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Impact of Mismatch Error on Mobile Phone
Simulation for Automotive EMC Testing & EMC Chamber Design for Vehicle and Electronic Sub-Assemblies (ESA) Testing |
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Keith Frazier of Ford Motor Company Mr. Keith Frazier received his BS in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1976. He has been a practicing EMC engineer for over 38 years with experience in automotive, military, aerospace and commercial electronics with emphasis on system design and testing with respect to EMI and Tempest disciplines. Keith joined Ford Motor Company in 1990 and serves as Ford’s technical leader responsible for EMC systems design for Ford automotive products, in addition to the development of global EMC requirements and test methods. He is also an active member of the US Technical Advisory Group supporting ISO and CISPR automotive standards development. Garth D'Abreu of ETS-Lindgren Mr. Garth D’Abreu is the Director, Automotive Solutions at ETS-Lindgren based at the corporate headquarters office in Cedar Park, Texas. He has primary responsibility for the design and development functions worldwide within the Systems Engineering group, specializing in turn-key solutions for Automotive EMC and Wireless test integration. Some of these more complex full vehicle and electronic sub-assembly (ESA) test chambers involve his coordination with the RF engineering team on custom components, and the certified, internal Building Information Modeling (BIM) team at ETS-Lindgren. Due to his considerable industry experience, he is the ETS-Lindgren global subject matter expert responsible for the ongoing research and development of Automotive EMC/Wireless test chambers for Regular, Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles, focusing on combination anechoic chambers, reverberation chambers, GTEM cells, EMP protection applications and wireless device test systems. Mr. D’Abreu is a member of the IEEE EMC Society and active participant in standards development, including the SAE, ISO and CISPR D automotive EMC standards, with over 25 years of experience in the RF industry. He holds a BSc degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering, from North London University, UK. |
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Automotive electronic systems must operate as
designed while exposed to the RF energy produced
by mobile transmitters including cellular
telephones. Automotive OEMs often verify
functional performance using test procedures
delineated in ISO 11452-3 [1] and ISO 11452-9
[2]. Test procedures simulate the
mobile device via use of a small antenna placed in
close proximity to the electronic device. RF
immunity levels are based on a specified net power
delivered from a broadband amplifier attached to
the antenna via coaxial cable. The ISO
standard makes only cursory reference to
minimizing the antenna VSWR and cable loss for
accurate delivery of the specified net
power. This paper will focus on the effect
of mismatch loss and its specific impact on the
error in the actual net power delivered to the
antenna. The design and development of electronic components, and the eventual testing for regulatory compliance, both share the common requirement for a suitable environment for performing EMC measurements. We have seen the development of design techniques over several years and benefited from the test experience as evident in the current versions of the industry standards. The time spent working with the traditional 12 V system has been changing in recent years with the introduction and increasing implementation of electric and hybrid vehicles. This has led to the development of higher voltage and current busses on vehicle platforms and the increasing use of electric motors and inverter drives have led to changes in the design and implementation of these new systems to meet the EMC requirements for regulation and interoperability. Vehicle platforms continue to become increasingly more complex with propulsion, entertainment and safety related systems all having to function reliably without impacting safety or the legacy communications infrastructure. This has driven the need for ever increasing permutations of system operation, operating frequency ranges and immunity levels. This will be discussed in light of current EMC testing and the development of new global standards. This presentation provides an overview of some of the main automotive EMC standards with their current and pending revisions, and looks at the test environment options for meeting the requirements for performing conducted and radiated immunity and emission measurements on whole vehicles and ESA's (Electronic Sub-assemblies). |
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Thursday, March 10, 2016 6:15pm - Light Dinner and Networking 7:00pm - Presentation 1 7:45pm - Presentation 2 8:30pm - Q&A 9:00pm - Meeting ends |
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National Instruments, Building C, 11500 N. Mopac
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Scattering, Metamaterials and Superresolution |
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Prof. Michael Fiddy Michael Fiddy received his Ph.D from the University of London, and was faculty member at Kings College from 1979-1987. He moved to the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 1987 where he was ECE Department Head from 1994 until 2001. In January 2002 he was appointed the founding director of the Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications at UNC Charlotte. He stepped down from this position in 2010 and has been site director for the NSF Industry/University Center for Metamaterials which began in 2011. He has been the editor-in-chief of the journal Waves in Random and Complex Media since 1996 and is Deputy Editor of OSA’s recently launched Photonics Research Journal. He has served on the OSA Board of Directors and is a fellow of the OSA, IOP and SPIE. |
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Imaging from scattered fields is inherently a
nonlinear problem unless weak or single scattering
approximations (first Born or Rytov) can be made.
