Unless otherwise specified, meetings of the Fox Valley Subsection are held
in the auditorium
at IIT's Rice Campus,
201 East Loop Road, Wheaton, Illinois.
The meetings are normally held on the
3rd Wednesday of the month.
Directions: Take Rt.56/Butterfield Rd. to the first stoplight east of intersection of Butterfield & Naperville roads.
Turn north onto East Loop Road (Big Bowl Asian Restaurant and Phillip's 66 Gas Station on the corners);
the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road.
More detailed directions and a map are available at:
https://www.rice.iit.edu/directions.html
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Meetings and Events for this Season (beginning Sept. 2006)
(Click here for announcements from past seasons.)
20 SEPTEMBER 2006 (WEDNESDAY), 6:00PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "Electronic Equipment in the Voting Process"
Speaker: Herb Deutsch, Software Product Manager, ES&S (Election Systems and Software)
Abstract:
An introduction to electronic equipment in the voting and vote-tabulating process:
--The types of equipment that exist.
--How these types of equipment are used (what phase of the Voting/Tabulation process)
--The process for getting equipment approved for sale (the Federal and State certification process)
--The characteristics of the different types of equipment.
This will be followed by a demonstration of the different types of polling place equipment
(as represented by ES&Ss products)
About the Speaker:
Herb Deutsch is Software Product Manager with ES&S (Election Systems and
Software) and has been in the elections industry for over 30 years having been
involved with the design, development, certification, installation and support
of voting systems.
These included punch card and mark sense systems both
central tabulation and precinct tabulation as well as Direct Recording
Electronic (DRE) systems.
He has also served as Chair of the IEEE P1583 Voting
Systems Standards Committee and was the BRC vendor representative in the
development of the FEC 1990 Standards.
During his election industry career,
Herb was responsible for, or guided development of, the Video Voter (probably
the first DRE), the Elpac and PC-BT punch card central tabulation systems; the
PBC 2100 punch card precinct tabulator; the Optech IIIP, Optech IIIP Eagle and
M100 optical scan precinct tabulators; the Optech IV-C and M650 optical scan
central tabulators; the iVotronic touch screen DRE and the V2000 full faced
DRE.
He has also guided the development and enhancement of ES&S' Unity suite
of supporting software products for ballot layout, election definition, results
transmission, accumulation and reporting.
Prior to his involvement in the elections industry, Herb's career included eight
years at IBM developing computer voice output systems and serial pulse time-
division multiplexed communication systems for which he received several patents
and an IBM Outstanding Invention award.
He spent the next seven years as a
development manager at Terminal Communications Inc working in the custom product
development division where he was responsible for the development of the TR32, a
digital PABX, and the Video Voter.
Additional patents were issued for both of these products.
Herb received a B.E.E. from CCNY in 1961, completed all coursework toward
an M.S.E.E. at Syracuse University while at IBM and is a life member of the IEEE.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6:00pm: Networking Time
7:00pm: Presentation
Sponsorship
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IEEE Fox Valley Subsection.
Reservations are not required, and there is no charge to attend.
Professional Engineers: this meeting qualifies for Professional Development Hours
01 OCTOBER 2006 (WEDNESDAY), 6:00PM - 9PM at Elite Electronic Engineering, Downers Grove, IL
(Reservations requested)
Title: "System Level EMC"
Speaker: William Kimmel, PE, Kimmel & Gerke Associates, West St. Paul, MN
Abstract:
Our keynote speaker will discuss the concept of "System Level EMC".
Electromagnetic compatibility of individual subsystems is necessary to reduce
the risk of performance issues once components are assembled.
This presentation
will look at those complicating factors associated with the interaction of
sub-systems and describe how the complete system is evaluated and engineered
for compliance.
A test laboratory tour will also be available.
About the Speaker:
Mr Kimmel received his BSEE with distinction from the University of Minnesota,
and has worked in the electronics field for over 30 years.
His experience ranges from electronic design and systems engineering to technical management
with industry leaders like Control Data Corporation and Sperry Defense Systems.
Mr. Kimmel's EMC experience includes the design/test/qualification of military
systems to MIL-STD-461 and NACSEM 5100 (TEMPEST) and commercial systems to FCC
Part 15 and IEC/CISPR.
