IEEE Central Texas Section
THE ANALOG
Volume 56-04
April 2012
Newsletter of the Central Texas Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc.
Archives of The Analog can be found on the CTS web site here.Published monthly. Deadline for inclusion is the 26th day of the previous month. Send submissions, comments, questions to John Purvis, Editor, john.purvis@ieee.org
CONTENTS
General Interest
Local Chapter Activities
Conferences, Events and Other Meetings
Local IEEE Conferences, Events and WorkshopsNon-IEEE Meetings and Events of interest suggested by the membership
Miscellaneous
Latest issue of IEEE-USA Today's EngineerScience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Events and Information
Career
Tips, Tools and Gadgets
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General Interest
Chairman's Column
It's time for the nominating process to begin for chapter officers for next year. Nominations for chapters and affinity groups should go to the chairman of the group. The IEEE Member and Geographic Activities Operations Manual states that all chapter officers are elected annually. The term of office will date from 1 January through 31 December. Each member of the Chapter Committee shall be an IEEE member of Graduate Student Member, Member, Senior Member or Fellow grade and a member of the parent Society. Elections should take place during the chapter November meeting. If the chapter does not have a meeting scheduled for November then the election should take place during the meeting prior to November.
The Chapter Elections process is specified in the MGA Operations Manual, section 9.6.F Chapter Election Process ( it can be found at https://www.ieee.org/documents/section09_19nov2011.pdf )
Kenny Rice
Chairman, Central Texas Section
krice@ieee.org
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Membership Development
If you are a new member to IEEE OR just want to refresh yourself on what the IEEE offers to its members, check out the site and the orientation.
Not an IEEE member and have been waiting to join?
Not sure if you’ve renewed for 2012, please go to https://www.ieee.org/renew or call the IEEE Contact Center at 1 800 678-4333.
Did you know about IEEE – IEEE.TV
Joe
Redfield
CTS Membership Development Chair
J.Redfield@ieee.org
210-522-3729
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News
of Interest to the Section
IEEE-USA Offers Free E-Books to Members in March & April: "How to Handle Your Boss" & "How to Handle Your Colleagues"
"How to Handle Your Colleagues" shows you how to get your colleagues to do what you want them to do by having a deep understanding of your interests and theirs; a willingness to listen to your colleagues; and flexibility in seeking solutions that satisfy your needs and the needs of your colleagues. You can apply these lessons to make your professional and personal life less stressful and more rewarding.
Members can download this free e-book in April at:
https://www.ieeeusa.org/communications/ebooks/files/85sk2nihs/Art-of-Negotiation-How-to-Handle-Your-Colleagues.pdf
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Continuing Education
“Technical Debt” refers to delayed technical work that is incurred when technical short cuts are taken, usually in pursuit of calendar-driven software schedules. Just like financial debt, some technical debts can serve valuable business purposes. Other technical debts are simply counterproductive. In this webinar, Steve McConnell explains in detail:
- the different types of technical debt
- common debt scenarios
- when organizations should and shouldn’t take on debt
- best practices in managing, tracking and paying down debt
- the benefits of explicitly managing technical debt
Regiater here
Two Week Black Belt Six Sigma Training: UT CLEE
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Student Branches
Faculty Adviser: Djaffer Ibaroudene, email: dibaroudene@stmarytx.edu
Branch Chair: Omar Magaña email: omagana1@mail.stmarytx.edu
Texas
State University - San Marcos (new
branch, 2009)
Faculty Adviser: Larry Larson, email: Larry.Larson@TXState.edu
Branch Chair: Jonathan Park, email: jp1563@txstate.edu
Trinity
University - San Antonio (https://www.engr.trinity.edu/)
Faculty Adviser: Farzan Aminian, email: Farzan.Aminian@Trinity.edu
Branch Chair: Harold Garza, email: hgarza@trinity.edu
University
of Texas at Austin (https://ieee.ece.utexas.edu/)
Faculty Adviser: Sriram Vishwanath, email: sriram@ece.utexas.edu
Branch Chair: Alex Scheuermann, email: chair@ieee.ece.utexas.edu
University
of Texas at San Antonio (https://www.utsaieee.org/)
Faculty Adviser: Shuo Wang, email: Shuo.Wang@utsa.edu
Branch Chair: Devon Johnson, email: DevonJohnson@ieee.org
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Calls for Volunteers
Please respond to Justin Hollenberger <hollenbergerj@ltisdschools.org> and
CC to me at alozano@ieee.org so that I can document our member K-12 activities.
