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Calendar Archive, March 2007
Sponsor: IEEE Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) Affinity Group, Northern Virginia Section
Time: 11 am to 1 pm
Place: Emery Recreational Center, 5108 Georgia Avenue (at Madison Street), Washington, DC
Directions: Located northwest of Catholic University, east of Rock Creek Park, south of Walter Reed Medical Center.
More Info: We hope to show about 30 kids how to make a speaker from a paper cup, and we could use your help. No soldering skills required. Just a willingness to help walk the kids through the project and enthusiasm for the task. We'll be coordinating some rides to the location for those who are interested in helping. Come and spend a couple of hours giving some kids a fun introduction to electronics!
Contact: If you'd like to help, please send an email to Chuck Baldi at
cbaldi@ieee.org so we can coordinate the number and let you know of any last-minute changes.
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Washington Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm; meeting at 6:30 pm
Place: Bethesda Marriott, 6711 Democracy Blvd., Bethesda, MD
Directions: From Silver Spring, take I-495 West to Exit 36 North (Rt. 187, Old Georgetown Rd.), turn right onto Old Georgetown Rd., then left onto Democracy Blvd. and look for the Marriott on the right.
From Rockville, take I-270, follow the signs for Northern Virginia at the divide, then take Exit 1 (Democracy Blvd.), turn left onto Democracy Blvd, and look for the Marriott on the left (make a U-turn at Fernwood Rd.). From Northern Virginia, take I-495 to I-270, then take Exit 1 (Democracy Blvd. East), and proceed as above.
More Info: All interested IEEE members are welcome.
Contact: Debra Meale at 703-492-0047 or
nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your email.
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Northern Virginia Signal Processing Society Administrative Meeting
Sponsor: Signal Processing Society, Northern Virginia Chapter
Time: Time: 6:30-7:30 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2, Conference Room 1N100, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More Info: Light refreshments will be served. The chapter's first administrative meeting of the year will cover several important topics, including officer nominations and elections. All Northern Virginia Section members of the Signal Processing Society are welcome and encouraged to attend. We are actively seeking more participation from members to make 2007 a banner year for the chapter.
Contact: Timothy F. Settle at 703-676-1773 or
settlet@saic.com.
Time: 8:30 am to 1:30 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2, Conference Room 1N100 A/BA, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More Info: Learn from IEEE's experienced leaders what it takes to run a successful chapter or program. This half day of presentations, discussions and networking will help get you off to a good start. The training is open to all members, but we particularly encourage every chapter to send at least one officer to the session.
Cost: Free, including continental breakfast and lunch.
Contact: To register, contact Debra Meale at 703-492-0047 or nca-admin@ieee.org by Tuesday, March 6. Please put "IEEE Leadership Training Registration" in the subject line of your email.
Note: This meeting was originally scheduled for Feb. 13 but postponed due to inclement weather.
Sponsor: Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
Speaker: David Wikner, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
Time: Dinner 5:30 pm (at Clyde's), lecture 7:00 pm (at Mitre)
Place: Dinner at Clyde's of Tysons Corner, 8332 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA; Lecture at Mitre Corporation, Building 2, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
Cost: $15 for dinner ($20 with alcoholic beverage(s)).
More Info: See See Diamond story below, or www.ieee.org/mtt-wnva.
Contact: Please RSVP for dinner by COB Friday, March 9 to Roger Kaul at
r.kaul@ieee.org or 301-394-4775.
Sponsor: IEEE-USA
Time: Tuesday: Briefing 2:00 pm, dinner 6:00; Wednesday: Capitol Hill Visits 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
More Info: This event brings IEEE members from across the U.S. to Washington to meet your legislators, explain your profession, and discuss H-1B visas, student visas and high-skill immigration. IEEE-USA will arrange your meetings for you and will fully prepare you in advance. All IEEE members, including students and GOLD members, are welcome and needed. For additional details, please see
www.ieeeusa.org/policy/flyin/career/default.asp.
Cost: Free for IEEE members, including dinner.
Contact: Russell T. Harrison, IEEE USA Legislative Representative - Grassroots Affairs, at 202-530-8326 or
r.t.harrison@ieee.org.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Olive Garden Restaurant, 12980 Fair Lakes Shopping Center, Fairfax, VA
Directions: Take I-66 to Fairfax County Pkway, Route 7100 (Exit 55B towards Reston - Herndon). Turn left onto Fair Lakes Pkwy. Turn left at Fair Lakes Shopping Center, and left again to stay on Fair Lakes Shopping Center to the Olive Garden.
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: Power Engineering Society, Industry Applications Society
Speaker: John Matthews, MET Electrical Testing/Substation Test Company
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: Thomas Jefferson Library, 7415 Arlington Boulevard, Falls Church, VA
Directions: From the Beltway, take Exit 50B, Rte. 50 East (Arlington Boulevard). Go through the first light and look for the library on the right, just before the traffic light at Allen Street. Free parking.
More Info: Refreshments will be served. See Diamond story below.
Cost: Free for IEEE members. A $10 donation is requested from guests.
