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White House Official, Environmental Policy Analyst to Deliver Keynotes at Carbon Management Technology Conference in Orlando in February
WASHINGTON (28 December 2011) — Katharine Jacobs of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Robert Fri, visiting scholar at Resources for the Future, will deliver keynote addresses at the first Carbon Management Technology Conference, 7-9 February 2012 in Orlando, Fla.
Jacobs, assistant director, climate adaptation and assessment in the OSTP Environment and Energy Division, will discuss “Climate Change Adaptation in the United States” on Tuesday, 7 February. Fri, who has more than 35 years experience as an administrator and analyst of energy and environmental policy, will discuss “America’s Climate Choices” the next day.
The conference, sponsored by eight engineering societies, will bring together key stakeholders to share the latest technologies, strategies and systems related to the management and (more…)
It was a very close election this year and I would like to announce that Jay Perin has been elected as the Member At Large section officer serving for the terms in 2012 and 2013. The Member At Large officer is a voting member of the sections executive committee and participates in running the section and planning its meetings. Congratulations Jay.
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) has a long history of using quality improvement methods to improve patient outcomes. The arrival of electronic health records (EHRs) has allowed these quality improvement methods to become more widespread in scale and more real-time in nature. Over the past several years, CCHMC has implemented an enterprise-wide EHR, and as part of this implementation, has worked to develop screens that allow for the capture and eventual calculation of condition-specific outcome measures. In parallel to the rollout of the EHR, CCHMC has also deployed a research patient data warehouse built upon an open-source informatics framework called i2b2. Developers at CCHMC have extended this framework to make it suitable for storing outcomes data and also as a platform for research patient registries. This talk will focus on the rationale and technical solutions that have made these efforts possible.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Keith Marsolo, PhD Assistant Professor Director, Software Development & Data Warehouse
Division of Biomedical Informatics Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Department of Pediatrics
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
LOCATION: Raffel’s is located at 10160 Reading Road, south of Glendale-Milford Road on the east side of Reading. Take I-75 to the Glendale-Milford Rd. Exit, go east on Glendale-Milford Road approximately ¾ of a mile to Reading Rd. and turn right on Reading.
RESERVATIONS:(Please note New Procedure) Please make reservations for each meeting by going to: https://ieeecincinnati.org/meetings/. Please click on the appropriate link and complete the reservation. You may now pay on-line.
Two ways to pay for dinner: 1) [Register and pay the fee now] using PayPal. 2) [Register and pay the fee at the meeting]. Check or cash; correct change appreciated.
Make checks payable to “IEEE Cincinnati Section”. Those desiring to use their bank’s bill payer service to send a check, rather than paying at the meeting, should contact Reservations@ieeecincinnati.org for details.
Reservations close at noon on Thursday, January 19th, 2012 (Updated).
DINNER RESERVATION CANCELLATION POLICY An email to Reservations@ieeecincinnati.org prior to the close of reservations is required to properly cancel your reservation. Failure to cancel does not eliminate your responsibility to pay for the dinner. Refunds for PayPal payments are more complicated, and we request that you leave the funds on deposit for a future meeting.
WALK-INS: Walk-ins are available for this meeting.
All Reservations must be made by noon, Thursday, January 19th, 2012 (Updated)
PE CREDITS: Depending on the subject matter, attendance at IEEE Cincinnati Section Meetings now qualifies the attendee for Professional Development Hours towards renewal of Professional Engineers Licenses. Required documentation will be available following the meeting! The Section Meetings also provide a great opportunity to network with fellow engineers in the area.
Copyright 1997 IEEE. Reprinted with permission from the IEEE publication, “Scanning the Past” which covers a reprint of an article appearing in the Proceedings of the IEEE Vol. 85, No. 8, August 1997.
Harold S. Black and the Negative Feedback Amplifier
Seventy years ago this month, H. S. Black (Fig. 1) of Bell Telephone Laboratories conceived the negative feedback amplifier while aboard the Lackawanna Ferry on his way to work. Thirty years later, M. J. Kelly, president of the Bell Labs, characterized Black’s invention as ranking with the de Forest audion “as one of the two inventions of broadest scope and significance in electronics and communications of the past 50 years.” Kelly credited the negative feedback amplifier with having made possible the long-distance telecommunications networks that covered the country, as well as transoceanic telephone cables. He noted that by 1957, the application of the negative feedback principle had transcended telecommunications and had stimulated “the entire explosive extension (more…)
IEEE Green Technologies Conference Extends Deadline for Papers on Current & Emerging Renewable Energy Sources & Energy-Reduction Technologies WASHINGTON (21 November 2011) — IEEE Green Technologies Conference organizers have extended the deadline for technical papers to 1 December.
