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Southern New Jersey Professional Societies
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Combined business meetings of the Southern New Jersey professional societies
When: Generally held on the third or fourth Wednedsay of the month from September through May at 6:30 pm
Where: Mays Landing Golf and Country Club, Frasier Room, 1855 Cates Road, Mays Landing, NJ -- Directions at www.mayslandinggolf.com
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Speaker: John Wiley, FAA Manager, Technical Strategies and Integration, Wm J
Hughes Technical Center
The Next Generation Air Transportation
System (NextGen) introduces new operational concepts and
complex system-of-systems. The potential for one system to
affect the performance and end use of another system is
greater as systems become more integrated. Testing will be
more difficult as operational concepts changes. National
Airspace System (NAS) components become part of the
aircraft, and technology and procedural changes are
initiated. As the NAS transforms into the next generation of
complex systems -of-systems, many verification and
validation challenges will occur. These challenges, as well
as solutions such as best practices and life cycle
verification and validation, will be discussed.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Speaker: Roger Launius, AIAA Distinguished Lecturer and Senior Curator of the
Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
Both Venus and Mars have captured the human
imagination during the 20th century as possible abodes of
life. Venus had long enchanted humans-especially after
astronomers realized it was shrouded by clouds permanently
hiding the surface from view. Mars also harbored interest,
with its observed seasonal changes, as a place where life
had existed or might still exist. These ideas were
significantly altered, if not dashed, during the space age.
Missions to Venus and Mars revealed strikingly different
worlds. While hopes for Venus as an abode for life ended,
the search for evidence of past life on Mars, possibly
microbial, remains a central theme in space exploration.
This survey explores the evolution of thinking about the
climates of Venus and Mars as life-support systems, in
comparison to Earth.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Speaker: Scott Engle, Villanova University, PhD Candidate
Scott Engle graduated from Villanova University with a B.S. In Astronomy & Astrophysics. He is currently a Research Associate at Villanova completing his final work on his PhD. His ongoing research deals with ground-based photometry of variable stars and space-based observations of their UV to X-ray emissions. He has worked with data from the Hubble, Chandra, XMMM, IUE, FUSE, GALES and Spitzer satellites, has approved observation programs for the MOST and BRITE Constellation satellites, and has 30 plus research publications to his credit. The Secret Lives of Cepheids Program is an ongoing study being carried out at VU of the brightness and radial velocity changes of classical Cepheids over time, along with their high-temperature emissions. In some cases, over 100 years of observations have been collected and analyzed. We have also made the surprising recent discovery of strong FUV emissions in two bright, nearby Classical Cepheids from analyses of FUSE archival observations and one of our own observations just prior to the failure of the satellite. This phenomenon has never before been observed in Cepheids.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Speaker: Arlene Feldman, Esq., President, New Jersey Aviation Assn. (NJAA)
Arlene Butler Feldman is an attorney and pilot who has played a leading role in aviation for many years. She will enlighten us with a brief history of New Jersey general aviation and an overview of our airports, their importance and the economic benefits that they bring. She will also describe what NJAA does to protect and preserve aviation in our state. Ms. Feldman is the former FAA Regional Administrator, Eastern Region, and Deputy Director, FAA Technical Center.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Speaker: Donald Hall, PE, PEPCO Holding Co.
The speaker will present an overview of today’s electric power system in Southern New Jersey and hints of things to come. Power procurement, transmission, distribution, and something called the Smart Grid. The speaker is a Senior Supervising Engineer in the System Planning Group of Asset Management at Pepco Holdings Inc. (parent company of Atlantic City Electric) where his major responsibilities include supervision of power distribution system load forecasting, modeling, analysis, planning and design as well as internal consulting on the corporation’s Smart Grid initiatives. The topic discussed will address all of these elements of the power distribution system and as well as the futuristic Smart Grid.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Speaker: Jim Wain
Communication systems provide important tools for managing transportation and assisting with the security of public surface transportation systems. A variety of technologies are utilized that include, wire, radio and optical systems. This presentation will examine various communication systems used by two of the United States’ largest surface public transportation companies, NJ Transit (NJT) and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). The purpose and attributes of the systems will be discussed as well as an overview of the underlying enabling technologies.
