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September 2005
Volume 52, Number 3
Publication
No: USPS 580-500
“The IEEE Newsletter” (North Jersey Section), is published
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SECTION
OFFICERS
Chair....................................................... Har
Dayal
har.dayal
“AT” baesystems.com (973) 633-4618
Vice-Chair-1................................ Bhanu
Chivukula
b.chivukula
“AT” computer.org (732) 718-3818
Vice-Chair-2............................................. Kirit Dixit
kdixit
“AT” ieee.org (201) 669-7599
Treasurer................................. Dr. Sanghoon
Shin
s.shin
“AT” ieee.org (973) 492-1207 Ext. 22
Secretary.......................................... Russell
Pepe
rpepe
“AT” att.net (201) 960-6796
Members-at-Large:
Dr. Nirwan
Ansari
(nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu)
Gary Hojell
(gary.hojell “AT” itt.com)
Dr. Richard Snyder (r.snyder “AT” ieee.org)
The North Jersey
Section Executive Committee usually meets the first Wednesday (except holidays
and December) of each month at 7:00 PM. Meetings are open to all members. For information on meeting agenda contact
Secretary Russell
Pepe
at (201) 960-6796, rpepe “AT” att.net.
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IEEE North Jersey Section
Activities
September
2005
Sept. 7 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive
Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Russell Pepe at rpepe “AT” worldnet.att.net.
Sep. 14 – “Engineers Meet: September Meeting - Refreshments, Pizza &
Social” - NJ PACE &
GOLD, 6:30 – 9:00 PM, Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton,
NJ. Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625 (PWard1130 “AT”
aol.com) or Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954 (rtax “AT” bellatlantic.net).
Sep. 14 – “Steganography and
Steganalysis” - NJ Signal Processing Chapter, 1:00 PM (refreshments at 12:45 PM), NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Yun Shi (973) 596-3501 (shi “AT”
njit.edu), Dr. Alfredo Tan (201) 692-2347 (tan “AT” fdu.edu), Dr. Hong Man
(201) 216-5038 (hman “AT” stevens-tech.edu).
Sep. 20 – “Introduction to
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)”
- NJ Computer Chapter, 7:00 PM (pre-meeting buffet at 6:00 PM), Lucent
Technologies, 67 Whippany Road, Room TBA, Whippany, NJ. Seth Jakel (973) 731-1902 or (908) 243-8715
or (973) 820-1865 (sgjakel “AT” comcast.net), Howard Leach (973) 540-1283
(hhleach “AT” aol.com), Vivek Shaiva (908) 229-6125 (vshaiva “AT”
computer.org), or Arthur Greenburg (973) 386-6673 (ahg1 “AT” lucent.com).
Sept. 21 – “Quantum
Engineering of Nanoelectronic Device” – EDS/C&S, &
MTT-S/AP-S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 PM), NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark,
NJ. Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207
(RS Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), Har Dayal (973) 633-4618
(har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com), or Kirit Dixit
(201) 669-7599 (kdixit “AT” ieee.org).
Sep. 21 – “Fault Detection in
Large-Scale Distributed Systems” - NJ Signal Processing and Communications
Chapters, 4:45 PM
(refreshments at 4:30 PM),
NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark,
NJ. Yun Shi (973)-596-3501 (shi “AT” njit.edu),
Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670 (nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu), Alfredo Tan (201)
692-2347 (tan “AT” fdu.edu), or Hong Man (201)-216-5038 (hman “AT”
stevens-tech.edu).
Sept. 29 – “Experiences in
Accounting” - 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.
Upcoming Meetings
Oct. 5 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive
Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Russell Pepe at rpepe “AT” worldnet.att.net.
Oct. 6 – “2005 MTT/AP Symposium
and Mini-Show” – MTT-S/AP-S
Chapter, 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM, Prime Hotel & Suites (formerly Radisson Hotel
Fairfield), 690 Route 46 East, Fairfield, 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. 7 – “Oracle Database Concepts Including SQL for
Programmers” - NJ Section, 9:00 AM to 1:00PM, Radisson
Hotel - Saddle Brook, 129 Pehle Ave, Saddle Brook, NJ. Bhanu Chivukula (b.chivukula “AT” computer.org).
Oct. 11-Nov. 29 – “Project Management” – North Jersey
Section, North Jersey Section, Tuesday Evenings, 8 sessions, 6:30-9:00 PM, NJ International
Bulk Mail Center, 80 County Rd, Jersey City, NJ. Bhanu Chivukula (b.chivukula “AT”
computer.org).
Oct. 20– “Life Grade Luncheon” - 11:30
AM, Hamilton
Park Conference
Center, 175 Park Ave, Florham
Park, NJ 07932. Ken Oexle (973) 386-1156.
Oct. 27 – “The Life of SPICE”
- 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. 28 – “Advanced Concepts in
Transformer Protection Technical Seminar” - NJ IAS/PES Chapters, 9:00 AM
– 1:00 PM, PSE&G
Training Center,
234 Pierson Ave, Edison NJ. Ronald Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade
“AT” ieee.org.
Oct. ? – “Field Programmable Gate Array Seminar”
- NJ Section, Time, Date and Location TBA.
See http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
and upcoming Newsletters for updates.
Nov. 9 – “GaN-based Microwave
Field Effect Transistors” – EDS/C&S, & MTT-S/AP-S Chapters, 7:00
PM (buffet at 6:15 PM), NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS
Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), Har Dayal (973) 633-4618
(har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com), or Kirit Dixit
(201) 669-7599 (kdixit “AT” ieee.org).
Nov. 18 – “Upgrade of Generator
Protection to Comply With IEEE Guides Technical Seminar” - NJ IAS/PES Chapters, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM, PSE&G Training
Center, 234 Pierson Ave, Edison
NJ. Ronald Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade
“AT” ieee.org.
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NJ Computer Chapter:
Introduction to Capability Maturity
Model Integration (CMMI)
On Tuesday, September 20th,
2005, the IEEE North Jersey Section Computer Chapter will host a presentation
titled “Introduction to Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)” by Donald
A. Borcherding.
About the Talk
This presentation
provides a primer on Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) developed by
the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon. The presentation will begin with a short
overview of CMM and how it has evolved into the CMMI model of today.
Both Staged and
continuous representations of the CMMI model will be discussed while covering
the specific and generic practices required for each representation.
The talk will close with
an example on how to get started with CMMI using qualitative data gathered on
10 projects over a 3 year period. The
example will show how the data can be used to pick a starting point that best
meets the needs of the organization. Information provided can be easily adapted
to any organization and industry.
About the Speaker
Insup Lee received a BS
degree in mathematics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in
1977, and PhD degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, in 1983. He is currently
Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the
University of Pennsylvania, where he has been since 1983. He was CSE Undergraduate Curriculum Chair
from September 1994 to August 1997.
