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Calendar Archive, October 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
The Science in Engineering and the Engineering in Science
Sponsor: Communications Society (Washington chapter)
Speaker: Dr. Frederica Darema, Senior Science Analyst, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation
Time: Social time & pizza at 6:30 pm, program at 7:15 pm
Place: University of the District of Columbia, Building 41, Auditorium 03, 4200 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC
Directions: UDC is located at the Van Ness/UDC Metro station (Red line). See www.udc.edu for additional directions.
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Contact: Dr. Paul Cotae at pcotae@udc.edu.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Washington Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: 6:45 pm
Place: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1200 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC
Directions: Use the 12th Street entrance. The AAAS building is one block from Metro Center (Red, Orange and Blue lines).
Street parking is free after 6:30 pm (no parking 4:00-6:30 pm). There is a pay parking lot at the intersection of 9th St. and New York Ave., and an underground parking garage at 14th St. and New York Ave.
See map at www.aaas.org/dcwest.pdf.
More Info: All interested IEEE members are welcome.
Contact: RSVP to Monica Taysing-Lara at m.taysinglara@ieee.org or 202-725-2225.
Sponsor: Professional Communication Society
Cosponsors: IEEE Technology Management Council, Society for Technical Communication (Baltimore and Washington chapters)
Speaker: Phil Marcus, Attorney
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: Capitol College, Room 244 (Telecommunications Hall), 11301 Springfield Rd., Laurel, MD
Directions: From I-95 (Washington Beltway), take the Baltimore-Washington Pkwy. (Exit 22, North) to the Powder Mill Road Exit. Turn left (west towards Beltsville) on Powder Mill Rd., then take the first right onto Springfield Rd. Go approx. 1 mile to the campus on the right. The meeting is in the buiding to the right at the end of the driveway.
Cost: IEEE and STC members $10; non-members $15
Contact: Register by Tuesday, Oct. 6 at
http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/1017.
Sponsor: Land Transportation Committee of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Speaker: Dr. Steven M. Hsu, George Washington University
Time: 11:30 am
Place: American Public Transportation Association, 11th Floor Conference Room, 1666 K Street NW, Washington, DC
Directions: Take the Metro to Farragut North station (Red Line, use K Street exit) or Farragut West station (Orange and Blue lines, use 17th Street exit).
More Info: See http://ewh.ieee.org/cmte/asmeltc. The National Capital Land Transportation Committee (LTC) holds monthly lunch meetings from September though June. The LTC is jointly sponsored by the ASME Rail Transportation Division and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society of the Washington and Northern Virginia Sections. All interested persons are invited. Membership in ASME or IEEE is not required.
ot required.
Cost: $20 cash at the door for lunch.
Contact: Please make lunch reservations by 4:00 pm, Friday, Oct. 9 with Karl Berger at
karl.berger@dcm-va.com
or 703-803-7917, or Ken Briers at
ken.briers@parsons.com or 202-775-3397.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm
Place: Olive Garden Restaurant, 8133 Leesburg Pike (Tysons Corner), Vienna, VA
Directions: From I-495, take Route 7 West (Exit 47A) toward Tysons Corner. Turn left at Gallows Road. Parking garage is behind the restaurant.
More Info: All interested IEEE members are invited to attend.
Contact: Register by 12:00 noon on Tuesday, Oct. 13 at
http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/1009.
Sponsor: Life Members
Speaker: Paul Nelson
Time: 12:00 noon
Place: Dolley Madison Library, 1244 Oak Ridge Ave, McLean, VA
Directions: Take Exit 46 from the Beltway and proceed on Route 123 North to McLean, VA, about 2 miles. After crossing Old Dominion Dr., turn left at the next street, Ingleside Ave., and then left on Oak Ridge Ave. The library is on the left.