Albert Lozano – IEEE Central Texas Activities Chairperson
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Local Chapter Activities
Antennas
& Propagation/Microwave Theory and Techniques (APS/MTTS)
https://ewh.ieee.org/r5/central_texas/ap_mtt/
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Topic/Title |
Homogenization of Structured Metasurfaces and Uniaxial
Wire-Medium Metamaterials for Microwave and THz Applications |
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Alex Yakovlev Alexander B. Yakovlev was born in the Ukraine. He received the Ph.D. degree in Radiophysics from the Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine, in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, in 1997. In summer of 2000, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Mississippi, where at present he is an Associate Professor. His research interests include mathematical methods in applied electromagnetics, homogenization methods for metasurfaces and wire-medium based metamaterials, negative refraction, sub-wavelength imaging, super-lenses, high-impedance surfaces for antenna applications, electromagnetic band-gap structures, graphene, wideband absorbers, theory of leaky waves, transient fields in layered media, catastrophe and bifurcation theories. Dr. Yakovlev received the Young Scientist Award at the 1992 URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, Sydney, Australia, and the Young Scientist Award at the 1996 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Chiba, Japan. From 2003 to 2006, he was an Associate Editor-in-Chief of the ACES Journal, and from 2005 to 2008 an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE (Microwave Theory and Techniques Society and Antennas and Propagation Society) and Member of URSI Commission B. He is a coauthor of the book Operator Theory for Electromagnetics: An Introduction, Springer, New York, NY, 2002. |
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In this presentation, we review recent progress on the
homogenization theory of structured metasurfaces and wire-medium based
metamaterials, and discuss a variety of applications at microwave and
THz frequencies. The analysis is based on spatially dispersive
homogenization models for periodic surfaces formed with sub-wavelength
printed/slotted elements, and for unloaded and loaded wire media with
additional boundary conditions derived for different interface
scenarios. The intention of this review talk is to demonstrate that the
interaction of electromagnetic waves with complex metamaterial
structures can be analyzed in a most elegant, physically insightful
manner using the effective medium approximation, resulting in accurate
analytical solutions for a wide range of frequencies. Within the
framework of homogenization models developed for metasurfaces and
wire-medium structures, a variety of electromagnetic problems have been
solved for applications at microwave and THz frequencies. This includes
the analysis of transmissivity in metasurface-dielectric and
graphene-dielectric stacks, artificial impedance surfaces (reflection
properties and natural waves of high-impedance surfaces, such as
bed-of-nails and mushroom-type surfaces), negative refraction and
subwavelength imaging with mushroom-type structures with lumped
inductive/capacitive loads, broadband microwave absorbers with stable
angle characteristics, among others. In all the cases the analytical
results of homogenization models have been verified with full-wave
commercial programs. In the presentation, the basic concepts of the
homogenization theory of metasurfaces and wire media will be discussed,
with a variety of examples and applications demonstrating different
physical phenomena and practical realization of devices. |
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06-April-2012 10:00AM to 11:30AM |
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https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/11697 |
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Building: ACES Room Number: 2.402 UT Austin Austin, Texas |
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Joint
Circuits and Systems/Solid-State Circuits (CASS/SSCS)
https://ewh.ieee.org/r5/central_texas/ssc_css/
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Topic/Title |
The Annual Review of the ISSCC Conference: Analog and RF
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Matt Felder, Josh Friedrich, Dr. Ramin K. Poorfard and
Dr. Betty Prince |
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04/03/2012 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. |
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Please register here.
