Conference Home Invited Presentations

We are very pleased to present the following invited presentations at the Nanotechnology Conference. Check the program for the full conference schedule. For keynote speaker information, see the keynote page.

For some background information, see the Introduction to the Technical Topics page.

	Technical Track A
5:00pm - 6:00pm	Tom Mullineaux Aiding the 17025 Laboratory Accreditation Process by Capturing Key Performance Data on RF Power Amplifiers Tom Mullineaux RF engineer The technical case can be made that there is no need for periodic calibration of the RF power amplifier in a RF immunity system. This is because the new IEC61000-4-3 Edition 3 stipulates checks on amplifier harmonic and compression levels at all test frequencies, and if met, the immunity system is deemed compliant. However, this leaves the situation where the most expensive piece of test equipment in the set up has no dedicated calibration type data on file. This presentation describes and explains the more baffling amplifier performance metrics, and provides guidance on a simple way of capturing the metrics using test instruments available at most test laboratories. The captured data can then be presented during the 17025 audit under the trend analysis methodology. Tom is an RF engineer with experience in leading RF design teams in the design and development of high-power microwave amplifiers for use in defense and commercial applications. Tom received his degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Portsmouth University, England in 1989. He has delivered both practical and theoretical presentations to IEEE EMC Society sponsored events including "Linearization of an RF Amplifier for Immunity Testing" at the 2004 Santa Clara EMC Symposium, and has had many technical articles published, including "Rating Power Amplifiers for RF Immunity Testing" - Evaluation Engineering Magazine, 2003; "Selecting antenna/power amplifier combinations for the coming new RF immunity standards" Interference Technology Magazine 2004; "Using radar amplifiers for automotive RF immunity tests" Evaluation Engineering Magazine, 2005.
6:00pm - 7:00pm	Tom Mullineaux Demystifying Radio Frequency Fields and Radio Frequency Components Tom Mullineaux RF engineer Radio frequency engineering is often seen as a black art filled with baffling phenomena and components such as propagation modes, quarter wave stubs and mismatch ratios. This presentation aims to remove the bafflement by taking a lighthearted look at the history of the discovery of RF fields (EM waves), how they were predicted, how they were discovered, their behavior, and finally how the more common RF components actually work.

	Technical Track B
5:00pm - 6:00pm	Spiro Vomakas Technology Management, New Product Introduction And Our Engineering Leaders Of The Future Spiro Vomakas Vice President, Business Development, Automotive Products, Delta Electronics, Inc. Those of us in engineering leadership positions must quickly come to grips the challenges facing us, not the least of which is insuring that we retain our best and brightest contributors. The metrics of this CTQ are as variable as range of personalities within our respective teams. The successful technology leader recognizes these variances and identifies those individuals who need the challenge of developing/leveraging, cutting edge technology and more importantly, what provides them with the energy and enthusiasm to step up to this critical role. We will explore the learning's from this journey and the implicit rewards. Spiro Vomakas earned a MSEE at Case Western Reserve University, with research on biomedical applications, followed by a staff position with the University. With General Electric, he held various leadership roles, many of which were foreign assignments, focused on product development, new product introduction, and technology management. After 28 years, he took a position with Kimball Electronics, a global electronics contract manufacturer, as Vice President of European Operations, focused primarily on the automotive industry. Currently he is with Delta Electronics, a Taiwanese based multinational company, being responsible for developing the strategy for a new business within the company that is focused on leveraging our power electronics core competency on the development of automotive products for the electrification of vehicles. Most recently, he is supporting this strategy by developing partnerships and alliances to bring this technology to market.
6:00pm - 7:00pm	Prof. Krishna Shenai The Search for a Perfect Power System - The Incredible Power Chip Prof. Krishna Shenai IEEE Fellow, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, The University of Toledo Bob Galvin, Founder of Motorola describes a perfect power system as one that is plentiful in energy and never fails the consumer. According to Morgan Stanley, silicon will reconfigure 21st century electric power grid just as it did the 20th century information infrastructure. George Gilder, Wall Street "guru" says information-quality power is the greatest business opportunity of our time. These insightful comments provide a plethora of evidence to the importance of energy and environment, and the critical role that the semiconductor technology will play in shaping the 21st century global economy. This talk will focus on key challenges and opportunities in semiconductor materials and devices, nano technology, and renewable energy generation and utilization in developing next generation smart electrical power system. Dr. Shenai has over 25 years of combined industrial, academic, and entrepreneurial experience in developing and deploying advanced semiconductor technologies for electric energy conversion and power management. He is best known for his contributions to semiconductor metallization, power MOSFETs, smart-power ICs, synchronous power rectifiers, wide bandgap semiconductors (SiC and III-Nitride) for power, soft-switching power technology, high-density power converters, power system field-reliability, and RF and microwave power amplifiers. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of AAAS, Fellow of IETE (India), a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Electron Device Society, and a member of Yugoslavian Academy of Engineering.