More Info: Paul Nelson, a Life Member, will discuss the electrical power industry and how it fits into the U.S. economy. Included will be rules and regulations, and a system overview. Nelson is a member of the Power and Energy Society. His primary interests, based on past professional experience, are power engineering and microelectronic technology. A light lunch will be provided to those who make a reservation.
Contact: RSVP to Dave Booth at 540-364-1350 or dbooth@ieee.org.
Sponsors: Power and Energy Society, Industry Applications Society
Speaker: Francis Chester, Reliance Data
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm
Place: Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute, 4300 Wilson Blvd., Suite 750, Arlington, VA
Directions: From Ballston Metro Station (Orange Line), turn right at top of escalator then left on the street. Proceed two blocks towards Macy's, turn right and walk one block to Ballston Point at the intersection of Wilson Blvd. and Glebe Road. If driving, see www.ari.vt.edu/ari_directions.html. There is a parking garage in the building with a $1 charge for 3 hours. After 6:00 pm, there is limited street parking.
More Info: A light dinner buffet will be served, followed by program. All interested persons are invited.
Cost: Free to IEEE members; $10 for non-members
Contact: Amarjeet Basra at amarjeet.basra@ieee.org or 703-324-2821.
Sponsors: DfR Solutions, A.T.E. Solutions, IPC
Cosponsors: IEEE Reliability Society, Testability Management Action Group (TMAG), American Society of Test Engineers (ASTE)
Place: DfR Solutions, 5110 Roanoke Place, College Park, MD
More Info: This four-day professional development course focuses on meeting time-to-market deadlines and reducing warranty issues. Areas to be covered include design for reliability, design for manufacturability, design for testability, design for environment, design for built-in self test, design for usability, and design for maintainability. Attendees will be eligible to earn Professional Development Hours (PDHs) or Continuing Education Units (CEUs). For details, see
www.dfrsolutions.com/dfx-info.
Cost: See website for fees and online registration.
Contact: Carrie Sharik-Ernest at csharik@dfrsolutions.com.
Sponsor: Robotics and Automation Society
Place: University of Maryland, College Park, MD
More Info: This event invites teams of IEEE members, university students, and robotics club members to acquire a deeper appreciation of the state-of-the art and challenges that are currently the focus of research in robotics and automation. Competing teams must build and demonstrate a robot capable of traveling one mile on an oval track outlined with orange cones. Competitors will be scored on speed and distance traversed as well as on a technical presentation about their robot. For more details on the competition rules and how to register, please see www.ece.umd.edu/arsc/.
Contact: Rad Madhavan at
raj.madhavan@ieee.org.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
IEEE 125th Anniversary Dinner: Perspectives on Optical Communications
Sponsor: Baltimore Section
Speaker: Dr. Herwig Kogelnik, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
Time: Reception 5:00 pm, dinner 6:00 pm, speaker 7:30 pm
Place: University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). Room location and directions will be provided in a future email.
More Info: The IEEE Baltimore Section is hosting this dinner and talk to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the IEEE. See Diamond story below for more information about the speaker and his presentation.
Cost: $28 per person, $14 for students (grade school, high school, undergraduate and graduate). Free for children 5 and younger. Cash bar.
Contact: To register, send an email to Walt Willing at waltwilling@ieee.org and CC Ronald Aloysius at ronald_aloysius@ieee.org. In the email, provide your name, address, phone number, and email address. Also provide the names of the people in your party. Checks should made out to "IEEE Baltimore Section" and mailed to Walt Willing (Attention: IEEE Dinner), 4 Mill Pool Ct., Catonsville, MD 21228. Payment must be received by Thursday, Oct. 8.
Sponsors: Computer Society, American Society for Quality (ASQ) Section 509 Software SIG, Society for Software Quality (SSQ)
Speaker: Camille Bell
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Video teleconference with sites in McLean and Silver Spring. Addresses are provided at the registration link below.
More Info: All interested IEEE members and guests are invited to attend. Pizza and soda will be served.
