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Calendar Archive, September 2007
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Teleconference
More Info: All interested IEEE members are welcome.
Contact: For the telephone number and access code to dial into the teleconference, please contact Dr. Kiki Ikossi, Washington Section Chair, at ikossi@ieee.org.
Sponsors: IEEE Region 2 Educational Activities Department, IEEE Baltimore Section
Time: Friday: presentation 4:30-6:30 pm, dinner 7:00 pm; Saturday: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Place: BWI Airport Marriott, 1743 West Nursery Road, and Historical Electronics Museum, 1745 West Nursery Road, Linthicum, MD.
More Info: Download a PDF file with more details, or to register see http://icm3.ieee.org/eventmanager/onlineregistration.asp?eventcode=XB6.
Started in 2001, TISP features IEEE volunteers developing and presenting technologically oriented subject matter to educators in a professional development or “in-service” setting. This workshop covers how to organize volunteers for TISP and how to bring the program to teachers in your local schools and school districts. The goal of this training session is to impact at least 1,000 pre-university educators in Region 2 and to help IEEE volunteers implement TISP in their local pre-university education communities.
Cost: Free for IEEE members, $75 for non-members. IEEE will reimburse members for travel-related expenses.
Contact: For more information on this TISP training session or TISP participation, please contact Doug Gorham, director of educational outreach, at 732-562-5483 or d.g.gorham@ieee.org,
or Jessica Czeczuga, project administrator at 732-562-5496 or j.czeczuga@ieee.org.
Sponsors: Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, Power Engineering Society
Time: 10:30 am
Place: LEAFHouse construction site adjacent to Architecture Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
More Info: IEEE members and guests will meet with the University of Maryland engineering and architectural student team that is desiging and building an energy-efficient house for the Solar Decathlon 2007. Their LEAFHouse will be erected on the National Mall in Washington D.C. for the October 12-20 competition. See www.solardecathlon.org and http://solarteam.org for more information about the competition and the LEAFHouse entry. Please wear comfortable closed-toe shoes as we will be in a construction area. After the LEAFHouse tour, the NPS chapter will host a lunch for attendees.
Cost: Free
Contact: Harry Sauberman at hsauberman@ieee.org.
This Event Has Been Canceled
Due to unforseen circumstances, we have had to cancel this event. We hope to reschedule sometime in the future. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Sponsor: Graduates Of the Last Decade (GOLD)
Speaker: Phanindra Mankale
More Info: Learn how to meet the requirements for the IEEE Computer Society's Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP) credential.
Contact: Chuck Baldi at cbaldi@ieee.org.
Wednesday, September 12, 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.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Using C++ and Design Patterns in Communications Protocol Software
Sponsor: Communications Society (Washington chapter)
Speaker: Harvey Sugar, Mantaro Networks, Inc.
Time: Light dinner and networking 6:30 pm, presentation 7:00 pm
Place: Mantaro Networks, 20410 Century Blvd., Suite 120, Germantown, MD
Directions: From I-70, take exit 15B and merge onto Germantown Rd. (Rt. 118) south toward Germantown. After approx. 0.7 mile, turn right at Aircraft Dr., then turn right at Century Blvd.
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Contact: Doug Holly at dougholly@ieee.org.
Time: Lunch 12:00 noon, meeting 12:30 pm
Place: Washington Laboratories, 7560 Lindberg Drive, Gaithersburg, MD
Directions: From the beltway in Maryland, take I-270 N. Take Exit 8 to Shady Grove Road East. After 3 miles, Shady Grove Road becomes Airpark Road. Continue 1.7 miles, then turn left onto Woodfield Road (Route 124), then left onto Lindbergh Drive.
More Info: Topics to be discussed include chapter activities and officer candidates for 2008. This meeting is in conjunction with the September EMC/Safety Workshop held at the same venue.
Cost: Free
Contact: RSVP for lunch to info@wll.com.
Sponsor: Land Transportation Committee of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Speaker: C. Jack Martinson, Vice President, Business Development, Rotem USA, Philadelphia, PA
Time: 11:30 am
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: $15 cash at the door for lunch.
