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September 2007
Volume 54, Number 2
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Section Activities
September
2007
Sept. 5 – “NJ Section Meeting”,
Sept. 12 –
“Engineers Meet: Retirement:
It’s like being 18, only with money” by Matthew R Rotella
and Karol Turner, 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) 664-0803
(rftax “AT” verizon.net).
Sept.
15-Dec. 1 – “C# .NET Programming”
by Dr. Donald Hsu, North Jersey Section, Saturday Mornings, 10 sessions, 9:00
AM-12:00 PM, AVTI, 25 Salem Street, Hackensack, NJ. Donald Hsu (yanyou “AT” hotmail.com).
Sept. 26 –
“Simulated Aircraft
System Demos” by Jerry B. Minter and 1st Lt David Simpson,
NJ AESS, 6:30 – 9:00 PM, Public Meeting Room, Morris County Library, 30 E.
Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ. Dr. Naresh
Chand, (973) 636-7408, naresh.chand “AT” baesystems.com, or Howard Leach (973)
540-1283, h.leach “AT” ieee.org.
Upcoming
Meetings
Oct. 3 – “NJ Section Meeting”,
Oct. 4 – “Design of RF-CMOS Integrated Circuits for
Wireless Communications (part of the MTT 22nd Annual Symposium and
Mini-Show)” by Dr. Ing. Georg Boeck, EDS/C&S & MTT-S/AP-S Chapters,
10:30 to 11:30 AM, Hanover Manor, 16 Eagle Rock Avenue, E. Hanover, 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. 4 – “Statistical Model for Digital Image Forensics”
by Dr. Yun Q. Shi, SP Chapter, 4:45 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT), Room 202,
Oct. 4 – “2007 MTT/AP Symposium and Mini-Show”
– MTT-S/AP-S Chapter,
Oct. 10 – “Maximizing Your Marketability - Improve the Odds
Of Staying Employed Throughout Your Career” by
Oct.
16-Dec. 11 – “Manage Global E-Commerce
Projects” by Dr. Donald Hsu, North Jersey Section,
Saturday Mornings, 8 sessions, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, NJ International Bulk Mail
Center, Jersey City, NJ. Donald Hsu (yanyou
“AT” hotmail.com).
Oct. 16 – “Next Generation
Converged Network Architecture and Applications”
by Dr. Amit Mukhopadhyay and Carlos Urrutia-Valdés, NJ Communications Society,
6:15 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center,
Newark, NJ. Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973)
596-3670 (nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates.
Oct. 17 – “Non-Foster Matching of Electrically-Small
Antennas: Theory and Experimental
Results” by Dr. Stephen E. Sussman-Fort, NJ MTT-S/AP-S
Chapters, 7:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center,
Newark, NJ. Dr. Edip Niver (973)
596-3542 (NJIT), Kirit Dixit (201) 669-7599, kdixit “AT” ieee.org, or Har Dayal
(973) 633-4618, har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com.
Oct. 18 – “Introduction to Smart Antennas”
– by Dr. Robert Soni, NJ VTS Chapter, 7:00 PM (free buffet at 6:30 PM),
Alcatel-Lucent, 67 Whippany Rd, Whippany, NJ.
Stephen Wilkowski, Lucent Technologies, (973) 386-6487, swilkowski “AT”
alcatel-lucent.com, Arthur Greenberg, (973) 386-6673, ahg1 “AT” alcatel-lucent.com.
Oct. 19 – “Utility Distribution
Systems Technical Series - Transformers Seminar”,
NJ PES/IAS,
Oct. 23 – “Self-Adaptive Learning for Machine Intelligence”
by Dr. Haibo He, North Jersey SMC Society Chapter, 7:00 PM (light refreshments
at 6:45 PM), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center,
Newark, NJ. Dr. Mike Liechenstein, (973)
471-0721, (m.liechenstein “AT” ieee.org).
Oct. 25 – “Life Grade Lunch”,
Oct. 30 – “Mobile TV and 3G
Multicast” by Dr. Katherine Guo, NJ Communications
Society, 6:15 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE
Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Nirwan Ansari
(973) 596-3670 (nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates.
Oct. 30 – “Open Source Software for EE’s and Project Managers”
by Frank Middleton, NJ Computer and EMS Chapters, 7:00 PM, Public Conference
Room, Morris County Library, 30 E. Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ. Seth Jakel - (973) 731 1902 – home, (973)
820-1865 – cell, or Howard Leach (973) 540-1283, (h.leach “AT” ieee.org).
Nov. 10 – “Field Trip to Edison Menlo Park Museum”,
NJ GOLD, WIE, 1:00 – 4:00 PM, Edison Menlo Park Museum, 37 Christie Street,
Menlo Park Section of Edison, NJ.
Contact northjerseygold “AT” ieee.org.
Nov. 14 – “A New Low Frequency Noise Model for Multi-Stack
Gate MOSFETs” by Dr. Zeynep Çelik-Butler, 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).
Nov. 16 – “Utility Distribution Systems Technical Series –
Part 2”, NJ PES/IAS, see http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
and November Newsletter for further details.
Ronald W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
Dec. 14 –
“Utility Distribution Systems Technical Series – Part 3”, NJ PES/IAS, see http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
and November Newsletter for further details.
Ronald W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
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NJ AES Chapter:
Simulated Aircraft System Demos
The
North Jersey Chapter of the IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society
(AESS) together with the Civil Air Patrol Lone Eagle Composite Squadron will sponsor
two simulated aircraft system demos to celebrate the Squadron’s 50th
anniversary on Wednesday, September 26th, at the Morris County Library,
Whippany, NJ.
About
the Demos
The first demo will be on the ‘Minter Electronic Aircraft Safety Warning System’ by Mr. Jerry B. Minter. He maintains that the current aircraft transponder system in present operation worldwide has some serious limitations as follows: 1) the dependence on barometric pressure to determine relative altitude, and 2) the lack of instant horizontal location of other aircraft transponders.
His patented solution uses a multimode antenna system that can locate the relative horizontal direction and elevation to another plane within one microsecond after receiving the first transponder pulse. Because the system does not generate a radiation signal, no license is required for operation.
The second demo will be on the ‘Simpson Hydraulic Flight Simulator’ which is designed to behave as a fixed-wing aircraft would on the vertical or "pitch" axis that can be used to demonstrate climb, cruise, terminal velocity, service ceiling, slow flight, stall and stall recovery, powered or "dead-stick" decent and landing.
The patent pending hydraulic flight simulator is made up of a number of plastic vessels representing flight dynamics. These vessels are connected together with flexible tubing to simulated flight controls from which the operator can make changes and observe the flow of water - representing the energy - through the vessels which represents the simulated aircraft response.
