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Calendar Archive, September 2008
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: All interested IEEE members are welcome.
Contact: Tim Weil at trweil@ieee.org or 301-452-3641.
Sponsor: Land Transportation Committee of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Speaker: John T. Rhodes, Transportation Analyst, R.L. Banks & Associates
Time: Lunch 11:30 am, presentation 12:00 noon
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: Please RSVP by 4:00 pm Friday, Sept. 5 to Karl Berger at
karl.berger@dcm-va.com or 703-803-7917
or Ken Briers at ken.briers@parsons.com or 202-775-3397.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
A View into the Aerospace and Defense Industry's Interests and Needs in Nanotechnology
Sponsor: Emerging Tech Forum (formerly Atlantic Nano Forum)
Cosponsor: Electron Devices Society
Speaker: Sharon Lee Smith, Director, Advanced Technology, Corporate Engineering and Technology, Electronic Systems, Lockheed Martin
Time: Registration & refreshments at 4:00 pm, talk at 4:20 pm
Place: Offices of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, 1737 King Street, Suite 500, Alexandria, VA
Directions: See
www.buchananingersoll.com/directions.
Contact: To register, send an email to
emergingtechnology@bipc.com.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Olive Garden Restaurant, 8133 Leesburg Pike (Tysons Corner), Vienna, VA
Directions: From I-495, take Route 7 West (Exit 47A) toward Tysons Corner. Turn left at Gallows Road. Parking garage is behind the restaurant.
More Info: All interested IEEE members are invited to attend.
Contact: Chuck Baldi at cbaldi@ieee.org or 703-675-0678.
DC ACM Fall 2008 Professional Development Seminar
Sponsor: Association for Computing Machinery, Washington DC Chapter
Cosponsor: Computer Society
Place: George Washington University, Washington, DC
More Info: This two-day course will be held in a GWU computer lab, so space is limited. A six-page brochure, detailed information and online registration are available at
www.dcacm.org/pd.
Contact: Tom Starai at starai@ieee.org.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Communications Society Washington Chapter Executive Committee Meeting
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Virtual meeting
More Info: The Washington Chapter of the Communications Society wants to expand its executive committee to support more events and activities in the Washington area. This meeting is open to any Communications Society or IEEE member who wants to get involved at the local level.
Contact: To attend this virtual meeting, please RSVP to Debi Siering at siering@ieee.org 48 hours before the meeting. You will receive instructions for the website and a teleconference number by email for the meeting. Virtual capacity is limited to 20.
Integration and Test Facilities, Hubble Clean Room
Sponsors: Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
Time: 10:00 am
Place: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Directions: Attendees must check in at the Visitor Center (not at the main gate). A shuttle bus will transport the group into NASA. From the Capital Beltway (I-95), take Exit 22A North (Rt. 295, Baltimore-Washington Pkwy.). Exit at Rt. 193 East (Greenbelt Rd.) and go approx. 2.5 miles. Turn left onto IceSat Rd. (formerly Soil Conservation Rd.), then turn left to reach the Visitor Center.
More Info: This tour includes NASA's Science on a Sphere (SOS) presentation and an overview of how NASA builds, tests and prepares for satellite missions. The SOS presentation illustrates NASA's Earth Science studies on a large spherical ball simulating the Earth. The rest of the tour is a walk-through of the integration and test facility. Space is limited.
Cost: Free
Contact: Register before Tuesday, Sept. 9 with Roger Oliva at
roger.oliva@ieee.org. Late registrations will be permitted as long as space exists. Foreign visitors must provide names and passport numbers by Aug. 19 for consideration.
Sponsor: Women in Engineering
Speaker: Cindy Crump, CEO, AFrame Digital, Inc.
Time: Refreshments at 6:30 pm, talk 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: Ms. Crump founded AFrame Digital, Inc., a Falls Church, VA research-based health technology company developing novel wireless remote health monitoring applications to address the needs of elders and other at-risk populations. She will speak on starting her own business, including obstacles she has faced and some of the work her company does.
Contact: Please RSVP by Sunday, Sept. 14 to Katie Schaffold at
katie.schaffold@ieee.org.
NEW DATE: This meeting was originally scheduled for May 15.
Sponsors: Power Engineering Society, Industry Applications Society
Speaker: Kanu R. Shah, P.E., Chief Engineer, Shah & Associates, Inc.
