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There will be no meeting of the Washington Section Administrative Committee in July.
(This information supercedes the print edition of the Scanner.)
Tuesday, July 5, 2005
There will be no meeting of the Consultants' Network Affinity Group in July.
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Corner 7 Cafe, Tysons Corner Marriott, 8028 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA
Directions: From the east or I-495, take Route 7 West, turn right on Towers Crescent Drive, then immediately right into the Marriott parking lot. From the west on Route 7, turn right onto Old Gallows Road just opposite the Marriott, proceed around to the left until you have completed almost a full circle, and turn left into the Marriott parking lot. Free parking.
More info: All interested IEEE members are invited to attend.
Contact: Jackie Hunter at 703-803-8701 or nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your e-mail.
Sponsor: Control Systems Society
Speaker: Mike Gilliom, Fairchild Controls Corp.
Location: Fairchild Controls Corp., 540 Highland Street, Frederick, MD
Time: 12 noon, pizza provided
More Info: See Diamond story, below.
Contact: Please RSVP by July 18 to Mike Gilliom at 301-228-3591 or mgilliom@fairchildcontrols.com.
Thursday, July 21, 2005
There will be no meeting of the Industrial Applications Society and Power Engineering Society chapters in July.
Diamond Story
Power electronics is becoming more and more a popular and low cost solution for power conversion applications. Due to the nature of power electronics, it is also becoming a greater interest to the control systems community as a whole. Complex conversion topologies are creating a demand for complex controllers, and the transient nature of power converters is generating interest in hybrid and adaptive controllers as well. In the interest of lowering cost, observer-based controllers may be used to approximate system characteristics, but the designer must first overcome obstacles with linearization and error drift.
Mike Gilliom graduated from Virginia Tech with a B.S.E.E. in 2002. He is currently working to complete his master's thesis which deals with complex control systems in the field of power electronics. He has been working with control systems in power electronics for four years and has a strong interest in bringing more powerful and complex controllers into the field of power conversion and motor drives.
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