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The Monitor Pub l i s hed by The
New Yor k Sec t i on of
The Ins t i t ut e of
E l e c t r i c a l and
E l e c t r oni c s Engineer s
Inside this issue:
Calendar of
Events 2
October Lectures & Seminars
4 & 5
November Lectures & Seminars
5
NY Section
EXECOM Candidates
6 - 9
Consultants Network
10
IEEE-USA Webinars
11
NY Section Awards
Dinner Dance 12
Volume 60, No. 18 October 2013
Chair’s Message By SP Chang, Ph.D., Chair New York Section
An organization always needs new blood to survive, to grow and get stronger. So, why join the IEEE? What are the benefits to joining the IEEE? Besides knowing more people in the professional community, expand your horizon of thinking, knowledge, views or even job opportunities, IEEE has
many benefits for its members. You can purchase health, dental, and car insurance at a group rate, there are a variety of scholarships, and even a credit card. As a member, you can attend IEEE events at a discounted price and in some cases, your CEU (Continue Education Unit) can be obtained free of charge. There are also resources, such as a digital library, IEEE-TV, and online education. When you go out to recruit new members, let’s remember these points. Please visit the IEEE membership page at http://www.ieee.org/join for more information. The New York section is served by volunteers. We are constantly looking for new volunteers to improve our section’s resource pool. If you or anyone you know have an interest and the big heart to serve, to help and to inspire, please ask them to contact any section officer or bring them to our Executive Committee meeting, we are more than happy to have them on-board. Joining IEEE and becoming a volunteer is a wonderful way to get involved, not only in your professional community, but also in your local community. Many IEEE members hold local volunteer organization positions. They often provide technical seminars to non-engineers or hold classes so others can understand technical trends, get familiar with technologies and learn how to use them. I have seen seniors taught how to use a web browser, e-mail, and a media player, so their lives can be enriched by the new ways of communication and enjoy a sea of information on the internet. Don’t just talk to your nerdy friends. Go do something for the normal folks and get involved in your local communities, give seminars at your local fire department or community center. Get involved in your community and share your knowledge. With the fall season upon us, we are all busy planning for next year or getting ready for the harvest of this year’s accomplishments. Many of our volunteers have labored long and hard for our members during the year or even several years. As leaders in our communities, I am calling on all chairs to take a moment to thank our volunteers, plan an event to honor them or nominate them for an IEEE award. There are many IEEE awards at different level, chapters, sections, and regions. Nomination for an award is a year long process. It is important to recognize our volunteers for their contributions to the community. Our award committee chair, Wilson Milian ([email protected]) is ready to help if you have any questions. Don’t worry if you missed the due date this year, we will have you ready for next year. So, bring them forward.
Best wishes! Cheers! SP Chang, Ph.D. Chair, IEEE New York Section [email protected]