Contact: Fred Pearson at
fred.pearson@unisys.com or Jeff McWhirt at
jmcwhirt@mitre.org.
Sponsor: Communications Society, Washington Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Wei Chen, JDSU Communications Test Group
Time: Light dinner and networking 6:30 pm, presentation 7:00 pm
Place: JDSU, One Milestone Center Court, Germantown, MD
Directions: From the Washington area, take I-270 to Exit 16A East (Father Hurley Blvd./Damascus) and go right toward Damascus. Turn left at the first traffic light onto Observation Drive. Turn left at a blinking yellow light onto Milestone Center Drive, then turn left onto Shakespeare Blvd. Take the first right into JDSU and go around to the front of the lower of the two buildings. See
www.jdsu.com/company/locations/usa-md-gmtwn.html.
More Info: IPv6 is the first major revision to the addressing scheme of the internet. As the number of embedded and portable devices grows, this change is needed to keep up. IPv6 also provides additional features such as improved routing, address configuration and security. This presentation will provide a good fundamental understanding of the changes and engineering design considerations. See Diamond story below. As an added bonus, attendees may play with several "tech toys" (telecommunications test equipment and analyzers).
Cost: Free
Contact: Please RSVP by Tuesday, March 13 to Brenton C. Miller at 240-997-3566 or bmiller@marylandtechrev.com.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
State-of-the-Art Photonic Nanostructure Devices
Sponsor: Lasers and Electro-Optics Society
Speaker: Prof. Toshihiko Baba, Yokohama National University, Japan
Time: Light refreshments and socializing 6:00 pm, lecture 6:30 pm, optional dinner following lecture with the speaker at a local restaurant.
Place: University of Maryland, A. V. Williams Building, Room 2460, College Park, MD
Directions: From the north or I-495, take Route 1 South. Approx. 2 miles south of the Beltway, turn right onto Campus Drive, then immediately take Paint Branch Drive and the A.V. Williams Building will be on the right. From the south on Route 1, turn left onto Campus Drive, and follow above directions. Free parking is available after 4:00 pm in selected lots (read signs carefully). See
www.parking.umd.edu/themap.
Contact: Dominique Dagenais at 301-951-7095 or
dominique_dagenais@avanex.com, or Mary Tobin at 301-587-0971
or mtobin@ieee.org.
Updated! New Location & Purpose
Note: The talk by Cheryl Santia, Ambiance Lighting, has been moved to May 15.
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Spezie Ristorante, 1736 L Street NW, Washington, DC
More Info: Agendas will be emailed to all who RSVP, for our first paperless social meeting.
Contact: Please RSVP by March 15 to Charity Burd at charity.burd@ieee.org.
Time: Executive committeee 9:00-10:00 am; full planning committee 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Place: Lucent-Alcatel, Board Room, 1100 New York Avenue NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC
Directions: Located between 11th and 12th Streets NW, one block from Metro Center (use North exit at 12th Street). Enter on NY Avenue.
More Info: Volunteers are needed to help prepare for the IEEE Global Communication Conference to be held in Washington, DC in November. For more information about the conference, see
www.comsoc.org/confs/globecom/2007.
Contact: Please RSVP to Jerry Gibbon at 202-276-2265 or j.t.gibbon@ieee.org, or Debra Meale at 703-492-0047 or nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE GlobeCom in the subject line of your email. Teleconference instructions available.
Sponsor: Life Members Affinity Group
Speaker: TBA
Time: 12:00 noon
Place: Dolley Madison Library, 1244 Oak Ridge Ave, McLean, VA
Directions: Take Exit 46 from the Beltway headed toward Washington and proceed on Route 123 to McLean, VA, about 2 miles. After crossing Old Dominion Dr., turn left at the next street, Ingleside Ave. Proceed one block to the library on the left.
Contact: John Margosian at 301-365-1257 or
jmargo@ieee.org.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
View of Earth from Space: An Astronaut's Perspective
Sponsor: Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
Speaker: Paul Richards, GOES-R Observatory Manager, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Time: Refreshments 3:00 pm; lecture 3:30 pm
Place: NASA Goddard Visitor Center, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
Directions: See
www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/visitor/directions/index.html.
More Info: See Diamond story below, and
http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/no_virginia/grss for updated information.
Contact: Wei Xia-Serafino at xia@gst.com, or James C. Tilton at james.c.tilton@nasa.gov.
Friday, March 30, 2007
Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology and Business Career Fair
Sponsors: Capitol College Office of Career Services and IEEE Student Branch
Time: 12:30 to 3:30 pm
Place: Capitol College, William G. McGowan Academic Center, 11301 Springfield Road, Laurel, MD
Directions: Take the Baltimore-Washington Parkway to the Powder Mill Road exit. Turn west (towards Beltsville) on Powder Mill Road, then immediately turn right onto Springfield Road and go one mile to the college on the right.
More Info: Open to all IEEE members and the public. More than 30 employers will be recruiting for co-op, internship, entry level and advanced positions. For additional details, see
www.capitol-college.edu/careerfair.
