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September 2007
Volume 54, Number 2
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:
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Chair.........................................................
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Vice-Chair-1................................
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“AT” computer.org (732) 718-3818
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“AT” ieee.org
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Katherine Duncan (kb2zoo “AT” hotmail.com)
Seth
Jakel (sgjakel “AT” comcast.net)
The
IEEE North Jersey
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.
Members and Non-Members Welcome
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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