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Reserve your seat for Dr. Farr's Talk About Antenna Performance in the Time Domain — Reservations will be accepted until noon Tues., Nov. 29, for the IEEE Joint Chapter's Nov. 30 dinner meeting featuring Dr. Everett G. Farr discussing "A Standard for Characterizing Antenna Performance in the Time Domain." More information is provided on this PDF.
To reserve a seat for dinner, please contact Mike Harrison at harrisonmgabq@comcast.net or 239-2663. A reservation is not required if you will attend the talk only. Members of the IEEE Albuquerque Section and Sigma Xi are invited to attend.
The social gathering will begin at 5:45 pm at Four Hills Country Club, 911 Four Hills Road SE in ABQ. Dinner will be served at 6:30 pm, and Dr. Farr will begin the discussion at 7:30.
For those joining the dinner, the Joint Chapter asks that you pay $20 ($10 for IEEE student members) to cover the cost of the really fine meal they have arranged: prime rib, garlic mashed potatoes, salad, green beans, and crème brulee. A vegetarian entrée is available by request at time of Rsvp.
Section meeting set for Nov. 8 — The second ABQ Section meeting of 2011 will be held at 6 p.m. on Nov. 8 at Yanni's Restaurant. The invited speaker is Dr. Ted Dellin, who will talk about "The End Game of Moore’s Law." The meeting cost is $10 per person, which includes dinner. Guests are welcome and, as always, the meeting is free for IEEE student branch members. Payment must be made online using a credit card: www.123signup.com/Register?id=ccphn. Here is an introduction to Dr. Dellin's talk, courtesy of Alonzo Vera:
While the integrated circuit revolution has been going on for half a century, the industry struggles today to retain its historic rates of improvement in the face of increasingly difficult physical, material, processing and economic challenges. Dr. Ted Dellin will discuss the evolution of Moore’s Law, from Intel co-founder Gordon Moore's original Electronics Magazine article and the transistor doubling law, to exponentially faster-better-cheaper ICs and then the use of Moore's Law as a framework for discussing the current challenges and future scenarios of microelectronics.
The number of transistors that can be used affordably on an IC continues to double due to innovations in realizing subwavelength lithography. However, the speed of ICs has been saturated due to power limitations, and escalating costs and the emergence of the price-sensitive consumer market are reshaping the industry. Dr. Dellin will discuss the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) future scenario of more-than-Moore as well as his own, complimentary scenario of Moore-for-the-rich. He will conclude by considering some important recent developments for Intel.
Dellin will be giving his perspective on the microelectronics revolution based on his experience as reliability lead for ITRS, as a member of the Reliability Technical Advisory Board at Sematech, and as chief scientist of the Microsystems Center at Sandia National Laboratories, where he worked for 35 years. For the last decade, Dellin has provided technical training in the basics of microelectronics, optoelectronics, MEMS, reliability, and submicron CMOS. He has given tutorials at many conferences, including the International Reliability Physics Symposium, and has taught short courses about microelectronics and reliability for organizations in the US and Europe. He earned his PhD in physics from the City University of New York. For more information about Dellin's courses, please visit his Quick Start Micro Training LLC website at quickstartmicro.com.
ITRS is a global, 15-year assessment of future technology requirements for the semiconductor industry. These will drive strategies for R&D among manufacturers, universities and national labs as they pursue cost-effective advancements in IC performance and the products that employ them .
Welcome to the fall 2011 semester — The next board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, September 27, 2011. If you have discussion or event topics, please contact your board representative, or board president Ray Byrne, before the meeting.
Summer 2011 — IEEE is offering member discounts from its home page. It's the new, one-stop portal for all IEEE member-exclusive discount opportunities. Click on the image at right to go to http://www.ieee.org/go/discounts.
April 4, 2011 — 2011 Section Award Nominations Due April 25: Please nominate worthy individuals for the following IEEE Albuquerque Section 2011 excellence awards. Only Albuquerque Section members have the privilege of nominating candidates, and nominees must be IEEE members. These awards are one of the most important activities in the IEEE. They are the vehicle with which we recognize the efforts of members to improve the organization and to bring merit to our profession.
Simply click the links below to view or download the nomination forms and instructions (MS Word). Electronic submission is preferred; hard copies will be accepted as well. Completed nominations may be submitted by mail or e-mail to Section Chair Ray Byrne, ray@raybyrne.com, P.O. Box 51478, Albuquerque, NM 87181.