Contact: Please make reservations by 4:00 pm on Friday, Sept. 14 by contacting Ken Briers at ken.briers@parsons.com
or 202-775-3397, or Lou Sanders at
LSanders@apta.com or 202-496-4886.
Sponsor: Women in Engineering
Speaker: Cheryl Santia, Ambiance Lighting
Time: Light refreshments at 6:30 pm; meeting at 7:00 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. After the meeting everyone is welcome to join us at the Cheesecake Factory for dessert, networking and socializing.
WIE apologizes for any inconvenience caused by the last minute cancellation of this presentation in June.
Contact: Please RSVP by Sept. 13 to Charity Burd at charity.burd@ieee.org.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
GaN-on-Silicon RF Power Devices: Current State and Future Directions
Sponsor: Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
Cosponsors: Electron Devices Society, Reliability Society
Speaker: Dr. Kevin Linthicum, Nitronex Corp., Durham, NC
Time: Social period 5:30 pm, dinner 6:00 pm, lecture 7:00 pm
Place: American Center for Physics, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD
Directions: See www.acp.org/map.html. Ten-minute walk from College Park Metro station (Green line).
More Info: See Diamond story below or www.ieee.org/mtt-wnva. This is the first lecture in the MTT-S series for 2007-08. All are welcome to attend. Please join the speaker and MTTS members for optional dinner (catered buffet) at the lecture site.
Cost: Lecture free; $15 for dinner.
Contact: Please RSVP for dinner only by COB Tuesday, Sept. 18 to Roger Kaul at
r.kaul@ieee.org or 301-394-4775.
Sponsors: Power Engineering Society, Industry Applications Society
Speaker: John Caskey, National Electrical Manufacturers Association
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
Contact: RSVP to Fred Pearson at fred.pearson@unisys.com or Jeff McWhirt at jmcwhirt@mitre.org.
Sponsor: Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University
Speaker: Dr. Ivica Kopriva, Senior Scientist, Dept. of Laser and Atomic Research and Development, Rudjer Boskovich Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Time: 1:00-2:00 pm
Place: SEAS Conference Room, Tompkins Hall of Engineering, George Washington University, 725 23rd St. NW, Washington, DC
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Contact: For more information, contact
ece@gwu.edu.
Sponsor: Lasers and Electro-Optics Society
Speaker: Joseph Berthold, Ciena Corporation
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. See
www.parking.umd.edu/themap. Recommended parking lots are XX1, XX2 or I*, which are free after 4:00 pm. Check the signs carefully!
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Contact: Dominique Dagenais at 301-951-7095 or
dominique_dagenais@avanex.com.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
How to Negotiate with Bullies and Nut Cases Successfully
Sponsor: National Capital Area Consultants' Network
Speaker: Phil Marcus
Time: Networking 6:00 pm; presentation 7:30 pm
Place: Olive Garden Restaurant (Tysons Corner), 8133 Leesburg Pike at International Drive, Vienna, VA
Directions: From I-495, take Route 7 West (Exit 47A) toward Tysons Corner. Merge onto Rt. 7 and turn left at International Drive. Parking garage is behind the restaurant.
More Info: All consultants, IEEE members, and guests are welcome to help the NCA-CN open its 2007 meeting series at this new venue.
More Info: The Consultants' Network is pleased to continue its series on training with a mini-seminar led by Phil Marcus, founder of The Negotiation Pro. See Diamond story below. All consultants, IEEE members and guests are welcome.
Cost: Dinner $25 (includes entree, beverage, dessert, tax & tip). Exact change is appreciated.
Contact: Monica Mallini at
m.a.mallini@ieee.org.
Sponsor: Life Members
Speaker: Bob Strauss, Life Member
Time: 12 noon to 12:45 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.
