Tuesday, November 1, 2005
Washington Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm; meeting at 6:30 pm
Place: Allie's American Grill, Bethesda Marriott, 5151 Pooks Hill Rd., Bethesda, MD
Directions: From the north, take 270 South to Route 355 and exit at Wisconsin Ave. From the south, take 495 exit 34 (which is Wisconsin Ave.) to Pooks Hill Rd.
More info: All interested IEEE members are welcome to attend.
Contact: Debra Meale at 703-492-0047 or nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your e-mail.
Sponsor: National Capital Area Consultants’ Network
Speaker: Nancy Kramer
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm; speaker at 7:00 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: As a search engine optimization consultant, Nancy Kramer helps small businesses get found in Google, Yahoo, and other major search engines. Learn how website design impacts rankings. See Diamond story below.
Contact: Sai Chiang at 703-203-0771 or creativesystem@ieee.org.
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Terahertz-Frequency Sensing Science & Electronic Technology for Defense
Sponsor: Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter)
Cosponsor: Electron Devices Society, Northern Virgina and Washington Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Dwight Woolard, Army Research Office, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Time: Dinner 6:00 pm; lecture 7:00 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: Off Route 123 in Tysons Corner. See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More info: See Diamond story below, and MTT Chapter website at
www.ewh.ieee.org/r2/mtt-wnva.
Cost: Lecture free, dinner $15 cash or check at the meeting.
Contact: RSVP for dinner required by COB on Thursday, November 3 to Roger Kaul at 301-394-4775 or r.kaul@ieee.org.
Wednesday, November 9, 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: Debra Meale at 703-492-0047 or nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your e-mail.
Sponsor: Women in Engineering (WIE) affinity group
Speaker: Emily Sopensky, co-founder of WIE Austin
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2 Conference Room 1N100A/B, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: Off Route 123 in Tysons Corner. See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More Info: You are invited to a roundtable discussion of roles and responsibilities for the Washington and Northern Virginia Women in Engineering affinity group. This is an opportunity to learn about IEEE officer positions and how WIE can enhance your career. For more information about the speaker,
see Diamond story, below.
Contact: Please RSVP by 5:00 pm on Monday, Nov. 7 to Debi Siering at siering@ieee.org. For more information, call Ms. Siering at 703-488-4769 or send an email to her.
Sponsor: Power Engineering Society, Northern Virginia and Washington Chapter; Industry Applications Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter; Graduates of the Last Decade, Northern Virginia Chapter; and Women in Engineering, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Time: 5:00-8:00 pm
Place: Chevy's Fresh Mexican Restaurant, Ballston Common Mall, 4238 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
Directions: Ballston Common is two blocks south of Ballston Metro station (Orange line).
More info: This is a joint networking event, with door prizes, food, drinks and lively conversation.
Cost: No admission charge for IEEE members, a $10 donation would be appreciated from non-members.
Contact: Please RSVP by Nov. 8 to Monica Mallini-Rourke at
mmallini@vt.edu.
Sponsor: Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Cosponsor: Society for Social Implications of Technology, Washington, Northern Virginia and Baltimore Chapter
Time: Introduction and safety briefing 9:45 am; tour 10:00 am to 12:00 noon (followed by lunch)
Place: BP Solar Headquarters, 630 Solarex Court, Frederick, MD
Directions: Take 270N to exit on Jefferson St. Proceed to U.S. 15/40. Stay in the middle lane and go through 2 lights. Take the exit to MD 180/351. Turn right on Ballenger Creek Pike. Left onto Solarex Court. Main entrance is the third driveway on the right. Free parking.
More Info: Attendees are invited to lunch (on their own) at one of Frederick's historic restaurants, to be identified at the time of the tour. This event was organized in support of the 2005 Solar Decathalon. The tour will provide engineers and other guests with background and technical information on solar technology research, development, manufacturing and system applications. Knowledge gained will benefit our cities and communities as we continue to explore viable options for efficient sources of electricity.
Contact: Please pre-register by calling Harry Sauberman, P.E., at 301-443-8879. A list of names must be submitted to the company prior to arrival.
