Section Meeting

Wednesday, April 19, 2000

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Engineering & Math Sciences Building
3200 N. Cramer Street, First Floor
Milwaukee, WI

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For reservations, call Barbara at 414-229-4667 or send e-mail to moranb@uwm.edu. Reservations must be made before Friday, April 14th, 2000.

Dinner Presentation

Development of a Class II Medical Device - The Mammotome Brian Melewski & Brian Schmidt, Plexus Technology Group Sponsored by Industrial Electronics / Industry Application Societies

The Mammotome is a minimally invasive, hand-held, ultrasonically guided, vacuum assisted breast biopsy device. The Mammotome device provides a significant reduction in the areas of trauma and cost while providing speed and wide availability of breast biopsy procedures. The Mammotome is a product of Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson Company.

Plexus Technology Group is a contract engineering and manufacturing firm, contracted by Ethicon Endo-Surgery to develop and manufacture the Mammotome. Product development began in June 1998 and FDA approval was achieved in September 1999. The Mammotome is currently in production and being shipped worldwide. See http://www.breastcareinfo.com/aboutm.htm for a detailed product overview.

The development of the Mammotome System included product definition, hazard analysis, electrical/software/mechanical design and prototyping. The development also included submittals to the FDA and TUV. Finally, the product was transitioned to manufacturing.

Brian Schmidt has a BS degree in Computer Engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, and a member of the MSOE Software Engineering Industrial Advisory Committee. He is a Senior De-sign Engineer for Plexus Technology Group, where he has been working in the software-engineering field for five years. As a software engineer for Plexus he has worked in a variety of embedded software areas including class II medical devices and high reliability, factory automation systems.

Brian Melewski has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering. He is currently a Design Engineer in the Digital Systems Group at Plexus Technology Group where he has been involved in new product development for five years. As a Digital Engineer for Plexus, he has designed both chip-level and board-level digital systems for a wide variety of products, including two class II medical devices.

Student Design Presentations

5:45 - 6:45pm 
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee: Rm. EMS E204
Milwaukee School of Engineering: Rm. EMS E160
Marquette University: Rm. EMS E140

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Access Control Using the Dallas Touch Memory

Damon Klick

I designed a device for access control using the iButton, also called the Dallas Touch Memory, manufactured by Dallas semiconductor. The iButton is a re-writable data carrier that can be used for personal identification, time/attendance con-trol, asset management, and access control. I will use the iButton, as a key (since it has a unique serial number to each iButton), to unlock and lock traditional door hardware.

Damon Klick is currently a senior at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. He will graduate in May 2000 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.

Real time motion detection & segmentation

Weisong Liu

Using tensor and level set techniques, this system can detect motion in a real time video sequence and segment out the motion parts. It can be used for surveillance video systems and video compression.

Weisong Liu received his B.S. in Computer Science from HEU of China. He is now pursuing his M.S.E.E. at UWM under the direction of Dr. Jun Zhang. His current interest is in image processing.

Bridging the Gap Between Computing and Communication

Vinay Mitter

The Bluetooth defacto wireless standard is posed to revolutionize personal connectivity. Bluetooth standard intends to provide a small form factor, low cost radio solution in world wide unlicensed band to provide links between Mobile phones, Laptops and PDAs. This presentation will provide a technical overview of specification and compatibility issues with other wireless local area network standards.

Mr. Vinay Mitter is currently pursuing his MS in Electrical Engineering at University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee working with Dr. Ivan Howitt on interoperability issues of Bluetooth with other existing WLANs. Mr. Mitter obtained his BS in Electrical Engineering from India and he has prior working experience with Philips.

Milwaukee School of Engineering

The Lil'Scope - Low Cost Digital Oscilloscope

Kevin Heimerman, David Lill, Bryan E. Schwichtenberg, & Matthew A. Wagner

The Lil'Scope is a low cost digital oscilloscope solution geared towards the student or hobbyist. Developed from the ground up, the Lil'Scope consists of a data acquisition unit that connects to a Texas Instruments TI-89 or TI-92+ graphing calculator through the communications jack or to a PC computer through a standard 9-pin communications port. The Lil'Scope features multi-faceted design problems from the disciplines of analog and digital circuits, Field Programmable Gate Array microprocessor design, assembly programming, mechanical design, board layout, and others.

