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IEEE
Orlando Section Monthly
Welcome
to the IEEE Orlando Section web site.
Established in 1959 and serving
over 1,400 members in
Orange,
Osceola,
Seminole,
Lake
and Sumter
counties
Vol.
XLII 
No. 01
January
2009
www.ieee.org/orlando
Holiday Greetings from IEEE Orlando Section
Dear Fellow IEEE Members,
Holiday greetings from your professional home, IEEE Orlando Section. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and
your family! We really appreciate your support and participation in Section activities in year 2008, and ask for
your continued support and involvements in year 2009, the year of bull in Chinese Zodiac.
As an IEEE member residing in central Florida, you are a member of IEEE Orlando Section; if you are a member of one
or more IEEE societies, you are also a member of their chapters within Orlando Section. Orlando Section and its
Chapters are here to serve you IEEE members of
Central Florida, and striking to be your professional home through
your life cycles, whether you are a student member, a freshly minted engineer or well established in your career.
https://www.ieee.org/orlando is your professional home on the Web. Both the Section and Chapters hold periodic
social and technical events throughout the year. Please visit Web site for most up-to-date information about your
very own Orlando Section.
On May 13th, 2009, IEEE will turn 125 year old, and on the very same day, Orlando Section will turn
50 years old. To celebrate the 125th anniversary of IEEE and
the 50th year anniversary of the Orlando Section, we will have celebratory
events throughout the year, in particular, February through May. We solicit your ideas and
contributions for these upcoming events.
If you have not renewed your IEEE membership for 2009 yet, please do so at your earliest convenience. Don't forget
to add one society membership when you renew.
Happy Holiday!
Donghui Wu, Ph.D. Section Chair 2009
and Orlando Section Executive Committee
New
Year's Resolution for Orlando Section
Members
1) If you have not already renewed, please
renew your IEEE membership for 2009 as soon
as possible.
2)
If you are not now a member of an IEEE
technical society, please consider joining at
least one technical society in 2009
based on your interests.
3)
Reward yourself through the Member-Get-a-Member
(MGM) Program by recruiting your technical
friends and colleagues to become new
members in the IEEE.
[Remember,
when completing member application forms,
they must provide your name and IEEE
membership number to identify you as the
recruiting member.]
For
further details, please go to the IEEE
website and depress the Membership
tab.
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Alert - Beware of Bogus IEEE Emails
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users may have received messages that appear
to be from a legitimate IEEE source asking
for confirmation of authentication
information or credentials.
These email messages are not from the IEEE
and are suspected to be phishing scams,
please delete them. If included in the
messages, please do not open any attachments
or click on any URLs.
These types of email messages typically
attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive
member information by claiming that such
information is required for account
verification, to prevent account termination
or some other course of action in connection
with IEEE services.
As a policy, the IEEE will never ask its
members to provide or confirm sensitive
information via email.
To read some example of bogus email
messages, please visit https://eleccomm.ieee.org/Special_Alert.shtml
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Orlando
Section Executive Committee
Meeting
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Date:
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Tuesday,
January 13th, 2009
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Time:
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6:30
- 7:00 p.m. Social and
Refreshments
7:00 - 8:00 p.m. ExCom Meeting
8:00 - 9:00 p.m.
"Introduction of
Computational Intelligence"
Speaker: Donghui Wu
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Place: |
Orlando
Campus of DeVry University at
Millennium Mall
Meeting Room will be posted at the
entrance.
4000 Millenia Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32839
407/345-2800
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Cost:
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Free
for all IEEE members and Non-IEEE
members.
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Contact:
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Donghui
Wu
321-281-4561 - Office
321-946-0648 - Mobile
www.ieee.org/orlando
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Orlando Section Volunteers Retreat and Training (Saturday Brunch)
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Date:
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Saturday,
January TBA 2009
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Time:
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10:30
am - 1:30 pm Saturday Brunch and
Training
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Place: |
TBD, will be sent with confirmation of your RSVP |
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Cost:
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Free for all IEEE members and Guest |
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Agenda:
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Volunteers Retreat and Training will cover responsibilities and resources for each section and chapter positions.
Current and past Region 3 and Section officers will be on-hand to provide information and answer questions. It's a great opportunities for past, current and future volunteers to network and contribute to the section activities,
in particular the upcoming Orlando Section's 50th anniversary. |
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RSVP:
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Donghui
Wu
321-281-4561 - Office
321-946-0648 - Mobile
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EDS
Chapter Meeting:
"System
level and hot plug-in ESD specs
and solutions"
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Date:
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Friday,
January 23rd, 2009
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Time:
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12:30
pm - 2:00 pm
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Place: |
University
of Central Florida
4000 Central Florida Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32816
Harris Engineering Corporation HEC
(ENG III), Room 101 |
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Speaker: |
Dr.
Vladislav Vashchenko, Manager,
National Semiconductor - Abstract
& Biography |
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Cost:
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Free
for all IEEE members and Non-IEEE
members.
