Tuesday, February 7, 2006
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 email.
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Small Business Innovative Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Programs
Sponsor: National Capital Area Consultants’ Network
Speaker: Ms. Connie Jacobs, SBIR/STTR Program Manager, DARPA
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.
Cost: Attendees are responsible for their individual orders.
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Contact: Rick Cunningham at 703-624-6551 or
rick@corridor-rd.com.
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: New Location! Wickers Cafe, Tysons Corner Holiday Inn, 1960 Chain Bridge Road, McLean, VA
Directions: From I-495 or I-66, take Route 267 West. Exit at Route 123 West (Chain Bridge Road). Turn right on International Drive, then left on Greensboro Drive. Look for the Holiday Inn entrance on the left. 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 email.
Sponsors: Vehicular Technology Society, Land Transportation Committee; American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Speaker: Dr. Radovan Sarunac, Booz Allen Hamilton
Time: Lunch at 11:30 am; meeting at 12:00 pm
Place: American Public Transportation Association, Conference Room, 11th Floor,
1666 K Street NW, Washington, DC
Directions: Take the Metro to Farragut North station (Red Line, use K Street exit) or Farragut West station (Orange & Blue lines, use 17th Street exit).
More Info: See Diamond story, below. All interested persons are invited to attend our monthly luncheon meeting.
Cost: $20 cash at door for lunch.
Contact: Please make reservations by 4:00 pm Friday, February 10 by contacting Gene Cox at gene.cox@fra.dot
or 703-915-2828,
or Karl Berger at kwb@dcm-va.com
or 703-803-9171.
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Intellectual Property Issues for Companies with U.S. Government Contracts
Sponsor: Computer Society, Northern Virginia and Washington Chapter
Speaker: Colin M. Raufer, IP Counsel, Integrated Defense Systems, Boeing
Time: Networking and food 6:00 pm; technical presentation 7:00 pm
Place: 1910 Oracle Way, Reston, VA
Directions: From I-495, take the Dulles Toll Road (Route 267) to Exit 12, Reston Parkway. Turn right onto Reston Parkway, right onto Sunset Hills Road, and right onto Oracle Way.
See
http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/wash_nova/computer/directions.html#oracle.
More Info: See Diamond story below. Pizza and soft drinks will be served.
Cost: Free for all IEEE members, $4 for all others.
Contact: Please register at least 48 hours in advance at
http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/wash_nova/computer/current.html.
For more information, contact T.K. Ramesh at
tkramesh@ieee.org.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Nanotechnology and Sensors, Impact of Nanomaterials on Sensing
Sponsors: Atlantic Nano Forum; Electron Devices Society, Northern Virginia and Washington Chapter
Speakers: Bruce Lanning, ITN Energy Systems; David Nagel, George Washington University
Time: Registration at 4:00 pm; program at 4:30 pm
Place: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Madison Auditorium, 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, VA
Directions: See
www.uspto.gov/main/visiting.htm.
More Info: See Diamond story below, and
www.atlanticnanoforum.org.
Cost: Free
Contact: Please send RSVP to
nanotech@bipc.com.
Sponsor: Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Dr. John Evans, DARPA Microsystems Technology Office
Time: Reception 5:30 pm; 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.
Cost: Lecture free. Dinner cost TBD.
Contact: RSVP for dinner only by Monday, Feb. 13 to Roger Kaul at 301-394-4775 or r.kaul@ieee.org.
Sponsor: Power Engineering Society, Northern Virginia and Washington Chapter; Industry Applications Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Ray Clark, Siemens
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm
Place: Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute, 4300 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
Directions: From Ballston Metro Station (Orange line), turn right at top of escalator then left on the street. Proceed two blocks toward Hecht’s. Turn right and walk one block to Ballston Point, 4300 Wilson Blvd. ARI is on the 7th floor in suite 750. Ballston Point is located at the intersection of Wilson Blvd. and Glebe Rd. There is a parking garage in the building with a $1 charge for 3 hours and limited free street parking.
More Info: A light dinner buffet will be served, followed by the program. This presentation will review selective trip coordination principles, highlighting the latest technology in electronic circuit breaker trip units. For more information about the speaker, see Diamond story below.
Cost: Free for IEEE members; $10 for non-members
Contact: RSVP to Monica Mallini at 703-387-6021 or m.a.mallini@ieee.org.
Sponsor: IEEE-USA
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Place: National Building Museum, 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC
Directions: Use the Judiciary Square Metro station (Red line).