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Calendar of Events
October 2013
October 15th
IEEE SMPTE NY and BTS
Cloud Applications in Production and Post-Production Contribution
By Jeff Cohen, Sohonet and John Cerquone, Quantel
NEP Penn Studio
401 Seventh Ave.
New York, NY
To register: http://smpteny2013oct.eventbrite.com/
October 22nd
IEEE Tappan Zee Subsection, ASME & SME Westchester Chapters
Entergy’s Indian Point Energy Center Presentation and Tour
Entergy Nuclear Northeast - Indian Point Energy Center
Buchanan, NY
Arrive at 5:30PM
REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED
For more information about these meetings and lectures,
please visit:
http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/new_york/
October 29th
The NY Section of the IEEE PES and the IAS NY Chapter and the LMAG
An Internet of Things: the Next Socio-Tech-Business Revolution
By Alessandro Bassi
Refreshments 5:00PM
Lecture 5:30PM
Con Edison
Edison Room, 19th Floor
4 Irving Place, NY 10003
October 30th
IEEE NY Section Communications Society Chapter, PACE and the
Consultant’s Network Affinity Group
Entrepreneurship for Engineers
By James Estill, Managing Director, CanRock Ventures
Refreshments 5:30PM
Lecture 6:00PM
Con Edison
Conference Room 6-C on the sixth floor
4 Irving Place, NY 10003
November 2013
November 5th
IEEE NY Section PACE and Tappan Zee Subsection Joint Meeting with
Westchester Chapters of ASME & SME
Ethics in a Global Engineering Environment
By Don Herres, PE
IEEE Region 1 Employment & Career Activities Coordinator
Refreshments 6:30PM Lecture 7:00PM
School of Health Sciences and Practice (SHSP) Building
New York Medical College
40 Sunshine Cottage Road
Valhalla, NY
November 13th
IEEE New York Section Executive Committee Meeting
4:00 PM
Con Edison
4 Irving Place - Room 6C
New York, NY
November 13th
IEEE New York Section Executive Committee Elections
5:00 PM
Con Edison
4 Irving Place
New York, NY
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New York Section Officers Chair
DR. SHU-PING CHANG
Vice Chair, Chapter Operations
NEIL WEISNEFELD
Vice Chair, Section Activities
ARNOLD WONG
Treasurer
WILSON MILIAN
Secretary
KIM K. SMITH
Junior Past Chair
BALVINDER DEONARINE
Senior Past Chair
DARLENE E. RIVERA
Consultant’s Network
MARTIN IZAAK
GOLD Affinity Group (Graduates of the Last Decade)
OLIVER G. VASQUEZ
Broadcast Technology
William C. Miller
Computer
Vincent Sorezza
Communication
Warner Sharkey
Computational Intelligence
Dr. A. Ravishankar Rao
Technology Management
David M. Weiss
Engineering in Medicine & Biology
Shivaprasad Bhuvanendran
Instrument & Measurement
Steven Giavasis
Power Engineering & Industry Applications
Paul Sartori
Society Chapter Chairs
Affinity Groups Life Members Affinity Group
DR. AMITAVA DUTTA-ROY
Women in Engineering Affinity Group
SHIRLEY K. SANTIVANEZ
Section Committee Chairs
Vehicular Technology
Patrick McGettigan (co-chair)
Mark Woodward
SSCS/EDS
Harish Krishnaswamy
IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics
Dr. Ping-Tsai Chung
Awards and Recognition
Wilson Milian
Operations & Procedures
William N. Coyne
Chapter Organization/
Society Liaison
Balvinder Deonarine
Conference Coordinator
Charles P. Rubenstein
Education Leon Nock
Historian
Melvin I. Olken
Long Range Planning
Matthew Lester
Members-At-Large Peter Mauzey Paul Sartori
Membership Development Neil L. Weisenfeld
Metro. Engineering Society
Council
Michael A. Miller [email protected]
Metro. Sections Activities Council
Balvinder Deonarine
Pre-University Committee Chair
Zhao-Feng Mah
Professional Activities (PACE)
Robert M. Pellegrino
Publications
Darlene Rivera (Interim)
Publicity / Public Relations
Ken Vought
Special Events
David K. Horn
Student Activities
Simon Odie
Tappan Zee Subsection
Robert M. Pellegrino
Webmaster
Harold Ruchelman
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October Lecturers and Seminars
IEEE Tappan Zee Subsection, ASME & SME Westchester Chapters Present:
Entergy’s Indian Point Energy Center Presentation & Tour Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Entergy Nuclear Northeast - Indian Point Energy Center Buchanan, NY
Arrive at 5:30PM This event has been approved for 0.1 Continuing Education Units
Abstract: Entergy Nuclear Northeast is part of Entergy Corporation, a global energy company based in New Orleans. Entergy owns, operates and manages ten nuclear generation plants that are among the safest and most professionally operated energy facilities in the United States. Entergy owns and operates the Indian Point Energy Center, located in Buchanan, N.Y. Indian Point provides power to millions of homes, thousands of businesses, and hundreds of critical transportation, health and municipal systems.
Nuclear energy is a price-stable energy source and does not fluctuate like natural gas prices or other fossil fuels. For New York State's electrical grid, closing Indian Point would reduce the amount of power available by 11 percent. Resulting blackouts will cost area businesses an additional $3 billion.
Once inside the plant refreshments will be offered and Entergy representatives will give a short presentation of the facilities. After the presentation you will be escorted on a limited tour of the plant.
