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September 2010
Volume 57, 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
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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.................................................. Vacant
Secretary......................................... Russell
Pepe
rcpepe
“AT” ieee.org (201) 960-6796
Members-at-Large:
Pete Donegan (doneganp “AT” ieee.org)
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 2010
Sep. 1 – “NJ Section Meeting”,
6:30 PM, “Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, Clifton Public Library - Allwood
Branch, 44 Lyall Road, Clifton, NJ 07012.
Russell Pepe at rcpepe “AT” ieee.org.
Sep. 8 – “Engineers
Meet: For a Critical Discussion
Concerning the Problems of the Off-shoring of Manufacturing and the Need for
Its Return” with Richard Tax, NJ
PACE, 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM, Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton,
NJ. Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625, peward
“AT” ieee.org, Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954, rtax “AT” aea.org.
Sep. 9 – “Emerging
Technology and Current Trends in Voltage Controlled Oscillators (VCOs)” by Dr. Ajay K. Poddar,
NJ AESS, 6:45 – 8:30 PM, BAE
Systems, 164 Totowa Road,
Wayne, NJ. Dr. Naresh Chand, (973) 633-6310, naresh.chand
“AT” baesystems.com.
Sep. 14 – “Selecting
the Appropriate Environmental Test Chamber for Renewable Energy Applications” by Mark R. Chrusciel,
NJ IMS, 6:30 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center
(Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark,
NJ. Russell C. Pepe, 201-960-6796,
rcpepe “AT” ieee.org.
Sep. 16 – “Detection
of Spam Hosts and Spam Bots Using Network Flow Traffic Modeling” by Dr. A. Karasaridis
and Dr. D. Liu, NJ Control Systems Society, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, New Jersey
Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between
Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ.
Professor MengChu Zhou (973) 596-6282, zhou “AT” njit.edu.
Sep. 16 – “Understanding
the Unfair Behavior of IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs” by Dr. Yigal Bejerano,
NJ Communications Society, 6:15 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.
Sep. 21 – “Decoder-Cooperative
Video Coding” by Professor Byeungwee
Jeon, NJ SP Society, 10:30 AM, 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, and Hong Man, hman “AT”
stevens-tech.edu, (201)-216-5038.
Sep. 23 – Oct.
14 – “Improving
Your Writing Skills – Tips & Techniques” by Wilma Hurwitz, 6:30
PM to 9:00 PM, Technical Marketing, Suite
113, 1719 Route 10, Parsippany,
NJ. Larry Yang, yangl “AT” ieee.org.
Sep. 24 – “Hybrid
Optical Sensors for Extreme Temperature Measurement in Next Generation Higher
Efficiency Greener Power Plants”
by Nabeel Riza, NJ Photonics Society, 3:30 AM, New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren &
Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Professor
H. Grebel, grebel “AT” njit.edu.
Sep. 24 – “IEEE
Northeast Industry Day”, Portsmouth
Harbor Events
Center, Portsmouth, NH. http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/1/irc/.
Sep. 25 – “End
of Summer Picnic”, NJ WIE & GOLD, 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Fords Park, Woodbridge, NJ. http://www.co.middlesex.nj.us/parksrecreation/ford.asp.
Sep. 27 – “Next
Generation Passive Optical Network Standard and Field Trial” by Dr. Yuanqiu Luo, NJ
Computer Society, 6:00 PM, Auditorium M105, Muscarelle Center, Fairleigh
Dickinson University, 1000 River Rd, Teaneck, NJ. Michael Malm, (201) 355-6167, mmalm “AT”
ieee.org, Hong Zhao, (201) 692-2350,
zhao “AT” fdu.edu, Howard Leach, h.leach “AT” ieee.org.
Sep. 27 – “Terahertz
Technology for Space and Earth & Historic Milestone Presentation for TIROS
I Television Infra-Red Observation Satellite, 1960” by Dr. Peter de Maagt,
NJ AP/MTT, Terahertz Technology talk at 5:00 PM, Historic Milestone Presentation
will follow at 6:00 PM with a reception at 6:30 PM , Sarnoff Auditorium, 201
Washington Road, Princeton, NJ. Dr.
Allen Katz, Vice-chair Princeton Chapter, alkatz@tcnj.edu or Filomena
Citarella, Vice-chair NJ Coast Chapter, at fcitarella@aol.com..
Sep. 30 – “Unemployment
Or Prosperity for U.S. Engineers?”
by Richard Tax, NJ Consultants' Network, 6:15 – 8:30 PM, Morris County Library,
30 East Hanover Avenue, Whippany, NJ.
Robert Walker, (973) 728-0344, or visit www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
Sep. 30 – “Introduction
to Cisco Networking” by Dr. Joseph Miao,
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM, Polaris Microsystems, Inc., 2337 Lemoine Avenue, Fort Lee,
NJ. Donald Hsu, yanyou “AT” hotmail.com.
Upcoming Meetings
Oct. 5 – “Steganography
and Steganalysis: Fundamentals, and Some
New Developments” by Lifang Yu, NJ SP
Society, 10:30 AM, 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, and Hong Man, hman
“AT” stevens-tech.edu, (201)-216-5038.
Oct. 6 – “NJ Section Meeting”,
6:30 PM, “Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, Clifton Public Library -
Allwood Branch, 44 Lyall Road, Clifton, NJ 07012. Russell Pepe at rcpepe “AT” ieee.org.
Oct. 7 – “2010
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 (gadner1 “AT” optonline.net), Har Dayal (973) 628-7394
(dayalhar “AT” gmail.com), or George Kannell (973) 386-4170 (gkk “AT”
lgsinnovations.com).
Oct. 7 – “Student
Branch IEEE Day Bowling Event”,
5:30 PM to 7:00 PM, Stevens Institute of Technology Bowling Alley, 1 Castle
Point on the Hudson, Hoboken, NJ. For
questions or more information, contact IEEE@gmail.com.
Oct. 9 – Dec. 4 – “Project
Management” by Donald Hsu, PhD,
9:30 AM to 12:00 PM, NJIT, Newark,
NJ. Donald Hsu, yanyou “AT” hotmail.com.
Oct. 12 – “Digital
Insecurity” by Arthur J. Hedge III, NJ Computer Society, 7:00 PM,
Conference Room, Morris County Library, 30 E. Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ. Michael Malm, (201) 355-6167, mmalm “AT”
ieee.org, or Prof. Hong Zhao, (201) 692-2350, zhao “AT” fdu.edu.
Oct. 13 – “A
Practitioner’s Guide to Leadership”
by Dr. Barry L. Shoop, NJ AESS, 7:00 – 8:30 PM, BAE
Systems, 164 Totowa Road, Wayne, NJ. Dr.
Naresh Chand, (973) 633-6310, naresh.chand “AT” baesystems.com.
Oct. 13 – “Engineers
Meet: How to Interface with Congress and
Make an Impression” with Russell T.
Harrison, NJ PACE, 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM, Clifton
Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave,
Clifton, NJ. Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625, peward “AT”
ieee.org, Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954, rtax “AT” aea.org.
Oct. 14 – “Developing
Nanomaterials for Biosensors and Drug Delivery Systems” by Dr. Huixin He, NJ
Photonics Society, 5:00 AM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room
202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark,
NJ. Professor H. Grebel, grebel “AT” njit.edu.
Oct. 15 – “Web
training for IEEE R1 Student Members on How to Design and Develop a Micromouse” by Soon Wan, NJ SAC,
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM. Register at: http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/2835. Jignasa Ray, jignasa.ray “AT” ieee.org.
Oct. 20 – Dec.
15 – “C#
.NET Programming” by Donald Hsu, PhD,
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM, NJIT, Newark,
NJ. Donald Hsu, yanyou “AT” hotmail.com.
Oct. 21 – “Taming
Light and Electrons with Metamaterials” by Dr. Nader Engheta,
NJ Photonics Society, 5:00 AM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room
202, ECE Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark,
NJ. Professor H. Grebel, grebel “AT” njit.edu.
Oct. 27 – “What’s
the big deal about Xilinx?” by Ed McCauley, NJ
Consultants' Network, 6:30 – 8:30 PM, Morris County Library, 30 East Hanover
Avenue, Whippany, NJ. Robert Walker, (973)
728-0344, or visit www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
Oct. 27 – “Advantages
of Micro-inverters in AC PV Systems:
Introduction to Petra Solar’s SunWave Technology” by Dr. Hussam Alatrash,
NJ EDS/C&S, 5:00, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE
Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Dr. Durga Misra, (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT”
njit.edu) or Dr. Edip Niver, (973) 596-3542 (NJIT),
Oct. 28 – Nov.
18 – “Developing
Your Presentation Skills – Tips & Techniques” by Wilma Hurwitz, 6:30
PM to 9:00 PM, Technical Marketing, Suite
113, 1719 Route 10, Parsippany,
NJ. Larry Yang, yangl “AT” ieee.org.
Oct. 28 – “Life
Grade Luncheon”, Hamilton
Park Conference
Center, Florham Park, NJ. Ken Oexle (973) 386-1156.
Nov. 3 – “NJ Section Meeting”,
6:30 PM, “Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, Clifton Public Library - Allwood
Branch, 44 Lyall Road, Clifton, NJ 07012.
Russell Pepe at rcpepe “AT” ieee.org.
Nov. 10 – “Photocurrent
and Noise Analysis as Alternative Approaches to Understanding OFET Behavior” by Donald Gies, NJ
EDS/C&S, 6:30, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE
Center (Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark, NJ. Dr. Durga Misra, (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT”
njit.edu) or Dr. Edip Niver, (973) 596-3542 (NJIT),
Nov. 30 – “Global
Mains Wiring for Electrical Equipment” by Mark R. Chrusciel,
NJ IMS, 6:30 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center
(Intersection between Warren & Summit Streets), Newark,
NJ. Russell C. Pepe, 201-960-6796,
rcpepe “AT” ieee.org.
Dec. 1 – “NJ
Section Annual End-Of-Year Workshop”,
location TBD. Amit Patel, a.j.patel “AT”
ieee.org.
Members and Non-Members Welcome
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Open Call for Candidates for IEEE North
Jersey Executive Committee
This announcement is to seek and solicit the
members in IEEE North Jersey section who might be interested in participating
in the elections for the following positions
· Chair
· Vice
Chair 1
· Vice
Chair 2
· Treasurer
· Secretary
· Member at
Large (2)
Interested candidates (must be IEEE members
current with their dues) are invited to submit their name forward together with
the position of interest on the
committee.
Interested candidates should send forward
their candidature together with the petition to c.gupta “AT” ieee.org. Ror more information call (973) 885-1904.
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NJ AESS:
Emerging
Technology and Current Trends in Voltage Controlled Oscillators (VCOs)
On September 9, 2010, the IEEE NJ Section
Aerospace will host a talk on “Emerging Technology and Current Trends in
Voltage Controlled Oscillators (VCOs)."
