Pittsburgh Section

Events of 2006

Date

Sponsor

Event

Speaker

 

Location

9-

January-

2006

Signal Processing

Society &

U. of Pgh.

ECE Dept.

Sensor Networks for

Ecological Study

 

Technical

Mr. Gregory

J. Pottie

1175 Benedum Hall

Oakland Campus

University of

Pittsburgh

18-

January-

2006

Computer

Society

Tour of SunGard

 

Tour

Mr. Pat

Bixel

Pittsburgh Internet

Data Center

2202 Liberty Ave.Pittsburgh

19-January-

2006

Pittsburgh

Section

ExCom

Meeting

 

Point Park

University

24-

January-

2006

Consultants

Network

Expanding Your Consulting

Business

Seminar

Mr. Mike

Sylvester

Westinghouse

Energy Center

Monroeville

25-

January-

2006

Power Engineering

Society &

Industry Applications

Society

The Importance of Obtaining

A PE License

Seminar

Mr. Joseph M.

DeSalvo, P.E.

 

Westinghouse

Energy Center

Monroeville

31-

January-

2006

Electromagnetic Compatibility

Society

Frequently Asked Questions

About EMC

Technical

Mr. Elya B.

Joffe

Westinghouse

Energy Center

Monroeville

1-

February-

2006

Electromagnetic Compatibility

Society

Path of Least Inductance Principle

&

Electrophobia or

Why Are People Really Scared Of EM Fields?

Technical

Mr. Elya B.

Joffe

Westinghouse

Energy Center

Monroeville

6-

February-

2006

Upper Mon

Subsection

Parallel—WDM Optical

Interconnects for Multi Terabaud Computer Backplanes

Technical

Dr. Brian E.

Lemoff

Room G39

Engineering Sciences Building

West Virginia University

13-

February-

2006

PES/IAS

AEE

AFE

Impact of Power Quality on

Facilities Management

 

Technical

Mr. Dan Carnovale

&

Mr. Tom Dionise

Eaton Electrical

Services and Systems

Warrendale, PA

13-

February-

2006

Upper Mon

Subsection

MOVPE Grown InAs

Quantum Dots for

Nanostructured PV

Technical

Mr. Seth

Hubbard

Room G39

Engineering Sciences Building

West Virginia University

15-February-

2006

Medicine

and

Biology Society

Transmitting Information and Delivering Power to

Implantable Devices Using the Body as a Cable

Technical

Dr. Mingui

Sun

424 Benedum Hall

University of

Pittsburgh

Oakland Campus

16-February-

2006

Pittsburgh

Section

ExCom

Meeting

 

Point Park

University

18-

February-

2006

 

Engineers Week

IEEE Table

 

Carnegie Science Center

18-

February-

2006

Computer

Society

Engineers Week

IndEEE

Robot Car Race

 

Carnegie Science Center

20-

February-

2006

Upper Mon

Subsection

Magnetic Resonance

Microscopy

Technical

Sendhil

Velan

Room G39

Engineering Sciences Building

West Virginia University

24-

February-

2006

Communications

Society

Random Coding Bounds on

Concatenated Space-Time

Transmission over MIMO Multiple Access Systems

Technical

Dr. Heung-No

Lee

Room 404

IS Building

135 N Bellefield Ave

Pittsburgh

28-

February-

2006

Consultants

Network

Meeting

 

Westinghouse Energy Center

Monroeville

16-

March-

2006

Robotics

Society

EXCOM Meeting

Robotics—The Next Level

Technical

Dr. Guy

Nicoletti

University Of Pittsburgh

Greensburg

25-

March-

2006

Power

Engineering Society &

Industry Applications

Society

Grounding and Bonding

Class

 

Continuing Education

Mr. Joe

Tedesco

Westinghouse

Energy Center

Monroeville

28-

March-

2006

Consultants

Network

What You Always Wanted to Ask a Lawyer but Were

Afraid to

Mr. Matt

D’Emillio,

Lawyer

Westinghouse

Energy Center

Monroeville

29-

March-

2006

Computer

Society

Application Modernization -

A How - to Guide

Mr. Greg

Akins

TBD

6-

April-

2006

Power

Engineering Society &

Industry Applications

Society

MBAs for Engineers

 

Continuing Education

Ms.Laurie

Stewart

Westinghouse

Energy Center

Monroeville

11-

April-

2006

Life

Member

Affinity

Group

Current Developments in Patents and Intellectual Property and Their

Significance

Seminar

Mr. Daniel C.