Registration: REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED
For directions and detail information, please visit the IEEE Tappan Zee Subsection Website http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r1/new_york/tz/
The NY Section of the IEEE PES and the IAS NY Chapter and the LMAG are presenting a lecture titled: An Internet of Things: the Next Socio-Tech-Business Revolution
By Alessandro Bassi Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Refreshments 5:00PM Lecture 5:30PM Con Edison - The Edison Room, 19th Floor, 4 Irving Place
This program will be awarded IEEE Continuing Education Units
Abstract: While still missing a clear and precise definition, there's much buzz around the so-called "Internet of Things".
Whether Gartner to Cisco, McKinsey to Ericsson or public sectors such as the Chinese government, there is a consensus regarding the requirement of a central thread between technologies for connecting objects for the next phase of development of the Internet, and the financial and social impact that a widespread application of IoT concepts will bring. Cisco sees a market value of IoT technologies of $14.4 trillion by 2020. McKinsey forecasts a yearly impact on the global GDP of $2.7 to $6.2 trillion by 2025. Rummaging through the main technological challenges that IoT faces and also the current technological advances it has made, this talk will analyze the current IoT status, the main applicative domains and how IoT can represent a significant change to the present socio-economical situation.
About the Speaker: Alessandro Bassi graduated from the University in Milan in 1994. His work experience includes
Amadeus, Seminal work of the Internet Backplane Protocol at the U of Tennessee, a Research Visitor position at Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, France, RIPE NCC, Hitachi Europe. In 2010 he founded Alessandro Bassi Consulting, focusing on topics related to Internet of Things technologies. Since 2005, his research interests involved the integration of autonomic properties into ad-hoc networks, RFID technologies and, more broadly, the Internet of Things. Since 2007 he has been the chair of the Internet of Things WG of the European Technology Platform "EPoSS", focused on Smart Systems Integration. In this function, he co-organized, with the European Commission, a number of events including the workshop "Beyond RFID - The Internet of Things", held in Brussels in 2008. He is an expert for ENISA, the European Network and Information Security Agency, on possible threats coming from the adoption of IoT technologies, and he was part of the group that wrote the Strategic Research Agenda on Future Internet. He is a member of the European IoT Expert Group and IoT EU-China Advisory Group. Currently, he is the Technical Coordinator of the lighthouse project regarding the Internet of Things in the Framework Program 7, 'Internet of Things - Architecture" (IoT-A).
Registration: To register, please e-mail Arnold Wong at [email protected]. For security reasons, no walk-ins will be
allowed.
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November Lecturers and Seminars
IEEE NY Section PACE and Tappan Zee Subsection Joint Meeting with Westchester Chapters of ASME & SME Presents a lecture titled:
Ethics in a Global Engineering Environment By Don Herres, PE
IEEE Region 1 Employment & Career Activities Coordinator Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Refreshments 6:30PM Lecture 7:00PM School of Health Sciences and Practice (SHSP) Building - New York Medical College
40 Sunshine Cottage Rd, Valhalla, NY Room 111
CEUs will be offered
Abstract: Traditional business methods have changed with globalization. Design & manufacturing engineering and production are done by teams that we may never have met or there is turnover so we are constantly dealing with new people and challenges in communication. This is an interactive presentation to discuss concerns that individuals on both sides face when dealing with both different cultural backgrounds and very different local economies.
About the Speaker: Don Herres is the IEEE Region 1 Employment & Career Activities Coordinator. He has been involved with Career Activities Workshops with IEEE for a number of years and was awarded an IEEE-USA Citation of Honor in 2006 for these efforts. Don has a BSEE from SUNY Buffalo, MSEE from Syracuse University and is a licensed Professional Engineer in New York State. He has extensive experience in product design and manufacturing, holds 3 patents, and recently retired from his full time paying job to work on his unpaid volunteer jobs. He also does contract design work.
Registration: RSVP required and requested by close of business on November 4, 2013 to Bob Pellegrino, [email protected] and Jinjun Xiong, [email protected]. You must pre-register for this event at http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/21185>
Seminar Coordinator: Robert M. Pellegrino, Chair, IEEE NY Section PACE & Tappan Zee Subsection
October Lecturers and Seminars (continued)
IEEE NY Section Communications Society Chapter, Jointly with PACE and the Consultant’s Network Affinity Group Presents:
Entrepreneurship for Engineers By James Estill, Managing Director, CanRock Ventures
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 Refreshments 5:30PM Lecture 6:00PM
Con Edison - Conference Room 6-C on the sixth floor 4 Irving Place, NY 10003
CEUs will be offered
Abstract: Many people have considered going into business for themselves as an entrepreneur, but have held themselves back because they did not have a clear vision on how to get started. Perhaps they did not know how to define their technical offering. Maybe they feared the business and marketing aspects of being an entrepreneur. They may not know how to get started, worse yet they may have already started with unrealistic goals or a poor plan and ended up in trouble. This seminar will answer the following questions: Why consider a business and are you ready? What do you need? How do you prepare? Who can help? What are the risks? Real world experiences will be discussed.
