WHAT'S
HAPPENING IN THE IEEE
THE NEWSLETTER OF
THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL
AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC
July 2004
ARBN 078 576 495
http:// http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/s_australia/
Chairman’s Column
Welcome
Welcome to
Andrew Parfitt (Chair 1998) who has returned to
Welcome also to Shane Cloude FIEEE, who has taken up the
recently created position of DSTO Professor in Microwave Radar, in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the
IEEE Regional Activities Board
Michael,
I tried to
call you to give you the good news, but either couldn't get through or there
was no answer. So, on behalf of the IEEE Regional Activities Board, I
want to congratulate the
You will be contacted by Regional Activities Staff to
arrange an appropriate venue for the presentation of the Award.
Congratulations again to your Section,
Marc
Marc Apter
Vice President Regional Activities
IEEE now has 304 Sections worldwide of which 144 qualify as
Small. Region 10 has 47 Sections of which 21 are qualified as Small. Details of
this program can be found at:
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/rab/rab/RABARC-Manual/Sect04-8.html
A Small Section is one "whose total membership (including Students) shall be 500 or less as of 31 December of the prior year." The program is quite new and previous awardees can be found at
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/rab/rab/RABARC-Manual/Appendix-E-4.htm
IEEE
Technical Activities Board
Dr John Vig, TAB VP‑elect (TAB VP in 2005) advises
that the IEEE Technical Activities Board "Colloquium" is planning to
visit
IEEE South
The IEEE South
Australia Section was chartered on
The Publications Chair and Newsletter Editor positions remain
vacant. If you can assist, please don’t hesitate to contact me. The Section
Committee relies on volunteers, and their new ideas to keep IEEE in
Dr Michael E. Evans
Chair, IEEE South Australia Section
July, 2004
5th Biennial Asian Control
Conference
Melbourne, 20-23 July 2004
Sponsored by IEEE (SA, NSW, QLD), IEAust,
U. of Melbourne
2004
IEEE Distinguished Lecture
Dr Robin Batterham AO, Australia's Chief Scientist, will deliver the
2004 IEEE South Australia Section Distinguished Lecture. The lecture and dinner
is scheduled for, Friday, 12 Nov 04, in "The Crystal Room",
Stamford Plaza Hotel.
A formal title is yet to be agreed but Dr Batterham has been invited " to report on [his] impressions of [his] second term as
Chief Scientist", and what he sees as "the important strategic issues
for Australian science and engineering, and how South Australia should play its
part in this vision" ... and address "the particular contribution
that DSTO should make to the national goals."
Put this date in your diaries! We look forward to his address.
Section
Committee Members for 2004
Officers
Chair: michael.evans@ieee.org
Vice Chair: zia.ahmed@ieee.org
Secretary: timferris@ieee.org
Treasurer: andrew.piotrowski@ieee.org
IP Chair bevan.bates@ieee.org
Porfolios
Membership Dev. andrew.udina@dsto.defence.gov.au
Professional Activity bruce.vyden@dsto.defence.gov.au
Awards zia.ahmed@ieee.org
Education Activity hgreen@ieee.org
Publications vacant
WebPage Damon.Couper@defence.gov.au
Newsletter vacant
Student Activities s.gordon@ieee.org
Chapters/Affinity Groups
SigProc/Comms arek.dadej@unisa.edu.au
AP/MTT hedley.hansen@dsto.defence.gov.au
Control/AES mark.pszczel@dsto.defence.gov.au
Computer anup.raghavan@motorola.com
Information Theory Lars.Rasmussen@unisa.edu.au
GOLD andrew.piotrowski@ieee.org
Student Branches
UofSA: nimrod.lilith@postgrads.unisa.edu.au
kutluyil.dogancay@unisa.edu.au
UofAdelaide ksyau@eleceng.adelaide.edu.au
Flinders U. sharmil.randhawa@flinders.edu.au
Membership Development
|
|
31 May 03 |
31 May 04 |
|
Fellows |
2 |
3 |
|
Senior Members |
30 |
28 |
|
Members |
278 |
300 |
|
Affiliates/Others |
33 |
15 |
|
Students |
83 |
60 |
|
Other |
5 |
2 |
|
TOTAL |
431 |
408 |
IEEE Higher
Grade membership now stands at
262,350 members (May 04), 147 members below the level of a year ago,
representing a loss of 0.1% from May 2003, and a drop of 0.6% from last month.
While the good news is that three out of the four non-US Regions remain ahead
of their 2003 pace, the bad news is that Region 9 along with all six of the U.S.
Regions continue to show declines from their 2003 levels. Region 10 has the
highest rate of growth and retains the second largest higher grade membership.