He has solved EMI problems in computer systems, medical
devices, industrial controls, vehicles, telecommunications systems, and more.
He has several years experience in radiation hardened circuits and high speed
memories for computers.
He is a Registered Professional Engineer, an active
member of the IEEE, and a NARTE certified EMC and ESD Engineer.
Mr. Kimmel is a principal in the EMC consulting firm, Kimmel and Gerke
Associates.
He is based in West St. Paul, MN
Location:
Elite Electronic Engineering, 1516 Centre Circle, Downers Grove, IL
(behind Finley Square Mall - click
here for details)
Time:
6:00pm: Social Hour (refreshments and hors d'oeuvres)
7:00pm: Presentation and Test Lab Tour
Sponsorship
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IEEE Fox Valley Subsection and SAE-EMC Society.
Please RSVP
to Kathy Barri, Elite Electronic Engineering (630) 495-9770
There is no charge to attend.
Professional Engineers: this meeting qualifies for Professional Development Hours
13 NOVEMBER 2006 (MONDAY), 6:00PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "Accident Investigation and Reconstruction Tools, Onboard Diagnostic Recordings"
Speaker: Mike Bracki, Forensic Engineer, Packer Engineering
Abstract:
One of the tools used in the accident investigation and reconstruction field is
the onboard recording capabilities of various control systems to capture system
performance during a crash sequence.
Mr. Bracki will talk about the history,
development and current usage of various recording capabilities available to
investigators to aid in their reconstruction duties.
Applications of the data
from both passenger vehicles and commercial trucks as it applies to
reconstruction as well as the pitfalls of some data will be discussed.
About the Speaker:
Mr. Bracki has worked at Packer Engineering since 1999 as a forensic engineer
specializing in accident investigation and reconstruction.
Mr. Bracki comes
from a mechanical background with 9 years experience as a mechanic and
supplements that background with a BS in Engineering Mechanics and a MS in
Civil Engineering both from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6:00pm: Networking Time
7:00pm: Presentation
Sponsorship
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IEEE Fox Valley Subsection.
Reservations are not required, and there is no charge to attend.
Professional Engineers: this meeting qualifies for Professional Development Hours
24 JANUARY 2007 (WEDNESDAY), 6:00PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "Contract Disputes and Mediation"
Speakers: Joseph Bisceglia and John Storino, Jenner & Block
Abstract:
Joseph Bisceglia and John Storino will discuss contract disputes in
the construction and engineering context and the ability to mediate
or arbitrate such disputes.
About the Speakers:
Joseph G. Bisceglia is a partner in Jenner & Block LLPs Chicago office,
and serves as chair of the firms Construction Law Practice Group.
He has extensive experience in all facets of construction dispute resolution
and litigation, as well as broad experience in a wide variety of other complex
civil and criminal litigation, in both federal and state trial and appellate courts.
Mr. Bisceglia has taught, lectured and published extensively in the area of
construction law, civil litigation, federal and state civil practice and procedure,
and trial practice.
He was elected president of the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA).
He also serves on the board of governors of the ISBA and has served in numerous
other capacities in the ISBA, including as chair of the ISBAs section on civil
practice and procedure, co-chair of the ISBA Committee on Supreme Court rule,
chair of the ISBA Special Committee on Federal Practice, editor and frequent
contributor to the ISBA publication Trial Briefs, and a member of the ISBA
Committee on Judicial Evaluations (which investigates and evaluates Illinois judges
for election and retention).
Mr. Bisceglia teaches trial advocacy as an adjunct professor at the John Marshall
Law School in Chicago.
In 2005, he was named one of the top 10 lawyers in the state of Illinois by
the publishers of Chicago magazine and Law and Politics magazine.
John R. Storino is an associate in Jenner & Block LLPs Litigation Department
and a member of the firms Construction Law Group.
Mr. Storino has represented owners, subcontractors and engineers in personal
injury and wrongful death actions, engineering design cases and insurance
coverage matters.
He counsels contractors and engineers regarding their general business practices,
including interpretation of governmental regulations, contract negotiation,
information management, monitoring statutory deadlines, employment matters
and informal dispute resolution.
Mr. Storino served as a contributing author to the book Insurance Coverage Disputes,
Law Journal Press, 2001.