About the Speaker: James Estill founded EMJ Data in 1979 and grew the company to $350 MM in sales. Based in Guelph, Ontario, EMJ specializes in products for Apple, bar coding, auto-ID, POS, build-to-order, digital video, networking, and security applications. Jim sold EMJ to SYNNEX in September 2004. SYNNEX has three core competencies to which EMJ contributed in a large part: Information Technology (IT) Distribution, Electronic Services, Electronic services options provide both standard and customized Web-based tools, and Electronics Manufacturing Services. Following the sale of EMJ, Jim took over as CEO of SYNNEX Canada growing sales from $800 MM to $2 Billion in May 2009. Jim was also an investor and one of the founding board members of Research in Motion (Blackberry), where he served for 13 years. Jim is currently Managing Director of CanRock Ventures based in Hicksville, NY. CanRock specializes in nurturing high tech ventures from inception to investment, management and beyond. He is a graduate of the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada in Systems Design Engineering.
Registration: RSVP required and requested by close of business on October 29, 2013 to Arnold Wong, [email protected] 212-460-4189. For Security Reasons no walk-ins are allowed. You must pre-register for this event. Check http://chapters.comsoc.org/ny/ for last minute details
Seminar Coordinators: Warner Sharkey – Chair, IEEE NY Section Communications Society Chapter Robert M. Pellegrino – Chair, IEEE NY Section PACE & Tappan Zee Subsection Marty Izaak – Chair, IEEE NY Section Consultant’s Network Affinity Group
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2014 New York Section EXECOM
Notification of Annual Election of the IEEE New York Section Notification of Annual Election of the IEEE New York Section In accordance with its Operations and Procedures Manual, the IEEE New York (NY) Section is advising all IEEE NY Section members that an election for officers and certain working activity committee chair positions for calendar year 2014 will be held on November 13, 2013 at 5pm at 4 Irving Place, New York, New York. The Executive Committee (EXECOM) of the IEEE NY Section is pleased to announce its slate of candidates for the elected positions to the NY Section's EXECOM for calendar year 2014. The list of candidates for the various positions was approved by the New York Section EXECOM on September 11, 2013. Slate of Candidates as approved by the NY Section EXECOM are the following:
Section Officer Positions
Chair: Shu-Ping Chang or Neil L. Weisenfeld Vice Chair, Chapter Operations: Neil L. Weisenfeld
Vice Chair, Section Activities: Wilson Milian Treasurer: Kim K. Smith
Secretary: Warner Sharkey or Kim K. Smith
Elected Committee Chair Positions
O&P Manual Chair: Bill Coyne Chapter Organization Chair: Paul Sartori
Historian: Amitava Dutta-Roy Long Range Planning: Vacant
Publications Chair: Marty Izaak Webmaster: Harold Ruchelman
All members in "good standing" (good standing refers to active members who have paid their IEEE dues for calendar year 2013)
other than Student or Affiliated Members of the NY Section are eligible to cast a vote for the candidates for office.
2014 New York Section EXECOM Candidate Profiles
Dr. Shu-Ping Chang Dr. Shu-Ping Chang is the manager of IBM System S (Streams) Laboratory, a cluster with 600+ nodes with 2500+ CPU cores, at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. IBM System S project, the base of IBM Big Data product InfoSphere Streams, uses streams processing architecture for massive information computing and management as decision making support. His primary function is System S Laboratory management, prototype systems development and cluster system administration automation especially
in faults management. Dr. Chang has more than 25 years research and product development experiences in the Computer and Information technology arena. He has broad and in depth knowledge in computer system hardware architecture and software structure in computer communication, relational database, internet web based solutions and multimedia systems.