Jim Wain has over thirty years of experience working in all aspects of communications and electronic systems for NJ Transit and the SEPTA. Duties have included communications and electronic systems Maintenance, Maintenance Management, Engineering, and Project Management of systems design, construction and implementation. He also has fifteen years of part time experience working with Avionic communications and navigation systems with the NJANG 177th Fighter Wing, Atlantic City International Airport. Jim is currently employed by SEPTA as a Senior Project Engineer. Duties include project management of design, construction and implementation of communications and electronics systems. He also represents SEPTA on an international Technology and Engineering Security Roundtable. He is a senior member of IEEE.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Speaker: Confesor Santiago, FAA Wm J. Hughes Technical Center AJP-661
Please join us for a delicious dinner and an interesting presentation on ATC decision support software. In the current air transportation system, Decision Support Tools (DSTs) aid Air Traffic Controllers in monitoring air traffic in order to maintain minimum separation standards between aircraft. These automated systems provide this service by predicting aircraft flight paths (trajectories), in order to foretell potential conflicts. The User Request Evaluation Tool (URET), developed by MITRE Corporation’s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development, is an example of a DST, currently in operational use. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has developed a new air traffic control system to replace URET. This system is called ERAM, for En Route Automation Modernization, and is being developed by the Lockheed Martin Corporation. After the Factory Acceptance Test Run for Record (RFR), a study was conducted by the FAA’s Conflict Probe Assessment Team in support of the testing and evaluation of ERAM’s trajectory prediction accuracy and strategic conflict probe. This presentation will describe the partnership between the FAA and Rowan University established to develop visualization tools that aid FAA analysts in evaluating DST test data, most notably from the ERAM RFR. He will also describe various features of these visualization tools, how they were instituted during the study and success stories resulting from the collaboration.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Speaker: Mike McNeil, FAA Surveillance Team Manager
As the manager for FAA WJHTC Surveillance Systems, Mike is responsible for overseeing the local activities for the Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B) program. The ADS-B program recently received the Collier Trophy -a notable distinction- as outstanding US aeronautical program.
Mike hails from right here in Pomona, NJ. He earned his BS in Electrical/Electronics Engineering from Drexel University in 1982. His engineering career with the FAA has included testing surveillance systems such as Mode S. In 1998, he began working on the ADS-B and Safe Flight 21 programs. He has guided the FAA WJHTC ADS-B activities including test beds, software simulations, deployment of East Coast Broadcast system, RTCA avionics standards work and testing.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Speaker: Lee Spanier
Developing airport passenger checkpoint and cargo inspection systems is a high dollar, monumentally complex task with results that impact all of us. Mr. Spanier has been deeply involved in the formulation, development and testing of these systems and has managed $25M per year development efforts with a team of 20. He currently serves as the Team Lead for Independent Test and Evaluation and directs teams conducting lab assessment & qualification testing for the Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration (TSA). His efforts provide counsel to the TSA's Chief Technology Officer responsible for inspection systems valued at $250M+ and located at over 2000 checkpoints at nearly 500 airports. Mr. Spanier's presentation will enlighten us on some of the engineering challenges which Homeland Security faces and will provide selected examples of engineering solutions. Mr. Spanier is also a USAF Lt. Col reservist based at the Electronic systems Center in Boston, MA.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
STUDENT NIGHT 2008
We will be honoring three separate groups of students
The winners of the Jersey Shore Science Fair AIAA and IEEE prizes who will tell about their projects and their experiences at the regional science fair in Philadelphia. TIME: 5 minutes each, includes and question/answer period.
Rowan University's Engineers Without Borders who will explain what they do to improve life for less fortunate folks at home and abroad. The students from Rowan will 'show and tell' the past successes and future plans. Both IEEE and AIAA have agreed to provide a donation to EWB in the amount of $50.00 per organization. [NOTE: All donations are tax deductable so why not follow the Section’s good example?] TIME: 30 minutes includes question/answer period.