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Contact:
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Slavica
Malobabic
321-609-1851
407-823-5930 -
Fax
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EDS
Chapter Meetings in February
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Date:
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Friday,
February 6th, 2009
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Time:
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12:30
pm - "Quality
& Reliability Issues With
Counterfeit ICs"
3:30 pm
- "Real-World
Charged Board Event (CBE) ESD
Failures"
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Place: |
University
of Central Florida
4000 Central Florida Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32816
Harris Engineering Corporation HEC
(ENG III), Room 101 |
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Speaker: |
Andrew
Olney, Director of Reliability,
Product Analysis, Calibration
& ESD at Analog Devices, Inc.
in Wilmington, Massachusetts
- Abstract
& Biography |
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Cost:
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Free
for all IEEE members and Non-IEEE
members.
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Contact:
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Slavica
Malobabic
321-609-1851
407-823-5930 -
Fax
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System,
Man, Cybernetics Society
Distinguished Lecture:
"Machine Learning, Pattern
Classification and Neural
Networks"
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Date:
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Tuesday,
February 17th, 2009
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Time:
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TBD, most likely 2:00pm or 4:00pm
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Place: |
Harris Engineering Center
University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida, USA |
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Speaker: |
Dr. Dianel Yeung, danyeung@ieee.org
President of IEEE System, Man, Cybernetics Society |
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Cost:
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Free
for all IEEE members and Non-IEEE
members.
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Contact:
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Donghui
Wu
321-281-4561 - Office
321-946-0648 -
Mobile
Dr. William
(Bill)
Hortos
407-876-4039 -
Office
407-401-3996 -
Cell
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Sponsors:
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Sponsored by IEEE Orlando Section
IEEE Orlando Section Joint Chapter of Control Systems/Robotics and Automation/Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
System, Man, Cybernetics Society Distinguished Lecturer Program
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Orlando
Section 2009 Officers
On
Dec. 2nd at the December 2008 Section ExCom meeting, according to the final
election results, Orlando Section 2009 Officers are elected as
follows:
- Chair
- Dr.
Donghui Wu
Vice Chair - Dr. Xun Gong
Treasurer - Dr. Kalpathy B. Sundaram
Secretary - Mr. Michael Orlovsky
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- Chapter Officers are also up for election for year 2009. Various Section Committee Chair Positions for
the Year 2009 are open to be filled as well. Please send nomination or self-nomination to
Dr. Donghui
Wu
IEEE Florida Council 2008 Awards
Results
IEEE Florida Council which includes all Florida Sections announced its annual
2008 award recipients:
1. Outstanding Engineer Award:
Dr. Donghui Wu, Orlando Section
2. Outstanding Engineering Educator Award
Dr. Paul Schnitzler, Florida West Coast Section
3. Outstanding Service Award
Dr. G. Thomas Bellarmine, Tallahassee Section-
Student
Branch Members Needed
Students are needed to volunteer to assist
at the RFID Conference at Disney World,
April 27-28, 2009.
https://www.ieee-rfid.org/2009/index.html
In return for their services, they
will get benefits:
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listen to technical sessions
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attend welcome reception if you work at
least four hours
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walk the trade show floor
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FREE proceedings CD if you work a
full day
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opportunity to network with authors and
non-authors
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Complimentary registration and lunch, for
4 hours' work
There will be a mandatory orientation each
morning at 8:00 a.m.
Students will also assist
in organizing and staffing a IEEE
membership desk or booth.
Contact George McClure for
further information or to sign up to
participate:
407-647-5092
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- Orlando
Section 50th Anniversary Celebration
- Call for proposals/suggestions/articles and sponsorship
The IEEE Orlando Section was established on May 13th 1959, and 2009 will be its 50th anniversary. The very same
day is also the 125th Anniversary of IEEE. The Section is planning a series of major celebration events. We are
calling for proposals for celebration events, activities, suggestions, ideas, and other contributions for the big
celebration. Currently we are planning an exhibitions showing the 50-year history of
the Orlando Section, and publication of a collection of articles from former and current Section members. We are collecting ideas,
suggestions, and possible exhibition items, e.g. photos, stories about major events or prominent section members,
etc. Articles and other contributions from former section officers are particular welcome and encouraged. Please
send your responses and comments to Donghui
Wu
Presently the Section is planning to have an exhibition and banquet at
the Orlando Science Center on May 13th, 2009 to
celebrate the 125th anniversary of IEEE and
the 50th anniversary of the Orlando Section. At the banquet the section will
also recognize section members' achievements in its 50-year history, and present awards to outstanding and/or
long-time section members.
The section is also call for financial sponsorship for this event. Sponsorship level as following:
- $2500 Platinum Sponsor
- $1500 Gold Sponsor
- $1000 Silver Sponsor
- $500 Bronze Sponsor
Sponsors will be able to setup booth or place post-board at the exhibit and banquet, or sponsor other items
throughout the event. Please check out with your employer for possible sponsorship. IEEE will hold events
throughout the year to celebrate its 125th anniversary. For details please contact
Donghui
Wu
or Udaya Silva
IEEE
Life Member Affinity Group
The IEEE Orlando Section is looking for IEEE
Life Members who are interested in forming a
group to provide an opportunity for
socializing at meetings and also for giving
back to the profession through volunteer
activities and projects. Please contact Dr.
Dave Flinchbaugh at
Member
Profile
The IEEE Orlando Section Monthly is proud to
feature a distinguished member each month in
the Section's Profile. If you have
contributed greatly to your profession
and/or to our ranks of the IEEE we would
like to hear from you.
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in Touch
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