IEEE Professional Communication Conference 2011

IEEE Professional Communication Conference 2011

 On October 17-19, the IEEE Professional Communication Society will host the International Professional Communication Conference 2011 on the campus of the University of Cincinnati.  As a member of the IEEE Cincinnati chapter, your participation in the conference is encouraged as we network with colleagues, learn about the conference topic of sustainability, and share research and information important to technical communicators, educators, practitioners, engineers, and others! 
 
This article provides you with a summary of information to plan your attendance at the conference.  All information is available at the conference website
 
Registration for the conference is online on the conference website.  We have reduced registration fees this year to make the conference more affordable, and you can bring a student for free with your paid registration.  IEEE members enjoy discounted registration, even if you aren’t a member of PCS.   

Professional Development Seminars are offered for Continuing Education Credit (important for Professional Licensure) on Monday and Tuesday, October 17 and 18.  Kim Campbell will offer “Thinking and Interacting Like a Leader” and Michael Alley will offer “Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides.”  Your seminar registration fee gives you access to all conference sessions and workshops for one day. 

New to IPCC 2011 is the (more…)

SEPTEMBER 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. 5, May 1997.

Shintaro Uda and the Wave Projector

Seventy years ago this month, the proceedings OF the institute of radio engineers (IRE) included a paper by Shintaro Uda (Fig. 1), a Japanese engineer, on the radia­tion of short waves. His paper included information on a recently invented antenna, which he called a wave projector but which later became known as the Yagi-Uda antenna. During his long career as a teacher and researcher at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, Uda made significant contributions to communications engineering.

Uda was born in 1896 in Toyama Ken, Japan. He studied electrical engineering under H. Yagi at Tohoku University and graduated in 1924, and then joined a communications research group directed by Yagi. One of Uda’s first projects was to design a vacuum-tube oscillator that would operate at wavelengths of’around 440 cm. Experiments using the oscillator as a transmitter led to the discovery of the wave projector, Uda initially used a resonant loop antenna and observed the directive radiation it produced. He then tried placing a parasitic loop near the driven loop in an effort to obtain a more directive beam. The idea for this arrangement apparently was suggested by an earlier investigation of loops of various shapes conducted by one of his classmates as a thesis under Yagi’s direc­tion. Subsequently, Uda substituted metal rods for parasitic loops and found that the field intensity in a preferred direction increased with the number of parasitic rods. He then undertook a systematic investigation to determine the effect on antenna directivity of changes in (more…)

NEW MEMBERS

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: 

James Ablordeppey

Mohamed AbuAli

Oluseye Akomolede

Ryan Anderson

Chukwuka Anyadiegwu

Gerado Ayes

Andrew Bak

Nathan Ball

Tamara Colette Baynham

Brian Buxton

Devin Cottier

John Curran

Lien Dang

Christopher Datko

David Feng

Michael Gross

Aaron Hacker

Jeff Hanson

Theodore Harper III

Joshua Hay

Gerardo Heidenreich

Christopher Hillger

Dale Horan

Joshua Hoy

Andrew Huster

Xuchu Hu

Cory Jeffers

Susan Johnson

Laveeta Joseph

Jacob Kilver

Robert Lancaster

Brian Lawrence

Jonathan Lewis

Michael Logies

Elliott Long

Jack Lorthioir

William McWhirter

Ben Michels

Jeff Overbeck

Douglas Porter

Cameron Ross

Andrew Sampson

Christopher Schieman

George Shiekh

Michael SoRelle

Vradimir Sotnikov

David Stout

Haibin Su

Douglas Tittle

Jeffrey Tomask

Yingying Wang

Shea Watson

Daniel Weber

Eric Wei

Edward Weite

Edwin Williams

Wes Williams

Wenyu Zhao

Xinya Zhao

We wish to welcome these members to the Cincinnati Section!!!

IEEE NEWS

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IEEE Electric Vehicle Conference Seeks Technical Papers

WASHINGTON (18 July 2011) — IEEE International Electric Vehicle Conference (IEVC) organizers are seeking technical papers on the technology, standards and engineering of electric vehicles.

Accepted papers will be presented during the inaugural conference, 4-8 March 2012, at TD Convention Center in Greenville, S.C. They will also be published in conference proceedings and available through the digital library IEEE Xplore. The deadline for extended abstract submissions is 15 October.

