests included ion/solid interactions and the microstructural evaluation of
materials using focused ion beams and transmission electron microscopy. She has been with FEI Company as a field
product marketing engineer for FIB/DualBeam systems for the past three
years. She is on the editorial board of
the journal, Microscopy and Microanalysis and participates as an instructor in
the Lehigh Microscopy School. She is
active in the local and national chapters of AVS, MSA and MAS. She has been a local affiliate speaker for
both MSA and the MAS and is co-editor of a book entitled, “Introduction to
Focused Ion Beams.”
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, November
8, 2006. Free buffet will be starting at
6:15 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS
Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973)
596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
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NJ PACE &
GOLD Chapters:
Engineers
Meet: Your Business
On
Wednesday,
October 11, 2006
the North Jersey Section Professional Activities Committee and Graduates of the
Last Decade will host a meeting to network, socialize, enjoy refreshments and
discuss the professional side of engineering
About
the Meeting
All
will have an opportunity to present their views about the profession, the job
market, review past meetings and discuss pressing issues for PACE.
Bring
job leads and information. And get on
our Email list.
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
http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
www.asme.org/sections/northjersey
http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/1/
Time: 6:30
to 9:00 PM, Wednesday,
October 11, 2006. 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) 664-0803
(rftax “AT” verizon.net).
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NJ PES/IAS Chapters:
Energy Conservation
Series - Retro-Commissioning
On
October 18, 2006, as part of an ongoing series of free seminars on the topic of
energy conservation, the PES and IAS Chapters will sponsor an evening
discussion on Retro-Commissioning by Keith Rinaldi.
About
the Meeting
Are
calibration and scheduling issues unnecessarily increasing your operating
costs? Are you confident that mold and
indoor air quality issues are not a problem in your facility? Just because space temperature and humidity
control are excellent, doesn’t mean the HVAC systems are as efficient as they
can be.
Retro-commissioning
is a rigorous and systematic process of discovering and correcting HVAC/
utility system defects in existing systems so that the building will function
as intended. The presentation will
include of overview of the retro-commissioning process and its stages of
discovery and analysis. With simple
paybacks of less than 12 months, retro-commissioning can be a quick and easy
way for you to lower your energy costs and increase your building’s efficiency.
Attendees
will gain a basic understanding of the process and its benefits and what to
look for in a qualified retro-commissioning provider.
About
the Speaker
The
presenter will be Keith Rinaldi, Vice President, Field Engineering Services.
A
founding member of the field engineering group, Keith A. Rinaldi has been with
Dome-Tech since 1992. With over 14 years
of experience, Keith has developed expertise in problem solving and the
optimization of all major plant utility systems including boilers, steam
distribution and condensate return systems, compressed air systems, chillers,
cooling towers, pumps, chilled water distribution, air handlers and air
distribution systems.
Keith
was a key member of the team which established and formalized Dome-Tech’s
retro-commissioning process.
Retro-Commissioning is a systematic process of reviews, inspections and
testing which ensures systems have been designed, installed and operate
properly to efficiently meet the needs of the building’s occupants. In the last five years he has been personally
involved in and supervised retro-commissioning projects for over 3 million square
feet of office, laboratory, production and school facilities.
In
addition to retro-commissioning, Keith’s project experience includes:
·
The evaluation and optimization of countless
steam and condensate systems in the tri-state area.
·
The evaluation and optimization of numerous
>3,000 ton central chilled water plants.
·
Failure analysis of two engine driven
chillers. Provided independent testing
and analysis for litigation purposes.
·
Owner’s representative for the acceptance
testing of a 100 MW cogeneration unit.
·
Provided specialty TAB services for
pharmaceutical and health care HVAC systems.
As the President of Field Engineering
Services, Keith is ultimately responsible for the day-to-day operations and
management of all field engineering projects.
He is an integral part of the Dome-Tech Group’s senior management team,
developing the strategic direction of the company as a whole.
