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September 2009
Volume 56, 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: 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
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08855-1331. USPS 580-500 (ISSN 1076-3732).
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SECTION OFFICERS
Chair....................................................... Amit
Patel
a.j.patel
“AT” ieee.org
Vice-Chair-1............................. Dr.
Sanghoon Shin
s.shin
“AT” ieee.org (973) 492-1207 Ext. 22
Vice-Chair-2.............................. Dr. Naresh
Chand
naresh.chand
“AT” baesystems.com (973) 636-7408
Treasurer......................................... Pete
Donegan
doneganp
“AT” ieee.org
Secretary.......................................... Russell
Pepe
rcpepe
“AT” ieee.org (201) 960-6796
Members-at-Large:
Dr. Katherine Duncan (kduncan “AT” ieee.org)
Dr. Mengchu Zhou (zhou “AT”
njit.edu)
The North Jersey
Section Executive Committee usually meets the first Wednesday (except holidays
and December) of each month at 7:00 PM. Meetings are open to all members. For information on meeting agenda contact
Secretary Russell
Pepe (201) 960-6796, rcpepe “AT” ieee.org.
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IEEE North Jersey
Section Activities
September 2009
Sep. 2 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30
PM,
“Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00
PM,
ITT, 77
River Rd,
Clifton, NJ. Russell Pepe at rcpepe “AT” ieee.org.
Sep.
9 –
“Engineers Meet: The Engineer’s View”, NJ PACE, GOLD, 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM,
Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ. Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625, PWard1130 “AT”
aol.com, Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954, rtax “AT” aea.org.
Sep.
9 –
“Lossless
Data Compression Using Reversible Data Hiding”, NJ SP, 4:30-5:30
PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Kupfrian 208, Newark, NJ. 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.
Sep.
10 –
“Privacy-Preserving Face
Recognition” by Dr. Stefan
Katzenbeisser, NJ SP, 2:45 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room
202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. 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.
Sep.
10 –
“Sustainable Technologies
for Humans and the Earth” by Dr. Yoshihiko
Takahashi, NJ Control Systems, 5:00-6:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit
Streets), Newark, NJ. Professor Timothy
Chang, (973) 596-3519, changtn “AT” njit.edu.
Sep.
12-13 –
“Vintage Computer
Festival East 6.0”, Saturday 10:00
AM - 6:00 PM
, Sunday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, InfoAge Science Center, 2201
Marconi Rd,
Wall, NJ. Evan Koblentz, (646) 546-999, evan “AT”
snarc.net.
Sep.
17 –
“Nanowire Biosensors” by Professor Mark A.
Reed, NJ EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00
PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), 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. 18 – “Renewable Energy Projects in NJ”
by George Dzurina, NJ SMC and Montclair Society of Engineers, 8:00 PM, Union Congregational Church, 176 Cooper Ave, Upper Montclair, NJ.
Dr. Mike Liechenstein (973-471-0721) or itsmikesju “AT” aol.com.
Sep.
24 –
“Digital
Insecurity” by Arthur J. Hedge III, NJ Computer Society,
7:00 PM, Public Meeting Room, Morris County Library, 30 E. Hanover Ave,
Whippany, NJ. Michael Malm (201)
355-6167, mmalm “AT” ieee.org, Seth Jakel (973) 731 1902, (973) 820-1865,
sgjakel “AT” comcast.net or Howard Leach (973) 540-1283, hhleach “AT” ieee.org.
Sep.
25-27 –
“2009
Region 1 Professional Development Seminar – Engineer the Future”, NJ WIE, Crowne Plaza
Hotel, White Plains, NY. See www.ieee.org/go/wiepds2009 or email drivera938
“AT” ieee.org for more information.
Sep.
28 –
“See How Antennas Work” by Dale Clement, AF1T,
NJ MTT-S/AP-S Chapters, 7:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Dr. Edip Niver, (NJIT), (973) 596-3542 , Har
Dayal, (973) 633-4618, har.dayal “AT”
baesystems.com or Kirit Dixit, (201) 669-7599, kdixit “AT” ieee.org.
Upcoming
Meetings
Oct.
1 –
“2009 MTT/AP Symposium and
Mini-Show” – MTT-S/AP-S Chapter, 9:00
AM - 4:30 PM,
Hanover Manor, 16
Eagle Rock Avenue, E. Hanover, NJ. Kirit Dixit (201) 669-7599 (kdixit “AT”
ieee.org), Art Greenberg (a.h.greenberg “AT” ieee.org), Har Dayal (973)
633-4618 (har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com), or George Kannell (973) 386-4170 (gkk
“AT” gsinnovations.com).
Oct.
7 –
“NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive Committee
Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 77
River Rd,
Clifton, NJ. Russell Pepe at rcpepe “AT” ieee.org.
Oct.
8 –
“Internet 2.0: Hype or Hope?” by Professor Henning
Schulzrinne, NJ Communications Society Chapter, 6:00 PM, New Jersey Institute
of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670
(nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or Yanchao Zhang (973) 642-7817. Also check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html for the latest updates.
Oct.
14 –
“Engineers
Meet: Learn Our Approach to Regaining
Control Over Your Financial Life”,
NJ PACE, GOLD, WIE, 6:30
PM to 9:00 PM,
Clifton Memorial Library, 292
Piaget Ave,
Clifton, NJ. Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625, PWard1130 “AT”
aol.com, Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954, rtax “AT” aea.org, Dr. Katherine
Duncan, (973) 209–8607, kduncan “AT” ieee.org.
Oct.
14 - Dec. 9 –
“C# .NET Programming” by Donald Hsu, PhD,
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM, Advanced Technical Marketing, Suite 113, 1719 Route 10,
Parsippany, NJ. Donald Hsu, yanyou “AT”
hotmail.com.
Oct.
22 –
“Long Term Evolution
(LTE) Radio Access Network (RAN) Overview” by Dr. Matthijs A.
Visser, NJ VTS & MTT-S/AP-S, 7:00 PM,
Alcatel-Lucent, Room WH15E-1, 67 Whippany Rd, Whippany, NJ. Pre-registration is requested! Stephen Wilkowski (973)-386-6487 (swilkowski
“AT” alcatel-lucent.com) or Arthur Greenberg (a.h.greenberg “AT” ieee.org).