Donald A. Borcherding has
a BSEE from the University of Missouri at Rolla and has over 25 years of
hands-on experience in Engineering development projects, resource management,
project management, process development and continuous process
improvements. He has developed processes
for Systems, Software, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering departments in the
Semiconductor, Defense, and Medical Device Industries to transform ad hoc
development environments into well structured organizations to deliver high
quality and on-time products.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a
member of the IEEE to attend. Bring your
friends and network during the free pre-meeting buffet starting at 6:00 PM.
Time: 7:00 PM, Tuesday, September
20, 2005 (pre-meeting buffet starting at 6:00 PM).
Place: Lucent Technologies, 67
Whippany Road, Room TBA, Whippany, NJ.
Information: Seth Jakel (973) 731-1902 or
(908) 243-8715 or (973) 820-1865 (sgjakel “AT” comcast.net), Howard Leach (973)
540-1283 (hhleach “AT” aol.com), Vivek Shaiva (908) 229-6125 (vshaiva “AT”
computer.org), or Arthur Greenburg (973) 386-6673 (ahg1 “AT” lucent.com). Registration
in advance is recommended with full name, affiliation and nationality so
that an admission badge will be available for you on arrival.
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NJ
Consultants' Network:
Experiences in Accounting Panel
On
September 29, 2005, the IEEE Consultants’ Network of Northern NJ (CNNNJ) will
host a discussion on “Experiences in Accounting”. A panel of experienced independent
consultants will lead the discussion.
About the Talk
Independent consultants
face special problems when it comes to accounting, especially regarding taxes
and insurance. Members of CNNNJ will pool their collective experience and
knowledge and share it with the attendees for what promises to be an
entertaining panel session.
Accounting and insurance
issues will be discussed as they relate to self-employed consultants,
especially IRS rules about 1099 vs. W2,
(section 530 vs. 1706), when to make estimated payments, social security and
Medicare, the difference between subchapter S and C, LLCs, and other options,
section 179 deduction rules, depreciation, home office deductions, state
specific issues, and insights into what if any liability insurance or any
compulsory insurance independent consultants should have.
About the Speaker
Biographies of CNNNJ members, some of whom have more
than 20 years of experience as independent consultants, may be found on our
website at http://www.technologyontap.org, where you can also sign up
for our newsletter and find information about joining CNNNJ. All attendees on the 29th are invited to
participate and share their business knowledge and related anecdotes with their
peers.
All Welcome!
Everyone welcome. No registration needed. Free admission.
About the Consultants’ Network
Founded
in 1992, the IEEE Consultants Network of Northern NJ encourages and promotes
the use of independent technical consultants by business and industry.
Time: 7:30 PM, Thursday, September
29, 2005.
Place: Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated
Products, 60 S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany,
NJ.
(Entrance at rear of building)
Information: For directions and up-to-date
meeting status, call Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or visit our website at www.TechnologyOnTap.org. To download a map to KDI, go to: http://www.mcekdi-integrated.com/directions.htm.
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NJ Consultants' Network:
The Life of SPICE
On October 27, 2005, the
IEEE Consultants’ Network of Northern NJ (CNNNJ) will host a discussion on “The
Life of SPICE”. CNNNJ is honored to
present this talk by IEEE Fellow Dr. Nagel.
About the Talk
The integrated circuit
industry thrives on constant change and is not particularly known for
tradition. It is curious, then, that the
SPICE circuit simulation program, in one form or another, has been around the
industry for over thirty years. That
means that many engineers entering this booming business today weren’t even
born when I released the first version of SPICE! In this talk, I will chart the journey of
SPICE, starting as a teaching program at the University of California,
Berkeley, and spreading into industry, launching a cottage industry of software
houses writing and supporting “alphabet SPICE.”
I also will give credit to all of the early principals in this journey,
and share some of my more amusing experiences during the journey. Nobody can say for sure, but I will offer my
opinions on how this particular program has evolved in thirty years and yet
stayed pretty much the same. I can think
of no other computer program that can make that claim.
About the Speaker
Laurence W. Nagel has worked in the integrated
circuit industry for about 30 years.
While earning his BS, MS, and PhD degrees at the University of
California, he developed the SPICE circuit simulation program and launched a
cottage industry of SPICE simulation tools.
Mr. Nagel then began a 20 year career at Bell Laboratories which
included developing the ADVICE circuit simulation program; participating in the
development of process and device simulation tools; participating in the
development of the Kull-Nagel bipolar model; designing analog circuits for
submicron NMOS processes; working in the AT&T Intellectual Property
Division on assertion of patents and negotiation of patent licenses; and
serving as project manager in the development of the Celerity circuit
simulation program. Mr. Nagel joined
Anadigics, Inc. in 1995, where he worked on supporting simulation of RF
integrated circuits; modeling and characterization of GaAs MESFET device
processes; and importing silicon CMOS design tools and foundry support. In 1998, Mr. Nagel founded his own company,
Omega Enterprises, which offers consulting services in analog and RF integrated
circuit design, device modeling, circuit simulation, and expert witness work in
patent and trade secret litigation.
All Welcome!
Everyone welcome. No registration needed. Free admission.
About the Consultants’ Network
Founded
in 1992, the IEEE Consultants Network of Northern NJ encourages and promotes
the use of independent technical consultants by business and industry.
Time: 7:30 PM, Thursday, October
27, 2005.
Place: Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated
Products, 60 S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany,
NJ.
(Entrance at rear of building)
Information: For directions and up-to-date
meeting status, call Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or visit our website at www.TechnologyOnTap.org. To download a map to KDI, go to: http://www.mcekdi-integrated.com/directions.htm.
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NJ EDS/C&S & MTT-S/AP-S
Chapters:
Quantum Engineering of Nanoelectronic Devices
On
September 21, 2005, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems
Chapters together with MTT/S/AP-S and the New Jersey Institute of Technology
will host a talk on “Quantum Engineering of
Nanoelectronic Devices." The
speaker will be Professor Vijay K. Arora.
About the Talk
Quantum (digital-type)
concepts are gaining prominence over and above classical (analog-type) ones in
miniaturized devices where nanometer size can be less than or equal to the de
Broglie wavelength of an electron in any of the three Cartesian directions. An electric field driving electrons in these
devices can be extremely high. This
converts random carrier motion to a streamlined one, thereby limiting the
velocity to thermal velocity or Fermi velocity depending on the degeneracy of
the sample. This re-organization of the
carrier velocities makes familiar Ohm’s law invalid, thereby enhancing the role
of high-field velocity saturation in performance evaluation and
characterization of nanostructures.
Further, a free flight of a carrier may be interrupted by an emission of
a quantum of energy in the form of a phonon or photon. This emission further limits the saturation
velocity and also degrades the diffusion coefficient. The seminar will demonstrate that a higher
mobility does not necessarily lead to a higher saturation velocity showing
independence of the saturation velocity on mobility-limiting scattering
mechanisms. A review of
quantum-mechanical and high-field effects that have impact on the design of
optoelectronic devices and other nano-circuits is presented.