About
the Demo Speakers
Jerry
B. Minter was first employed in 1935 by
the Boonton Radio Corporation, NJ, in the development of band-pass intermediate
frequency transformers. In 1936 he was
involved in the development of aircraft radio receivers at the Radio Frequency
Laboratories of Boonton, N.J. During the
later part of 1936 he was employed by the Ferris Instrument Corp., NJ, to take
charge of several projects including development of a signal generator and a radio noise and field-strength meter.
In
1939, Mr. Minter and some of his associates from Ferris Instrument Corp
organized the Measurements Corp of Boonton, NJ, where he became Vice President
and Chief Engineer. After much success
with design and production of test equipment, the stockholders decided to sell
the Measurements Corp. to the Edison Company in 1953. At that time, he had a number of
conversations with Charles Edison about his father, Thomas Edison, and dined in
the dining room of Edison’s West Orange Laboratory before it was turned over to
the National Park Service as a National Historic Site.
In
1954, Mr. Minter bought the Components Corp. and entered into the audio
business where he developed a series of special test records. In the 1960’s, the company designed and built
miniature high voltage power supplies for use in high altitude probes for
NASA. They also developed a
high-reliability edgeboard connector called the “DigiKlip” that was used
commercially in the Univac 1108, DC-10, as well as in space and military
programs.
Mr.
Minter also worked on video systems, one within a hospital area to reduce RF
interference. In another medical project
, he modified VCR’s to reduce their startup time in medical facilities within
NYC. His most recent technical innovation
is a passive collision warning system for small aircraft. Jerry Minter holds 26 patents of which the
last six are on his aircraft collision avoidance system.
He
received a BS in EE from MIT in 1934. He
organized and chaired the first Northern New Jersey Subsection of the Institute
of Radio Engineers (IRE) in 1947. Jerry
B. Minter was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 1969 and he became a Life Fellow of
the IEEE in 1979. He also is a Fellow
and past President of the Radio Club of America. Further, he is also a past President of the
Audio Engineering Society and has held memberships in the Radio Electronic
Television Manufacturing Association, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the
American Standards Association, and the American Society of Metals.
Finally, but not the least of his past
activities, Jerry B. Minter was a Senior Member of the Civil Air Patrol and
used his own aircraft to conduct CAP search and rescue missions.
1st
Lt David Simpson, CAP, Aerospace Education Officer, is a long time model
airplane builder starting at the age of eleven.
He also, as a high school senior, taught fourth, fifth, and six graders
model airplane building and joined CAP following the events of 9/11/2001. He is a co-founder of the Princeton Flying
Corps, a non-profit project of the NJ Aviation Hall of Fame that preserves the
history of NJ World War I aviators. He also has a private pilot’s license and was
part owner of a 1946 Piper J-3 "Cub".
All
Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE or the Civil Air Patrol to attend. A free buffet will be available at 6 PM. Come and bring your friends.
Time: Free buffet starts at 6:00 PM and the program
starts at 7:00 PM, Wednesday, September 26, 2007.
Place: Public Meeting Room, Morris County Library, 30
E. Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ, (973) 285-6930.
Information: Dr. Naresh Chand, (973) 636-7408, naresh.chand
“AT” baesystems .com, or Howard Leach (973) 540-1283, h.leach “AT” ieee.org.
NJ Communications Chapter:
Next Generation Converged Network Architecture and Applications
On
Tuesday, October 16, 2007, the North Jersey Chapter of the IEEE Communications
Society along with the NJIT Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
will host a presentation titled “Next Generation Converged Network Architecture
and Applications” by Dr. Amit Mukhopadhyay and Carlos Urrutia-Valdés.
About
the Talk
Service providers around the world are either already deploying or planning to deploy the IP Multimedia Sub-system (IMS) in their networks. IMS will allow the delivery of new multimedia applications aimed at enhancing the user’s experience. So now that IMS is becoming a reality, what is next for “Next Generation Networks”?
In this talk, we will provide an overview of what lies beyond IMS and introduce a new set of services referred to as “blended services” which are created by providing seamless service control across multiple network domains. The role of IMS within the evolving area of Service Delivery Platforms and for the enablement of wireless and wireline convergence will also be examined. Sample services, architectures and call flows will be presented.
About
the Speakers
Amit
Mukhopadhyay is a distinguished member of technical staff at Bell Labs in
Murray Hill, New Jersey. He holds a PhD
degree in Operations Research from the University of Texas at Dallas. His current work focuses on 3G and beyond
wireless technologies, Cable and Broadband Access. He works closely with global service
providers to help define the course of Next Generation Networks. He is a senior member of the IEEE and has
numerous publications.
Carlos
Urrutia-Valdés is a member of technical staff in the Advanced Wireless and
Optical Network Modeling and Optimization Group of Bell Labs in Murray Hill,
New Jersey. He holds a BS in electrical
engineering from Florida International University in Miami and an MS in
computer engineering from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. His current work focuses on network modeling
of 3G wireless networks and enabling core technologies. His previous work involved the design of TDM,
packet, and SS7 networks, and SS7 standards development, in connection with
which he was the technical editor of ANSI T1.116 SS7 OMAP. His current research interests are in the
areas of protocol analysis, traffic modeling, and the end-to-end design of
wireless and wireline networks.
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: 6:15 PM, Tuesday, October 16, 2007. Refreshments will be offered at 6:00 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets),
Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670
(nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates.
NJ Communications Chapter:
Mobile TV and 3G Multicast
On
Tuesday, October 30, 2007, the North Jersey Chapter of the IEEE Communications Society
along with the NJIT Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering will host
a presentation titled “Mobile TV and 3G Multicast” by Dr. Katherine Guo.
About
the Talk
With the deployment of wide area wireless networks such as CDMA2000 1xEv-DO and UMTS HSPDA providing data rates close to wireline broadband connections, and with the unprecedented increase in mobile device capability, the mobile Internet is beginning to enable on-demand multimedia services anywhere anytime. Services like live TV, news summary, sports highlight, local traffic and weather reports are currently being delivered efficiently to mobile users using unicast channels. However, as subscribers increase with time, unicast is highly inefficient. Broadcast multicast services are the scalable solution to providing video services over 3G wireless networks. In the first half of the talk, an overview of the 3G broadcast multicast architecture will be presented.
Multicast scheduling in this context is challenging: there is no endpoint feedback mechanism, and the default schemes transmit data at a fixed rate assuming there is always a user at the edge of the cell. This conservative approach significantly limits throughput for users close to the base station. In the second half of the talk, a set of new multicast scheduling algorithms that offer proportional fairness property among groups and among users will be discussed.