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey IEEE Student Award winners from the 2007 banquet will be discussing the research projects that they are persuing, lessons learned, and future plans for research in their areas of expertise. TIME: 20 minutes includes question/answer period.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
TOPIC: Complex Systems: Concepts, Concerns, and Pitfalls
Speaker: Dana Whicker, Computer Scientist, Engility Corporation / Target Generation Facility
Please join us for Dana Whicker's interesting and thought provoking presentation on Complex Systems. The new and rapidly-developing science of complex systems theory seeks to understand and manage systems whose properties and behavior can not be determined by just looking at their subsystems. Examples include: the NextGen Air Traffic Control system, the environment, and educational and political systems. This presentation will explore some of the latest concepts of complex systems theory, ways the subsystems can interact, and issues in managing and predicting the behavior of complex systems.
Thursday,
February 21, 2008
TOPIC: ERIDS (EnRoute Information Display System)
Speaker: Catherine A Jaggard, 2007 Engineer of the Year Award Recipient, and Azanda Laboy-Vogt , Apptis Corp.
Azanda and Cathy will discuss the ERIDS (Enroute Information Display System) and its capabilities. ERIDS, one of several FAA initiatives to bring the agency into a paperless environment, supplies en route air traffic controllers with static information, such as procedures, approach plates, maps and charts. Automating the display of this data has been widely acknowledged as a positive step in the continuing evolution of the air traffic control
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
TOPIC: Verification and Validation (V&V) Protocol of Operations
Speaker:
John Frederick, 2007 Technical Leadership Award Recipient
This presentation on the new Verification
and Validation (V&V)
Protocol of Operations will provide an overview of the
concepts, drivers, benefits, plans, and objectives for
implementing improved T&E processes and practices that adopt
industry best practices and the CMMI verification and
validation model. The
presentation will also focus on strategies for implementing
improvements and changes to the role of testing as well as
how testing is planned, conducted, and reported in the FAA
Air Traffic Organization (
Wednesday October 17, 2007
TOPIC:
Flying into the 21st Century:
The Federal Aviation Administration's Quest for Modernization, 1977-2007
Speaker: Dr. Terry Kraus, Research and Development Office Analyst
Dr. Terry Kraus has served in a variety of federal government positions for over 20 years.
Prior to joining the FAA in 1991, she worked for the U.S. Army Center of Military History where she co-authored and edited the official history of Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm. She holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland, has numerous historical publications in military and aviation magazines and journals, and has authored several books and book chapters.
In celebration of the FAA's 2008 50th anniversary celebration, Dr. Kraus has been asked to write volume 6 in the FAA's history series. This monograph will focus on the FAA's efforts to modernize - technology, organization, policy - as it works to enhance safety, security, and efficiency of the national airspace system in the thirty years spanning 1977-2007.Wednesday September 19, 2007
TOPIC:
Building Your Team
and Education in the Workplace
Speaker: Dr. Dianne Dorland, Dean of Engineering, Rowan University
Dr. Dorland received her B.S. and M.S. in chemical engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 1969 and 1970. A licensed professional engineer, she has worked with DuPont, Union Carbide and the Department of Energy, with expertise in the areas of pollution prevention and hazardous waste management for a variety of industries. Her presentation will prove beneficial to all team, project and program managers. She is an enjoyable, dynamic presenter with a great sense of humor.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
TOPIC: History of Naval Air Station Wildwood and the NAS Aviation Museum
Speaker: Dr. Joseph Salvatore, Chair & Co-Founder, NAS Wildwood Aviation Museum
Please join the Southern New Jersey Professional Societies for a delicious dinner and informative presentation on aviation history and growth of the Wildwood Aviation Museum located in Cape May. Dr. Salvatore loves his job, loves story telling and has a great sense of humor. Since the Naval Air Station Wildwood was commissioned in April 1943 as a divebomber training facility, the facility has contributed to the rich aviation history of southern New Jersey. Dr. Salvatore is a member of the NJ Historical Commission and serves as Chair for the NAS Wildwood Aviation Museum.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
TOPIC: Problem Solving and Multi Robot Coordination
Speaker: Vincent Cicirello PhD, Stockton College
