NEWSLETTER OF
THE
JUNE 2007
The web site for the
IN THIS ISSUE:
4. Baltimore
IEEE WIE - Summer Picnic
5. Aerospace
and Electronic Systems Society
6. IEEE’s
Teacher In-Service Program (TISP) Training Workshop
7. Petition
Candidate for the IEEE 2008 President-Elect
10. Engineering
Seminars for Soft Skills
1. Note from the Editor
This will be the last newsletter before the summer months. The newsletter will return in September. Everyone have a nice summer.
2. EMC EXPO 2007
The
EMC EXPO 2007: Electromagnetic Environmental Effects
A practical seminar designed to improve your efficiency as an engineer, product designer or technical manager where you'll learn the newest DOD EMI Standard MIL-STD-461F. Guest speakers will provide inside insight to the changes and the test facilities, systems and equipment to meet the new requirements.
Concurrently the International Council on Systems Engineering will provide their 2-day Systems Engineering Certification Course.
Date:
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Location:
The Holiday Inn Hotel
For details and registration information visit:
http://www.wll.com/EMCEXPO2007.shtml
3.
INCOSE Meeting
Topic:
“Architecture-Based Drivers for System-of-Systems and Family-of-Systems Cost Estimating” & INCOSE Requirements Working Group Overview & Status"
Date:
Wednesday 20 June
Time:
Dinner: 6 PM
Presentation: 7 PM.
Location:
Applied Physics Laboratory
Additional information, and announcements for future meetings, can be accessed through the following link.
http://www.incose.org/chesapek
4.
Baltimore
Join WIE members, family and friends for a summer BBQ and picnic (weather permitting). All are welcome. Location and date will be announced.
Event Contact:
Barbara Morrison (barbara.morrison@vdtg.com)
or
Andrea Kraay (akraay@alum.mit.edu)
5. Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
The
“The IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems (AES) society
wants you! We are creating a community of defense and aerospace engineers in
the greater
We will have monthly meetings that alternate between
Owings Mills and
If you are interested, please contact:
Brian Womack, PhD
6. IEEE’s Teacher In-Service Program (TISP) Training Workshop
Calling all
Engineers in Region 2!!!
Are you interested
in working with your local schools, school districts and teachers? Do you want
to help improve the level of technical literacy of teachers and their students
in your local community?
Then you should
attend IEEE’s Teacher In-Service Program (TISP) Training Workshop!
Started in 2001,
TISP features IEEE volunteers developing and presenting technologically
oriented subject matter to educators in a professional development or
“in-service” setting. In the last several years, IEEE volunteers have made more
than 50 presentations to over 1200 pre-university educators within the
Now you can be a
TISP Champion! The IEEE Educational Activities Department, Region 2 and the
Baltimore Section are hosting a TISP Training Workshop: September 7-8, 2007, at
the BWI Marriott and
The workshop will
cover how to organize volunteers for TISP and how to bring the program to teachers
in your local schools and school districts. Thanks to the support of IEEE
To register for
the workshop, visit:
http://icm3.ieee.org/eventmanager/onlineregistration.asp?eventcode=XB6
The event will
begin on Friday, 7 September at 4:30 pm with a 2 hour presentation followed by
a dinner at 7:00 pm at the BWI Marriott.
On Saturday, 8
September, the event will run from 9:00 am to approximately 4:00 pm at the
Historical Electronics Museum and will include hands-on presentations, a
question and answer period as well as discussion on numerous topics such as:
program background and scope, getting started, potential costs to sections and
educators, suggestions on making contact with your local pre-university
community, and the alignment of an activity with educational standards. Breakfast
and lunch will be provided.
The goal of the
training session is to impact at least 1,000 pre-university educators in Region
2 and to help IEEE volunteers implement TISP in their local pre-university
education communities.
During an actual
TISP presentation, IEEE volunteers provide teachers with activity materials and
help them work their way through the activity. Working through the activity
together helps the teachers to feel more comfortable with the activity. The
idea is for the teachers to bring the activity back to their classrooms.
For more
information on this upcoming TISP training session or TISP participation,
please contact:
Doug Gorham
Director of Educational Outreach
+1. 732.562.5483
or
Jessica Czeczuga
Project Administrator
+1.732.562.5496
7. Petition Candidate for the IEEE 2008 President-Elect
The following is a note from Dr. Ralph W. Wyndrum Jr.:
“I need your help to become a petition candidate for the IEEE 2008 President-Elect position. I will need 3000+ signatures to appear on the ballot. Not only are IEEE Members, Senior Members, Life Members and Fellows eligible to sign, but also the newly dedicated class of Graduate Student Members.
You and your colleagues may individually petition by logging on to www.ieee.org/petition; you will need your member number and pin, OR your IEEE user name and password (i.e., IEEE web account information). This will take you to my petition which you can sign electronically. For more information on my qualifications, I invite you to visit my personal website at www.wyndrum.com/election. I have served as TAB VP, IEEE-USA President, and earlier as Publications VP.