About
the Speaker
Katherine
Guo is a Member of Technical Staff at Networking and Network Management Center
of Bell Laboratories. She has extensive
research and product experience in multimedia streaming, content distribution,
multicasting, 3G wireless systems, IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS), quality of
service support for real time applications such as VoIP, video streaming and
distributed gaming. Formerly, she was
the architect for Lucent's Imminet streaming cache and content distribution
product line. She has published more
than twenty five research papers in renowned technical journals and conference
proceedings, has served on the technical committees of a number of
international conferences, has served as technical program co-chair for ACM
MobiArch’2006 and 2007, program vice-chair for IEEE ICDCS'2006, program
co-chair for IEEE ICCCN'2006. She holds
four U.S. and international patents and has 19 other patents pending. She has received the Lucent Inventor of the
Month Award for July 2006. She has been
part of the teams that have received the Bell Labs Teamwork Award (2005) and
the Lucent Chairman's Award (2006). She
is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an editor for Wireless Network Journal. She received her PhD in computer science from
Cornell University.
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: 6:15 PM, Tuesday, October 30, 2007. Refreshments will be offered at 6:00 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark,
NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670
(nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates.
NJ Computer and EMS Chapters:
Open Source Software for EE’s and Project Managers
On
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007, the IEEE North Jersey Section Computer Society and
Engineering Management Chapters will host a presentation titled “Open Source
Software for EE’s and Project Managers” by Frank Middleton.
About
the Talk
As many EEs and project managers consider Open Source Software (OSS) solutions as an alternative to proprietary products, the inevitable question arises as to whether or not OSS can meet their needs.
In the relatively short duration of a meeting such as this, it is impossible to give a comprehensive answer to this question, but it is possible to introduce EEs and project managers to the process of investigating these solutions and determining their own answers. Prospective attendees who have specific questions are welcome to submit them ahead of time to the speaker (by email, please, to f.middleton “AT” apogeect.com).
Very small low cost platforms like the Gumstix (Open Source Hardware) run on OSS such as Gnu/Linux. Is there any benefit to using OSS for the entire development chain, from gathering and managing requirements, through architecture, hardware/software design, and implementation, as well as project planning? OSS tools that address all of these areas and more, will be discussed and briefly demonstrated as time allows, including an OSS EDA tool and a newly debuted OSS project planning application. We will also give some reasons you may not have thought of for using OSS. The ease of deploying and maintaining current versions of these tools will also be covered, and as a result attendees will have a basis for understanding what would be involved in using OSS for electronics engineering and project management.
About
the Speaker
Frank
Middleton is the President and Founder of Apogee Communications Technologies, an
established IT consulting services provider based in New Jersey that
specializes in reducing costs and improving productivity and security by
leveraging the best of breed technologies on platforms ranging in scale from
embedded processors to server farms.
Find out more at http://www.apogeect.com
(developed and running entirely on OSS) or by email at f.middleton “AT”
apogeect.com, or VoIP at (973) 796-2754.
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 PM.
Time: 7:00 PM, Tuesday, October 30, 2007. A free pre-meeting buffet will be available
at 6:00 PM.
Place: Public Conference Room, Morris County Library,
30 E. Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ, (973)
285-6930.
Information: Seth Jakel, (973) 731-1902 [home], (973)
820-1865 [cell], or Howard Leach (973) 540-1283, (h.leach “AT” ieee.org).
NJ EDS/C&S & MTT-S/AP-S Chapters:
Design of RF-CMOS Integrated Circuits for Wireless Communications
On
October 4, 2007, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems
Chapters together with MTT/S/AP-S will host a talk on “Design of RF-CMOS
Integrated Circuits for Wireless Communications." This talk will be part of the MTT 22nd Annual
Symposium and Mini-Show. The speaker
will be Dr. Ing. Georg Boeck.
About
the Talk
The
continuous progress of silicon technology has enabled the emergence of digital
mobile broadband communication systems for voice, data, multimedia and position
with good quality of service. Data-rate and mobility trade-offs, different
standards like 2G, 3G, Bluetooth, WLAN, GPS and digital multimedia broadcasting
are leading to multimode requirements. Issues concerning coexistence and
inter-working of these different technologies have to be solved. Single chip integration with digital part,
high integration density and excellent RF-performance, low power consumption
and low cost under mass production aspects are further requirements. First system-on-chip (SoC) demonstrations
show that today CMOS technologies seem to be able to fulfill all these
requirements.
This
lecture will review RF-CMOS technologies, RF-architectures and
re-configurability principles as well as circuit and system design aspects for
mobile multi-mode communication applications.
It will consider special requirements on wafer processes like leakage
and analogue and RF capabilities and will look to the world of system-level
design. In this context, power-levels,
form factors and cost are key requirements for system-in-package and
system-on-chip solutions. Of course, new
challenges for the future will be considered and explored, too.
About
the Speaker
Professor
Boeck received the doctoral degree from Berlin University of Technology,
Berlin, Germany, in 1984. In the same
year he joined Siemens Research Labs in Munich, Germany, where his research
areas were on fiber optics and GaAs electronics.
From
1988 to 1991, he was a Full Professor for electronic devices and circuits at
the University of Applied Sciences Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
Since
1991, he has been the head of the Microwave Engineering Lab at Berlin
University of Technology. His main areas
of research are characterization, modeling and design of microwave
semiconductor devices, MICs, and MMICs up to the 100 GHz regime.
Professor
Boeck has authored or co-authored more than 160 technical papers and one book
and holds several patents.
He
serves at several Technical Program Committees and is a member of the editorial
board of the Journal of RF-Engineering and Telecommunications.
He
is a Guest Professor of the Southeast University Nanjing, Nanjing, China and an
international IEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturer for the years 2006-2008 in
the field of “Design of RF CMOS Integrated Circuits”.
All
Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 10:30 to 11:30 AM, Thursday, October 4, 2007.
Place: Hanover Manor, 16 Eagle Rock Avenue, E.
Hanover, NJ.
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).
NJ EDS/C&S Chapters:
A New Low Frequency Noise Model for Multi-Stack Gate MOSFETs
On
November 14, 2007, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems
Chapters together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk
on “A New Low Frequency Noise Model for Multi-Stack Gate MOSFETs." The speaker will be an EDS Distinguished
Lecturer, Dr. Zeynep Çelik-Butler.
About
the Talk
In
MOSFETs, high dielectric constant (high-k) materials are developed as possible
replacements for SiO2 as the gate dielectric.
Although these materials do overcome the issue of gate leakage current
due to increased dielectric thickness for a given equivalent dielectric
capacitance, several other problems arise.
The talk will cover noise and mobility degradation issues in high-k gate
stacks.
A
new unified noise model will be presented that accurately predicts the
low-frequency noise spectrum exhibited by MOSFETs with high-k, multi-stack gate
dielectrics. The proposed multi-stack
unified noise (MSUN) model is based on number and correlated mobility
fluctuations theory developed for native oxide MOSFETs, and offers scalability
with respect to the high-k/interfacial layer thicknesses. In addition, it incorporates the various
electronic properties of high-k/ interfacial layer materials such as energy
barrier heights between different gate layers, and dielectric trap density
distribution with respect to band energy and position in the dielectric. For verification of the new model, the low
frequency noise, DC and conventional split C-V measurements were performed in
the 78-350 K temperature range on HfO2 n-channel MOSFETs. Using the experimental noise data, the
channel carrier number fluctuations mechanism was at first established to be
the underlying mechanism responsible for the noise observed at all temperatures
considered. Secondly, the normalized
noise exhibited a weak dependence on temperature implying that the soft optical
phonons, although known to result in mobility degradation, have no effect on
the noise characteristics in these high-k gate stack MOSFETs. Finally, the new model was shown to be in
excellent agreement with the measured noise in 1-100 Hz frequency range at
temperatures of 78-350 K for the gate stacks studied.
