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Calendar Archive, December 2008
Sponsors: Northern Virginia Section, Washington Section
Time: 6:45 pm
Place: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1200 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC
Directions: Use the 12th Street entrance. The AAAS building is one block from Metro Center (Red, Orange and Blue 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: This meeting is for officers only.
Contact: Tim Weil at trweil@ieee.org or 301-452-3641, or Chuck Baldi at cbaldi@ieee.org or 703-675-0678.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Communications Society Washington Chapter
Officer Election & Holiday Social Event
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Legal Sea Foods, Westfield Montgomery Mall, 7101 Democracy Blvd., Bethesda, MD
More Info: All Washington section members of the Communications Society are invited to participate in the officer election and holiday social event. Candidates may be nominated at the meeting.
Contact: Please RSVP by Dec. 3 to Debi Siering at
siering@ieee.org.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Focusing on the Member: Bringing the Message to the Sections
Sponsors: Baltimore Section, Northern Virginia Section, Washington Section
Keynote Speaker: Joe Lillie, Vice President, IEEE Member and Geographic Activities
Time: 8:30 am to 1:30 pm (breakfast and lunch will be served)
Place: MITRE Corp., Building 2, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html. The walkway to Building 2 is accessible from level 2 of the parking garage. Free parking.
More Info: IEEE has recognized the importance of focusing on the member and has launched the transformation of IEEE Regional Activities to Member and Geographic Activities (MGA). In this connection, the Region 2 South Area will host a special event to help bring this message to the local level. We hope to inspire and motivate our local volunteers at all levels to be part of this transformational journey and provide the tools and resources that they need. For the meeting agenda, see Diamond Story story below.
Cost: Free.
Contact: Murty Polavarapu at murtyp@ieee.org.
Sponsor: Land Transportation Committee of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Speaker: Gerald Arnold, P.E., Booz Allen Hamilton, Washington, DC
Time: 11:30 am to 1:00 pm
Place: American Public Transportation Association, 11th Floor Conference Room, 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 and Blue lines, use 17th Street exit).
More Info: See Diamond story below. The National Capital Land Transportation Committee (LTC) holds monthly lunch meetings from September though June. The LTC is jointly sponsored by the ASME Rail Transportation Division and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society of the Washington and Northern Virginia Sections. All interested persons are invited. Membership in ASME or IEEE is not required.
Cost: $15 cash at the door for lunch.
Contact: Karl Berger at
karl.berger@dcm-va.com or 703-803-7917, or Ken Briers at ken.briers@parsons.com or 202-775-3397.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
EMBS Washington Chapter
Officer Election & Holiday Social Event
Sponsor: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Artie's, 3260 Old Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA
More Info: All EMBS members are invited to participate in the officer election and holiday social event. Candidates may be nominated at the meeting.
Contact: Please RSVP by Dec. 7 to Paul Otto at
potto@ieee.org.
Sponsor: Communications Society, Washington Chapter
Speaker: Dr. John Waclawsky
Time: Light dinner and networking at 6:30 pm, presentation at 7:00 pm
Place: Mantaro Networks, Inc., 20410 Century Blvd., Suite 120, Germantown, MD
Directions: See
www.mantaro.com/aboutus/contact.htm.
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Contact: Roger Hardwicke at rogerchmd@gmail.com.
Monday, December 15, 2008
The Quest for Mid-infrared Semiconductor Lasers to Counter Heat Seeking Missiles and Other Interesting Applications
Sponsor: Lasers and Electro-Optics Society
Speakers: Dr. Jerry Meyer, Naval Research Laboratory, and Dr. John D. Bruno, Maxion Technologies, Inc.
Time: Refreshments 4:30-5:00 pm; presentation 5:00-6:00 pm
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. Parking is free after 4:00 pm in certain lots, but read the signs carefully to avoid a parking ticket.
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 for a hundred yards, turn left onto Paint Branch Drive and look for the second building on the right. See shuttle schedule at
www.transportation.umd.edu/routes/schedules/CollegeParkMetro.pdf.