Please join the Southern New Jersey Professional Societies for a delicious dinner and a thought-provoking presentation on problem solving and application to robotics. Dr. Vincent Cicirello is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. He received his Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003 where his research focused on heuristic search, multi-agent coordination, and scheduling. Dr. Cicirello's research interests are primarily in applied artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, evolutionary computation, and metaheuristics.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
TOPIC: World Trade Center Issues, Facts and Misconceptions
Speaker: Jim Quintiere PhD, University of Maryland
Please join the Southern New Jersey Professional Societies for a delicious dinner and a thought-provoking presentation on World Trade Center issues, facts and misconceptions. Dr. Jim Quintiere from the University of Maryland will be our speaker.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
TOPIC: Aviation Industry Forecasts for Growth and Factors Affecting Growth
Speaker: Manager, MITRE/CAASD
Please join the Southern New Jersey Professional Societies for a delicious dinner and a thought - provoking presentation about forecasts for growth and factors affecting the growth of the aviation industry. The manager is from the MITRE team that created the ATO forecasts for Russ Chew. This is an expansion on the forecasts that Russ Chew shared with managers at the ATO Management Summit.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
TOPIC: Airspace & Airport Modeling & Simulation – Answering “What If”
Questions for the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS)
Speaker: Jennifer Morris, Manager, Capacity Modeling & Analysis
Please join us for this interesting and informative presentation. Ms. Morris will brief on the fast-time computer simulation modeling being performed at the FAA’s Wm J Hughes Technical Center. As the airports become more congested, FAA's Capacity Modeling & Analysis Group provides the technical expertise to help the nation make decisions about building new runways and taxiways, preparing for the introduction of the huge Airbus A380 at U.S. airports, and modifying airspace to meet the needs of the Next Generation Air Transportation System. She has over 19 years of fast-time modeling experience to support airport and airspace capacity and will demonstrate two of the simulation models which FAA uses to plan improvements and make data driven decisions.
Wednesday October 18, 2006
TOPIC: FAA Research in Airport Lighting and Signage for Safer Landings and Pilot Operations
Speaker: Holly Cyrus, FAA Project Manager, Aircraft Safety and Airport R&D
Please join the Southern New Jersey Professional Societies for a delicious dinner and thought provoking presentation on research conducted at the Wm J Hughes Technical Center to improve terminal operations flight safety. Our nation has seen numerous aviation fatalities occur while aircraft are taxiing on the airport surface, departing, or arriving to the runways. In poor visibility conditions, pilots depend heavily on airport lighting and signage systems. The Aircraft Safety and Airport R&D Team is conducting research that will result in safer landings, departures, and operational use of runways. Ms. Cyrus will discuss leading edge research that will improve airport signage, lighting, and pavement marking. Additionally, she will discuss lighting research relative to technologies such a wind turbines and LEDs. She will address issues such as:
September 20, 2006
TOPIC: Considerations for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the National Air Space
Speaker: Butch Sneade, NAVMAR
Mr. Butch Sneade and his team will brief their real life experiences with UAVs as well as the development process. Mr. Sneade brings a real life perspective to this subject area since he has long followed the development of UAVs and has a strong sense for future development and potential impact.
Please join us for this interesting presentation since UAVs will be in our airspace and in our future, and forecasters tell us that, in the next 50 years, they expect that UAVs will be commonplace in the NAS. Mr. Sneade's insight regarding their impact on the NAS will be informative and thought provoking.
June 28, 2006
TOPIC: Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
Speaker: Dr. Seth Shostak, SETI Institute Senior Astronomer
Please join the Southern New Jersey Professional Societies for a delicious dinner and thought provoking presentation.
Dr. Seth Shostak is an astronomer with a BA in physics from Princeton and a PhD in astronomy from Caltech, and his life's work is involved with the Institute's Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence research. Dr. Shostak is also responsible for much of the outreach activities of the Institute. He is science editor for "The Explorer", gives more than 50 talks annually for both academic and general audiences, and writes magazine articles (and books) about SETI. He also teaches informal education classes on astronomy and other topics in the Bay Area, and is the inventor of the electrical banana, a circumstance he claims has had little positive effect on his life. He is the host for the SETI Institute's weekly radio program Are We Alone?
Before coming to SETI, Seth did research work on galaxies using radio telescopes at observatories and universities in America and Europe. His avocations include photography, filmmaking, and electronics.