Professional Awards
Outstanding Service recognizes service to IEEE and to the engineering profession.
Outstanding Engineer recognizes superior professional and technical achievements within IEEE and to the engineering profession.
Outstanding Engineering Educator recognizes academic accomplishments that have enhanced the profession.
Outstanding Entrepreneur recognizes a self-employed member of the Section who, through his/her consulting abilities has made outstanding contributions to the electro-technology profession.
Outstanding Young Engineer recognizes superior professional and technical achievements by a young engineer (within ten years of his/her highest earned degree) within IEEE and to the engineering profession.
Student Awards
Outstanding Graduate Student (male and female awards): recognizes graduate academic accomplishments.
Outstanding Undergraduate Student (male and female awards): recognizes undergraduate academic accomplishments.
The award guidelines are here.
Award recipients will be notified on May 2 and will be presented with their awards during the IEEE Albuquerque Section Awards Banquet.
Oct. 23, 2010 — The Region 6 Southwest Area Meeting was held at UNM's Centennial Engineering Center on Saturday, October 23, 2010. Highlights included presentation of the Region 6 Southwest Area awards, leadership training, and updates from the region, area, sections and chapters as well as the student branches. Board members and their significant others also enjoyed each other's company over dinner at Yanni's on Friday.
Sept 27, 2010 — UNM Seniors Win Region 6 Best Student Paper Award: A research paper written by students Ryan A. Clark and Andrew E. Hollowell for their spring 2010 senior project in UNM's Electrical & Computer Engineering Department won the 2010 Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Region 6 conference in Salt Lake City on September 25. The team had already won the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Southwest Area Conference in Phoenix on April 10.
The paper, titled "Flexible Implementation of Rigid Solar Cell Technologies," describes research done in response to the need for flexible, lightweight photovoltaic (PV) devices that are more efficient than those that are currently available.
Working with ECE faculty mentors Professor Luke Lester and Dr. Olga Lavrova, they helped a team at UNM's Center for High Technology Materials demonstrate a >0.2 W/gram lightweight, flexible solar fabric with a record high power-to-weight ratio. It uses highly efficient solar cells manufactured by Emcore Corporation.
Most solar cells are made of rigid, inflexible materials that are more efficient and have longer lifetimes than the more flexible amorphous silicon and organic PV systems. If PV systems were both flexible and efficient, they could be used on a wider variety of structural forms while also requiring less space. If long-life PV systems could at the same time be made lighter in weight, they would also have wider application on space and flight vehicles.
Hollowell and Clark found a way to use photolithography and ultrasonic wire bonding to connect small, efficient PV cells to a flexible substrate to form a solar-cell device that has all three qualities: efficiency, light weight, and flexibility.
Their paper explains how they created a working prototype:
♦ using photolithography, thin-film deposition, and electrochemical deposition to pattern conductive interconnects onto a flexible, lightweight film (Dupont Kapton polyimide film) to route power to their device,
♦ integrating advanced solar-cell materials, including crystalline silicon and gallium arsenide, onto the film, and
♦ scaling cell size to achieve virtually any radius of curvature while providing a high power-to-weight ratio. By varying cell size, their design allowed them to use the highest-efficiency solar cells despite their rigidity. The resulting device has a higher power-to-weight ratio than current devices, satisfying the weight requirement for space applications (> 0.133W/g).
Besides mentorship from ECE faculty members Lester and Lavrova (Lavrova was their instructor in the yearlong ECE 419/420 Senior Project course), Hollowell and Clark worked with Prof. Lester's research team at CHTM: Kai Yang, Mohamed El-Emawy, and Therese Saiz, all of whom are alumni of ECE@UNM. Saiz and El-Emawy were completing their master's degrees under Dr. Lester's advisement, and Yang was serving in a post-doc position at CHTM.
Members of Sandia National Laboratories' metal micromachining team also contributed. They are UNM engineering alumnus Christian Arrington, UNM engineering doctoral student Jonathan Coleman, and James Gillen and Adam Rowen. Hollowell had previous experience as a member of this micromachining team at Sandia.
The research was conducted with support from Prof. Lester's U.S. Army MAST (Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology) grant.
The paper authored by Clark and Hollowell is here.