Oct.
29 –
“Life Grade Luncheon”, Hamilton Park Conference Center, Florham
Park,
NJ. Ken Oexle (973) 386-1156.
Nov.
11 –
“Engineers Meet: Learn Ways to Define Your Retirement Goals
and Plan to Reach Them in Today’s Changing Market”, NJ PACE, GOLD, WIE, 6:30 PM to 9:00
PM, Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ. Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625, PWard1130 “AT”
aol.com, Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954, rtax “AT” aea.org, Dr. Katherine
Duncan, (973) 209–8607, kduncan “AT” ieee.org.
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IEEE and North
Jersey Section Going Web 2.0, Facebook & Linked-In
If you are reading this article, there is a good
chance you are reading this either on a paper newsletter or on a static
webpage. Some of that will be changing
to provide the reader alternative channels of accessing important information.
This article tries to provide a brief introduction
to RSS, Really Simple Syndication, which is the core technology behind Web 2.0
features, applications, and how IEEE is now using it.
There are many detailed descriptions of RSS and how
it works (see Wikipedia for a good introduction to RSS and XML), but in the
context of Web 2.0, it is an XML (eXtensible markup language) based push
technology that allows for moving information from the content producer to the
appropriate client software being used to aggregate data from many sources to
present to the user.
Many people are already using such client software
without actually knowing that it is RSS and XML driving it under the hood. For example, news portal sites like Yahoo
utilize RSS, Google Reader is an aggregator that also collects subscribed feeds
as diverse as news stories, daily blogs, to audio and video podcasts. Popular social networking sites like Facebook
and Linked-In are also powered by this technology and push member's status
changes and postings out to email, twitter and SMS.
So what does this have to do with the IEEE? One great example of how the IEEE currently
uses Web 2.0 is the individualized myIEEE (http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/myieee.html)
portal that every single member has as part of their membership. It allows for customization of products and
services of interest to the member as well as notification of IEEE wide events
of interest in different categories.
Additionally, a little over a year ago the IEEE
introduced a new meeting and event announcement system which allows for
publishing feeds of these events to the public.
This data is then collected using the subscriber's favorite client
aggregator software.
Many people make use of one or more of such
technologies and can now integrate their access to local IEEE event
notifications. Over the course of the
next year the North Jersey Section will roll out all meeting and event
notifications using RSS. You can begin
to participate now using the following URL:
meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meetings/rss/1/
NORTH%20JERSEY
Paste this address into your RSS reader or
aggregator software of choice. You can even use Microsoft Outlook 2007 to
collect notifications. Just go to the
tools, account settings, RSS feeds tab and paste this URL into the dialog box.
Additionally, if you use Facebook or LinkedIn, the
North Jersey Section now has a Facebook fan page that you can become a fan of
and all these meeting postings will be notified via the fan page which you can
join here:
www.facebook.com/pages/IEEE-North-Jersey-Section/
If you use LinkedIn, you can join the IEEE North
Jersey Section Group to receive the same event notifications as well. Just go to
www.linkedin.com
and search for IEEE North Jersey Section under the
groups menu.
Click through links for both the fan page and group
will be available off the main North Jersey Section website at http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj. As the process of rolling out better
integrated Web 2.0 functionality continues via myIEEE and our Facebook fan page
and Linked-In group, the updates will be publicized in future articles. For now, try out RSS feeds and our Fan Page
and or Group to see how you can make better use of this information using your
notification channel of choice.
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NJ Communications Society:
Internet 2.0:
Hype or Hope?
On Thursday,
October 8, 2009, the IEEE Communications Society will host a presentation
titled “Internet 2.0: Hype or
Hope?” The speaker will be IEEE COMSOC
Distinguished Lecturer Professor Henning Schulzrinne.
About
the Talk
The Internet has
become a core civilizational infrastructure, along with energy, water and
transportation. However, there are
increasing concerns that the current design of the Internet has ossified,
yielding ever more complex systems that remain unreliable. I will try to outline some of the key
challenges facing the Internet, from address exhaustion, routing scaling and
fairness to security and manageability, and summarize some of the research and
early standardization efforts that try to address these problems.
About
the Speaker
Professor Henning
Schulzrinne, Levi Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University,
received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst,
Massachusetts. He was an MTS at AT&T
Bell Laboratories and an associate department head at GMD-Fokus (Berlin),
before joining the Computer Science and EE departments at Columbia
University. He served as chair of
Computer Science from 2004 to 2009.
Protocols
co-developed by him, such as RTP, RTSP and SIP, are now Internet standards, used by almost all Internet
telephony and multimedia applications.
His research interests include Internet multimedia systems, ubiquitous
computing, mobile systems. He is a
Fellow of the IEEE.
All
Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to
attend.
Time: 6:00
PM, Thursday, October 8, 2009, refreshment will be offered at 5:45 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/about/visit/gettingtonjit.php.
Information: Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670
(nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or Yanchao Zhang (973) 642-7817. Also check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html for the latest updates.
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NJ Computer Society:
Digital
Insecurity
On Thursday, September 24th, 2009, the IEEE North Jersey Section Computer Society
Chapter will host a presentation entitled “Digital Insecurity” by Arthur J.
Hedge III.
About
the Talk
The amount of digital information is growing at an
exponential rate. As it becomes more and
more valuable the number of data breaches and risk of data loss faced by
individuals, organizations, and countries continue to grow. Mr. Hedge will cover what the digital world
looks like today, what the threat landscape is, and how we can protect
ourselves.
·
Threats faced by individuals.
·
Threats faced by organizations.
·
What you can do about it.
·
What organizations can do about it
About
the Speaker
Arthur Hedge is the President of Castle Ventures
LLC. Castle Ventures is an Information
Technology consulting firm focused on security.
Mr. Hedge has over 20 years of consulting experience in the IT
field. Mr. Hedge is a graduate of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two sons. He is a member of a number of professional
organizations, including Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), and
the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). Mr. Hedge servers as a mentor for Columbia
University’s Technology Management program.
He is a frequent speaker and writer on technology subjects.