More Info: This one-day festival offers young people the opportunity to enjoy a day of fun and participate in a variety of hands-on activities that explore the fields of engineering. It will also feature characters from the popular TV show Cyberchase.
See www.eweekdcfamilyday.org for more details.
Cost: Free
Contact: Murty Polavarapu at murtyp@ieee.org or Saj Durrani at
s.durrani@ieee.org.
Volunteer Opportunity: Volunteers are needed to staff the IEEE-USA table at this event. We will be running several demonstrations of electrical and electronic phenomena and also distributing breadboard kits. Ideas for kid-friendly demonstrations, and offers to conduct educational presentations, are also welcome. Expected attendance is several thousand, and the interest level among the attendees of this event is always very high. A good time is guaranteed for all. Contact Kerry Hartman at
hartman_k@computer.org or 703-623-1432.
Sponsor: IEEE Student Branch, George Washington University
Speakers: Panel discussion with Dr. Ron Hira, Dr. Catherine L. Mann and Dr. Thomas Palley
Time: 5:30–8:00 pm
Place: Marvin Center Amphitheater, George Washington University
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Contact: For more information, contact
ieee@gwu.edu.
Sponsor: Women in Engineering
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: TGI Friday's, 1961 Chain Bridge Rd., McLean, VA
Directions: TGI Friday's is located at the Tysons Corner Mall near the AMC Theater.
Cost: Attendees are responsible for their individual orders.
Contact: Please RSVP to Debi Siering at
siering@ieee.org.
Sponsor: District of Columbia Council of Engineering and Architectural Societies
Speaker: Dr. Jane Alexander, Deputy Director, Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency
Time: 11:30 am
Place: Pier 7 Restaurant, 650 Water Street SW, Washington, DC
Directions: Complimentary 3 hours of parking, or walk from the Waterfront Metro station (Green line).
Cost: $25 per person, or $250 for a table of 10.
Contact: Reservations must be made by Wednesday, Feb. 15. Make checks payable to "DCCEAS" and mail to John M. Wall, Treasurer, DCCEAS, P.O. 18842, Washington, DC 20036-8842. Mr. Wall may be contacted at
jmwall@pepco.com or 202-388-2246.
For additional information, contact Saj Durrani at
s.durrani@ieee.org or Murty Polavarapu at murtyp@ieee.org.
Sponsor: District of Columbia Council of Engineering and Architectural Societies
Speaker: Marshall Purnell, Design Principal, Devrouax and Purnell Architects
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: Four Points Sheraton, 1201 K Street NW, Washington, DC
Directions: Short walk from McPherson Square (Blue, Orange lines) or Metro Center (Blue, Orange, Red lines) Metro stations. On-street parking available.
Cost: $40 per person, or $400 for a table of 10.
Contact: Reservations must be made by Wednesday, Feb. 15. Make checks payable to "DCCEAS" and mail to John M. Wall, Treasurer, DCCEAS, P.O. 18842, Washington, DC 20036-8842. Mr. Wall may be contacted at
jmwall@pepco.com or 202-388-2246.
For additional information, contact Saj Durrani at
s.durrani@ieee.org or Murty Polavarapu at murtyp@ieee.org.
Diamond Stories
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Small Business Innovative Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Programs
By statute, eleven government agencies each with R&D budgets over $100M must allocate 2.5% of these budgets to projects reserved for small businesses. The Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs together will provide over two billion dollars of R&D funding to small businesses in FY06.
Connie Jacobs will give an overview of the programs and their history, and provide valuable insights on how to successfully participate in these important programs. In addition, she will highlight critical dates for upcoming solicitations for DoD, NIH, DoE, NSF and NASA topics. As a DARPA Small Business Advocate, she will be able to answer your questions on a wide variety of issues of concern to consultants and small businesses.
Ms. Jacobs is the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program Manager, and Industrial Liaison Officer at DARPA. She has been involved in the SBIR program since its inception in 1982. She manages DARPA’s $75M SBIR/STTR programs. Ms. Jacobs represents DARPA and the DoD at a multitude of Small Business Conferences. She conducts SBIR and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) training sessions for Historically Black Colleges and Minority Institutes (HBCU/MI’s), Small Business Development Centers, and laboratories included in the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC).