About
the Speaker
Dr.
Zeynep Çelik-Butler is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of
Nanotechnology Research and Teaching Facility at the University of Texas at
Arlington. She received dual BS degrees
in electrical engineering and physics from Bogaziçi University, Istanbul,
Turkey, in 1982. She received the MS and
PhD degrees in electrical engineering in 1984 and 1987, respectively, from the
University of Rochester. She was an IBM
Pre-doctoral Fellow from 1983 to 1984, and an Eastman Kodak Pre-doctoral Fellow
from 1985 to 1987. She joined the Department
of Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University in 1987 as an
Assistant Professor; was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in
1993. Dr. Çelik-Butler was the holder of
J. Lindsay Embrey Trustee Assistant Professorship from 1990 to 1993. She served as the Assistant Dean of Graduate
Studies and Research from 1996 to 1999.
She moved to University of Texas at Arlington in 2002.
She
served in various technical committees including 1988, 1989 IEEE-IEDM's and Annual
Symposia on Electronic Materials, Processing and Characterization (1989 - 1992)
and International Conference on Noise in Physical Systems and 1/f Fluctuations
(1993, 1999, 2001). She was the General
Chair of TEXMEMS II Workshop. She was
the co-Chairman for the SPIE Conf. on Noise in Devices and Circuits in the
Symp. on Fluctuation and Noise (FaN'2003) and the symposium co-chair for the
same symposium in 2005 (FaN’2005).
Currently, she is an editor for Fluctuation and Noise Letters.
Prof.
Çelik-Butler has received several awards including the University of Texas at
Arlington Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2006), IEEE-Dallas Section
Electron Devices Society Outstanding Service Awards (1995, 1997), IEEE-Electron
Devices Society, Service Recognition Award (1995), IEEE-Electron Devices
Society, Distinguished Lecturer Appreciation Award (2006), Outstanding
Electrical Engineering Graduate Faculty Awards (1996, 1997, 2001), and
SMU-Sigma Xi Research Award (1997). Her
research interests include microelectromechanical systems, multi-functional
reconfigurable sensors, noise and reliability in nanoelectronic devices. She has four patents, six book chapters, and
over 150 journal and conference publications in these fields. Dr. Çelik -Butler’s research has been
supported by the NSF, SRC, NASA, AFOSR, THECB, Freescale, Legerity,
ST-Microelectronics, Texas Instruments, Raytheon Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
and ARO.
Dr.
Çelik-Butler is a senior member of IEEE, member of Eta Kappa Nu, and the
American Physical Society. She is a
Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE-Electron Devices Society.
All
Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, November 14, 2007. Free buffet will be starting at 6:15 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets),
Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS
Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973)
596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
NJ PACE & GOLD Chapters:
Engineers Meet: Retirement - It’s like being 18, only with money
On
Wednesday, September 12, 2007, the North Jersey Section of Professional
Activities Committee and Graduates of the Last Decade will host a meeting to
discuss “Your Retirement.” Our guest
speakers will be Matthew Rotella and Karol Turner of Burklow, Rotella &
Associates.
About
the Meeting
The traditional approach to retirement planning is all about numbers. But before you can crunch the numbers, you may need to identify your plans and dreams for retirement. Our new seminar, Retirement: Planning Beyond the Numbers®. We’ll help you envision your retirement options, and help you feel more confident and on track with your retirement planning. Ameriprise Financial is committed to helping you learn more about your options in managing your financial resources and giving you straight forward guidance on personal money management and investment strategies.
We'll explore issues like:
· Defining your dreams for retirement
· Envisioning the life you hope to live in
retirement
· Retiring TO something rather than retiring
FROM something
You will receive our new Dream Book® guide, to help you explore your retirement dreams.
About
the Speaker
Matthew
R Rotella, CFP®, CRPC® is the co-founder of Burklow, Rotella & Associates a
Private Wealth Advisory Practice of Ameriprise Financial. He has 13 years of financial industry
experience. Karol Turner has over 29
years of financial industry experience and is an Associate Financial Advisor
with Burklow, Rotella & Associates.
Matthew
holds a BS in Leadership from the United States Military Academy, a MS in
Management from Steven's Institute of Technology; he is a Certified Financial
Planner and a Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor.
All
Welcome!
Members
and students from other professional societies and engineering disciplines are
always welcome. We now include members
from IEEE, ASME and AEA. For more
information about these groups see:
http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/ For North Jersey Section News
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/1/ We are in Region 1, For Reg. 1 Activities
www.asme.org/sections/northjersey
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 12,
2007. 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).
NJ GOLD, PACE, WIE Chapters:
Maximizing Your Marketability - Improve the Odds Of Staying Employed Throughout Your Career
On
October 10, 2007, the North Jersey section GOLD, PACE, and WIE committees are
jointly sponsoring a talk on maximizing your marketability techniques for new
job searches. The speaker will be Dru
Reynolds.
About
the Meeting
Thought
a resume is all you need? While a resume
is a critical portion of marketing yourself for a new job, it is not
alone. Other issues to consider include: having a career roadmap, evaluating the
corporate fit, and what to do for an interview.
Come
participate and learn how to combine these and other aspects of self marketing
to build a better resume and whole presentable self-portfolio to land a new job
and career.
About
the Speaker
Dru
Reynolds has more than 20 Years experience in recruiting & professional
placement, currently an independent recruiter specializing in placing in the RF
and MW wireless arena and licensed by the state of NJ. She is an IEEE Coordinator Region 1 & 2,
in the MTT Society and active in the NJ Coast Section as Secretary and
Newsletter Editor.
All
Welcome!
This
talk is FREE to attend, you do not have to be an IEEE member, invite your
friends. Free refreshments of pizza and
sodas will be served.
Time: 6:15 PM to 8:45 PM, Wednesday, October 10,
2007. Refreshments will be served.
Place: Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave,
Clifton, NJ, (973) 772-5500.
Information: Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-0803 (rftax “AT”
verizon.net), or northjersey gold “AT” ieee.org
NJ GOLD & WIE Chapters:
Field Trip
to Edison
Menlo Park Museum
The
North Jersey section GOLD and WIE Affinity Groups in conjunction with Central
Jersey section GOLD are jointly sponsoring a field trip to the Thomas Edison
Menlo Park Laboratory Historical Site and Museum on Saturday, November 10,
2007. The group will assemble between
1-1:30 PM at the museum entrance located at 37 Christie Street, Menlo Park
Section of Edison, NJ 08820, immediately off Route 27 South (Lincoln
Highway). The group will be treated to a
special guided tour exclusively for the IEEE group.
