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Monday, June 4, 2012 
Talk: Smart Appliances and 
           How They Save Energy Costs
Speaker: Charlotte Skidmore, Director, 
               Energy & Environmental Policy Association of 
               Home Appliance Manufacturers, Washington, DC
Place: Delmarva Conference Center, (see directions below)
Time: Buffet Dinner: 6:30 PM; Program: 7:15 pm

Reply to either Doug Tipton (doug_tipton@ieee.org) if you can plan to attend. There is no charge for attendance for IEEE members and their guests, but we need a head count so we have enough food.

Abstract:
Charlotte will speak to the level of energy savings that we can expect from installing "smart" appliances, and what design criteria the manufacturers are using. The talk will also be directed to what improvement in functional features to expect, and what form the "keyboard" and "monitor" will take. We can also expect interaction with "smart" devices, such as IPhones, Android, etc. This meeting should be of interest to members and spouses, so we anticipate a larger than usual attendance. 

Speaker Bio:
Charlotte Skidmore serves as the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturer’s (AHAM) Director of Energy & Environmental Policy. Ms. Skidmore provides technical and policy analysis of top AHAM issues such as smart grid and leads the appliance industry’s Smart Grid Task Force, as well as providing technical support for extended producer responsibility and sustainability. Ms. Skidmore was selected for the newly created position in 2011, to manage AHAM’s extensive energy and environmental policy agenda. 

Prior to joining AHAM, Ms. Skidmore served as Associate Director of Environment and Regulation for the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). Also, Ms. Skidmore worked as a Program Examiner at the White House Office of Management and Budget and as a Legislative Assistant for energy and environmental issues in the US House of Representatives. Her previous experience also includes work as an environmental engineer in government for the Georgia Environmental Protection Division and the private sector for Waste Management Inc. 

Ms. Skidmore holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Civil and Environmental engineering from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from George Washington University. 

Directions to Delmarva Conference Center:
Search Google maps for 4100 South Wakefield Drive:

• Going south on I-95, exit at route 273 south (exit 3), which goes into University Plaza. 
• Maneuver into the right most lane as soon as you can, and look to turn right onto Chapman road almost immediately after you cross over I-95. 
• Go past a left into the shopping center, past another left at Lawrence Road, and turn left at the next road, which is North Wakefield Drive. 
• Travel for a few hundred yards until you come to Wakefield Boulevard going left. At this intersection, North Wakefield Drive changes it's name to South Wakefield Drive. 
• There are several Conectiv office buildings to the left, but you want to start looking for a road (not named) that goes to the right and past some tennis courts and into a park. 
• The building at the end of this short road is where you want to go. There is parking just past the building and in the front. 
• If you go too far, you will see North Wakefield Boulevard on your left again (it loops around)--turn around and look for a road going to the left.

Abstract:
Smart Grid technologies are changing rapidly with 100s of devices, multiple protocols, multiple buses, and hundreds of vendors raising interoperability issues, and generating massive amounts of data that needs to be stored and readily available for operators to quickly make decisions. One way to help address these challenges, is to push decision making and intelligence closer to the grid as well as use instruments that are able to continuously adapt to evolving requirements to achieve faster response times and better bandwidth utilization. This presentation is intended to introduce the distributed intelligence concept as well as discuss smart grid-ready instrumentation. A case study and demonstration will also be presented.

Product Description:
The NI Smart Grid Analyzer, an intelligent electronic device designed for substation and distribution grid monitoring and management.

Key features include:

• High-performance embedded platform
• High-speed data acquisition up to 833 samples/cycle
• High fidelity ADCs with 24 bits of resolution
• Scalable, modular I/O with built-in signal conditioning for voltage, 
  current & digital I/O
• Multiple ports and multiple protocols for communication
• Dual-ethernet, multi-serial RS232 & RS485
• TCP/IP, UDP, Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP, IEC-60870, DNP3.0 & IEC-61850
• Rugged design with -40 to 70 C operating temperature
• Advanced, real-time signal processing & filtering
• Standard 4GB storage

Directions to Delmarva Office Center:

• Turn onto Eagle Run Road, and proceed to the guard shack
• Sign in. 
• Then proceed around to the front of the Office Center Building, which faces route 273, park and come in front entrance.

Monday, July 16, 2012

Talk: Current Status of Nuclear Power in the U.S. and
           Other Countries
Speaker: TBA
Place: Delmarva Office Center, located at intersection of Route 273 
           and Eagle Run Road. (see directions below)
Time: Buffet Dinner: 6:30 PM; Program: 7:15 pm

Reply to either Doug Tipton (doug_tipton@ieee.org) if you can plan to attend. There is no charge for attendance for IEEE members and their guests, but we need a head count so we have enough food.

Directions to Delmarva Office Center:

• Turn onto Eagle Run Road, and proceed to the guard shack
• Sign in. 
• Then proceed around to the front of the Office Center Building, which faces route 273, park and come in front entrance.