He is currently the Chair for the IEEE New York Section. He has been an active member of the NY section Executive committee for the past 10+ years. Dr. Chang has a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences from University of Minnesota with special focus in Computer Communication and System. He has a Master of Science degree from University of Minnesota with major in Computer and Information Sciences and minor in Electrical Engineering. His master project is in Computer Vision area. He also has a Bachelor of Sciences degree, first place honor, from National Chiao-Tung University, Republic of China, in Communication Engineering.
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2014 New York Section EXECOM Candidate Profiles (continued)
Neil L. Weisenfeld
Neil Weisenfeld is Department Manager of Distribution Equipment at Con Edison with responsibility for the engineering, specification and evaluation of the company’s network distribution equipment. Neil has nearly 30 years of experience in the
electric utility industry, has worked in international utility benchmarking, asset management, substation and distribution system design, reliability analysis, power generation operations and forensic engineering. His work on arc detection has been covered on the Discovery Channel, and in 2011, it earned him the Technology Innovation Award from the Electric Power Research Institute. Neil holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering and is a licensed Professional Engineer in New York State. He is an instructor for professional engineering licensure preparatory courses and has helped hundreds of engineers prepare for the F.E. and P.E. exams. He is a senior member of IEEE, past chair of the New York chapter of the IEEE Power and Engineering Society, has co-authored seven technical papers, and holds four U.S. patents.
Kim K. Smith In 2004, after gaining five years experience working in the field of telecommunications, Kim Smith decided to pursue a Bachelors of Science degree from the City University of New York. While pursuing her undergraduate degree, she joined the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, becoming their student representative in New York City and getting involved with their Women in Engineering Chapter and Communications Society Chapter. She remains active in Chapter development activities as their Section Secretary. In 2008, she earned a BS degree from CUNY in the field of Telecommunications and Wireless Communications and was subsequently accepted to the Master’s program in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at City College. In May 2010, she
earned her Masters of Science degree. While pursing her MS, she mentored students under a National Science Foundation grant and also received a fellowship from The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center. This research contributed to her Master’s thesis entitled “Development of an Algorithm for Estimating Sea Ice Extent using Geostationary Satellites in the Caspian and Baltic Seas”. She has presented her research at several conferences. One particular noteworthy presentation was a paper on Gender Dimensions of the Digital Divide which she presented at the National Center for Telecommunications Technologies in Austin, Texas in July 2008. Her research was funded by a fellowship award from the SAME-TEC Advanced Technological Education Conference. She is now an Adjunct Faculty Lecturer at New York City College of Technology and continues to participate in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and Remote Sensing and Earth System Sciences activities. In the near future, she hopes to earn a Ph.D. in Technology, Innovation and Policy.
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2014 New York Section EXECOM Candidate Profiles (continued)
Warner Sharkey
Warner is an experienced communications consultant and project manager with over 30 years’ experience in mission-critical systems. He has many years of experience in determining underlying requirements and designing communications systems to meet public safety and transit communications systems needs. He has been heavily involved with procurement of such systems, along with systems integration, installation, acceptance testing, and conversion from legacy to state-of-the-art systems. Warner has extensive experience in detail design, specification, and system integration in complete E9-1-1 systems, 800 MHz trunked simulcast radio systems, VHF and UHF radio systems, control systems for radio, digital communications, in-building distributed antenna systems, RF over Fiber technology, radio console systems, through to digital logging recorder systems. His work has been for major agencies, cities, and regional
entities – in the United States, Canada, India and China. BSc EE, Electrical, Royal Military College, Kingston, ON BSc EE, Communication Electronics, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON Graduate work, Systems Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark DE Other Professional: PE (DE); P.Eng. (ON); .Senior Member of IEEE; Chair- IEEE Communications Society NYC Chapter (2 + terms); Expert Sailor/Navigator; private pilot VFR/SEL; Amateur Radio Extra Class- Call = AB2YU; Certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution (Harvard Workshops).
Marty Izaak He has more than 40 years of experience with various firms and degree of responsibilities. Currently working for Urban Engineers of NY, P.C. as a Project Director responsible for oversight of mega-capital construction projects (the East Side Access and Second Avenue Subway) under contract to Federal Transit Administration. Previously, he held senior management positions responsible for a staff of 50 professionals.