The speaker will be Dr. Ajay K. Poddar.
About the Talk
This tutorial reports the emerging technology
and current trends in voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) for modern
communication systems, including the transition from high quality factor
discrete resonator based oscillators to integrated circuits. Solutions that are gaining more popularity
such as MEMS and Tunable active inductor oscillator (TAIO) are described for
completeness, including CAD simulation and practical examples.
About the Speaker
Dr. Ajay K. Poddar is a Chief Scientist, responsible for design and development
of state-of-the-art technology (oscillator, mixer, amplifier, filters, and MEMS
based RF components) at Synergy Microwave Corporation NJ, USA. He holds 42 US and European patents and has
published more than 170 scientific papers in international conferences and
professional journals, contributed as an authors and coauthor of three
technical books.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend the talks but please
register at http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/2831 by September 2, 2010. If you are
not a US citizen or permanent resident, send your name, profession,
citizenship, and passport # to Dr.
Naresh Chand by September 2, 2010.
Please use your email subject as “IEEE AESS talk”.
Time: 6:45 - 8:30 PM, Thursday, September 9,
2010. Free buffet will begin at 6:00 PM.
Place: BAE Systems, 164 Totowa Road, Wayne, NJ 07474.
Information: Dr. Naresh Chand, (973)
633-6310, naresh.chand “AT” baesystems.com.
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NJ AESS:
A
Practitioner’s Guide to Leadership
On October 13, 2010, the IEEE NJ Section
Aerospace will host a talk on “A Practitioner’s Guide to Leadership." The speaker will be Dr. Barry L. Shoop.
About the Talk
Leadership can be defined as the ability of
an individual to influence, motivate, and enable others to contribute toward
the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are
members. Leadership is not dependant on
title or formal authority. All too often
we think of leadership as something we will develop and apply later rather than
earlier in our career. This applies to
both leadership within our chosen technical discipline and leadership of our
profession. In the early stages of a
career, most people naturally focus on the technical aspects of their
career. They begin their careers
applying the technical disciplinary knowledge and skills they acquired in
college and focus on those aspects that will ensure promotion, tenure, and
success early in their career. However,
leadership is something that should be considered and fostered early and often
throughout our entire professional career.
This presentation will cover a mixture of
traditional and non-traditional topics associated with leadership. Leadership development, leadership theories,
leadership traits and differences between leaders and managers are subjects
traditionally found in texts on leadership.
Team composition and diversity of opinion, understanding individual and
group dynamics, and meetings are not subjects traditionally found in leadership
texts. The topical diversity is intended
to provide practical insights and applications of leadership theory.
This presentation motivated the IEEE-USA
e-Book: A Practitioner’s Guide to
Leadership published in January 2009 (http://www.ieeeusa.org/communications/ebooks/careers.asp).
About the Speaker
Barry L. Shoop is Professor of EE and Deputy Head of the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the United States Military
Academy at West Point. During his
seventeen years at West Point, he has served in a number of leadership positions
including Director of the Electrical Engineering Program and Director of the
Photonics Research Center. Currently he
is responsible for an undergraduate academic department with over 70 faculty
and staff supporting ABET accredited programs in electrical engineering,
computer science, and information technology.
He received the BS from the Pennsylvania State University in 1980, MS
from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1986, and PhD from Stanford
University in 1992, all in electrical engineering. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Fellow of
both the Optical Society of America and the International Society for Optical
Engineering, and a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi. Professor Shoop has been active in the IEEE,
serving as the Chair of the Mid-Hudson Section, Director of Region 1, IEEE
Secretary and member of the IEEE Board of Directors from 2006 – 2010. He currently serves as the 2010 IEEE Vice
President Member and Geographic Activities.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend the talks but please
register at http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/3099 by October 10, 2010. Come and bring your friends.
If you are not a US
citizen or permanent resident, please send your name, employer’s name,
citizenship, and passport # to Dr.
Naresh Chand by October 10,
2010. Please use your email
subject as “IEEE AESS talk”.
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 PM, Wednesday, October 13, 2010. Free buffet will begin at 6:00 PM.
Place: BAE Systems, 164 Totowa Road, Wayne, NJ 07474.
Information: Dr. Naresh Chand, (973) 633-6310,
naresh.chand “AT” baesystems.com.
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NJ AP/MTT:
Terahertz Technology for Space and Earth
& Historic Milestone Presentation for TIROS I Television Infra-Red
Observation Satellite, 1960
On September 27, 2010, the IEEE NJ AP/MTT
Chapters will host a talk on “Terahertz Technology for Space and
Earth." The speaker will be Dr.
Peter de Maagt. This talk will
be followed by Historic Milestone Presentation for TIROS I Television Infra-Red
Observation Satellite, 1960.
About
the Talk
The terahertz (THz) part of the electromagnetic
spectrum falls between the lower frequency millimeter wave region and, at
higher frequencies, the far-infrared region.
The frequency range extends from 0.1 THz to 10 THz, where both these
limits are rather loose. As the THz
region separates the more established domains of microwaves and optics, a
typical THz technique will incorporate aspects of both realms, and may even
draw on the best of both. The two
bounding parts of the spectrum also yield distinct sets of methods of
generating and detecting THz waves.
These approaches can thus be categorized as having either microwave or
optical/photonic origins. As a result of
breakthroughs in technology, the THz region is finally finding applications
outside its traditional heartlands of remote sensing and radio astronomy. Extensive research has identified many
attractive uses and has paved the technological path towards flexible and
accessible THz systems. Examples of
novel applications include medical and dental imaging, gene theory, communications
and detecting the DNA sequence of virus and bacteria. The presentation will discuss the range of
THz applications and will present the components and systems that are utilized
for the frequency region.
About
the Speaker
Peter de Maagt was
born in Pauluspolder, The Netherlands, in 1964.
He received the MSc and PhD degrees from Eindhoven University of
Technology, Eindhoven,
The Netherlands, in 1988 and 1992, respectively, both in electrical
engineering. In the period 1992/1993 he
was station manager and scientist for an INTELSAT propagation project in Surabaya, Indonesia. He is currently with the European Space
Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The
Netherlands. His research interests are
in the are of millimeter and sub millimeter-wave reflector and planar
integrated antennas, quasi-optics, electromagnetic band-gap antennas, and
millimeter- and sub millimeter-wave components.
Dr. de Maagt was co-recipient of the H.A. Wheeler Award of the IEEE
Antennas and Propagation Society for the best applications paper of 2001. He was granted a European Space Agency Award
for innovation in 2002. He was
co-recipient of the LAPC 2006 and IWAT 2007 best paper award. In 2008 he received as a co-recipient the H.
A. Wheeler Award for the Best Applications Paper for a second time.
Dr. de Maagt is an
active member of the IEEE, serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE
Transaction on Antennas and Propagation since 2005. Dr. de Maagt is currently also a
Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE APS and a member of the AP ADCOM. He is also a member of the IET (formerly IEE)
Antenna and Propagation Professional Network Executive Team since 2002.
RSVP
RSVP (required if
you plan to attend the milestone ceremony):
to Ashutosh Dutta via email ashutosh.dutta “AT” ieee.org or to Aileen
Cheng at 732-699-2952 by September 20th.
Time: Terahertz
Technology talk at 5:00 PM, Monday, September 27, 2010. Historic Milestone Presentation will follow
at 6:00 PM with a reception at 6:30 PM.
Place: Sarnoff Auditorium, 201 Washington Road, Princeton,
NJ 08540.
Information: Dr. Allen Katz, Vice-chair Princeton Chapter,
alkatz@tcnj.edu or Filomena Citarella, Vice-chair NJ Coast Chapter, at
fcitarella@aol.com.
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NJ Communications Society:
Understanding the Unfair Behavior of IEEE
802.11 Wireless LANs
On Thursday, September 16, 2010, the IEEE
North Jersey Section Communications Society Chapter will host a presentation
entitled “Understanding the Unfair Behavior of IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs” by
Dr. Yigal Bejerano.
About the Talk
In
recent years, IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs (WLANs) have been rapidly deployed all
over the world at numerous cities, enterprises and universities. These networks provide high bandwidth to mobile
users by deploying low-cost wireless access points. Several equipment vendors such as Cisco and
SpectraLink have introduced 802.11 phones for providing wireless phone service
in these networks and it is expected that the emerging IEEE 802.11n standard
will support video traffic. To make such
efforts successful, however, certain serious shortcomings of WLANs must be
overcome. These include the lack of fair
service for data users and the inability to provide quality of service (QoS)
guarantees for real-time (RT) services, such as voice and video.
In
this talk, I will address the challenges of providing fairness and QoS support
in WLANs without changing the standard.
I will start with a short overview of the IEEE 802.11 medium access
control (MAC) standard and the obstacles that it raises for providing fairness
and QoS support. I will show that even
in the case of a small network with two access points, a user may not get any
service and be practically starved.
Then,
I will describe a few management schemes for improving the fair service
provided to mobile users, while preserving high throughput of the wireless
networks. These schemes are based on
efficient usage of the 802.11 standard as well as advanced algorithms.
About the Speaker
Yigal Bejerano
received his BSc in Computer Engineering in 1991 (summa cum laude), his MSc in
Computer Science in 1995, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2000, from
the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. He is currently a member of the technical
staff (MTS) at Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent. His research interests are mainly management
aspects of high-speed and wireless networks, including the areas of mobility
management, network monitoring, topology discovery and QoS and fault resilience
routing. Dr. Bejerano has published over
40 papers in the main venues of the networking research community and he holds
30 patents and pending patent applications.
Dr. Bejerano is on the technical program committee (TPC) of numerous conferences.
All
Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to
attend.
Time: 6:15 PM, Thursday, September 16, 2010,
refreshments will be available starting 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/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:
Next Generation Passive Optical Network
Standard and Field Trial
On Monday, September 27, 2010,
the IEEE North Jersey Section Computer Society Chapter will host a presentation
entitled “Next Generation Passive Optical Network Standard and Field
Trial.” The speaker will be Dr. Yuanqiu
Luo.
About
the Talk:
If you are a triple
play user, you may have experienced the high-speed broadband access services
with voice, data, and video via passive optical networks (PONs). With an ever growing bandwidth demand for emerging
services, the next generation PON (NG-PON) is expected to provide much higher
bandwidth and protect legacy investment.
These requirements motivate the research and standard of NG-PON. This talk starts with a brief introduction of
broadband access and PONs. Candidate
technologies for NG-PON will be examined with a focus on cost efficiency and
available bandwidth. The selection of
10-gigabit-capable PON (XG-PON) in Full Service Access Network (FSAN) and
International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector
(ITU-T) will be reviewed by comparing different proposals. Key characteristics of XG-PON will be
described to highlight smooth migration and improved performance. The first XG-PON field trial will be reviewed
to discuss challenges and feasibility.