Cost: Free
Contact: Advance registration is required to enter the facilities. Please register online at
www.asq509.org/ht/d/sp/i/2499/pid/2499.
If your plans change, please email
ankums@mitre.org to cancel your reservation.
Sponsor: Society on Social Implications of Technology
Speaker: Janet Rochester, President, IEEE SSIT
Time 6:45 pm
Place: MITRE Corp., Building 2, Conference Room 1N100, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Location Coordinates: Latitude 38.92219 (+38° 55' 19.88")
Longitude -77.20561 (-77° 12' 20.20")
Directions: See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/va_mclean_mitre2.html. Free parking.
More Info: See see Diamond story below
Contact: Barry Tilton at
barrytilton@ieee.org.
Diamond Stories
Monday, October 5, 2009
The Science in Engineering and the Engineering in Science
Over the last 150 years we have experienced an unprecedented and accelerating pace of advances in engineering and scientific fields, with commensurate wealth in technological innovation, which has revolutionized and dramatically improved many aspects of well-being world-wide. Through science and engineering advances we can peer into the insides of protons in the nucleus, and the insides of our planet, and to the outer galaxies in the universe, and moreover science and engineering have created the myriads of technological capabilities around us and in our every-day lives; we can connect with people and places all over the globe and we have gone to space, we are benefitting from advanced medical diagnosis and treatment capabilities, we have reduced but not eliminated hunger and poverty. Discovery and innovations have been enabled through symbiotic science and engineering pursuits. We have achieved a lot, and yet today we are faced with many remaining challenges, including daunting challenges in energy and the environment, and globalization of economies.
In this talk we reflect upon the many advances that have been made and those that we foresee, and discuss directions in science and engineering fields, in terms of research, technology development, and education, that will enable us not only enhance our capabilities to innovate, but also engender capabilities for socially responsible sustainable development as well as economic development.
Dr. Frederica Darema is the senior science analyst in the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering. She also directs NSF's Next Generation Software Program.
Her interests and technical contributions span the development of parallel applications, parallel algorithms, programming models, environments, and performance methods and tools for the design of applications and of software for parallel and distributed systems. She was elected IEEE Fellow for proposing in 1984 the SPMD (Single-Program-Multiple-Data) computational model that has become the popular model for programming today’s parallel and distributed computers.
She received her B.S. degree from the School of Physics and Mathematics of the University of Athens, Greece, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in theoretical nuclear physics from the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of California at Davis, respectively.
After physics research associate positions at the University of Pittsburgh and Brookhaven National Lab, she became a technical staff member in the Nuclear Sciences Department at Schlumberger-Doll Research. Subsequently she joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center as a research staff member in the Computer Sciences Department. She established and became the manager of an IBM research group on parallel applications. While at IBM she also served in the IBM Corporate Strategy Group examining and helping set corporate-wide strategies.
Dr. Darema has been at NSF since 1994, and in 1996-1998 was on a two-year assignment at DARPA where she initiated a new thrust for research on methods and technology for performance engineered systems.
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
IEEE 125th Anniversary Dinner: Perspectives on Optical Communications
The idea of communicating via light beam has been around for millennia, but progress of this technology in the last two decades is truly astonishing. Nearly one terameter (1000 million kilometers) of optical fiber are now deployed around the globe, providing a high-capacity network infrastructure for the world's now dominant data traffic continuing to double its volume every year. The customers of this fiber network include the over one billion internet users who continue in their demands for newer and broader bandwidth services. In response, lightwave R&D has advanced the capacity of long-haul fiber transmission systems by a factor of 100 since the WDM revolution that started a little more than ten years ago, and continues to explore the increased networking flexibility of WDM.