Sponsor: Control Systems Society, Washington chapter
Speaker: Dr. Levent Gökdere, Fairchild Controls Corporation, Frederick, MD
Time: Lunch 11:30 am -12 noon; presentation 12 to 12:30 pm; discussion
12:30-1:00 pm
Place: Fairchild Controls, 540 Highland Street, Frederick, MD
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Contact: Please RSVP to Haik Biglari at 240-626-9205.
Diamond Stories
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Using C++ and Design Patterns in Communications Protocol Software
Design patterns and C++ provide better abstraction features than standard C. Unfortunately, these abstraction features are rarely used in high performance real time applications such as network protocol software because of the perception that their overhead and run time costs are too high. This talk examines the actual costs of using C++ and design patterns in networking protocol software and suggests some strategies for reducing run time costs and overhead.
Harvey Sugar has over 25 years of experience in systems and software engineering, developing real-time embedded systems primarily for telecommunications and data network products. He has worked with communications technologies including packet switching, optical networking, satellite communications, telephony, and wireless. He has implemented communications protocols including TCP/IP, Frame Relay, ATM, SS7 and Packet Over SONET. Some of his accomplishments include pioneering the use of object-oriented design and C++ programming in developing a software framework for telecommunications test equipment, leading the development of the first production ADSL test set, and developing and implementing algorithms for the first DWDM system that automatically adjusted power levels and gain.
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Rotem Company, headquartered in South Korea, has developed into a world leader in railway technologies. With origins dating to 1964, the company has demonstrated its capabilities to the world market by manufacturing over 8,000 electric multiple units over the past two decades. While Korea as a domestic market continues to be a frequent and profitable source of business for Rotem, the rest of Asia, South America and Europe are counted among its customers. In 2006, Rotem made significant inroads into the U.S. market when it won two contracts within a two month period – multi-level coaches for the Southern California Regional Rail Authority and EMU's for the South Eastern
Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. The total value of these two contracts exceeds $600 million.
In addition to manufacturing conventional forms of rail transit vehicles, Rotem is in the forefront of new technologies to move the world, including high speed trains currently in revenue service in Korea and urban maglev systems.
Since 1984, Jack Martinson has been working on various projects with Korea's Hyundai Business Group. The first project he initiated involved organizing a consortium of rail vehicle companies to bid on the Los Angeles – Long Beach Light Rail project in 1987. In the rail area, Martinson was successful in arranging the sale of double-stack container freight cars by Rotem's predecessor company, Hyundai Precision and Industries Company, to TTX in Chicago.
For almost nine years, Martinson lived in South Korea where he has launched businesses for U.S. companies and also assisted Korean companies in acquiring new technologies covering defense, aerospace, railway vehicle and semiconductor technologies. He joined Rotem USA Corporation as vice president of business development in April 2005.
A native of Minneapolis, Minn., Martinson has over 30 years experience in project development and management with major multinational companies and has worked on projects in Europe, South America and Asia. Early in his career, he worked as a sports journalist and headed his own marketing and public relations firm. He received a B.A. degree from the University of California, Irvine and has completed graduate studies in international business at UCLA and the University of Southern California (M.B.A. program). He currently resides in Avondale, Pa.
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Cheryl Santia is a senior specifier for Ambiance Lighting, Inc. She is responsible for education, product support and client relations for a wide portion of the specifier community, including architects, engineers, design and consulting groups. She provides client firms with product presentations and technical seminars, assists in performing light source calculations and layout design advice. Her intimate familiarity with lighting concepts, applications and product lines comes from more than 25 years as a manufacturer's agent.
Ms. Santia's presentation will address key application techniques of lighting products that aid designers in the reduction of energy costs and the increase in lighting efficiency. The use of occupancy sensors, dimming devices, and effective electronic ballasts will be discussed and demonstrated through a "hands on" presentation. Cheryl will have products available for visual and physical interaction, in order to display the concepts that she will be explaining.
Ambiance Lighting is a full-service lighting agency servicing Maryland, the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia, and represents a number of major lighting manufacturers in the U.S. and Canada. For more information, see
www.ambiancelighting.com.