September 2010 — Tutoring Jobs Available: Go to this site's Employment page.
August 4, 2010 — Discount on Training in Power System S/W: ETAP Enterprise Software Solution for Power Systems is offering a "Design, Analysis & Operation of Power Systems" training class in Albuquerque on August 24. Seating is limited. Additional information and registration information can be found at: http://etap.com/events/2010/101-tour/.htm
ETAP offers a 10 percent discount for IEEE members off the regular registration fees for training events (U.S. events only). To register using the IEEE 10% discount, e-mail training@etap.com or call (949) 900-1084: the IEEE discount is not available for online registrations.
ETAP is an analysis software platform for designing, simulating, operating, and controlling all types and sizes of power systems, including generation, transmission, distribution in industrial fields ranging from oil and gas, to manufacturing, cement, mining, and nuclear facilities.
April 24, 2010 — The 2010 Excellence Awards were announced by the Albuquerque Section on April 24, and the winners were recognized at a May 17 awards banquet. Congratulations to the following:
–Outstanding Female Undergraduate Student: Gennifer Smith, UNM Electrical & Computer Engineering Department (ECE-UNM)
–Outstanding Male Undergraduate Student: Isaac Ramos, ECE-UNM
–Outstanding Female Graduate Student: Monica Madrid, ECE-UNM
–Outstanding Male Graduate Student: Prashanth Kumar, ECE-UNM
–Outstanding Engineering Educator: Daniel J. Ziesmer, MS, MBA San Juan College, Farmington
–Outstanding Young Engineer: Vince Calhoun, PhD the Mind Research Network and ECE-UNM
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April 12, 2010 — IEEE Student Branch Rocks at spring meet! The IEEE Region 6 Southwest Area's spring 2010 meeting was held on Saturday April 10 at Arizona State University. The ECE-UNM team of Ryan Clark and Andrew Hollowell won first place in the paper contest, and the ECE-UNM team of Anthony Bentley, Ben Schaefer, David Steidley and Wes Ross won second place in the micromouse competition. Congratulations to the students and their IEEE Albuquerque Section faculty advisor, Professor Rafael Fierro. For the full story, go here.
March 4, 2010 — IEEE Student Paper Contest Deadline March 24: Members of UNM's IEEE Student Branch can compete for the IEEE Region 6 (Southwestern U.S.) Student Paper Contest. Entries are due by 5 p.m. on March 24. The winner of that preliminary round will be selected by the IEEE Albuquerque Section and will receive a $50 award, with $30 and $20 going to the second and third place entries. The first-place entry will then be forwarded by the Albuquerque Section to Region 6 by the region's deadline of March 26. UNM is permitted to submit just one paper to that contest. First-, second- and third-place winners in the Region 6 contest will be determined by April 10 and will be awarded $800, $500 and $200, respectively.
UNM students' entries should be submitted via e-mail to Dr. Rafael Fierro at rfierro@ece.unm.edu. Here is a PDF of the complete guidelines. Questions about submitting a paper should be addressed to Dr. Fierro.
Authors of the technical papers may select whatever topic they wish for their paper. For example, some contestants write papers about their senior project. Last year, ECE student Jim Aarestad, a member of UNM's IEEE Student Branch, tied for second place in Region 6.
February 24, 2010 — IEEE/Sigma Xi will host a March 11, 2010, presentation titled "The Role of Renewables and America’s Energy Future" by management consultant Lawrence Papay. The talk is at 5 p.m. at the UNM Conference Center, 1634 University Blvd. NE. Free parking is available in the attached, well lit, parking lot. Refreshments will be served at 4:30 p.m. Direct questions to Professor Harjit S. Ahluwalia, UNM Dept of Physics & Astronomy; (505) 277-2941, e-mail hsa@unm.edu. A brief abstract is available here.
January 2, 2010 — The spring 2010 meetings of the Albuquerque Section Board of Directors are held on the last Thursday of each month at Yanni's, except the January meeting is a week early. To see a tentative list of the year's meeting dates, go to the Events page. Board members, society representatives, and student branch representatives: please e-mail Ray Byrne if you cannot attend.