IEEE Student
Membership is one of the few
bright spots in membership this year. At the end of May, there was an increase
of 5.2% from last year. Eight regions (of 10) report growth – including an
impressive +11.1% growth rate in R8 (R10 - 7.8%). We have gone against the
trend in Region 10.
IEEE Nominate a
Senior Member Initiative. This program awards Sections and Societies with $10 for each
successful Senior Member nomination. The details of the Senior Member
Nomination Initiative and all applicable forms are available at this Web site:
http://www.ieee.org/ra/md/sminitiative.html
Andrew Udina
Chair, Membership Development
Awards
Student Travel Awards
The Section has
approved two further post-graduate travel grants this year.
Luke Rosenberg, U. of Adelaide
Multichannel SAR
Imaging using Wavefront Reconstruction, Int'l
Radar Symposium 2004, 18-21 May, Warsaw
The Effect of Anti-jamming Techniques on Multichannel SAR Imaging, EUSAR 2004, 25-27th May, Ulm, Germany
David Kettler, U. of Adelaide
The
Point Spread Function for UWB SAR
Imaging
using Inversion of the Circular Radon Transform
EUSAR 2004, 25-27th May, Ulm, Germany
IEEE SA Section Distinguished Service
Award
A draft terms of reference has now been established for this program and nominations are invited for awards to be presented in 2004. Please forward nominations to IEEE Awards Convenor, PO Box 53, Elizabeth, SA 5112, by 30 September. (or contact Zia for details).
Zia Ahmed
Chair, Awards
Chapters/Branches/Affiliates
Control, Aerospace and Electronic
Systems Chapter
The Chapter
sponsored (1 Jul 04) Éamonn Glennon, Sigtec Navigation, to deliver Cutting
Edge AGPS Solutions from Signav to an audience at DSTO and U.of Adelaide,
as a joint CAES/AIAA activity.
The HyShot Zuni Demonstrator, Dr. Ross
Paull, Mr. Myles Frost, from the U. of Queensland is scheduled for 30 Jul 04.
The IEEE CAES has an active program of technical meetings co-sponsored with AIAA Adelaide Section in aerospace. If you would like to be put on the mailing list for future meetings please contact me.
Dr Mark Pszczel
Chair, CAES Chapter
Communications and Signal Processing Chapter
IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Visit
Next-Generation
Networking: Solutions and Challenges
Presenter: Professor Andrzej Jajszczyk
Date and time: Friday 20th August, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Venue: SPRI Lecture Theatre (SPRI Building, Mawson Lakes
Campus)
Abstract:
The lecture presents
possible evolution paths for core and metropolitan networks taking into account
the current slowdown of the world economy as well as the changing telecommunications
environment. First, the current status of core and metropolitan networks is
presented, including a brief presentation of such networking technologies as:
SDH/SONET, Ethernet, MPLS and Resilient Packet Ring (RPR). Then, the evolution
scenarios are discussed that involve the introduction of reconfigurable WDM
networks, the Generic Framing Procedure (GFP), enhanced SDH/SONET, Optical
Transport Network (OTN), as well as all-optical networking technologies. Second
part of the lecture deals with the intelligence of optical networks based on
either ASON or GMPLS control planes. The lecture concludes by presenting
current standardization activities, open issues and perspectives of intelligent
optical networking.
Biography:
Andrzej
Jajszczyk is a Professor at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow,
Poland. He received M.S., Ph.D., and Dr Hab. degrees from Poznan University of
Technology in 1974, 1979 and 1986, respectively. He spent a year at the
University of Adelaide in Australia and two years at Queen's University in
Kingston, Ontario, Canada as a visiting scientist. He is the author or
co-author of six books and more than 180 scientific papers, as well as 19
patents in the areas of telecommunications switching, high-speed networking,
and network management. His current research interests focus on control plane
architectures for transport networks, quality of service and network
reliability. He has been a consultant to industry, telecommunications
operators, and government agencies in Poland, Australia, Canada, France,
Germany, and the USA. He was the founding editor of the IEEE Global
Communications Newsletter, editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications, and
editor-in-chief of IEEE Communications Magazine. Since January 2004 he is
Director of Magazines of IEEE Communications Society. He has been involved in
organization of numerous technical and scientific conferences. He is an IEEE
Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer. He is a member of the
Association of Polish Electrical Engineers and a Fellow Member of IEEE. Andrzej
Jajszczyk is Vice-President of the Kyoto-Krakow Foundation, fostering cultural
and technical relations between Asia and Poland.
Dr Arek Dadej
Chair, C&SP Chapter
Student Branch,
U. of Adelaide
An
EEESAU BBQ organised by the student branch executive was held on
28/05/04. A huge event attended by more than 150 members of EEESAU and/or IEEE.
The EEESAU noticeboard has been completed at the
School of EEE. It will advertise and
promote activities held by the student branch as well as IEEE.