Sponsors: Northern Virginia Section and Washington Section
Speaker: Thomas Meylan, Evolving Success
Time: 8:30-11:00 am (continental breakfast 8:30 am; seminar 9:00 am)
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2 Conference Room 1N100A/B, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: Off Route 123 in Tysons Corner. See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More info: The typical scientist, engineer or technologist brings the following skills to managerial duties:
* Exceptional problem solving skills
* Exceptional self-improvement skills
* Exceptional system modeling skills
The typical manager has to be able to:
* Understand his or her business environment
* Build key relationship networks
* Build successful teams
* Exploit business opportunities and problems (yes, both)
This seminar will help you make this transition successfully. Participants will receive a training manual. This seminar is offered through the Washington Academy of Sciences, of which IEEE Northern Virginia and Washington Sections are affiliates.
Cost: Free, including breakfast.
Contact: Please RSVP by Wednesday, Nov. 9 to Debra Meale at
nca-admin@ieee.org or 703-492-0047. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your e-mail.
Sponsor: Control Systems Society, Northern Virginia Chapter
Time: 1:00 pm
Place: DeVry University, 2450 Crystal Drive, Room 232, Arlington, VA (Crystal City)
More Info: Discussion will focus on introducing basic engineering concepts to students earlier. Pizza and soft drinks will be provided.
Contact: Professor Seddik Benhamida at 703-414-4082 or sbenhamida@dc.devry.edu.
Thursday, November 17, 2005
New Directives Affect Electronics Producers: Recycling Law and Hazardous Waste Restrictions -- The WEEE & ROHS Directives
Sponsor: Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Berri Remenick, Product Safety Manager, Washington Laboratories
Time: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm
Place: Tom Sarris Orleans House, 1213 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
Directions: Convenient to the Rosslyn Metro Station (Orange and Blue Lines).
More info: See Diamond story, below. This will be an a la carte lunch meeting and attendees are encourage to come early and socialize with their fellow society members. Tom Sarris Orleans House is Washington institution, serving Americana food in its unique atmosphere for the past 50+ years. Unfortunately, development will alter its fate. Experience this unique venue before it falls to the blades of the bulldozer.
Contact: Please RSVP by Tuesday, Nov. 15 to Lavern at
lavernr@wll.com or call 301-216-1500.
Sponsor: Computer Society, Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Shahid Shah, CEO and Chief Software Architect, Netspective Corporation
Time: Networking and food at 6:00 pm; technical talk at 7:00 pm; Q&A, any other chapter business at 8:00 pm
Place: 1910 Oracle Way, Reston, VA
More Info: Pizza and soft drinks will be served. See Diamond story, below.
Cost: Free for all IEEE members, $3 for all others
Contact: Please make reservations at least 48 hours in advance at www.cigital.com/ieee/reserve.html. For more information, contact T.K. Ramesh at
tkramesh@ieee.org.
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
Sponsor: Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Julius Sanks, Northrop Grumman
Time: 5:00 pm
Place: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, 4121 Wilson Blvd., Suite 302, Arlington, VA
Directions: About three blocks from the Ballston Metro station (Orange line). See map at
www.ewh.ieee.org/r2/wash_nova/aess/directions.htm. Driving from the East on I-66, exit onto Glebe Road South, turn left on Fairfax Drive (East towards Rosslyn), OR, from the west on I-66, exit at Fairfax Drive (East). Then turn right on Randolph St., right on Wilson Blvd., and right into building 4121's underground parking garage. Alternate parking is across the street at the Ballston Common Mall Garage.
More Info: See Diamond story, below.
Contact: Please RSVP by Monday, November 21 to Ms. Carmen Bray at
carmen.bray@gd-ais.com or 703-469-3886.
Sponsors: Communications Society, Northern Virginia Chapter; and American Society for Quality (ASQ)
Speaker: Dennis Moen, George Mason University
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm; speaker at 6:45 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: Off Route 123 in Tysons Corner. See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More Info: See Diamond story, below.
Cost: Free, including dinner.
Contact: Please RSVP to Fred Seelig at
fseelig@mitre.org.
Diamond Stories
Google, Yahoo, and other major search engines are the new "Yellow Pages." Getting listed at search engines is free--if you know how to do it. This presentation will teach you how to to ensure that your website will be found at the major search engine sites for your targeted key words and phrases (the words and phrases you expect your potential customers to use).
Most small consulting businesses have a website these days but cannot afford professional help for search engine optimization. Small business owners and website developers need to be aware that design issues can cause a website to be difficult for search engine spiders to index and prevent the website from getting the desired results at the most popular search engine websites. Learn what these design issues involve, avoid them, create websites that are search engine friendly, and you'll save the time and money of redesign and relaunch.