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December 29, 2009 — The Albuquerque Section elected its 2010 officers in December. They are Section Chair Raymond H. Byrne (pictured at left), Vice-Chair W. Scott Bigelow, Secretary Aaron T. Murray, Treasurer Gilberto Zamora, Women in Engineering Coordinator Jamesina Simpson, Joint Chapter Chair Harald Wagnon, GOLD Chair Gilberto Zamora, UNM Student Branch President Wes Ross, UNM Student Branch Faculty Advisor Rafael Fierro, Photonics Society Chair Majeed Hayat, Sigma Xi rep. Harjit Ahluwalia, Life Members Affinity Group rep Harjit Ahluwalia, and Newsletter Editor Simon Barriga. Frances Strong serves the board as website administrator.
September 20, 2009 — Please e-mail your Albuquerque Section news to this site's webmaster for posting and to Simon Barriga for inclusion in the section's newsletter.
June 19, 2009 — The Life Members Affinity Group formed in the Albuquerque Section during spring 2009. Professor and Section member Harjit Ahluwalia, UNM Physics & Astronomy, is serving as pro-tempore chair until the group holds elections.
June 14, 2009 — The IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) now has an Albuquerque Section coordinator. Professor Jamesina Simpson of UNM's Electrical & Computer Engineering Department can be reached at simpson-at-ece-dot-unm.edu. A WIE Affinity Group is in formation and will serve the specific needs of New Mexico's female engineering students and professionals. WIE is also partnering with the UNM student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE).
The Joint Chapter meets monthly at Four Hills Country Club. Go to the events page for information. The Joint Chapters (AP,
EMC,
MTT and
NPS) include mostly RF and pulsed-power engineers who meet monthly except in summer.
IEEE GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade) meets monthly at the Flying Star's Grande Hospitality Room, at Silver and 7th in downtown Albuquerque, from 7pm to 8:30pm. Click here for information about GOLD.
LEOS (IEEE Laser & Electro-Optics Society) in 2009 changed its name to the IEEE Photonics Chapter. The chapter meets regularly at UNM's Center for High Technology Materials. Basic information about the local LEOS/Photonics chapter is here.
May 20, 2009 — 2009 Albuquerque Section Awards: The winners of the section awards were recognized at a joint IEEE Albuquerque/UNM Sigma Xi Awards Banquet on May 18, 2009, at the Conference Center on UNM's north campus. For a complete list of awardees, see this MS Word document. Congratulations to the following Albuquerque Section 2009 Award winners
Outstanding Graduate Student: Joud Khoury, UNM Electrical Engineering student (conferred jointly with Sigma Xi)
Outstanding Undergraduate Student: Cody Eilar, UNM Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
Outstanding Engineering Educator: Greg Heileman, UNM Electrical & Computer Engineering Department (pictured at right receiving his award from Section Chair Dr. Christodoulou).
Outstanding Engineer: Richard Scott Erwin, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base
Outstanding Young Engineer: Brandon Witcher, Sandia National Laboratories
Outstanding Entrepreneur: Paul Shirley, CEO, World Alliance for the Volunteer Economy
IEEE Presidential Scholar: Raymond Romero, UNM Computer Science Department
Outstanding Student Paper: Jim Aarestad, ECE@UNM senior, tied with Eric Martinez, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology (conferred jointly with Sigma Xi).
May 4, 2009 — Jim Aarestad, a senior in ECE@UNM, who won the IEEE Albuquerque Section Student Paper Contest, was featured at the 2009 IEEE Southwest Area (Region 6) meeting at U.C. San Diego on April 25. At that meeting, his paper also tied for the Second Place Award in the Region 6 Student Paper competition. Aarestad's paper, titled "SmartCan: Instrumentation, Measurement, and Control at 70 Miles Up," describes his senior capstone-project team's sub-orbital mission automation, recording and tracking canister (SmartCan), which was launched from Spaceport America as part of the Aerospace SpaceLoft XL rocket payload on May 2. A PDF of Aarestad's paper is here. ECE@UNM Prof. Jamesina Simpson gave a presentation on "How to Write a Technical Paper" on May 5 at 6 p.m. in ECE Room 118. For those interested in future contests, Student Paper Contest Guidelines are here.
March 5, 2009 — The Albuquerque Section welcomed a new joint chapter in February 2009, the Communication and Signal Processing Societies. The effective date of the new chapter's formation was Feb. 12, 2009, and it is chaired by Professor Balu Santhanam of UNM's Electrical & Computer Engineering Department. For information, contact Dr. Santhanam at bsanthanamATece.unm.edu.