Image reconstruction fidelity depends on the
nature of the illumination used and number of
scattered field measurements taken. A finite
number of measurements results in infinite
ambiguity which has lead to innovative
computational methods for selecting an “optimal”
image. Such procedures can also incorporate
prior knowledge about the object, trading degrees
of freedom for improved information
retrieval. One major focus of such efforts
for over half a century has been to achieve
significantly sub-wavelength scale superresolution
in images. We have developed a fast inverse
scattering method based on nonlinear filtering [1]
for strongly scattering penetrable objects.
Its use depends on some prior knowledge of the
maximum refractive index or permittivity of the
object, in order to determine the number of
degrees of freedom associated with the
scattering-imaging problem. Interestingly,
superresolved features of strongly scattering
objects are routinely seen, an effect reported as
far back as 1998 (Chew). Consequently, there
appear to be trade-offs one can make between the
calculated number of degrees of freedom of the
source-scatterer-receiver experiment and the
resolution achievable. There are many ways
to recover high resolution information but
measuring directly in the near field or encoding
that information in the near field is usually
preferred. The role of scattering materials,
and specifically custom designed metamaterials,
for transferring high resolution information into
an image plane will be discussed. This
approach to coding and decoding high spatial
frequencies connects to early work by Pendry and
the role of negative index materials in imaging. |
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17-March-2016 Time: 11:00AM to 12:00PM |
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UTA Room Number: 7.532 1616 Guadalupe St. Austin, Texas |
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The CEDA chapter normally meet on the 3rd Thursday 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 zhuoli@ieee.org.
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The Annual Review of the ISSCC Conference:
Analog and RF |
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Ramin Poorfard Dr. Ramin K. Poorfard received his Ph.D. from University of Toronto in 1995. Consequently, he joined Bell Labs in March of 1995 where he was involved in the GSM base-band product development for cellular phones. In 1999, he was promoted to the rank of Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. In July of 2000, he joined Silicon Laboratories Inc. in Austin TX where he worked on ADSL products and more recently on Satellite receiver front ends. Since, Jan. 2007, Dr. Poorfard was promoted to the rank Principal Designer managing the design of Satellite receiver line of products. Dr. Poorfard’s interests are RF IC architectures and their building block integrations as well as mixed-signal design. Axel Thomsen Axel Thomsen was born in Hamburg, Germany on 1/16/65. He attended the Polytechnical University of Braunschweig, Germany, from 1984 to 1988. From 1988 to 1992 he attended Georgia Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering in the area of analog IC design. From 1993 to 1995 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. From 1995 to 2001 he was a design engineer and manager at Cirrus Logic in Austin where he worked on high resolution data-acquisition ICs, ADCs, DACs and amplifiers. He was then a Fellow at Silicon Laboratories, where he has worked on low jitter timing circuits, PLLs, power and isolation ICs and MCUs. He is now a Fellow at Cirrus logic. Occasionally he teaches analog IC design at UT Austin. He holds about 40 patents and has published 20 papers. He is the chair of the Analog Subcommittee at ISSCC. |
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02-March-2016 6:00 to 6:30 pm -- Networking and refreshments (pizza and water) 6:30 to 8:00 pm – Seminar |
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UT Austin ACES (or POB) 2.402 201 East 24th St Austin, Texas |
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The Annual Review of the ISSCC Conference:
Digital, Processor and Memory |