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UT Campus ENS 127. |
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The joint Circuits & Systems/Solid State Circuits Societies normally meet on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. This meeting is open to the public and interested parties. Additional details will be posted at the website. If you have any questions about this meeting or this group, please contact renhaoxing@ieee.org or zhuoli@ieee.org
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Components,
Packaging and Manufacturing Technology (CPMT) - Austin
https://cpmtaustinchapter.org/
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| Location | Roundup conference room,
Freescale (Building B) 7700 Parmer Ln, Austin, TX 78729 |
| Notes | For more information, please visit https://cpmtaustinchapter.org/
or contact Nanju Na at 512-286-9677 |
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Computer
Society - Austin (CS)
https://www.austin-cs.org/
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Topic/title |
Applying predictive analysis and algorithms to prevent capacity problems in moving to or operating under virtualized or cloud environments |
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Speaker |
Dr. Lehr is currently working at CA Technologies on
automating the creating of models used in CA prediction technologies
such as VPM. This includes studying the sensitivity of CA models, rapid
interpretation of trends in data and intelligent, automated retrieval
of model configuration information from the Web. In his career he has
had various roles as support, quality and performance analysis
engineers as well as a 10 year stint in management of development
teams, giving him multiple views into the product development and
support process. Dr. Lehr has a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, has seven patents and has written over 20 academic and industrial papers. |
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Abstract |
Virtualization and private clouds show great promise
for server consolidations and infrastructure reductions, but these
complex environments can be difficult to deploy and manage. This talk
will discuss the deployment and management issues in today’s clusters,
including Clouds with a focus on the constraints and technologies used
to predict when Virtual Machines need to move or resize in order to
adjust to changing workload growth, hardware upgrades or constraint
changes. Program: • Introduction to Virtual Machines and why they are being deployed • Issues in managing large virtualized deployments • Why we must addressing these issues • Technologies to address these issues • Concluding remarks |
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Wednesday, April 18 6:30 p.m. Networking and Gathering 7:00 p.m. Call to Order, Announcement 7:15 p.m. Presentation, with Q/A 8:45 p.m. Meeting Evaluation, Adjourn |
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Location |
THE ADVISORY BOARD - BUILDING 7 (map) Room Number: Suite 100 12357-C Riata Trace Parkway Bldg 7, Suite 100 Austin, Texas |
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Reservations |
https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/11563 |
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Notes |
Follow the Austin chapter on Twitter @AustinIEEECS, and please feel to tweet with our tag for relevant content to our community. We've officially launched the LinkedIn group for our the
Austin chapter of the IEEE Computer Society. Feel free to sign up
at the following URL: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=4064900. |
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Computer
Society - San Antonio (CS)
https://www.ieee-cs-cts.org/
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Dinner, $15 Members, $4 students, $18 Non-Members |
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Please email Dr. Djaffer Ibaroudene, dibaroudende@stmarytx.edu
, or call (210) 431-2050 |
| Notes | See website for directions and parking, https://www.ieee-cs-cts.org |
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Central
Texas Consultants Network Affinity Group
https://ewh.ieee.org/r5/central_texas/cn
| Topic/Title | Thermal Management Techniques for Light Emitting Diodes |
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| Speaker | Rekha Bangalore |
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| Date | Wednesday, April 25, 2012 Networking at 6:00 pm; Business and Program from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm |
| Location | PoK-e-Jo’s, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight
Village, Austin TX 78727 Do a friend a favor. Bring your colleagues to grow the Consultants Network. |
| Cost |
Cost: $5.00 minimum charge for the
restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
| Reservations | Not required. All interested parties are invited
to attend. |
| Notes | Save the Date:
The 2012 Consultants Workshop featuring four speakers will be held on
Wednesday, 5/16, in the Bldg-A Auditorium at the 7700 West Parmer Lane
business park. |
Do a friend a favor. Bring your colleagues to grow the Consultants Network.