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, Thursday, September 24th, 2009, pre-meeting buffet starting at 6:00 PM.
Place: Public Meeting Room, Morris
County Library, 30 E. Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ, (973) 285-6930.
Information: Michael Malm (201) 355-6167,
mmalm “AT” ieee.org, Seth Jakel (973) 731 1902, (973) 820-1865, sgjakel “AT”
comcast.net or Howard Leach (973) 540-1283, hhleach “AT” ieee.org.
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NJ Control System:
Sustainable
Technologies for Humans and the Earth
On September 10, 2009, the IEEE NJ Control Systems
Chapter together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a
presentation on “Sustainable Technologies for Humans and the Earth." The speaker will be Dr. Yoshihiko Takahashi.
About
the Talk
In this talk, aspects and examples of the
sustainable technologies for humans and the earth will be presented. The first example is a robotic wheelchair
with inverted pendulum control by which a wheelchair-bound person can climb
over a step without external assistance.
The robotic wheelchair raises its front wheels in front of a step and
maintains the inverted pendulum control to go forward and backward using the
user’s body inclination. After the front
wheels land on the step, the robotic wheelchair can climb over the step,
assisted by DC motor force. The
experimental results focus on the step climbing control and the human
psychological flutter. The next example
is a self-transfer aid robotic system which assists people with impaired
walking ability. With the aid transfer,
these users can maneuver themselves independently to carry out daily
necessities. In practice, users lean
their upper-bodies onto the saddle of a robotic arm, which lifts and transfers
them to their destination. Results have
confirmed that this self-transfer aid robotic system can lift a human body
gently and more efficiently. The third
example is a low cost, small fuel cell vehicle with reduced carbon dioxide
emissions. The design is based on the
rules of the Japanese light weight electrical vehicle competition, ECONO MOVE, held every year in May
in Akita prefecture, Japan. In this competition, each vehicle is
evaluated based on its running distance while using two 60 NL hydrogen tanks
over a two hour period. We will detail
the vehicle concept and fuel cell driving system. Finally, we will provide the experimental
results of the improvements of the fuel cell driving system and the efficiency
of the hydrogen flow rate of the system.
About
the Speaker
Yoshihiko Takahashi
is a Professor of Mechanical Systems Engineering at Kanagawa Institute of
Technology. He has also been working for
Toshiba Corporation since 1980. He has
been teaching control systems, mechatronics, and robotics at the same school
since 1996. His research interests are
in human assist robotic systems, fuel cell electrical vehicle, and applications
of sustainable energy. He is the author
or coauthor of more than one hundred journal and international conference
papers, and four books. Yoshihiko
Takahashi received his Master's and Doctorate degrees in mechanical systems
engineering from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan, in 1980
and 1995 respectively.
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: 5:00-6:00 PM, Thursday, September 10, 2009.
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/about/visit/gettingtonjit.php.
Information: Professor Timothy Chang, (973) 596-3519,
changtn “AT” njit.edu.
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NJ EDS/C&S:
Nanowire
Biosensors
On September 17, 2009, the IEEE NJ Section
Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters together with the New Jersey
Institute of Technology will host a talk on “Nanowire Biosensors." The speaker will be Distinguished Lecturer,
Professor Mark A. Reed.
About the Talk
Nanoscale electronic devices have the
potential to achieve exquisite sensitivity as sensors for the direct detection
of molecular interactions, thereby decreasing diagnostics costs and enabling
previously impossible sensing in disparate field environments. Semiconducting nanowire-field effect
transistors (NW-FETs) hold particular promise, though contemporary NW
approaches are inadequate for realistic applications. We present here a novel approach using
complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology that has not only achieved unprecedented
sensitivity, but simultaneously facilitates system-scale integration of
nanosensors for the first time. This
approach enables a wide range of label-free biochemical and macromolecule
sensing applications, including cell type discrimination through the monitoring
of live, stimulus-induced cellular response, and specific protein and
complementary DNA
recognition assays. An important
achievement is the introduction of real-time, unlabeled detection capability,
allowing for fundamental studies of cellular activation, and specific
macromolecule interactions at femtomolar
concentrations. Important aspects of
microfluidic integration and Debye screening will be discussed, along with the
demonstration of live cell peptide-specific immunoresponse.
About the Speaker
Professor Mark A. Reed received his PhD in Physics
from Syracuse University in 1983, after which he joined Texas Instruments. In 1990 Mark joined Yale University where he
holds the Harold Hodgkinson Chair of Engineering and Applied Science, and is
the Associate Director of the Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum
Engineering. His research activities
have included the investigation of electronic transport in nanoscale and
mesoscopic systems, artificially structured materials and devices, molecular
scale electronic transport, plasmonic transport in nanostructures, and chem/bio
nanosensors. Mark is the author of more
than 180 professional publications and 6 books, has given 19 plenary and over
260 invited talks, and holds 25 U.S. and foreign patents on quantum effect,
heterojunction, and molecular devices.
He has been elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and
Engineering and Who's Who in the World.
His awards include; Fortune Magazine “Most Promising Young Scientist”
(1990), the Kilby Young Innovator Award (1994), the Fujitsu ISCS Quantum Device
Award (2001), the Yale Science and Engineering Association Award for
Advancement of Basic and Applied Science (2002), Fellow of the American
Physical Society (2003), the IEEE
Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology (2007), and Fellow of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2009).
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to
attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Thursday, September 17, 2009. Free
buffet will begin 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/about/visit/gettingtonjit.php.
Information: Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973)
596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
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NJ MTT-S/AP-S Chapters::
See How
Antennas Work
On September 28,
2009, the IEEE NJ Section MTT/S/AP-S
chapters and the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on “See
How Antennas Work." The speaker
will be Dale Clement, AF1T.
About the Talk
"See How
Antennas Work" is a visual demonstration of various phenomena related to
radio communications and different types of antennas. Originally, it was a one hour program for
understanding the concepts encountered in studying for the entry-level
Technician Class Amateur Radio License.
