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Past Meetings
Central PA IEEE April 2006 meeting
The Central Pennsylvania section of the IEEE invites you to attend a
joint meeting with AES.
The topic is entitled “Fireworks Show Production - Bits to
Booms”
Speaker: John Stitzinger
Location: 2nd floor classroom, Applied Science Building, Penn
State University, University Park, PA
Date: Monday, April 10, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM
Please note: No cameras including Cell phone cameras are allowed
in the building.
There are NO CAMERAS allowed in the building due to security so please
remember to leave them at home (this includes cellphones with cameras).
For those that don't have badge access to the building please show up a
few minutes early so you can be escorted upstairs.
Please contact Faithann Karge at (814) 865-8724 by noon on April 7th, if
you are planning on attending the meeting on April 10th.
About the Talk
The State College, PA 4th of July fireworks show is fully
automated but there is a tremendous effort involved before and after the
show for the few minutes of enjoyment everyone sees and hears. This talk
will cover how the Central PA July 4th, 4th Fest Fireworks show is
produced, including history, equipment, choreography, audio and video.
This is a world class show produced almost completely with local
resources. We will also talk about how the show and production techniques
can be improved in the future.
About the Speaker
John Stitzinger received his B.S. degree in Electrical
Engineering from Penn State in 1978. From 1978 to 1998 he worked for
Raytheon Systems (HRB Systems) in State College. John started out in the
Hardware department doing Bit Slice design but over the years became more
interested in supporting engineers with tools to make them more
productive. He was involved in the acquisition and support of the
division's first Computer Aided Design and Drafting and Computer Aided
Engineering Systems. He created a system to convert schematic information
to semi-automatic wirewrap control commands. In 1986 John, along with his
wife Alice Wilson, created an XML like language for describing
multi-windowed user interfaces. A prototype system was implemented with a
new, at the time, 19" plasma display. Following that he worked in
the Information Technology department supporting the computer and
software purchases and developing an Inventory Control system.
In 1996 John and 8 other local individuals with various interests and
skills related to the Internet formed the Centre Of the Web, Inc.
https://www.centreweb.com.
The company formed from an association which continues to meet monthly as
the Centre Technology Solutions Associates
https://solutions.centrecounty.org/.
The goals of both groups are to provide resources to develop projects
that could not be accomplished individually. The Centre Of the Web was an
early adopter of technologies like XML, PHP, JAVA and Content Management
Systems to create e-commerce solutions presenting complex product options
and ordering rules on the Web.
John is the Newsletter/Website Editor for the Central Pennsylvania
Section of the IEEE.
Annual Arthur H. Waynick Memorial Lecture
ANNOUNCEMENT: THIS LECTURE IS OPEN TO THE
PUBLIC
The topic is entitled “Exploring the Final Frontier of the
Solar System”
Speaker: Dr. Edward Stone, Professor of Physics at Caltech and
Project Scientist for the Voyager Mission at JPL
Location: 104 Keller Building, Penn State University, University
Park, PA
Date: Friday, April 28, 2006
Time: 8:00 PM
Contact: Linda Becker at 865-6337 or
https://www.ee.psu.edu/cssl/waynick.stm
About the Talk
After a twenty-seven year journey, Voyager 1 reached the final
frontier of the solar system nine billion miles from Earth. The
atmosphere of the Sun expands supersonically, creating a giant bubble
called the heliosphere that envelops all of the planets. Outside the
bubble lies interstellar space filled with matter from other stars.
Voyager 1 reached a major milestone in its journey when it began
exploring the outermost layer of the heliospheric bubble where the
supersonic solar wind abruptly slows as it presses outward against the
surrounding interstellar matter. Voyager 2 will soon join in exploring
this final frontier as both spacecraft continue their journeys to the
edge of interstellar space.
Dr. Stone will also provide a more technical lecture at the graduate
colloquim, Rm. 158, Willard building University Park PA on Thursday,
April 27th at 4:00 p.m.
About the Speaker
Edward C. Stone is the David Morrisroe Professor of Physics at
the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Vice Provost for
Special Projects. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and
was former Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(1991-2001).
Since 1972, Stone has been the project scientist for the Voyager Mission
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, coordinating the scientific study of
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune and Voyager’s continuing exploration
of the outer heliosphere and search for the edge of interstellar space.
Following his first instrument on a Discoverer satellite in 1961, Stone
has been a principal investigator on nine NASA spacecraft and a
co-investigator on five other NASA missions for which he developed
instruments. Stone received the National Medal of Science from President
Bush in 1991, the Magellanic Premium from the American Philosophical
Society, and Distinguished Service Medals from NASA.
17-Nov-2005 About the Speaker
John D. Balogh
Senior Systems Engineer
Penn State University
The speaker is a member of the Applications Engineering group that
designs production quality voice, video, and data services for PSU.
Recent projects include robust VoIP systems for 17,000 phones
and future VoIP systems enhancements.
John received his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering
from Penn State University in 1992. He has worked for Penn State
since 1978 (Electronic Services in Electrical Engineering East)
through his current job (Telecom. and Networking Services, a
division of ITS). He has designed and consulted on various analog,
digital, and RF systems over the years, and is currently focused
on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services used at Penn State.
Starting in the late 1990s, he has volunteered with Networld -
Interop conferences where he has worked on Internet Telephony and
other Engineering teams. In 1992 John worked on the design and
ratification of the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA)
standard for Digital Command Control (DCC) of model train layouts.
The result of that standards work enabled the creation of two US
companies that now employ over 90 people and have sales
distribution of over $12M per year.
His current interests include his family, VoIP design and
implementation (work, consulting, home, and church), processor
control of model trains (DCC and other systems), and counseling
peers on the ethical use of technology.
About the Talk
Title: "Voice over IP at Penn State"
The talk will cover the history, technology, and future of VoIP
at PSU. Legacy Phone Systems, a quick VoIP Primer, our involvement
using VoIP to assist NYC schools after Sept. 11, 2001, Performance
and Security requirements, Current configuration, Futures and a
Discussion period will be the major agenda items.
September 2005
About the Speaker
Dr. Venkatraman
Gopalan received
his doctorate in Material Science and Engineering from Cornell
University
in 1995. His thesis work related to developing nonlinear optical
probes to study complex microstructures. He was a postdoctoral scholar
from 1995-1996, jointly between Carnegie Mellon University and Eastman
Kodak Company, where he developed novel electro-optic and nonlinear
optical devices. He received a director-funded postdoctoral
fellowship from Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he conducted
research on the structure and dynamics of ferroelectric domain walls
from
1996-1998. He is currently an associate professor in Materials
Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. His
current research interests include multiferroics, ultrafast nonlinear
optical probing, electro-optic materials and devices, scanning probe
microscopy, and tunable photonic crystal devices. He was the recipient
of
the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2000, the Robert R.
Coble
award for young scholars in 2002, Corning Faculty Fellowship in 2004,
National Research Council faculty fellowship in 2004, and Wilson award
for excellence in research in 2005. He has over 85 refereed
publications, 4 awarded patents, and is currently writing a text book
on
introduction to light-matter interactions with Oxford.
About the Talk
In this talk, he will
first give a
brief overview of the three areas of research activities in his
group: Ultrafast nonlinear optical probing of ferroelectric and
ferromagnetic domain dynamics, electro-optic materials and devices for
integrated optics, and tunable photonic crystals and hybrid fibers
structures. He will then cover the area of tunable photonic crystals
and
hybrid fibers structures in greater detail.
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