More information on Consultants Networks: https://www.ieeeusa.org/business/whatis.asp
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Electromagnetic
Compatibility Society
https://ewh.ieee.org/mu/ctx-emcs/
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Electron
Devices Society (EDS)
https://ewh.ieee.org/r5/central_texas/eds/
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Meeting
Location: Rio Grande Conference room at SVTC Map: https://www.sematech.org/corporate/map.htm |
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Notes |
Sponsoring the Solar Technology Workshop, September
16. See IEEE Meetings section for
details. |
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Engineering
in Medicine and Biology (EMBS)
https://ewh.ieee.org/r5/central_texas/embs/index.html
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Engineering
Management
https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r5/central_texas/ems
The Engineering Management Society has become the Technology Management Council. Information about meetings can be found in the sections for Technology Management Council - Austin and Technology Management Council - San Antonio
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Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) Affinity Group
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| Notes | Welcome from the
new Chair of IEEE CTS GOLD, It is my pleasure to serve as the Chair for CTS GOLD. I am excited about implementing Social Events, Networking Events, Workshops/Seminars, Focus Groups, Career Guidance Mentorship, and much more. I am usually tied to a computer deep in the basement, as most Information Technology workers are, so I am truly excited to plan and participate in events that get me away from staring at a screen. I enjoy any chance to be outdoors, especially if it is with Remote Control 1/8 scale gas powered buggies, which is one of my favorite hobbies. I will plan an R/C event if other members enjoy R/C as well, just utilize my contact details below to let me know. As the GOLD Group matures, events, discussions, and useful resources will be posted on the following sites. Events: https://goo.gl/d8D0D Linkedin Group: https://goo.gl/aVi3O Facebook Group: https://goo.gl/2wQ4Z I am planning a kickoff event, so make sure you visit the resource pages above to get the latest news. Thank you, Troy Green Chair, IEEE CTS GOLD troy.green@ieee.org |
More information on GOLD: https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/gold/index.html
GOLD Launches Mentoring
Connection Webinar
Are you interested in becoming a mentor
or finding a mentor to help with your professional
development?
If the
answer is yes, check out a free new IEEE Graduates of the Last Decade
(GOLD) webinar aimed at
helping mentors and mentees connect with each other. Learn more at https://bmsmail3.ieee.org:80/u/17953/32170
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Instrumentation
and Measurement Society
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Topic/Title |
Seeing their World through their Ears: The Exotic
World of Bats |
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George Pollak, Professor of Neurobiology, UT Austin George Pollak received his Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Maryland in 1970. He then was Assistant Professor of Anatomy at Yale University before joining the faculty of the Zoology Department at the University of Texas in 1973. Dr. Pollak's research concerns the processing of sound in the mammalian auditory system, and he uses bats as experimental subjects due to their high reliance on hearing. Early in his career he was a recipient of a Research Career Research Award from the National Institutes of Health. He served as Chairman of the Hearing Research Study Section of the NIH from 1989-91. In 1990, 1994 and 1997 he received Alexander von Humboldt Awards and during those periods was a visiting professor at the University of Munich. In recognition of his contributions to auditory neuroscience, he received a Claude Pepper Award from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders in 1996. In 1997 he was the recipient of a President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Texas. During the spring and summer of 1999 he was a Virginia Merrill Bloedel Fellow at the Virginia Merrill Bloedel Center for Hearing Research, University of Washington Medical School. |
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In this lecture I shall discuss the world of bats from
the perspective of a sensory physiologist whose research is concerned
the mechanisms by which the mammalian auditory system processes and
represents external features of the world. My theme will be that
we perceive is nothing more than that which our brains construct for us
from the information provided by our sensory receptors. Which
brings me to bats, because these animals “see” their world through
their ears by using a form of biological sonar called
echolocation. They evolved this ability to enable them to exploit
an enormous food supply for which there is no competition, flying
nocturnal insects. They also turned their hands into wings, which
enabled them to fly. With the ability to fly and to see in the
dark, bats become the most successful mammals on the planet.