Wednesday April 19, 2006
TOPIC: Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum (RVSM)
Speaker: Brian Colamosca, FAA
Please join the Southern New Jersey Professional Societies for a delicious dinner and thought provoking presentation about Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum, RVSM. Mr. Colamosca with be discussing the RVSM program that reduces the vertical separation between flight level (FL) 290-410 from 2000 ft to 1000 ft and makes six additional FLs available for operation. The additional FLs enable more aircraft to fly more time/fuel efficient profiles and provides the potential for enhanced airspace capacity. RVSM operators must receive authorization from the appropriate civil aviation authority and the aircraft must meet required equipage and altitude-keeping performance standards.
Wednesday March 22, 2006
TOPIC: Recent Advances in Aircraft Fire Safety R&D
Speaker: Constantine (Gus)Sarkos, WJHTC
Please join the Southern New Jersey Professional Societies for a delicious dinner and thought provoking presentation about the Recent Advances in Aircraft Fire Safety R&D.
SPEAKER: Constantine P. (Gus) Sarkos
Gus Sarkos manages the Fire Safety Branch at the Federal Aviation Administration’s William J. Hughes Technical Center near Atlantic City, New Jersey. The Fire Safety Branch conducts the FAA’s Aircraft Fire Safety R&D Program and operates the most extensive civil aircraft fire test facilities in the world. He is the author of over 50 technical papers and reports related to aircraft fire safety.
The Fire Safety Branch conducts the FAA's Aircraft Fire Safety R&D Program.The majority of the work is done in-house in the extensive and unique fire test facilities in the R&D area. Over the past five or so years, two important safety improvements were developed that are being implemented in large commercial transport aircraft. The first development was improved fire test standards for thermal acoustic insulation, designed to both prevent in-flight fires and improve postcrash fire survivability. On September 2, 2005 any newly manufactured large transport or any in-service airplane having insulation blankets being replaced, must employ insulation materials compliant with the new in-flight fire test standard. The second development was a relatively simple and cost effective fuel tank inerting system, designed to prevent fuel tank explosions. On November 18, 2005 the FAA issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would require operators and manufacturers of large transport aircraft to "greatly reduce the chances of catastrophic fuel tank explosions" through flammability reduction means such as fuel tank inerting. The proposed rule would apply to more than 3200 aircraft in the existing fleet as well as newly manufactured aircraft. Boeing has already adapted the FAA inerting system design and has begun installing these systems on new 747's. This presentation will describe the background and testing leading to these fire safety improvements.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
TOPIC: Aircraft Icing
Speaker: Christopher Dumont, FAA Icing Project Lead, Aircraft Safety and Airport R&D Division
Christopher Dumont is an Aviation Safety Counselor and FAA's Propulsion Icing Project Lead in the Flight Safety Branch of the Aircraft Safety and Airport R&D Division, Office of Operations Planning. He has been performing research on aircraft icing for 16 years. In addition to his research expertise, Chris is also a Certificated Instrument Flight Instructor and has bee flying for more than 20 years. He is an active Aviation Safety Counselor and regularly educates the pilot community at FAA sponsored Aviation Safety Seminars on various topics including the dangers or aircraft icing and best practices to identify, avoid, and cope with inadvertent flight into icing conditions.
Airframe ice is hazardous to safe flying; even small accumulations of ice adhering to critical aircraft surfaces can severely impair aircraft performance. This presentation will cover the basic concepts of aircraft icing including how and why it forms, and how it negatively affects aircraft performance. This is done through animated slides that help the audience learn these concepts through visualization.
Wednesday October 19, 2005
Topic: Renewable Energy in New Jersey: Technology, Policy and Economics
Speaker: Dr. Peter Jansonn
Are you happy with gas prices? Ever wonder why we are going to Mars instead of actively pursuing a Manhattan Project on alternative energy? Well, perhaps there’s hope. New Jersey public policy has vaulted our State into leadership in photovoltaic technologies through rebates and market pricing mechanisms. The readiness of Photovoltaic (PV) and Wind Technologies for commercial exploitation in the State will be presented and the impact of New Jersey Clean Energy Program incentives on the economic paybacks of these green electricity technologies will be discussed. This talk will describe how each technology works, the NJ resources for wind and PV and the ways they are currently being implemented in residential and commercial applications. These technologies are now approaching economic paybacks of less than 5 years.
