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Calendar Archive, November 2007
Sponsors: Signal Processing Society (Northern Virginia Chapter)
Cosponsors: Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, Reliability Society, Antennas and Propagation Society, and Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Speaker: Dr. Joseph Guerci, IEEE Fellow
Time: Refreshments & networking 6:30 pm; seminar 7:00 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: See Diamond story below. Refreshments will include pizza and soft drinks.
Contact: RSVP's by October 29 are appreciated, but walk-ins are welcome. Contact Tim Settle at t.settle@ieee.org.
Monday, November 5, 2007
Effective Discovery of Geospatial Data: A Geospatial Catalogue's Perspective
Sponsor: Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
Speaker: Dr. Yuqi Bai, Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, George Mason University
Time: Social period 7:30 pm; lecture 8:00 pm
Place: Room 161, Research I Building, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Directions: See
www.gmu.edu/welcome/Directions-to-GMU.htm. A campus map is available at
www.gmu.edu/departments/infoservices/8x14campusmap07.pdf (#22 is Research I).
More Info: See Diamond story below, and
http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/no_virginia/grss for updated information.
Contact: James C. Tilton at
james.c.tilton@nasa.gov.
Sponsor: IEEE Washington Section
Speaker: Charles Lord, P.E., Triangle Advanced Design & Automation
More Info: This workshop is for embedded systems engineers and managers, and is part of the Washington Section's Continuing Education series. Day one includes Universal Serial Bus basics and device design. Day two covers host design for embedded systems. Participants may enroll in one or both days. For complete details, including prerequisites and equipment requirements, see www.tadatraining.com/usb/dc/.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Washington Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: Dinner at 6:30 pm; meeting and election at 7:00 pm
Place: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),
Abelson/Haskins conference rooms (second floor), 1200 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC
Directions: Use the 12th Street entrance. The AAAS building is one block from the Metro Center station (Red, Orange and Blue lines) and approx. six blocks from the Gallery Place Metro station (Red, Yellow and Green lines). Street parking is free after 6:30 pm (no parking 4:00-6:30 pm). There is a pay parking lot at the intersection of 9th St. and New York Ave., and an underground parking garage at 14th St. and New York Ave.
See map at www.aaas.org/dcwest.pdf.
More Info: Election of the 2008 IEEE Washington Section officers will take place at this meeting. To nominate a candidate, contact the election committee: Dr. Haik Biglari at hbiglari@comcast.net or Jerry Gibbon at
j.t.Gibbon@ieee.org. All interested IEEE members are welcome.
Cost: $25 for dinner (catered).
Contact: Dr. Kiki Ikossi, Washington Section Chair, at
ikossi@ieee.org.
Sponsor: IEEE-USA
Speakers: Keynote speaker: Howard Liberman, founder, Silicon Valley Innovation Insitute. Faculty: Mike Austin, Alain Rostain, Mauro Togneri and Steve Walker.
Place: Marriott Fairview Park, Falls Church, VA
More Info: This forum exposes computer scientists, engineers, and allied professionals to all aspects of innovation including product development, navigation of corporate culture and technology/process identification and deployment. With guidance from the faculty, the participants experience innovation by developing case studies. See www.innovation-institute.org/events/dcforum/default.asp.
Cost: IEEE members $795; nonmembers $950; group discounts available.
Contact: Tesa Leon at t.leon@ieee.org or 202-530-8337.
Sponsor: Education Society (Washington-Baltimore Chapter)
Cosponsor: IEEE Howard University Student Branch
Speaker: Jim Grove, Naval Research Laboratory
Time: Refreshments and networking 5:00 pm; seminar 5:30-7:00 pm
Place: L.K. Downing (Engineering) Building, Engineering Library, Howard University, Washington, DC
Directions: See
www.hirstbrook.com/ed/110707.html.
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Contact: RSVP's are appreciated, but walk-ins are welcome. Contact Charles Kim at ckim@howard.edu.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Biomedical Intellectual Property Challenges
for Small Business and Government
Sponsors: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Women in Engineering
Cosponsors: Engineering Management Society, Signal Processing Society (Northern Virginia chapter), Antennas and Propagation Society
Speaker: Dr. Matthew Latimer, partner, Latimer, Mayberry & Matthews IP Law
Time: WIE business meeting at 6:30 pm; speaker at 7:00 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: For more information about the speaker, see Diamond story below. The election of WIE officers for 2008 will take place prior to Dr. Latimer's presentation. Pizza and light refreshments will be served.