Kevin Heimerman's skills & interests are analog design circuitry, RF circuitry and wireless communications, and PCB layout.

David Lill's skills & interests are digital hardware design, analog pre-amp design, and hardware construction and debugging.

Bryan E. Schwichtenberg's skills & interests are assembly programming, PC systems integration, configuration & debugging, and VHDL design.

Matthew A. Wagner's skills & interests are assembly language programming, high-level language programming, PC systems integration, and RF/wireless networking.

NASA Shuttle Universal Test Platform

Jessica Reinert, Dustin Tenz, Jeffrey Lawrence, & Michael Libby

Test Platform (UTP) is being designed for the NASA KC-135 Reduced Gravity Program. The UTP will provide universal control, data acquisition, and mounting capability for experiments to be performed in the KC-135 environment. The MSOE team expects to perform initial tests of the platform as a part of the August (November) 2000 NASA Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities program or on a standard KC-135 research flight. A user manual describing the capabilities and operation recommendations of the Universal Test Platform will be provided. Following the initial test, the Universal Test Platform will be placed on loan to NASA for their use, with the option of MSOE students obtaining it to per-form future experiments on the KC-135.

Jessica Reinert is in her 4th year in electrical engineering at MSOE, & graduating in February of 2001. Her technical interests include semiconductors, optics and high energy physics.

Dustin Tenz is a senior electrical engineering student at MSOE with a strong interest in the area of broadband communications and nanotechnology.

Jeffrey Lawrence is a senior electrical engineering student at MSOE with a strong interest in computer programming and digital design engineering.

Michael Libby is a senior electrical engineering student at MSOE with interests in microprocessor applications and communications.

Marquette University

An Optimal Fuzzy Control Design Method

Mark W. Palmer

Unlike how adaptive control and fuzzy control is combined into adaptive fuzzy control, optimal fuzzy control has yet to be established as its own field. This talk presents a new optimal fuzzy control method and demonstrates its effectiveness on example control problems.

Mark Palmer is a graduate of the Milwaukee School of Engineering (B.S. Computer Science and Engineering '90) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.S. Computer Science '92). He is currently a Ph.D. candidate researching under Dr. Xin Feng at Marquette University, working on methods for making optimal fuzzy a useful controller design approach.

Genetic Algorithm and the Identification of Electrical Circuit Networks

Everton P. Walters

Genetic algorithms are global search schemes patterned after the process of evolution and natural selection in nature (survival of the fittest). The identification of electrical circuits based on their input and output responses have proven, over the years, to be very difficult problems. This talk presents the application of genetic algorithms as an optimization technique in the identification of the parameters of an electrical circuit network.

Everton Walters is a graduate of the University of Technology, Jamaica (B. Eng. Electrical Engineering '93) and Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (M.S. Electrical Engineering '97). He is currently a P.h.D. candidate conducting his research under Drs. James Heinen and Ronald Brown at Marquette University working on genetic algorithms, signal processing, and system identification.

Characterization of Acoustic Wave Sensor Platforms for Liquid-Phase Applications 

Kristofer H. Zinszer

Shear Horizontal Surface Acoustic Wave (SH-SAW) sensor platforms are being investigated for liquid phase applications (chemical sensors and biosensors). However, before such devices become a reality, the surface sensitivity to both mechanical and electrical loading must be fully characterized. This will allow the determination of the sensor responses during the detection process when surface conditions such as changes in mass, viscoelastic, and electrical properties occur. The preliminary results of this investigation will be presented.

Kristofer Zinszer received his B.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Marquette University in 1997. He joined Dearborn Group Consultants as an engineer from 1997-1999. He is currently a graduate student at Marquette University working on his master's degree in the area of chemical sensors and biosensors.

IEEE Third Millennium Medals

In the first Institute-wide medals program since 1984, Centennial Medals were presented during the IEEE's 100th anniversary. Today in 2000, the IEEE is presenting 3,000 Millennium Medals to members who have been selected by their Sections, Societies and Major Boards for outstanding contributions. The Milwaukee Section, based on the size of its membership, has been given 11 Awards. Because of the "once-in-a-millennium" event, IEEE has expressed its wishes that the presentation of the awards be a memorable event - a celebration. Consequently, the Milwaukee Section is preparing plans for a "Millennium Awards Banquet" to be held at a prominent and attractive location on Thursday, May 18, 2000. The exact location to be selected will depend on the expected attendance. Awardees and their Spouses will be guests of the Milwaukee Section. Since only 11 Milwaukee Section Members could be selected from among many other deserving members, we will also honor three other groups in the Milwaukee Section at the Banquet:

1. The Awardees of the 1984 Centennial Medals.
2. Recipients of the Milwaukee Section Memorial Award.
3. Past Chairmen of the IEEE, including those of its predecessor, the AIEE and IRE.