Dr. Peter Jansonn, our featured speaker, is an associate professor for electrical engineering at Rowan University. He received a BSCE from MIT, worked for Atlantic City Electric for nearly 20 years and then earned an MScEE from Rowan and a Ph.D. from University of Cambridge. He has over 20 years experience in the energy, engineering and consulting businesses and has interests in numerous research areas including: renewable energy, innovation in electricity and industrial sustainability etc.
Wednesday September 21, 2005
Topic: The Next Generation Air Traffic System: The Concept and Planned Spring Demo
Speaker: Adam Greco
Please join the Southern New Jersey Professional Societies for a delicious dinner and thought provoking presentation about the Next Generation Air Traffic System (NGATS), and the exciting demo that will be conducted by the Technical Center for the Air Traffic Organization. Adam Greco, the presenter and NGATS Demo Project Manager, is an Account Manager for the Integrated Engineering Service at the Technical Center. He previously served as an Air Traffic Controller, Supervisor, Air Traffic Manager and branch and project manager for numerous efforts including large-scale ATC simulations and most recently the highly visible and successful Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) Demo at Danville, Virginia. His interpretation of the NGATS concept and the ideas and plans that he has formulated for the Spring ’06 NGATS Demo are imaginative and stimulating. This concept represents the Agency’s plans for the Air Traffic System of 2025. It involves substantial changes from today’s system and includes substantial engineering, technical and CHI challenges. Come learn about this multi-billion dollar project and the planned demo. Provide any feedback you may have to Adam about the Demo and ways to enhance it.
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
TOPIC: Design of a Rough Terrain
Autonomous Vehicle
SPEAKER: Mark Adkins, Stephen Saudargas, Brett Ziller, et. al.
A "home made" vehicle that tracks over rough terrain and follows a prescribed course on its own! Chassis, software, digital compass, GPS, ultrasonic sensors and all the rest designed, built and integrated by this College of New Jersey student team for their first time entrance into the (13th) Annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition to be held on June 11 - 13th at a Midwest location. Would you trust this vehicle or a similar one to one day safely navigate and carry you through our nations highways or over rough terrain? Come join us in hearing how this team designed and built their vehicle and how technology of this type may be in our future.
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
TOPIC: Joint Program Development Office
(JPDO)
SPEAKER: Karl Grundmann, Director of Communications, JPDO
The newly formed interagency Joint Program Development Office )JPDO) has become the focal point for all development activities associated with the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS) and many programs and processes associated with the evolution of today's National Airspace System (NAS) to meet the challenges of the future. The William J. Hughes Technical Center has been designated as the location that will serve as the focal point for JPDO research and development. Most of the Technical Center's activities will be aligned to support JPDO initiatives. The JPDO is jointly managed by FAA and NASA, with guidance provided by a steering committee consisting of seven government organizations including the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The collective R&D budgets of the JPDO constituents exceeds a billion dollars. Mr. Karl Grundmann, our featured speaker is a NASA employee who has held various FAA positions and is currently the JPDO Communications Director and a member of the JPDO team led by Mr. Charles Keegan.
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
TOPIC: Electromagnetic Compatibility and
Electrostatic Discharge Issues in Modern Electronic Equipment: Diary of a Real
Ghostbuster
SPEAKER: Dr. Louis F. DeChiaro, Richard Stockton College of NJ
Modern electronic equipment must be able to operate in the presence of other systems without emitting enough stray RF energy to cause interference. The FCC has established strict limits on these emissions, and meeting them can sometimes present a major challenge to systems design teams. In addition, the same equipment must be capable of operating successfully in environments that may contain a variety of threats, among them localized electrostatic discharge events that can disrupt certain types of systems. We shall discuss a number of field experiences in both of these areas, summarize the basic physics and electronic engineering principles that underlie the phenomena, and describe the design lessons (at both the circuit board and the systems design levels) learned from hard experience.