Possible directions for future research will be presented in the last
part of this talk.
About
the Speaker:
Yuanqiu Luo is a
senior research engineer in the advanced technology department of Huawei
Technologies USA, Bridgewater,
NJ. Before joining Huawei, she was with NEC
Laboratories America, Princeton,
NJ. Her research interests are in the areas of
broadband access networks, next generation optical access, network modeling,
and integrated optical/wireless networks.
She is actively involved in the standards of next generation passive
optical networks. She is a co-editor of
ITU-T G.987, G.987.3 and a clause editor of IEEE 802.1AS. She received her Bachelors degree in
electronics and information systems and her Masters degree in electrical
engineering, all from Shandong
University, China. Her PhD degree in electrical engineering was
received from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ.
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 5:15 PM.
Time: 6:00
PM, Monday,
September 27, 2010. Buffet
will be available starting at 5:15 PM.
Place: Auditorium M105, Muscarelle Center,
Fairleigh Dickinson University,
1000 River Rd, Teaneck, NJ. http://www.fdu.edu/visitorcenter/directions/teaneck_map.html.
Information: Michael Malm, (201) 355-6167, mmalm “AT”
ieee.org, Hong Zhao, (201) 692-2350, zhao
“AT” fdu.edu, Howard Leach, h.leach “AT” ieee.org.
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NJ Computer Society:
Digital Insecurity
On Tuesday, October
12, 2010, 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 serves 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 before the
meeting.
Registration is required by contacting Howard Leach (973)
540-1283, h.leach “AT” ieee.org. The
room is limited to 20 people.
Time: 7:00 PM, Tuesday,
October 12, 2010.
Pre-meeting pizza and soda will be offered at 6:00 PM.
Place: Conference
Room, Morris County Library, 30 E. Hanover Ave, Whippany,
NJ, (973) 285-6930.
Information: Michael Malm,
(201) 355-6167, mmalm “AT” ieee.org, or Prof. Hong Zhao, (201) 692-2350, zhao
“AT” fdu.edu.
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NJ Consultants’ Network:
Unemployment
Or Prosperity for U.S.
Engineers?
The September 30,
2010, meeting of the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ
features a presentation by Richard Tax, President of the American Engineering
Association. The talk examines the
present “engineering shortage” in the U.S. and what our government is
doing about it.
About
the Talk
Of primary interest is the labor
Supply/Demand Equation or ratio, specifically the Supply/Demand of Engineers
and STEM professionals. This is very
well controlled, but maybe not in the best interest of our profession or our
country. We will discuss the problem
associated with the present Labor Supply/Demand Equation and the influence,
support/opposition to the direction of the equation. Who supports increasing the number and who is
in favor of reducing the number? Who benefits, who is harmed? How does it affect our nation’s economy?
The speaker believes the public policy of the
United States
should be to rely primarily upon U.S. workers for our supply of
engineers and scientists. This position
is in response to claims that America
faces shortages of engineers, programmers and high tech professionals and
companies must import foreign workers to meet demands. Come and express your opinions. More at http://www.aea.org/pdf/AEA_POSITION_Workforce.pdf.
About
the Speaker
Richard Tax is a graduate of Fairleigh
Dickinson University
with a BSEE degree. He is a Senior
Member of the Institute
of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and was awarded his senior membership based on his
experience in the design of precision electro mechanical control systems. Mr. Tax has a long history of involvement and
leadership in the IEEE on regional and national levels.
He has written more than 80 articles dedicated to professional
activities. In 1977, he started the USAB Task Force for the BLS, Occupational Outlook Department. With Congressional assistance this Task Force
made significant corrections to their Occupational Outlook Handbook. He directed the efforts of this operation for
6 years. This project is now supported
by the IEEE-USA Manpower Committee.
During 1985 he chaired the North Jersey Ad hoc Committee that critiqued
and condemned a Northeastern
University report that
claimed EE's were obsolete at age 35.
Later in an Electronic Engineering Times interview the authors admitted
they could not validate their accusations.
While still actively involved with the IEEE, Mr. Tax also leads the
American Engineering Association, with which he has been involved since 1990.
About the Consultants’ Network
Founded in 1992, the IEEE Consultants Network of Northern NJ encourages
and promotes the use of independent technical consultants by business and
industry.
All Welcome!
Members and non-members are welcome.
Time: 6:15 - 8:30 PM, Thursday, September 30, 2010.
Place:
Morris County Library, 30 East Hanover Avenue, Whippany, NJ. Directions are available at www.mclib.info.
Information: For up-to-date meeting status, call Robert
Walker, (973) 728-0344, or visit our website, www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
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NJ Consultants’ Network:
What’s the big deal about Xilinx?
The October 27, 2010, meeting of the IEEE Consultants' Network of
Northern NJ features a presentation titled “What’s the big deal about
Xilinx?” The speaker will be Ed McCauley
of Bottom Line Technologies.
About the Talk
Xilinx is one of those brand names that are
instantly meaningful to those few of us who are familiar with their products –
but to most, it’s just a vague keyword.
It should not be so. Xilinx, now a $3B company, invented FPGAs in
1995. FPGAs (Field Programmable
Integrated Circuits) are end-user customizable digital integrated circuits used
in a wide variety of applications including Communications Systems, Video,
Signal Acquisition, Signal Processing and Embedded Processing.
Join us with Ed McCauley, one of Xilinx’s
original employees, for a discussion of Xilinx’s silicon, software, and design
methodologies. Ed is president of Bottom
Line Technologies, Xilinx’s exclusive regional training partner and founder of
Xilinx’s 3rd party consultant program.
Our presentation is not a design course – it
aims to acquaint the participants with the company and its unique product.
About the Speaker
For well over 20 years, Ed McCauley has been President of Bottom Line
Technologies Inc. (BLT), which provides design services, as well as training in the areas of design,
technical sales and management.
Ed is primarily responsible for Marketing, Sales, and Finance at BLT
although his engineering and project management skills are often called upon to
fulfill client needs.
Ed started his career as part of the startup team at Datatel Inc., a Cherry Hill, NJ based data communications company. He designed and managed dozens of products as
the company grew from the basement to over 300 people and an acquisition. After seven years gaining engineering,
project management, and production experience, Ed expanded into marketing and
sales by joining start-up "Xilinx" as FAE covering the northeastern
US. He went on to manage technical sales
and technical management of all Reps and Distributors in his territory. Ed left Xilinx in 1989 after Xilinx's IPO to
start BLT.
After helping Xilinx create their Xpert design services division, Ed
led BLT from its focus on Xilinx to a broad based design services
organization. Today, BLT combines the
latest technologies with specialization in a variety of services to offer
commercial and mil/gov clients the most reliable, expedient and economical path
to market.
Ed is an alumnus of The U.S. Naval Academy, Rutgers and Drexel Universities,
a long-time member of CNNNJ, and can be contacted at (888) XILINX1 or via
email: ed.mccauley@bltinc.com
About
the Consultants’ Network
Founded in 1992, the IEEE Consultants Network of Northern NJ encourages
and promotes the use of independent technical consultants by business and
industry.
All
Welcome!
Members and non-members are welcome.
Time: 6:30
- 8:30 PM, Wednesday, October 27, 2010.
Place: Morris County Library, 30 East Hanover
Avenue, Whippany, NJ.
Directions are available at www.mclib.info.
Information: For up-to-date meeting status,
call Robert Walker, (973) 728-0344, or visit our website, www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
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NJ Control Systems Society:
Detection of
Spam Hosts and Spam Bots Using Network Flow Traffic Modeling
On September 16, 2010, the IEEE NJ Control Systems Chapter together
with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a seminar on “Detection
of Spam Hosts and Spam Bots Using Network Flow Traffic Modeling." The speakers will be Dr. A. Karasaridis and
Dr. D. Liu.
About the Talk
We continue to see the proliferation and persistence of cyber-threats
which are now in the top 3 priorities of the FBI among terrorism. Botnets provide the platform for online
organized crime and occasionally for pressing national agendas such as
espionage. Some of the recent corporate
espionage attacks (e.g., to Google) come from well targeted emails with
disguised links to malware that once embedded to an end-user electronic device
(desktop, laptop, smart phone etc.). It
quietly leaks out information to layered foreign repositories. We will present techniques for detecting spam
bots, i.e., hosts that send unsolicited email that are remotely controlled by a
malicious entity. A Bayesian
classification approach is used to identify spam hosts and an entropy
significant component extraction technique is used to identify hosts that are
likely compromised. Flows from these
hosts are further analyzed to fit botnet control models. In addition, DNS transient domain analysis is
used to increase confidence on the detection of remote controllers. We will describe examples of large botnet
controller detection using our prototype tools.
About the Speakers
Dr. Karasaridis is a Principal Member
of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs and member of the Network Design and
Performance Analysis (NDPA) Dept, in Middletown
NJ. He is currently performing applied research
in network security algorithms with focus on botnet detection and
characterization. He is also leading
efforts in the content delivery/cloud services developing algorithms that
enhance the performance of the service.
In the past 10 years he worked on performance analysis and modeling
projects in mobile, broadband access and infrastructure services. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer
Engineering from the University
of Toronto, a MSE from
the University of
Pennsylvania, and BSEE
from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (highest honors).
Dr. Danielle Liu received her PhD in
Industrial Engineering under the guidance of Professor Marcel Neuts at University of Arizona in 1993. She was a visiting professor at Department of
Electrical Engineering at Case
Western Reserve University
for one year before joining Bell
labs in 1994. Danielle has worked on
various projects in AT&T including Internet traffic characterization, IP
QoS, WiMAX and IP security. She is
currently working on Mobility traffic modeling and network capacity
planning. Dr. Liu is the author of over
20 papers on in the fields of Queuing Analysis of Telecommunications Systems,
Internet Traffic Characterization and IP security. She also served as an editor for the journal
of Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications.
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Thursday, September 16,
2010.
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: Professor MengChu Zhou, (973)
596-6282, zhou “AT” njit.edu.
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NJ EDS/C&S:
Advantages of
Micro-inverters in AC PV Systems:
Introduction to Petra
Solar’s SunWave Technology
On October 27, 2010, the IEEE NJ Section
Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters together with the New Jersey
Institute of Technology will host a talk on “Advantages of Micro-inverters in
AC PV Systems: Introduction to Petra Solar’s
SunWave Technology." The speaker will be Dr. Hussam Alatrash, co-founder
of Petra Solar.
About the Talk
As the world faces the economic,
environmental, and political consequences of its heavy dependence on fossil
fuels for energy, the search for a suitable alternative only grows more intense. The collection of solar energy through
photovoltaic (PV) cells is a particularly promising technology. Sunshine is an abundant resource, while PV
technology is clean, quiet, and suitable for distributed installations near
points of load.