Contact: Please RSVP by Wednesday, Nov. 7 to Paul Otto at potto@ieee.org or Charity Burd at charity.burd@ieee.org.
Sponsor: Philadelphia Section
Speaker: Tony Morcos
Time: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Place: Temple University Fort Washington Campus, 401 Commerce Drive, Fort Washington, PA
More Info: See www.ieeephiladelphia.org (select the course from the fly-out Calendar menu).
Cost: $425 for IEEE members ($50 discount for registration before Oct. 20). Add $13 for CEU certificate (1.4 CEU credits). Lunch is provided.
Contact: Pam Smith, meeting manager, at
sec.philadelphia@ieee.org or 610-642-2866.
Friday, November 9, 2007
Overview of Ocean Renewable Energy Technology and Issues
Sponsor: Oceanic Engineering Society
Speaker: Sean O'Neill, Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition
Time: 12:00 noon
Place: Marriott Fairview Park, 3111 Fairview Park Drive, Falls Church, VA
Contact: RSVP to Mike Goldberg at 703-610-1717 or
mgoldber@noblis.org.
Friday, November 9, 2007
Professional Communications: The Broadway
to Technology
Sponsor: Professional Communication Society
Cosponsor: Society for Social Implications of Technology
Speaker: Emily Sopensky, CEO, The Iris Company
Time: Networking at 6:30 pm, dinner and presentation at 7:00 pm
Location: The Front Page, 4201 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA
Directions: The Front Page restaurant is located one block from Ballston Metro Station (Orange line). See
www.frontpagearlington.com/directions.
Cost: $30 per person
More Info: All are welcome to attend this kickoff meeting of the joint Washington, Northern Virignia and Baltimore PCS chapter. See Diamond story below.
Contact: RSVP to Wally Lee at w.h.lee@ieee.org.
Sponsor: Communications Society (Northern Virginia Chapter)
Speaker: Paige Atkins
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm; speaker at 6:30 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: See Diamond story below.
Cost: Free for IEEE members.
Contact: Please RSVP to
dennis.moen@ieee.org.
Sponsor: Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
Speaker: Michael Weiss, Deputy Program Manager, Hubble Space Telescope Program, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Time: 5:00 pm
Place: General Dynamics, 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: Servicing Mission 4 to the Hubble Space Telescope, scheduled for August 2008, will be NASA's last Shuttle-based servicing mission to upgrade Hubble's scientific capability and extend its operational life. Hubble's Deputy Program Manager will discusses the two new science instruments and other components that astronauts will install on the telescope. His presentation will include dramatic animated visualizations. For more information, see
http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/wash_nova/aess/.
Contact: Please RSVP by Monday, November 27 to Ms. Carmen Bray at
carmen.bray@gd-ais.com or 703-469-3886.
Wednesday, November 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 your subject line.
Sponsors: Power Engineering Society, Industry Applications Society
Speaker: Peter Pollak, P.E.
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Cost: A light dinner buffet will be offered free to IEEE members; $10 requested from non-members.
Contact: RSVP to Fred Pearson at fred.pearson@unisys.com or Jeff McWhirt at jmcwhirt@mitre.org.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Maryland Engineering Alumni & Globecom Networking Event
Sponsor: University of Maryland Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: University of Maryland, Kim Engineering Building, College Park, MD
Directions: From I-495, exit at Route 1 South, proceed approx. 2 miles, turn right onto Campus Drive, then immediately turn right onto Paint Branch Drive and the Kim Engineering Building will be on the left (after a stop sign). Free parking after 4:00 pm in Lots T and XX.
See
www.parking.umd.edu/themap.
From the College Park Metro Station (Green line), take the free UM campus shuttle, get off at the first stop, walk back a hundred yards to Paint Branch Drive and look for the Kim Engineering Building on the left. See shuttle schedule at
www.transportation.umd.edu/routes/schedules/CollegeParkMetro.pdf.