All those members and their spouses in these three groups will be guests of the Milwaukee Section. So, if you are in one or more of these three groups, and wish to participate in this memorable event, please contact Joe Battocletti, Banquet Organizer, as soon as possible at any of the following:

· Work: (414) 384-2000, Extension 47287 (leave a message, if needed)
· Home: (414)352-2521 (leave a message, if needed)
· Mail: 825 West Good Hope Road, River hills, WI 53217
· E-mail: jbattocl@mcw.edu

May 2000 Meeting Update! 

The 2000 Section/Chapter Meeting Schedule Meeting Date should be changed to May 18th. First of all, there will be no Dinner Cruise, since the Electromagnetic Seminar has its cruise scheduled for June 6th. John Brauer, in charge of arrangements for the seminar, offered the Section access to their cruise. However, there is limited capacity on the boat, and thus wouldn't accommodate both groups.

For now, the Meeting Location is TBA and the Section Speaker Topic will be the Millennium Award Banquet as mentioned above. Please check web site for updates.

Update notice courtesy of Joe Battocletti

Call For Participation, Registration Information

FIRST IEEE ELECTRO/INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE

http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/4/eit2000.htm

CHICAGO MARRIOTT O'HARE, JUNE 8-11, 2000

The Electro/Information Technology Conference, sponsored by the IEEE Region IV, is the first technical conference focusing on presenting basic/applied research results in the fields of electrical and computer engineering as they relate to Information Technology. This conference is a first attempt to have an annual conference for the IEEE where researchers and industrial colleagues can present their latest findings. There will also be exhibits where the leading-edge electro/information technology tools and products will be showcased. At this time three workshops are planned for June 8 (noon-5 p.m. approximately.) Paper sessions (average of 4 papers each) will present results in Soft Computing, Wireless Communications, Wavelet Transforms, Micro Electromechanical Systems & Mechatronics, Reconfigurable Systems, Middleware Architecture in the IT World, Power Electronics, Electronic Design Automation, Solid State, Consumer Electronics (including Automotive), Intelligent Control, Mathematical Modeling, Error Reduction, and Reliability/Ethical Issues. The advance program, to be available soon, will include Thursday afternoon arrival, workshops, reception; Friday paper sessions, main plenary, panel discussion, exhibits, banquet; Saturday paper sessions, panel discussions, exhibits, and other activities.

We are happy to announce that following scholars/researchers have agreed to be keynote/invited speakers at the conference:

Fazlollah Reza, McGill University (Information Theory)
Martha Sloan, Michigan Technological University (Computers)
Mark J. T. Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology (Wavelets)
Lotfi Zadeh, UC Berkeley (Soft Computing.)

In addition, President Elson S. Floyd of Western Michigan University will join IEEE Region IV host organization to welcome conference participants and to moderate one of the panel discussion sessions.

Regular Advance (by May 19) Registration Fee of $300 (please see our Web site, www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/4/eit2000.htm, for forms and latest information and other categories) will include paper sessions, workshop(s), panel discussions, exhibits admission, Friday banquet (with speaker), reception, breaks and conference proceedings. For hotel reservation, (773) 693-3164, you need to mention E/IT Conference to get special rate of $129 per night. For further information, contact Dr. Hossein Mousavinezhad, General Chair:

hossein.mousavinezhad@ieee.org

We hope to see you in Chicago in June for this exciting technical conference with worldwide contributions in the field information technology!

Position Available

Electrical Engineer
Wiring Systems

Dynamic and challenging design engineering position. Engineer works closely with customers on vehicle design projects. Responsible for wiring harness design and project management, with extensive presence at customer locations in SE Wisconsin. Some travel required. Interested candidates should mail resume to:

Personnel Administrator
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P.O. Box 550
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