NEWSLETTER OF THE BALTIMORE SECTION OF THE IEEE
JUNE 2005
The web site for the Baltimore section of the IEEE is:
IN THIS ISSUE:
2. Aerospace
and Electronics Systems - Baltimore Chapter
3. 2005
Robot Challenge Wrap-Up
5. Link
myIEEE to Your Section's Website
6. New
Procedure for Publication Delivery Complaints
1. Signal Processing Society
The following is an excerpt of a note from Dave Sherman regarding the formation of a Baltimore Section of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
It's official. We are approved to start a Signal Processing Society Chapter in Baltimore. Thanks everyone for all their help and support through the formation process.
We're going to get organized now and officially get our kick-off meeting underway in early fall. We intend to have Delores Etter from the Naval Academy speak at this meeting.
Thanks,
David Sherman
The following is an excerpt of a message from Lauren S. Leaston at the IEEE Regional Activities.
Greetings,
We received a petition from Dr. David Sherman to form the IEEE Baltimore Section - Signal Processing Society Chapter. The petition is approved by the Executive Committee of the Section and has the required amount of qualified signatures.
If no objections are received by 26 May 2005, I will proceed with this Chapter formation.
Warmest regards,
Lauren S. Leaston
Administrative Assistant - Unit Reporting & Formations
IEEE Regional Activities
Department Management & Administration
From the editor:
When I first joined the Signal Processing Society many years ago, Delores Etter was the president of that society. Her presentation in the fall will be a great introduction to our new society. We will all have something to look forward to in the fall. Everyone have a great summer.
2. Aerospace and Electronics Systems - Baltimore Chapter
To better serve the Aerospace and Electronics Systems members in the Baltimore area, this September we will be resuming formal IEEE activities. The first order of business is the election of officers. Any member interested in helping to shape the future of this Chapter is urged to contact Eric Fiore at Eric.M.Fiore@LMCO.com or 410-682-0370 for more information. Our goal is to have a full complement of officers and an agenda prior to September, so please contact Eric soon.
3. 2005 Robot Challenge Wrap-Up
To all the judges, helpers (and spectators) who worked on the Challenge in April to put on one our best events ever, many thanks! We plan to have a revue meeting shortly, and would appreciate any comments you received from the students or your own personal observations, both favorable and unfavorable, so that we can discuss them and try to do even better next year.
Please send your comments by e-mail to Neville Jacobs at Nevilleed@aol.com or Jay Gamerman at gamerman-gang@att.net. If you would like to attend the revue meeting, please so indicate.
4. Continuing EE Education
We are re-running this request for interest in a continuing education program. This program will be in the format of seminars focused on a particular topic of interest. The seminars may run either during the week after work hours or possibly on Saturday. The idea for the program is described below.
Name of project: Continuing EE Education (“CEEE”)
Goal: A section-level program aimed at:
Updating the IEEE members on new developments in the EE field.
Familiarizing engineers with basic new tools, products and techniques as well as giving them the initial knowledge and skills to use them.
Inviting representatives from different vendors to present leading novel products.
Giving tutorials in new areas.
Helping IEEE fellow members become more competitive, especially in times of uncertain jobs, off-shoring and salary stagnation.
Facilitating networking.
Broadening the horizon of each IEEE member.
Fostering collaboration between members of different societies as well as generation of new ideas (“cross-pollination” element).
The program should be open to all IEEE members, including students. It is meant to be a cross-societies initiative, i.e. should not be limited to narrow topics serving the interests of a single chapter only. Emphasis should be placed on meeting with experienced experts from different fields. Critical comparisons between different solutions of EE problems are expected to be made, and trends should be discussed.
Potential topics of interest could include, but are not limited to:
Software tools:
Programming languages
Compilers
Real-Time Operating systems
Debuggers
Emulators
Hardware tools:
Novel electronic components
Single-Board Computers (SBC)
Embedded solutions
FPGAs
Printed circuit board design (schematics capture, layout)
Circuit simulation (PSPICE)
Portable devices
Signal and image processing (examples, tools, help)
Wireless devices:
Theory
Standards
Available OEM products
Trends
Internet-based methods and devices:
Standards
Available tools
Contemporary design tools (like AutoCad and Solid Works)
Reliability and Compliance issues
We plan to invite qualified speakers from academia, industry and governmental institutions. The speakers will be professionals who can give first-hand information and share front-line experience on the technology, methods and tools being presented.
We plan to organize 2-4 meetings annually. Each meeting is planned to last for 2 hours or more. We could meet on weekdays, or on Saturdays.
Please send us your suggestions and preferences regarding topics, time and place of meetings, the name/acronym of the program etc.
Boris Gramatikov
Vice Chair,
Baltimore Section
Bgramat@jhmi.edu
5. Link myIEEE to Your Section's Website
In January, IEEE launched a new Membership area on the IEEE web site, which includes a personalized "myIEEE" link. myIEEE provides active members with information on their IEEE memberships, membership grade, Section affiliation, recommendations for publications and additional memberships based on a member's technical interests. Access is gained with the Member's IEEE Web Account username and password,
We would like to invite you to provide a link to myIEEE from your organizational unit's website using the myIEEE login graphic and URL.
Use the following option to place the graphic (with login functionality) on a web page: Register and Download the myIEEE login graphic from the IEEE Promotional Library at:
http://www.ieee.org/services/promolibrary/browse_web.html#Additional.Ad#A0005.
Use the following URL to link the graphic to the login prompt:
http://services35.ieee.org/portal/site/membsecure/index.jsp?pageID=main_secure.
If you have not already done so, please visit the new Membership Portal at:
For additional information about the Membership site or myIEEE, contact Felicia Taylor, Regional Activities at f.taylor@ieee.org.
6. New Procedure for Publication Delivery Complaints
A new procedure has been developed to help track and respond to issues that members encounter with delivery of their IEEE publications or other IEEE mailings. Members who experience delivery problems are being directed to a newly established Web site. The site provides useful information to assist the member in identifying the cause of the problem by asking them to:
Confirm that we have their correct postal address on file.
Check their subscription record to insure they are, in fact, entitled to receive the publication in question.
View the date the publication was mailed.
Review the expected (surface) lead-time to their respective geographic area.
If these steps do not resolve the problem, the member can complete an online form to provide IEEE with the specific details of their situation, e.g., which publication(s) is involved, which issue(s) is missing, etc. The data from the Web form will be received by IEEE Member Services, who will then be responsible for researching the member's complaint (with support from the IEEE Publications Department staff) and for responding back to the member. The IEEE Publications Department will also be responsible for maintaining an ongoing log of the complaints, in order to identify repeat patterns that might lead to improvements in delivery service to certain areas. For a link to the online form visit:
http://www.ieee.org/pubdeliveryR9