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Betty Prince Dr. Betty Prince is CEO of Memory Strategies International and has 35 years engineering experience in the semiconductor industry. She is author of several books in the semiconductor memory area. She is a Senior Life Member of the IEEE and an IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer. She has been active in standardization and has been on the Technical Advisory Board of several memory companies. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Texas with doctoral dissertation on fractal modeling. Eric Fluhr Eric Fluhr joined IBM in 1996 after graduating with BSCS and MSEE degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Eric began his career in circuit design and verification on the POWER3 and POWER4 series. He switched to microarchitecture and logic design for POWER5, with a focus on data prefetch. For POWER6®, Eric was the Load/Store-Unit circuit lead and, later, chip characterization lead. As the POWER6+™processor head engineer he was responsible for all chip design changes and hardware characterization for frequency and yield, as well as the technical interface to technology development, system product bring-up, and manufacturing teams. He was subsequently the POWER8® core circuit lead, also responsible for implementing statistical timing for IBM’s 32nm and 22nm server processors, and currently leads chip-level circuit-design on POWER9®. Eric is currently a chip circuit lead for IBM’s POWER®design team. |
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08-March-2016 6:30 to 7:00 pm -- Networking and refreshments (pizza and water) in POB 2.402B 7:00 to 8:30 pm – Seminar in POB 2.402 |
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UT Austin ACES (or POB) 2.402 and 2.402 B (for refreshments) 201 East 24th St Austin, Texas |
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| Topic/Title | InfraGard San Antonio and Vysk |
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| Speaker | The FBI & Hector Nieto FBI agents from San Antonio will introduce the audience to InfraGard San Antonio, a consortium of industry and government seeking to share information for the protection of America's infrastructure. Mr. Hector Nieto is Public Relations Manager for Vysk. |
| Abstract | InfraGard is a cooperative effort between
industry and government to protect America's
infrastructure. Vysk is a new company headquartered in San Antonio with some unique products and services related to communications security, both individual and enterprise-wide. |
| Date/Time | 22-March-2016 Time: 07:00PM to 08:30PM |
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| Location | St. Mary's University University Center Conference Room B (Upstairs) 1 Camino Santa Maria San Antonio, Texas |
| Notes | Joint meeting with San Antonio Computer Society
and San Antonio ComSoc |
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City of Austin Research and Development Projects
Using Open Data, Big and Not so Big |
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Biography: Dr. Ted Lehr is the IT Data Architect
with the City of Austin and part-time lecturer in
computer science at Texas State University.
He has over 20 years of experience in companies
large and small as an engineer, researcher,
executive and manager. He is currently
focused on assisting the City’s open data efforts
as well as facilitating citizens, businesses and
universities in the Austin area to add value
to that data. He teaches software
engineering at Texas State University. |
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The City of Austin is committed to open data in
support of open government. To that end it
has published several data sets on its open data
portal. It has several initiatives with
universities, industry and community members to
use that data to address community challenges
while enabling business development and community
participation in improving city services,
transportation, safety, the environment and
workforce equity. This talk will be a
review of some of the initiatives. |
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23-March-2016 6:00 to 6:30pm -- Networking 6:30 to 8:30pm -- Business and Program |
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$5.00 minimum cost for the restaurant.
Supper is optional at extra cost.
Reservations are not required. All
interested parties are invited to attend. |
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https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/38604 |
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PoK-e-Jo's Smokehouse 2121 West Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village Ave. Austin, Texas |
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Do a friend a favor. Bring your colleagues to grow the Consultants Network.