More Info: The University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering are proud to host an evening networking event for alumni and attendees of the 2007 IEEE Globecom Conference. The evening will feature a special presentation, tours of several state of the art laboratories and a delicious hors d'eouvres buffet. Join Provost Nariman Farvardin; Jeong Kim, President of Bell Labs at Alcatel-Lucent; Rajiv Laroia, CTO of Qualcomm Flarion Technologies; Patrick O’Shea, Electrical and Computer Engineering Chair; and host Professor Ray Liu for a memorable evening.
Contact: RSVP to Ted Knight, ECE director of public relations, at 301-405-3596
or teknight@umd.edu,
or Cornelia Kennedy, Clark School director of alumni affairs, at 301-405-2150 or
ckennedy@umd.edu.
Sponsors: IEEE Communications Society, with the Northern Virginia, Washington and Baltimore Sections
Place: Hilton Hotel, 1919 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
More Info: See www.ieee-globecom.org/2007
Contact: Jerry Gibbon at
j.t.gibbon@ieee.org.
Sponsor: Life Members
Speaker: Barry Hickey, Assistant Director, Projects Engineering & Energy, Facilities Management Dept., Fairfax County Government
Time: 11:45 am to 2:00 pm
Place: Dolley Madison Library, 1244 Oak Ridge Ave, McLean, VA
Directions: Take Exit 46 from the Beltway and proceed on Route 123 North to McLean, VA, about 2 miles. After crossing Old Dominion Dr., turn left at the next street, Ingleside Ave., and then left on Oak Ridge Ave. The library is on the left.
More Info: Refreshments will be served.
Contact: Amarjeet Basra at 703-324-2821 or amarjeet.basra@ieee.org.
Diamond Stories
This talk provides a comprehensive survey of major new developments in radar research and development, from next generation intelligent signal processing to “super antennas” and radars that detect through buildings and around corners. The talk is designed to be of value to both the practicing radar engineer as well as non-specialists interested in advanced signal processing and systems engineering. Much of the material is drawn from Dr. Guerci’s own research—particularly from his recent seven-year term at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Specific topics covered include advanced STAP and knowledge-aided processing; waveform diversity and optimal MIMO radar; low-power density apertures for airship, space, and ground-based applications; and building penetration radar.
Dr. Joseph Guerci has more than 23 years of experience in advanced technology research and development in government, industrial and academic settings. He worked at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for seven years as program manager, deputy office director and finally office director of the Special Projects Office. He was involved in the inception, research, development, execution and ultimately transition of next generation defense technologies for surveillance and reconnaissance, protection against weapons of mass destruction, tactical missile defense, space defense and assured urban operations.
Dr. Guerci is an internationally recognized leader in the research and development of next generation sensor systems and adaptive signal processing. He has pioneered several major radar technologies including Robust and Knowledge-Aided Space-Time Adaptive Processing, and Optimal MIMO Waveform Optimization. In addition to authoring over 80 peer reviewed articles, he has two book chapters and is the author of Space-Time Adaptive Processing for Radar (Artech House, 2003). He received the 2007 IEEE Warren D. White Award for "contributions to space-time adaptive processing and waveform optimization."
A graduate of Polytechnic University with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering (system engineering), Dr. Guerci has held adjunct professorships in engineering and applied mathematics at The City University of New York, Polytechnic University, The Cooper Union for Advancement of Art and Science, and Virginia Tech. He has held senior engineer and scientist positions in industry and was recently chief technology officer for SAIC’s research, development, test and evaluation group. A member of the IEEE Radar Systems panel, he is a Fellow of the IEEE for "contributions to advanced radar theory and its embodiment in real-world systems," and holds eight U.S. patents.
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Effective Discovery of Geospatial Data: A Geospatial Catalogue's Perspective
Every scientist has his own way of finding satellite images of interest for their research work. But they might not notice that many research efforts have been directed behind the scenes to fulfill this "geospatial data discovery" task. This presentation will touch on the following aspects of data discovering issues:
1) Basic knowledge of Internet, HTTP protocol and GET/POST bindings. -- It would be appropriate to know some underlying techniques that enable digital information being transformed between publishers and consumers.
2) Metadata: problems, background, standards (ISO, OGC, US), use cases -- Metadata plays a key role in facilitating information discovery. The way of promoting indirect geospatial data discovery through direct discovery of metadata has been extensively used worldwide.