The
tour will conclude at 4 PM and, for those interested, the group will go to the
Starbucks located 1/2 mile south on Route 27 at 1-11 Lincoln Highway for a
coffee hour to network, mingle, and discuss future IEEE events.
Come
join the group and check out this historical site and source of so many great
innovations. The museum and tour are
free (suggested donation $2), but registration is required to get an
accurate count for the tour. Bring a
friend and enjoy the afternoon learning and interacting with your fellow
members and a chance to win some exciting door prizes.
The
museum website and directions are at: www.menloparkmuseum.com
(732-549-3299) Register by visiting the North Jersey Section GOLD website at http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/gold.
For
any questions, contact northjerseygold “AT” ieee.org.
Time: Assemble between 1-1:30 PM at the museum
entrance, Saturday, November 10, 2007.
Tour concludes at 4 PM.
Place: Edison Menlo Park Museum, 37 Christie Street,
Menlo Park Section of Edison, NJ 08820.
Information: Contact northjerseygold “AT” ieee.org
NJ MTT-S/AP-S Ch:
Non-Foster Matching of Electrically-Small Antennas: Theory and Experimental Results
On
October 17, 2007, the IEEE NJ Section MTT/S/AP-S along with NJIT will host a
talk on “Non-Foster Matching of Electrically-Small Antennas: Theory and Experimental Results." The speaker will be Dr. Stephen E.
Sussman-Fort.
About
the Talk
Electrically-small
antennas cannot be efficiently impedance-matched over any significant frequency
band because of the gain-bandwidth restrictions which arise from the difficult
impedances that such antennas present.
Non-Foster matching bypasses this fundamental restriction by employing
negative reactive elements, realized by means of negative impedance converters
(NICs). For receive applications, which
is the focus of this talk, non-Foster matching results in great improvement in
signal-to-noise ratio as compared to optimal passive matching applied to the
same electrically-small antenna. For
transmit applications, non-Foster matching yields great improvement in power
efficiency as compared to optimal passive matching applied to the same
electrically-small antenna.
After
a discussion of the basic ideas of non-Foster matching, NICs, circuit stability
and some early work only now available in the public domain, we present our
experimental results and antennas-range measurements. In our first experiment, we use a floating
negative capacitor to cancel a substantial portion of the reactance of a
6" monopole antenna. Over 20-110
MHz, the signal-to-noise ratio improved by up to 9dB as compared to the same
antenna with no matching, Because of the high-Q of the antennas, no matching is
actually a viable choice among the best possible passive wideband matching
networks that can be designed. A 12”
dipole version of the antenna yielded up to 20dB S/N improvement over 20 – 120
MHz.
In
our second experiment, we extended the frequency range over which non-Foster
matching may be applied. In particular,
we use non-Foster techniques to impedance match a lossy electrically-small
dipole antenna. On the antenna range, we
measured up to 30 dB gain improvement over 60 – 200 MHz with several dB of
improvement as high as 400 MHz. Again,
the comparison was to the same antenna with no matching at all. Although no S/N measurements were made, the
circuits we used were based upon the same low-noise designs developed earlier
for our lower-frequency circuits.
Because of the lossiness of the antenna, passive matching can do a
little better than no matching at all, and these results are illustrated in
simulation.
About
the Speaker
Professor
Stephen E. Sussman-Fort received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from
UCLA, the MSEE from Princeton, and the BSEE from the City College of New
York. For the past 26 years, he has been
a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the State
University of NY at Stony Brook where he teaches radio frequency electronics
and analog laboratories. In 1992 and
1997, he was a visiting professor at the Research Institute for Microwave and
Optical Communications (IRCOM) at the University of Limoges, France, where he
performed research on microwave active filters.
He is the author of MATCHNET (Artech House, 1991), a program for the
automated design of microwave matching networks, and of CiAO, a program for the
analysis and optimization of microwave circuits. He also has worked at or consulted for such
companies as Bell Laboratories, Hughes Aircraft, TRW, the Aerospace
Corporation, IBM, Dayton T. Brown, and Hazeltine. He is now employed by the EDO Corporation
where is the principal investigator for research on practical applications of
negative impedances. In addition, he is
a Senior Member of the IEEE, and an Associate Editor of the International
Journal on RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Design. He has published extensively in his research
areas.
All
Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00PM, Wednesday, October 17, 2007. Free buffet dinner will be available at 6:30
PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets),
Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr. Edip Niver, (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), Kirit
Dixit, (201) 669-7599, or Har Dayal, (973) 633-4618, har.dayal “AT”
baesystems.com.
North Jersey SMC Society:
Self-Adaptive Learning for Machine Intelligence
On
Tuesday, October 23, 2007, the NJ Systems, Man & Cybernetics (SMC) Chapter
will be hosting a seminar at NJIT on the topic noted above. Dr. Haibo He, a Stevens Institute of Technology
faculty member, will be the presenter.
About
the Talk
With
the recent development of brain research and modern technologies, scientists
and engineers will hopefully find efficient ways to build brain-like
intelligent systems that are highly robust, adaptive, and fault tolerant to
uncertain environments. Yet, building
such complex intelligent systems requires serious research on both the
fundamental understanding of intelligent behavior and biologically-inspired intelligent
mechanisms. This seminar covers
different aspects of algorithms, models and architectures for self-adaptive
learning, with a focus on memory and anticipation mechanisms. This research provides new understandings
about how to design intelligent systems that are able to learn information with
ambiguity, make associations, accumulate knowledge, and interact with the
environment in real time to accomplish desired goals. Various applications including
classification, image recovery, and sequence learning will be presented. Future research directions and challenges in
this field will also be discussed.
About
the Speaker
Dr.
Haibo He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology.
His primary research interest is self-adaptive intelligent systems,
including bio-inspired learning mechanisms, hardware systems (VLSI/FPGA)
prototyping, design, and testing, as well as computational intelligence and
applications. He has developed a number
of innovative approaches to algorithms and models for machine intelligence and
has authored and co-authored over 20 journal and conference papers. He has served on the International Technical
Program Committee for several major conferences, as well as being a regular
reviewer for several international journals.
He is a member of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Technical
Committee on Computational Intelligence and is also a member of IEEE and AAAI.
All
Welcome!
You
need not be a member of IEEE to attend, and there is no charge for admission. Light refreshments will be served starting at
6:45 PM.
Time: 7:00 PM (light refreshments at 6:45 PM),
Tuesday, October 23, 2007.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets),
Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr. Mike Liechenstein, (973) 471-0721,
(m.liechenstein “AT” ieee.org). Please RSVP
and check the electronic newsletter for any changes
NJ SP Chapter:
Statistical Model for Digital Image Forensics
On
October 4, 2007, the IEEE North Jersey Section Signal Processing Chapter along
with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of NJIT will host a
talk on “Statistical Model for Digital Image Forensics.” The speaker will be Dr. Yun Q. Shi.