Contact: Robert Bartolo at 202-404-2077 or bob.bartolo@nrl.navy.mil.
Sponsors: IEEE Computer Society; American Society for Quality (ASQ) Section 509 Software SIG; and the Society for Software Quality (SSQ)
Time: 6:30 pm
Speaker: Chris Gunderson, Naval Post Graduate School
Place: Video teleconference with sites in McLean and Silver Spring. Addresses are provided at the registration link below.
More Info: See Diamond story below. All interested IEEE members and guests are invited to attend. Pizza and soda will be served.
Cost: Free
Contact: Advance registration is required to enter the facilities. Please register online at
www.asq509.org/ht/d/sp/i/2499/pid/2499.
If your plans change, please email ankums@mitre.org to cancel your reservation.
Time: Refreshments at 6:30 pm, meeting at 7:00 pm
Place: NOAA National Weather Service, Silver Spring Metro Center (SSMC2), 1325 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD
Directions: The NOAA campus is located on East-West Highway at the intersection with Colesville Rd. NWS is the second building from the corner of East-West Hwy. and Colesville Rd. A public parking garage is beneath the third building. From the Silver Spring metro station (Red line), exit the station and make an immediate left, go under the overpass and cross the plaza between buildings one and two.
More Info: Please join us at the meeting of the Washington and Northern Virginia Women in Engineering affinity group. Bring a friend -- he or she does not have to be a WIE member to attend. We will be accepting nominations for 2009 officers. Available positions include: Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Webmaster, Membership Chair. We will also be discussing meeting ideas of interest to WIE members. We look forward to seeing you there!
Contact: A list of all attendees must be submitted to building security in advance of the event. Please RSVP by Sunday, Dec. 14 to Katie Schaffold at katie.schaffold@ieee.org. Please bring a photo ID and check in at the front desk.
Diamond Stories
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Focusing on the Member: Bringing the Message to the Sections
AGENDA:
1. Welcome
2. MGA Vision and Objectives - Focusing on the Member
Joe Lillie, IEEE Vice President, Member and Geographic Activities
3. Resources for Section Leaders
a) Member Engagement at Local Level
Murty Polavarapu, Region 2 South Area Chair
We will discuss different ways to engage members at local level through avenues such as technical meetings, professional development, continuing education and membership advancement.
b) vTools
Marc Apter, vTools Team Member and Region 2 Parliamentarian
This will cover a set of IT tools that are being developed to greatly simplify the tasks that local IEEE volunteers have to grapple with such as meeting announcements (including RSVP management), financial tracking, website management etc.
c) Building and nurturing relationships with Student Branches
(panel discussion)
4) What can MGA and Region 2 do to help the Sections?
Open discussion: please share with us the challenges that you are facing in serving the members and how Region 2 and MGA can help you.
5) Breakout sessions for each Section to chart out ideas for 2009 and Lunch
6) Concluding Remarks
John Dentler, Director, Region 2
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Ball or roller bearings have much in common with a railway wheel running on a rail. Both have high Hertzian stresses and are subject to rolling contact fatigue. Silicon nitride (Si3N4), a technical ceramic, has now firmly established itself in the engineering marketplace as part of a hybrid bearing, where the rolling elements are silicon nitride and the races are steel. This presentation will explore the possibility of a silicon nitride/steel wheel/rail combination and will show that, because silicon nitride has a higher modulus of elasticity, it is not suitable as a direct replacement on existing systems, because it would produce a smaller contact patch and greater contact stress.
The low toughness of silicon nitride in comparison to steel could be an obstacle to its general railway use, however, it could made into a composite material in the same manner as carbon reinforced silicon carbide (C/SiC) is used in brake discs. There is a possibility that, under the right conditions, silicon nitride could return very low wear rates, because of its extreme hardness, and because of its excellent resistance to rolling contact fatigue (noted in hybrid bearings). This could give a wheel high mileage, without the need to remove fatigued material by controlled wear or by turning.
A promising future application for the material is a cable-hauled system, where the predicted lower adhesion between Silicon Nitride and a steel rail is not a problem and the wheels are not required to be conductive.
