IEEE Central Coast Section

<>Central Coast Section Officers for 2005

Section Chair:  Taufik

Taufik began his college education in 1989 at Northern Arizona University where he received his B.S. degree with Cum Laude majoring in Electrical Engineering and minor in Computer Science in 1993. He then continued his study at the University of Illinois Chicago where he received M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1995. He then worked a researcher at the Microelectronics Lab at UIC where he was involved with the design of micro-coils for magnetic field measurement inside micro-undulator. In 1996 he decided to pursue the Doctor of Engineering degree at Cleveland State University. There he worked as a teaching assistant for the Control Systems Lab and later on as a research assistant for the Power Electronics lab. In May 1999, he received the Doctor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering with emphasis in Power Electronics and Power Systems. His doctoral dissertation involved the design of parallel ac-ac converters with master-slave control.

 During the course of his study, Taufik has been employed by engineering companies starting with Capstone Microturbine Corporation where he spent the summer of 1997 performing study of paralleled microturbine generators. In 1998, he was employed by Rockwell Automation as a hardware engineer to conduct tests on high-speed Ethernet module. He then moved to Picker International (currently Philips Medical System) where he helped the design of a power converter for X-ray generator used in the CT scanner. His industry experience continued in summer 2001 at San Diego Gas and Electric where he led a group of senior engineers to conduct reliability study of circuit breakers. Since summer 2002, he has been with Rantec Power Systems, Inc. where he is involved mainly with the design of switching power supply.

In August 1999, he accepted a job as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo. . There, he has been upgrading the Power Electronics Lab and has redeveloped power electronic courses and labs. He has also been involved in power related projects such as Harmonic Study of Adjustable Speed Drives (ASD) in Irrigation Pumps and Photovoltaic Facility at Cal Poly. He has published numerous technical papers in power electronics and for his love in teaching, he has received awards including Engineering Student Council Outstanding Faculty, IEEE Cal Poly’s Outstanding Professor, EE Best Lecturer, and EE Faculty From Whom Students Learned The Most.

Vice Chair:  Walter L. Whipple, Ph.D., P.E., PMP

Walt Whipple was appointed the member-at-large for Santa Barbara in 2003 and a Vice Chair in 2004.  Walt may be reached via email at w.whipple@ieee.org and by phone at (805) 967-6004.  His cell-phone is (805) 452-7891 although the AT&T service makes it more a pager than a phone.  Walt  is senior past chair of the section, senior past chair of the computer chapter, 2003 LAC vice chair for advertising, and 2004 LAC Vice Chair (publications).

Walt holds a Ph.D. in Computer, Information and Control Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a B.S., Engineering Science, from Harvey Mudd College.  He is a registered professional electrical engineer in California and holds the Program Management Professional certificate from PMI.   He has been listed in Who's Who in America regional and national editions.  He has been programming computers since 1961 and C++ since 1992.  He taught C/C++ at New York Institute of Technology and organized a seminar in C/C++/VC++ for the Long Island Section.  Walt provides a page for Santa Barbara activites on his web site,  www.members.cox.net/wingineering

Vice Chair Administration & Secretary: Dean Y. Arakaki

Treasurer:  Steve Dittman

David Perry has been working with computers and information systems since 1949. In the early years, he contributed to the design of computers, developed interpreters, computer simulation, , developed requirements for a command and control system for Military Airlift Command, ran a computer service company. Most recently he was involved as a consulting programmer in the development of electronic countermeasures for various avionics companies.

Dave worked for ITT Communication Systems, Bell Labs, & GE Information Systems, among others, before retiring.  Read about his current activity at  http://www.quakesafe.org/

Some of Dave's technical publications:

• Minimum Access Programming Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, VI, No. 39, July 1952  (About writing code to improve execution speed).
• Proposal for Development of Standard Data Communication Protocols for the Department of Defense, proposed by Burroughs Corporation May 21, 1980 .
• Technical Program Guide to Technical Program Committee, 1964 International Symposium on Global Communications, Sponsors Advisory Committee, IEEE Computer Society
• MATS Communications Operational Requirements Point-to- Point, ITT Communication Systems Inc. August 31, 1963 with co-authors
• Ground-Aircraft-Ground Communication Standards Development Working Papers, Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics, 1962 with co-authors.
• Air Weather Service Meteorological Data Survey Material, ITT Communication Systems Inc. 15 November 15, 1963. Written under the Author's direction.
• Order Processing System for Book Wholesaler, privately published.
• General Ledger Accounting System, prepared for Guardian Industries, privately published.
• Proposed Feasibility Study on Off Premise Accounting for Kansas Bankers Association, ITT Communication Systems Inc. July 13, 1964 with co-authors.
• Working Papers for a Command and Control System for Military Airlift Command, 1964 
• Medical Evaluations and Minicomputers, Journal of Clinical Computing, V 3, No.3, 1976
• Winning proposal for Drive and Control for a 140' Radio Telescope, with co-authors, submitted to National Science Foundation from Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics.

Vandenberg area Member at Large:  Brad Rogers 

Santa Barbara area officers -

Santa Barbara area Member at Large,  Murray Ruben

UCSB Student Liaison, Ms. Clarita Poon,  clarita_poon@msn.com, (805)893-3262, student member

Student Activities Chair, Ms. Jin Zhang, jzhang@umail.ucsb.edu, (805)637-8972, member

Membership: John Armstrong

John is a retired engineer from the Caterpillar Electronics R&D group. He earned his BS & MS from Cal Tech and is a past officer of IEEE Central Illinois.

Central Coast Treasurer's Report