About
the Talk
In
this talk, the role of statistical model played in digital image forensics is
addressed. First, its role played in
image steganalysis is described. Some
typical examples are presented. Then,
the talk moves from image steganalysis to image splicing (a fundamental form of
tampering) detection. The difference and
relationship between steganalysis and splicing detection is discussed. Along this line, a recently developed
advanced statistical model of natural images learned from steganalysis and its
successful performance in splicing detection are presented. The often confused term “model” is further
discussed by pointing out the difference between the image model used for image
compression and the statistical model developed for image forensics. Finally, statistical models used for
detecting JPEG (double) compression are briefly introduced.
About
the Speaker
Dr.
Yun Qing Shi has been a member of the Deptartment of ECE at NJIT since 1987,
and is currently a professor there. 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, multimedia data hiding and
security, 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 have been supported by some federal and
New Jersey State funding agencies. He is
an author/coauthor of 200 papers, a book and 4 book chapters. He holds two US patents, and has 20 US
patents pending (all of these pending patents have been licensed to third party
by NJIT). He is the chair of Technical
Program Committee of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2007
(ICME07), a co-chair of Technical Program Committee of International Workshop
on Digital Watermarking 2007 (IWDW07), and a fellow of IEEE.
All
Welcome!
Free
admission. You do not have to be a
member of IEEE to attend.
Time: 4:45 PM, Thursday, October 18, 2007. Pizza will be available at 4:30 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets),
Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Yun Shi, shi “AT” njit.edu, (973)-596-3501,
Alfredo Tan, tan “AT” fdu.edu, (201) 692-2347, or Hong Man, hman “AT”
stevens-tech.edu, (201)-216-5038.
NJ VTS Chapter:
Introduction to Smart Antennas
On
October 18, 2007, the IEEE North Jersey Section Vehicular Technology Society
Chapter will host a talk on smart antenna applications to wireless
communication. The speaker will be Dr.
Robert Soni of Alcatel-Lucent.
About
the Talk
The
use of cellular voice and data communication has exploded in the past 15
years. As the minutes of use have grown,
cellular operators have searched and investigated many different techniques to
improve capacity, quality, and coverage without requiring new spectrum. Smart antennas have been proposed for many
years as a method to maximize the utilization of this scarce resource. Now, almost 15 years after they were first
proposed for this application, they are being deployed for commercial cellular
3G systems.
While
viewed as an add-on for 3G systems, they are assumed to be available in the
first deployments for 4G systems. In
this talk, there will be a tutorial discussion of the use of smart antennas in
3G and 4G systems. The relationship of
smart antenna systems to MIMO (multiple-input/multiple-output) antenna systems
will be explained and the relative benefits of each system will be
discussed. The talk will also cover some
recent results from Alcatel-Lucent's efforts to commercialize smart antennas
for CDMA2000 with its two largest customers in North America. Practical deployment issues and performance
benefit will be discussed.
About
the Speaker
Robert
Soni graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a BSEE (Summa cum Laude)
in 1992. He received his MSEE in 1995
and PhD in 1998, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Soni joined Lucent Technologies - Bell
Laboratories in 1998 and is currently a Technical Manager in the Wireless
Business Group of Alcatel-Lucent. He and
his team are responsible for providing advanced technology at the physical layer
and medium access (MAC) layer for CDMA and OFDMA cellular systems. His group has been responsible for the
commercialization of "smart" or Intelligent and MIMO antenna
subsystems for cellular base-stations for CDMA2000, UMTS R99, HSDPA, HSUPA, and
now LTE technologies. In his spare time,
he teaches digital communication and wireless communications at NJIT and
Columbia University. Dr. Soni has
published more than 50 journal and conference articles and holds 15 patents in
wireless communication related areas.
All
Welcome!
Free
admission. You do not have to be a
member of IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Thursday, October 18, 2007. Free buffet will start at 6:30 PM.
Place: Alcatel-Lucent, 67 Whippany Rd, Whippany, NJ.
Information: Stephen Wilkowski, Lucent Technologies, (973) 386-6487,
swilkowski “AT” alcatel-lucent.com, Arthur Greenberg, (973) 386-6673, ahg1 “AT”
alcatel-lucent.com. Advance
registration is requested.
2007-2008 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 2007-2008 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 is available on the
website given below.
My
name is Russell Pepe, and I plan to Chair the Student Activities Committee
(SAC) again this year. You can reach me
at the following e-mail address: northjerseysac “AT” ieee.org. I met several of you last year at and look
forward to working with all of you during the upcoming school year.
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. It's 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 in and Professional Skills Development Workshop
will start up in the fall. 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.
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
northjerseysac “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.
Call for Fellow Nominations
Nominations
are being accepted for the IEEE Fellows class of 2009. The rank of IEEE Fellow is the institute's
highest member grade, bestowed on IEEE senior members who have contributed
"to the advancement or application of engineering, science and
technology." The deadline for
nominations is 1 March 2008.
Senior
members can be nominated in one of four categories: application
engineer/practitioner, research engineer/scientist, educator or technical
leader. The Fellows Web site contains
additional information on the nomination process including access to the
Fellows Nomination Kit, lists of Fellows who may be available as references as
well as the history of the IEEE Fellows program. Please visit the Fellows
website at http://www.ieee.org/fellows.
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 Dr. Chandra Gupta at c.gupta “AT” ieee.org. 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.
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 Dr. Chandra Gupta, c.gupta “AT” ieee.org.
Want to Host a Leadership Workshop at Your Branch?
This
year, we want to bring the leadership workshop to your branch and hold it
individually at your school! The leadership workshop is a great way to educate
your branch members on some of the details of IEEE, their roles as students in
IEEE, what is happening in the section and region, how they can get involved,
and most importantly, training for new officers that were just elected or will
be elected in the future.
If
you would like to hold one at your branch, just contact the organizer at
northjerseysac “AT” ieee.org. We can
make arrangements to hold a free workshop at an appropriate date and time.
News from IEEE-USA:
IEEE Technology-Related News Stories Aired in More Than Two-Dozen U.S. TV Markets; View Latest, Archived Spots
Beginning
in 2005, in collaboration with the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and other
technical professional organizations, IEEE-USA has helped to underwrite almost
300 local television news stories on engineering and science.
Since
January 2006, stories about IEEE-related technologies aired in more than
two-dozen U.S. TV markets, including New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San
Francisco, Tampa-St. Petersburg, Phoenix and Miami -- broadcast on ABC, CBS,
NBC, Fox, Univision, cable and independent TV affiliates. The average number of household views for
these markets is estimated at more than 70 million.