The vast growth of distributed photovoltaic
(PV) generation systems has led to new trends in integrated PV systems. The AC PV module is one of these trends where
a PV panel and a micro‐inverter
are integrated into a single AC PV source.
This reduces installation complexity and provides for a true plug‐n‐play PV
system. This seminar will introduce the
system architecture and design considerations of AC PV modules.
About the Speaker
Dr. Hussam Alatrash received his BSc degree in Electrical Engineering
from the University of Jordan, Amman
in 2003. He received his MSEE, and PhD
degrees from the University of Central Florida (UCF), in 2005 and 2007,
respectively. His research focused on
power electronics and controls algorithm for solar energy applications. He then became a co‐founder of Petra Solar, Inc.
Petra Solar, founded in 2006, is the pioneer of SunWave™ systems, a grid‐tied, pole‐mounted, distributed solar generation system. The SunWave system combines solar energy with
mart‐grid communications and electric grid enhancement functions to create a
comprehensive utility grade solution for utilities. Investors have demonstrated confidence in
Petra Solar, providing $54 million in private capital since 2007.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 5:00 PM, Wednesday, October 27, 2010. Pizza and refreshments will be offered at
4:45 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. Durga Misra, (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu) or Dr. Edip Niver,
(973) 596-3542 (NJIT),
Job Opportunities
Petra Solar has an innovative and energetic team. Petra
is committed to growing this team by attracting local talent. To become part of this fast‐growing company, please visit our website at
http://www.petrasolar.com.
Of particular interest are individuals with strong background in power
electronics, real‐time controls, and/or embedded firmware design.
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NJ EDS/C&S:
Photocurrent
and Noise Analysis as Alternative Approaches to Understanding OFET Behavior
On November 10, 2010, the IEEE NJ Section
Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters together with the New Jersey
Institute of Technology will host a talk on “Photocurrent and Noise Analysis as
Alternative Approaches to Understanding OFET Behavior." The speaker will
be Professor John Kymissis of Columbia
University.
About the Talk
The characterization of organic field effect
transistors is complicated by the influence of the contacts on channel behavior
and the trap limited conduction mechanism which governs device performance.
In this presentation, several strategies for
probing OFETs will be discussed. In
particular, the use of spectrally resolved photocurrent spectroscopy will be
demonstrated as a strategy for the analysis of trap states in the device,
spatially resolved photocurrent will be presented as an approach for measuring
internal device potential, and noise spectroscopy will be presented as an
approach to evaluating the effect of trap states on channel conduction. These probes provide additional pathways for
analyzing OFET device and material behavior with different complicating
parasitics than incumbent characterization approaches.
About the Speaker
Ioannis (John) Kymissis graduated with his BS, MEng., and PhD degrees
from MIT. His MEng thesis was done as a
co-op at the IBM TJ Watson Research Lab on organic thin film transistors, and
his PhD was in the Microsystems Technology Lab at MIT working on field emission
displays. After graduation he spent
three years as a post-doc in MIT's Laboratory for Organic Optics and
Electronics working on a variety of organic electronic devices and as a
consulting engineer for QDVision, which is developing and commercializing a
novel light emitting architecture based on quantum dots. In 2006, John joined the Electrical
Engineering department at Columbia
University and leads the
Columbia Laboratory for Unconventional Electronics (CLUE) which focuses on the
development and applications of thin film electronic systems.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 5:00 PM, Wednesday, November 10, 2010. Pizza and refreshments will be offered at
4:45 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. Durga Misra, (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu) or Dr. Edip Niver,
(973) 596-3542 (NJIT),
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NJ IMS:
Selecting the
Appropriate Environmental Test Chamber for Renewable Energy Applications
On Tuesday, September 14, 2010, the IEEE North
Jersey Section of the Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS) is hosting
a talk entitled, “Selecting the Appropriate Environmental Test Chamber for
Renewable Energy Applications.” The
speaker will be Mark R. Chrusciel.
About the Talk
Properly defining your Environmental Chamber
requirements will insure your best return on investment. An emphasis will be placed on the renewable
energy markets, including a way to save up to 54% on your operating costs. Discussions on the effect of air flow on product
temperature and ensuring all DUT’s experience the same temperature gradients
will be reviewed. With most solar panels
carrying 20 year warranties, short cuts in testing could cost significant
warranty dollars or damage to your company’s reputation. The importance of safely processing hazardous
materials will also be discussed.
About the Speaker
Mark R. Chrusciel has approximately 30 years of experience with
environmental chambers and ovens and currently serves as Director for
Cincinnati Sub Zero. His many years of
experience in the quality, reliability and laboratory markets enables him to
design, select and implement the proper thermal processing equipment for the
application. Mark has a BS in Natural
Sciences from Xavier University; has served on the board for the last 4 years
of the ASTR conference (Accelerated Stress Test and Reliability); and is a
senior member of the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (IEST).
All Welcome!
Free admission. Members and
non-members welcome.
Time: 6:30 PM, Tuesday, September 14, 2010. Free buffet will be provided at 5:30 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: Russell C. Pepe, 201-960-6796, rcpepe “AT” ieee.org.
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NJ IMS:
Global Mains Wiring
for Electrical Equipment
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010, the IEEE North Jersey Section of the
Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS) is hosting a talk entitled,
“Global Mains Wiring for Electrical Equipment.”
The speaker will be Donald Gies.
About the Talk
This talk explores the different methods to connect electrical equipment
such as information technology equipment (ITE) to the AC and DC mains in the
global marketplace. It describes the
difference in AC power systems around the world, demonstrates single-phase and
three-phase power systems used worldwide, and describes IT power distribution
systems, and how to design and test electrical equipment for connecting to IT
power distribution systems. Also, this
paper discusses the different methods used for permanently connecting
electrical equipment to the mains in different regions of the world, and how to
design electrical equipment to accommodate the different installation methods.
About the Speaker
Don Gies has been a Product Compliance Engineer for over 23 years. Since 1989, Mr. Gies has worked at
AT&T-Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies/Alcatel-Lucent as a Product
Safety Engineer, responsible for obtaining product safety certifications for
his company’s telephone and information processing equipment from domestic and
international product safety organizations.
Mr. Gies has become a leading subject matter expert for his company in
the field of global product safety compliance, working primarily with
Alcatel-Lucent's wireless base station equipment. Mr. Gies is a member of the Alcatel-Lucent Technical
Academy. Prior to working at AT&T, Mr. Gies was a
Tempest Engineer for Honeywell-Signal
Analysis Center,
where he worked on various secure communications projects for the US Army
Communications -Electronics Command. Mr.
Gies, a lifelong resident of the Jersey
Shore, graduated from Rutgers University
- College of Engineering as an Electrical
Engineer. He is an iNARTE Certified
Product Safety Engineer.
All Welcome!
Free admission. Members and
non-members welcome.
Time: 6:30 PM, Tuesday, November 30, 2010. Free buffet will be provided 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/about/visit/gettingtonjit.php.
Information: Russell C. Pepe, 201-960-6796, rcpepe “AT” ieee.org.
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NJ Section PACE:
Engineers
Meet:
For a Critical Discussion
Concerning the Problems of the Off-shoring of Manufacturing and the Need for
Its Return
On Wednesday,
September 8, 2010, the North Jersey Section Professional Activities
Committee of IEEE will meet for a critical discussion concerning off-shoring of
manufacturing, affects on engineering and the social implications. This will
include all the aspects of design, development and support to manufacture a
product. This is the second meeting
dedicated to this subject.
About the Meeting:
This meeting will be facilitated by Richard F. Tax, chair of NJ Section
PACE and Paul Ward (Co Chair). Richard
and Paul have more than forty years of experience in the field of engineering
and manufacturing support.
The purpose of the meeting is to develop a list of the issues and
subjects related to sending U.S.
manufacturing off shore. All interested
parties are invited for an evening of discussion and hospitality. We are concerned about what is occurring with
the disappearance of manufacturing in our North Jersey Section, New Jersey and our
nation.
About the Speaker:
Richard is a graduate of Fairleigh
Dickinson University
with a BSEE degree. He is a Senior, Life
Member of IEEE and was awarded his Senior membership based on his experience in
the design of precision electro mechanical control systems.
Mr. Tax received the North Jersey Section Award for Leadership in 1979,
the Region I United States Activities Board (USAB)
Award for Leadership in 1981, the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984, the USAB Citation of Honor in 1984, the USAB Professional Achievement Award in
1988, and the Region I Award for Outstanding Contributions to Engineering
Professionalism in 1989. He has been
active in the Section since 1974 and was appointed Chairman of the Professional
Activities Committee for Engineers (PACE) in 1976. Richard has served the section as Member at
Large, Vice Chairman, and member of the Education Committee. He was Chairman of the North Jersey Section
from 1985 through 1986. In 1987 - 1988
he chaired the 20,000 member Metropolitan Sections Activities Council (METSAC).
As PACE Chairman he organized more than 100 meetings and advised other
IEEE Sections about PACE
activities. Richard originated
and managed Project EGO, a program to stimulate member interest by adding a
PACE NEWS column to the Section's Newsletter.
This column continued for 9 years.
He wrote more than 70 articles dedicated to professional
activities. In 1977, he started the USAB Task Force for the BLS, Occupational Outlook Department. With Congressional assistance this Task Force
made significant corrections to their Occupational Outlook Handbook. He directed the efforts of this operation for
6 years.
During 1985 he chaired the North Jersey Ad hoc Committee that critiqued
and condemned a Northeastern
University report that
claimed EE's were obsolete at age 35. In
1989 he organized the Region I Careers Conference with 110 registered
attendees. Richard again served as PACE
Chairman of the North Jersey Section, and was appointed as PACE Chairman of
METSAC and Area B of Region I. He was
active at the national level on USAB's
(IEEE-USA) Manpower Committee and the author of USAB's
Entity Position Statement "Enhancing U.S. Productivity Through Improved
Utilization of Engineers." He
continuously stresses the importance of membership participation at the Section
level.
In 1990 Richard joined the American Engineering Association (AEA),
developed their publication “AMERICAN ENGINEER” (AE) and was voted to the
position of President in 2005. AE can be
found at http://www.aea.org/american Engineer.htm.
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
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM, Wednesday, September 8, 2010. Refreshments will be served.
Place: Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton,
NJ, (973) 772-5500.
Information: Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625, peward “AT” ieee.org, Richard F. Tax, (201)
664-6954, rtax “AT” aea.org.
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NJ Section PACE:
Engineers
Meet:
How to Interface with
Congress and Make an Impression
On Wednesday, October
13, 2010, the North Jersey Section Professional Activities
Committee (PACE) of IEEE will meet for a presentation concerning making things
happen in Washington. Off-Shoring of Manufacturing, importing
foreign engineers and discriminating against our U.S. engineers need to be
addressed. But, it isn’t enough to talk
among ourselves about these problems – we have to bring our concerns to Washington. Our guest speaker Russell T. Harrison Senior
Legislative Representative - Grassroots Affairs, IEEE-USA, will tell us how.