There are about 1000 species of bats, and one or more species is found
in every tropical and temperate region on earth. As bats invaded the
four corners of the earth, they exploited not only insects, but also
any type of food that was plentiful. Each species adapted and
became specialists for one or another food resource, and I will show
examples of the more exotic adaptations. Bats are among the most colonial of mammals, and live in caves with populations that can number in the millions. To live in such large populations, bats use vocal communication to establish and maintain their social structure. What I will show, and what is so surprising, is that their vocal communication has a rich repertoire of complex, elaborate and highly structured signals. Bats do not simply emit squeaks and squawks, but rather emit elaborate songs that have defined structures and perhaps even a grammar and syntax. As a sensory physiologist, I always have to wonder, “How do they do it? What exactly occurs in the brain to endow a species with a new ability, which in turn, provides it with an advantage for survival? And how do the neural adaptations for echolocation co-exist with neural processes for vocal communication, which must be present in the brains of all mammals? Whatever those lessons in the evolution of the brain might be, they surely apply not only to bats, but also to all animals, and will give us insights into what is unique about our own brains and how they evolved. |
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April 16, 2012 - Reception 6-6:15pm, Presentation
6:15-7:30pm |
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Reservations |
https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/11567
or email kristi.hummel@ni.com
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National Instruments Building C 1S13 |
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Laser and Electro Optics Society
No meeting scheduled at this time.
For more information, contact Ray Chen
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Life Members (LM) Affinity Group - San Antonio
| Topic/Title | Vintage Equipment Exhibition by San Antonio IEEE Members |
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For the second year, San Antonio Life Members will host
a Vintage Equipment Exhibition on April 14, 2012. |
| Date/Time | April 14, 2012 12:00PM to 03:00PM |
| Location | Building: University Center (Building 38) Room Number: Conference Room B St. Mary's University One Camino Santa Maria San Antonio, Texas |
| Cost |
We will order individually from the menu and the
restaurant will prepare separate checks with gratuity added. |
| Reservations | Tom O'Brien (t.p.obrien@ieee.org)
or 210.481.3443 or 210.845.4966 https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/11669 |
| Notes |
We will order
from the regular menu and the restaurant will provide separate checks. |
More information on LM: https://www.ieee.org/societies_communities/geo_activities/life_members/index.html
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Power and Energy
Society - Austin (PES/PELS/IAS/IES)
https://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/pes/centraltexas/austin
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Power
and Energy Society - San Antonio
https://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pes/centraltexas/sanantonio
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Product
Safety Engineering Society (PSES)
https://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/pses/
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We encourage you, others in your organization, or other interested parties to participate in our meetings. The PSES meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 6:30pm, with the program starting at 7:00pm. For further information about the PSES, please contact Dale Ritzen at (512) 651-5338.