Please remember that by signing the petition, you are not voting for me as President, nor are you obligated to vote for me in the election. By signing the petition, you are simply making me eligible to be a candidate in the election. Please sign the petition as soon as possible, since I cannot officially campaign until I gain the required support of 3000+ signatures.
Thank you for entertaining this request, and I will surely appreciate your support.
Sincerely,
Dr. Ralph W. Wyndrum Jr., F.IEEE
2006 President, IEEE-USA
CEO, Executive Engineering Consultants”
8. GLOBECOM 07
GLOBECOM 07 will be held in
Jeff Friedhoffer (jafried@ieee.org) is chair of the Design and Developers Forum. The design and developer forum is aimed at communications practitioners vs. academics and the papers should reflect topics of interest to these practitioners. These session might include talks on emerging technologies that will lead to new products, new products to help designers.
Suggestions for Topics for this year include, but are not limited to:
Cognitive Radio
Communication Standards
-IEEE
-IETF
-ITU
Delay Tolerant Network Applications
E911
-Wireless VoIP
-Wired VoIP
Instrumentation
-RF
-Network protocols
-Optical Networks
IPTV
IPv6 status
Network Security
Quality
-QOE (Quality of Experience)
-QOS (Quality of Service)
Quantum Communications
Regulation and Communications
RFID
Software development tools
VoIP and applications
-Presence
-SBC
Wireless technologies
-3G
-4G
-WiMax
Help is needed as follows:
Expanding on the above list of Topics for the Sessions/Panels
Reviewing proposals
Chairing Sessions
For more information on Globecom 07 see:
http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2007
Topics at the 06 conference can bee seen at:
http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2006
Click on Design & Developers Forum on the left side.
For those interested in presenting a paper the deadline is 15 March for abstracts.
Please pass this on to your colleagues.
9. IEEE EDOC Conference
Eleventh International IEEE EDOC Conference (EDOC 2007) “The Enterprise Computing Conference” to be held in Annapolis, MD 15 – 19 October 2007
Website: http://www.edocconference.org
CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENDED
Abstract submission (Recommended): 1 May 2007 *EXTENDED*
Paper submission due: 16 May 2007 *EXTENDED*
Acceptance notification: 30 June 2007
About the conference:
Formerly known as the enterprise distributed object computing conference, EDOC 2007 will be the eleventh event in the series of conferences, which since 1997 has brought together leading computer science researchers, IT decision makers, IT architects, solution designers and practitioners from academia, industry and government to discuss enterprise computing challenges, models and solutions. Enterprise computing is based on a wide (and ever growing) range of methods, models, tools and technologies traversing a broad spectrum of vertical domains and industry segments, from electronic and mobile commerce to real-time business applications for collaborating enterprises.
The EDOC 2007 Conference will emphasize the integration and management of enterprise computing research and development as well as novel implementation approaches and technologies related to business processes integration, management, execution and monitoring at any or all of the business, application, middleware and technical levels.
The main conference will be preceded by two days of workshops designed to provide an opportunity for interaction among communities-of-interest.
Main Conference Topics:
The EDOC 2007 program will include papers addressing the domains, the life-cycle issues and the realization technologies involved in developing, deploying and operating enterprise computing systems. Topic areas include:
- State of the art in distributed enterprise applications
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- SW engineering approaches to distributed enterprise applications
- Web services
- Business Process Management (BPM) Systems
- Business Rules
- Identity Management and Distributed Access Control
- Information and Data Integration
Conference Chair: Don Sparrow (dsparrow@mitre.org)
10. Engineering Seminars for Soft Skills
We are asking if there is potential interest in engineering seminars that discuss soft skills. The seminars are described at the following website:
http://www.carlselinger.com/seminars.html
Here is an excerpt from this web site describing the seminars:
“Carl Selinger’s “Stuff You Don’t Learn in Engineering School” seminars, articles and book help younger engineers and emerging project managers – indeed, all professionals -- learn the non-technical soft skills that are important to be more effective and happier in the real world. These skills include making decisions, setting priorities, running meetings, speaking, writing and listening better, leading teams, dealing with stress and having fun, and understanding themselves and others. Lisa Belkin has talked about Carl and “Stuff” in her Life’s Work column in the New York Times.
His book Stuff you Don’t Learn in
Articles on these themes are now appearing regularly in IEEE Spectrum magazine where Carl is a Contributing Editor (go to http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/careers).”
If there is interest in seminars of this type, please let Boris Gramatikov know. His email address is as follows:
Dr. Boris Gramatikov
11. 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
Web Page Design
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.
The URL to the CEEE home page is:
http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/baltimore/continuing_education/CEEE.htm
There is also a link to it from the Section's web page.
Boris Gramatikov