About the Speaker
Vijay K. Arora, a tenured Professor of Electrical
Engineering and Engineering Management at Wilkes University, held distinguished
visiting appointments at the University of Illinois (1981-82), the University
of Tokyo (1989-90), National University of Singapore (1991-93), Nanyang
Technological University (1999-2000), and the University of Western Australia
(2000-2001). In addition to his
long-term visiting appointments, Professor Arora visits several international
institutions on short-term consulting assignments and enjoys the privilege of
knowing the cultures and educational methods being practiced around the
globe. In recognition of his research,
he was invited to give presentations at several international scientific gatherings. His research interests include mobility
limiting mechanisms in high-speed devices, including quantum and high-field
effects. Professor Arora has authored or
co-authored over 150 papers on scientific and educational issues. As past chair of the International Division
of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), he organized several
international events. As chair of the
1996 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Conference, he edited and published the proceedings
entitled Re-Engineering Education and Training for a Competitive Global
Economy. Professor Arora is on the
Distinguished Lecturer Program of the IEEE Electron Devices Society and APS
Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics and is listed in several biographies. He was recently named Leading Educator of the
World 2005.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a
member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, September
21, 2005. Free buffet will be starting
at 6:15 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ.
Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS
Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), Har Dayal (973) 633-4618
(har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com), or Kirit Dixit (201) 669-7599 (kdixit “AT”
ieee.org)..
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NJ EDS/C&S &
MTT-S/AP-S Ch:
GaN-based Microwave Field
Effect Transistors
On November 9, 2005, the IEEE
NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters together with
MTT/S/AP-S and the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on
“GaN-based Microwave Field Effect Transistors." The speaker will be Dr. Michael Shur.
About the Talk
Wurtzite
(hexagonal) symmetry makes the device physics of GaN/AlN/InN heterostructure
field effect transistors (HFETs) to be quite different from that from more
conventional GaAs/InAs/InP and Si based transistors. Spontaneous and piezoelectric polarizations
at AlGaN/GaN or AlGaInN/GaN lead to the formation of two-dimensional (2D)
electron gas or 2D hole gas (depending on the surface polarities). These 2D electrons have a higher mobility compared to that for three
dimensional electrons but a reduced peak velocity. In high electric fields, electron runaway
effects and overshoot and ballistic effects play a dominant role. A field dependent penetration of the electron
wave function from the device channel into the wide band gap barrier layer
strongly affects the real space transfer and device breakdown voltage. Quantum well designs (e.g. incorporating an
InGaN quantum well between the wide band gap AlGaN barrier layer and GaN buffer
and thin AlN barrier) might be required to control this wave function
penetration and the real space transfer.
High electric field at the gate edges leads to the additional strain and
hot electron effects causing the current collapse and gate lag. Optimized field plate and recessed gate
designs (including the use of textured AlGaN for easily controlled etching)
help solving this problem and improve the device reliability. Inverted HFET designs might result in reduced
access resistance, a large current carrying capability, lower gate leakage and
better thermal control. Large energy gap
discontinuities at heterointerfaces allow for obtaining very large densities of
2D electrons (exceeding those at AlGaAs/GaAs heterointerfaces by a factor of 10
to 20) with a commensurate increase in the output power. Such large densities make the insulated gate
design – MOSHFET - (with the dielectric layer separated from the active channel
by the wide band gap barrier layer) practical, since one can tolerate a much
higher density of the surface states.
Large electron densities in the HFET channels also minimize the 1/f
noise making it to be smaller than in doped GaN films. Insulated gate designs makes devices superior
for DC and RF power applications.
Deep understanding
of this new physics of GaN/AlN/InN HFETs is a prerequisite for the optimization
of their design, improving their reliability and performance, and achieving a
higher frequency operation.
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About the
Speaker
Michael Shur
received his MSEE (engineer) degree (with honors) from St. Petersburg
Electrotechnical Institute, PhD in Physics and Mathematics and Doctor of
Science in Physics and Mathematics degree, both from A. F. Ioffe Institute. He has held research or faculty positions at
A.F. Ioffe Institute, Cornell, Oakland
University, University of Minnesota, and University of Virginia,
where he was John Money Professor of Electrical Engineering and served as
Director of Applied Electrophysics Laboratories. He is now Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts
'48 Professor of Solid State Electronics, Professor of ECSE, Professor of
Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Director of Center for Broadband Data
Transport Science and Technology, and co-Director of the NSF I/UCR Center “Connection One.” In 2001-2002, he served as Acting Director
of Center for Integrated
Electronics at RPI. Dr. Shur
is Fellow of IEEE,
Fellow and life member
of the American Physical Society,
Fellow of Electrochemical Society, Fellow of World Innovation Foundation, AAAS,
Life Member of IEEE MTT, of Sigma Xi, and of Humboldt Society of America,
member of Eta Kappa Nu, and Tau Beta Pi, Electromagnetic Academy, Materials
Research Society, ASEE, Sigma Xi, elected member and former Chair of US
Commission D, International Union of Radio Science (URSI), and elected member
of NRC of URSI (2003-2004). Dr. Shur is
Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems
and of the book series on Selected Topics in Electronics and Systems (World
Scientific), Regional Editor of physica status solidi, Member of the Honorary
Board of Solid State Electronics, member of the International Advisory
Committee of Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, Vice-President
for publications of the IEEE Sensor Council, and member (1999-2003) and Chair
(2004-2005) of the IEEE Prize Papers/Scholarships Award Committee. He is also Distinguished Microwave Lecturer
of IEEE MTT and Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE EDS. In 1990-1993, he served as an Associate
Editor of IEEE ED Transactions.
Dr. Shur has also
served as Chair, Program Chair, Organizing and Program Committee Member of many
IEEE conferences. He is one of
co-developers of AIM-Spice (with over 60,000 users world wide) and co-founder
of Sensor Electronics Technology, Inc.
In 1994, the Saint
Petersburg State Technical University
awarded him an Honorary Doctorate. He
has published many technical papers, authored, co-authored or edited 33 books
and 28 book chapters, and has been awarded over 30 patents on semiconductor
devices and circuits. Several of his
technical publications received the best paper awards. Among his other awards are the Gold Medal of
the Russian Ministry of Education, several A. F. Ioffe Best Paper Awards, van
der Ziel Award, Senior Humboldt Research Prize, Pioneer Award from Compound
Semi, RPI School of Engineering Research Award, and Commendation for Excellence
in Technical Communications. Dr. Shur is
listed by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) as a highly cited
researcher in engineering.
All Welcome!
You do not have to
be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, November 9, 2005. Free buffet will be starting at 6:15 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT), Room 202, ECE
Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS
Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), Har Dayal (973) 633-4618
(har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com), or Kirit Dixit
(201) 669-7599 (kdixit “AT” ieee.org)..