	Technical Track C
5:00pm - 6:00pm	Dr. Erica Klampfl Emotive Driver Advisory System (EDAS) Dr. Erica Klampfl Technical Leader,Ford Research & Advanced Engineering This presentation will demonstrate and discuss EDAS, Ford Research & Advanced Engineering's project on next generation driver assistance. This system integrates several emerging technologies focusing on personalization and adaptive and intelligent behavior. We will demonstrate an AVATAR-based HMI with an emotive spoken dialogue system integrated with adaptive vehicle control and cloud-based infotainment. The system concept was revealed at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show and the 2009 North American International Auto Show. Erica Klampfl leads a Strategy and Sustainability Analytics research group at Ford Research and Advanced Engineering. Her research interests include the application of Operations Research techniques to intelligent vehicle functions, strategic planning, sustainability, and manufacturing. She received a Ph.D. in Computational and Applied Mathematics from Rice University in 2001. Dr. Klampfl has won several external and internal awards including a Ford Technical Achievement Award for the Emotive Driver Advisory System (EDAS) and co-authored 5 patents in next generation driver assisted systems.
6:00pm - 7:00pm	Prof. Hongwei Zhang Towards Predictable Messaging for Mission-Critical Wireless Networked Sensing and Control Prof. Hongwei Zhang Wayne State University Moving beyond open-loop data acquisition, wireless embedded networking is expected to become a basic element of closed-loop, real-time sensing and control in contexts such as vehicular control, industrial process control, and management of alternative energy systems. In supporting mission-critical tasks, closed-loop, real-time sensing and control pose stringent requirements on the predictability and reliability of wireless messaging. Nonetheless, wireless messaging is subject to inherent uncertainties and dynamics within the system and the environment, for instance, unreliable wireless links, wireless interference, and malicious jamming. To ensure dependable messaging for mission-critical sensing and control, it is important to address those systems and environmental dynamics. Given the potential resource constraints of wireless sensor/actuator networks (e.g., limited channel bandwidth, memory, and processing power), the solutions have to be light-weight and efficient too. In this talk, we will review these challenges, and we will discuss in detail how to address traffic-induced dynamics in scheduling and routing. We will also discuss issues related to systems support for evaluation of wireless sensing and actuation networks. Hongwei Zhang received his Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from The Ohio State University in 2006, and he joined Wayne State University as an assistant professor thereafter. He is interested in the modeling, algorithmic, and systems issues in wireless, embedded, and sensor networks. As a part of the NSF Global Environment for Networking Innovations (GENI) program, his research team is currently investigating the theoretical and systems foundations for experimentation and service provisioning in federated, autonomous networked sensing. His work has also provided dependable services for several large scale wireless network systems including the NetEye experimental infrastructure (which has 130 IEEE 802.15.4 nodes and 15 802.11b/g nodes) and the DARPA sensornet project ExScal (which, with its 200-node 802.11b mesh network and 1,200-node mote network, was the world's largest sensornet and mesh network at its time). More information about his work can be found from his website at https://www.cs.wayne.edu/~hzhang.

	Technical Track D
5:00pm - 6:00pm	Prof. Subra Ganesan Advances in RFID applications Prof. Subra Ganesan Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oakland University This presentation will cover: Basics of RFID sensors, Application of RFID for tracking, Recent advances in technology and new applications, GPS ICs, Low power microcontrollers, Sensor networks, and Integration of RFID,GPS, Low Power Micro and sensor network for novel applications. Dr. Subramaniam Ganesan, is a Professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA. He was the chair of the CSE department from 1991 to 98. Ten students have obtained PhD under his guidance and 8 students are currently doing PhD. He is a senior member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visiting Speaker, and council member of ISPE. He is the editor in chief of a International Journal of Embedded system and Computer Engineering. More details about him can be obtained from the web address: https://www.secs.oakland.edu/~ganesan.
6:00pm - 7:00pm	Christian Chimner Hanlong Yang Model-Based Diesel Engine Aftertreatment Controls and Diagnostics: Challenges and Opportunities Christian Chimner Senior Engineer, Eaton Corporation Hanlong Yang Manager Diesel Aftertreatment Controls, Eaton Corporation Future government emission regulations have lead to the implementation of advanced aftertreatment systems to meet stringent emission standards for both on-road and off-road vehicles. These after treatment systems require sophisticated control and diagnostic strategies to ensure proper system functionality while minimizing tailpipe NOx and PM emissions across all engine operating conditions. In this presentation, we will discuss a model-based controls and diagnostics strategy framework for an LNT /SCR based aftertreatment system, and also discuss about the advantages, challenges and opportunities of using model-based approach. Christian Chimner is a senior engineer at Eaton Corporation working in the software, electronics, and controls global center of excellence. Prior to this, he worked as a control engineer on the Eaton Aftertreatment team for 5 years. He holds a BS in engineering chemistry and MS is systems engineering form Oakland University. Hanlong Yabg is a manager for Diesel Aftertreatment Controls at Eaton, before joining Eaton in 2007, he had 10 years of working experiences at TRW, Motorola, , and Caterpillar on Controls and Diagnostics strategies in Chassis, as well as Engine Powertrain systems. He has BS, MS in math, and PhD in nonlinear controls and diagnostics.