Throughout 2009, IEEE is commemorating 125 years of fostering technological innovation and excellence for the public good. May 13, 2009, is IEEE's official anniversary date, although the "Engineering the Future" celebration will include a year full of activities. For information, go to www.ieeeusa.org.
In December 2008 the IEEE Laser and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS), Albuquerque Chapter, presented Mr. Ajit V. Barve with the Best Regional Student Paper Award for his paper titled "Reduction in Dark Current Using Resonant Tunneling Barrier in Dots-in-a-Well Long-Wavelength Infrared Photodetectors." Ajit, a doctoral student at UNM working at the Center for High Technology Materials, presented his paper at the 21st Annual Lasers and Electro Optics Society Meeting, 9-13 November 2008, in Newport Beach, Calif. The Award included a certificate from the Albuquerque LEOS Chapter, a $200 cash prize, and cost of IEEE student membership and LEOS membership for one year. Congratulations, Ajit!Entry forms for the 2009 competition will be posted in May 2009 on the LEOS Albuquerque Chapter website: www.chtm.unm.edu/~yagya/LEOS/. The chapter recently changed its name to the IEEE Photonics Chapter.
December 29, 2008 — Message from incoming Section Chair Christos Christodoulou: I would like to extend my greetings to all of you as the new chair of our section. It is an honor to be elected in the position and I will do my best to meet all of the responsibilities and expectations required of this position. I would like to thank our outgoing chair, Ray Byrne, who served during the last two years. He did an oustanding job and was instrumental in the section's growth. Please feel free to get in touch with me or any of our officers if you have any questions or any ideas about how to make the section better. My e-mail address is christosATece.unm.edu. I hope to see you at some of our functions.
December 29, 2008 — The Albuquerque Section elected its new officers in December. They are Section Chair Christos Christodoulou, Vice-Chair Scott Bigelow, Secretary Aaron Murray, Treasurer Gilberto Zamora, GOLD Chair Simon Barriga, UNM Student Branch Tom Posen, NM Tech Student Branch Eric Martinez, AP/EMC/MTT/NPSS Joint Chapter Leland Bowen, EMB Society Vince Calhoun, SP/Comms Joint Chapter Balu Santhanam, LEOS Chapter Majeed Hayat, Website Administrator Frances Strong, and Newsletter Editor Simon Barriga.
October 20, 2008 — 2008 Albuquerque Section Awards: The winners of the section awards were recognized at the annual IEEE Region 6 Southwest Area fall meeting on Oct. 18. Held at UNM's new Centennial Engineering Center, the event brought together officers, section and student branch chairs for award presentations; region, area and section updates; and leadership training (with UNM Student Branch President Tom Posen participating). Region 6 Chair Vasudeva Atluri noted that the Albuquerque Section is the third largest in Region 6.
Congratulations to the following Albuquerque Section 2008 Award winners:
Outstanding Graduate Student: Joseph Costantine, (photo, left) UNM Electrical & Computer Engineering Department (Applied Electromagnetics).
Outstanding Undergraduate Student: Joseph Fernandez, Department of Electrical Engineering, NM Institute of Mining & Technology.
Outstanding Engineering Educator: Edl Schamiloglu, (photo, right) UNM Electrical & Computer Engineering Department.
Outstanding Engineer: Keith Morris, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Very Large Array Expansion Project.
2008 IEEE Presidential Scholarship: Brian Hesch, UNM Electrical & Computer Engineering Department.
2008 Noteworthy Technical Support Person: Christos Christodoulou. (conferred by Sigma Xi).
NM Tech Student Paper Winners, contest held March 24: Toby Sachs-Quintana, First Place; Tanner Oakes, Second Place; Joey Fernandez, Third Place.
September 15, 2008 — Sigma Xi maintains a UNM chapter website
here, holds regular meetings on the UNM campus, and hosts a joint awards meeting and banquet with IEEE.
August 7, 2008 — The Albuquerque Section of IEEE collaborates with the Albuquerque Software Process Improvement Network
(ABQ SPIN). The goals of ABQ SPIN are to strengthen members' skills, promote awareness of quality methods and best practices, and support technology transition with networking and education.
For a list of IEEE societies and local chapters, click
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