3) Catalogue system: problems, background, systems (e.g. NASA EDG, NASA ECHO), standards (OGC). -- Besides metadata information, the protocol, message and binding issues are dealt with in catalogue systems.
4) Catalogue federation: problems, challenges, pioneering systems (GMU CFS) -- It is very desirable if those catalogues can be integrated into a catalogue federation, which will present a well-known metadata model and interface protocol to users and hide the complexity and diversity of the affiliated catalogues behind the interface. Challenges and problems in dealing with the metadata conceptual models, query languages, and communication protocols will be analyzed and proposed federation strategies and the operational federation system will be introduced.
Dr. Yuqi Bai is a research assistant professor at the Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems (CSISS) of George Mason University (GMU). He has more than 10 years of dedicated research on Web-based geospatial information interoperability and integration, Geospatial Metadata, Geospatial Catalogue Service, and Geospatial Catalogue Federation. He received his B.S. in computer science and M.S. in software engineering from China University of Geosciences in 1997 and 2000 respectively. He earned his Ph.D. in cartography and geographical information science from the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003.
Dr. Bai is the author of GMU CSISS Catalogue Federation Service, a system capable of performing distributed and integrated metadata discovery over three distinct geospatial catalogue services: the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) ClearingHOuse (ECHO), the GMU OpenGIS Catalogue Service for Web (CSW), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Earth System Grid (ESG) Simulation Data Catalogue. This product is operational in the NASA funded GeoBrain project. It enables education community users to discover the online datasets in NASA data pools, the GMU Spatial Database, and the DOE ESG LLNL Simulation Database in a convenient and standard way. Yuqi is the author of the GMU CSISS OGC CSW Wrapper for NASA ECHO. This product provides an OGC-compliant Catalogue Service discovery interface for NASA ECHO. This is the only available operational system that provides this value-added functionality for NASA ECHO. This package was initially developed in 2004, and has been continually updated to be compatible with each ECHO release after that.
Dr. Bai is the task lead and a key developer in implementing the GEOSS Registry System. This system will develop Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), OASIS ebXML-ebRS, and OGC CSW interfaces to be accessed by other GEOSS applications, including GEOSS Web Portal solutions. This system is the backbone of the GEOSS Clearinghouse, a new international effort of providing integrated search capability across the distributed and heterogonous catalogues and their registered resources.
Dr. Bai is also providing technical support to the NASA Goddard Earth Science Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) on NASA ECHO system integration, and image subsetting for the Coordinated Energy and Water Cycle Observations Project (CEOP).
His findings, lessons-learned and research results have been published in several professional journals, books and international meetings, including the Journal of Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, the Encyclopedia of Geographical Science, the Encyclopedia of Geoinformatics, the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, and the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing technical meeting.
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The FIRST Robotics Competition is the key component of the non-profit organization, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), founded in 1989 by Segway inventor Dean Kamen. The annual competition engages pre-college students and volunteer mentors in hands-on collaborative problem solving, and encourages development and growth of lasting partnerships between schools, universities, business and communities.
FIRST participants in Washington, DC include eight local high schools: McKinley, Bannekar, Cardozo, Roosevelt, Ballou, Friendship, Bell Multicultural, and Patriot Center. A scrimmage takes place during National Engineers Week in February with a regional competition in Annapolis.
Jim Grove will describe his role as a volunteer mentor with the FIRST Robotics program at McKinley Technical High School, and his efforts to develop new mentors from his co-workers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. His talk will center on plans to quickly develop new mentors into contributing members of a growing team. The McKinley robotics teacher and students will demonstrate their robot with a 38x28 inch footprint.
Grove is an engineer with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, and a naval aviator and commander in the U.S. Navy Reserves. He has a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Tennessee.
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Thursday, November 8, 2007
Biomedical Intellectual Property Challenges for Small Business and Government
Drawing from a wealth of experience in private practice, government work and scientific research, Dr. Matthew Latimer will discuss the challenges of business and government involved in biomedical intellection property (IP). These challenges follow the life cycle of initial IP protection to the concluding FDA approval process. He will also discuss the future issues and directions of biomedical IP and conclude with a short question and answer session.