Cost: Free.
Contact: Tony Miller at
careers@capitol-college.edu.
Diamond Stories
This presentation will review progress that has been made over the last fifteen years in the design and use of millimeter-wave (MMW) imagers. This technology has been pursued because of its capability for imaging through clothing, fog, smoke, and dust with high enough spatial resolution to be useful. This makes it appropriate for such applications as concealed weapons detection, helicopter situational awareness in low-visibility, and surveillance. This type of imaging is distinct from radar in that the receivers do not usually perform coherent detection and ranging. Rather, imagery is collected in a manner similar to an infrared or visible camera and data is presented in an easy to interpret two-dimensional image. In this talk the device technologies, system architectures, and phenomenology associated with MMW imaging will be discussed. Also presented will be the outlook for future imaging systems that promise affordability in kilo-pixel camera systems.
David Wikner has been actively involved in MMW radar and imaging research for the past 18 years at the Army Research Laboratory. His work has focused on advanced imaging system architectures, device technology and phenomenology. He developed a Stokes-vector passive MMW imaging system that is used for studying the polarimetric signatures of materials and objects for Army applications. His current work pursues the development of affordable device technology for next generation MMW imagers.
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John Matthews will answer dozens of our questions about substation testing. Learn the answers to these and other questions: Why does electrical testing have to be done? Can't it be skipped or deferred? Who has to do this kind of testing? Who should do it? Who can avoid it? What is a substation? What else gets tested? How does the equipment get tested? What are some of the standards? What are some of the techniques and equipment for performing these tests? Are some methods better than others? What are the pros and cons for different methods? When does it get done? What about squirrels?
Matthews looks after sales for MET Electrical Testing/Substation Test Company. He previously worked for Pepco Building Services, focusing on mechanical and electrical project work, along with civil construction and remote monitoring. Prior work included 15 years with Chromalloy Gas Turbine in marketing and quality assurance, helping utilities and airlines throughout North America. Prior to that, he worked for Solar Turbines in San Diego, and People’s Gas Company in Chicago.
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The Internet is built upon a protocol suite called TCP/IP. When your computer communicates with the Internet, a unique IP address is used to transfer and receive information. Yesterday's IP standard is called IPv4 and was standardized back in September 1981.
IPv4 defines a 32-bit address. This means there are 2^32 (4,294,967,296) unique IPv4 addresses available. This may sound like a big number. It is not, most of the IP addresses have already been tied up and the Internet is simply running out of them. The address shortage problem is aggravated by the fact that portions of the IP address space have not been efficiently allocated. The recent broad adoption of always-on technologies such as DSL and cable modems, coupled with the pending integration of PDAs and cellular phones into always-addressable Mobile Information Appliances, significantly elevates the urgency to expand the address space.
IPv6 introduces the following features to fix IPv4 limitations: new header format to minimize header overhead; larger address space of 128-bit or over 3.4x10^38 possible addresses; efficient and hierarchical addressing and routing infrastructure; stateless and stateful address configuration to further simplify host configuration; built-in security; better support for QoS; new protocol for neighboring node interaction; and extensibility.
Although IPv6 accounts for a tiny percentage of the live addresses in the publicly accessible Internet, which is still dominated by IPv4, it is gaining more and more momentum worldwide. The U.S. government has specified that all federal agencies must deploy IPv6 by 2008. Japan, Korea and China have announced plans for large-scale IPv6 deployment. In Japan, several service providers offer commercial IPv6 services, and equipment makers such as NEC have been shipping IPv6 products in Japan for some time. More recently, China's five major carriers started to build the IPv6-based China Next Generation Internet (CNGI), to be readied in time for the 2008 Olympics.
Wei Chen received a Ph.D. from the University of California at Irvine in 1987 and an M.A. from the University of Rochester in 1984. He has more than 20 years experience in embedded system development. He is currently working at JDSU Communications Test Group as a principal software engineer. He has been involved in the Acterna/JDSU test product development for metro Ethernet/IP/MPLS/VPLS networks.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
View of Earth from Space: An Astronaut's Perspective
The experience of viewing earth from space has given Astronaut Paul W. Richards a unique perspective. Now a NASA manager, he will be speaking on his experience as a mission specialist aboard Shuttle Discovery, earth observing satellites, and geostationary weather satellites.
Paul W. Richards received a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Drexel University in 1987 and an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland in 1991. He was selected by NASA to become an astronaut in 1996, and after two years of training and evaluation, he qualified for flight assignment as a mission specialist. He flew on STS-102 and logged more than 307 hours in space, including 6.4 EVA hours. He was also assigned as a back-up crewmember for ISS Expedition-7.
Richards left NASA in 2002 to become an aerospace consultant, then returned to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in 2004 as the Observatory Manager for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) series. GOES-R is the next generation of advanced weather satellites being developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in partnership with NASA.
Richards is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, National Society of Professional Engineers, American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Society of Naval Engineers, and United States Naval Reserves. Among many other NASA awards, Richards received NASA's prestigious Silver Snoopy Award in 1994.
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