Time: 6:30
PM, Wednesday, October 18, 2006. A pre-meeting buffet will be available
starting at 6:00 PM.
Place: Eaton
Electrical (Cutler-Hammer), 690 Rahway Ave, Union, NJ. Directions:
Route 82 Morris Avenue from either Springfield or Union to Rahway
Ave.
Information: Ronald
W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
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NJ SP Society:
Digital
Image Forensics
On
October
10, 2006,
the IEEE North Jersey Section Signal Processing Society along with NJIT will
host a seminar on "Digital Image Forensics." The speaker will be Dr. Yun Q. Shi.
About
the Talk
In
our digital age, digital media have been being massively produced, easily
manipulated, and swiftly transmitted almost anywhere and anytime. Digital data forensics, which gathers
evidence of data composition, origin, and history, is called for information
assurance. In this talk we discuss three
subjects in forensics. First, we report
a newly developed method to detect spliced images, in which statistical moments
of characteristic functions derived from image magnitude and phase congruency
derived from image phase are utilized for image tampering detection. We then briefly present a Markov process
based steganalytic scheme, which can effectively detect existence of data embedded
by modern steganography, in particular, OutGuess, F5 and MB. Finally, we show a generalized Benford law,
which can be used to detect JPEG compression history for bmp images.
About
the Speaker
Dr.
Yun Q. Shi has been a member of the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at New Jersey Institute of technology since Fall 1987. His research interests include visual signal processing and communications,
digital multimedia data hiding and information assurance, applications of
digital image processing, computer vision and pattern recognition to industrial
automation and biomedical engineering, theory of multidimensional systems and
signal processing. He is an
author/coauthor of 190 papers in his research areas, a book on Image and Video
Compression, three book chapters on Image Data Hiding and one book chapter on
Digital Image Processing. He holds two US
patents and has 17 US
patents pending. Dr. Shi is currently
the Technical Chair of IWDW06 and ICME07, and a Fellow of IEEE.
Time: 4:45
PM
(refreshments and pizza available at 4:30
PM),
Tuesday,
October 10, 2006.
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.
Yun Shi (973) 596-3501 (shi “AT” njit.edu), Dr. Alfredo Tan (201) 692- 2347
(tan “AT” mailbox.fdu.edu), Dr. Hong Man (201) 216-5038 (hman “AT”
stevenstech.edu).
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NJ SP Society:
Studying
Brain Connectivity with Multimodal NeuroImaging for Better Understanding Neural
Networks of Human Cognitive Process
On
October
11, 2006, the
IEEE North Jersey Section Signal Processing Society along with NJIT will host a
seminar on "Studying Brain Connectivity with Multimodal NeuroImaging for
Better Understanding Neural Networks of Human Cognitive Process." The speaker will be Dr. Zhishun Wang.
About
the Talk
Distributed
networks (connections among different regions) of the brain govern human
behavior. It becomes increasingly clear
that such connections can be non-invasively detected by using functional
magnetic resonance imaging (functional MRI or fMRI). As a powerful tool of non-invasive brain
mapping, fMRI has evolved in various domains into a methodology for addressing
questions with regard to functional topography, for testing hypothesis about functions
of brain structures and networks, and for elucidating the underlying
neurophysiological mechanisms. Some have
started to explore the potential of fMRI measures as endophenotype markers for
psychopathological disorders. A common
objective in functional imaging is to characterize the activity in a particular
brain region in terms of the interactions among inputs from other regions or by
the interaction between inputs from another region’s activity and a behavior
state. The analysis of fMRI time-series
data recorded from human brain can provide information not only about
task-related activity, but also about the connectivity (functional or
effective) among brain regions and the influences of behavioral or physiologic
states on that connectivity. One of the
exciting possible applications of such an analysis is that researchers could
use the information based on the functional connectivity extracted from fMRI
data primarily to make inferences about human cognitive process.