About the Meeting:
This meeting will be dedicated to successfully interfacing with our
representatives in Washington. The American political system is relatively
easy to interact with – if you know a few key rules and tricks. Regardless of what your personal concerns
are, this session will help you understand how political decisions are made and
how engineers can play a role in making them.
All interested parties are invited for an interesting and informative
presentation. About the Speaker:
Russell has a BA in Political Science, with minors in History and
Communications, from Allegheny
College. He also has a Masters in Public Policy from
the University of
Maryland and earned his CAE certification in 2009.
Russell is the Senior Legislative Representative for Grassroots
Activities for IEEE-USA, where he is responsible for helping IEEE members in
the U.S.
interact with, and ultimately influence, elected officials.
Since joining IEEE-USA in 2005, Russell has become one of the most sought-after
speakers on the IEEE staff, having addressed nearly 140 local IEEE groups in
the United States. His talks focus on current public policy
issues, how they will impact the engineering profession and what individual
engineers can do about them.
Prior to IEEE-USA, Russell directed grassroots programs at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries and the
American Iron and Steel Institute. In
these positions he represented the recycling and steel industries on Capitol
Hill and in state capitols on a variety of issues as a professional lobbyist.
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
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM, Wednesday, October 13, 2010. Refreshments will be served.
Place: Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton,
NJ, (973) 772-5500.
Information: Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625, peward “AT”
ieee.org, Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954, rtax “AT” aea.org.
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NJ Photonics Society:
Hybrid Optical
Sensors for Extreme Temperature Measurement in Next Generation Higher
Efficiency Greener Power Plants
On September 24, 2010, the North Jersey Section Photonics Society will
host a talk titled “Hybrid Optical Sensors for Extreme Temperature Measurement
in Next Generation Higher Efficiency Greener Power Plants.” The speaker will be Dr. Nabeel Riza.
About the Talk
The lecture will describe the first wired-wireless hybrid optical sensor
for temperature sensing, in particular, for the harsh environments of greener
coal-fired gas turbines and combustors in power plants, gas turbines in
aircraft engines, and other ultra-hot applications.
About the Speaker
Nabeel Riza holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering (EE) from
the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and Masters and Doctorate degrees in
EE from the California Institute of Technology.
In Jan. 2002, he became the first Caltech Alumnus to be awarded the
International Commission for Optics (ICO) Prize and co-awarded 2001 Ernst Abbe
Medal from the Carl Zeiss Foundation, Germany. Riza’s other awards include the 2007 Fellow
Award of the IEEE, 1998 Fellow Award of the Optical Society of America (OSA)
and the 1998 Fellow Award of the International Society for Optical Engineering
(SPIE), 2008 IIT Distinguished Alumni Professional Achievement Award, and 2008
Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize Nominee Distinction-Germany. After completing his PhD in 1989, Dr. Riza
joined the General Electric (GE) Corporate Research and Development Center, New York,
where he initiated and led the GE Optically Controlled Radar Project. In 1995, he joined the CREOL & the ECE
Dept. at the University
of Central Florida where
he is Full Professor and Head of the Photonic Information Processing Systems
Laboratory. For 2007-2008, he was
selected as European Union Erasmus Scholar Visiting Professor at the Delft
University of Technology, Netherlands.
He is founder of Nuonics, Inc.
For further information on research, teaching, and service contributions
to the field of photonics, please visit: http://pips.creol.ucf.edu.
Time: 3:30 PM, Friday, September 24,
2010. Pizza and refreshments will be
served.
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: Professor H. Grebel, grebel “AT” njit.edu.
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NJ Photonics Society:
Developing Nanomaterials for Biosensors and
Drug Delivery Systems
On October 14, 2010, the North Jersey Section Photonics Society will
host a talk titled “Developing Nanomaterials for Biosensors and Drug Delivery
Systems.” The speaker will be Dr. Huixin
He.
About the Talk
Due to their large surface area as well as their distinctive optical,
magnetic, and electrical properties, various nanomaterials have been used to
develop extremely sensitive molecular detection systems and multifunctional
drug delivery systems. However, various hurdles
need to be overcome for practical applications.
The first part of my presentation will be focused on the design and
surface modification of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) for sensing
applications, including the detection of cancer cells for early cancer
diagnosis and detection of warfare agents for homeland security. In the second part of my presentation, I
would share with you our recent studies in developing nanomaterials for highly
efficient and nontoxic delivery and co-delivery systems for therapeutic genes
and hydrophobic anticancer drugs for cancer therapy.
About the Speaker
Dr. Huixin He received her PhD in Chemistry/Nanoscience from Peking
University, China
in 1997. In 2002 she joined Rutgers University
in Newark where
she is currently an associate professor at the Department of Chemistry. Her current research includes conducting
polymer nanocomposites and their applications to sensitive and selective
molecular detection and flexible electronics.
She is also set to develop nonviral delivery and co-delivery systems for
therapeutic genes and hydrophobic anticancer.
Dr. He’s research is currently supported by two NSF grants from the
Chemistry Division (CHE) and the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering,
Environmental and Transport systems (CBET), respectively. Dr. He was a recipient of the Rutgers Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence
in 2009.
Time: 5:00 PM, Thursday, October 14,
2010. Pizza and refreshments will be
served.
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: Professor H. Grebel, grebel “AT” njit.edu.
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NJ Photonics Society:
Taming Light and Electrons with Metamaterials
On October 21, 2010, the North Jersey Section Photonics Society will
host a talk titled “Taming Light and Electrons with Metamaterials.” The speaker will be Dr. Nader
Engheta.
About the Talk
Imagine lumped circuit elements that could work with light at the
nanoscale instead of electrons! What
could you do with such optical nanocircuits? Would you be able to use them in
wireless gadgets at nanoscales that may connect our nanoworlds? May these tiny
optical nanocircuits be coupled with biological entities and thus provide
hybrid sensors in the future? The fields of metamaterials and nanooptics may
provide road maps for such futuristic nanocircuits, nanosystems and devices. In my group, we have been developing and
investigating some of the fundamental concepts and theories, and key principles
of such metamaterial nanostructures, devices, and nanocircuits. When we combine the two phenomena of
extreme-parameter metamaterials with the fields of nanooptics and
nanoelectronics, various interesting possibilities may arise. Optical nanocircuitry is one of the several
outcomes of such combination of these fields.
These optical nanocircuit elements and components may be envisioned as a
tapestry of nanostructures of sizes much smaller than the wavelengths of light. This field, for which I use the term
metatronics, addresses metamaterial-inspired optical nanocircuits and
nanosystems (N. Engheta, Physics World, 23(9),
31, 2010; N. Engheta, Science, 317, 1698-1702, 2007). In my group, a variety of ideas and paradigms
for nanocircuit functions, optical antennas and sensors for beam shaping and
photonic wireless at the nanoscale, graphene circuitry at IR wavelengths,
control of one-way flow of photons and electrons in desired directions,
nanospectrometer for molecular spectroscopy, nanotagging and barcodes based on
these optical circuits are being studied.
In this talk, I will give a sample of some of these studies in my group,
present insights into these findings, and forecast future ideas and road maps
in these areas.
About the Speaker
Nader Engheta is the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor of Electrical and
Systems Engineering, and Professor of Bioengineering, at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his BS degree in EE from the University of Tehran, and his MS and PhD degrees in EE
from Caltech. Selected as one of the
Scientific American Magazine 50 Leaders in Science and Technology in 2006 for
developing the concept of optical lumped nanocircuits, he is a Guggenheim
Fellow, an IEEE Third Millennium Medalist, and a Fellow of IEEE, APS, OSA, and
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the recipient
of several research awards including the 2008 George H. Heilmeier Award for
Excellence in Research from UPenn, the Fulbright Naples Chair Award, NSF
Presidential Young Investigator award, the UPS Foundation Distinguished
Educator term Chair, and several teaching awards including the Christian F. and
Mary R. Lindback Foundation Award, S. Reid Warren, Jr. Award, and W. M. Keck Foundation
Award. His current research activities
span a broad range of areas including metamaterials and plasmonic optics,
nanooptics and nanophotonics, graphene optics, biologically-inspired sensing and
imaging, miniaturized antennas and nanoantennas, physics and
reverse-engineering of polarization vision in nature, mathematics of fractional
operators, and physics of fields and waves phenomena. He has co-edited the book entitled
“Metamaterials: Physics and Engineering Explorations” by Wiley-IEEE Press,
2006.
Time: 5:00 PM, Thursday, October 21,
2010. Pizza and refreshments will be
served.
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: Professor H. Grebel, grebel “AT” njit.edu.
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NJ SP Society:
Decoder-Cooperative Video Coding
On September 21, 2010, the NJ Signal Processing Society will be hosting
a lecture at NJIT on Decoder-Cooperative Video Coding”. The speaker will be Professor Byeungwee Jeon.
About the Talk
Video coding standards have been actively developed since early 1990
resulting in a series of technologies such as MPEG-1,2,4, H.263, and H.264.
This continual development has ushered in the full-fledged multimedia services
and application. All the techniques up to now have assumed a very simple and
also totally passive decoder which does just exact inverse processing of
encoding. The recent advancement of semiconductor and software have already
provide sufficient computing capability to decoder, and in this talk, we like
to introduce a new concept of decoder-cooperative video encoding. Departing
from just passive role of traditional decoders, the new technique we are
developing assumes some degree of computational capability which can help encoder
in its encoding process of removing redundancy. We will discuss the basic
concept and its preliminary application to coding intra mode and motion vectors
as a proof of its concept.
About the Speaker
Dr. Byeungwoo Jeon received the B.S. degree (Magna Cum Laude) in 1985
and the M.S. degree in 1987 from the Department of Electronics Engineering, Seoul National
University, Seoul, Korea,
and the Ph.D. degree from the School
of Electrical Engineering,
Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA,
in 1992.
From 1993 to 1997, he was in the Signal Processing Laboratory, Samsung Electronics, Korea, where he worked for research
and development of video compression algorithms, design of digital broadcasting
satellite receivers, and other MPEG-related research for multimedia
applications. Since September 1997, he has been with the faculty of the School of Information and Communication
Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University,
Korea, where he
is currently a Professor. From 2006 to 2007, he was a visiting scientist in
MIT, Research Lab of Electronics, and in 2010, he was also a short-time
visiting scientist in Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore.
He has authored many papers in the areas of video compression, pre/post
processing, and pattern recognition. He also holds more than 50 issued patents
(Korea
and Worldwide) in these areas. His research
interests include multimedia signal processing, video compression,
statistical pattern recognition, and remote sensing. He has served as Project
Manager of Digital TV and Broadcasting in the Korean Ministry of Information
and Communications for 2004.3 ~ 2006.2 where he has supervised all digital
TV-related R&D in Korea.