A Matlab Tutorial for undergrad. students is
planned for sometime in August.
Bobby Yau
President
Professional Activities
The dates have now been set for TENCON 2005, to be held 21-24 November, 2005 in Melbourne under the leadership of the IEEE Victorian Section. Further information can be obtained at
Eighth IEEE International Symposium
on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications
30 August - 2 September, 2004, Sydney
Bruce Vyden
Chair,
Professional Activities
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The IEEE Foundation
recently awarded two grants totaling US$25,000. One covers the expenses of a
conference that will explore ways of teaching engineering concepts to college
EE students, while the other grant is for developing a precollege curriculum
that helps students better understand technology and its role in society. To
read more, visit
IEEE SCOOP
IEEE Regional
Activities provides grants of $500 each to Sections or Chapters sponsoring a
one-day technical symposium. The 2004
program is underway, and two events have already been funded. The guidelines have changed for 2004: units
funded in the past may apply again for funds provided at least one year has
passed. Units are advised to apply at
least three months in advance of their event.
For more information
and the grant request form visit http://www.ieee.org/scs
and click on "FORMS". Please
direct questions to Tracy at t.hawkins@ieee.org.
The IEEE History
Center's program most closely geared to IEEE Sections is the Milestones in
Electrical Engineering and Computing. A
Section proposes a local achievement of significance, prepares a carefully
documented nomination, and, if approved by the IEEE History Committee and IEEE
Executive Committee, dedicates a bronze plaque recognizing the honor. At their April 2004 meeting, the ExCom
approved four Milestones recommended by the History Committee, from four
different Sections in three Regions.
This brings the total number of Milestones in the program to 58. The newest additions are:
Electronic
Quartz Wristwatch, 1969 (Tokyo Section)
First Computers
to Use Magnetic Disk Storage, 1956 (Santa Clara Section)
Alternating
Current Electrification, 1886 (Berkshire Section)
Electric Fire
Alarm System, 1852 (Boston Section)
Visit http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/milestones_program.html.
IEEE ONLINE
COLLECTIONS
IEEE Xplore,
the online document delivery system for the IEEE's publications, including its
standards, is adding a new search function. With it, users can make a keyword
search of an entire article instead of only the article's abstract, as was the
case before.
IEE Retired Engineers Group, 4 Aug 04
Tactical Data Information
Links (TADILs) -
From
"Then" to "When"
Howard Harvey
Level 1, Engineering South Building,
The University of Adelaide
1.00 pm
Lunch for members and guests (optional)
12.00 noon, University Staff Club
Synopsis
Howard's presentation will describe the development of Tactical Data Information Links (TADILs) used or proposed for the Australian Defence Forces, with an emphasis on the way technologies determine the structure, capabilities and performance of the links.
Speaker
Mr Harvey is an Electronics Engineer with over 30 years engineering experience
in hardware and software aspects of computer systems. He commenced work at WRE
Salisbury as an Apprentice Radio Tradesman in 1962, and was a Technical
Assistant in Communications and Electronic Engineering Division for 3 years before
being awarded a 2-year Defence Science scholarship in 1969. He has been
involved with TADILs for over nine years and was the DSTO representative on the
ADF TADIL Authority from 1995 to 2001. He retired from DSTO in 2002 after a
career spanning 40 years.
RSVP:
Keith Rendell 8380 5146, fibonacci@esc.net.au
JOINT TECHNICAL PROGRAM 2004 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering
20th July EIA: ELECTRONICS HUB ADELAIDE
Host IEEE Mr. Tim Stollznow, SA President
of the Electronics Industry Association
A background and
analysis of the Australian electronics industry, identification of the
significant players and EIA’s vision for the future.
17th August **VISIT (FROM 5:30PM)** CLINICAL SIMULATION UNIT,
Host IEE Visit the Flinders School of Medicine Simulation Unit and learn how medical students and health professionals are trained with the skills to save your life before they must apply it to a life-threatening situation. Register by email, sa@ieaust.org.au.
21st September THE SENSE OF SMELL AND ARTIFICIAL NOSE TECHNOLOGY
Host TSA Mr Richard Gawel, Recognose Pty Ltd
A look at the sense of smell. It is a system that rivals the best in terms of sensitivity and range, and as such, designing artificial systems to mimic it is a hotbed of research.
Chapman Hall, Engineering House, 11 Bagot Street,
North Adelaide, Light tea commences at 5:30 pm and the meeting at 6:15 pm
Conference Schedule
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Date |
Conference |
City |
Website |
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20-23 July, 2004 |
5th Biennial Asian Control Conference |
Melbourne |
|
|
30 August - 2 September,
2004 |
8th IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques,
Applications (ISSSTA) |
Sydney |
|
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21-24 November, 2005 |
TENCON 2005 |
Melbourne |