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Joint Signal Processing/Communications Society - Austin
https://ewh.ieee.org/r5/central_texas/com_sp/
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Topic/Title |
Software Defined Radios Accelerate Wireless Research |
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Speaker |
James Kimery, Director of Marketing for National
Instruments RF / Communications / SDR initiatives James Kimery is the Director of Marketing for National Instruments RF / Communications / SDR initiatives. In this role, James is responsible for the defining the products roadmaps for the company's software radio strategy. He also leads the RF and Communications programs for research and education. Prior to joining NI, James was the Director of Marketing for Silicon Laboratories' wireless division which is now a subsidiary of ST-Ericsson. As Director, the wireless division grew to over $250M in revenue and produced several industry innovations including the first integrated CMOS RF synthesizer and transceiver for cellular communications, the first digitally controlled crystal oscillator, and the first integrated single chip phone (AeroFONE). AeroFONE was voted by the IEEE as one of the top 40 innovative ICs ever developed. James also worked at National Instruments before transitioning to Silicon Labs and led many successful programs including the concept and launch of the PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation (PXI) platform. James was a founding member of the VXIplug&play Systems Alliance, VISA working group, and PXI System Alliance. He has authored over 26 technical papers and articles covering a variety of wireless and test and measurement related topics. James holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin (MBA) and Texas A&M University (BSEE). |
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Around the world, wireless consumers’ insatiable demand
for bandwidth has spurred unprecedented levels of investment from both
the public and private sectors to explore new ways to increase network
capacity to meet this escalating demand. Industry analysts
postulate that demand will indeed outpace capacity and it’s simply a
matter of when. Against this backdrop, wireless researchers
continue to advance theories and concepts to address capacity
challenges. Some topical areas span low level Physical Layer
(PHY) algorithms and upper layer medium access (MAC) to system
optimizations and heterogeneous networks. In reality, wireless
service providers may not rely on one “silver bullet” to solve the
capacity issues but rather employ a combination of techniques as the
demand curve is clearly exponential with no inflection point in
sight. Although there is no shortage of ideas, the time necessary
to transition from concept to simulation to prototype to deployment in
a real network can take many years. In particular, transitioning
from concept/simulation which is largely a software phase to a working
prototype with real signals and waveforms can be expensive and
time-consuming, and has been an impediment to the adoption of new
techniques to alleviate the wireless bandwidth crunch. Software defined
radios (SDR) have emerged as a new approach to address prototyping
challenges researchers face with a path to standardization as SDR
technologies have become more accessible and capable. the
presentation will discuss the suitability of SDRs for rapid prototyping
and present some examples through NI's RF / Communications Lead User
program. |
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April 19, 2012 |
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AT&T Labs |
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None |
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https://comsoc041912.eventbrite.com |
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Joint Communications and Signal Processing Society - San Antonio (Com/SP)
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Systems,
Man & Cybernetics Society
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For further
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Technology
Management Council -
Austin
https://www.austin-tmc.org/
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Contact Leslie Martinich (lmartinich@ieee.org) for more information about the Austin TMC.
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Technology Management Council - San Antonio (TMC)
https://webinabox.vtools.ieee.org/wibp_home/index/CH05214| Topic/Title | IEEE TMC SA Engineering Management Symposium Save the Date: The TMC SA Engineering Management Symposium will be held in conjugation with the UTSA $100K Student Technology Venture Competition on Saturday, April 28. Focusing on student entrepreneurial activities, the UTSA Center for Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship hosts a biannual $100K Student Technology Venture Competition to give students hands-on experience as early stage entrepreneurs. Teams of senior business and engineering students work throughout the semester to develop a technology demonstrator and business plan to successfully develop a new company. The engineering students create a new technology product, and the business students create the business plan for commercialization of the product. More information can be found at the following link: https://business.utsa.edu/cite/cite_techcomp.aspx |
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| Date/Time | IEEE TMC SA Meeting is on Saturday, April 28, 2012 from
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. April 28 Symposium 9 a.m.-noon Public Viewing 12:30-3 p.m. Competition |
| Location | UTSA Main Campus, College of Business Richard S. Liu Auditorium BB 2.01.02 |
| Cost | Attendance is free. |
| Registration | Please email Michael Frye (mfrye@uiwtx.edu) for more information |
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Women
in Engineering Affinity Group
https://www.austin-wie.org/
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| Notes | Receipts and
Certifications for PDHs will be
available. Doug will have a limited number of copies of his
book
available for purchase. Joint meeting with the Austin Technology Management Council chapter |
Contact Leslie Martinich (lmartinich@ieee.org) for more information about the Austin TMC.