Gerald (Gerry) Arnold has accumulated 20 years in railway research and development and 20 years at the railway 'sharp end' with authorities, for the most part on railway vehicles. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering, is a member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, and is a chartered engineer and a professional engineer.
Arnold worked on two high speed trains: the Advanced Passenger Train with a 150-mph tilting suspension, and the Eurostar, a 185-mph TGV design currently moving millions of people through the Channel Tunnel. He has worked at British Rail in the UK and at AAR in Pueblo, Colorado. He is currently employed as an associate with Booz Allen Hamilton on rail vehicles in the Washington area.
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The technology world is expanding from its focus on technology-specific businesses, such as PCs, cell phones, set top boxes, telecommunication services delivery, etc., to increasingly leveraging the expanding connectivity at the edge of the network. Ubiquitous edge connectivity choices are enticing innovators to provide solutions directly to end-users that facilitate the business of human interaction. The human perspective is clear when we look from the edge of the network in, not from the inside of the network out. The outside, or edge, perspective reveals the way people use their technology while the inside perspective is a restricted view of what a network anticipates or how it allows attached devices to behave.
Today the view at the network edge reveals a communications world in the midst of a multi-decade transformation from Plain Old Telephony Service (POTS) to a multi-dimensional gadget-filled future surrounding each individual, beginning with ubiquitous network(s) access via Personal Area NetworkS (PANS) using Pretty Amazing New Stuff (PANS2) at the edge of the network.
John Waclawsky joined Motorola in August 2005 as the Chief Software Architect for the Motorola Software Technology Groups. He was also responsible for leading the Motorola software team in concert with the Motorola business units, labs and the CTO organization in constructing unified software architecture for seamless mobility useful across Motorola's business units for coordinated product and solution development. He is currently responsible for Motorola services architecture and governance.
Dr. Waclawsky holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Drexel University, a master's degree in computer and information sciences from the University of Pennsylvania, and a master's degree and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland.
Dr. Waclawsky was the Technical Plenary Chair of the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum and a member of the Open Mobile Alliance board as well as editor of the WiMAX Network Working Group.
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DoD has been pursuing its net-centric strategic vision and enabling the service oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm for 10 years. Other federal agencies have pursued various "e-Gov" initiatives aimed at implementing best commercial IT practices, e.g. SOA, into federal acquisition projects. However, despite billions spent in the federal IT budget over those years, progress has been disappointing, as indicated by a constant stream of GAO reports and media exposés. This presentation will explore why the SOA paradigm is so difficult to implement.
Successful SOA deployment requires a rapid, adaptive, collaborative and iterative Service Oriented Acquisition paradigm. Despite policy statements to the contrary, government IT acquisition process artifacts favor long, serial, rigid, risk-averse, stove-piped process.
Government-industry collaborations tend to be successful when government furnishes affordable, safe, useful and interoperable infrastructure upon which industry may competitively innovate, e.g., the Global Positioning System, Interstate highways, the Internet, etc. To date government investment in SOA has been focused on specialized applications associated with the sponsor's mission.
Chris Gunderson is a Research Associate Professor of Information Science at the Naval Post Graduate School. He is on a special assignment sponsored by the Defense Information System Agency's Joint Interoperability Test Command to establish a Netcentric Certification Office (NCO). The NCO will link distributed DoD laboratories in partnership with industry to create a public-private e-Business portal for delivery of government certified net-ready software products and services.
Previously, he managed an initiative sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense to create the World Wide Consortium for the Grid (W2COG), a global network of collaborative experts committed to rapidly fielding network centric tools for enhancing global security and peaceful commerce.
Professor Gunderson retired from the U.S. Navy in 2004 as a Captain following 27 years ofservice. His last assignment was as Commanding Officer of Fleet Numerical Oceanographic & Meteorological Center, a super computer network operation center in Monterey, CA. Previously, he served as Deputy Oceanographer of the Navy, and helped develop DoD policy for enhancing information system interoperability. He holds a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy, an M.S. from the Naval Postgraduate School, and is a Fellow of the American Meteorology Society.
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