Abeles

George Westinghouse Technical Center

Bldg. 801

Room 2C14

12-

April-

2006

Signal

Processing

Chapter

Statistical Signal Processing For Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks

Technical

Professor

Xiaodong

Wang

424 Benedum Hall

University of Pittsburgh

Oakland Campus

18-

April-

2006

PACE

&

GOLD

Law School for Engineers -

A Powerful Combination

Continuing Education

Mr. Joseph P.

Campion

1175 Benedum Hall

University of Pittsburgh

Oakland Campus

19-

April-

2006

Computer

Society

Outsourcing America

Book Discussion and Signing

Seminar

Dr. Ron

Hira

1175 Benedum Hall

University of Pittsburgh

Oakland Campus

20-

April-

2006

 

Annual History Dinner -

History of Blackouts

Dinner Social Meeting

Mr. Stan

Horowitz

Westinghouse Castle

Wilmerding

25-

April-

2006

Consultants

Network

Inside Neural Networks:

A Technology and

Application Tour

Technical

Mr. Jack

Copper

Westinghouse

Energy Center

Monroeville

26-April-2006

To

18-October

2006

Power Engineering Society &

Industry Applications

Society

Fundamentals of Engineering

Review Course

 

Continuing Education

Mr. Joe

Desalvo

Westinghouse

Energy Center

Monroeville

11-May-

2006

ElectroMagnetic

Compatibility

Society

ElectroMagnetic Compatibility:

An Overview

Technical

Mr. Harry

Godlewski

Westinghouse

Energy Center

Monroeville

17-May-

2006

Computer

Society

Pittsburgh Vision 20/10 Initiative

Lecture

Mr. John

Twigg

1175 Benedum Hall

University of Pittsburgh

Oakland Campus

31-May-

2006

Power Engineering

Society &

Industry Applications

Society

High Voltage Circuit Breaker

Design and Application

 

Technical

Mr. Aftab Khan

Westinghouse

Energy Center

Monroeville

14-June

and

21-June-

2006

Power Engineering Society &

Industry Applications

Society

2005

National Electrical Code

And Applications Course

Continuing Education

Mr. Steve

Musial, P.E.

CJL Engineering

1550 Coraopolis Heights Road,

Suite 340

Moon Township

21-June-

2006

Computer

Society

Pittsburgh Vision

20/10 Initiative

Mr. John

Twigg

University of Pittsburgh

Room 1175  Benedum Hall

27-

June-

2006

Consultants

Network

Meeting

 

Westinghouse

Energy Center

Monroeville

28-

June-

2006

Power Engineering Society &

Industry Applications

Society

Inverters and Motor

Insulation

 

Technical

Mr. J. Franklin

Roach

And

Mr. Keith Sueker

Westinghouse

Energy Center

Monroeville

12-

July-

2006

Power

Engineering Society &

Industry Applications

Society

A History of Thrills—

Roller Coasters

 

Technical

Mr. David

Markus

And

Mr. David

Altman

Westinghouse

Energy Center

Monroeville

19-

July-

2006

Computer

Society

Improving  the Status of

Engineering in the

United States

Lecture

Dr. Ralph

Wyndrum, Jr.

Software Engineering

Institute

Carnegie Mellon University

8-

August-

2006

Professional Activities Committee (PACE} &

Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD)

Patent Reform, Immigration Innovation and IEEE Government Relation Internships

 

Lecture

Miss Erica R.

Wissolik

University of Pittsburgh

Room 360

Benedum Hall

11-

August-

2006

Power

Engineering Society &

Industry Applications

Society

An Evening at PNC Park with the Pittsburgh Pirates

and

 St. Louis Cardinals

Social

 

PNC Park

14-

September-

2006

Life Member

Chapter

Maxwell’s Equations and

Entrepreneurship— How I Went to Wall Street to Make a Business out of Field Theory

Lecture

Dr. Zoltan

Cendes

Building 801,

Room 2C14

George Westinghouse Technical Center

Churchill

20-

September-

2006

Communications

Society and

Pitt’s School of Information Science

Verizon FiOS—Building the Next Generation Residential Pipe for Voice, Video and Data Convergence and Beyond

Technical

Mr. William Garret

University of Pittsburgh

School of Information Science Building, Room 405

20-

September-

2006

Electromagnetic Compatibility

Society

The New Electromagnetic Compatibility Direrctive

Technical

Mr.Gary  Fenical

Westinghouse

Energy Center

Monroeville

27-

September-

2006

Signal Processing Society

Ubiquitous Multimedia Computing and Communication:

Challenges and Future Trends

Technical

Professor C. C.