Topics included Frequency, Wavelength, Polarization, Dipoles, Ground
Planes, and Directional Antennas (Quads and Yagis). Working antenna models were set up to
receive 432 MHz radio energy across a room, detected by small light bulbs. Audience participation helped to make this a
success. Use of light bulbs instead of
meters was more dramatic and less mathematical, an important consideration for
newcomers. 432 MHz was chosen because of
available equipment (a Microwave Module Transverter), and because practical
antennas are small enough to easily transport.
A one-half-wavelength dipole is about 13 inches (33 cm) long, and many
antennas can be easily constructed from No. 12 house-wire and wooden supports. Going to a much lower frequency would result
in larger antennas and require a longer room.
Going to a much higher frequency would make construction tolerances too
critical especially when accounting for the wire leads to the light bulbs. The program was well received, and was later
expanded to cover topics encountered in the General Class and Extra Class
Exams. Quite a few model antennas were
constructed; some of these (such as the half-square and Moxon rectangle) are
normally used at H. F., where they would be too large to fit in a room. Many topics can be demonstrated, including
phasing and stacking of antennas. These
topics can be chosen by the audience if time is limited.
About the Speaker
Dale P. Clement,
AF1T, of Henniker, New Hampshire, has been involved with
varied aspects of Radio Communications and Technology for many years. Dale's Electronics career has included
employment in Short-Wave Radio Repair, Antenna Design and Development
Engineering, Research, Design, and Development of Satellite Communications
Circuitry, and Electronics Instruction.
His RF experience spans the range from VLF through SHF Microwaves.
Dale owes much of his RF background to a nearly life-long enthusiasm for
Amateur Radio. Home-built equipment
first got him "on the air", and he still enjoys designing and
constructing station gear and antennas.
Pursuits include world-wide DX Contacts, HF and VHF Contests,
Meteor-Scatter, Microwave Experimentation, and EME (Earth-Moon-Earth)
Communications. Dale has a 10 GHz (3 cm)
World- Record Rain-Scatter Contact, and a 902 MHz (33 cm) World Record
Moon-Reflected Contact. He has an
Extra-Class License (call sign AF1T), is a Life Member of the American Radio
Relay League, and of the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation.
Dale strives to be well-rounded.
He is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, where he studied geology (especially paleontology and geophysics),
mathematics and engineering. His
non-radio interests are many and include travel (with wife, W1MKY), hiking,
folk music, calligraphy, and volunteer work.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to
attend.
Time:
7:00 PM, Monday, September 28, 2009.
Free buffet dinner will begin 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/about/visit/gettingtonjit.php.
Information: Dr. Edip Niver, (NJIT), (973)
596-3542 , Har Dayal, (973) 633-4618,
har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com or Kirit Dixit, (201) 669-7599, kdixit “AT”
ieee.org.
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NJ Section PACE, GOLD:
Engineers Meet:
The
Professional’s View
On Wednesday, September 9, 2009 the North
Jersey Section Professional Activities Committee along with Graduates of the
Last Decade will host a meeting to discuss the Profession as viewed by
attending Members.
About the Meeting
The meeting will focus on the status of our engineering
profession from the viewpoint of members attending the meeting. Subjects:
off-shoring, importing H-1B workers, etc. will be itemized and sent on
to the Presidents of IEEE and IEEE-USA.
We will also plan for future PACE meetings,
subjects and guest speakers.
You are encouraged to attend, voice your opinion
and invite your associates.
About the Speaker
We will not have a special guest speak. Richard Tax and Paul Ward, PACE Chair and
co-chair will host the meeting and collect the information from the floor.
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/policy/care
www.ieeeusa.org
www.programmersguild.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 and for information go to www.ieeeusa.org/policy/care/.
Time:
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM, Wednesday, September
9, 2009. 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, Richard
F. Tax, (201) 664-6954, rtax “AT” aea.org.
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NJ Section PACE, GOLD, WIE:
Engineers Meet:
Learn
Our Approach to Regaining Control Over Your Financial Life
On Wednesday, October 14, 2009 the North
Jersey Section Professional Activities Committee, Graduates of the Last Decade
and Women in Engineering will host a meeting to discuss approaches that can
assist in assessing your personal financial situation. Our speakers will be Matthew Niemczyk,
Financial Advisor Ameriprise Financial and TJ Spizzo, CRPC Advanced Financial
Advisor Ameriprise Financial.
About the
Meeting
Today, everyone
seems to be talking about the economy.
Talk about your own personal financial situation at our timely and
informative seminar: Understand Today, Own Your
Tomorrow: A New Perspective on Your Finances.
During this complimentary
seminar, you’ll learn ways to:
·
Invest
your savings safely and securely.
·
Get
back on track toward reaching your retirement goals.
·
Uncover
gaps in your financial plan.
There’s no cost or obligation, and this seminar will
not sell you any specific products or services.
That’s because Ameriprise Financial is committed to helping you learn
more about what you can do to feel financially prepared for today’s constantly
changing economy.
About the
Speakers
Matthew Niemczyk
received his BS in Business Economics, from the Pennsylvania State
University. He has been working in the
investment industry for over 7 years and is currently a fully certified
financial advisor for Ameriprise Financial.
His areas of focus include personal financial planning for retirement,
retirement income strategies, education funding, and investments. He works with his clients to design a
personal financial plan based on their life goals. This strategy focuses on helping them become
more confident about managing their financial objectives.
TJ Spizzo received
his BS in Business and Environmental Economics from Rutgers University. He is currently a fully certified, Advanced
Financial Advisor with Ameriprise Financial.
TJ has over 12 years experience in the investments industry and
currently holds his Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor designation. His area of focus is on personal financial
planning for retirement, retirement income strategies, tax management
strategies, and Protection planning/family security. His mission is to help his clients reach
their financial goals through a personal relationship based on personalized,
knowledgeable advise. TJ is, also,
actively involved in volunteering in the Mahwah Youth Sports Boosters
Association.
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/policy/care
www.ieeeusa.org
www.programmersguild.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 and
for information go to www.ieeeusa.org/policy/care/.
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM, Wednesday, October 14,,
2009. 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, Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954,
rtax “AT” aea.org, Dr. Katherine Duncan, (973) 209–8607, kduncan “AT” ieee.org.
