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MAY 2011 SECTION MEETING INFORMATION
SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTS
ABOUT THE MEETING:
The Cincinnati Section sponsors awards for the Senior Design Projects at the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering and Applied Science. Each year, our members judge the entries from the Electrical Engineering Technology, Computer Engineering Technology, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science students. We present checks to the winners, and we invite the winners to present their projects at our May Section meeting.
Please come and help us celebrate the future of engineering on May 26. Invite someone special and share the excitement. Inspire. Engage. Encourage. Empower.
DATE: Thursday, May 26, 2011
PLACE : 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
7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. – Presentation
COST: $12- $20, See information in Reservations
MENU SELECTIONS: Country Fried Chicken, Spaghetti with Marinara Sauce, Meatloaf served in Brown Gravy, Red Skinned Mashed Potatoes, Butter Corn, Caesar Salad, Buttermilk Biscuits There is also a bar available for the purchase of alcoholic drink.
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: http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/5223 . Please click on the appropriate link and complete the reservation. You may now pay on-line.
DINNER RESERVATIONS
Members: $12.00
Non-members: $15.00
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 May 19, 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: If you don’t have a dinner reservation, there may not be enough food to serve you. Walk-ins pay a higher rate: $15.00 for members, $20.00 for non-members. Cash or checks only.
All Reservations must be made by noon, Thursday, May 19, 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.
MEMBERSHIP NEWS
If you are interested in upgrading your membership to Senior Member, please contact any member of the Executive Committee.
NEW MEMBERS
The following individuals are IEEE members who are new to our Section:
Larry Bennett
Devin Cottier
Zac Harford
Jason Hendrix
Matthew Hinger
Kevin Kidder
Andrew Lepkowski
Nathan Loyer
Deanne Otto
Christopher Welch
Ethan White
We wish to welcome these members to the Cincinnati Section!!!
MAY 2011 HISTORY
Scanning the Past: A History of Electrical Engineering from the Past
Submitted by Marc Bell, Editor
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. 4, April 1997.
George W. Pierce: Radio Pioneer and Educator
George W. Pierce, one of the founding fathers of com¬munication engineering, was born 125 years ago this year. He served as president of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) in 1918 and 1919, the only person to serve a two-year term in the 50-year existence of the IRE. He received the IRE Medal of Honor in 1929 in recognition of his contributions to the theory and applications of crys¬tal detectors, piezoelectric crystals, and magnetostriction devices. The award citation also mentioned his role as a leading educator and author of books in the electrical field.
Pierce was bom in Webberville, TX. He studied under Alexander Macfarlane (known for his contributions to the theory of alternating currents) at the University of Texas, where he graduated in physics. In 1900, Pierce earned a doctorate from Harvard University for his dissertation on high-frequency electromagnetic waves. He then studied for about a year at the Boltzman Laboratory in Leipzig, Germany, before returning to Harvard where he spent the rest of his professional career.
In one of his first researches, Pierce used a high-frequency (more…)
APRIL 2011 SECTION MEETING INFORMATION
GPS Technology
DATE: Thursday, April 28, 2011
PLACE : 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
7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. – Presentation
COST: $12- $20, See information in Reservations
MENU SELECTIONS: Hot Sliced Roast Beef in Gravy, Parmesan Chicken Breast, Buttered Noodles, Asparagus Spears in a Fresh Cream Sauce, Sauteed Vegetables, Tossed Salad, Dinner Rolls and Butter. There is also a bar available for the purchase of alcoholic drinks.
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.
DINNER RESERVATIONS
Members: $12.00
Non-members: $15.00
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 midnight on April 20, 2011.
DINNER RESERVATION CANCELLATION POLICY
An email to Reservations@ieeecincinnati.org prior to April 21 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: If you don’t have a dinner reservation, there may not be enough food to serve you. Walk-ins pay a higher rate: $15.00 for members, $20.00 for non-members. Cash or checks only.
All Reservations must be made by Midnight, Wednesday, April 20, 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.