Current - 2013 IEEE Responsibilities: Region 1 – Life Members Coordinator Long time member of the NY ExCom; Consultant’s Network Chair - NY Section; Member of the Budget and the Monitor’s Editor Selection Committees. WISE Selection Committee - 2013 Previous Professional/Volunteer Experience: IEEE Engineering Management Society Board of Governors - 1982 to 1987 Chapter Chair Engineering Management Society - NY/North Jersey Sections 1982 – 1985
New York Section ExCom member 1982 – 1990, 2004 - Present Co-Founder and Chair - Consultant's Network - IEEE, NY Section 1985 - 1987 Publicity Chair - NY Section 1988 Engineering Management Chapter Chair - NY Section 2004 - 2006 PACE Chair - NY Section 2007 – 2010 NY Section Consultant’s Network Chair 2011 – Present R1 Audit Committee Member – 2010 – 2011
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2014 New York Section EXECOM Candidate Profiles (continued)
Harold Ruchelman
Harold is a life member of the IEEE. He served on the New York chapter PES/IAS Society Education Committee and was the first webmaster of the chapter. He currently serves on the Chapters Related Activities committee. Harold served as Chairman of the NY Section having worked his way up through various positions of Secretary, Treasurer, and Vice Chairs. He was also Chair of the Special Events Committee. He currently serves as the Section's Webmaster. Harold has served at the Region 1 level as their Electronic Newsletter Chair and Webmaster. He currently serves as the Region 1 Audit Chair.
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Consultants Network
Job Opportunity
Lead Power Systems Engineer This position will be responsible for the all design activities pertaining to substation projects in accordance with all applicable codes and standards. The engineer will work within a multi-discipline team to design transmission or distribution substations.
The engineer will also be responsible for providing applied engineering and technical consultation for customers in the areas of power systems studies, power quality analysis, installation, startup, maintenance, repair and training.
Essential functions include, but are not limited to:
•Provide applied engineering and technical consultation for customers in the areas of power systems studies, design, installation, startup, maintenance, repair and training. •Self-management of assigned projects and job cost accountability to perform work within budgeted cost estimates. •Interpret specs and customer inquiries and design technical proposals and pricing for customers. •Provide technical solutions to customers that may involve equipment design or upgrades, testing of equipment, solutions relating to increase safety, reliability, or efficiency. •Preparation of project specifications for equipment and bulk materials purchase and installation, and support procurement effort. •Preparation of substation single line drawings and calculations for fault calculations, grounding, lightning protection, rigid bus bracing, transformer sizing, transformer arrester selection and insulation coordination calculation, and AC and DC auxiliary system sizing calculations. •Detail physical design of substation including equipment arrangement, bus works, grounding and lightning protection. •Detail electrical design of substation including all logic diagrams, single/three lines diagrams, protection and controls schematics and connection wiring diagrams. •Protective relay settings with the support of in-house experts. •Preparation of bill of material for all substation components. •Mentor or lead other engineers on large sized projects. •Ability to run large studies and projects unassisted.
Please contact Marty Izzak at [email protected] to apply for this position
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The Career Management Workshop from IEEE-USA Presenter: Nigel Bristow and Don Herres Date: October 28, 2013 Time: 2-3 PM EDT
Overview This webinar will present an overview of the "Making a Difference" workshop and how it can help individuals with their career planning. The "Making a Difference" Workshop is offered online and is available to IEEE-USA members at no charge.
The workshop will help you create a career development plan that will enable you to:
Take effective control of your learning, contributions, career satisfaction and employability.
Expand your contributions to the success within the organization.
Increase your career satisfaction and vitality.
Make a real difference for yourself and your organization.
About the Presenters Nigel Bristow of Targeted Learning has developed this on line tool and allowed IEEE-USA to present it to our members. Nigel founded Targeted Learning in 1996 and has been a major contributor to IEEE and the IEEE-USA Employment & Career Services Committee for many years.
Nigel’s international experience, ongoing research interests, and broad organization development expertise make him a highly regarded con-sultant and speaker. For the past 25 years, he has been a consultant and trainer in the fields of career management, coaching, mentoring and performance management. Nigel has delivered training in more than 17 different countries and almost every state in the USA. Nigel is a dynam-ic speaker who successfully blends the discipline of solid research with the wisdom of experience.
