Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Washington Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm; meeting at 6:30 pm
Place: Allie's American Grill, Bethesda Marriott, 5151 Pooks Hill Rd., Bethesda, Md.
Directions: From the north, take 270 South to Route 355 and exit at Wisconsin Ave. From the south, take 495 exit 34 (which is Wisconsin Ave.) to Pooks Hill Rd.
More info: All interested IEEE members are welcome to attend.
Contact: Jackie Hunter 703-803-8701 or nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your e-mail.
Sponsor: Consultants Network, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm; speaker at 7:00 pm
Place: Corner 7 Café, Tysons Corner Marriott, 8028 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA
Directions: From the east or I-495, take Route 7 West, turn right on Towers Crescent Drive, then immediately right into the Marriott parking lot. From the west on Route 7, turn right onto Old Gallows Road just opposite the Marriott, proceed around to the left until you have completed almost a full circle, and turn left into the Marriott parking lot. Free parking.
More Info: A guest speaker from EPIware, Inc. will describe how EPIware enables organizations to easily share information and effectively collaborate on documents in a browser-based environment.
Contact: Sai Chiang at 703-203-0771 or creativesystem@ieee.org.
Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Annual GMU Student Professional Awareness Conference (SPAC)
Sponsor: IEEE Student Chapter, George Mason University
Speakers: Several local professionals will speak about employment, global perspectives, and other topics relevant to the transition from life as a student to a career in engineering.
Time: 12:00 noon to 6:00 pm
Place: Dewberry Hall, Johnson Center, GMU Fairfax Campus
More Info: Updates will be posted at
http://ite.gmu.edu/~ieee/main.htm.
Contact: Shery Salama, chapter president, at ssalama1@gmu.edu.
Sponsor: Graduates of the Last Decade, Northern Virginia Chapter
Time: 6:30-9:00 pm
Place: Ruby Tuesday's, 9444 Arlington Blvd., Fairfax, VA
Directions: The restaurant is just East of Fairfax Circle on Rt 50. From I-495, take the Rt. 50 West exit. From I-66, take the Nutley St. exit, go south (turn right) on Lee Highway to Fairfax Circle, and around the circle to 50 East.
More Info: Join your peers for an informal time and stimulating discussion. Finger food will be provided.
Contact: Please RSVP to cbaldi@ieee.org.
Monday-Thursday, May 9-12, 2005
IEEE International Radar Conference:
Radar – A Global Perspective
Sponsors: IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society; IEEE Washington and Northern Virginia Sections
Place: Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, VA
More Info: Please see the official conference website at www.radar05.org.
Sponsor: IEEE-USA and other members of the Science-Engineering-Technology Work Group
More Info: See the eSCANNER News item or visit http://ieeeusa.org/policy/cvd/index.html.
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Corner 7 Café, Tysons Corner Marriott, 8028 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA
Directions: From the east or I-495, take Route 7 West, turn right on Towers Crescent Drive, then immediately right into the Marriott parking lot. From the west on Route 7, turn right onto Old Gallows Road just opposite the Marriott, proceed around to the left until you have completed almost a full circle, and turn left into the Marriott parking lot. Free parking.
More info: All interested IEEE members are invited to attend.
Contact: Jackie Hunter at 703-803-8701 or nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your e-mail.
Sponsor: Computer Society< Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Steven L. Arementrout, Founder and CEO, Parabon Computation, Inc.
Time: Networking and food, 6:00 pm; Technical Presentation: 7:00 pm; Computer Society meeting 8:00 pm
Place: Oracle Facility, 1910 Oracle Way, Reston, VA
More Info: See Diamond story, below. Pizza and soft drinks provided.
Contact: For more information on technical activities of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the Computer Society, please contact T.K. Ramesh, co-chair, at tkramesh@ieee.org.
Sponsor: Northern Virginia Technology Council
Speaker: Kenneth C. Dahlberg, Chairman, CEO and President, SAIC
Time: Registration and networking 7:00 am; program 8:00-9:15 am
Place: Hilton McLean, 7920 Jones Branch Dr., McLean, VA
More Info: Is there a "new" SAIC? Ken Dahlberg took the helm 18 months ago to run the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the United States, having come from a senior position at General Dynamics. What new innovations are developing at SAIC and how can your company get in on the action?