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NJ Section PACE, GOLD,
WIE:
Engineers
Meet:
Learn
Ways to Define Your Retirement Goals and Plan to Reach Them in Today’s Changing
Market
On Wednesday, November 11, 2009 the North
Jersey Section Professional Activities Committee, Graduates of the Last Decade
and Women in Engineering will host a meeting to help you define goals and plan
for your retirement. Our speakers will
be Matthew Niemczyk, Financial Advisor Ameriprise Financial and TJ Spizzo, CRPC
Advanced Financial Advisor Ameriprise Financial.
About the Meeting
If
you’re looking for help defining your ideal retirement, along with planning to
save and invest for it, then you should attend our informative seminar: Retirement:
Planning Beyond the Numbers®.
During this complimentary seminar, you’ll learn
ways to:
·
Envision
your ideal retirement.
·
Build
a plan to help you reach your retirement goals, even in a changing economy.
·
Position
your finances as you plan for a long retirement.
This is an
informational seminar, and there’s no cost or obligation to attend. 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.
You
will receive our Dream Book® guide, to help you explore your retirement dreams.
About the Speakers
Matthew Niemczyk received his BS in Business
Economics, from the Pennsylvania State University. He has been working in the investment
industry for over 7 years and is currently a fully certified financial advisor
for Ameriprise Financial. His areas of
focus include personal financial planning for retirement, retirement income
strategies, education funding, and investments.
He works with his clients to design a personal financial plan based on
their life goals. This strategy focuses
on helping them become more confident about managing their financial
objectives.
TJ Spizzo received his BS in Business and
Environmental Economics from Rutgers University. He is currently a fully certified, Advanced
Financial Advisor with Ameriprise Financial.
TJ has over 12 years experience in the investments industry and
currently holds his Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor designation. His area of focus is on personal financial
planning for retirement, retirement income strategies, tax management
strategies, and Protection planning/family security. His mission is to help his clients reach
their financial goals through a personal relationship based on personalized,
knowledgeable advise. TJ is, also,
actively involved in volunteering in the Mahwah Youth Sports Boosters
Association.
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/policy/care
www.ieeeusa.org
www.programmersguild.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 and for information go to www.ieeeusa.org/policy/care/.
Time:
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM, Wednesday, November 11, 2009.
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, Richard
F. Tax, (201) 664-6954, rtax “AT” aea.org, Dr. Katherine Duncan, (973)
209–8607, kduncan “AT” ieee.org.
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NJ SP Chapter:
Lossless Data
Compression Using Reversible Data Hiding
On September 9, 2009, the IEEE NJ Signal
Processing Chapter together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will
host a talk on “Lossless Data Compression Using Reversible Data
Hiding." The speaker will be Dr.
Hyoung Joong Kim.
About the
Talk
Reversible data hiding can be used for lossless data compression. Reversible data hiding technique can reduce the length of binary sequence when the binary symbol probabilities are highly skewed. Due to the shortened sequence, compression time can be reduced while compression rate keeps unchanged. Performance can be comparable to arithmetic coding. Compression rate is slightly better or worse than arithmetic coding depending on the degree of shortening. On the other hand, compression time gets shorter. Arithmetic coding is slow due to complicated arithmetic operations such as addition, multiplication and division. Even though multiplication-free arithmetic coder is available, still arithmetic coding is slower than Huffman coding. The reversible data hiding technique proposed can be used as a preprocessing tool for arithmetic coding or Huffman coding.
About the
Speaker
Hyoung Joong Kim received his BS in Electrical Engineering in 1978, and MS and PhD degrees in Control and Instrumentation Engineering from Seoul National University in 1986 and 1989, respectively. From 1989 to 2006, he was on the faculty of Kangwon National University, Chunchon, Korea. He has held a visiting position at University of Southern California during 1992-1993. He is now a professor of Korea University, Seoul, Korea. He was a Prime Investigator of the iPCTV project during 1997-2000, and has developed MHP, ATVEF, and DASE data broadcasting platforms with the leading-edge companies and institutes in Korea including Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Daewoo Electronics, Korea Broadcasting Systems. During 2000-2005, he was the Prime Investigator of the iMS project, and has developed an interactive broadcasting system based on DASE and ACAP, personalized broadcasting system over TV-Anytime specification, and TVN for home networking solution over digital television. He was the founder of the International Workshop on Digital Watermarking (IWDW). He has served as a technical program chair, co-chair, or organizing chair of many international conferences. He is now preparing Asiacrypt 2011 as a general chair.
He was one of the Guest Editors of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology in 2003 and EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing in 2006. He was also the Head of the Media Service Research Center (MSRC-ITRC), one of the excellent research centers funded by the Ministry of Information and Communication, Korea during 2003-2005. He has contributed to the MPEG specifications including the digital item adaptation in MPEG-21, file format in MPEG-21 and MPEG-4, and symbolic music representation in MPEG-4. He has contributed to the development of robust watermarking, reversible data hiding, steganography, image processing, divisible load theory, and so on.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of IEEE to attend.
Time:
4:30-5:30 PM, Wednesday, September 9, 2009.
Pizza will be offered at 4:15 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Kupfrian 208, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/about/visit/gettingtonjit.php.
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.
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NJ SP Chapter:
Privacy-Preserving Face Recognition
On September
10, 2009,
the IEEE NJ Signal Processing Chapter together with the New Jersey Institute of
Technology will host a talk on “Privacy-Preserving Face Recognition." The speaker will be Dr. Stefan Katzenbeisser.
About the Talk
Face recognition is increasingly deployed as a means to unobtrusively verify the identity of people. The widespread use of biometrics raises important privacy concerns, in particular if the biometric matching process is performed at a central or untrusted server, and calls for the implementation of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies. In this talk we propose for the first time a strongly privacy-enhanced face recognition system, which allows to efficiently hide both the biometrics and the result from the server that performs the matching operation, by using techniques from secure multiparty computation. We consider a scenario where one party provides a face image, while another party has access to a database of facial templates. Our protocol allows to jointly run the standard Eigenfaces recognition algorithm in such a way that the first party cannot learn from the execution of the protocol more than basic parameters of the database, while the second party does not learn the input image or the result of the recognition process. At the core of our protocol lies an efficient protocol for securely comparing two Paillerencrypted numbers. We show through extensive experiments that the system can be run efficiently on conventional hardware.