Recent
IEEE technology-related stories included: "Preparing for Disaster";
"Movie Magic"; "Engineers Invent Doppler-Based
Stethoscope"; "RFID-based
Recycling Technology Makes Philadelphia Greener"; and "Automotive
Engineers Team Up to Improve Energy-Saving Technology."
The
stories are aired as part of AIP's "Discoveries & Breakthroughs"
news service that delivers a dozen vetted 90-second spots (in English and
Spanish) to the top 66 television markets in the United States -- with a
potential reach of 75 million viewers.
A
limited number of DVDs of the IEEE technology-related TV spots can be obtained
by sending an e-mail to p.mccarter@ieee.org.
To
view the latest 90-second stories as
well as almost 100 archived spots -- all on IEEE-related technologies, go to http://www.aip.org/dbis/IEEE/.
Contact: Pender M. McCarter
Senior
Public Relations Counselor
IEEE-USA
Phone: (202) 530 8353
Employment: Mechanical Engineer
Vision Research, a local design and manufacturer of
very high speed digital cameras, is looking for qualified engineers to join its
design team. Expertise in small product enclosure design, sourcing and
finishing is essential. Skills in
thermal analysis, modeling and Solidworks design tools are necessary. This
person must have relevant industry experience of greater than 5 years to
qualify. The ideal candidate would be someone that has worked as a mechanical
engineer in an electronic products company.
Apply confidentially to Dick Toftness; rtoftness@visionresearch.com. Vision research is an EOE employer.
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 25 at the Hamilton Park
Conference Center, 175 Park Avenue, 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 15. 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.
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IEEE Life Grade Luncheon Registration NJ -
Name_________________________________________
Address_________________________________________
Phone _________________________________________
IEEE #______________ Life Grade ____Yes
Return to:
Ken Oexle
Prior to October 15 and enclose $5.00
Check payable to NJ Section IEEE
THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL
AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERS, INC.
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IEEE NORTH JERSEY SECTION MTT-Society and AP-Society
Joint Chapter PRESENT 22nd ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM AND
MINI-SHOW |
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FOCUS: SELECTED
TOPICS IN RF AND MICROWAVE COMMUNICATION
Hanover Manor
16 Eagle Rock Avenue, E. Hanover, NJ 07936 (Phone # 973-992-7425)
The conference presents a
series o f 9 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 - (9:30 AM TO 4:30 PM)
&
PRESENTATION
SCHEDULE (8:50AM TO 4:30PM)
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Time |
Topic |
Speakers |
Title |
Affiliation |
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8:50 |
Opening
Remarks |
George Kannell |
Tech. Chair
IEEE MTT/AP NJ |
Lucent
Technologies |
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9:00-9:30 |
Wireless LAN
Transceiver Design |
Murthy Upmaka |
Sr.
Applications Engineer |
Agilent
Technologies |
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9:30-10:00 |
TBA |
TBA |
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10:00 |
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10:30-11:30 |
Design of
RF-CMOS Integrated Circuits for Wireless Communications Sponsored Jointly
with EDS/CAS Chapter |
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Georg Boeck |
Professor |
Berlin
University of Technology |
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11:30-12:00 |
Dynamic
Mode-Coupling Silences Oscillator Phase Noise |
Dr. Ajay K.
Poddar |
Chief
Scientist |
Synergy
Microwave Research |
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12:00 |
Lunch |
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1:00-1:30 |
RF Trends for
Ubiquitous Wireless |
Alex
Pidwerbetsky |
CMTS |
LGS
Innovations |
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1:30-2:00 |
TBA |
TBA |
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2:00-2:30 |
GaN-on-Silicon
RF Power Devices – Current State & Future Directions |
Kevin J.
Linthicum, PhD |
Founder and
Chief Technology Officer |
Nitronex |
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2:30 |
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2:50-3:50 |
Who Was James
Clerk Maxwell and What Is/Was His Electromagnetic Theory |
Tapan K.
Sarkar |
Professor |
Syracuse
University |
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3:50 |
IEEE remarks |
Kirit Dixit |
Chair IEEE
MTT/AP NJ |
Microcom Sales |
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4:00-4:30 |
MINISHOW
EXHIBITORS |
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Registration is
on-site. Details will be published in
the October issue of the NORTH JERSEY IEEE NEWSLETTER and at http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/NEWSLETTER.html
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/AP Chapter: |
Co-Chair Co-Chair Vice Chair 2 Publicity Membership |
Har Dayal Willie Schmidt Art Greenberg Peter Donegan |
Mini-Show: |
General Chair: General Vice Chair: Tech. Program Facilities
Chair: |
Har Dayal Ken Oexle Russell Pepe |
IEEE North Jersey Section Course
C#
.NET Programming
Saturday morning, September 15, 2007 through December 1,
2007
Ten weekly classes (September 15, 29, October 6, 13, 20, 27,
November 3, 10, 17, December 1, 2007)
Place: AVTI, 25 Salem Street, Hackensack, NJ (Checks should
not be mailed to this address)
IEEE North
Jersey Section thanks AVTI for sponsoring this “hands-on” course at its site.
The IEEE North Jersey Section
is offering a course entitled "C# .NET Programming". Since 2002, C#
.NET has generated significant headway in Fortune 1000 enterprise development
systems. Dice.com lists 850+ C# .NET jobs in the New York tri-state area daily!
This course will cover the fundamentals of C# language, the .NET framework,
window and web-based applications, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, and XML. It will be useful
for anyone to develop applications based upon these tools.
You will receive the IEEE
Certificate of Completion when you finish the course. Microsoft Corp. has MCAD
and MCSD certifications. You may wish to
get certified by taking the necessary Microsoft exams with the knowledge gained
from this course.
Instructor: Donald
Hsu, Ph.D., has been a corporate manager for 11 years and is an experienced
trainer. Since 2001, he has trained 450+ people in C++, Java, WebLogic, XML, C#
.NET courses in 7 organizations.
TOPICS
1. Compare the enterprise
development tools using C++, Java to C# .NET
2. Define Visual Studio .NET
Version 2005
3. Identify C# syntax, data
type, control structures and common language runtime
4. Distinguish methods, arrays,
object-oriented programming
5. Build graphical user
interface, multithreading, files and streams
6. Explain the benefit of using
extensible markup language (XML)
7. Select database, SQL server, and
ADO .NET
8. Choose ASP .NET, web forms,
web controls, and web services
9. Operate the network,
streams-based socket and mobile toolkits
10. Search and sort, data
structures, generics and collections
11. Present student Projects
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WHERE: |
AVTI, 25 Salem Street, Hackensack,
NJ |
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WHEN: |
10 Saturdays, September 15,
29, October 6, 13, 20, 27, November 3, 10, 17, December 1, 2007, 9:00 AM to
12 noon |
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COST: |
IEEE (& affiliate)
members $500; Non-IEEE members $550 |
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CONTACT: |
Donald Hsu, yanyou “AT” hotmail.com |
REGISTRATION: C# .NET Programming
Please mail the completed
registration form with the check (payable to “North Jersey Section IEEE”) to:
Donald Hsu
Chair,
Education Committee
IEEE North
Jersey Section
Name: / Mr. / Mrs. / Miss / Ms. /
_____________________________________________ _________________________________
¨ Non-member Çemail addressÈ
¨ IEEE Member Member #:_________________________ Member of _____________________________
technical society
Employer:___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Employer
Address:____________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Home
Address:______________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Business (day) telephone
#:___________________________________
Home telephone #:________________________________
Please enclose required fee
payable to: North Jersey Section IEEE
As soon as a fully completed
registration form and the payment are received, you are officially registered
for this course. Registration status
will be notified in an email format.