Cost: NVTC members $50, Non-members $80 (cost is higher for walk-ins)
Contact: To register, go to
http://online.nvtc.org/calendar/geteventinfo.cfm?event=TITANS-9.
Sponsor: Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Gary Fenical, Laird Technologies
Time: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm
Place: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Roosevelt Room (on mezzanine level), 2660 Woodley Road, N.W., Washington, DC
Directions: The nearest Metro station is Woodley Park (Red line), or parking is available for a fee.
More Info: This will be a "brown bag" lunch meeting with beverages provided by the Marriott Hotel. For information about the speaker, see Diamond story, below.
Contact: Please register by contacting JoAnn at
joann@wll.com or 301-417-0220
(or FAX 301-417-9060).
Sponsors: Industry Applications Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter; Power Engineering Society, Northern Virginia and Washington Chapter
Speaker: Gerald Castellucci
Time: Social hour at 5:45 pm; snacks at 6:00 pm, speaker at 6:30 pm
Place: Alexandria Research Institute, 206 N. Washington St., 4th floor, Old Town Alexandria
More info: Refreshments will include assorted sandwiches, potato chips, dessert, coffee, tea and soda.
Cost: Free for members (including student members), $10 for guests
Reservations: Please RSVP by May 18 at 5 pm to Monica at 703-535-3446 or mmallini@vt.edu.
Sponsor: Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Dr. William C. McCorkle, Jr., Director, Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (AMRDEC)
Time: 5:00 pm
Place: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, 4121 Wilson Blvd., Suite 302, Arlington, VA
Directions: Less than a block from the Ballston Metro station (Orange line). Or, if driving from the East on I-66, exit onto Glebe Road South, turn left on Fairfax Drive (East towards Rosslyn), OR, from the west on I-66, exit at Fairfax Drive (East). Then turn right on Randolph St., right on Wilson Blvd., and right into building 4121's underground parking garage. Alternate parking is across the street at the Ballston Common Mall Garage.
More Info: Topic TBA, check this page or http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/wash_nova/aess/ for details. For information about the speaker, Diamond story, below.
Cost: Free
Contact: Reservations required. Contact Carmen Bray at
carmen.bray@gd-ais.com or 703-469-3886.
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Commercializing MIMO: Development of a Commercial In-home Wireless Network Access Point/Router
Using MIMO Technology
Sponsor: Communications Society, Northern Virginia Chapter; Communications Society, Washington Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Victor Shtrom, Video54, Mountain View, CA
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm; speaker at 6:45 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: Off Route 123 in Tysons Corner. See http://www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More Info: See Diamond story, below.
Cost: Free, including dinner.
Contact: Please RSVP to Fred Seelig at fseelig@mitre.org.
Diamond Stories
Computational grids, particularly those that operate outside a controlled enterprise environment, make attractive black hat targets, not only for the power they wield, but also for the sheer expanse of their potential vulnerabilities. Even the providers of power and the users thereof must be presumed untrustworthy. This talk identifies many of the security threats to which public computational grids are exposed and discusses the approaches that are being used in practice for addressing such.
Dr. Steven L. Armentrout is founder and CEO of Parabon Computation, Inc., the first commercial grid computing company, whose software platform, Frontier, powers the Global Grid Exchange. A recognized technology expert and a successful entrepreneur, he founded two successful firms prior to Parabon, both of which developed analytical software for the investment industry. Constantly starved for computational power to drive his innovative computer models, Dr. Armentrout helped found the industry of grid computing wherein the idle processing power of potentially millions of Internet-connected computers is delivered to the desktops of those who need it.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Armentrout developed object-based image processing algorithms for the federal government at the BDM Corporation, and developed imagery archival software while working for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Dr. Armentrout holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland, where his groundbreaking creation of the world's smallest known self-replicating cellular automata was featured in Science magazine. While focused primarily on the private sector, his academic work has been published in Neural Computation and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, and, most recently, Clinical Cancer Research.
