PUBLICATION
OF THE NORTH JERSEY SECTION OF THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL
AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS
Last Updated 9/1/06
September
2006
|
New!
|
= New Announcement Not Published in
Paper Newsletter
|
|
Update!
|
= Change to Meeting Time, Location, or Other
Details
|
IEEE North Jersey Section
Back Issues
Back to top
September 2006
Volume 53, Number 3
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, 17th
Floor, New York, NY 10016-5997. $1.00 per member per year (included in annual
dues) for each member of the North Jersey Section. Periodicals-class postage paid at New York, NY and at
additional mailing offices. Postmaster
send address changes to: “The IEEE
Newsletter”, 445 Hoes
Lane, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331. USPS 580-500 (ISSN 1076-3732).
NEWSLETTER STAFF
Editor........................................... Keith Saracinello
Business
Manager...................... Keith
Saracinello
k.saracinello
“AT” ieee.org (908) 791-4067
Deadline for receipt of material is the 1st
of the month preceding the month of publication. All communications concerning
editorial and business matters, including advertising, should be sent to the
Business Manager via e-mail at k.saracinello “AT” ieee.org or to The IEEE Newsletter, c/o Keith
Saracinello,
25
Messenger Ln,
Ringoes,
NJ
08551,
(908) 791-4067.
IEEE NJ SECTION HOME PAGE
http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
IEEE NJ SECTION NEWSLETTER HOME PAGE
http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/NEWSLETTER.html
REPORT ADDRESS CHANGES TO:
IEEE
Service Center,
445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway,
NJ 08855-1331,
(732) 981-0060. It is not necessary to
inform the North Jersey Section when you change your mailing address. “The IEEE Newsletter” and other section
mailings use a list provided by IEEE’s national headquarters.
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............................................... Seth Jakel
sgjakel
“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.
Back to top
IEEE North Jersey
Section Activities
September
2006
Sep. 6 – “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.
Sep. 13 – “Partitioning QoS Management for Secure Tactical
Wireless Ad-hoc Networks” by Dr. George F. Elmasry, NJ SP Chapter, 4:45PM
(pizza at 4:30 PM), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Weston Lecture
Hall 1, 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).
Sep. 13 –
“Engineers Meet:
Getting Started in Consulting” by Jim Boyd and Robert
Walker, 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).
Sep.
16-Dec. 2 – “C# .NET Programming”
by Dr. Donald Hsu, North Jersey Section, Saturday Mornings, 10 sessions, 9:00 AM-12:00
PM, Avtech, 130 Clinton Road, Second Floor, Fairfield, NJ. Donald Hsu (yanyou “AT” hotmail.com).
Sep. 20 – “Energy Conservation Series - Power Factor
Correction” by Ron Quade, 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.
Sep. 20 – “Wireless Sensor Networks”
by Dr. Martin Haenggi, 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).
Sep. 21 – “Evolution Data Only
(EVDO) Rev. A” – by Dr. Raafat Kamel, NJ VTS Chapter, 7:00 PM
(dinner at 6:15 PM), Lucent Technologies, 67 Whippany Rd, Whippany, NJ. Stephen Wilkowski, Lucent Technologies, (973)
386-6487, swilkowski “AT” lucent.com, Arthur Greenberg, (973) 386-6673, ahg1
“AT” lucent.com.
Sep. 21 – “Soft Iterative
Equalization and Decoding for Alamouti Encoded MIMO Signals”
– by Dr. Magnus Lundberg Nordenvaad, NJ Communications Chapter, 11:00 AM (refreshments
at 10:45 AM), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center,
Newark, NJ. Hongya Ge (973) 642-4990 or
check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates.
Sep. 28 – “National Instruments –
“that GPIB Company”” by Jeff Steele, NJ Consultants' Network, 7:30 PM, Aeroflex/KDIIntegrated Products, 60 S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
Sep. 30 – “Xilinx ISE Design and
FPGA Implementation Workshop”, NJ GOLD, 10:30 AM – 4:00 PM, Muscurell Building, Rm 207, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ. See http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/gold
or email Amit Patel at northjerseygold “AT” ieee.org.
Upcoming Meetings
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. 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. 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.
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).
Dec. 18-21
– “9th
International Conference on Information Technology (CIT 2006)”,
see http://www.citconference.org
and http://www.cs.unt.edu/~smohanty/CIT2006.
Members and Non-Members Welcome
PLEASE POST
Back to top
NJ Communications Chapter:
Soft Iterative
Equalization and Decoding for Alamouti Encoded MIMO Signals
On Thursday, September 21, 2006, the North
Jersey Chapter of the IEEE Communications Society will host a presentation
titled “Soft Iterative Equalization and Decoding for Alamouti Encoded MIMO
Signals” by Dr. Magnus Lundberg Nordenvaad.