ABOUT THE MEETING:
RF navigation aids have progressed over the years from TACAN, S band High Accuracy Radio Navigation (SHIRAN), Long Range Navigation (LORAN C/D), Navy satellite based Transit, up to today’s US Global Position System (GPS) and Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS). Technology advances have made navigation accuracies improve orders of magnitude since the 70-90’s. These advances have also reduced the size, weight and cost of receivers and displays significantly to the point where anyone can afford GPS in receiver/display units or cell phones. Numerous applications have sprouted up from the GPS technology saving thousands of man-hours and billions of dollars in benefits. This talk will cover the development of GPS, advances in technologies, operations capability and applications, interference mitigations, and upcoming feature advancements.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Fred Nadeau retired from the Air Force serving as an officer and civil servant for 36 years and consulted with ARINC for Navy projects. He held various positions such as technical director of the Central Inertial Guidance Test Facility at Holloman AFB, chief of the Navigation Systems Section at WPAFB Avionics Laboratory, chief avionics engineer, project engineer, and test director for various fighter and reconnaissance aircraft. He is a graduate of Purdue University and Air War College. Past IEEE section and area chairs.
MEMBERSHIP NEWS
If you are interested in upgrading your membership to Senior Member, please contact any member of the Executive Committee.
NEW MEMBERS
The following individuals are IEEE members who are new to our Section:
Ryan Anderson
Robert Bartheld
Ekaterina Biscay
John Curran
Kwame Edjah
John Gebhardt
Gregory Gerber
Brian Jameson
Kevin Kidder
Michelle Latham
Hao Lei
Jason Monnin
Michael Nelson
Brady Neukam
Felton Smith
Yuan Wei
We wish to welcome these members to the Cincinnati Section!!!
APRIL 2011 HISTORY
Scanning the Past: A History of Electrical Engineering from the Past
Submitted by Marc Bell, Editor
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. 3, March 1997.
Lee de Forest and the Amplifying Audion
Seventy-five years ago this month, the INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERS (IRE) awarded its Medal of Honor to Lee de Forest as recognition for his invention of the three-electrode amplifier and his other contributions to radio. In 1946 he received the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) and the citation mentioned the profound technical and social consequences of the grid-controlled vacuum tube which he had intro¬duced. 
Known for having a rather flamboyant personality, de Forest (shown in Fig. 1) was both an entrepreneur and a prolific inventor who received more than 300 patents.
De Forest was born in Council Bluffs, IA, in 1873, the son of a Congregational minister. In 1879, the family moved to Talladega, AL, where his father served as president of Talladega College. After attending a college preparatory school in Massachusetts for two years, de Forest enrolled at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University in 1893, where he graduated in 1896. He went on to earn a doctoral degree from Yale in 1899 with a dissertation on standing waves produced by Hertzian waves on an open-ended transmission line. His first employment after college was in the Dynamo Department of the Western Electric Company in Chicago. He experimented with wireless communication in his spare time and developed a device he called a responder as an alternative to the coherer as a detector of wireless waves. He left Western Electric in 1901 and worked as an editor for the Western Electrician and as a part-time (more…)
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IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference Issues Call for Papers
WASHINGTON (11 March 2011) — IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference organizers are seeking technical and non-technical papers on topics related to the role technology can play in improving lives and creating business opportunities for people in emerging nations.
Accepted papers will be presented during the inaugural conference, 30 October — 1 November 2011, at the Renaissance Seattle Hotel. They will also be published in conference (more…)
MARCH 2011 SECTION MEETING INFORMATION
MARCH MEETING
Cognitive Radio Technology
DATE: Thursday, March 24, 2011
PLACE : 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
7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. – Presentation
COST: $12- $20, See information in Reservations
MENU SELECTIONS: Buffet Menu: BBQ’d Ribs, Marinated Char Grilled Chicken Breast, Au Gratin Potatoes, Steamed Fresh Broccoli, Cole Slaw, Tossed Salad, Dinner Rolls and Butter. There is also a bar available for the purchase of alcoholic drinks.
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) New on-line reservation system. Please make reservations for this meeting by going to: Cognitive Radio Technology meeting . You may pay on-line via PayPal, or by cash or check at the door.
On-line dinner reservation: $12.00 (member), $15.00 (non-member).
All dinner reservations close at noon on March 22, 2011.