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Advances in electronic equipment are occurring at a rapid pace. The wireless revolution, increasing power levels in computers and servers, higher frequency systems, decreasing size of cell phones, to name a few. To keep pace with the EMI shielding needs of these devices, a wide range of new and improved products have been developed over the past few years and many more are on the drawing boards. Just about every class of shielding product has seen noteworthy changes. The uses, properties, and advantages of these new materials and advanced EMI shielding products will be described, including: high performance, dent resistant vent panels; high aspect ratio form in place (FiP); ultra soft sculpted fabric over foam (FOF); conductive foam (CF); metal-mold in place (MIP) combination gaskets; and flexible MRI room shielding.
Gary Fenical is the EMC technical sales representative at Laird Technologies, in Delaware Water Gap, PA. He is a specialist in RF shielded enclosures and has been responsible for the design and/or measurement and quality control of hundreds of large-scale shielded enclosures as well as a number of shielded equipment cabinets and housings. He was instrumental in the design and construction of Laird Technologies' state-of-the-art World Compliance Centers. He has over 37 years electronic experience in the operation and maintenance of RF and digital systems for both military and commercial applications. His experience covers classified RADAR systems, analog and digital computers, electronic and hard copy readouts, and both secure telecommunications and computer network systems.
Mr. Fenical a NARTE Certified EMC Engineer, and has authored many articles and seminars on EMC requirements. He holds the patent for the invention of heat-treated beryllium-copper knitted wire mesh gasket. He is a special government employee for the FDA as an EMC consultant. He chairs the SAE AE-4 Committee on Aerospace EMC, is a member of the USCEL Executive Committee, IEEE-EMC Society, SMRI, and holds an FCC General Radiotelephone License (1st Class) with Ship RADAR Endorsement.
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William C. McCorkle, Jr. is director of the Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (AMRDEC), which provides major research, development, production, field engineering, software engineering, and product assurance support to more than 25 Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) project and product-managed systems and more than 200 other DoD and other customers.
He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Tennessee, and his B.S. in physics from the University of Richmond, Virginia. He joined Redstone Arsenal in 1957 and has held increasingly responsible scientific and engineering positions, including an 18-month rotational assignment in the Department of Army Staff as science advisor to the director of weapons systems. In 1980, he was appointed technical director of the Missile Command and director of the U.S. Army Missile Laboratory (now AMCOM and AMRDEC). In 1999, he became the first director of AMRDEC.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Commercializing MIMO: Development of a Commercial In-home Wireless Network Access Point/Router
Using MIMO Technology
MIMO (multiple-in, multiple-out) wireless is emerging as an important technology to enhance wireless performance. This talk will focus on the engineering aspects and tradeoffs in developing early MIMO products for the commercial marketplace. A key feature of MIMO systems is the ability to turn multipath propagation, traditionally a pitfall of wireless transmission, into a benefit. MIMO has evolved (and is still evolving), since its beginning in 1993, with contributions from hundreds of researchers around the world. Some aspects of MIMO have already entered wireless standards, and many more standards efforts are ongoing.
Multiple antennas at each end of a MIMO link can be used in different modes such as transmit-receive diversity, beamforming, antenna subset selection and spatial multiplexing. Which mode or option actually maximizes performance depends on the channel conditions and system SNR and QoS requirements, among other factors. Other important issues to consider for commercial MIMO systems are the overall system cost, power consumption and manufacturability.
Victor Shtrom is the chief wireless architect at Video54, which designs MIMO smart antenna systems for entertainment-quality wireless home video. He received his Ph.D. in communication theory from University of Cincinnati. He has been involved in smart antenna research and development from his first industry job with ArgoSystems, where he developed algorithms for the cellular telephone interference cancellation beamformer. After ArgoSystems was acquired by Boeing, he was responsible for the Ellipso (a satellite cellular system) air interface along with what is now a commercially available internet-in-the-sky system called Connexion. Subsequently he was a systems engineer at Iospan Wireless, where he performed indoor and outdoor wireless MIMO channel measurements and characterization and was in charge of a group that developed Iospan’s first Phy/MAC FPGA-based prototype. He was also involved in IEEE 802.16. Iospan Wireless developed the first commercially available MIMO silicon for last-mile wireless internet access.
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