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Our speaker will extend our understanding of industry trends in crashworthiness with
lessons learned from the Washington Metro 5000- and 6000-series car designs. The
energy-based crashworthiness (or CEM) philosophy is based on providing protection
against one or more specific collision scenarios. Selection of collision scenarios is the most difficult step in this approach because there must be a rationale underlying selecting parameters such as speed, consist configuration, and impact angle. Once the accident scenario is selected, it is necessary to decide how the energy will be dissipated between various vehicles in the train and the individual ends of a vehicle. The optimized designs tend to distribute the collision energy along the entire train. To ensure that the passenger areas maintain a survivable volume, the passenger compartment structure should have greater strength than the crushable zones and the amount of deformation or crush required to absorb specified collision energy must be limited.
Radovan Sarunac has more than 25 years of experience in management, mechanical/structural design (including crash energy management structures), fatigue assessment (steel and aluminum structures), vehicle dynamics, performance monitoring, derailment safety and the derailment investigations, engineering, manufacturing, testing, procurement, and quality control of rail vehicles, LRVs, DMUs and transit/transportation systems. He has more than 15 years experience in FE analysis and applications.
Dr. Sarunac is a member of the Federal Heat Transfer Board, the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Transportation Research Board, the Transit
Cooperative Research Program, the IEEE Rail Transit Vehicle Interface Standard Committee, and the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) PRESS Task Force Structural, Wheel Design, and Wheel Rail Interface Group. He was also a member of the Panel overseeing the TCRP Task/Report #52.
Dr. Sarunac earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University
of Zagreb, Croatia in 1977, an M.S. in electrical engineering in 1980, and
a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in 1988. He has been an Associate
with Booz Allen Hamilton since 1998.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Intellectual Property Issues for Companies with U.S. Government Contracts
This presentation will address the increasing importance of intellectual property in a knowledge-based economy and begin with a basic tutorial in the area of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. It will then explore some of the unique aspects of dealing with intellectual property in U.S. Government Contracts. It will conclude with a discussion of some current intellectual property issues including the licensing of software, open source software, and dealing with Universities on intellectual property matters.
Colin M. Raufer is an intellectual property attorney with The Boeing Company’s Integrated Defense Systems. Based in Arlington, Virginia, he currently provides support on a wide range of intellectual property issues across numerous Boeing programs, specializing in the IP issues associated with government contracts. Prior to joining Boeing in 2005, Colin worked for six years at Raytheon Company where he supported their Intelligence and Information Systems Division in Reston, Virginia and their Space and Airborne Systems Division in El Segundo, California. Prior to that, Raufer worked as a patent attorney for the Motorola Company, where he drafted patents related to digital cellular telephone technology.
Raufer holds an engineering degree from Rutgers University, a law degree from the University of Colorado, and an M.B.A. from UCLA. He is a member of the Patent Bar, the Virginia Bar, and the New Mexico Bar.
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Thursday, February 16, 2006
Nanotechnology and Sensors, Impact of Nanomaterials on Sensing
Bruce Lanning, ITN Energy Systems, will discuss a novel nanolaminate, magnetostrictive sensor developed for remote, in-situ damage detection, under the DARPA-sponsored program Prognosis. The nanolaminate, spring type magnetic structure of the sensor, consisting of alternating layers of a 'hard,' high magnetostrictive material and a 'soft,' high magnetization material with low coercive field, can be applied for remote biosensing as well as sensing of other properties, such as strain, temperature and pressure.
Dr. Lanning has more than 25 years of professional experience in materials research with particular emphasis in the area of phase transformation/thermodynamics of thinfilm surface and interfacial sciences. His particular area of interest is in the atomic level engineering of solid surface/interfacial properties for applications such as semiconductor/electronic device structures, sensors, opto-electronics, energy storage and harvesting, catalysis and corrosion. In his current position at ITN Energy Systems, Dr. Lanning is responsible for program development in solid state lithium batteries/electrochromics, wireless sensors/actuators, inorganic membranes and catalysts for gas separation and activation respectively and has five patents and more than 100 publications in this area.
David J. Nagel, George Washington University, will review the principles, structures and operation of current chemical sensors and biosensors. The review will show where new nano-materials can fit into existing sensors. Examples of possibilities will be given. Prospects for new nanoenabled sensors will also be examined. Some significant challenges in improving existing sensors with nano-materials and in making new nano-enabled sensors will be noted. Applications within diverse industries and operations, including both military and homeland security, will be cited.
Dr. Nagel is a research professor for micro- and nano-systems in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He received his B.S. degree, in 1960, in engineering science from the University of Notre Dame, magna cum laude, and earned his graduate degrees, an M.S. degree in physics, 1969; a Ph.D. in engineering materials, 1977, at the University of Maryland. After active duty with the Navy, he joined the civilian staff of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Dr. Nagel's current research and teaching at The George Washington University centers on the applications of MEMS and nanotechnology.