Dr. Latimer is a partner at Latimer, Mayberry & Matthews IP Law LLP, where he focuses on the areas of biotechnology, nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals, chemistry, and Internet communications. Until 2004, he worked as an associate attorney at the intellectual property law firm of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner in their Washington, D.C. and Reston, VA, offices, and as a law clerk at the intellectual property law firm of Oliff and Berridge in Northern Virginia. Preceding his career in the private sector, Dr. Latimer was a patent examiner in the biotechnology group at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where he examined patent applications directed to gene expression technology.
Dr. Latimer's scientific background includes work in prokaryotic gene expression and protein biochemistry, as well as human immune system regulation. As a graduate student, Dr. Latimer investigated the molecular organization and structure of genes involved in activation of the carbon and energy source acetate by a methanogenic Archaea. His studies also focused on identifying the biochemical properties of enzymes involved in the activation pathway. As a post-doctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute's Frederick Research Center, he investigated structure-function relationships in the regulation of activity of the immune response transcription factor NFKB.
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Friday, November 9, 2007
Professional Communications: The Broadway
to Technology
Emily Sopensky, a business consultant specializing in technology, explains how professional communication is just a broad avenue for those who want to delve into the many wonders of technologies and be rewarded for purposeful, professional curiosity. A forward-thinker, Sopensky spills the beans on where her own professional curiosity has led her.
Sopensky has written on a broad range of technologies, from the Internet to the semiconductor industry. She began her relationship with IEEE while pursuing an assignment for a Fortune 500 company. Spectrum, IEEE's flagship magazine, was her resource of choice. After her recent IEEE Fellowship at the U.S. State Department, she once again is deeply embedded in the RFID industry. For more about Sopensky, go to www.iriscompany.com.
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The key enabler for net-centricity is the DoD Global Information Grid (GIG). Extension of the GIG down to the lowest warfighting echelons will be made possible through coupling integrated wired and wireless architectures with other "spectrum-dependent" systems. Tactical superiority stems from robust, spectrum-dependent equipment and networks, fully integrated into the GIG. Spectrum management transformation is linked to, and part of, the overall transformation to global Net-Centric Operations. This session will provide an overview of spectrum management processes, challenges and opportunities from a Department of Defense (DoD) perspective. The Defense Spectrum Organization (DSO), as a core unit of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) - is an integral partner to ensure the success of the last-mile, tactical support of the GIG and transformation to global Net-Centric Operations and Warfare (NCOW).
Paige Atkins is the Director of the Defense Spectrum Organization. She is responsible for developing strategies to transform the Department’s legacy spectrum management processes and capabilities to future net-centric operations. Atkins supports the Secretary of Defense on national and international spectrum issues, spectrum coordination, and in the pursuit of emerging spectrum efficient technologies. She is also responsible for providing direct support to the ASD (NII)/DoD CIO, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Combatant Commanders, and DoD components to enable effective and efficient use of the electromagnetic spectrum and control of electromagnetic environmental effects in support of national security and military objectives.
With over twenty-three years of government and industry experience supporting all phases of system development, acquisition and operations, Atkins is widely recognized for her leadership in delivering solutions which enable government transformation to net-centric operations.
Atkins received her M.S. in engineering administration from George Washington University, and her B.S. in electrical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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Pete Pollak, P.E., is manager of product standards and electrical services for Aluminum Association, Inc. He will share his insight into the present trend in aluminum usage for electrical applications, based on more than 40 years of professional experience as an electrical engineer. He will review the basic physical and electrical characteristics of specific alloys, the significance of the parallel history of the aluminum and electrical industries, global production statistics and current economics of conductor materials.
Pollak received his bachelor's and master's degrees from NYU. He is an IEEE Senior Member and a past chair of the Power Engineering Society chapter. Prior to working for the Aluminum Association, where he is in charge of electrical activities, he worked for Westinghouse Electric and General Cable Corp.
He is a pragmatic educator who explains standard practice in addition to theory. He has taught electrical engineering at RCA Institutes, George Washington University and Northern Virginia Community College (where he is currently an adjunct professor). He also does technical training at the NECA/IBEW NJATC National Training Institute.
He is a member of National Electrical Code Panels 7 and 12, NFPA Electrical Section, IAEI, ASTM, ANSI/NEMA C119 and C80 Committees (Electrical Utility Connectors and Electrical Conduit, respectively) and is a registered professional engineer licensed in NY, NJ, VA and DC.
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