Nancy Kramer designs and maintains websites, and she has several in the top 10 positions for their targeted key words at Google and other search engine sites. Recently her Web content properties served more than 1.1 million page views, resulting in more than 3.1 million ad impressions for ad networks, including Google Ad Sense, Burst Media, Tribal Fusion, and FastClick. Serving Internet ads since 1999, Nancy's websites continue to produce significant regular income.
With more than 25 years of experience in information technology, Ms. Kramer has
extensive experience in system integration, management of software development efforts, full system life cycle, and the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) capability
maturity model (CMM). In addition, she is knowledgeable in database design, structured
query language (SQL), and object-oriented design.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Terahertz-Frequency Sensing Science & Electronic Technology for Defense
During the last few years, new research programs have emerged within the U.S. Army and the Department of Defense (DoD) that have been focused on advancing the state-of-the-art in terahertz (THz) frequency electronic technology and investigating novel applications of THz frequency sensing. This last research frontier in high-frequency electronics, which lies in the terahertz (or submillimeter-wave) regime between microwaves and the infrared (i.e., ~ 0.3 - 3.0 THz), has always offered many technical advantages (e.g., wider bandwidth, improved spatial resolution, compactness). Now, applications with relevance to basic science and national defense appear to be emerging. A noteworthy application is the use of fundamental interactions of THz radiation at the molecular level for sensing and characterizing chemical and biological (CB) systems. Of course, such applications have broad ramifications to such areas as CB defense, bio-medical and molecular science.
This presentation will focus on the main science and technology issues that are relevant for assessing the future utility of THz sensing for national defense. Dr. Woolard will provide an overview of the current progress of basic research programs in THz sensing and technology that are under joint support of the U.S. Army, DTRA and DARPA. Then he will elaborate on the future directions of programs that seek to investigate novel methodologies (e.g., integrated molecular-level sensor platforms) with the potential for point and remote detection of biological warfare agents.
Dwight Woolard manages the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL)–U.S. Army Research Office (ARO) Research Program on Solid-State & High-Frequency Electronics which emphasizes: (1) THz-frequency and ultra-fast electronics, (2) nanoelectronic engineering science, and (3) advanced solid-state device concepts. Dr. Woolard presently leads one of the largest U.S. research programs in THz-frequency science and technology, and pioneered the development of THz spectroscopy for biological agent sensing. Dr. Woolard has been active in the research areas of THz-frequency bio-sensing science and THz-frequency oscillations in solid-state tunneling devices since joining the ARL in 1993.
Dr. Woolard is a graduate of North Carolina State University–Raleigh and was elected to IEEE Fellow in 2004 "for leadership in the discovery and development of novel sensing methodologies and advanced electronic devices at terahertz frequencies."
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Emily Sopensky has had a myriad of roles with IEEE. She has long held office with the Intelligent Transportation Systems Society and its predecessors. With the Electron Devices Society, Sopensky was deeply involved in continuing education for the practicing engineer. Active in the CenTex Section, she held the office of treasurer and co-founded the section's Women in Engineering affinity group.
IEEE-USA selected her as the 2004 Engineering & Diplomacy Fellow to the U.S. Department of State and she is the current liaison to the WIE. Her activities with the Awards Board focused on presentation and publicity for the Honors Ceremony and identifying women eligible for IEEE’s honors and awards.
In her profession, which is translating technology for popular consumption, Sopensky has found IEEE to be an infinitely reliable and dependable resource. Whether researching a technology or a technical practice, working with a community of respected engineers, or determining engineering and management best practices, Sopensky has found that IEEE offers answers for the curious and persistent. For more information about Sopensky, visit her website at www.iriscompany.com.
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Thursday, November 17, 2005
New Directives Affect Electronics Producers: Recycling Law and Hazardous Waste Restrictions
Several new directives are coming into force in the European Union and various requirements are coming to the U.S. and other countries. If you produce electrical or electronic products, these directives most likely apply to you. Manufacturers now must consider the life cycle management of products from initial design through recovery and recycling.
Berri Remenick is the products safety manager of Washington Laboratories, located in Gaithersburg, MD. Mr. Remenick has extensive background in product compliance assessment and investigation. He has performed numerous evaluations of a wide range of products, ranging from ITE to telecomm to machinery and components. He holds a B.S.E.E. from Penn State University.