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NJ Section PACE & GOLD:
Engineers
Meet:
September
Meeting - Refreshments, Pizza & Social
On Wednesday, September 14, 2005 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.
Members and students from
other professional societies and engineering disciplines are always
welcome. We now include members from
IEEE, ASME and AEA. For more information
about these groups see:
www.aea.org/chapters/nj/
www.ieeeusa.org
web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
www.asme.org/sections/northjersey
Time: 6:30
to 9:00 PM, Wednesday, September 14, 2005.
Refreshments will be served.
Place:
Clifton Memorial Library, 292
Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ,
(973) 772-5500.
Information: Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625 (PWard1130 “AT” aol.com)
or Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954 (rtax “AT” bellatlantic.net)..
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NJ Signal Processing Chapter:
Steganography
and Steganalysis
On September
14, 2005, the IEEE North Jersey Section Signal Processing Society
Chapter along with NJIT will host a presentation on " Steganography and
Steganalysis." The speaker will be
Dr. Yun Q. Shi.
About the Talk
In
recent years, digital data hiding has emerged as an increasingly active
research area. Information can be hidden
into images, videos, and audios imperceptibly to human beings, thus providing
vast opportunities for covert communications.
Consequently, methods to detect covert communications are called
for. This task is especially urgent for
law enforcement to deter the illegal distribution of children pornographic
images/videos hidden inside normal images/videos, and for intelligence agencies
to intercept criminal communications among terrorists. In addition to detect whether a given medium
has hidden message in it, steganalysis can also serve as an effective way to
judge the security performance of steganographic techniques.
In
this talk, the basic concepts and the current status of steganography and
steganalysis are first introduced. A
newly developed general blind steganalysis system is then presented with some
detail. It can detect if some message
has been hidden inside a given image without any prior knowledge of the data
embedding technique that has possibly been used and without having the original
image in the detection. The statistical
moments of characteristic functions of the prediction-error image, the test
image, and their wavelet subbands are selected as features. Support vector machines (SVMs) and artificial
neural network (ANN) have been utilized as the classifier in our
investigation. The performance of the
proposed steganalysis system in our initial yet extensive experimental works is
shown significantly superior to the prior arts in terms of detection rate. The proposed steganalysis system with five
typical data hiding schemes being jointly considered and trained has pointed
out a promising direction for effective blind steganalysis. Finally several difficult and challenging
future research issues are discussed.
About the Speaker
Dr. Yun Q. Shi is a
professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of
technology. He obtained his BS degree and MS degree from the Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, Shanghai, China; his MS and PhD degrees from the University of
Pittsburgh, PA. 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. Some of his research projects are currently supported by
several federal and New Jersey State funding agencies. He is an author/coauthor
of more than 170 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 eight US patents pending.
Dr. Shi is the chairman of
Signal Processing Chapter of IEEE North Jersey Section, an editorial board
member of International Journal of Image and Graphics, the founding
editor-in-chief of Springer LNCS
Transactions of Data Hiding and Multimedia Security, a member of IEEE CASS
Technical Committee of Visual Signal Processing and Communications, Technical
Committee of Multimedia Systems and Applications, and Technical Committee of
Life Science, Systems and Applications, a member of IEEE SPS Technical
Committee of Multimedia Signal Processing, an Associate Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems II. He was an IEEE CASS Distinguished
Lecturer, a co-general chair of IEEE 2002 International Workshop on Multimedia
Signal Processing, a formal reviewer of the Mathematical
Reviews, an Associate Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing, the guest editor of several special
issues on several journals, one of the contributing authors in the area of
Signal and Image Processing to the Comprehensive
Dictionary of Electrical Engineering. He is a Fellow of IEEE.
Time: 4:45 PM (refreshments and pizza available at 4:30
PM), Wednesday, September
14, 2005.
Place: New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Yun Shi (973)-596-3501 (shi “AT” njit.edu),
Alfredo Tan (201) 692-2347 (tan “AT” fdu.edu), or Hong Man (201)-216-5038 (hman
“AT” stevens-tech.edu).
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NJ Signal Processing & Communications
Society Chapters:
Fault
Detection in Large-Scale Distributed Systems
On September 21, 2005,
the IEEE North Jersey Section Communications Society and Signal Processing
Society Chapters along with NJIT will host a presentation on " Fault Detection in
Large-Scale Distributed Systems."
The speaker will be Dr. Geoff (Guofei) Jiang.
About the Talk
The
increasing complexity of today's systems makes fast and accurate failure
detection essential for their use in mission-critical applications. Various
instrumentation methods provide a wealth of information that can be used to
model the system's normal behavior. Any
deviation from this behavior may be indicative of failure. In this talk the
lecturer will present two complementary techniques for anomaly detection. The
first is based on modeling the request traces through the system. Varied-length
n-grams and automata are used to characterize the normal traces. Training data
is used for automatically extract automata with various resolutions. A new trace
is compared against the learned automata to determine whether it is abnormal.
The second is based on tracking over time the frequency of the interaction
between any two components in the system. We decompose the observation data
into signal and noise subspaces and use two statistics, the Hotelling T square
score and squared prediction error (SPE) to represent their
characteristics. Instead of tracking the
original data, we use sequentially discounting expectation maximization (SDEM)
algorithm to learn the distribution of the extracted statistics. A failure
event can then be detected based on the abnormal change of the distribution.
Both approaches have been tested in a real system with injected faults and
achieved good results in fault detection experiments.
About the Speaker
Dr. Geoff (Guofei) Jiang is
a research staff member with the Robust and Secure System Group at NEC
Laboratories America, Princeton. Before
Joining NEC Labs in 2004, he was a senior research scientist in the Institute
for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth
College and worked on
several multi-million dollar projects funded by DARPA, DHS and ARDA. He got his
BS and PhD in ECE from Beijing Institute of Technology and was a Postdoctoral
Fellow in Computing Engineering at Dartmouth
College. His research
focus is on large-scale distributed system, dependable and secure computing,
system and information theory. He has published over 40 papers and has several US patents
pending.
Time: 4:45
PM (refreshments and pizza available at 4:30 PM), Wednesday, September 21, 2005.
Place: New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE
Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Yun Shi (973)-596-3501 (shi “AT” njit.edu),
Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670 (nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu), Alfredo Tan (201)
692-2347 (tan “AT” fdu.edu), or Hong Man (201)-216-5038 (hman “AT”
stevens-tech.edu).
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2005-2006
Student Activities Kickoff
Welcome
back to the beginning of a new year of student activities for the North Jersey
Section. This year promises to be filled
with new activities and events. We hope
you and your student branches will be participating in all of these events
throughout the 2005-2006 academic year.
Also since the year is just getting started, it is a good time for a
refresher on what your branch must be doing to be recognized by the IEEE. Information about IEEE, student branch bylaws
and forms to fill out are available on the website given below.