About the Talk
In this
presentation s soft input/soft output linear equalizer for Alamouti encoded
MIMO signals will be proposed. The
derived structure allows for simultaneous equalization of MIMO channels along
with decoding of Alamouti coded signals.
The equalizer/decoder is used within the turbo equalization framework to
exploit the complex and rich characteristics of the acoustic underwater channel. The proposed scheme can operate at very low
Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) levels enabling high transmission rates over long distances. We investigate the viability of the technique
by using simulation examples and by studying its behavior for a real scenario,
using data collected in the Baltic
Sea..
About the Speaker
Magnus
Lundberg Nordenvaad was born in Lulea, Sweden,
in 1973. He received the MSc degree in
Computer Science and Engineering in 1998 from Lulea University of Technology
(LTU), Lulea, Sweden,
and the PhD degree in Signal Processing in 2003 from the School of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. He has held visiting positions at Purdue University
and Colorado State University. Currently Dr Lundberg Nordenvaad is an
Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering, LTU and holds a research position at the Swedish Defense Research
Agency.
His research interests lie
in statistical signal processing and how it applies to digital communications,
radar, sonar, land-mine detection, and high-level power estimation in CMOS
architectures. Dr Lundberg Nordenvaad
has received several awards and grants for his research. These include the 1998 “MD110 User-group
award” for the best Masters Thesis in the telecommunications area in Sweden
that year and a postdoctoral scholarship award from the Swedish Research
Council.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 11:00 AM, Thursday, September 21, 2006. Refreshments will be available starting at 10:45 AM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ.
Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information:
Hongya Ge (973) 642-4990 or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html for the latest updates.
Back to
top
NJ Consultants' Network:
National Instruments –
“that GPIB Company”
On Thursday,
September 28, 2006, the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ is pleased to
present ”National Instruments – “that GPIB Company””, by Jeff Steele.
About the Talk
The IEEE CNNNJ has
invited Jeff Steele, National Instruments, to emcee the feature presentation
for our September meeting, and we invite everyone to come to this special
event!
·
Who is National Instruments?
·
What problems can they help you solve?
Depending on when
you have looked at National Instruments you might say “They're that GPIB
Company” or “They make LabVIEW””. Traditionally, National Instruments has been
a Test & Automation company, but they have been expanding their
capabilities to assist engineers in solving control and design problems. NI
continues to expand the computing platforms that its development environments
can target to include mobile, industrial, and embedded targets. NI also continues
to expand its own hardware platforms for test, control and design.
Jeff, together with
NI engineers, will be discussing and demonstrating NI’s various development
environments and will show some NI’s hardware platforms, including FPGA-based
PLCs, PC-based RF instruments, USB-based data acquisition plus others. Some of
these platforms help engineers do rapid prototyping, hence decreasing time to
market. Other platforms might make sense
embedded into OEM products, helping to lower development costs.
About the
Speakers
Jeff Steele has
worked for National Instruments for over 17 years. He is currently the local
Area Sales Manager; he has had various other positions at NI before this. Prior
to working for NI, he was employed by Gould Electronics and Westinghouse
Electric. He graduate Electric. He graduated from Clarkson University in 1984 with a
BSEE degree.
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, September 28, 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.
Back to top
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.
Back to
top
NJ EDS/C&S Chapters:
Wireless Sensor Networks
On September 20, 2006,
the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters together
with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on “Wireless
Sensor Networks: A New Paradigm for
Ubiquitous Sensing and Information Processing." The speaker will be Dr. Martin Haenggi.
About the Talk
Due to the advances
in wireless communications and electronics in recent years, the development of
networks of low-cost, low-power, and multifunctional sensors has received
increasing attention. These sensors gather
and process data, and communicate with each other over a wireless channel. Various hardware platforms have already been
designed to test the many ideas spawned by the research community and to
implement applications in many fields of science and technology. This presentation gives a general
introduction to sensor networks. We will
discuss their properties, emphasizing the differences to other types of
wireless networks, including WLANs and ad hoc networks. An overview of existing hardware solutions for
sensor networks will be given, and we will conclude by discussing future
directions and developments.
About the
Speaker
Martin Haenggi received the Dipl. Ing.