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
GaN-on-Silicon RF Power Devices: Current State and Future Directions
A GaN-on-silicon platform technology has been developed to provide the performance
advantages of GaN combined with the manufacturing advantages of silicon. The Nitronex process technology has been formally qualified for 28V operation and released for production. Extensive reliability studies have been performed yielding demonstrated EA=2.0eV predicting an MTTF of 10E7 hours at 200 C junction temperatures. The process technology is currently undergoing 48V qualification and will support the production release of a family of high power transistors for WiMAX, cellular and broadband market applications.
Dr. Kevin Linthicum is the founder and chief technology officer of Nitronex Corporation, a NCSU start-up incorporated in 1999. Dr. Linthicum is responsible for the materials, process and product engineering activities at Nitronex. Prior to forming Nitronex, he completed his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering under the direction of Professor Robert F. Davis focusing on the growth of gallium nitride using MBE and MOCVD. He earned his B.S. in materials science and engineering at Virginia Tech in 1993. Prior to pursuing his academic studies, he served in the U.S. Naval Trident Submarine Force from 1980-1988 in the nuclear engineering department.
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The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) has been developing standards for electrical products for more than 75 years. Many people know those little gray plastic boxes as NEMA enclosures. However, NEMA does not manufacture any products. NEMA represents the electrical manufacturing industry and has developed many of the standards we use today. NEMA has been involved with standards ranging from distribution transformer efficiency standards, to communication protocol for medical imaging equipment to household receptacle standards to standards for new LED lighting technologies.
In addition to standards, NEMA publishes nationally recognized market forecasts and statistical reports. NEMA was also instrumental in the creation of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Today, NEMA is working around the world to reduce counterfeiting of electrical products. NEMA has offices in Virginia, Brazil, Mexico and China.
John Caskey, director of NEMA’s Power Equipment Division, will speak about NEMA and the many activities it supports. In addition, he will discuss several of NEMA’s efforts in the area of Smart Grid (the electrical grid of the future), intelligent buildings and wind energy.
Mr. Caskey holds an M.S. degree in energy technology from George Washington University and a B.S. degree in physics from George Mason University. He managed some of the largest demand-side management programs in the country when he worked for Pacific Gas and Electric Company in California. In addition, he worked at Dominion Virginia Power for over 16 years promoting new technologies and new programs such as cool storage, real time pricing, geothermal energy systems and electric vehicles.
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Blind source separation is a field developed within signal processing and neural network communities over the last 15-20 years. It has found numerous applications in science and engineering such as acoustics, biomedical signal analysis, communications, image segmentation and deconvolution, spectroscopy, bioinformatics, and finance. The basic static linear blind source separation problem is efficiently solved by means of independent component analysis under standard assumptions: sources are statistically independent and non-gaussian, and the column-rank of the unknown basis or mixing matrix equals the unknown number of sources. However, in a number of applications the statistical independence assumption does not hold. Examples include biomedical data sets such as EEG and fMRI. A methodology will be presented to address this issue. Novel algorithms will be presented for single channel blind image and signal deconvolution, as exemplified by blind separation of images of human faces. Application to unsupervised decomposition of low-dimensional multispectral images will be discussed.
Ivica Kopriva is a senior scientist in the Dept. of Laser and Atomic Research and Development, Rudjer Boskovich Institute, Zagreb, Croatia. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia in 1998. His current research activities focus on algorithms for blind signal and image processing, and non-negative matrix factorisation with application to unsupervised segmentation of multispectral and hyperspectral images. Dr. Kopriva spent four years, 2001-2005, at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Washington University, where he carried out pioneering research in signal processing with application to imaging problems such as single frame and multiframe blind image deconvolution, and unsupervised decomposition of multispectral and hyperspectral images. Dr. Kopriva’s research at George Washington University included signal processing for direction finding array antennas. In particular, he played a pivotal role in the design, construction and evaluation of a passive emitter range estimation system for localization of cell phone emitters. This research also led to the development of novel covariance and quadri-covariance based direction finding algorithms. In co-authorship with Te-Ming Huang and Vojislav Kecman, Dr. Kopriva wrote a research monograph, Kernel Based Algorithms for Mining Huge Data Sets: Supervised, Semi-supervised and Unsupervised Learning, published in the Springer Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 2006.