To
start off with, if you have not had elections yet, it would be a good idea to
hold them and report to IEEE with the officer election form. Also coming up is a leadership workshop that
new (or potentially new) officers can attend to get essential training on
running a branch. Your branch should
fill out an annual plan of events in the fall and an annual report in the
spring. Part of the reporting is on
membership which qualifies the branch for per member rebates. Its free money for turning in the right forms
by the right time. Speaking of money,
your branch should also plan fundraisers for basic expenses. If you really want to get started right, host
one of these leadership workshops to learn the basics. Contact the organizer below.
So
what's happening this year? Lots of
things! Details of the event's exact
location, date, time, directions, and registration will become available on the
SAC website below. Free Student
Leadership Training Workshops will be offered in October along with a
Professional Skills Development Workshop in November. Instead of just holding single workshops,
multiple individual workshops will be held at each university who wishes to
receive formal training at their local branch for this and upcoming year's
students. This holds true for both the
leadership and professional skills training.
If you would like to host these events then contact the organizer
below. The annual Paper Presentation
Contest is also planned for mid February/early March. This is a chance for students to showcase
their hard work on different projects worked on during the year. It is open to both graduate and undergraduate
students.
The
MTT/AP (Microwaves and Antennas) Society of North Jersey will be holding its
annual MTT Mini-show on October 6th at the Prime Hotel in Fairfield, NJ. The minishow is always looking for student
volunteers to help out for the day-long conference. If you are interested, please contact Kirit
Dixit at kdixit “AT” ieee.org.
Last,
but not least, the SAC and GOLD committees are looking for volunteers who might
be graduating soon and would like to help out in the North Jersey Section. To find out how you can help, contact Amit Patel at a.j.patel “AT” ieee.org and visit the
new website at http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/sac. You will find the latest information updated
there or you can also join the mailing list to get regular reminders of
different events.
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Notice to NJ Section Engineers
Paul
Ward, a member of the NJ Section IEEE USA and Co-chair of its PACE committee,
is looking for (a donation of) electronic test equipment that can be used for
teaching electronics and electricity to students with learning disabilities
(LD) at the Craig Upper School in Lincoln Park, NJ. This school is a private institution that receives
its operating funds from either the parents of the students or some
governmental subsidy.
The
Craig Upper School is a school dedicated to teaching LD students at the high
school level, preparing them to continue on to college or to enter the work
force. It teaches a full curriculum,
i.e., English, History, Mathematics, Science, and special courses directed at
LD students. The staff is limited to
approximately fifteen (15) including office, nurse, and guidance with the
student population that ranges in the upper fifties (50) which is expected to
grow. This ratio of student-to-staff
helps to keep class size small and manageable, a class rarely exceeds seven
(7).
Paul
is trying to accumulate a couple of oscilloscopes, multimeters (analog or
digital), oscillators, and function generators, so that a Basic EE course could
be put together for a technical course and added to the present academic
curriculum. The course would help the
student to connect what he or she learned in Mathematics and Science into a
practical experience.
The
equipment does not have to be in perfect condition, just safe and usable.
If
you can donate such equipment, please send it to the following address:
Craig Upper School
Attn: Paul Ward
200
Comely Road
Lincoln Park, NJ 07035
Alternatively,
contact Paul Ward at (973) 790-1625 or PWard1130 “AT” aol.com. He will pick it up if needed.
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North
Jersey Section Seeks Committee Chairs and Volunteers
The NNJ IEEE Section ExCom is seeking new volunteers to help conduct
business at the section level for the benefit of its membership in the North
Jersey section and surrounding areas.
There are a variety of volunteer positions open and available. They range from long-term to short-term,
technical to non-technical, leadership or just participatory. All activities have varying levels of time
commitment. For Chapter Chairs, you must
be a member of the corresponding IEEE Society.
If you would like to become involved with volunteering in some of these
efforts or positions or just become more informed about what is happening at
the NNJ IEEE Section, please contact the persons listed below for additional
information and questions. You can even
attend the section business meeting held the first Wednesday of every month to
find out more and other volunteer activities that require some help.
Some of the positions currently open and available are:
• LEOS Chapter Chair. Contact Har Dayal (har "DOT" dayal
"AT" baesystems "DOT" com)
• Controls Chapter
Chair. Contact Howard Leach (Hhleach
"AT" aol "DOT" com)
• GOLD Affinity Group
Chair. Contact Dick Tax (rtax
"AT" bellatlantic "DOT" net)
• Historian Committee seeks
help collecting IEEE historical information and specifically IEEE North Jersey
Section History. Contact Al Stolpen (a
"DOT" stolpen "AT" ieee "DOT" org)
• Student Activities
Committee seeks new volunteers for North Jersey. Contact Amit Patel (a "DOT" j
"DOT" patel "AT" ieee "DOT" org)
Additionally, if interested volunteers would like to get more general
information about other activities in our section, visit the North Jersey
Section website for newsletter information http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/ or contact Har Dayal, har "DOT" dayal "AT"
baesystems "DOT" com.
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The IEEE North Jersey Section has been helping
fellow engineering professionals for the last fifty
years. The Education Committee has
successfully conducted software and engineering training courses over the last
few decades. The Committee is committed
to professional development of the members and the instructors for the courses
are very qualified and experienced in their respective fields. Classes are arranged on weekday evenings or
on Saturdays provided at least fifteen candidates are available. Completion certificates are issued by IEEE Headquarters
with CEU credits for the number of training hours.
Due
to the slow growth of the economy and several other factors, registration for
these courses has diminished over the last few years. I would urge members to send their feedback
regarding what courses they would be interested in, the format, location, and
day/time, etc., by email to b.chivukula “AT” computer.org.
Regards,
Bhanu
Chivukula
Chair,
Education Committee
Vice
Chair, IEEE North Jersey Section
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Conference Rooms Needed!
The North Jersey Section (Education
Committee) is looking for conference room facilities to hold their training
seminars. The seminars are being held on
one weeknight from 6:30 PM to 9:00
PM. In return for providing
the conference facility for free, the organization can get free registration up
to three members in the course/seminar.
Please contact Bhanu
Chivukula,
Education Committee Chair, at b.chivukula “AT” computer.org for suggestions or
discussions, if interested.
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Senior Microwave Engineer
RS Microwave Company, an expanding and vibrant 25 year-old government oriented
microwave components manufacturer, seeks motivated individuals to perform high
level engineering tasks.
Duties include:
1) Design and development of
RF/microwave filters utilizing filter techniques in discrete & distributed
systems using HFSS and Ansoft Designer;
2) Writing filter synthesis
programs & test and automation software;
3) Assisting lab technicians by
simulating test results and recommending circuit modifications to improve
performance;
4) Preparing acceptance test
procedures for use of lab technicians and other engineers;
5) Contributing to customer
proposals;
6) Participation in internal
company seminars and design reviews.