Dr.Jeon is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu. He is a senior
member of IEEE, member of SPIE, IEEK, KICS, and KOSBE. He also regularly
participates and contributes to international standardization activities, e.g.,
ITU-T VCEG and ISO/IEC MPEG. He was a recipient of the 2005 IEEK Haedong Paper
Award in Signal Processing Society, Korea.
Time: 10:30 AM, Tuesday, September 21, 2010.
Light refreshments will be offered at 10:15 AM.
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, and Hong Man, hman “AT” stevens-tech.edu,
(201)-216-5038.
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NJ SP Society:
Steganography
and Steganalysis: Fundamentals, and Some
New Developments
On October
5, 2010, the NJ Signal Processing Society will be hosting a lecture
at NJIT on “Steganography and Steganalysis:
Fundamentals, and Some New Developments”. The speaker will be Lifang Yu.
About the Talk
Steganography is the science and art of hiding
messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended
recipient, suspects the existence of the secrete communication. Hence it is a form of security through
obscurity, which is rather different from cryptography which does not hide
existence of secrete message.
Steganalysis is the science and art of detecting the existence of
secrete message. Unlike cryptanalysis,
where it is obvious that intercepted data contains a message (though that
message is encrypted), steganalysis generally starts with a pile of suspect
data files, but little information about which of the files, if any, contain a
secret message. Multimedia files are
popularly used for digital steganography because of their large size and
popular utilization in our daily life.
In this talk, the fundamentals of steganography and
steganalysis are first introduced.
Afterwards, some typical algorithms of steganography and steganalysis
are described. Finally, some new
developments and future research are discussed.
About the Speaker
Ms. Lifang Yu received the BS degree from the
Department of Computer Information and Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
in 2006. Since then, she has been a PhD
student and candidate in Beijing
Jiaotong University
majoring in Signal and Information Processing.
In October 2009, she started her one-year visit at New Jersey Institute
of Technology. Her research interests
are in steganography and steganalysis, forensic, watermarking, and pattern
recognition. She has six published works
in conference and journals.
Time: 10:30 AM, Tuesday, October 5, 2010. Light refreshments will be offered at 10:15 AM.
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, and
Hong Man, hman “AT” stevens-tech.edu, (201)-216-5038.
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North Jersey Section to Hold Senior Member Drive
at Its December Executive Committee Meeting
The IEEE North Jersey Section is proud to announce its annual end of
the year workshop agenda and relevant changes affecting members. Each year, the election results for new
officers for the North Jersey section for the
following year are announced by the tellers committee by the December executive
committee meeting. The new officers are
then installed and take office in the coming January.
This year will be different from year's past with a newly expanded
agenda for the December executive committee meeting. In addition to the normal election result
announcements, this year a number of key topics have been added in response to
member requests.
A number of section IEEE members and non-members have been inquiring
how they can become more informed about and involved with the section and
different IEEE activities being held throughout the year. Some from just increased attendance and
others from increased active participation and volunteering for different
activities and events.
Also, many members have inquired how they can apply for a senior-member
grade elevation and go about obtaining required references for their senior
member application.
With the membership interests in mind, the end of the year executive
committee meeting will have its agenda changed to hold an information session
on the Senior Membership grade elevation process and an opportunity to interact
with current senior members to find that last missing reference match for those
seeking senior membership with an active application in process. If you have not started your senior
membership application yet, start now and have your references completed by the
end of the year.
All section members are invited to attend, especially those who are
current senior members and are willing to serve as references, those interested
in learning how to stay better informed of section and area wide IEEE
activities that are occurring. For those
interested in becoming more active in general IEEE activities, volunteering, or
those seeking senior membership.
The
event will be held on Wednesday,
December 1, 2010, 6-9PM
at a final location to be determined.
Stay tuned to the newsletter and website for additional information
about registering for this event.
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Dear North Jersey IEEE Student Members!
I hope all of you have enjoyed your summer and are preparing for the
beginning of yet another wonderful fall semester for your student
branches. As you may be aware, the
Region 1 Student Activities Committee hosts an annual Student Conference in the
Spring where there are a number of competitions that students can compete
in. One of our most well-known and exciting
competition is the Micromouse Competition.
In preparation for our 2011 Student Conference, we are offering a
Micromouse web training on Friday,
October 15, 2010 from Noon
to 1PM. This training will give you an insight into
how to successfully design and develop your own micromouse. Please see the SAC announcement in this
Newsletter for registration details and note that this is only available to the
first 50 student registrants. So, HURRY
and register now.
Also, be on the lookout for details on the Student Branch Leadership
Training Workshop being planned at CCNY (NYC) on Saturday, November 6th.
Finally, we are also planning a special "IEEE DAY" event for North Jersey Student
Members at Stevens Institute of Technology on October 7th. Please take this opportunity to meet other
student branch leaders from various schools in the area and the North Jersey
Section volunteers. I look forward to a
great year for student activities!
Best Regards,
Jignasa Ray, P.E.
North Jersey Section SAC Chair
R1 Student Activities Chair
jignasa.ray “AT” ieee.org
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North Jersey
Section Opens Registration for Two Soft Skill Courses
At IEEE, we recognize that that much of your engineering work involves
writing or presenting information to people (end users, marketing executives)
who don't have your technical expertise.
Thanks to recent requests from many IEEE members, we are launching two
"soft skills" courses this fall on improving your written communications
and presentation skills. Please review the
descriptions in this newsletter for content, schedules and dates.
The first course "Improving Your Writing Skills – Tips &
Techniques" will be offered over four weeks on Thursday September 23, 30
and October 7, 14.
The second course "Developing Your Presentation Skills – Tips
& Techniques" will be offered over four weeks Thursday, October 28,
November 4, 11, 18.
Additionally, many folks have requested CEU/PDU credits for these
courses. Both courses qualify for either
0.1 CEUs or 10 PDUs and are available at an additional cost of just $25 more
per course. Both courses emphasize
individualized instruction with a small class size.
These courses will be held at Advanced Technical Marketing, 1719 Route
Ten, Suite 113 Parsippany NJ 07054. For
any questions contact North Jersey GOLD chair Larry Yang at yangl “AT”
ieee.org.
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Elevate to
Senior Member Grade!
To get information and an application to advance to Senior Member
Grade, see http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/senior-members/. For
further information or to find potential references, contact Mario Ogava,
Membership Chair, at m.ogava “AT” ieee.org.
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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.
· Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Chair
– contact naresh.chand “AT” baesystems.com
· 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 RaquelPC
“AT” njit.edu
· Membership Development Committee Chair and
Volunteers – contact kduncan “AT” ieee.org.
· Computer Society Chapter Committee Volunteers
– contact zhao “AT” fdu.edu.
· Technical Management Council Committee
Volunteers – contact saumil “AT” ieee.org
· North Jersey Section Awards Committee Volunteers –
contact k.oexle “AT” verizon.net
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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From the North Jersey Section’s Education
Committee: Hot courses can enhance your position
in the job market
IEEE North Jersey
Education Committee ran programming and management courses since 1993. 252 IEEE members and non-members completed
these courses. Benefits: Some got jobs at AT&T and Microsoft
Corporation.
We need hot
courses, instructors and classrooms. If
you can teach a hot course (any course that can get people 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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IEEE-USA in Action:
2009 Online Annual Report Highlights
Increased Efforts in Expanding Career-Related Products & Services &
Anticipating Public Policy Opportunities
Washington (9 August 2010) - In an introductory letter to IEEE-USA's
newly unveiled 2009 online annual report, 2009 IEEE-USA President Gordon Day
observed that "the year began with serious concerns about
employment," and IEEE-USA "scrambled to meet the needs and concerns
of U.S. IEEE members by expanding our
career-related products and services -- and making them easier to access."
Day added that the organization "had already anticipated new
challenges and opportunities in public policy" with the Obama administration
arriving in January, especially with energy, communications and patent reform
issues. And he noted that IEEE-USA's
"efforts in both career support and public policy provided more than the usual number of opportunities
to engage in public discussions on the issues."
The online annual report includes detailed sections on addressing
IEEE-USA's 2009 strategic goals and priorities in support of members' careers
and shaping public policy, as well as in increasing the public visibility of
IEEE and engineering, and advancing the globalization of IEEE's professional
activities.
For an overview of IEEE-USA's 2009 activities, see http://www.ieeeusa.org/about/annual_report/2009.pdf. For a look at all IEEE-USA
online reports from 2004 through 2009, go to http://www.ieeeusa.org/about/default.asp.
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News from IEEE-USA:
IEEE-USA Urges Congress to Permanently Extend
R&D Tax Credit
Washington (7 September 2010)
- IEEE-USA urges Congress to make the research and development (R&D) tax
credit permanent. The White House is
expected to propose it Wednesday.
"Making the R&D tax credit permanent would provide corporations
some needed economic predictability in these turbulent times," IEEE-USA
President Evelyn Hirt said. "The
credit reduces the monetary risk of investing in research that might not result
in profitable products and systems for many years. The technologies U.S. companies develop or improve
will ultimately have a positive effect on U.S. competitiveness, the growth of
small businesses and job creation."
The R&D tax credit reduces a company's federal tax liability based
on the money it spends researching and developing new products or improving
existing ones. Credit can be taken for
such things as salaries and wages, contract research (65 percent), supplies and
patent attorney fees.
The R&D tax credit -- officially known as the Research and
Experimentation tax credit -- was created by Congress in 1981 as a temporary
measure. It has lapsed on several
occasions and been extended 13 times.
The most recent credit expired in December, causing unease among
companies about whether they should continue current levels of R&D
investment. Making the credit permanent
would provide a level of certainty to businesses that money they invest in
R&D will receive the credit.
IEEE-USA has supported permanent extension of the tax credit for many
years. It reconfirmed its support in
June with a position that reads, in part, "By providing an incentive for
expanding private-sector investments in technology, the R&D tax credit improves
productivity and encourages technological innovations that help sustain U.S.
competitiveness, create jobs and ensure our national security." See http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/positions/RDTaxCredit0610.pdf.
Contact:
Chris McManes
IEEE-USA Public Relations Manager
202-530-8356
c.mcmanes “AT” ieee.org
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News from IEEE-USA:
Counterfeiting Detection and Prevention to be
Featured at IEEE Homeland Security Conference
Washington (10 September 2010) -
Counterfeiting is an emerging national security issue for military and homeland
security officials, as well as the commercial industrial base. The detection and prevention of counterfeiting
is one of the topics that will be presented at the 2010 IEEE International
Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST 10) in November.
Counterfeit products, such as electronics and
computer systems and networks, compromise mission assurance, may introduce
cybersecurity risks and cost companies billions of dollars in lost
revenue. Vivek Pathak, in his paper,
"Preventing Counterfeiting through Authenticated Product Labels,"
will discuss how a cryptography-based counterfeit detection method identifies
counterfeit products and can pinpoint their source in the supply chain.