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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a modern technique to build loosely coupled, distributed systems and is the subject of much discussion today. Though not new in the broader sense of how one sees system architecture, but what is different is clear focus on services as distinct from objects. SOA is not something you can buy, but it is a way of thinking and architecting complex systems. This talk will introduce the audience to the programming models as well as the business thinking that goes into creating service oriented enterprises. After looking at what SOA and SO (service orientation) are, we will look at the real value of SOA, how to go beyond the present way of thinking, and to ensure that you don’t either ignore SOA because you don’t understand it, nor do you simply buy into everything about vendor’s solutions.
Shahid N. Shah is the founder, CEO, and chief software architect of Netspective Corporation. Netspective is an software development firm that provides the tools and skills necessary for enabling critical e-transactions using Java, J2EE and Web services. Netspective has developed Sparx, a complete Java-based application development and integration framework to help its customers develop and deploy mission-critical data-intensive applications based on open web services standards. Information technology professionals rely on Netspective's expertise in the specification, design, development, deployment, and integration of data-intensive applications to help meet their own mission-critical requirements.
Mr. Shah has held the roles of vice president of technology, CTO, chief software architect, or lead engineer at large enterprises for the past eight years and has more than 13 years of total IT experience. Shah's key technology expertise areas are Distributed Object Services, Web Services, Enterprise Application Integration, Java, J2EE, Enterprise JavaBeans, .NET, CORBA, SOAP, XML, UML, and Object- and Aspect-Oriented Software Development. He has a great deal of experience in all areas of enterprise level software development methodologies such as DOD 2167A and CMM and agile methodologies such as eXtreme Programming (XP).
Mr. Shah has an M.S. in technology management from the University of Maryland and a B.S. in computer science from The Pennsylvania State University.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2005
National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
The National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) will replace the existing constellation of polar-orbiting meteorological satellites. NPOESS is a significant technology improvement over previous satellites. Environmental observing will be significantly improved in data quality, data quantity, and latency. This discussion will address the NPOESS system capability and its benefits relative to prior satellite capabilities.
Julius Sanks is a Northrop Grumman engineer and manager. He is a member of the NPOESS program, currently serving in the Northrop Grumman Space Technology East Coast office. An employee since 1992, he has performed program management, systems engineering, and systems integration activities. His earlier programs included the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System, the Global Positioning System, the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, and the Theater High Altitude Area Defense system. He is a retired Air Force officer with experience in space systems and the Minuteman ICBM.
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The topic of his discussion will be on the investigation of overlay multicast services in support of distributed real-time virtual simulations over an open network environment and how overlay multicasting can provide message relay services to support many-to-many communications in the very dynamic environment of distributed real-time virtual simulation.
Dr. Moen will present results of studies used to characterize message flow in distributed simulations operating in the laboratory and over the Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN). He will describe a proposed analytical model to represent the message flow characteristics observed in the live studies and how the model can be used to determine the regions of feasibility for performance for overlay multicasting to support the target application environment.
The discussion will include how the analytical model was validated in laboratory measurements of a prototype overlay multicast protocol and how the results were used to influence the design of the target overlay protocol architecture. The proposed protocol is called the Extensible Modeling and Simulation Framework Overlay Multicast Protocol (XOM).
Dennis M. Moen graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1969 and subsequently served 26 years in the U.S. Army Signal Corps in various positions, including research and development in communications electronics and operational command of Army tactical signal units in many places around the world. During this period he received an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona in 1976. In 1987, he was honored with the award of a Space Science Fellowship at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, where he participated in the formulation of national space policy and supported studies and planning of space science experiments for Space Shuttle missions and the International Space Station.
Since retiring from the U.S. Army in 1995, he has held many positions in industry as a senior consultant focused on use of Internet technologies, and design and implementation of public and private networking services. He recently completed a Ph.D. in information technology from George Mason University. His area of research was in performance modeling of adaptive Internet Protocols. He is currently employed at Lockheed Martin Information Technology Services as a senior network architect developing survivable networks in support of the Department of Defense.
Dr. Moen has been a member of the IEEE Communications and Computer societies for more than 30 years, and is the current chair of the Northern Virginia chapter of the Communications Society as well as a member of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 planning committee.
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