U.S. Citizenship required. Minimum M.S. in
Electrical Engineering + 2 yrs. experience in above required. This is a position with a very good upside
and possibilities for growth. Fax resume
to 973-492-2471 Attention: HR or EMAIL to: queries@rsmicro.com
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Life Grade
Luncheon
The PES Chapter and the Section will sponsor a
luncheon for North Jersey IEEE Life Grades (Members, Senior Members and Fellows)
on Thursday October 20 at the Hamilton Park Conference Center, 175 Park Ave,
Florham Park, NJ 07932. The luncheon
will begin at 11:30 AM in the Terrace area.
Cost is $ 5.00 per person.
Advance registration is required prior to October
11. We can accommodate only 30
people. Registrations will be processed
in the order of receipt and will be confirmed by return mail. Please complete the following registration
form and include a check Payable to the North Jersey Section IEEE in the amount
of $5.00 per person.
Reservations cannot be accepted at the door. For additional information contact Ken Oexle
(973) 386-1156.
IEEE Life
Grade Luncheon Registration NJ Oct
20, 2005
Name_________________________________________
Address_________________________________________
Phone
_________________________________________
IEEE
#______________ Life Grade ____Yes
Return
to:
Ken Oexle
11 Deerfield Rd
Whippany, NJ 07981
Prior to
October 11 and enclose a $5.00 check payable to NJ Section IEEE
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THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERS,
INC.
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IEEE NORTH JERSEY SECTION
MTT-Society and AP-Society
Joint Chapter
PRESENT
20TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM AND
MINI-SHOW
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FOCUS: CURRENT TOPICS IN RF AND MICROWAVE
COMMUNICATION
Thursday, October 6,
2005
Prime
Hotel & Suites (formerly Radisson Hotel Fairfield)
690
Route 46 East, Fairfield NJ (973)
227-9200
The conference
presents a series of 12 lectures describing the state of the art in Microwave,
RF, Optical and Wireless, technologies by leaders in their respective fields.
MINI
SHOW FEATURING LATEST PRODUCTS
- (10:00 AM TO 4:30 PM)
&
Presentation
Schedule (8:50AM to 4:30PM)
Registration is on-site. For further information contact Kirit Dixit
(201-669-7599), Har Dayal
(973-633-4618), Willie Schmidt (973-492-0371) or George Kannell (973-386-4170).
ALL
ARE WELCOME (IEEE Membership not required).
REGISTRATION IS ON-SITE
THERE
IS NO CHARGE TO ATTEND THE SYMPOSIUM OR SHOW.
FREE
BREAKFAST / LUNCH INCLUDED FOR ALL.
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MTT/APChapter:
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Mini-show:
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Chairman
Vice Chair 1
Vice Chair 2
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Kirit Dixit
Har
Dayal
Willie Schmidt
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General Chair:
General Vice
Chair:
Technical Program Chair:
|
Kirit Dixit
Har
Dayal
George
Kannell
Ken Oxley
Russell Pepe
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NJ Power Engineering
Society/Industry Applications Society
Advanced
Concepts in Transformer Protection Technical Seminar
The
PES and IAS Chapters will sponsor a one-day seminar covering Advanced Concepts
in Transformer Protection. The session
will be held on Friday, October 28 at the PSE&G Training Center, 234
Pierson Ave, Edison, NJ.
Topics
Protection
of Power Transformers
1) Modes of Transformer Failure
a)
Winding Failures and causes (moisture, overheating, etc)
b)
Voltage regulating tapchangers
c)
Bushings
d)
Core issues
e)
Misc. (CTs, oil leakage, overvoltage, v/Hz, etc)
2) Types of Protection
3) Mechanical
a)
Accumulated gases
b)
Pressure relays
c)
Thermal
§
Hot spot temperature
§
Heating due to overexcitation, harmonics solar induced (DC)
§
LTC overheating (arcing)
4) Electrical
a)
Fuse
b)
Overcurrent protection
c)
Overexcitation
d)
Overvoltage
e)
Differential
f)
Ground differential
5) Unique factors for differential electrical protection
a)
Differential protection basics
§
Classic three line with matching CTs
§
Digital implementation with matching, vector and zero-sequence
accomplished in software
b)
Current magnitude differences
§
Winding ratio
§
CT ratio differences
§
Tapchangers
§
Mitigating current magnitude differences
c)
Vector shift/quantity derivation differences
§
Phase shift
§
CT configuration
§
Operating state diffrential current differences
§
Mitigating vector shift/quantity derivation differences
d)
Inrush phenomena and its effect on differential systems
§
Types of inrush
§
Initial
§
Recovery
§
Sympathy
§
Mitigating inrush phenomena and its effect on differential systems
e)
CT saturation and effect on differential systems
§
Causes and waveform patterns
§
Mitigation of CT saturation effects on differential systems
f)
Overexcitation and effect differential systems
§
Causes and waveform patterns
§
Mitigation of overexcitation effects on differential systems
g)
Use of a ground differential element for sensitivity near transformer
neutral
h) Use of directional criteria
for additional security (vs, high-Z method)
6) Special concerns
a)
Switch on to fault
§
High side
Use of high set differential
element for sensitivity
§
Low Side
Use of ground differential
element for sensitivity
7) Back up protection
a)
High side (50, 51, BF)
b)
Low side (51N, 51, 46, BF)
Setting a
Relay – Overcoming Engineering Challenges
1)
Configure relay to
“the outside world”
2)
Element enabling
3)
Element setting
4)
Setting groups
5)
Purposes and
configuration
6)
Input / Output Matrixing
(Marshalling)
7)
Programmable logic
8)
Setpoint review
& printout
9)
Input / Output
review & printout
10)
File saving &
recall (file management)
Commissioning
of Transformer Differential Protection Systems
1) Phasing
Issues
a)
A-B-C vs. A-C-B
b)
The “dreaded
delta” winding
c)
The even more
dreaded delta CT winding
2) Polarity
Issues
a)
Roll anyone?
3) Injection
Testing
a)
From the panel
inward
4) Load Testing
a)
From the panel
outward
5) Tools for
Commissioning
a)
Advanced metering
§
Examples of
phasing and roll issues
b)
Vector displays
§
Examples of
phasing and roll issues
c)
Digital
Oscillography
§
Examples of
phasing and roll issues
About the Instructor
The
instructor will be Chuck Mozina, Consulting Engineer with Beckwith
Electric. Chuck Mozina is a Contract
Consultant, Protection and Protection Systems for Beckwith Electric Company,
Inc., specializing in power plant and generator protection. His consulting practice involves projects
relating to protective relay applications, protection system design and
coordination.
Chuck is an
active 20-year member of the IEEE Power System Relaying Committee (PSRC) and is
the past chairman of the Rotating Machinery Subcommittee. He is active in the IEEE IAS I&CPS
committee, which addresses industrial protection system. He is the past U.S. representative to the
CIGRE Study Committee 34 on System Protection and has chaired a CIGRE working
group on generator protection. He also
chaired the IEEE task force that produced the tutorial "The Protection of
Synchronous Generators," which won the PES's 1995 Outstanding Working
Group Award. Chuck is the 1993 recipient
of the PSRC's Career Service Award.