More information on Consultants Networks
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Impact of Mismatch Error on Mobile Phone
Simulation for Automotive EMC Testing & EMC Chamber Design for Vehicle and Electronic Sub-Assemblies (ESA) Testing |
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Keith Frazier of Ford Motor Company Mr. Keith Frazier received his BS in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1976. He has been a practicing EMC engineer for over 38 years with experience in automotive, military, aerospace and commercial electronics with emphasis on system design and testing with respect to EMI and Tempest disciplines. Keith joined Ford Motor Company in 1990 and serves as Ford’s technical leader responsible for EMC systems design for Ford automotive products, in addition to the development of global EMC requirements and test methods. He is also an active member of the US Technical Advisory Group supporting ISO and CISPR automotive standards development. Garth D'Abreu of ETS-Lindgren Mr. Garth D’Abreu is the Director, Automotive Solutions at ETS-Lindgren based at the corporate headquarters office in Cedar Park, Texas. He has primary responsibility for the design and development functions worldwide within the Systems Engineering group, specializing in turn-key solutions for Automotive EMC and Wireless test integration. Some of these more complex full vehicle and electronic sub-assembly (ESA) test chambers involve his coordination with the RF engineering team on custom components, and the certified, internal Building Information Modeling (BIM) team at ETS-Lindgren. Due to his considerable industry experience, he is the ETS-Lindgren global subject matter expert responsible for the ongoing research and development of Automotive EMC/Wireless test chambers for Regular, Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles, focusing on combination anechoic chambers, reverberation chambers, GTEM cells, EMP protection applications and wireless device test systems. Mr. D’Abreu is a member of the IEEE EMC Society and active participant in standards development, including the SAE, ISO and CISPR D automotive EMC standards, with over 25 years of experience in the RF industry. He holds a BSc degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering, from North London University, UK. |
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Automotive electronic systems must operate as
designed while exposed to the RF energy produced
by mobile transmitters including cellular
telephones. Automotive OEMs often verify
functional performance using test procedures
delineated in ISO 11452-3 [1] and ISO 11452-9
[2]. Test procedures simulate the
mobile device via use of a small antenna placed in
close proximity to the electronic device. RF
immunity levels are based on a specified net power
delivered from a broadband amplifier attached to
the antenna via coaxial cable. The ISO
standard makes only cursory reference to
minimizing the antenna VSWR and cable loss for
accurate delivery of the specified net
power. This paper will focus on the effect
of mismatch loss and its specific impact on the
error in the actual net power delivered to the
antenna. The design and development of electronic components, and the eventual testing for regulatory compliance, both share the common requirement for a suitable environment for performing EMC measurements. We have seen the development of design techniques over several years and benefited from the test experience as evident in the current versions of the industry standards. The time spent working with the traditional 12 V system has been changing in recent years with the introduction and increasing implementation of electric and hybrid vehicles. This has led to the development of higher voltage and current busses on vehicle platforms and the increasing use of electric motors and inverter drives have led to changes in the design and implementation of these new systems to meet the EMC requirements for regulation and interoperability. Vehicle platforms continue to become increasingly more complex with propulsion, entertainment and safety related systems all having to function reliably without impacting safety or the legacy communications infrastructure. This has driven the need for ever increasing permutations of system operation, operating frequency ranges and immunity levels. This will be discussed in light of current EMC testing and the development of new global standards. This presentation provides an overview of some of the main automotive EMC standards with their current and pending revisions, and looks at the test environment options for meeting the requirements for performing conducted and radiated immunity and emission measurements on whole vehicles and ESA's (Electronic Sub-assemblies). |
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Thursday, March 10, 2016 6:15pm - Light Dinner and Networking 7:00pm - Presentation 1 7:45pm - Presentation 2 8:30pm - Q&A 9:00pm - Meeting ends |
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National Instruments, Building C, 11500 N. Mopac
Expwy, Austin, TX, 78759 |
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Joint meeting with the Electromagnetic
Compatibility Society, AP and MTT Societies. |
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A Report on the 2015 IEEE Life Members'
Technical Tour |
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Tom Grim received a B. S. Degree in Electrical
Engineering from the Carnegie Institute of
Technology in 1965, and an M.S. in
Telecommunications from Southern Methodist
University in 2003. He spent 38 years working for
various subsidiaries of the Bell System. The first
two thirds of that time was spent doing almost
every engineering job in Ohio Bell, including
assignments at Bell Laboratories and AT&T. He
spent the last third of his career working for
