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Dayton Section Meeting Tue Oct 14, 6:30 – 8:00 PM The executive committee meeting will be held at the Kettering Center, 2nd Flr Conf. Rm (next to the Engineer’s Club 140 E. Monument St. Downtown Dayton.

Chair Corner The IEEE Dayton Section has an impressive and strong history. NAECON 2008, brought this history back to the area, and will continue next year, 21 July to 23 July 2009. We had very positive feedback on the use of the Knowledge Now Modules, offered by IEEE. We will continue providing sections at both the University of Dayton and Wright State University until December 2008. In November, we will have the Fall Lecture Series, at the Engineering Club with details soon to be released on our website. For our members, I would like to quote Wikipedia, on a very recent event about the Grasshopper escapement clock, at Cambridge University. My feeling is that the Dayton area has “many” inventions and inventors, and recognition by our universities is just beginning. The IEEE can contribute to this recognition; I believe it will be in documenting our history, and recognizing “outstanding” individuals. Consider NCR, and how the mechanical cash register enhanced the history of Dayton. This is only one example of Dayton’s contributions. To this end, we’re looking for more IEEE members to become actively involved as committee members with both the Section and our local Charters. Please email either myself, or the committee members with questions and suggestions! It is the hope of the IEEE Dayton Section, to be able to recognize these types of individuals, every year, within our Dayton Section, thus we created the IEEE NAECON Research Visionary Award. In 2008, Professor Krishna Pasala’s family received the award for his contributions to radar and electromagnetics. On now back to the story on the Grasshopper escapement clock, an item that even Neil Armstrong studied as an engineering student before his Apollo days. The Grasshopper escapement clock, was the first clock successfully designed that solved the problem of longitude tracking, for ship navigation, thus advancing England’s naval technology.

IEEE Sections Congress 2008 Report By: Erik Blasch IEEE members from around the globe met to discuss, share, and generate ideas to enhance services and capabilities the IEEE members. The forum consisted of three parts: (1) regional meetings, (2) breakout sessions, and (3) recommendations for the IEEE leadership staff to act on. All materials from the conference are either available on the Sections Congress 08 website, http://www.ieee.org/web/services/mps/sc08/about.html, or from the Dayton IEEE President Dr. Ewing or the IEEE Dayton Section Representative: Dr. Erik Blasch. REGION 2 MEETING Region 2 activities and discussions at the Sections Congress revolved around retaining membership, supporting Chapter activities, and discussion on new services available to members. Some highlights from the Dayton section included (A) reporting on NAECON, (B) section involvement in supporting the community with mentoring summer high school, college, and graduate students, and (C) the section use of the contemporary Knowledge Now Modules. The Region 2 board was pleased that Dayton was championing a conference and was very interested in the feedback and use of the Knowledge Now modules. Highlights from the others sections included (1) a discussion from the Youngstown Section hands-on demos from industry, (2) the Pittsburgh Section on classes for the PE exam and Robotics contests, and (3) the Delaware has monthly tours at industry. (4) The Washington-DC-Baltimore IEEE area, which has more members than the rest of Region 2, discussed a host of activities along with their IEEE newsletter listing many outreach programs. The location of the Region 2 information is posted at REGION 2 HOMEPAGE: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/2/ MEETINGS: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/2/R2M/Meeting_menu.html DISCUSSION of region 2 at the Sections Congress http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/2/R2M/2008/September_2008/index_meeting_0809.html In general, support for Women in Engineering (WIE), Graduates of the last Decade (GOLD) and the student activities were discussed. For example Dr. Shreek Mandayam and his student Ryan Fillman of Rowan University have been running an annual Ethics Contest (supported by Region 2) that has received position attention and mirroring at other regions. BREAKOUT SESSIONS 2) The various membership options and services from IEEE were featured in the breakout sessions http://www.ieee.org/web/services/mps/sc08/breakout-sessions.html From the website, there are three tracks (1) Membership, (2) Section Management, and (3) Section activities. For the membership, the Member and Geographic Activities (MGA) Board focused on recruiting and retaining members through lifecycle benefits of a products and associations in the IEEE professional organization. If you are interested in becoming an officer for the IEEE Dayton Section, you can browse the topics on Section Management. The exciting track is the various activities, talents, and cooperation IEEE members bring to the community. Various ideas were presented to coordinate with industry for learning current engineering needs and solutions. There are a host of successful section support to student activities to interest and encourage students to pursue engineering. I was impressed with some sections taking on Humanitarian support to their local communities – especially in restoring and repairing electrical power. Other professional discussions on ethics, international, and standards were presented. Through the days of the break-out sections, there were many interesting topics discussed all motivated by volunteers. RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPROVING IEEE At the sections congress, each region drafts 4 topics for improvement which are sent to the board for editing, refinement, and consolidation. At the end of the meeting, the final list is voted on by a Section representatives and the IEEE board should attack them in order (or at least the ones that are easier to act on). It is exciting that the Dayton IEEE Section was well represented. From the minutes (http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/2/R2M/2008/September_2008/index_meeting_0809.html), the Dayton section championed: “Right size MDL: IEEE should develop packages which allow members to purchase defined quantities of IEEE content without regard to periodicity. These packages should also be available in smaller quantities than existing options. Implementation by 4Q2009 Erik Blasch, Dayton” We are happy to announce that of the many proposed improvements, the Sections Congress 2008 voted this as the number 5 (of 30) things that IEEE should address, report, and act on. The other top 5 were (in order) Group Recommendation Member Benefits Every member to have an annual entitlement to a limited number of free IEEE Xplore downloads. Business/Financial Operations Payment Flexibility - Members, especially students and those in developing countries who do not have credit cards, need flexible payment methods * regardless of location and banking methods * supporting aggregated payments in local currency. * minimizing transaction costs and processing overheads. Member Growth & Development Payment Flexibility - Members, especially students and those in developing countries who do not have credit cards, need flexible payment methods * regardless of location and banking methods * supporting aggregated payments in local currency. * minimizing transaction costs and processing overheads. IT Operations The MGA Board to assign staff to develop, by June 2009, a user-friendly system and support to enable Sections, Chapters and Affinity Groups to deliver, at low cost, teleconferencing, collaborative technologies, and webinars as a free member benefit. Member Growth & Development For digital libraries: develop additional, smaller tiered packages (10, 20 items, etc.) which allow members to purchase defined quantities of digital content without expiration. Provide members permanent electronic access to previously purchased content. Timeframe: 4Q 2009 SUMMARY Many exciting ideas and resources were compiled at the IEEE Sections Congress 2008. The past successes and future ideas of IEEE services will only increase with active volunteers helping the professional organization. John Dentler will be ending his 2-year volunteer Region 2 Presidency and Bill Walsh from PA will be assuming the role for the next 2 years and welcomes any input from the Dayton Section on ways to continue to provide services to the members.