He graduated, cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame Law School.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6:00pm: Networking Time
7:00pm: Presentation
Sponsorship
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IEEE Fox Valley Subsection and IEEE Engineering Management Society.
Reservations are not required, and there is no charge to attend.
Professional Engineers: this meeting qualifies for Professional Development Hours
28 FEBRUARY 2007 (WEDNESDAY), 6:00PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "The Networked Car: Technology and Use Case Drivers"
Speaker: Paul Bocci, Motorola Corporation
POST-MEETING NOTE:
Paul offers a copy of his
NETWORKED CAR SLIDES for reference.
Abstract:
Internal improvements in vehicles have resulted in significant increases
in vehicle safety. Car makers, however, believe the investment in platform
capabilities may have peaked and in fact may be resulting in diminishing
returns.
The next break through in safety will require the car to interact with other
cars and with the environment surrounding it.
Use cases, the communications technology required to support them and the
current status of proof of concept activities will be discussed.
About the Speaker:
Paul Bocci is a Fellow of the Technical Staff in Motorola's Networks and
Enterprise business.
He received a B.S.E.E. degree from Case Western Reserve University in
1974 and a M.S.E.E. degree from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1981.
Paul has spent the majority of his 31 years at Motorola working on advanced
two-way radio communications systems for
use by public safety agencies.
He is an early architect of the APCO
Project 25 standard and Motorola's ASTRO product line.
In his current assignment on the MotoDrive project, he is focused
on the problem of communications between vehicles in support of safety applications.
He holds 16 U.S. patents.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6:00pm: Networking Time
7:00pm: Presentation
Sponsorship
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IEEE Fox Valley Subsection.
Reservations are not required, and there is no charge to attend.
Professional Engineers: this meeting qualifies for Professional Development Hours
28 MARCH 2007 (WEDNESDAY), 6:00PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "Distributed Generation using Renewables"
Speaker: Martin Ellman, P.E., DGCP, Middough Consulting Inc.
POST-MEETING NOTE:
Martin Ellman's presentation
DISTRIBUTED GENERATION from March 28th. [31 MB]
Abstract:
A technical, economic, and environmental review of Combined Heat & Power
applications utilizing renewable and waste energy sources.
Practical
design applications of reciprocating engines, combustion turbines, and
heat recovery steam generators, including landfill/digester gases, gas
treatment and cleaning, and permitting.
About the Speaker:
Mr. Ellman has over twenty years of consulting engineering experience.
His responsibilities as Senior Technical Manager of Energy Technology
include project management of engineering and construction design build
projects, and management supervision of energy technology staff.
He is
involved in project development, implementation and start-up of
electrical, control system and energy projects.
These projects include
utility transmission, substation design, power generation, power
distribution, cogeneration, combined heat & power systems, SCADA data
acquisition systems, and facility PLC/DCS systems.
He has served on the
Board of Directors of a multi-discipline consulting engineering firm.
Registrations / Credentials / Affiliations
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Professional Engineer, State of Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, and Oregon
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National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying - NCEES
Certified
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BSEE, Cleveland State University, 1986
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DGCP, Distributed Generation Certified Professional - AEE Certified
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AEE, Association of Energy Engineers - Senior Member
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CCPI, Cogeneration and Competitive Power Institute - Senior Member
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AREDI, Alternative & Renewable Energy Development Institute - Charter
Member
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CES, Cleveland Engineering Society - Energy Division - 2004/2005 Chair
Recent Project Experience:
Includes project manager on stand alone 12MW and 2.25MW emergency power
generation facilities, 10MW landfill gas cogeneration facility, utility
system capacity assessment for electrical power, steam and chilled water
to University Circle, 2000 pt. DCS/PLC control system replacement,
69KV/4.16KV substation switchgear replacement, and a 2MW cogeneration
reciprocating engine generator system.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6:00pm: Networking Time
7:00pm: Presentation
Sponsorship
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IEEE Fox Valley Subsection.
Reservations are not required, and there is no charge to attend.
Professional Engineers: this meeting qualifies for Professional Development Hours
25 APRIL 2007 (WEDNESDAY), 6:00PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "Characteristics of an Economically Attractive Fusion Power Plant"
Speaker: Dr. Najmabadi, University of California-San Diego
Abstract:
Power plants based on thermonuclear fusion are widely anticipated to be the
electricity source of the future.
