RMCEMC June 2007

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Location: College Hill Library, room L-107, 3645 W. 112th Ave., Westminster, CO. Directions maybe found at: http://www.frontrange.edu/FRCCTemplates/FRCC7.aspx?id=109.

Time: 6:00 p.m. pizza social, 7:00 p.m. meeting starts.

The June chapter meeting will focus on career development by featuring Dr. Joan Mitchell, IBM Fellow and IEEE Fellow, as our speaker and by encouraging members to upgrade their membership to Senior member if qualified. Dr. Mitchell will discuss mentoring based on her recently book, Straight Talk About Taking Charge of Your Career. To encourage IEEE members to upgrade their membership to Senior Member or to join the EMC Society, the first 10 IEEE members that submit completed applications will receive a free copy of Dr. Mitchell's book. The meeting will be held Tuesday, June 12 with the social hour starting at 6:00PM  and with the meeting starting at 7:00PM. The meeting location will be the normal place, room L107, College Hill Library.  Please RSVP to Stefen Munford (munfords@comcast.net) if you plan to attend and join us for pizza.

SENIOR MEMBERSHIP:  The criteria for elevation to Senior Member grade is a candidate who is an engineer, scientist, educator, technical executive or originator in IEEE-designated fields.  The candidate shall have been in professional practice for at least ten years and shall have shown significant performance over a period of at least five of those years. More details on membership elevation maybe found at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/rab/md/smelev.htm. You should complete the application form before arriving at the meeting on line so the completion of the three references by IEEE Senior Members or Fellows is the last step to complete. At least three Senior Members or Fellows will be at the meeting to fill out the reference form. You should bring three printed copies of your resume along with a long paragraph highlighting your recent technical accomplishments or significant job accomplishments to help the IEEE Senior Members complete the reference form. Also bring both files on a USB thumb drive so it can be loaded on the laptops of your references for quick entry.

MEMBERSHIP SPECIAL:  To be a full member of Rocky Mountain Chapter of Electromagnetic Compatibility (RMCEMC) Society, you need to join both IEEE and EMC Society. You can sign up at http://services1.ieee.org/membersvc/member/mem_intro.htm.  The actual entry pages for IEEE membership are on a secure web connection, and the signup process is fast (takes only about 10 minutes).  Remember, membership does provide funding to the local chapter to reserve meeting locations and cover expenses. Besides, you don't want to miss the great articles found in the IEEE and EMC Society publications this year ("IEEE Spectrum", "IEEE Transactions on EMC", and "EMC Society Newsletter"). The mid-year cost of 2007 membership is only $80.50 for IEEE plus $13 for EMC society.  If you complete the application online at the meeting or bring a copy of a recent membership receipt (since our last meeting), you will receive a copy of Dr. Mitchell's book if you're one of the first 10 to check in at the meeting.

The speaker's biography

Dr. Joan L. Mitchell graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in physics in 1969. She received her M.S. and PhD. degrees in physics from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1971 and 1974, respectively. She joined the Exploratory Printing Technologies group at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center immediately after completing her PhD. She was a manager there for nine years. She then worked for three years in IBM Marketing before returning to the IBM Research Division in 1991 to work again in the Image Technologies group as a manager. From 1987 through 1994 she was a member of the ISO and CCITT international Joint Photographic Experts Group which standardized the color image JPEG compression algorithm. She was the final editor of JPEG Part 1 and in 1992 co-authored a book about JPEG. In 1994 she took a two year leave of absence from IBM. During her leave she co-authored a book on MPEG, consulted for IBM Burlington, and was a visiting professor at the University of Illinois for six months. She returned to the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center as a Research Staff Member in the Image Applications Department. In 1999 she came to Boulder, CO on temporary assignment with the IBM Printing Systems Division and transferred there permanently in 2002.

Since 1976 she has worked in the field of image processing and data compression. She received IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards for Two-Dimensional Data Compression in 1978, for Teleconferencing in 1982, for Image View Facility in 1985, for Resistive Ribbon Thermal Transfer Printing Technology in 1985, for Speed-Optimized Software Implementations of Image Compression Algorithms in 1991, and for the Q-coder in 1991. In 2001 she was awarded an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for Algorithms for Improved Printer Performance Transferred to IBM's Printing Systems Division. She was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology in 1997 and became an IEEE Fellow in 1999. She is a member of APS, IEEE, IS&T, and Sigma Xi and co-inventor on 78 patents. Joan is a PADI Dive Master, holding a personal patent for a wet suit.  She was made an IBM Fellow in 2001, initiated a Master Inventor program for PSD in Boulder and become a Master Inventor herself. In 2004, she was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering.  Recently she was awarded the Thirty-Third Invention Achievement Plateau Award.  Joan’s book on mentoring, Straight Talk About Taking Charge Of Your Career, has just been published.  Joan will retire from IBM on May 31, 2007 and will begin working for the newly formed InfoPrint Solutions Company as a Fellow on June 1, 2007.