¨ I wish to receive IEEE Completion Certificate Signature:___________________________________________
IEEE
North Jersey Section Course
Manage Global E-Commerce Projects
Tuesday Evenings, October 16, 2007
through
Eight weekly classes (October 16, 23, 30,
November 6, 13, 20, 27, December 11, 2007)
USPS, NJ International Bulk Mail
Center,80 County Rd, Jersey City, NJ
07097 (Checks should not be mailed to this address)
IEEE North Jersey Section appreciates USPS, BMC for sponsoring this
course at its site
This course covers the
management and entrepreneurial aspect of “Global E-Commerce”. Dice.com lists
5700+ Project related jobs in the New York area daily! Using Microsoft Project,
you completed projects in construction, engineering, information technology,
marketing or finance. When you see a niche in the market place, you write a
business plan. Then you get finance for your startup. Setting up a website, you are now selling to
6 billion world customers. You will be the next Ebay, MySpace or YouTube
billionaire$$$.
How do you do this? Do you have to learn HTML, JavaScript, Flash,
or PHP? Do you worry about the
accounting and legal issues? How do you get all the eyeballs? What is the catch? This course will provide detailed case
studies of 8+ countries on their success stories using e-commerce. It covers the complexity of dealing with
business partners, competitors, customer retention, and payment issues. In the continental Europe, there are 50
e-discount airlines since 1996! Yes anyone can start a web e-business, but
there is no guarantee of success.
By taking this course, you
can manage projects more effectively or you can start your own e-business. You
will receive the IEEE certificate of completion when you finish the course.
(This is not an exclusive PMI examination
prep course).
Instructor: Donald
Hsu, Ph.D., has been a corporate manager for 11 years and is an experienced
trainer. Since 1999, he has trained 950+ people in Accounting, International Business, Java, Global Finance, Marketing
Research and Project Management courses in eight organizations. He started and sold three businesses. Since 2004, he has been running a non-profit
global e-business.
TOPICS
1. Explain the need for a
project manager
2. Define SOW, PERT, GANTT, CPM,
and scope of the project
3. Complete milestones,
condition of satisfaction and final project reports
4. Contrast globalization and
national diversity
5. Choose the Silicon Valley
model
6. Compare France, Germany and
Japan E-Commerce
7. Identify China and Taiwan
E-Commerce
8. Distinguish Brazil and Mexico
E-Commerce
9. Select other European
countries
10. Analyze global convergence
issues and present student Projects
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WHERE: |
NJ International Bulk Mail Center, Jersey City,
NJ. (Checks should not be mailed to
this address) |
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WHEN: |
8 Tuesdays, October 16, 23, 30, November 6, 13,
20, 27, December 11, 2007, 6:30-9:00 PM. |
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COST: |
IEEE (& affiliate) members $420; Non-IEEE
members $470 |
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CONTACT: |
Donald Hsu, yanyou “AT”
hotmail.com |
REGISTRATION: Manage Global E-Commerce Projects
Please mail the completed registration form with the
check (payable to “North Jersey Section IEEE”) to:
Donald Hsu
Chair, Education Committee
IEEE North Jersey Section
Name: / Mr. /
Mrs. / Miss / Ms. /
_____________________________________________ _________________________________
¨
Non-member Çemail
addressÈ
¨ IEEE Member Member #:_________________________ Member of _____________________________
technical society
Employer:___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Employer
Address:____________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Home
Address:______________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Business (day) telephone
#:___________________________________
Home telephone #:________________________________
Please enclose required fee payable to: North
Jersey Section IEEE
As soon as a fully completed registration form and
the payment are received, you are officially registered for this course. Registration status will be notified in an
email format.
¨ I wish to receive IEEE Completion Certificate Signature:___________________________________________
NJ Power Engineering
Society/Industry Applications Society
Utility
Distribution Systems Technical Series
Transformers
Seminar
The
PES and IAS Chapters will sponsor a 3-month series of technical seminars on
utility distribution systems. This first
seminar will be on the topic of transformers.
The session will be held on Friday, October 19, 2007, at the PSE&G
Training Center, 234 Pierson Avenue, Edison, NJ.
Topics
ü
Transformer Design and Construction
ü
Voltage Designation/Transformer Operation
ü
Transformer Life and Loading
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Transformer Economics – Total Owning Cost
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Transformer Protection – Over voltage and Over current
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ANSI Standards
ü
Specification Writing
About the Instructor
Paul Pearce is a licensed
Professional Engineer in the State of New Jersey. Paul has worked as a Regional
Power Systems Engineer (Applications Engineer) for Cooper Power Systems for
seven years. Prior to that Paul spent 9 years as a Distribution Field
Engineer/Supervisor at Atlantic Electric and 1 year and 3 years as a Standards
Engineer at Atlantic Electric and GPU Energy respectively.
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The registration fee for this seminar
prior to October 5th 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 5th
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.
If desired, IEEE Continuing Education
Units will be offered for this course - a small fee of $25 will be required for
processing. A total of 0.4 CEUs will be
offered. Please indicate if desired
below.
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Time: |
9:00 AM
to 2:00 PM (lunch is included), Friday, October 19, 2007. |
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Place: |
PSE&G
Training Center, 234 Pierson Avenue, Edison NJ, 08837 |
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Directions: |
Route 287 to Exit 1A for Route 1 North and make
immediate right onto From NJ Turnpike, take exit 10 to Route 287 North
(follow directions above) |
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Information: |
Ronald W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade
“AT” ieee.org |
______________________________________________________________________
Registration: Transformers - Cooper Power Systems
Register
via US mail to: Ronald W. Quade, PE
Eaton Electrical
379 Thornall St, 8th Floor
Name____________________________________________________________________________________
Address__________________________________________________________________________________
Phone__________________
Email____________________________________________________________
IEEE
#_________________ Student @________________ Non IEEE_____ Life Member______
Continuing Education Units: Yes $25 No
If CEUs are chosen, please include a $25 processing
fee
Payment Enclosed $_______________ Add $25 late
registration after
Make checks payable to North Jersey Section IEEE (Credit
Cards cannot be processed at this time).