Ameritech and Southwestern Bell, managing industry
teams that wrote American National Standards
Institute and International Telecommunications
Union standards on the Telecommunication
Management Network Tom is a Professional Engineer registered in Ohio. He retired from the United States Army Reserve as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Signal Corps. His hobbies include reading, computers, and being an IEEE volunteer. He is currently learning about Python, for use in some Raspberry Pi projects in home automation. |
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The Life Members Group - Austin is becoming
active again, and has settled on having meetings
for a late lunch at 2 PM on the third Tuesday of
each month. We will meet at PoK-e-Jo's Smokehouse
on Parmer Lane in Austin. This allow us to reserve
a meeting room with food service without a large
concern about the attendance. Once we have a
number of regular attendees, we can consider
moving to a lunch hour meeting, if the members
would rather do that. The IEEE Life Members' Committee has sponsored a series of technical tours. The 2015 tour went from Paris, France to Geneva, Switzerland to Munich, Germany. These tours include visits to technology sites and more usual tourist places. Several Central Texas Section Life Members went on the 2015 Tech Tour of Europe and will report on the experience. The presentation will consist of a SnapFish photo album, made up of photos taken by Susanne and Tom O'Brien on the tour of France, Switzerland, and Germany. The photo album will be shown on the large screen in the meeting room. The tour consisted of ten days of group travel, with visits to IEEE Milestones sites and other historical sites, such as museums. Tom Grim and Tom O’Brien will share their impressions of the tour. |
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15-March-2016 2:00 PM Networking and lunch 2;15 PM Presentation |
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Nuclear Industry and Fukushima Update |
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Dr. Dale E. Klein rejoined The University of
Texas System in January of 2011 as Associate Vice
Chancellor for Research in the Office of Academic
Affairs. In April of 2010, after serving eight and
a half years as Presidential Appointee, Dr. Klein
returned to Texas from Washington, D.C., working
at The University of Texas at Austin as the
Associate Director of The Energy Institute,
Associate Vice President for Research, and a
Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Nuclear
Program). Dr. Klein was sworn into the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2006, and was appointed Chairman by President George W. Bush, serving in that role from July 2006 to May 2009. As Chairman, Dr. Klein was the principal executive officer and official spokesman for the NRC, responsible for conducting the administrative, organizational, long-range planning, budgetary, and certain personnel functions of the agency. Additionally, he had the ultimate authority for all NRC functions pertaining to an emergency involving an NRC licensee. The remainder of this term was as Commissioner of the NRC from May 2009 to March 2010. Before joining the NRC, Dr. Klein served as the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs. He was appointed to this position by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the Senate in 2001. In this position, he served as the principal staff assistant and advisor to the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology for all policy and planning matters related to nuclear weapons and nuclear, chemical, and biological defense. Previously, Dr. Klein served as the Vice-Chancellor for Special Engineering Programs at The University of Texas System and as a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (Nuclear Program) at The University of Texas at Austin. During his tenure at the university, Dr. Klein was Director of the Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory, Deputy Director of the Center for Energy Studies, and Associate Dean for Research and Administration in the College of Engineering. Honors and awards Dr. Klein has received include Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Nuclear Society, Engineer of the Year for the State of Texas, the University of Missouri Faculty-Alumni Award, and the University of Missouri Honor Award for Distinguished Service in Engineering. A native of Missouri, Dr. Klein holds a doctorate in nuclear engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has published more than 100 technical papers and reports, and co-edited one book. He has made more than 400 presentations on energy and has written numerous technical editorials on energy issues that have been published in major newspapers throughout the United States. |
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22-March-2016 Time: 6:00 to 6:30 PM Social 6:30 to 7:00 PM Dinner 7:00 to 7:30 PM Business Meeting 7:30 to 8:30 PM Program 9:00 PM room closes for the benefit of long distance drivers and early risers |
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El Gallo Mexican Restaurant 2910 S Congress Austin, Texas |
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Choose from a select menu of soups, salads and
dinner plates. Cost: • IEEE Members and accompanying spouses: $11 to $17 for dinners ($2 non-meal participants) • Visitors (non-IEEE members): $14 to $20 for dinners ($5 non-meal participants) • IEEE Student Members: $3 for dinner (no charge for non-meal participants) • Student Visitors (non-IEEE members): $6 to $10 for dinners ($2 non-meal participants) • All: $2 for non-alcoholic beverages • A bar is available for those who care to purchase a beer or other alcoholic beverage |
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If you plan to attend, please RSVP via e-mail to
"ieee.pi2.austin@zxtech.net".