(M.Sc.) degree in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH) in 1995. In 1995, he
joined the Signal and Information Processing Laboratory at ETH as a Teaching
and Research Assistant. Between 1996 and
1998, he continued his studies and earned the Dipl. NDS ETH (post-diploma)
degree in information technology. In 1999,
he completed his PhD thesis on the analysis, design, and optimization of
cellular neural networks. After a
postdoctoral year at the Electronics Research Laboratory at the University of
California in Berkeley, he joined the faculty of the electrical engineering
department at the University of Notre Dame as an assistant professor in January
2001. He is a senior member of the IEEE,
a professional member of the ACM and the ASEE (American Society for Engineering
Education), and a reviewer for numerous international journals and
conferences. Recently he joined the
Editorial Board of the Elsevier Journal of Ad Hoc Networks. For both his MSc and his PhD theses, he was
awarded the ETH medal, and he received an NSF CAREER award in 2005. His scientific interests include networking,
wireless communications, and dynamical systems, with an emphasis on ad hoc and
sensor networks. His publications
include 3 book chapters, 21 journal publications, and 36 conference papers.
All Welcome!
You do not have to
be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, September 20, 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.
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).
Back to
top
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.
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).
Back to
top
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.
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).
Back to
top
NJ GOLD Chapter:
North
Jersey
GOLD Sponsors Xilinx ISE Design and FPGA Implementation Workshop
The
North Jersey Section GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade) Committee in
conjunction with the FDU IEEE Student Branch Teaneck, NJ, willbe co-sponsoring
a technical workshop on Xilinx ISE design and FPGA implementation. The workshop provides an excellent
opportunity to all students preparing to enter into the workforce or
thosegraduates already working to gain some new skills to propel forward in
their current jobs or help prepare for changing and upgrading their current
career track. The purpose of the
workshop is to teach participants how to use Xilinx FPGAs and the ISE
development kit to implement digital logic and designs. This is a critical
skill in the fast-changing world of semi-conductors and just-in-time
manufacture of new embedded devices.
Each participant will also receive a 30-page workbook with instructions
and labs to take home with them as a future technical reference. Due to using
lab equipment, seats are very limited and reservations will be made on a first
registered basis. There is also free and discounted seating reserved for FDU
students and IEEE members. All the details of registration and costs can be
found on the North Jersey GOLD website http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/gold
or feel free to email the organizer at northjerseygold “AT” ieee.org.
Time: 10:30
AM – 4:00 PM, Saturday,
September 30, 2006.
Free lunch will be provided to all participants during the workshop.
Place: Muscurell Building,
Rm 207, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck,
NJ.
Free parking is available outside the building
Information: See
http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/gold
or email Amit
Patel
at northjerseygold “AT” ieee.org.
Back to top
NJ PACE & GOLD Chapters:
Engineers
Meet: Getting Started in Consulting
On
Wednesday,
September 13, 2006
the North Jersey Section Professional Activities Committee and Graduates of the
Last Decade will meet to discuss Getting Started In Consulting.”
About
the Meeting
Due
to downsizing and budget cuts, an increased number of companies consider using
consultants to fulfill their needs, while at the same time many engineers look
at independent contracting as an alternative career path. The discussion will explore the motivations
of prospective consultants, the risks that they face, the logistics and
organization of a consulting business, marketing, and contracts.
About
the Speakers
Our
guest speakers will be two long-term member consultants of the IEEE Consultants
Network of Northern NJ (www.TechnologyOnTap.org)
will offer their thoughts on operating a consulting business and share their
personal experiences.
Jim
Boyd of XL Research, Inc. has designed micro controller-based products for
consumer and industrial applications since 1978. His designs include arcade games, cordless
telephones, experimental solar homes, high-speed printing machinery, fire alarm
systems, a control system for a U.S.
prison, and DMX-512 based theatrical lighting.
Jim was consulting editor of Electronic Design magazine from 1995-2001.
Robert
Walker of RD Walker Engineering has offered analog and digital design services
since 1987. Robert's expertise includes
sensing, conditioning, control and telecommunication equipment, utilizing
discrete design as well as embedded controllers and FPGA's. For further information about the speakers,
join us for Q & A.
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
CARE
is the Congressional Advocacy Recruitment Effort CARE is a voluntary network of
IEEE members who are interested in public policy. To HELP go to
www.ieeeusa.org/policy/care/.
Time: 6:30
to 9:00 PM, Wednesday,
September 13, 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).
Back to top
NJ PES/IAS Chapters:
Energy
Conservation Series - Power Factor Correction
On
September 20, 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 energy savings associated with power factor correction by Ronald
W. Quade, PE.
About
the Meeting
The
seminar will provide the basics of power factor correction:
·
What is Power Factor?
·
Should I Be Concerned About Low Power
Factor?
·
What Can I Do to Improve Power Factor?
·
How Much Can I Save by Installing Power
Capacitors?
·
How Can I Select the Right Capacitors for My
Specific Application Needs?
·
How Much kVAR Do I Need?