Don Herres, the IEEE Region 1 Employment & Career Activities Coordinator. He has been involved with Career Activities Workshops with IEEE for a number of years and was awarded an IEEE-USA Citation of Honor in 2006 for these efforts. Don has a BSEE from SUNY Buffalo, MSEE from Syracuse University and is a licensed Professional Engineer in New York State. He has extensive experience in product design and manufactur-ing, holds three patents, and recently retired from his full time paying job to work on his unpaid volunteer jobs. He also does contract electronic design work.
Introduction to Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) Presenter: Tarek Lahdhiri, Ph.D., PE, PMP, BB-DFSS, SM-IEEE Date: October 31, 2013 Time: 2-3 PM EDT
Workshop Overview The DFSS workshop is an introduction to the DFSS process. It is intended for engineers, technical leads, project leaders, and functional managers who want to practice the fundamentals of DFSS to help themselves and their groups accomplish their endeavors. Participants will learn how to apply the DFSS process in order to make well-reasoned decision in their personal or professional projects. This technique reduces risk by using
evidence, allows cost reduction while maintaining performance, and adds value for the business.
Workshop Content Introduction: definition of DFSS & typical phases of the DFSS project (I D D O V) Identify Phase (I): identify objectives, answer the 5W’s, develop a project plan, and form a team Define Requirements Phase (D): define design customers, define requirements and translate requirements into functional measures Develop Concept Phase (D): identify design concept alternatives, develop concepts, evaluate concepts, select concept Optimize Phase (O): optimize the product/process design for robustness and optimize process quality Verify Phase (O): verify product performance and verify process performance
About the Presenter Dr. Lahdhiri received the degree of MS-EE in Communication Systems in 1990 and the PhD degree in Control Systems in 1995. Dr. Lahdhiri is currently working for General Motors LLC in Warren, Michigan, where he is holding the position of Strategy Leader for Real-Time Control Sys-tems Simulations within the Advanced Development, Validation & Analysis Department. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in the State of Michigan, licensed Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute (PMI), and Master Black Belt DFSS certified by General Motors LLC and a Senior IEEE member and has been leading several activities within the IEEE organization. Currently, he is the IEEE Re-gion 4 (Central USA) PACE Chair, Member of the IEEE-USA PACE committee, Member of the IEEE-USA Career Workforce Policy committee (CWPC), and member of the IEEE-USA Employment & Career Service (ECS) Committee. Dr. Lahdhiri is the recipient of the 2001 IEEE-USA Profes-sional Achievement Award, the 2004 IEEE-USA Professional Leadership Award, the 2007 IEEE-USA Citation of Honor Award, and the 2012 IEEE Region 4 Jack Sherman Award.
To sign up for these webinars and to view other upcoming webinars, please go to: http://ieeeusa.org/careers/webinars/
IEEE-USA Webinars
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THE NEW YORK
SECTION’S
2014 AWARDS
DINNER DANCE The 2014 NY Section Awards Dinner Dance honoring the Section's
Awardees will be held on Saturday evening, February 22, 2014
This year, our Annual Awards Dinner dance (black tie optional) will be held in the beautiful
Mercury Ballroom, located on the third level of the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel, 1335
Avenue of the Americas (between 53rd and 54th Streets). This year’s awardees include Mr.
Nidhish Patel of MTA New York City Transit who will be honored with an IEEE Region 1 award.
Festivities will begin at 6:00 pm with hot and cold hors d’oeuvres and cocktails in the Rotunda
and Mezzanine area on the third floor. Here we will have a chance to relax, get acquainted and
reacquainted.
You will have the opportunity to pamper your palate with a choice of either a succulent filet
mignon, delicious salmon, or vegetarian entree. Each gourmet entree will be accompanied by a
soup, salad, and dessert course. The presentation of awards will take place after dinner and then
we can continue dancing until the last song plays at 11:00 pm.
For those wishing to spend the night, a block of rooms has been set aside at $189/night (call the
hotel directly at 212-586-7000) or regular reservations may be made on-line through various web
service providers. Valet parking is available at the hotel (no discount).
Reservations for the affair may be made by completing the reservation form below and forwarding
it to David Horn at the address indicated before December 17, 2013. Corporate supporters: Table
of 10 at $2500.00. Individual tickets are available at $250.00.
A special non-transferrable rate of $130 for each ticket is available to IEEE members.