About the Speaker
Stefan Katzenbeisser received the PhD degree from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. After working as a research scientist at the Technical University in Munich, Germany, he joined Philips Research as Senior Scientist in 2006. Since April 2008 he is an assistant professor at the Darmstadt University of Technology, heading the Security Engineering group. His current research interests include Digital Rights Management, security aspects of digital watermarking, data privacy, software security and cryptographic protocol design. He has authored more than 40 scientific publications and served on the program committees of several workshops and conferences devoted to watermarking and applied cryptography. Among others, he was the program chair of the Information Hiding Workshop (2005), the IFIP Communications and Multimedia Security Conference (2005) and the International Workshop on Digital Watermarking (2007).
Currently, he is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing and the EURASIP Journal on Information Security. He is a member of the IEEE, ACM and IACR.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of IEEE to attend.
Time:
2:45 PM, Thursday, September 10, 2009.
Pizza will be offered at 2:30 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/about/visit/gettingtonjit.php.
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.
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NJ VTS & MTT-S/AP-S Chapters:
Long Term
Evolution (LTE) Radio Access Network (RAN) Overview
On October 22, 2009, the IEEE North Jersey Section Vehicular Technology Society and MTT/AP Chapters will host a joint talk entitled “Long Term Evolution (LTE) Radio Access Network (RAN) Overview” by Dr. Matthijs A. Visser.
About the
Talk
Long Term Evolution (LTE) has been almost universally selected as the technology of choice for 4th generation wireless communications systems. It has been designed to meet high throughput and low latency requirements to support next generation wireless services. LTE allows for high spectral efficiency, flexible bandwidth utilization from 1.4 to 20 MHz, and high peak data rates through the use of higher order modulation (64-QAM) and multi-antenna techniques (MIMO). For example, peak rates in 10 MHz bandwidth are: for the downlink 75 Mbps with 2x2 MIMO, and for the uplink 20 Mbps with 16-QAM. This talk will give an overview of the LTE air interface, including OFDM, Downlink and Uplink air interface structure, LTE channels, peak rates, MIMO, scheduling and resource allocation, etc.
About the Speaker
Dr. Matthijs A. Visser received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1999, and prior to this a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology in Delft, the Netherlands. Dr. Visser is currently employed by Alcatel-Lucent where for the past 1.5 years he has worked on LTE trial activities. He has over 10 years of wireless industry experience and is the holder of two patents.
All
Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of IEEE to attend. Pre-registration is requested!
Time: 7:00 PM, Thursday, October 22, 2009. A free buffet will begin at 6:30 PM.
Place: Alcatel-Lucent, Room WH15E-1, 67 Whippany Rd, Whippany, NJ.
Information: For information, directions and to register
please contact Stephen Wilkowski (973)-386-6487 (swilkowski “AT” alcatel-lucent.com) or Arthur Greenberg
(a.h.greenberg “AT” ieee.org).
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Think you can
code? IEEEXTREME Programming Competition
3.0
http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/membership/students/xtreme/2009xtremead2.pdf
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2009-2010
Student Activities Kickoff
Welcome back to the
beginning of a new school 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 2009-2010 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
Jacqueline Varghese, and I plan to Chair the Student Activities Committee (SAC)
this year. Russell Pepe, who has chaired
the committee for several years, is now passing the baton onto me. 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 tentatively planned for March 2010. 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. Also, visit the new website at http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/sac. You will find the latest information
updated there or you can also join the mailing list to get regular reminders of
different events.
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Want to Host a Leadership Workshop at YOUR Student 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.
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North Jersey Section Seeks Volunteers to Conduct Business at
the Section Level
The NNJ IEEE
Section ExCom is seeking new volunteers to help conduct business at the section
level for an elected or nominated position for the benefit of its membership in
the North
Jersey
section and surrounding areas. You must
be an active IEEE member to hold an elected office at the section level. 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 or Har Dayal at har.dayal “AT” baesystems.
com. 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.
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Unemployed? - Did you know?
Unemployed IEEE members are entitled to a 50% dues reduction
IEEE realizes that economic circumstances may
impact some members' ability to pay the full amount of IEEE membership
dues. For this reason, the following
special circumstance categories have been established. Special circumstances are not available to
Student members. Only one category may
be claimed in any year.
IEEE offers the following special circumstances
categories:
• Minimum
Income
• Retired
• Unemployed
• Disabled
Minimum Income Provision: Applicants who certify that their prior
year's income did not exceed US $12,900
or equivalent are granted a 50% reduction in IEEE dues, regional
assessment and dues for one IEEE Society and its optional publications. Please submit written certification with
application and payment. Student members
are NOT eligible.
Retired Provision:
A retired member, not gainfully employed and not qualifying for Life
Member Status, on attaining the age of 62 years, may apply for a 50% reduction
in dues and assessments. An individual
who qualifies for the IEEE Retired Member category may continue any and all
Society memberships held for not less than the 5 prior years. Optional publication fees equal those
established for Student members.
Unemployed Provision: A 50% reduction in membership dues, Society
dues, other subscriptions and assessments are available to a member or
applicant who informs the IEEE Operations Center Office that he/she: (1) has
become involuntarily unemployed and is seeking reemployment, or (2) has become
voluntarily unemployed for reasons of raising children. A statement of continued unemployment shall
be provided with each annual dues payment.
In the case of voluntary unemployment, the provisions of this Bylaw
shall not exceed four years. The reduced
payments may not be made in installments.
Permanently Disabled Provision: The IEEE membership dues and assessments, if
any, shall be waived for those members who become permanently disabled. "Permanent disability" shall mean a
medically determinable physical or mental impairment which (i) renders the
individual incapable of performing any substantial gainful employment, (ii) can
be expected to be of long-continued and indefinite duration or result in death,
and (iii) is evidenced by a certification to this effect by a doctor of
medicine approved by the Executive Director.
The Executive Director shall determine the date on which the permanent
disability shall have occurred if such determination is necessary.