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm
Place: Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute, 4300 Wilson Blvd., Suite 750, Arlington, VA
Directions: From Ballston Metro Station (Orange line), turn right at top of escalator then left on the street. Proceed two blocks toward Macy's, turn right and walk one block to Ballston Point at the intersection of Wilson Blvd. and Glebe Rd. If driving, see
www.ari.vt.edu/ari_directions.htm. There is a parking garage in the building with a $1 charge for 3 hours. After 6 pm, there is limited free street parking.
More Info: See Diamond story, below. A light dinner buffet will be served, followed by the program. All interested persons are invited.
Cost: Free for IEEE members; $10 for non-members.
Contact: Fred A. Pearson III at
fred.pearson@unisys.com or 571-227-3259.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Nuclear Energy Political Forum: Perspectives from the Democratic and Republican
Presidential Candidates' Campaigns
Sponsors: American Nuclear Society (Washington DC Section); Health Physics Society (Baltimore-Washington Chapter); Women in Nuclear; North American Young Generation in Nuclear (Washington DC Metro Area Chapter); Nuclear Energy Institute; IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter)
Time: Reception at 6:00 pm; moderated program at 8:00 pm
Place: Positano Ristorante Italiano, 4940-4948 Fairmont Ave., Bethesda, MD
Directions: Near Bethesda Metro Station (Red line); public parking garage on Old Georgetown Rd.
More Info: See
http://local.ans.org/dc/politicalforummeeting.html.
Cost: Members & guests: $30; non-members: $35; full-time students: $15
Contact: RSVP by Monday, Sept. 15 by sending an email to ans_dc_rsvp@yahoo.com. Please include your memberships in the sponsoring organizations if any.
DC ACM Fall 2008 Professional Development Seminar
Sponsor: Association for Computing Machinery, Washington DC Chapter
Cosponsor: Computer Society
Place: George Washington University, Washington, DC
More Info: This two-day course will be held in a GWU computer lab, so space is limited. A six-page brochure, detailed information and online registration are available at
www.dcacm.org/pd.
Contact: Tom Starai at starai@ieee.org.
Diamond Stories
A modern coal burning steam locomotive could reduce U.S. Class I railroad fuel cost by over 65 percent. In 2006, U.S. Class I railroads burned 4.2 billion gallons of diesel fuel, costing $8.1 billion. The dollar value of coal that would accomplish the same amount of work is less $3.0 billion. This is a cost savings of more than $5 billion per year. If the U.S. Class I railroads converted to steam locomotives, the cost savings would pay for the locomotives and servicing facilities in as little as five years.
The modern steam locomotive would be a reciprocating steam locomotive but would be vastly different and improved from the types of steam locomotives used by the railroads in years past. This presentation will focus on the changes in technology, the use characteristics of the new type of locomotives, and the economics.
John T. Rhodes is a transportation analyst for R.L. Banks & Associates in Arlington, VA. Before joining RLBA in April 2007, he was a transportation aide for the Fairfax Connector Bus Systems. He supported the service planning function with ridership data and schedule adherence analysis.
Rhodes travelled extensively by rail with his parents in his youth. This developed into a lifelong interest in trains and transportation. He received a Bachelor of Professional Studies from the Culinary Institute in 2003, and is now pursuing a master's degree in transportation policy, operations, and logistics at George Mason University. This presentation is based on his thesis topic.
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In the U.S., more than 2,000 workers receive electrical burns every year. Even though NFPA 70E in 1995 and NEC in 2002 required protection of workers working on or in close proximity of energized conductors and equipment, only in the past few years have most of the practicing electrical engineers begun performing arc flash analysis and designing electrical facilities to protect workers against arc flash hazards.
The presentation will discuss regulatory and technical requirements and means and methods to reduce arc flash hazards. The presentation will conclude that arc flash hazard to personnel responsible for operation, maintenance, and testing of electrical facilities is real, and is going to be a major design consideration in the design of electrical facilities.
Kanu R. Shah founded Shah & Associates, Inc. in 1977 and served as president until 2002. He is now the chief engineer responsible for both technical and management aspects of all the projects undertaken by the firm. He has more than 40 years of experience in teaching, research, and design of electrical facilities throughout the world.
Dr. Shah is a Registered Professional Engineer in Maryland, Michigan, Virginia, Florida, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia. He has published more than 45 technical papers. In 1993, one of his papers, Grounding Transformer Applications and Associated Protection Schemes, was awarded the Ralph H. Lee First Paper Prize Award by the IEEE Industry Applications Society.
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