Walk-in dinner rate (i.e. no reservation): $15.00 (member), $20.00 (non-member). No guarantee that meals will be available for walk-ins. Cash or check only. Valid IEEE Membership card required for member rate.
** You are welcome to attend this meetings without purchasing dinner – Registration is requested**
Voice Mail reservations have been eliminated.
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.
ABOUT THE MEETING:
The Cincinnati Chapter of the IEEE is proud to offer a presentation of the state of the art in Cognitive Radio Technology by two leading experts in the field, Dr. James Neel, President and co-founder of Cognitive Radio Technologies (CRT), and David Maldonado, Business Development manager at L-3 Nova Engineering. This emerging technology is having a profound effect on the way radios and frequency spectrum will be used in the future. Both gentleman are graduates of Virginia Tech, a pioneering institution in cognitive radio technologies.
From Wikipedia: “Cognitive radio is a paradigm for wireless communication in which either a network or a wireless node changes its transmission or reception parameters to communicate efficiently avoiding interference with licensed or unlicensed users. This alteration of parameters is based on the active monitoring of several factors in the external and internal radio environment, such as radio frequency spectrum, user behavior and network state.
The idea of cognitive radio was first presented officially by Joseph Mitola III in a seminar at KTH, The Royal Institute of Technology, in 1998, published later in an article by Mitola and Gerald Q. Maguire, Jr in 1999.[1] It was a novel approach in wireless communications that Mitola later described as:
The point in which wireless personal digital assistants (PDAs) and the related networks are sufficiently computationally intelligent about radio resources and related computer-to-computer communications to detect user communications needs as a function of use context, and to provide radio resources and wireless services most appropriate to those needs.[2]
It was thought of as an ideal goal towards which a software-defined radio platform should evolve: a fully reconfigurable wireless black-box that automatically changes its communication variables in response to network and user demands.”
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
Dr. James Neel is the President of Cognitive Radio Technologies, which he founded in 2007 with Dr. Jeff Reed to commercialize cognitive radio research from Virginia Tech. The leading small business for incorporating artificial intelligence into wireless networks with three SBIRs on cognitive spectrum management and contracts on topics ranging from applying behavioral learning to detecting the intention of wireless networks to rapidly deployable networks for disaster responses. Dr Neel is the Chair of the Cognitive Radio Work Group in the Wireless Innovation Forum (formerly the SDR Forum), and has received three paper awards for the design of cognitive radio networks.
Mr. David Maldonado is currently the Manager of the Advanced Programs and New Technologies Development Group at L-3 Nova Engineering. In addition, Mr. Maldonado is part of the Business Development group. In his combined role, Mr. Maldonado is responsible for identifying new technologies and emerging markets of business development. He is also part of the company’s Internal Research and Development (IRAD) selection committee. It is in this capacity that Mr. Maldonado has participated in the system engineering of various next generation SDR-based communications systems and supported integration, test and evaluation of Cognitive Radio algorithms into the company’s product offerings. Mr. Maldonado has also contributed to the creation of a tightly integrated development process between the modeling, simulation and hardware development teams to ensure a successful and more effective transition of innovations to deployable systems. Much of this work has been integral to L-3 Nova Engineering’s maturation, rapid integration and transition of technologies developed in conjunction with Small Business and University partners directly impacting DoD developments such as the JTRS WNW waveform program.
Mr. Maldonado obtained his MS from Virginia Tech (VT) where he is currently working on his PhD degree. As part of his work, Mr. Maldonado was one of the pioneers of the Center for Wireless Telecommunications (CWT) Cognitive Engine (CE) at VT. He has been part of Cognitive Radio developments since its inception and an active participant of the Wireless Innovation Forum (formerly the SDR Forum) Cognitive Radio Working Group where he held Vice-Chair and Chair positions.
Prior to Joining L-3 Nova Engineering, Mr. Maldonado held a District Sales Manager position at Anritsu Company as part of their wireless Test and Measurement (T&M) group where he served as a liaison between Sales, Marketing and Engineering groups. Mr. Maldonado’s career in advanced wireless development started in the commercial arena as an RF engineer of Ericsson’s Mobile Handset R&D group.