Roundtable Discussion on Marketing
Sponsor: National Capital Area Consultants' Network
Time: Dinner: 6:00 pm; meeting 7:30 pm
Place: Dinner location: Seven Seas Restaurant, 8503 Baltimore Blvd. (Route 1), College Park, Md. Meeting location: University of Maryland, College Park Campus, A.V. Williams Engineering Building, Room 2460
More info: We will focus on methods of marketing our services and getting more business.
Directions: From Capital Beltway/Interstate 495: Exit at Route 1 south. Restaurant is 1.5 miles on left. Continue south on Route 1 and turn right onto Campus Drive, then immediate right onto Paint Branch Drive, 1.5 blocks to A.V. Williams Bldg. on right after intersection with Stadium Drive. Park on left in Lot G.
Contact: Geoff Howe at 703-507-5151 or geoffhowe@ieee.org
Thursday, January 22, 2004
Election Meeting for Information Theory Society
Sponsor: Information Theory Society (ITS), Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Place: Royal Jade Chinese Restaurant, Greenbelt, Md. (301-441-8880)
Time: Dinner: 6:00 pm; elections start at 7:00 pm
Directions: From 295 south, take exit for Greenbelt Rd. At end of ramp turn left; turn left at stop light. This is Greenbelt Rd. At about 1 mile turn right on Hanover Pkwy. Take first left into parking lot. From 295 north, take exit for Greenbelt Rd. At about 1/3 mile, turn right on Hanover Pkwy. Take first left into parking lot. Royal Jade is on the first floor of mid-rise building at the corner of Hanover and Greenbelt roads.
Contact: Call Greg Strutt for further information at 301-645-0380.
Thursday, January 22, 2004
Homeland Security-How It Affects Your Business
Sponsor: IEEE PACE
Time: 7:00 to 9:00 pm.
Place: Venable LLP, 575 7th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. (202-344-4800)
Directions: 7th and F streets across from Gallery Place Metro and MCI Center
More info: Light refreshments will be served.
Contact: Edward Gordon at ed@edgor.com.
Diamond Story
Congress has passed important homeland security laws that impact the business and law of government contracts, immigration, finance, labor, intellectual property, transportation, and the environment. Each of the laws has required a large number of regulatory changes by a host of federal agencies. The changes have created new opportunities in the form of government contracts to implement new security responsibilities, but they also have created compliance and liability issues. In light of these developments, attorneys in the Venables homeland security practice group will be discussing the new laws as they relate to the business and industry of the electrical engineer. In particular, attorneys with experience in the fields of government contracts, immigration, finance, labor, intellectual property, and commerce will give brief executive-style summaries of the practical impact of the new laws and regulations in the field of electrical engineering. The summaries will be directed to business managers and mid-level engineers.
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Physics of Left-handed Media and Their Use in Electronic Devices and Circuits
Sponsor: Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter, Antennas and Propagation Society (APS)
Speaker: Dr. Clifford M. Krowne
Time: Refreshments and social: 6:30-7:00 pm; lecture: 7:00-8:00 pm
Place: Etenna Corporation, 6100-C Frost Place, Laurel, Md.
Directions: From Baltimore take I-95 South, take the MD-198 WEST exit, exit 33B, toward Burtonsville, merge onto Sandy Spring Rd/MD-198 west.
From Virginia take I-395 North, take I-295 South exit on the left, merge onto I-295 South, take Pennsylvania Ave. exit on the left, merge onto Southeast Freeway, take Pennsylvania Ave. exit, merge onto Pennsylvania Ave. SE, turn left onto Fairlawn Ave. SE, turn slightly left to take the DC-295 North ramp, merge onto DC-295 North, take I-95 North/I-495 North exit toward Baltimore/College Park, merge onto Capital Beltway/I-495 North/I-95 North, take I-95 North toward Baltimore, take MD-198 West exit 33B toward Burtonsville, merge onto Sandy Spring Rd/MD-198 west.
From Washington, take 295 North; take I-95 North/I-495 North exit toward Baltimore/ College Park, merge onto Capital Beltway/I-495 North/I-95 North, take I-95 North toward Baltimore, take MD-198 West exit 33B toward Burtonsville, merge onto Sandy Spring Rd/MD-198 West.
From 198 West, turn left onto Sweitzer Lane, go straight to a four-way stop sign, proceed through stop sign and turn right onto Frost Pl. Proceed to the building's far left door - Suite C.
From Tyson's Corner, Va., take I-495 N/Capital Beltway toward Rockville/ Baltimore. Merge onto I-95 N via exit number 27 toward Baltimore/ New York. Merge onto Sandy Spring Rd/MD-198 W via exit number 33B toward Burtonsville. Turn left onto Sweitzer Lane. Turn right onto Frost Place.
Cost: Free
Contact: RSVP (requested) to dc_aps@yahoo.com. Contact is Shawn Rogers, 240-456-4146 or srogers@etenna.com (office)
Diamond Story
This talk will address three facets of left-handed media (LHM): (1) basic physical principles, (2) basic electronic aspects, and (3) occurring or envisioned applications. Beginning with a look into the origin of the interest in LHM and the attendant physics, we will discuss why these media are variously referred to in the literature and examine how LHM is related to the concept of backward waves. We will consider what basic electronic properties can be expected, in the context of fundamental behavior such as propagation characteristics and field distributions in canonical waveguiding structures in hybrid or monolithic formats. Finally, we will cover different uses of LHM and backward wave arrangements of materials or elements to form circuits with improved, somewhat different, or completely new functions, and future applications will be discussed.
Clifford M. Krowne holds a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of California at Berkeley and Davis, the masters degree from the University of California at Los Angeles, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. He has worked in the Microelectronics Division of Lockheed Missiles and Space Company in Sunnyvale, Ca., as a member of the solid state technical staff of the Watkins-Johnson Company in Palo Alto, Ca., and as a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Since 1982, he has been with the Microwave Technology Branch, Electronics Science and Technology Division of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., studying microwave and millimeter-wave properties of active and passive solid state devices.
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