Pathak will present his paper during HST 10
at the Westin Waltham Boston in Waltham,
Mass., USA,
8-10 November 2010.
The HST 10 Technical Program Committee is made
up of leading science and technology experts from academia, national
laboratories, federally funded research and development centers, the federal
government and industry. The committee
reviewed 135 papers and accepted 80, for a 59.3 percent acceptance rate. Thirty-seven papers came from outside of the United States.
"We know that attendees from many
backgrounds come to the conference to learn about the state of the art and
recent advances," said Dr. Robert Cunningham, leader of the Cyber Systems
and Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and HST 10 technical
co-chair. "Some attendees come to
deepen their understanding of their own field, and some come to gain
breadth. Some come to learn about
national priorities and future directions.
This year's program has a little of something for everyone."
HST 10 will bring together global science and
technology thought leaders to foster homeland security technology
innovation. It will showcase selected
technical papers highlighting emerging technologies in four tracks: cybersecurity; land and maritime border
security; counter-WMD
techniques, and critical infrastructure and key resources physical security;
and attack and disaster preparation, recovery and response.
For more information, visit www.ieee-hst.org
or contact Bob Alongi at information@ieee-hst.org or +1 781-245-5405.
HST 10 is produced by IEEE with technical
support from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology
Directorate and the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. IEEE-USA is providing organizational support.
Contact:
Chris McManes
IEEE-USA Public Relations Manager
202-530-8356
c.mcmanes@ieee.org
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News from IEEE-USA:
IEEE/IEEE-USA Seek Nominations for 2011
"New Faces of Engineering" Recognition Program
Washington (3 September 2010) - Nominations are now open for a younger
engineer to be recognized as the IEEE/IEEE-USA's 2011 "New Face of
Engineering."
The Engineers Week (EWeek) "New Faces of
Engineering" program recognizes engineers new to the profession with
outstanding educational and career accomplishments. The program is open to IEEE members worldwide.
"New Faces" is designed to promote
the importance of technical education, celebrate engineering careers and
recognize significant contributions to the engineering profession and
society. Each year, the EWeek website
(www.eweek.org) features the photos and biographies of five notable young
engineers from each EWeek sponsoring society.
In addition, each society's top nominee is recognized during EWeek in a
full-page ad in USA Today. http://www.eweek.org/Site/pdfs/USA_Today_Ad.pdf.
EWeek 2011 is 20-26 February.
To be eligible for recognition, engineers
must be 30 or younger as of 31
December 2010, have a degree in engineering from a recognized U.S. college or
university or equivalent international educational institution. Degrees in engineering technology, science,
computer science and similar disciplines do not qualify; a degree in computer
engineering is acceptable. IEEE/IEEE-USA
nominees must be an IEEE member.
Judges will evaluate nominees based on their educational
attainment, engineering achievements and participation and accomplishments in
professional and technical society activities.
Particular consideration is given to work (e.g. volunteering,
publishing, conference presentations) in IEEE technical societies.
IEEE nominations can be submitted through
IEEE regional directors, section and GOLD
chairs, or independently, and should be directed to Sharon Richardson at s.richardson@ieee.org.
Self-nominations are not permitted.
The nomination form and more information are available at http://www.ieeeusa.org/communications/eweek/newfaces/default.asp.
The deadline for all IEEE nominations is 15 October 2010.
The "New Faces of Engineering"
program was the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning
Engineers' (ASHRAE) legacy project for EWeek 2003. The program is now in its ninth year. Among the IEEE/IEEE-USA's "New
Faces" were Deborah Zwitter, IBM
Corporation (2003); Dr. Mark Hersam, Northwestern
University (2005); Dr.
Carlos Cordeiro, Philips Research North America (2007); and Sanna Gaspard,
TLneoCare, LLC (2010).
Gaspard was featured in the Sept. 2010 print
edition of IEEE's newspaper, The Institute: http://bit.ly/d4nj0J.
Sponsored by more than 100 engineering,
science and education societies, as well as major corporations dedicated to
increasing public awareness and appreciation of engineering, EWeek is
celebrated annually by thousands of engineers, engineering students, teachers
and leaders in government and business.
IEEE served as lead society during EWeek 1993 and 2004.
Raytheon Company and ASHRAE are serving as
EWeek 2011 co-chairs.
Contact:
Chris McManes
IEEE-USA Public Relations Manager
Phone: 1 202 530 8356
E-mail: c.mcmanes@ieee.org
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IEEE Northeast
Industry Day
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In Memoriam
Won Kim P.E., IEEE Life
Member, passed away on May 31.
Won had been an active member
of the North Jersey Section over the past 30 years, especially with the Power
& Energy Society (PES) and Industrial Applications Society (IAS)
chapters. Among his many contributions
to the Section: he served on the PES/IAS
Technical Seminar Committee, was a seminar presenter, facilitated the
registration of international attendees at the PES Winter Power Meeting, served on the MTT/AP Annual Symposium
Registration Committee and assisted at the Annual Awards Reception and Life
Grade Lunch
Both Region 1 IEEE and
the Industrial Applications Society recognized Won with awards for his
contributions and service to the Section, IAS Chapter and the engineering
community.
In addition to his IEEE
activities, Won was an active member of the Union County Society of
Professional Engineers, serving as an officer of that organization.
During his professional
career he was engaged in engineering activities at Motorola, Wakefern, and
Schering-Plough. In recent years he
served as an engineering consultant, an instructor for PSE&G and an Adjunct
Professor at Union
County College.
Won is survived by his
wife Haekyung, two sons Howard and John, and four grandchildren.
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IEEE NJ End of Summer Picnic
Saturday, September 25, 2010
11Am to 4pm
Fords Park in Woodbridge,
Picnic Grove
http://www.co.middlesex.nj.us/parksrecreation/ford.asp
IEEE Members and their Families are welcome
Meet your local ieee Section Ex-Com officers
Network with other IEEE
WIE/GOLD members
Learn about WIE/GOLD activities and local Section activities
Enjoy the outdoors, food and games (Volleyball, Football, Frisbee etc.)
Bring your favorite picnic food to share with others. We will
provide the beverages.
No beer/wine permitted
Register
at: http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/2713
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North Jersey Student Activities
Committee
Join us in celebrating the achievements of
members around the world in our IEEE DAY
event!
WHO: IEEE Student Branch E-Board Members
WHAT: IEEE Day Bowling Event
WHEN: October 7th, 2010, 5:30pm
-7:00pm
REGISTER: http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/3153
WHERE: Stevens Institute of Technology Bowling
Alley
1 Castle Point on the Hudson
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Any Questions, contact us at IEEE@gmail.com
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Presents
Web training for IEEE R1 Student Members on
“How to Design and Develop a Micromouse”
Friday, October 15, 2010
12:00PM (noon) – 1:00PM
Abstract:
A Micromouse is
a small robot vehicle that is able to navigate its way through an unknown maze.
It is autonomous, battery-operated and self-contained, encompassing computer
technology, robotics and artificial intelligence. The main challenge for the
Micromouse designers is to import the Micromouse with an adaptive intelligence
which enables exploration of different maze configurations, and to work out the
optimum route with the shortest run time from start to destination and back. In
addition, the Micromouse must reliably negotiate the maze at a very high speed
without crashing into the maze walls.
The annual IEEE
Region 1 Student Conference hosts the Micromouse Competition. The objective of
the competition is to build a Micromouse that can negotiate a specified maze in
the shortest time. This on-line webinar will introduce the design and
development of the hardware and software of a Micromouse. The take away will be
the fundamental knowledge with best practices and design strategies to build a
Micromouse, and be ready for the 2011 Region 1 Micromouse Competition.
Speaker
Bios:
Soon Wan
graduated from Ngee Ann Polytechnic (Singapore) as the top student with
the highest merit diploma, and graduated with Summa Cum Laude in Electrical and
Computer Engineering at Merrimack
College (North Andover, MA).
At Ngee Ann, Soon developed several Micromice, and has won the 1992
International Micromouse Competition in Hong Kong.
Soon developed a new Micromouse when he came to Merrimack College,
and won the 1997, 1998, and 1999 Region 1 Micromouse competition. Soon has also
entered several APEC International Micromouse competitions since 1999, and his
Micromouse has been titled as the most reliable mouse.
Please register at: http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/2835
Registration is limited to the first 50
registrants!!!
If you have any questions, please email R1 SAC Chair, Jignasa Ray at jignasa.ray “AT” ieee.org.
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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 28, at
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 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 at (973) 386-1156.
________________________________________________________________
IEEE Life Grade Luncheon Registration
NJ - October 28, 2010
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.
Make 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
25th ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM AND MINI-SHOW
FOCUS:
SELECTED TOPICS IN RF AND MICROWAVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY APPLICATIONS
DATE: THURSDAY
OCTOBER 7, 2010
PLACE: Hanover
Manor, 16 Eagle Rock Ave,
E. Hanover, NJ
07936. Ph# (973)
992-7425
The conference presents a series of 11 lectures describing the state of
the art in Microwave, RF, and Wireless
Communications, technologies by leaders in their respective fields.
MINI SHOW FEATURING LATEST PRODUCTS - (9:30 AM TO
4:30 PM)
TECHNICAL SESSIONS (8:50AM to 4:30PM)
Registration is on-site. Details are in the October issue of the NORTH JERSEY IEEE
NEWSLETTER and at http://www-ec.njit.edu/~ieeenj/NEWSLETTER.html#_IEEE_North_Jersey_5
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
For further information contact:
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IEEE North Jersey
Section Course
C# .NET Programming
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 through December 15, 2010
Eight weekly classes (October 20,
27, November 3, 10, 17, December 1, 8, 15, 2010)
Location: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, New Jersey 07102 (Checks should not be mailed to
this address)
IEEE North Jersey Section thanks New
Jersey Institute of Technology, for sponsoring this course.
The IEEE North
Jersey Section is offering a course "C# .NET
Programming". Since 2004, C# .NET has generated significant headway in
Fortune 1000 enterprise development systems.
Dice.com lists 1000+ 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, PhD,
has been a corporate manager for 11 years and is an experienced trainer. Since 2004, he has trained 850+ people in
C++, Java, WebLogic, Database, XML, and C# .NET
courses in 8 organizations.
TOPICS
1.
Compare the enterprise
development tools using Java to C# .NET
2.
Define Visual Studio .NET Version 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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New
Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark,
NJ
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WHEN:
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Eight
evenings, October 20, 27, November 3, 10, 17, December 1, 8, 15, 2010, 6:30 to 9:00 PM.