For more on the specific types of papers being sought, as well as paper submission guidelines, see http://electricvehicle.ieee.org/cfp.html.

IEVC (http://electricvehicle.ieee.org/) is expected to draw electric vehicle engineers, manufacturers, utility experts, corporate executives, researchers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, legislators and regulators, among others, to discuss the impact the electrification of transportation is having, and will have, on society and the electric grid. Smart Grid planners are interested in EVs because of the increased demand they are expected to have on the electricity delivery system.

Greenville has become a major hub of electric vehicle research because of the nearby presence of major auto manufacturers and the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (http://www.clemson.edu/centers-institutes/cu-icar/), a public-private partnership advancing automotive safety, testing and design.
 
For sponsorship opportunities and more information on the conference, contact Lee Stogner at l.stogner@ieee.org.

IEEE Electric Vehicle Committee Chair and former IEEE-USA President Russ Lefevre is one of the event organizers. IEEE-USA is a financial cosponsor.

 

**IEEE-USA IN ACTION** IEEE.TV AIRS “ENGINEERING OUR FUTURE” SPECIAL ON FORUM CONVENED FOR HOLLYWOOD DIRECTORS TO TELL ENGAGING, REALISTIC STORIES ABOUT ENGINEERING

WASHINGTON (1 September 2011) — IEEE.tv is airing a special public access presentation on “Engineering Our Future: Because Dreams Need Doing” at https://ieeetv.ieee.org/ieeetv-specials

The “Engineering Our Future” forum was convened for some (more…)

Website Software Has Been Upgraded

Section members the software running our website has been upgraded over the summer. WordPress has been upgraded to the latest release WordPress-3.2.1 and a number of needed plugins were installed:

  • A new WYSIWYG editor to make authoring posts and pages easier
  • A backup package
  • A reCAPTCHA security package  to protect the site from spammers
  • An image viewing gallery package – integration of it is still in progress
  • A forms authoring tools 
  • A Google Analytics package for reporting the website’s usage

2011 UC Senior Design Projects Awarded by IEEE

Title: Project HINTERNET
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Students:  Benjamin Jones (EE), Ed Kimball (CS), Adam Stylinski (CompE), Stephen Zeisler (EE)
Addvisor: Howard Fan
Description: This project implements a wireless modulation scheme over the amateur
radio bands using a custom built wireless interface card and driver to communicate data over long distances.

Title: AIS Radio
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Students: Jeffrey Hamm (EE), Ian Larkin (EE), Benjamin Michels (EE), Jeffrey Overbeck (EE), Advisor: Howard Fan
Description:  This project receives and demodulates an AIS signal, then displays the location of the ship that the signal is received from on a map application using Google Earth.

Title: Real-time Stereo Vision Controller
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Student: John Curran
Advisor: Lei Miao
Many applications of robotics today require the perception of unknown surroundings in three dimensions to aid in obstacle detection and autonomous navigation. However, until recently, stereo vision processing required large banks of computers, or could not handle data in real-time, effectively limiting which platforms could implement this technology.

This project sets out to solve the problems in these previous implementations by leveraging the latest in DSP technology to create a real-time stereo vision system, that has a high enough resolution to be useful for navigation and obstacle detection, while being small and efficient enough to be deployed to mobile, battery powered applications.

Title: Low Air Pressure Regulator
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Student:  Dung Nguyen
Advisor: Max Rabiee
Description: This project is building an electronic controller that regulates the air pressure from 0 to 120 PSI to smaller ranges from 0 to .36PSI. This small range air pressure is used to simulate the air pressure for testing environment used  at L-3 Fuzing and Ordnance Systems. At the Tech Expo, I will demonstrate the working loop control that regulates about 2psi air source to a constant air pressure from 0 to .36psi; using the data acquisition, Labview and electronic control valve. Also in future works, the project will be integrated to a microcontroller-base as a standalone unit or combined with a pc for more advanced features.

Title: The Tweetographer
Students: Billy Clifton (CS) and Alex Padgett (CS)                  Advisor: Fred Annexstein
Description: This project is a web application that collects Twitter posts from a geographic region and analyzes them to determine which ones refer to events; it displays the events on a calendar.

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!!!