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This talk will examine a number of roles optical networking may play in building the future internet. It will begin with some consideration of how traffic might scale in the next decade or so, and the implications of accomodating this growth through linear scaling based on current Internet design practice. It will also consider new high bandwidth services that are the subject of current research, and how they might be supported in future internet. Given the picture of traffic and service demands we develop, we will discuss a number of ways that sub-IP layer technology, with a major emphasis on optical network technology, can help us build a future internet that will meet the service and bandwidth requirements we anticipate, and do it at a cost we can afford.
Joseph Berthold is currently vice president for network architecture at CIENA Corporation, where he has worked since 1997. He contributes to the understanding of future network architecture directions, network service concepts, the definition of CIENA's networking products, and is responsible for the coordination of CIENA's work in industry standards. Berthold served as the technical committee chair of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) from its formation in 1998 until 2001, and as a member of its board of directors and president since 2002. He also serves on the board of directors of ATIS, the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions. He has been a long-term contributor to the Optical Fiber Communications Conference, OFC, was the technical program co-chair for OFC 2001 and the general co-Chair for OFC 2003.
From 1984 until 1997, Berthold worked in the Applied Research Area of Bellcore, where he was responsible for the management of research programs related to broadband network systems, and was the program manager and chairman of the Technical Management Committee for the Multiwavelength Optical Networking Consortium (MONET). He managed previous Bellcore research programs in high capacity protocol processing, high-speed electronic switching and high-speed multiplexing. Before his tenure at Bellcore, he spent six years with Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, where he was responsible for a semiconductor device technology development group.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
How to Negotiate with Bullies and Nut Cases Successfully
If you enjoyed Phil Marcus' "How to Negotiate with a Real SOB," you will love the next installment of his series on doing business with colorful personalities. These topics will be discussed in a to and fro with the audience, for best retention:
- What should you do before the negotiation begins?
- What should you focus on and not focus on at the bargaining table?
- What are the three types of Bullies and Nut Cases?
- Why think about the "most favorable alternate outcome"?
- How to deal with situational bullies and nut cases.
- How to deal with the most common tactical bullies and seeming nut cases.
- How to deal with genuine craziness.
Phil Marcus is a Maryland attorney, and a member of the Supreme Court bar and the American Bar Association. He holds S.B. and S.M. degrees, both in electrical engineering, from MIT, and is also "ABD" for a Ph.D. He also holds a J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law.
He has practiced law both privately and with a Maryland state agency, and currently practices in business agreement and dispute negotiation and intellectual property law (patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets). He is the founder of The Negotiation Pro. Since 1989, he has also owned an IT firm specializing in database software development.
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Actuators are key components in aircraft flight control systems. Existing actuator controllers are usually designed to optimize performance and robustness without considering the operational lifetime of the actuator. However, it is desirable to trade off performance for extended lifetime in order to reduce vehicle maintenance cost and improve vehicle safety. In this presentation, adaptive lifetime control algorithms are introduced to achieve optimal trade-off between the performance and lifetime of the electric motors used in electromechanical actuators (EMAs). The lifetime control algorithms are based on linear quadratic regulator (LQR) theory and fuzzy logic rules which take into account (i) mission priority, (ii) lifetime measures of the motor components such as winding temperature and bearing load, and (iii) actuator (or, motor) tracking performance. The effectiveness of the lifetime control algorithms are supported by simulation results.
Dr. Levent U. Gökdere received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1996. He worked as a power systems engineer for Rockwell Scientific Company in Thousand Oaks, CA from 2000 to 2006. Since November 2006, he has been working as a principal electrical engineer at Fairchild Controls Corporation in Frederick, MD. His research and work interests are in controls and power electronics with an emphasis on electric drives and actuator systems.
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