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
TOPIC: Can the U.S. Solve the Challenges of a Globally Competitive Engineering Marketplace
SPEAKER: Dr. Dianne Dorland, Dean of Engineering, Rowan University
Why are we (the U.S.) at a competitive disadvantage when our markets are targeted? Can we overcome state sponsored takeovers of our key industries? What are the issues and how do we respond? Are U.S. Engineering careers in jeopardy from lower paid foreign competition? Jobs are being outsourced, how do we stop it? Is our education system directed to meeting these challenges?
Join the Southern New Jersey Sections of the IEEE and AIAA for a fascinating presentation by Dr. Dorland and begin to understand the real world challenges we face as professional engineers.
Wednesday January 19, 2005
TOPIC: Managing the Software Release Process
for Real Time ATC Systems
SPEAKERS: Daniel McGovern, Manager, Display Systems In Service Management Team and Jeanne Bridel, Chief Engineer Display Systems
Ever wonder about the processes and methodologies that are used to maintain and enhance the complex, real time processing systems that drive the FAA's Enroute Air Traffic Control Display Systems? Please join the Southern New Jersey Professional Societies for a delicious dinner and informative presentation by Dan McGovern and Jeanne Bridel on how they provide the timely and quality software that is consistently delivered within estimated resources. Their presentation will address software development, system integration, test, deployment and field support philosophies and methodologies along with a detailed discussion on the activity based cost model used by the DSR in service management to effectively plan the cost and schedule for their annual system releases.
Thursday Sept. 23, 2004
Multisensor Data Fusion using Artificial
Neural Networks
Dr. Shreekanth Mandayam, Rowan University
Join the Southern New Jersey Professional Societies for delicious dinner and an interesting presentation by Dr. Mandayam on Multisensor Data Fusion. Emergent measurement technologies often call for a network of sensors monitoring a diverse set of physical quantities, whose simultaneous interpretation is required for ascertaining system health. This presentation will feature an artificial neural network approach which addresses the data fusion problem. Please join us to learn about this fascinating application of technology.
Wednesday May 19th 2004
Intrusion Technology
Dan Morfitt, Hi-Tec Systems
Join the Southern New Jersey Professional Societies in Mays Landing where Dan Morfitt will speak on the latest technology used in Intrusion Testing. Putting it simply, Intrusion Testing is a fun way of finding vulnerabilities and then fixing them. The idea is to create a perfect detection system and then finding ways to defeat it. A good example is the TSA’s “Exit Lane Project” with motor vehicles. Come and hear Mr. Morfitt entertain us with the possibilities of this new futuristic technology.
Wednesday April 28th 2004
Eclipses, Transits and Occultations:
How Scientists Can Learn More About
Something When it Disappears
Dr. Frank P. Maloney, Villanova University
Join the Southern New Jersey Professional Societies in Mays Landing where Dr. Frank Maloney will speak of the wealth of detail that is revealed when astronomical objects cover, or are covered by, other objects in space. Called eclipses, transits, and occultations, these usually rare phenomena have permitted the discovery of stars, asteroids, and planets, and their rings, moons, and atmospheres, as well as the determination of fundamental constants like the speed of light and the astronomical unit.
Wednesday March 24th 2004
Topic: Columbia and Challenger: What Do These Two Disasters Tell Us
Michael Stanford, PhD, AIAA Associate Fellow
Join us for dinner in Mays Landing where Dr. Stanford will discuss the report
of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) and similarities to the
Challenger Disaster. Lessons learned from these two disaster can serve as a
warning for all engineers and scientists involved in complex aerospace technologies
embedded in large bureaucracies. His personal experience based upon 14 years
inside NASA will be explored as well as the consequences to individuals and
careers when identified problems with system performance are not forced into
the limelight.
Fiber Optical Sensors for
Health Monitoring
of Civil and Aerospace Structures
Dr. Hong-Liang Cui, Stevens Institute of Technology
Wed, Feb 18th 2004
Join us for dinner in Mays Landing where Dr. Cui will give a presentation on research with Fiber Optic Sensors to monitor the health of airframes and engines using fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) based acoustic emission sensors. This technology enables a variety of monitoring techniques such as: crack development in airframe structures, seismic monitoring for remote surveillance, chemical and gas sensors and monitoring load and stress levels on suspension bridges.