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Dr. Evans will discuss the status of the 3-D Micro-Electromagnetic RF Systems (MERFS) program and applicability of the technology to military and commercial RF systems.
The 3-D MERFS program is demonstrating a revolutionary micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) printed circuit board technology to enable high performance millimeter wave systems. The central focus of the 3-D MERFS program is to enable the monolithic fabrication of complex three-dimensional structures that contain conductors (metal), dielectrics (plastics), and voids (air), thereby enabling complex multi-layer coax and waveguide interconnect structures. BAE Systems and subcontractor Rohm & Haas are heading the effort to develop a 3-D copper-based RF component fabrication process and to use this process to demonstrate high isolation and low insertion loss in RF components. Specific demonstration will include a Ka-band beamformer for a vehicle-mounted, multi-function active electronically scanned array.
John D. Evans is a program manager in both the Microsystems Technology Office and the Virtual Space Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Before joining DARPA, he was the Chief Technical Officer at Microfabrica (then MEMGen). He has also served as a consultant and scientist at Becton Dickinson, a Fortune 500 bioscience and medical technology company, and as an energy policy consultant for the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment.
Dr. Evans received a B.A. in physics from Carleton College; an M.S. in civil engineering and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley; and an M.B.A. from Duke University. He is an inventor on 10 issued or pending patents and has published and spoken widely in the area of MEMS technology, with more than a dozen invited speaking engagements in the past two years alone. Among his awards are the 2000 Charles Lofgren Business Fellowship, the BD Impact Award in 2000, and the BD Special Achievement Recognition Award in 1999.
Dr. Evans' current interests lie in three areas: (1) demonstrating 3-D
fabrication technologies for microsystems; (2) creating market demand pull for
MEMS through development of small satellites, nano air vehicles (NAVs), and
small robots; and (3) ensuring the future of MEMS-based technology by changing
the fundamental economics behind MEMS product development.
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Ray M. Clark is a Senior Application Engineer with Siemens Energy & Automation in Norcross, Georgia. He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1976.
Mr. Clark began his career in the electrical industry in 1976 with Cutler-Hammer in Atlanta as a motor control application engineer. In 1981, he accepted a position with ITE, Division of Gould, as a product engineer. He has held several positions within ITE and Siemens in engineering, also working with consulting engineers in evaluating short circuit and coordination studies of jobs utilizing Siemens circuit protective equipment.
In 1993, Mr. Clark moved to the industrial marketing department as a product application engineer, and he is now a senior application engineer, with duties including circuit protection device application support, technical training, and developing computer systems to organize, retrieve, and distribute information on Siemens products and their use in electrical power distribution systems.
Mr. Clark is a member of the IEEE Industry Applications Society and the IEEE Power Engineering Society. He served as a contributing member of the Power Systems Protection Blue Book Working Group, which produced the Blue Book (IEEE Std 1015-1997). He currently serves as chapter co-chair of chapter 6, “Special-Purpose Circuit Breakers.” In 1994, Mr. Clark joined the PSP Buff Book Working Group as a voting member, completing the update of the Buff Book (IEEE Std 242-1986) “Recommended Practice for Protection and Coordination of Industrial and Commercial Power Systems,” which was last copyrighted in 1986. In 1998, he was asked to join the Gray Book Working Group as co-chair of chapter 9, “System Protection,” of the Gray Book (IEEE Std 241-1990), “Recommended Practice for Electrical Systems in Commercial Buildings.”
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Dr. Ron Hira is assistant professor of public policy at Rochester Institute of Technology, and chair of the Career & Workforce Policy Committee of IEEE-USA. He specializes in engineering workforce issues and technology policy with expertise on offshore outsourcing. He is the author of "Outsourcing America: What's Behind Our National Crisis and How We Can Reclaim American Jobs."
Dr. Catherine L. Mann is a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics, and former assistant director of the International Finance Division at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. She specializes in U.S. international trade and the exchange rate, including international trade in technology products and services. She is the author of "Accelerating the Globalization of America: The Role for Information Technology" (in progress).
Dr. Thomas Palley is former chief economist of the U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission; former director of the Open Society Institute's Globalization Reform Project; and former assistant director of public policy at the AFL-CIO. He specializes on matters of macroeconomic theory and policy, international finance and trade, economic development, and labor markets. He is the author of "Plenty of Nothing: The Downsizing of the American Dream and the Case for Structural Keynesianism."
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