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North Jersey Section Seeks Committee Chairs
and Volunteers
The North Section is seeking new volunteers to help
conduct business for the benefit of its membership. There are a variety of volunteer positions
open and available. They range from
technical to non-technical, leadership or just participatory. For Society 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 North Jersey Section, please contact Dr. Chandra
Gupta at c.gupta “AT” ieee.org. You are
welcome to attend the Section business meeting held the first Wednesday of
every month to find out more and other volunteer activities that require some help.
Some committees needing volunteers include the
following. Please contact the person
indicated for additional information.
·
Power
Electronics Society Chapter Chair - contact c.gupta below.
·
GOLD (Graduates of the Last
Decade) Affinity Group Volunteers and Committee members needed - contact northjerseygold
“AT” ieee.org
·
WIE
(Women in Engineering) Affinity Group Volunteers and Committee members needed -
contact kduncan “AT” ieee.org
·
EMBS
(Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society) is seeking a chair and active
committee volunteers - contact c.gupta “AT” ieee.org.
·
Membership
Development Committee Chair and Volunteers - contact c.gupta below.
Additionally, if
interested volunteers would like to get more general information about the
Section, including a complete listing of
all chapters and committees, visit the North Jersey Section website http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/, or contact Dr. Chandra Gupta c.gupta “AT” ieee.org.
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No job? Take a hot course to get
a job!
The IEEE North
Jersey Education Committee ran programming and management courses since
1993. 229 IEEE members and non-members
completed these courses. Proven benefits: They got better jobs including one at
AT&T and Microsoft Corporation.
We need hot
courses, instructors and classrooms. If you can teach a hot course (the course
that people can get jobs), email your one-page abstract and your resume. If your NJ firm can provide a conference
room, evening or Saturday morning, contact Donald Hsu, Chair, yanyou “AT”
hotmail.com. Thank you and act NOW!
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North Jersey Section Life Members Affinity Group and Membership
Renewals
A Life Members
Affinity Group (LMAG) Chapter was created last year in the North Jersey Section
of the IEEE. All Life Grade Members in
the North Jersey Section are automatically members of this new group.
For the past few
years we've had a Life Grade Members Luncheon in the Fall, co-sponsored by the
North Jersey Power Engineering Society Chapter and the North Jersey
Section. We continue to plan additional
meetings during the year, based on feedback received from the over 600 Life
Grade Members in our Section.
If you are a Life
Member and did not respond to the membership dues mailing last fall, you were
re-categorized as a member "in arrears" a few months ago.
Even though Life
Grade Members do not pay standard dues or dues for societies in which they have
been members for at least five years, a response is still needed acknowledging
that they are still in the section and are interested in maintaining their
relationship with the IEEE.
If you haven't
responded to Membership Dues mailings for more than one year, you probably have
been categorized as an "Inactive" member by the IEEE. By contacting IEEE Member Services, as
described below, your membership can be reinstated and you will again be placed
in "Active" member status.
The 2010 Membership
Renewal drive starts this month, September 2009.
If you do not wish
to wait for the 2010 Membership mailing, or have been categorized as Inactive,
you may be able to renew your membership on line.
If you already have
an IEEE Web Account, your Membership Renewal can be done directly on the web
at:
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/renew/index.html
If you do not have
one, you can create a (free) IEEE Web Account at:
http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/help/task/my_account/web_account.html#create
If you had one and
can't remember your login or password, you can go to the same web page and
recover them, as long as you have your membership number. If you no longer have your membership
number, please contact Alan Stolpen at the North Jersey Section's Life Members
Affinity Group email address listed below to get your membership number.
If you have any
difficulty in submitting your renewal electronically, presently do not have an
IEEE web account or had difficulty getting one or recovering your login or
password, would like to receive a paper version of the renewal form, or have
any other questions, please contact Member Services on line at:
http://www.ieee.org/memberservices
or contact
Debra Hale,
Member Services
Associate
IEEE Member Services Contact Center
(732) 562-6586
The main number for
the IEEE in Piscataway is (800)
678-4333.
If you have
difficulty contacting Member Services, contact Alan Stolpen at the following
Life Members Affinity Group email address:
lm.norjersec “AT” gmail.com.
Alan H. Stolpen
Chair, North Jersey
Section Life Members Affinity Group (LMAG)
lm.norjersec “AT”
gmail.com
a.stolpen “AT”
ieee.org
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News from IEEE-USA:
IEEE-USA Commends DOE's $2.4 Billion Grants
to Accelerate Development of Electric Vehicles, Components
Washington (7
August 2009) - IEEE-USA commends the Department of Energy for awarding $2.4
billion in grants to fund 48 new advanced battery and electric drive projects.
"We welcome
these investments, because electrifying transportation addresses two of our
greatest needs: reducing our consumption of petroleum and limiting the release
of greenhouse gases," IEEE-USA President Gordon Day said.
The grants are the
largest single investment in advanced battery technology for hybrid and
electric-drive vehicles. When coupled
with an expected $2.4 billion in cost share from the grant awardees, they are
expected to create thousands of jobs in the U.S. battery and automotive
industries. General Motors will receive
about $241 million, Ford will get nearly $100 million and Chrysler $70 million.
IEEE-USA called for
electrifying the transportation system through widespread deployment of plug-in
hybrid electric vehicles in its January "National Energy Policy
Recommendations." See
http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/positions/energypolicy.pdf.
The grants were
announced by President Barack Obama on Wednesday. See http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press
_office/24-Billion-in-Grants-to-Accelerate-the-Manufacturing-and-Deployment-of-the-Next-Generation-of-US-Batteries-and-Electric-Vehicles/.
IEEE-USA advances
the public good and promotes the careers and public policy interests of more
than 210,000 engineers, scientists and allied professionals who are U.S. members of IEEE. IEEE-USA is part of IEEE, the world's largest
technical professional society with 375,000 members in 160 countries. See http://www.ieeeusa.org.
Contact: Chris
McManes
IEEE-USA Public
Relations Manager
(202) 530 8356
c.mcmanes@ieee.org
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News from IEEE-USA:
Unemployment Survey E-Book Provides Insight
into High-Tech Job Loss
Washington (24 July
2009) - With the unemployment rate for U.S. electrical and electronics
engineers (EEs) at an all-time high in the second quarter, an IEEE-USA e-book
provides insights into the causes -- and remedies -- for job loss among
technical professionals.