IEEE Dayton Section Hosts NAECON 2008 www.naecon.org On 16-18 July 08, the IEEE Dayton Section hosted the National Aerospace Electronics Conference at the Holiday Inn in Fairborn, Ohio. Banquet Keynote Speaker Dr. Pieter A. Frick Oakland University Dr. Robert L. Ewing, Air Force Research Laboratory, Dr. Hoda S. Abdel-Aty-Zohdy, Oakland University and Ms. Barbara L. Frantom, Air Force Research Laboratory were the General Co-Chairs. Dr. Gary B. Lamont, Air Force Institute of Technology and Dr. Chris Papachristou, Case Western University were the Technical Co-chairs. Ms. Pasala accepting the Research Visionary Award for her father, Dr. Krishna Pasala NAECON, started in 1948, is the oldest and premier IEEE Conference representing research in all aspects of theory, design, and applications of aerospace systems and sensors. With over a 100 paper presentations and close to 200 people in attendance, NAECON 2008 explored new research and contributions for core intelligent aerospace sensor integration in the following areas: • Innovative Aerospace Technology, • Intelligent Sensory Exploitation and • Wireless & Information Interoperability. The conference began a series of, “NAECON Grand Challenge Problems” in the area of surveillance with the next NAECON topic challenge, “Signals of Opportunity”, to be jointly scheduled with the Nanotechnology Conference in April 2009, where several finalists will be selected for both scholarship awards and presentation at NAECON in July 2009. The NAECON conference is sponsored by the IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Society, and the IEEE Dayton Section. Dr. Krishna Pasala received the Research Visionary Award for 2008, representing innovative contributions to the field of radar processing. Catty Wampus & the Beseda Dancers Perform at the NAECON ‘08 Banquet For the NAECON banquet the well known Catty Wampus band featuring Celtic violins and Beseda Dancers from the Dayton area performed. The Beseda Dancers have performed at the World and presented an informal instructional polka – where anyone in the audience can participate (and the Catty Wampus members did great as well as the guest speaker!). We thank Charles, Barbara, Oksana, Audra Cerny Ron, Ryan, Heather, DJ, Allison, Kyle Kline Jim Ward Helena Gerrard. Highlights of NAECON 2008 Keynote Speaker: Joe Sciabica, Executive Director, AF Research Laboratory “Universal Situation Awareness Layered Sensing a “compelling vision”” Banquet Speaker, Pieter A. Frick, Oakland University “Some Near Term Challenges and A little Nostalgia” Plenary Speaker: Paul McManamon “Unexploited Observables, revisited, in context of Performance Based Sensing & Layered Sensing” Plenary Speaker: Joel C. Sercel, California Inst. of Tech. “Technical Methods of Intelligence for the 21st Century” Tutorial Topics (Chahira Hopper, AF Research Lab., Chair) • Terahertz and Near-Millimeter-wave Technologies and Aerospace Applications • Software Defined Receivers for GPS • Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks • Information Fusion Systems Evaluation Session Chairs: Collaborative & Cognitive Processing; Bill McQuay, AF Research Laboratory Computational Modeling; Seng Hong, AF Research Laboratory; Robert Penno, University of Dayton Innovative Sensing; Frank Hopkins, AF Research Laboratory Reconfigurable Computing; Kerry Hill and Al Scarpelli, AF Research Laboratory Information Fusion; Kevin L. Priddy, AF Laboratory Layered Sensing & Autonomous UAVs; Charles Cerny, AF Research Laboratory Image Processing; Yuan Zheng, The Ohio State University Wireless Exploratory Intelligent Sensory; Chahira M. Hopper, AF Research Laboratory Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute (DAGSI) Presentations/ Posters; Dr. Elizabeth Downie The NAECON Executive Steering Committee was formed to provide oversight and technical direction for future NAECON conferences. NAECON Executive Steering Committee met on Wednesday night (16th July) to review plans for NAECON 2009, The General Chair of the Steering Committee is Maj General (Ret) Lou Ferraro, Dayton Coalition with Steering Committee Members; Elizabeth Downie, Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute, Odgers Everett, Greentree Group, Tim Gaffney, Aviation Consultant, Shane Imwalle, Woolpert LLP, Bob May, Senior Executive Service Board of Trustees, Larrell Walters, Director of Technology Partnerships for IDCAST, and Joe Zeis, Dayton Development Coalition and Misoon Mah, AF Office of Scientific Research.