Jay Kuo

424 Benedum Hall

University of Pittsburgh

Oakland Campus

27-

September-

2006

Power

Engineering Society &

Industry Applications

Society

Challenges of the Modern Transmission Grid

 

Technical

From

PJM-West

Westinghouse

Energy Center

Monroeville

28-

September-

2006

Magnetics

Society

Spin Electronics

Technical

Professor Michael Coey

Seagate Research Center, Auditorium

1251 Waterfront Place

Pittsburgh

30-

September-

2006

Pittsburgh

Section

Gateway Clipper Captain’s

Dinner Dance Cruise

Social

 

Station Square

Pittsburgh

26-April

to

18-October-

2006

Power

Engineering Society &

Industry Applications

Society

Fundamentals of Engineering

Review Course

 

Continuing Education

Mr. Joe

Desalvo

Westinghouse

Energy Center

Monroeville

2-

October-

2006

Upper Mon

Section

Optimal SINR Control and Rate Allocation in Random Access

Technical

Dr. Navid

 Ehsan

West Virginia University

Room 113  Materials and Resources Building

9-

October-

2006

Upper Mon

Section

Biologically Inspired Signal

Processing Using Programmable Analog Circuitry

Technical

Dr. David

Graham

West Virginia University

Room 113  Materials and Resources Building

11-

October-

2006

Magnetics Society

And

Optical Society of America

Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

Technical

Mr. Michael

Seigler, PhD

Seagate Research Center, Auditorium

1251 Waterfront Place

Pittsburgh

11-

October-

2006

Student Activities and IEEE Pittsburgh Section

Engineering Ethics-Individual and
Corporate Responsibility

Lecture

Mr. Joseph

DeSalvo, P.E.

University of Pittsburgh

424 Benedum Hall

Oakland Campus

12-

October-

2006

Electromagnetic Compatibility

Society

Testing for EMC Compliance:

Approaches and Techniques

Technical

Mr. Ed

Nakauchi

Westinghouse

Energy Center

Monroeville

16-

October-

2006

Upper Mon

Section

Electric Drive Transportation and EE Grad Students:  Powerful Weapons in America’s Arsenal for the Battle Against Our Addiction to Oil and the Terrorists Funded by it

Lecture

Mr. Charlie

Garlow, Atty

West Virginia University

Room 113  Materials and Resources Building

19-

October-

2006

Life Member

Chapter

Toward the Creation of the Humanoid

Technical

Dr. Guy

Nicoletti

University of Pittsburgh

Chambers Hall

Greensburg Campus

23-October-

2006

Upper Mon

Section

Micro and Nano Fabrication

Technical

Dr. Xian-An Cao

West Virginia University

Room 113  Materials and Resources Building

3-

November-

2006

Communications Society and the University of Pittsburgh’s Telecom Program & ITERA Chapter

Seminar:  Analyzing the Growth of Mobile Telecommunication Services in Developing Countries

 

Seminar

Dr. Varadharajan

Sridhar

University of Pittsburgh

Room 404,

SIS Building

Oakland Campus

4- November-

2006

Power

Engineering Society &

Industry Applications

Society

Substation Integration

And

Automation Tutorial

 

Tutorial

Mr. John D.

McDonald, P.E.

Westinghouse

Energy Center

Monroeville

9- November-

2006

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

Basic Concepts and Principles of Automatic Control and Neurocontrol

Tutorial

Dr. Zhi-Hong

Mao

University of Pittsburgh

Room 360,

Benedum Hall

21- November-

2006

GOLD

Graduates of the Last Decade

Penn Brewery Tour and Dinner

 

Pennsylvania Brewing Company

800 Vinial Street, Pittsburgh