Chuck has a
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and has
authored a number of papers and magazine articles on protective relaying. He has over 25 years of experience as a
protective engineer at Centerior Energy, a major investor-owned utility in
Cleveland, Ohio where he was the Manager of the System Protection Section. For the past ten years, he was Application
Manager for Protection Products with Beckwith Electric Company. He is also a former instructor in the
Graduate School of Electrical Engineering at Cleveland State University. He is a registered Professional Engineer in
the state of Ohio.
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If desired,
IEEE Continuing Education Units will be offered for this course. A small fee of $15 will be required for
processing. A total of 0.4 CEUs will be
offered. Please indicate if desired
below.
The
registration fee for this seminar prior to October 14th will be $150 for
non-IEEE members, $100 for IEEE Members, $75 for GOLD Graduates (last 1-10
years) and $25 for students with valid ID.
The fee will be waived for IEEE Life Member Grades with verification at
the seminar. Registrations after October
14th must include an additional late fee of $25. The seminar fee includes lunch, refreshments,
and handouts. Non-members joining IEEE
within 30 days of the seminar will be rebated 50% of the IEEE registration
charge.
Registration:
Beckwith Transformer Protection, 10/28/2005
Register via
US mail to: Ronald W. Quade,
PE
Eaton
Electrical
379 Thornall
St, 8th Floor
Edison,
NJ 08837
Name____________________________________________________________________________________
Address__________________________________________________________________________________
Phone__________________ Email____________________________________________________________
IEEE
#_________________ Student @________________ Non IEEE_____ Life Member______
Continuing Education Units: Yes $15 No
If CEUs are chosen, please include a
$15 processing fee
Payment Enclosed $_______________ Add $25 late
registration after October 14th
Make checks payable to North Jersey Section IEEE
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NJ Power Engineering Society/Industry
Applications Society
Upgrade
of Generator Protection to Comply With IEEE Guides Technical Seminar
The
PES and IAS Chapters will sponsor a one-day seminar covering the Upgrade of
Generator Protection to Comply with IEEE Guides. The session will be held on Friday, November
18 at the PSE&G Training Center, 234 Pierson Ave, Edison, NJ.
Topics
·
Quality Issues and Standards
· MTBF Calculation
· Production Testing
· Power Source Reliability
· Conformal Coating
· C37.90: Relays and Relay Systems Associated with Electric Power Apparatus
· C37.90.1: Surge Withstand Capability (SWC) Tests
· C37.90.2: Withstand Capability of Relay Systems to Radiated Electromagnetic
Interference from Transceivers
·
Latest Generator Protection developments reflected in:
· Std. 242: Buff Book
· CIGRE Protection Practices
Survey
· C37.102: IEEE Guide for Generator Protection
· C37.101: IEEE Guide for AC Generator
Ground Protection
· C37.106: IEEE Guide for Abnormal
Frequency Protection for Power Generating Plants
·
Review of Grounding Techniques
·
Types of Generator Connections
·
Improved Sensitivity
· Negative Sequence Protection
down to continuous rating
· 100% Stator Ground Fault
§
Neutral Overvoltage
§
Third Harmonic Neutral Undervoltage need for Supervision
§
Benefits of Third Harmonic Voltage Ratio Detection
§
Online/Offline 100% Protection with Injection Method
· Field Ground Fault and Brush
Liftoff Detection with Injection Method
· Split-Phase Differential
with Turn-to-Turn Fault Detection
· Overexcitation Function with
Inverse Time and Integrating Reset Characteristics
· Low Directional Power
Sensitivity Requirements for Sequential Tripping
·
Improved Security
· Distance Element
Enhancements
§
3 Zone Elements with Current Threshold Supervision and Delta-Wye
Transform
§
Load encroachment blinding
§
Power swing blocking (for stable swings)
· Out-of-Step Protection
§
Power Transfer and
§
§
§
System Instability
§
Preferred Single Blinder Method
· Loss of Field
§
Dual Mho Element to ride through system swings
§
Flexible Settings to match machine capability curves.
§
§
§
§
Voltage supervision for fast trip release
·
Abnormal Frequency
· Four-Step Frequency
Detection to Coordinate with System Load Shed Schemes
· Rate of Change of Frequency
Tripping
· Six-Band Under Frequency Accumulator,
Alarm and Trip
·
Protections Against External Device Failure
· Inadvertent Energizing
· Generator Breaker Failure
·
· Pole Flashover (prior to
syncing)
·
· One, Two or Three VT Fuse
Loss (Integrated)
· Trip Circuit Monitoring
·
Operating, Commissioning and Analysis Tools
· Advanced Metering
· Event Logs with millisecond
time tag
· Vector Meters
· Real-Time Element R-X
Graphics
· Expanded Oscillography with
Embedded Phasor, Impedance and PQ Diagrams
·
Communications
· Modbus, Modbus TCP
· RS-232, RS-485, Ethernet
· IRIG-B
About the Instructor
The
instructor will be Chuck Mozina, Consulting Engineer with Beckwith
Electric. Chuck Mozina is a Contract
Consultant, Protection and Protection Systems for Beckwith Electric Company,
Inc., specializing in power plant and generator protection. His consulting practice involves projects
relating to protective relay applications, protection system design and
coordination.
Chuck is an
active 20-year member of the IEEE Power System Relaying Committee (PSRC) and is
the past chairman of the Rotating Machinery Subcommittee. He is active in the IEEE IAS I&CPS
committee, which addresses industrial protection system. He is the past U.S. representative to the
CIGRE Study Committee 34 on System Protection and has chaired a CIGRE working
group on generator protection. He also
chaired the IEEE task force that produced the tutorial "The Protection of
Synchronous Generators," which won the PES's 1995 Outstanding Working
Group Award. Chuck is the 1993 recipient
of the PSRC's Career Service Award.
Chuck has a
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and has
authored a number of papers and magazine articles on protective relaying. He has over 25 years of experience as a protective
engineer at Centerior Energy, a major investor-owned utility in Cleveland, Ohio
where he was the Manager of the System Protection Section. For the past ten years, he was Application
Manager for Protection Products with Beckwith Electric Company. He is also a former instructor in the
Graduate School of Electrical Engineering at Cleveland State University. He is a registered Professional Engineer in
the state of Ohio.
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If desired,
IEEE Continuing Education Units will be offered for this course. A small fee of $15 will be required for
processing. A total of 0.4 CEUs will be
offered. Please indicate if desired
below.
The
registration fee for this seminar prior to November 4th will be $150 for
non-IEEE members, $100 for IEEE Members, $75 for GOLD Graduates (last 1-10
years) and $25 for students with valid ID.
