Providence Section of the IEEE

PROVIDENCE SECTION MENTOR DIRECTORY

CHARTER:

The Providence Section Executive Committee is requesting volunteers to act as mentors for our Student members. Volunteering mentors will be celebrated by the Section and have contact and experience/interest information listed on the Section web site and delivered to Section Student Chapters.  Our members have a wealth of experiences that can be applied to guiding emerging engineers, a gift that takes little effort or time on our part and may have a lasting impact on individuals and the profession.  We urge you to respond to the e-mail address below and provide the following contact information with a summary of experience/interests.

Steve Alam (salam@mediaone.net)
Associate Member for 20 years
617 591 1211 x29

Experience/Interests:
25 years of experience, almost all in medical or bio-tech instrumentation. with some process control.  Embedded systems, 8 and 16 bit mircos (Intel, Dallas, Motorola, Real time D/A and control ccts., Power Ultrasound (surgical) Able, PALASM, and some Lattice PLD design, Various assmeblers, Fortran (SLAC), Pascal, C, and C++ on VMS, Windows, and a smattering of Linux

Education:
B.S.C.S. BU 1995 (2 years E.E. at North Eastern, and one year of chemistry at Earl ham College (IN) and countless seminar hours.  

Harold Belson (h.belson@ieee.org)
Belson Engineering
401-683-4135

Experience/Interests:
Facilities Engineering Manager, with experience in providing facility and utility planning, construction design, master planning, capital improvements planning, capital repair programming, architect and engineering consultant contract management and real estate management. Retired after thirty five years at the Naval Complex at Newport, RI. Registered Professional Engineer. Past Chairman, Providence Section, IEEE; currently a member of the Executive Committee.

Education:
Bachelor of Science In Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill, Masters of Business Administration, University of Rhode Island.

Carolyn Duby (carolynd@pathfindersol.com)
Pathfinder Solutions
508-673-5790

Experience/Interests:

Carolyn is a co-founder and master consultant at Pathfinder Solutions. They focus on the development of software for high performance real-time systems using a process called Model Based Software Engineering using the Unified Modeling Language. Carolyn has over 10 years experience in object-oriented development and teaches C++ and model-based software engineering.

Education:
Bachelors and Masters, from Brown University in computer science.

Richard Hook (r.hook@ieee.org)
Retired
401-822-0205

Experience/Interests:

Management of research and development for metrology equipment in: Wright aero Corp, General Electric, Mechanical Technology, Neptune Meter Company, Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing Company.

Michael A. Jones (majpe@verizon.net)
Robson Woese, Bedford, MA
781-271-1750

Experience/Interests:
13 years experience with providing campus/facility upgrades and designs for substations, power distribution, alarm system, instrumentation and control systems. Have worked at the Naval Complex in Newport, RI, Crosby Valve, and Exponent Failure Analysis. During designs, performed protective device overcurrent coordination, fault current, voltage drop, and harmonic analysis. Design areas include Class I, Division 1 & 2 Hazardous locations. Forensic investigations include ride control system at major amusement park in Orlando, FL, and high voltage fault injury and damage in Louisiana. Presently work at Brown University. Have a U.S. Patent No. 6,283,138, Pressure Relief Valve Monitoring Device, awarded September 4, 2001. VMD is a network connected instrument measuring and recording overpressure events and valve seat leakage. Network communication through RS-485 or HART protocol. Registered Professional Engineer.

Education:
Bachelor of Science In Electrical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Masters of Science In Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Donald W. Lutz (grandpadon@webtv.net)
Avco Research Laboratory, Textron.
508-563-3950 or 727-399-9643

Experience/Interests:

Over thirty years of experience in design, construction & installation of high power sources, associated instrumentation, control, integrating & monitoring of these integral systems. For pulsed high voltage power supplies, air core magnets, [in the range of 3,000 to 40,000 gauss] & power supplies to drive them. Associated with these systems were vacuum, gas handling, gas storage, piping & control components, including electrical, mechanical & flow schematics, diagrams & working drawings for these systems. These systems were for medium to large scale pulsed  discharge electrical & gas dynamic research lasers.  These lasers operated at power levels from kilowatts to megawatts & voltage levels from kilovolts to mega volts.

Donald also applies his vast experience to lecturing on topics such as “Missile Re-Entry Solution”, “Magneto-Hydro-Dynamics, (M.H.D.) a means of producing D-C power”, "Gas Driven Lasers" (G.D.L.) and "Electric Discharge Laser’s" (E.D.L.).

Education:
Lincoln College, Boston, MA [ABS], in Electrical Engineering. Northeastern University, Boston, MA [BBA], in Engineering & Management.

Vik Mehrotra (vikm@venuscapital.com)
Venus Capitalk Management, Inc.
617-423-1901

Experience/Interests:

starting companies, seed stage money raising, Portfolio Management, stock markets, technology investing, venture capital, IPO’s, Investment banking. 

Education:
MBS, Finance, RIT, Rochester, NY; Ex-Paine Webber, Hedge fund manager and managing partner at a VC fund - www.voyagervp.com

Hugh Meier (hugh.meier@mltelecom.com)
President, Meier & Loftus Communications

www.mltelecom.com
401-935-2075

Experience/Interests:

Telecommunications Design Consulting, including voice systems (PBX, Centrex), data network components, cable infrastructure, and video systems for large clients in a campus environment.