Dinner Meeting on Wednesday, Jan 21st 2004
Severe Weather Hazards to Aviation
Speaker: Steve Maciejewski, BCI
Join the Southern Jersey Professional Societies for dinner in Mays Landing where Mr. Steve Maciejewski will give a presentation on the weather phenomena which affect aviation activity and safety. He will discuss tornadoes, windshear, microburst, lightning, clear air turbulence and explain why and how these weather systems form. He will also discuss how new NAS systems such as ITWS detect and identify these weather events.
Slide Presentation (Powerpoint) or (pdf)
TOPIC: Software Quality Attributes
SPEAKER: Dr. Mario Barbacci, Carnegie Mellon University
Join the Southern New Jersey Professional Societies for dinner in Mays Landing where Dr. Mario Barbacci of the IEEE Computer Society's Distinguished Visitors Program will give a presentation describing processes for conducting software architecture trade-off and risk analysis. Software attributes can interact or conflict - improving one attribute often comes at the expense of one or more of the others. The talk will focus on emerging methods developed by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon to identify and mitigate these risks.
Dr. Mario Barbacci is a Senior Member of the staff at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University. He was one of the founders of the SEI where he has served in several technical and managerial positions.
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Dinner Meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2003
TOPIC:
The eXtreme Sun: Affects of Solar Aging on Climate and Life on Earth
SPEAKER: Dr. Edward F. Guinan, Villanova University
Join the Southern New Jersey Professional Societies for an extremely interesting presentation describing how our Sun has evolved over the eons, its significant impact on the evolution of the Earth's climate and the consequences those changes have had for life on Earth.
Dr. Guinan is an internationally respected Astronomer who has published more than 400 papers on topics including 'Using Binary Stars to Test Gravity Theory', Solar-type Stars, Extra-solar Planets, X-ray and UV studies of the Sun.
Join
the Southern New Jersey Professional Societies for dinner at the MAYS LANDING
COUNTRY CLUB where Dr. Ward will give a presentation featuring dramatic pictures
of the outer planets as they were transmitted back to Earth by Pioneers-10 and
11, and Voyagers-1 and 2. The outcome of these space missions is the culmination
of one of the major scientific and engineering enterprises of our time. Beyond
the science and technology, learn how every area of human activity stands in intimate
relationship to these missions.
Topic: Phased Array Radar: A New Future for Weather
Speaker: Dr. Jim Melody, BCI
Join the Southern Jersey Professional Societies for dinner in Somers Point where Dr. Jim Melody will give a presentation on the tri-agency partnership of the FAA, DOD, and NOAA. Hear the story of how this team has joined forces to research and test the current military Phased Array Radar technology and integrate it with new and existing FAA weather systems to provide faster, more accurate weather information and to save lives by providing additional warning time for the most hazardous weather.
Topic: Navigation and Man: A Historical Perspective
Speakers: Marvin May, Chief Scientist,
Penn State Applied Research
Laboratory
IEEE and AIAA are joining with the Institute of Navigation to provide an exceptional presentation this month. Marvin May, Chief Scientist at Pennsylvania State University's Applied Research Laboratory, will give an entertaining and informative presentation on the history of navigation. The topic spans the development of navigation from the earliest celestial navigation techniques to the latest GPS navigation systems. It addresses the impact of navigation in today's civil and military environment and discusses prospects for future application.
Topic: Building the International Space Station: How and why the world's nations are uniting in space.
Speaker: Jack Bacon, NASA Johnson Space Center
Sixteen nations have already started to assemble in earth orbit several million parts weighing hundreds of tons to make a space station larger than a football field and twenty stories tall. Only partially complete, it is already the largest and most capable spacecraft ever put into the sky. The speaker has worked on design and operation of the Space Station. He was lead integrator of the joint U.S./ Russia ZARYA module which connects and adapts all systems of the international space station. His presentation will provide a history of the space station and the basic technical approaches to the design.
The speaker received his bachelor's degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1976, and his M.S. and PhD in 1978 and 1984 from the University of Rochester.