The e-book is based
on a 2008 survey of unemployed U.S. IEEE members.
The jobless rate
for EEs increased from 4.1 percent in the first quarter to a record-high 8.6
percent in the second, according to data released in early July by the
Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. The previous quarterly record was 7 percent,
in the first quarter of 2003.
The first section
of the e-book reports the percentage distribution or mean response for each of
the questions in the survey. The second
features the results of selected cross tabulations that focus on age and
various aspects of employment status.
The third highlights the results of a multivariate analysis that focuses
on the impact of age on the duration of unemployment when other factors are
held constant. The final section
compares some of the current results to those in 1995, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004
and 2006.
“2008 IEEE-USA
Unemployed Members Survey: The Results” can be purchased at
www.ieeeusa.org/communications/ebooks
for $9.95 (IEEE
members) or $19.95 (nonmembers).
IEEE members can
log in using their IEEE Web account to purchase IEEE-USA e-books at deeply
discounted prices and to download free e-books.
IEEE-USA advances
the public good and promotes the careers and public policy interests of more
than 210,000 engineers, scientists and allied professionals who are U.S. members of IEEE. IEEE-USA is part of IEEE, the world’s largest
technical professional society with 375,000 members in 160 countries. See http://www.ieeeusa.org.
Contact: Sharon
Richardson
IEEE-USA
Communications Assistant
(202) 530-8363
s.richardson@ieee.org
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Vintage
Computer Festival East 6.0
www.vintage.org
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2009 Region 1
Professional Development Seminar – Engineer the Future
www.ieee.org/go/wiepds2009
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Life Grade Luncheon
The PES Chapter and the Section will sponsor
a luncheon for North Jersey IEEE Life Grades (Members, Senior Members and
Fellows) on Thursday October 29 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
Oct 19. 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
regarding the event contact Ken Oexle (973) 386-1156.
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IEEE Life Grade Luncheon Registration
NJ - Oct 29, 2009
Name_________________________________________
Address_________________________________________
Phone
_________________________________________
IEEE #______________ Life Grade ____Yes
Return to:
Ken Oexle
11 Deerfield Rd
Whippany, NJ 07981
Prior to October 19 and
enclose $5.00 Check payable to NJ Section IEEE
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THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERS, INC.
IEEE NORTH JERSEY SECTION
MTT-Society
and AP-Society Joint Chapter
PRESENT
24th
ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM AND MINI-SHOW
FOCUS:
SELECTED
TOPICS IN RF AND MICROWAVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY APPLICATIONS
DATE: THURSDAY OCTOBER 1, 2009
PLACE: Hanover Manor, 16 Eagle
Rock Ave, E. Hanover, NJ 07936. Ph# (973) 992-7425
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
9:00
AM TO 4:30 PM
TECHNICAL
SESSIONS
10 –12 LECTURES FEATURING SPEAKERS FROM
LEADING
COMPANIES, WITH EMPHASIS ON MILITARY
ELECTRONICS,
WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES AND MICROWAVE COMMUNICATIONS.
MINI SHOW FEATURING LATEST PRODUCTS
(APPX.
30-40 EXHIBITORS)
(COMPLIMENTARY
LUNCH SERVED)
Details of the schedule and speakers and the topics will be
posted on the IEEE North Jersey Section Home page http://www-ec.njit.edu/~ieeenj/NEWSLETTER.html by September.
For further
information contact:
CHAIR/EXHIBITION: KIRIT DIXIT (201-669-7599), kdixit “AT” ieee.org
PUBLICITY: ARTHUR GREENBERG, a.h.greenberg “AT” ieee.org
EVENT/ LOCATION
CO-ORDINATOR: KEN OEXLE (973-386-1156)
CO-CHAIR–
TECHNICAL PROGRAMS: HAR DAYAL (973-633-4618) har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com
CO-CHAIR -
TECHNICAL PROGRAM: GEORGE KANNELL
(973-386-4170) gkk “AT” lucent.com
THERE IS NO CHARGE TO ATTEND THE
SYMPOSIUM OR SHOW
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IEEE North
Jersey Section Course
C# .NET Programming
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 through December 9, 2009
Eight weekly classes (October 14, 21, 28, November 4, 11, 18, December
2, 9, 2009)
Place: Advanced Technical Marketing, Suite 113, 1719 Route 10, Parsippany,
NJ 07054
(Checks should not be mailed to this address)
IEEE North Jersey Section thanks Advanced Technical Marketing 
for sponsoring this course.
The IEEE North Jersey Section is offering a course
entitled "C# .NET Programming". Since
2004, C# .NET has generated significant headway in Fortune 1000
enterprise development systems. Dice.com lists 700+ 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 2004, he has trained 700+ people in
database, Java, WebLogic, XML, and C# .NET courses in 7
organizations.
TOPICS
1. Compare the enterprise development tools
using Java to C# .NET
2. Define Visual Studio .NET
Version 2005 to 2008
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 services, advanced topics
9. Present student Projects
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WHERE:
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Advanced
Technical Marketing Suite 113, 1719 Route 10, Parsippany, NJ 07054
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WHEN:
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Eight
Wednesdays, October 14, 21, 28, November 4, 11, 18, December 2, 9, 2008, 6:30
to 9:00 p.m.
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COST:
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IEEE
(& affiliate) members $500; Non-IEEE members $550.
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CONTACT:
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Donald
Hsu, yanyou “AT”
hotmail.com
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REGISTRATION: C# .NET Programming
Please mail the
completed registration with a check (payable to “North Jersey Section IEEE”) to:
Donald
Hsu, Chair Education Committee, IEEE North Jersey Section, P.O. Box 2093, Fort
Lee, New Jersey 07024.
Name: _____________________________________________ Email address
_________________________________
˙ Non-member
˙ 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 the completed
registration form and the payment are received, you are officially registered
for this course.
Registration status
will be confirmed by email.
˙ I wish to receive IEEE Completion Certificate Signature:___________________________________________
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