There is strong technological progress in the technology of components and optical integrated circuitry that promise to further reduce networking cost and enable transmission and switching at higher data rates. Examples include monolithic transceivers that are widely tunable and operate at 40 Gb/s rates, optically integrated wavelength selective switches enabling multi-degree mesh- ROADMs, and field-tested PICS with 10 WDM channels operating at 10 Gb/s each. There are also highly promising advances in the use of sophisticated modulation formats such as multi-level DPSK with sampled self-coherent optical receivers using direct detection and digital signal post-processing. System research experiments using polarization-multiplexed DQPSK have demonstrated long-haul transmission at a record capacity of 25 Terabits/sec per fiber, and are exploring the cost-effective transmission of 10 WDM channels each carrying 100 GbEthernet traffic.
In the market we note the strong resurgence of construction of undersea fiber systems in the Pacific, and the large-scale deployment of fiber to the premise, FTTP, now reaching millions of users and providing the potential for broadband services such as GbEthernet to the home and business.
Herwig Kogelnik's groundbreaking work in photonics and optical communications has revolutionized modern lightwave communications technology. Dr. Kogelnik is credited with helping to revolutionize global information movement and management.
Since 1961, Dr. Kogelnik has been with Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, where he has served as director of both the Electronics Research Laboratory and the Photonics Research Laboratory. His research has focused on optics, electronics, and communications, including work on holography, photonics, laser resonators, and Gaussian beams.
In 1971, Dr. Kogelnik, along with Dr. C.V. Shank, pioneered the distributed-feedback (DFB) laser. Additionally, his leadership in the development of practical wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) led to a groundbreaking dense WDM system, further revolutionizing lightwave communications by expanding capacity and lowering costs.
In the area of photonic switching, Dr. Kogelnik's research with Dr. R.V. Schmidt led to the development of the reversal directional coupler wavelength switch, a mainstay of experimental photonic switching systems, and a necessary component in ultra high-speed optical networks. Under his leadership, the Photonics Research Laboratory developed many other fundamental components of optical communications, including high-speed avalanche photodiodes, tunable semiconductor lasers, photonic integrated circuits, and high-capacity amplified transmission systems.
Herwig Kogelnik was born in Graz, Austria, in 1932. He received his Dipl. Ing. degree from the Technische Hochschule Wien, Vienna, Austria in 1955, and a Doctorate in 1958, also from the Technische Hochschule. In 1960, he received a Ph.D. from Oxford University.
Dr. Kogelnik has earned 34 patents through his career and is the author of 85 articles. He is a Fellow of both the IEEE and the Optical Society of America, which he served as Vice President in 1987 and President in 1989, and is an Honorary Fellow of St. Peter's College at Oxford University. He has received numerous awards, including the Optical Society of America's Frederic Ives Medal in 1984, the IEEE David Sarnoff Award in 1989, the Joseph Johann Ritter von Prechtl Medal from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria in 1990, and the 1991 IEEE Lasers and Electro Optics Society Quantum Electronics Award. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978 and the National Academy of Science in 1994.
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Engineers and technologists need to extend their vision to include what the public might do with a product or what might be done to the public. Since 1982, the Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) has addressed the implications of technology on health care, privacy and the use of personal data, the education of engineers, and energy sources and policy. SSIT publishes refereed articles on these and other subjects. SSIT has published articles on "Sustainability" for 20 years and it is now engineering practice. SSIT's annual conference provides a forum for IEEE members to discuss topical subjects with social scientists, ethicists, and historians.
Janet Rochester is a Senior Member of the IEEE and holds B.S., M.S. and M.B.A. degrees. Before retiring in 2004 from Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors, she was a lead member of the engineering staff in the Radar System Engineering group. Most of her work consisted of writing and editing computer hardware and software specifications for the radar system of the Aegis radars installed on Navy ships, but she also saw these documents through the publication process, in paper format and electronically.
Ms. Rochester served as the Chair of the IEEE Philadelphia Section in 2003, the section’s centenary year. She is a national S-PAC speaker on the subject of professionalism. She has been a member of the SSIT Board of Governors since 1999, and currently serves as the President. She has also charied the Publications Committee.
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