Note that this rate is for the attending IEEE member and a guest only.
If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact:
David Horn at (631) 560-2309 or at [email protected]
RESERVATION FORM
Send to: David Horn
129 Rosemont Avenue
Farmingville, NY 11738
Please indicate meal selections:
Meat _________
Fish _________
Vegetarian ____
Name: _____________________________________________
Company: _____________________________________________
Address: _____________________________________________
City: _______________________________ State: ______
Zip Code: ____________ Telephone: ______________________
E-Mail: _______________ _____________
IEEE Member # _________ No. Of Tickets @ $130.00 _______
NON-IEEE Member
(Circle One)
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MAKE CHECK PAYABLE TO: IEEE, NY Section
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IEEE Day 2013 by Ping-Tsau Chung
IEEE Day 2013 took place on October 2, 2013 at LIU Brooklyn. The intro that many participants said that was unforgettable included four videos; one was the IEEE Day promotional video, the second was a video that essentially was giving some names/tags/words to IEEE as an organization such as innovate, future, etc. The third video was the new IEEE idea of making the engineers and scientists, isolationists of tomorrow; and the last one was an explanation of IEEE as an organization, talking about branches, societies, chapters, etc.
The first talk explored the pattern-matching features of the Haskell type system and we wrote small programs that implemented sophisticated persistent data structures in just a few lines of code. Meaning, we developed with a smarter way! In the second talk, cloud computing as a significant advancement in the delivery of information technology and services was discussed. Also, we had prepared some T-shirts for the officers of our branch and for the speakers as a gift for joining our IEEE Day.
"Leveraging Technology for a Better Tomorrow", this phrase talks by itself! We combined smart programming languages and the hot trend called, Big Data. We learned the basics from a recently developed "smart" language and the cloud; and how can we use them as professionals. The outcome was amazing (both from the speakers and participants point of view). We are extremely happy that we organized the IEEE Day here at LIU Brooklyn!
Speaker Christopher League is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at LIU Brooklyn. He is dedicated to making software development more secure, convenient and fun. He collects programming languages, studies next generation features and helps students to comprehend the foundations of computing. Professor League contributes to various free and open-source software projects. His specialties include programming languages, operating systems and artificial intelligence; compilers, type theory and computer security, and his work has been published in the Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, the Journal of Computers and Science of Computer Programming. Dr. League holds a B.S. from Johns Hopkins University, an M.S. from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Ph.D. from Yale University. He is a member of IEEE, IEEE SMC, and IEEE Computer Society. He is also with the Association for Computing Machinery’s special interest groups on programming languages (SIGPLAN) and computer science education (SIGCSE).
Speaker Lliver Jose is a global account technical manager at DataDirect Networks company which is the world's largest, privately-held, data storage infrastructure provider. With a unique and exacting focus on the requirements of today's massive unstructured data generators, DDN has innovated a comprehensive product portfolio for Big Data applications which are optimized for the world's most data-intensive environments, including: High Performance Computing, Life Science Research, Web & Cloud Content, Professional Media, Homeland Security, Intelligence and more. Lliver is a student member of IEEE, IEEE SMC, and IEEE Computer Society.
Programming With Algebraic Data Types (presented by Christopher League) focused on functional programming languages such as Haskell and ML feature convenient mechanisms to build user-defined data types and to define functions by pattern-matching on the shape of the input data. This talk explored these and other features of the Haskell type system and we wrote small programs that implemented sophisticated persistent data structures in just a few lines of code. Brief on Cloud Computing Security, Threads and Challenges (presented by Lliver Jose) focused on cloud computing as a significant advancement in the delivery of information technology and services. Worldwide industries are embracing this new trend as “de facto” solution because of the many advantages it provides. By providing on demand access to a shared pool of computing resources in a self-service, dynamically scaled and metered manner, Cloud computing offers compelling advantages in cost, speed, and efficiency. Traditionally, deployments require applications to be bound to a particular infrastructure. This results in low utilization, diminished efficiency, and inflexibility, nonetheless with a higher level of security and more controlled environment. Cloud brings in capabilities to allow applications to be dynamically deployed onto the appropriate infrastructure at runtime. This elastic aspect of Cloud computing allows applications to scale and grow on demand without needing traditional patches or upgrades.
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