During
this presentation, Dr. Wang will extensively introduce his works in studying
brain connectivity with Multimodal (Multimodality) NeuroImaging techniques,
including fMRI, Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI), Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
(MRS), EEG, Optical Imaging and their combinations. Dr. Wang has developed two neural network
models, Generalized Minimum Fuel Neural Networks (GMFNN) and Constrained Least
Absolute Deviation Neural Networks (CLADNN) that are suitable for the robust
analysis of functional connectivity from fMRI time series. Dr. Wang has proposed a novel clustering
method, called Partner Matching (PM) for automatically identifying independent
components that represent neuronal and non-neuronal sources and are generated
by applying an ICA
algorithm to fMRI datasets. By using PM
algorithm and combining fMRI with DTI-based fiber tracking, as the first time
with a non-invasive method, Dr. Wang and his group have successfully revealed
and reconstructed the spatial-temporal pattern of functional and anatomical
connectivity in the motor cortex, which had a great agreement with the accepted
neuronal circuitry of motor cortex detected previously by using invasive
electrophysiological methods. In this
talk, Dr. Wang will also introduce his works in applying nonlinear theory and
methods to neuroimaging data, for example, nonlinear numerical feature
extractions (Lyapunov exponents, fractal dimensions, approximate entropy) of
Amygdala and Hippocampus. They have
found that normal children and the children with psychiatric disorders (ADHD)
differ in fractal dimensions of Amygdala and Hippocampus.
About
the Speaker
Dr.
Zhishun Wang graduated from Southeast University
and obtained his PhD degree in 1997, as one of the students of Distinguished
Doctoral Advisor, Prof. Zhenya He. Dr.
Wang's PhD thesis was granted "Excellent PhD Thesis Award in Year
2000" by the Academic Committee of the State Council of China (only 100 of
45,000 PhD candidates all over the country won this award in that year).
Dr.
Wang is currently an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry with Brain imaging
Center of Columbia University in New
York City. Prof. Wang is also a Senior research
Scientist with New York State Psychiatry Institute. Dr. Wang has been extensively working on
brain imaging and its application to the research of cognitive process of human
brains with an emphasis on signal processing of functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI). Dr. Wang has published
over 100 journal and conference papers (9 IEEE regular papers), wined numerous
Young Investigator Awards and received federal funding to support his research
from National Institute of Health (NIH).
Dr.
Wang is now a Senior Member of IEEE and he has been recognized as an
Outstanding Scientist by Whos’ Whos in America.
Time: 4:45
PM
(refreshments available at 4:30
PM),
Wednesday,
October 11, 2006.
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.
Yun Shi (973) 596-3501 (shi “AT” njit.edu), Dr. Alfredo Tan (201) 692- 2347
(tan “AT” mailbox.fdu.edu), Dr. Hong Man (201) 216-5038 (hman “AT”
stevenstech.edu).
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NJ SMC Society:
Advances in Embedded
Micro-Controllers & Design
On
Thursday,
October 26, 2006,
the NJ Systems, Man & Cybernetics (SMC) Chapter will be hosting a seminar
at NJIT on state-of-the-art microchip controllers and key design
considerations. John Magrane, Technical
Training Manager Americas for Microchip Technology, Inc., will be the
presenter.
About
the Talk
The
focus of the presentation will be on Microchip’s new series of 16 bit microcontrollers
and digital signal controllers.
About
the Speaker
John
Magrane is the Technical Training Manager for the Americas
with extensive experience in the programming and application of embedded
microchip controllers. He began his
career with Microchip Technology as a Field Applications Engineer often serving
as a trainer for Microchip Technology’s existing and prospective clients. Currently he manages the company’s customer
training program for North and South
America
through a series of Regional Training Centers.
He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a BS in Physics
and a minor in Electrical Engineering and Management. In the course of his career, Mr. Magrane
performed hardware and software design at Raytheon and LORAL.
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),
Thursday,
October 26, 2006
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/RSPV: 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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