·
Where Should I Install Capacitors in My
Plant Distribution System?
·
Can Capacitors Be Used in Non-Linear,
Non-Sinusoidal Environments?
·
What About Maintenance?
About
the Speaker
Ron
Quade, PE, is an Industrial and Utility Sales Manager for Eaton Electrical, a
manufacturer of electrical equipment. He
has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University and an MS in Power
Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is also a registered professional engineer
in the State of NJ. His prior experience
includes Power Quality Engineer with Jersey Central Power and Light and
consulting engineering with Burns & Roe Industrial Services Company..
Time: 6:30
PM, Wednesday,
September 20, 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.
Back to top
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.
Back to top
NJ SP Society:
Partitioning
QoS Management for Secure Tactical Wireless Adhoc Networks
On
September
13, 2006,
the IEEE North Jersey Section Signal Processing Society along with NJIT will
host a seminar on "Partitioning QoS Management for Secure Tactical
Wireless Ad-hoc Networks." The speaker will be Dr. George F. Elmasry.
About
the Talk
Addressing
Quality of Service (QoS) in military wireless ad-hoc communication networks
involves unique challenges due to imposed tactical requirements and conditions,
such as heterogeneous traffic with stringent real-time and survivability
requirements, mobile wireless nodes in hostile environments, and limited
spectrum availability. Encryption adds another layer of complexity because the
partitioning of the network into plain text (unencrypted) and cipher text
(encrypted) parts that, by definition, cannot communicate QoS information to
one another. A typical communication shelter consists of a number of
unencrypted LANs connected to a packet-encrypted backbone network. This talk
presents a partitioned QoS approach focusing on QoS management at the
unencrypted LANs that complements QoS management done at the encrypted
backbone. Some of the outlined QoS techniques for unencrypted LANs were used
for Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (the future army tactical backbone
network).
About
the Speaker
George
F. Elmasry received his BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from Alexandria
University,
Egypt,
and his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from NJIT. He currently
heads the Networking and Communications Division at DSCI with a focus on the
Future Combat System (FCS) tactical networks for the US Army. The FCS is composed of multiple mobile ad-hoc
networks with hierarchical architecture. Before joining DSCI, he worked for
General Dynamics C4S in the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T)
group where he spearheaded research in the areas of resource management and
capacity analysis for WIN-T which is the tactical core network for the US Army.
Prior to General Dynamics, he worked for Lucent Technologies in the Wireless
Networks Wideband CDMA group. His research interests include the areas of
wireless networking, ARQ, joint source and channel coding, and multidimensional
interleaving. He holds over 35 publications and patents in these fields. He is also actively involved with technology
conference organization and paper reviews.
Time: 4:45
PM
(refreshments and pizza available at 4:30
PM),
Wednesday,
September 13, 2006.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Weston Lecture Hall 1, 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).
Back to top
NJ VTS Society:
Evolution
Data Only (EVDO) Rev. A
On
September 21, 2006, the IEEE North Jersey Section Vehicular Technology Society
Chapter will host a talk on "Evolution-Data Only Rev. A." The speaker will be Dr. Raafat Kamel of
Lucent Technologies.
About
the Talk
EVDO
is a wireless technology optimized for data transmission. The initial release is designated as Rev 0,
and has been successfully deployed commercially for over 4 years.
Rev
A is an enhancement that provides
several
improvements including: higher reverse
link bandwidth, enhanced Quality of Service (QoS) and the ability to support
delay sensitive applications like Voice over IP (VOIP). Rev A is completely backward compatible with
the earlier release.
The
talk will present an overview of Rev 0 and will highlight the differences
between Rev 0 and Rev A with special emphasis on the physical and Medium Access
Control (MAC) layers.
About
the Speaker
Raafat
Kamel is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Lucent
Technologies. He received his BS from
the University of Khartoum, Sudan, in 1989 and MS and PhD degrees from New
Jersey Institute of Technology in 1990 and 1994. All degrees are in Electrical Engineering. Since 1995 Dr. Kamel has worked for AT&T
Network Wireless Systems and then Lucent Technologies in the CDMA Radio
Technology Performance Analysis Group.
He has worked on 2G, 3G1X, 1xEVDO systems in the areas of RF power
control, call processing, and performance analysis.
All
Welcome!
Free
admission. You do not have to be a
member of IEEE to attend.
Advance
Registration Suggested
Please
email swilkowski “AT” lucent.com or ahg1
“AT” lucent.com with full name (first and last) , affiliation, citizenship so
that a guest badge is ready.
Time: 7:00
PM, Thursday,
September 21, 2006. Free buffet will be served starting at 6:15
PM.
Place: Lucent Technologies, 67
Whippany Rd