Expert Now! Free training We will schedule “kick-off” for the first of a series of the “Expert Now Modules” for the May Day Festival at Wright State University, upcoming dates will be determined by the interest from the Dayton Section and the University of Dayton student chapters for 2008. Learn More

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Dayton Community Loses International Scholar
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Professor Krishna Pasala, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton passed away recently ... More
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IEEE Computer Society Offers Free Software to Student Members

All IEEE Student Members who join the IEEE Computer Society will automatically be eligible to download development software from Microsoft, including Vista Business Edition, Visual Studio Team System, Expression Web Designer, Project 2007, Visio 2007, and Windows Server 2003. Students will be emailed an MSDN user account with login information after completing an IEEE Computer Society application.

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IEEE Dayton Chair Banquet

IEEE Dayton Chair Banquet with a wonderful introduction to Scottish Country dancing by the Flying Ghillies Scottish Country Dancers of Dayton, Ohio.

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Dayton Section Awards Banquet

For the IEEE Dayton Section Awards Banquet, we have retired Major General Louis C. Ferrano, Jr. as the keynote speaker, highlighting work from his recent book. Maj General (retired) Ferrano is the author of the book, "The Right Side of Leadership", which is rooted in personal right and good core values and character. It is a way of life. The Right Side of Leadership shows us how we can have solid core values as the foundation for all our choices and actions. Based on years of data gathering, study and experience, The Right Side of Leadership sheds light on how right and good decisions can be made consistently.

His keynote speech contains the information needed to challenge, fine-tune, and strengthen your leadership values and skills. Basic management fundamentals and educational information impacting today's leaders will be analyzed. An in depth analysis of historical changes in American culture that impacts individual core values, character, and decision making processes of leaders will be the focus of the talk. At Cornell University, during his undergraduate studies, he was one of the rare athletes who participated in both football and crew. His freshman crew was National Champions. He started Ferraro Consulting in 2003 and is active in community affairs in the Dayton Region in Ohio. He has long been interested in leadership. See where you and your IEEE leadership exist within the Ferraro's framework of The Right Side of Leadership

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