	Professional Track E
5:00pm - 5:40pm	Jack Townsley Michigan's Workforce Transformation Jack Townsley Business Solutions Manager, Lenawee County, South Central MichiganWorks! The economy in Michigan is changing rapidly and dramatically. So too must its workforce. Communities that embrace this change and learn to quickly retool their workforce to meet the new demands of industry will prosper. The Michigan Works! system has a vital role to play in the transformation from a workforce centered on automotive manufacturing to a workforce with the skills and abilities to be productive in a wide array of high-tech industry clusters. Individuals looking for employment must also be willing to retool. Skill sets that were formerly in demand can become obsolete practically overnight. To stay relevant today individuals must be in a constant state of career transformation. Points that will be covered in this discussion will include: The Michigan Works system and its role in workforce transformation Tools of the Michigan Works System Retooling Your Personal Toolkit Born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Jack earned his A.B. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1983 and his B.S. in Biology and teaching certificate from Eastern Michigan University in 1987. He began his professional career as a school teacher in and from there transitioned into the Human Resources and then Workforce Development. As the Business Solutions Manager for South Central Michigan Works!, Jack has had experience working with many industry sectors helping match available talent with industry needs. He has also been involved in some pioneering efforts to bring Education, Economic Development and Workforce Development together to create collaborative approachs for retooling a workforce to meet employer demands. Some of the initiatives have reached back as far as the third grade to create a consistent pipeline of trained applicants for an industry cluster.
5:40pm - 6:20pm	Robert Neff 2010 - Job Search in the Digital Era Robert Neff Sales and Marketing Insight, Northville, MI Fortune Personnel Consultants, Troy, MI Ingenium Testing, Rockford, IL Meridian Industries, Troy, MI Intrass, Seattle, WA A job search in 2010 has unique advantages and disadvantages as job applications take place at employer's web sites, resume marketing takes place at large and small posting web sites and social web sites become a marketing tool. All these become the tools you use to get the interview where you can convince the potential employer that your skills will be of benefit. The presentation contains updated material and insight into how to market yourself effectively in this virtual age and how avoid pitfalls that are all to common. Bob will offer Insight into how recruiters use resume data bases.
6:20pm - 7:00pm	Dr. Tarek Lahdhiri Job Interview Presentation - Outlines Tarek Lahdhiri, PhD, PE, PMP, SM-IEEE This presentation provides practical strategies to maximize your career talents presented in a positive and entertaining way. The workshop will present the Job Interview process and these are the topics for discussions: Job Interview Understand interview process, what to expect, how to present yourself Interview types Preparation for the interview What really matters Appearance Behavior, good and bad Topics to avoid and questions to ask Dr. Lahdhiri is currently working for General Motors where he is holding the position of Strategy Leader for Real-Time Control Systems Development within the Global Systems Engineering department. Dr. Lahdhiri is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in the State of Michigan and a licensed Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute (PMI). Dr. Lahdhiri is a Senior IEEE member and has been leading several activities within the IEEE organization. Currently, he is the IEEE Region 4 (Central USA) Membership Development Chair, Co-chair of the IEEE-USA Career Workforce Policy committee (CWPC), a member of the IEEE-USA Employment & Career Services (ECS) Committee, a member of the IEEE-MGA Nomination and Appointment Committee, and a member of the IEEE Career Services Committee. Dr. Lahdhiri is the recipient of the 2001 IEEE-USA Professional Achievement Award, the 2004 IEEE-USA Professional Leadership Award, and the 2007 IEEE-USA Citation of Honor Award. Contact Dr. T. Lahdhiri e-mail: lahdhiri@ieee.org.