The IEEE National Capital Area
Sponsor: Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society,Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter Cosponsor: Antennas and Propagation Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter Speaker: Dr. Keith Krapels, Office of Naval Research Time: Lecture at 5:00 pm; dinner at 6:30 pm (optional at nearby restaurant) Place: General Dynamics, 4121 Wilson Boulevard Suite 302, Arlington, VA Directions: One block from the Ballston Metro stop. More Info: The Silver Fox UAV was developed to give the Navy a low cost a bird’s eye view during operations. As the U.S. began preparing its forces for Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Department of the Navy called on the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to help find immediately deployable solutions for some Navy and Marine Corps needs. ONR’s Tech Solutions office, which finds quick technology solutions for the Navy and Marine Corps, developed a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that could give Marines up-to-date imagery on the battlefield. Cost: Lecture is free; dinner (optional) is paid by attendees. Contact: Dan Purdy, 703-588-1920, purdyd@onr.navy.mil. Please RSVP before Oct. 29 to Carmen Bray at carmen.bray@gd-ais.com (preferred) or 703-469-3886.
Sponsor: Graduates of the Last Decade, Northern Virginia Chapter Time: 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm Place: eCiti Restaurant & Bar McLean, 1524 Spring Hill Rd. (entrance on Tyco Blvd.), McLean, VA. More Info: All GOLD members are welcome to attend. Cost: Food and drinks provided. Contact: RSVP to Syed Ahmed at syed.f.ahmed@ieee.org or Chuck Baldi at cbaldi@ieee.org.
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm; meeting at 6:30 pm, Engineers Without Borders at 7:30 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: Engineers Without Borders is an exciting program that promotes engineering projects to help people around the world. All interested IEEE members are welcome to attend.
Contact: Jackie Hunter 703-803-8701 or j.hunter@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; meeting 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: We will hold our annual business meeting and election of new officers. There will also be an opportunity for networking.
Contact: Sai Chiang at 703-203-0771 or creativesystems@ieee.org.
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 j.hunter@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your e-mail.
Sponsor: Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Mark Sletten
Time: 12 noon
Place: Visitor Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Directions: See http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/vc/directions.html
More Info: See Diamond Story, below, and http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r2/no_virginia/grss.
Contact: Please RSVP to Dr. James C. Tilton at 301-286-9510 or james.c.tilton@nasa.gov to help ensure we can provide a free light lunch to attendees.
Sponsor: Power Engineering Society, Northern Virginia Chapter
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: KEMA Consulting, 4400 Fair Lakes Court, Fairfax, VA
Contact: Sirak Belayneh at sbelayne@addistech.com or 202-787-2356.
Sponsor: IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group (Washington, Northern Virginia, and Baltimore Chapter)
Cosponsor: Society of Women Engineers
Speakers: Doug Holly, Acterna; Georgia Lindroth, DISA; Katy Johansson, ExxonMobil; Linda Milton, Raytheon
Time: Networking 6:30 pm; dinner 7:00 pm; panel discussion 8:00-9:00 pm
Place: ExxonMobil Fairfax Campus, Conference Room C-17, 3225 Gallows Road, Fairfax, VA
Directions: From I-495 South, take the Gallows Road exit (Exit 51). As you exit, bear to the right. The ExxonMobil Fairfax campus is on your right as you come off the exit ramp. Park in one of the two visitor lots and proceed to a sculpture in the shape of a big red "O" by the doors at the middle of the building. This is the main entrance where you will check in and be escorted through security. From I-495 West/North, take the Gallows Road exit (Exit 51). At the light, turn left onto Gallows Road, then follow the directions from I-495 South.
More Info: Four viewpoints on the most important project management success factors will be presented in a panel discussion. Come prepared with questions! This will be an interactive meeting. For information about the speakers, see Diamond story, below. ASL interpreter services are available if requested by Friday, December 3.
Cost: Free. Catered meal provided by ExxonMobil. Vegetarian entrees available upon request.
Contact: Please RSVP by Wednesday, December 8 to Shalyn Davis at shalyndavis@yahoo.com or 703-961-3612. Include your name, company (for ExxonMobil security), email address, meeting date and topic, and membership information. Please inform Ms. Davis of cancellations at least 24 hours before the meeting date.
There will be no Maryland meeting of the Consultants Network in December.
Over the past two years, the Naval Research Laboratory and the University of Massachusetts (UMass) have been engaged in a collaborative development of dual beam radar interferometry as a method of remotely measuring ocean surface current vectors. In this technique, two independent, along-track interferometric SARs (AT-INSARs), one squinted forward and the other squinted aft of the flight track, are used to extract the full vector surface velocity with only a single aircraft pass. With a standard, single beam AT-INSAR, two (nominally orthogonal) passes are required to estimate the full velocity vector. The experimental effort has centered on the UMass Dual Beam Interferometer (DBI), a C-band system that is fully contained in an aircraft wing pod. This presentation will report the results of a March 2004 DBI deployment over tidal inlets off the coast of Florida in which the technique was demonstrated for the first time. The results of theoretical studies related to the extraction of surface currents from the INSAR measurements will also be summarized.
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The four-speaker panel will include experienced project managers and engineers in an interactive discussion of project management success factors.
Doug Holly is vice president of the Technology Projects Group at Acterna, a telecommunications test and management provider. He is responsible for business development and management of customized customer applications. He has authored several papers and conducts training on project and engineering management. Prior to coming to Acterna, he was a manager at IBM Federal Systems, responsible for the development of avionic computers and systems for the federal government. Holly is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and a Senior Member of IEEE. He is the chairperson of the local IEEE Engineering Management Society and also the chairperson of the local IEEE Communications Society.
Georgia Lindroth holds a senior management position in information technology at Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). She is certified in Program Management in the Department of Defense. Prior to her move to the government, she held project management positions at Digital Equipment Corporation and COMSAT. Lindroth serves on the board of the Project Management Institute, Washington D.C. Chapter, where she has held various offices over the past 15 years.
Dr. Katy Johansson currently leads the Worldwide Cost Data group at ExxonMobil, which gathers and analyzes capital project material, engineering, and labor costs for locations throughout the world. Prior to working at ExxonMobil, Dr. Johansson spent 10 years as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, providing capital project benchmarking, work process training, and engineering software tools implementation. She started her professional career as a research scientist for the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, New York. She has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Rochester.
Linda Milton is senior manager, program management, for Raytheon. She started her career as an officer in the U.S. Air Force and has worked in the defense industry for more than 20 years. Her most recent achievements are associated with managing a +$50M business that supports Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) programs. She has also developed and taught several program management courses for managers and engineers.
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