Cash required for food and beverage purchase. https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/35656 |
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| Topic/Title | InfraGard San Antonio and Vysk |
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| Speaker | The FBI & Hector Nieto FBI agents from San Antonio will introduce the audience to InfraGard San Antonio, a consortium of industry and government seeking to share information for the protection of America's infrastructure. Mr. Hector Nieto is Public Relations Manager for Vysk. |
| Abstract | InfraGard is a cooperative effort between
industry and government to protect America's
infrastructure. Vysk is a new company headquartered in San Antonio with some unique products and services related to communications security, both individual and enterprise-wide. |
| Date/Time | 22-March-2016 Time: 07:00PM to 08:30PM |
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| Reservations | https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/38300 |
| Location | St. Mary's University University Center Conference Room B (Upstairs) 1 Camino Santa Maria San Antonio, Texas |
| Notes | Joint meeting with San Antonio Computer Society
and San Antonio ComSoc |
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Creating a Mobile Platform for Cervical Cancer
Diagnosis |
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Speaker |
Nick Saulnier of SMU Mr. Saulnier is a graduate Electrical Engineering student at Southern Methodist University (SMU). He will earn his Master's degree in Spring 2016. Mr. Saulnier was selected in 2011 to receive one of the Southwest Research Institute Martin Goland scholarships. The scholarship program was established in 1997 and named in honor of the Institute's second and longest serving President. He also recieved a National Merit Finalist Scholarship. |
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Abstract |
Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer
worldwide and the leading cause of cancer
mortality among women in developing countries.
Developing countries often have neither the
manpower, nor the infrastructure, nor the funds to
implement pap smears and other cervical cancer
screening techniques commonly used in developed
nations. With this work, we present a mobile,
low-cost hardware and software design that could
allow an untrained nurse to screen patients for
cervical cancer. |
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10-March-2016 Time: 12:00PM to 01:00PM |
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Location |
Southwest Research Institute 6220 Culebra Road Building 189 First Floor VTC San Antonio, Texas |
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https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/38645 |
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Notes |
This is a "brown bag" lunchtime seminar.
You are welcome to bring in your lunch. This meeting will also be broadcast via WebEx: Meeting number: 591 627 892 Meeting password: ieee Please click the link below to see more information about the meeting, including its agenda, or to join the meeting. Web conference link: https://intercall.webex.com/intercall/j.php?MTID=m1af7627607603616925fd1f4f1d9d119 Audio conference information: Provide your phone number when you join the meeting to receive a call back. Alternatively, you can call: Call-in toll-free number: 1-866-5881857 (US/Canada) Show global numbers: https://www.tcconline.com/offSite/OffSiteController.jpf?cc=7332626 Conference Code: 733 262 6 |
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Contact Leslie Martinich (lmartinich@ieee.org) for more information about WIE.