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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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IEEE North Jersey Section Course
Project Management
Saturday Mornings, October
9, 2010 through December
4, 2010
Eight weekly classes (October 9, 16, 23, 30, November 6, 13, 20, December 4, 2010)
New Jersey Institute Technology, Newark,
New Jersey
(Checks should not be mailed to this address)
IEEE
North Jersey Section thanks New Jersey Institute Technology for sponsoring this
course
The North Jersey Section IEEE is offering a course "Project
Management". Dice.com lists 4,000+
Project related jobs in the New York
tri-state area daily! This course will help you to break down a master project
into manageable tasks, pinpoint possible solutions, and provide information to
keep the project under control. Using
Microsoft Project software, you will learn to accomplish various project plans. In addition, it will greatly enhance your
business, communications and interpersonal skills.
You will receive the IEEE certificate of completion when you finish the
course. You may wish to take two
Certification exams, one in Project Management
administered by Project Management Institute from the knowledge that you
learned in this course. (This is not an exclusive PMP-PMI
examination prep course. No
PDUs are issued for PMP eligibility. CEU
credits would be given by IEEE).
Instructor: Donald Hsu,
PhD, has been a corporate manager for 11 years and is an experienced
trainer. Since 2003, he has trained 900+
people in Contract Procurement, IT Project+, MS Project, and Project Management
courses in eleven organizations.
TOPICS
1.
Explain the need for a
project manager
2.
Define SOW, PERT, GANTT, CPM,
and Scope of the project
3.
Identify the team members,
resources and plan for the strategy
4.
Calculate schedule, budget
variances, and monitor project progress
5.
Manage changes, estimates,
and communications
6.
Set a baseline, import tasks
from MS Excel, export Project files to MS Word
7.
Create and modify custom
reports, templates and combination views
8.
Share resources and create a
master plan loaded to Project Server
9.
Approve updates and conclude
a project plan
10.
Analyze global E-Commerce and
present student Projects
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WHERE:
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New Jersey Institute
Technology, Newark, NJ.
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WHEN:
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8 Saturdays, October 9,
16, 23, 30, November 6, 13, 20, December 4, 2010, 9:30
AM - 12:00 noon.
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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: Project Management
Please mail the
registration form with the check (Checks payable to “North Jersey Section IEEE”) to
Donald
Hsu, Chair Education Committee, IEEE North Jersey Section, P. O. Box 2093, Fort
Lee, NJ 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 a
completed registration form and the payment are received, you are officially
registered for this course. Registration
status will be notified by email.
˙ I wish to receive IEEE Completion Certificate
Signature:___________________________________________
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IEEE North Jersey Section Course
Developing Your Presentation Skills – Tips &
Techniques
(Four weekly classes on Thursday, October 28,
November 4, 11 & 18)
Location: Advanced Technical Marketing, Suite 113, 1719
Route 10, Parsippany, NJ 07054
(Do not mail checks here)
IEEE North Jersey
Section thanks Advanced Technical Marketing for sponsoring this course.
If you are saying a few
words” to a client prospect, giving a detailed explanation to some technical experts,
interviewing for a new job or preparing a sales presentation, it can be a
challenge to deliver an effective presentation.
Developing Your Presentation Skills–Tips & Techniques will cover
what it takes to plan, organize, develop and deliver effective presentations
for any audience.
Instructor: Wilma Hurwitz
has managed design, marketing and delivery of over 200 industry conferences,
trade shows and special events on information technology; software project
management; manufacturing; plastics, metals and packaging technology; financial
services and supply chain management.
Clients include Alcatel-Lucent (network systems), Honeywell, American
Electronics Association, Administrative Management Society, Rutgers Center
for Management Development, NYU School of Continuing Education and Boston University
Center for Project
Management. For some of these events she
has been a presentation skills coach to individual software project managers
and technical marketing/sales executives.
TOPICS
·
Different kinds of presentations
(informational, persuasive, good/bad news)
·
Your audience and their expectations
·
How to structure your presentation – key
points, supporting information, presentation flow
·
Selecting the right audio-visuals to get your
points across
·
Pre-performance practice and staging
·
Actual performance -- on-site delivery
considerations: problem listeners, handling nervousness, handling
questions
·
Post-presentation debrief – What went well?
What needs improvement?
Methodology:
This course is presented via class discussion, Q&A, case studies, exercises
and actual practice in class. In order to provide individual attention, class
size is limited to the first 12 registrations.
Additional courses maybe held in the future. IEEE will be offering CEUs (PDUs) at an
additional cost of $25 per person if you would like to get CEU (1.0) or PDU (10
hours) credit.
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WHERE:
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Technical Marketing, Suite 113, 1719
Route 10, Parsippany, NJ 07054
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WHEN:
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Four
evenings, October 28, November 4, 11, 18, 2010, 6:30 to 9:00 PM.
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COST:
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IEEE
members $225; Non-IEEE members $300; Student/Unemployed members $125 (add $25
for CEU/PDUs)
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CONTACT:
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Larry
Yang, yangl “AT” ieee.org
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DEADLINE:
October 18, 2010 REGISTRATION:
Developing Your Presentation Skills – Tips & Techniques
Please mail the completed registration with a check
(payable to “North Jersey
Section IEEE”) to:
Larry Yang, Chair GOLD Committee, IEEE North Jersey Section, 9
Braemar Court, Parsippany, NJ, 07054
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 a completed registration form and the
payment are received, you are officially registered for this course. Registration status will be notified by
email.
___ I wish to receive
IEEE CEUs/PDUs, $25 extra Signature:___________________________________________
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IEEE North Jersey Section Course
Improving Your Writing Skills – Tips &
Techniques
(Four
weekly classes on Thursday, September 23, 30 and October 7, 14)
Location: Advanced Technical Marketing, Suite 113, 1719
Route 10, Parsippany, NJ 07054
(Do
not mail checks here)
IEEE North Jersey
Section thanks Advanced Technical Marketing for sponsoring this course.
When you write an email,
test report, technical memo, manual or formal job search correspondence, there
are some valuable “best” practices to make the process easy and your documents
clear. Upon completion of Improving Your
Writing Skills–Tips, & Techniques, attendees will be able to plan, organize
and prepare effective business correspondence, e-mails, memos, reports and job
search documents (resumes, cover letters) for select external and internal
readers.
Instructor: Wilma Hurwitz
is a training consultant and executive coach specializing in verbal and written
workplace communications, presentation skills and customer service
techniques. Key communications clients
have included Alcatel-Lucent, (network systems), Jersey Central Power & Light,
Pershing Division of Bank of NY Mellon and GlaxoSmithKline. Since 2007, she has also been a free-lance
writer with the Morris County Daily Record authoring select business feature
articles and cover stories. She is
currently their weekly columnist covering Morristown
area restaurants.
TOPICS
·
The Communication Model – what it
is, how it works
·
Different purposes for written
communications: editorial, informational, good/bad news, directive and
persuasive
·
Who is/are your reader(s)? What do
they want to achieve upon reading your document?
·
Writer’s “block” – how to get
started with your communication
·
Structuring your message
·
Writing sentences – the “fog”
index and how to avoid it
·
Developing your document – use of language, flow of key points
·
Grammar – some essential rules to
ensure that our writing is clear
·
Beyond “spellchecker” – some
guidelines for proofreading
·
Special documents – praise,
instructions, new concept presentation and communicating about change.
Methodology: IMPROVING
YOUR WRITING SKILLS–TIPS & TECHNIQUES is delivered via discussion, Q&A,
document preparation and review of different writing samples throughout the
program. Assignments will be made to
address individual business writing needs. Special attention will be given to
those attendees for whom English is a second language.
To allow for
individualized instruction, class size is limited to the first 12
registrations. Additional courses may be
held in the future. IEEE will be offering
CEUs (PDUs) at an additional cost of $25 per person if you would like to get
CEU (1.0) or PDU (10 hours) credit.
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WHERE:
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Technical Marketing, Suite 113, 1719
Route 10, Parsippany, NJ 07054
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WHEN:
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Four
evenings, September 23, 30, October 7, 14, 2010 from 6:30 to 9:00 PM.
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COST:
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IEEE
members $225; Non-IEEE members $300; Student/Unemployed members $125 (add $25
for CEU/PDUs)
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CONTACT:
|
Larry
Yang, yangl “AT” ieee.org
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DEADLINE:
September 13, 2010 REGISTRATION:
Improving Your Writing Skills – Tips & Techniques
Please mail the completed registration with a check
(payable to “North Jersey
Section IEEE”) to:
Larry Yang, Chair GOLD Committee, IEEE North Jersey Section, 9
Braemar Court, Parsippany, NJ, 07054.
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 CEUs/PDUs, $25
extra
Signature:___________________________________________
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IEEE North Jersey
Section Course
Introduction to Cisco Networking
September 30, 2010 through December 9, 2010
Ten weekly classes (Sept. 30, Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28, Nov.
4, 11, 18, Dec. 2, 9, 2010)
Polaris Microsystems, Inc., 2337 Lemoine Avenue, Fort Lee,
NJ
(Checks should not be mailed to this address)
The
North Jersey Section IEEE offers an evening course entitled "Introduction to
Cisco Networking” for practical “hands-on” training using Cisco routers,
switches, and Cisco’s Packet Tracer to install, configure, operate,
troubleshoot, and design small to medium-size networks.
You
will receive the IEEE certificate of completion when you finish the
course. You may wish to take the CCNA
exam from the knowledge and experience you gained in this course. (This is not
an exclusive CCNA examination prep course.
CEU credits would be given by IEEE)
Instructor
Dr. Joseph Miao, CCNA, CCNP, CCSP,
CCVP, CISSP, has trained and consulted for small to large organizations in
networking, security and voice for more than 15 years. In addition, he has developed several
commercial database applications.
Topics
1. OSI
Model
2. Assembling and Cabling Cisco Devices
3 IP
Addressing & Subnetting, VLSM
4. Routing with RIP v1&v2, EIGRP, and OSPF
5. VLANs, Trunking and Spanning Tree Protocol
6. PPP,
Frame-Relay, Virtual Private Network
7. Access Lists & NAT
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WHERE:
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Polaris Microsystems, Inc., 2337
Lemoine Avenue, Fort Lee, NJ
(Checks should not be
mailed to this address)
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WHEN:
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10 Thursdays, Sept. 30, Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28, Nov.
4, 11, 18, Dec. 2, 9, 2010, 6:30 –
9:00 pm
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COST:
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IEEE (& affiliate) members $600; Non-IEEE
members $650.
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CONTACT:
|
Donald Hsu: yanyou “AT”
hotmail.com
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REGISTRATION: Introduction to Cisco Networking
Please mail
the registration form with the check (Checks payable to “North Jersey Section IEEE”) to
Donald Hsu, Chair Education
Committee, IEEE North Jersey Section, P. O. Box 2093, Fort Lee, NJ, 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 a completed registration form and the payment are received, you are
officially registered for this course.
Registration status will be notified by email.
˙ Tuition receipt will be mailed only if this
box is checked
Signature:___________________________________________
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