Accepted papers will be presented during the fourth-annual conference, 19-20 April 2012, at Oral Roberts University and the Hilton Tulsa (Okla.) Southern Hills. They will also be published in a conference proceedings CD and available through the digital library IEEE Xplore.
Contributed papers on topics related to current (more…)
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Raffel’s – 10160 Reading Road (see below for directions)
TIME :
5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. – Social Time
6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. – Dinner (Reservation Required)
7:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. – Show and Tell
COST:
$12- $20, See information in Reservations
This year for our December 1st meeting we decided to try something different. We would like everyone to bring your favorite tool or toy to share with everyone. Bring that new 3D smartphone, 3DSi, the old Radio Shack TRS-80 computer in your basement, that new handheld digital oscilloscope, the electric car you’ve been working on, that K&E mahogany slide rule you had in college or any intriguing bit of technology to share with us. We will arrange tables around the meeting room for you to set up on and if you want to give a short presentation we’ll have the video projector ready. Of course Raffels will lay out a great holiday spread so it will be a great evening.
Kindle Fire
Also, every person sitting for dinner will get a chance at the door prize, a new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet e-reader, so get your dinner reservations in.
Please let us know what you’re thinking about bringing and we will update this posting with all the stuff. So far the following items will be at the meeting:
Handheld digital oscilloscope
Altair 8800 – 1975 personal computer
A 1920s and 1960s slide rules and geometry kits
Examples of some die cast British-made model trains
A very rare toy hovercraft from 1964, made in England by the same company that made Dinky Toys and other things
A 1950s windup “perpetual motion” ride (the windup motor betrays it) made by Wolverine
1922 RCA Radiola Senior Regenerative Receiver
Cabinet making hand tools including hand planes and pictures of cabinet projects
Leeds & Northrup optical pyrometer
Honeywell-Rubicon Wheatstone bridge
GE panel AC ammeter
GE benchtop DC ammeter
Galvin potentiometer
Zeiss comparator
Small Robot
Home brew DVR
If you have a gizmo that the members would like to see, send Charlie Nash a email and let me know what you’re bringing.
MENU SELECTIONS:
Buffet Menu: Roasted Turkey & Dressing, Baked Ham with Pineapples, Couscous Stuffed Green Peppers, Sweet Potato Casserole, Scalloped Potatoes, Seasoned Green Beans, Cranberry Relish, Dinner Rolls and Butter, and Dessert (Chef’s Choice)
LOCATION: Raffel’s is located at 10160 Reading Road, south of Glendale-Milford Road on the east side of Reading. Take I-75 to the Glendale-Milford Rd. Exit, go east on Glendale-Milford Road approximately ¾ of a mile to Reading Rd. and turn right on Reading.
RESERVATIONS:(Please note New Procedure) Please make reservations for each meeting by going to: https://ieeecincinnati.org/meetings/. Please click on the appropriate link and complete the reservation. You may now pay on-line.
Two ways to pay for dinner: 1) [Register and pay the fee now] using PayPal. 2) [Register and pay the fee at the meeting]. Check or cash; correct change appreciated.
Make checks payable to “IEEE Cincinnati Section”. Those desiring to use their bank’s bill payer service to send a check, rather than paying at the meeting, should contact Reservations@ieeecincinnati.org for details.
Reservations close at noon on November 24th, 2011.
DINNER RESERVATION CANCELLATION POLICY An email to Reservations@ieeecincinnati.org prior to the close of reservations is required to properly cancel your reservation. Failure to cancel does not eliminate your responsibility to pay for the dinner. Refunds for PayPal payments are more complicated, and we request that you leave the funds on deposit for a future meeting.
WALK-INS: Walk-ins are not available for this meeting.
All Reservations must be made by noon, Thursday, November 24th, 2011
PE CREDITS: Depending on the subject matter, attendance at IEEE Cincinnati Section Meetings now qualifies the attendee for Professional Development Hours towards renewal of Professional Engineers Licenses. Required documentation will be available following the meeting! The Section Meetings also provide a great opportunity to network with fellow engineers in the area.