The fee will be waived for IEEE Life Member Grades with verification at
the seminar. Registrations after
November 4th must include an additional late fee of $25. The seminar fee includes lunch, refreshments,
and handouts. Non-members joining IEEE
within 30 days of the seminar will be rebated 50% of the IEEE registration
charge.
Registration:
Beckwith Generator Protection, 11/18/2005
Register via
US mail to: Ronald W. Quade,
PE
Eaton
Electrical
379 Thornall
St, 8th Floor
Edison,
NJ 08837
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IEEE North Jersey Section
Course
Project
Management
Tuesday
Evenings, October 11, 2005 through November 29, 2005
Eight
weekly classes (October 11, 18, 25, November 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2005)
NJ International Bulk Mail Center, Jersey City, NJ (Checks should not be mailed
to this address)
The North Jersey Section IEEE
is offering an evening course entitled "Project Management". Dice.com lists 2500+ Project related jobs in
the New York tri-state area daily! This
course will help you to break down a master project into manageable tasks,
pinpoint possible solutions, and provide information to keep the project under
control. Using Microsoft Project 2003
software, you will learn to accomplish various project plans. In addition, it will greatly enhance your
business, communications and interpersonal skills.
The IEEE certificate of
completion will be given to you when you complete the course. You may wish to take two Certification exams,
one in Project Management administered by Project Management Institute and the
other in IT Project+ by CompTIA Inc.
Instructor: Donald Hsu, PhD, has been a corporate manager
for 11 years and is an experienced trainer.
Since 1999, he has trained 270+ people in IT Project+, MS Project 2003,
and Project Management courses in seven organizations.
Bhanu Chivukula, PMP, will share his PMP (PMI) examination preparation
strategies and experiences including the details of the new PMP examination
(starting September 2005 based on PMBOK 2004 version).
TOPICS
1. Explain the need for a
project manager
2. Define SOW, PERT, GANTT, CPM,
and Scope of the project
3. Identify the team members,
resources and plan for the strategy
4. Calculate schedule, budget
variances, and monitor project progress
5. Manage changes, estimates,
and communications
6. Set a baseline, import tasks
from MS Excel, export Project files to MS Word
7. Create and modify custom
reports, templates and combination views
8. Share resources and create a
master plan loaded to Project Server
9. Approve updates and conclude
a project plan
10. Analyze Global E-Commerce and
present student Projects
Class size will be limited to a maximum of 25 with a minimum of
15. Early registration is
recommended. Phone reservations will NOT
be accepted. Reservations accepted after
October 2, 2005 will require a late fee of $25.
No reservations will be accepted after October 6, 2005.
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WHERE:
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NJ International Bulk Mail Center, Jersey City,
NJ. (Checks should not be mailed to this address)
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WHEN:
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8 Tuesdays, October 11, 18, 25, November 1, 8, 15,
22, 29, 2005, 6:30-9:00 PM.
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COST:
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IEEE (& affiliate) members $375; Non-IEEE
members $475.
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CONTACT:
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Bhanu Chivukula (b.chivukula
“AT” computer.org)
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REGISTRATION: Project Management
Please send the registration form with payment to
Bhanu Chivukula
Chair, Education Committee,
IEEE NNJ
19 Prestwick Way
Edison, NJ 08820
(Checks payable to “North
Jersey Section IEEE” with registration
form should be mailed to this address)
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North Jersey
Section
Oracle SQL Programming 101
Seminar
Objective
This
4 hour course will teach you how to work with data within an Oracle Database
using SQL and SQL*Plus.
Seminar
Design Outline
• Principal features of the Oracle database
• Query and manipulate an Oracle database
using Structured Query Language
• Code sophisticated query operations such as
join, grouping, case and more
• Update data with insert, update, delete,
and merge operations
• Create database tables with the major
datatypes such as NUMBER, VARCHAR2
• Create B-Tree indexes to improve the
performance of query operations
• Query Oracle data dictionary tables such as
USER_TABLES
• Utilize transaction control statements such
as Commit, Rollback and Savepoint
• Create database objects such as tables,
views, indexes, synonyms and sequences
• Grant and Revoke object privileges
• Utilize SQL*Plus to query, update and
create database objects
• Use SQL*Plus scripting and report
generation features
About
the Speaker
The
speaker is scheduled to be Raj Agarwal, DBA.
Early
registration is recommended. Phone
reservations will NOT be accepted. No
reservations will be accepted after October 7, 2005.
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WHERE:
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Radisson Hotel - Saddle Brook, 129 Pehle Ave,
Saddle Brook, NJ, (201) 845-7800.
(Checks
should not be mailed to this address)
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WHEN:
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9:00 AM to 1:00PM, Friday, October 21, 2005
(breakfast included).
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COST:
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IEEE (& affiliate) members $75; Non-IEEE
members $95.
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CONTACT:
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Bhanu Chivukula -email b.chivukula “AT”
computer.org
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REGISTRATION: Oracle SQL Programming 101
Please send the checks in the name of North Jersey Section IEEE with filled in registrations to:
Bhanu Chivukula, 19 Prestwick Way, Edison, NJ 08820.
Please email inquiries to b.chivukula “AT” computer.org
Name: / Mr. / Mrs. / Miss / Ms.
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Employer:___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Employer
Address:____________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Home
Address:______________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Business (day) telephone #:___________________________________ Home telephone
#:________________________________
Please enclose required fee payable to:
North Jersey Section IEEE
Registration status will be mailed after October 7, 2005. Phone inquiries concerning registration will
NOT be honored. In general, the
effective date of the application corresponds to the date when BOTH a fully
completed application/registration and payment are received.
ÿ Tuition receipt will be mailed only if this box is checked Signature:___________________________________________
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North Jersey Section
Field Programmable Gate Array Seminar
Seminar
overview
FPGA
stands for Field Programmable Gate Array. FPGAs are becoming the de facto standard
in digital design. They are found in control, DSP and general purpose
computing. They offer designers the ability to go to layout before committing
to the full design.
This
seminar will introduce FPGAs and provide a road map on how to learn and become
productive in the use of FPGAs.
Development will be used by the instructor to execute labs.
Seminar
Design Outline
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Introduction to FPGA
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FPGA architecture
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Xilinx Design Flow
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Architecture Wizard and Pace
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Reading Reports
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Global Timing Constraints
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Synthesis Techniques
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XILINX CORE Generator
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Floorplanner: Effective Layout
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FPGA Editor: Viewing and Editing a Routed
Design
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HDL Bencher
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FPGA Design Techniques
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Synchronous Design Techniques
About
the Speaker
Mr.
Chibane Cherif, is a practicing engineer, speaker and lecturer in
telecommunications, wireless communication and Voice Over IP technology,
business and market issues.
Pre-requisite
Basic Digital design
Time: TBA, October 2005.
Place:
TBA – see http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
and upcoming Newsletters for updates.
Information: see http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
and upcoming Newsletters for updates.
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