Conferences, Other Meetings and Events
Local
IEEE
Conferences, Events or Workshops
April 17, 2012: Central Texas Electronics Association, Electronics Design & Manufacturing Symposium
RSVP to Bob Baker at: rjbakeratx@austin.rr.com
May 14-17, 2012: 2012 IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference, San Antonio
J.W. Marriott Hill Country Resort,
San Antonio, TX, USA
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=18155
May 30 - June1, 2012: 2012 IEEE International Conference on IC Design & Technology (ICICDT)
Freescale Semiconductor 7700 W
Parmer Lane, Austin, TX, USA https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=19537
June
3-8, 2012: 2012 IEEE 38th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC)
Austin Convention Center, Austin, TX. https://www.ieee-pvsc.org/
October 30 - November 2, 2012: 20th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
AT&T Conference Center.
January 20 - 23, 2013: IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium
Renaissance Austin. https://www.radiowirelessweek.org/
May 29 - June 7, 2013: 50th ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference
The 50th DAC will take place at the Austin Convention Center.
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IEEE Conference Search can be found at https://www.ieee.org/web/conferences/search/index.html
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See also https://www.wikicfp.com - A place to organize and share Calls for Papers.
Senior I/T Specialist –
Power7, AIX, Virtual I/O, NPIV, IVE, Virtual Networking, and Storage Pools
Many Topics including:
•Advanced VIOS setup and Tuning
•Advanced Networking including V-LAN Tagging
•Tips and Tricks, best practices
•Inter-partition VLAN communications
•How to plan for Application/LPAR Mobility
Where:
IBM
400 W 15th St, Floor 12
Austin, Tx
April 4th, 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
April 18, 2012: North Door64 Happy Hour
When: Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 / 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Where: The Park, 11601 Domain Drive #200, Austin, TX 78758 [Map]
How (much): Free!
Food: Provided!
Why: Expand your local network, maybe see some familiar faces, have a good time. So why not?
Parking: Lots of free parking in lot next to The Park, and in the garage across the street.
Register at https://door64.com/apr2012n
April 19, 2012: TXEN Funding Forum
Location: Round Rock Chamber of Commerce, 212 E. Main Street, Round Rock, Texas, 78664
Cost to observe: $15 (plus applicable fees)
When: Thursday, April 19th, 2012 / 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Where: Six Lounge, 117 West 4th Street, Austin, TX 78701 [Map]
How (much): Free!
Food: Provided!
Why: Expand your local network, maybe see some familiar faces, have a good time. So why not?
Parking: Paid parking available in the lot behind Six Lounge, on the street (as available), and valet. And remember to thank our Austin City Council since parking on the street is NO LONGER FREE after 6 PM.
Register at https://door64.com/apr2012
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Miscellaneous
March issue of IEEE-USA Today's Engineer includes these features:
CAREER FOCUS- Forensic Engineering
- How is a Job Search Like a Romance?
- Your Engineering Career: Keep on Pushing
- Are You Flourishing?
- Backscatter: The Engineering Gender Gap
- Technological Vigilance
- 1.4 Percent Increase Proposed for Federal R&D in FY2013
- Reversing the Loss of STEM Careers
- Interest Low in Federal STEM Jobs
- In Remembrance: Roger Mark Boisjoly (1938-2012)
- Engineering Hall of Fame: Pavel Nikolayevich Yablochkov
- World Bytes: John Glenn, American Hero
- Tech News Digest
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Events and Information
Deadline to enter: April 1st
Have you asked a question today? What did you do with it?
Did it take you somewhere new? Did it bring you here?
The Google Science Fair is an online science competition seeking curious minds from the four corners of the globe. Anybody and everybody between 13 and 18 can enter. All you need is an idea.
Geniuses are not always A-grade students. We welcome all mavericks, square-pegs and everybody who likes to ask questions. Simply upload your project here to win some life changing prizes. Everyone has a question. What's yours?
5:45 - 6:30 p.m. Networking Reception
6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Presentation and Q&A
Free and open to the public. This panel will cover issues in how to design successfully in an information-rich world by breaking the process into three parts: 1) understanding how users process information in information-rich environments; 2) understanding how we think of objects as they become increasingly digital and virtual via new technologies; and 3) understanding how users interact with physical and virtual objects. Email to RSVP.
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