But what will it take to make such plants
commercially practicable?
Dr. Farrokh Najmabadi, a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma
Sciences Society, will present conclusions reached by a national team from
universities, national laboratories, and industry, which studied this question.
Data has been included from a variety of possible technologies, e.g., tokamaks,
stellarators, and spherical torus designs, and the potential and feasibility of
meeting those conclusions will be analyzed for several of these approaches.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Najmabadi is Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of
California-San Diego, and Director of the Universitys Center for Energy
Research.
He has won numerous awards, both for his research and his teaching.
In addition to his IEEE activities, he is a member of the American Nuclear
Society, and the incoming Vice-chair of its Fusion Energy Division; he is also a
member of the American Physical Society, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu.
His talk is cosponsored by IEEE Chicago Sections joint Magnetics-NPS chapter, and
supported by the IEEE-NPS Distinguished Lecturer program.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6:00pm: Networking Time (coffee in lobby at 6pm)
7:00pm: Presentation
Sponsorship
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IEEE Fox Valley Subsection
IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society
Reservations are not required, and there is no charge to attend.
Professional Engineers: this meeting qualifies for Professional Development Hours
23 MAY 2007 (WEDNESDAY), 6:00PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "Escaped From The Lab: Software Practices in Large Organizations"
(Refactoring, Reuse & Reality - Revisited)
Speaker: Bill Opdyke, Motorola
Abstract:
Ideas that sound and look great in a research environment are often not readily
embraced by developers.
How can one more effectively transition ideas from the
research lab to product development?
Late last year, I co-organized the workshop "Escaped From The Lab: Software
Practices in Large Organizations", held as part of the OOPSLA 2006 (object
oriented technology) conference, where industrial and academic staff discussed
issues related to the transition of research prototype software into a product
environment.
I will base this talk in part on the results of that workshop.
I will also discuss some of the issues I encountered when trying to transition
refactoring concepts (and other software engineering approaches) into a
development environment, described in my chapter "Refactoring, Reuse & Reality"
of the text "Refactoring: Improving The Design of Existing Code".
About the Speaker:
Bill Opdyke has spent much of his career working with formative technologies &
opportunities and transitioning them into adoption by product development
organizations.
He has published several papers and book chapters related to
technology adoption and to his main area of interest: software reengineering &
refactoring.
He also worked on a range of applied research, software & systems
architecture projects in intelligent networking, interactive voice services,
advanced decision support, internet telephony and converged services.
Bill
worked at Bell Labs for twenty years, then taught software engineering and data
communications courses for several years at North Central College, prior to
joining Motorola in mid-2006.
He currently works in the Technology Office
supporting Motorola's Home & Networks Mobility (formerly Connected Home
Solutions) business.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6:00pm: Networking Time (coffee in lobby at 6pm)
7:00pm: Presentation
Sponsorship
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IEEE Fox Valley Subsection
Reservations are not required, and there is no charge to attend.
Professional Engineers: this meeting qualifies for Professional Development Hours
27 JUNE 2007 (WEDNESDAY), 6:00PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "Next-generation lighting with ultra-efficient GaN LEDs"
Speaker: Prof. Sid Ghosh, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIC
Abstract:
The past, present and future of solid state lighting technology.
Solid state lighting is rapidly becoming popular for commercial applications
in cars, such as signal lights and brake lights; white LEDs are also starting
to be used
for headlights.
Widebandgap semiconductors such as GaN have become very
critical to this Technology.
The talk will focus on GaN based lighting technology and its
potential applications in our daily lives.
About the Speaker:
Prof. Sid Ghosh has been an Assistant Professor in the Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at
Chicago since August 2003.
His research interests are in the area of Photonics and Magnetics.
He is collaborating with government labs to
develop MWIR and LWIR avalanche photodiodes for LADAR imaging and single
photon detection.
He is also involved in developing multifunctional thin
films for advanced RADAR application for the US Navy.
He completed his
B.Tech from IIT Kanpur, India in 1998 and his PhD from University of
Michigan in 2003.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6:00pm: Networking Time (coffee in lobby at 6pm)
7:00pm: Presentation
Sponsorship
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IEEE Fox Valley Subsection
Reservations are not required, and there is no charge to attend.
Professional Engineers: this meeting qualifies for Professional Development Hours
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