May 2008 Section Meeting Information

MAY MEETING
STUDENT PROJECTS

DATE: Thursday, May 22, 2008
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 FOR DINNER: $10.00 per person – REGARDLESS OF MEMBERSHIP OR MEMBERSHIP GRADE!

NOTE: DINNERS ARE ALWAYS OPTIONAL – YOU MAY ATTEND THE PROGRAM ONLY. 

MENU SELECTIONS:   Country Fried Chicken, Spaghetti with Meatballs, Meatloaf with Brown Gravy, Whipped Potatoes, Succotash, Caesar Salad, Fresh Fruit Salad, Biscuits, Apple Dumplings, Coffee, Tea, Iced Tea, Soft Drinks. 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 email Charlie Nash for reservations at mailto:cnash@ieee.org (preferred) or call the Section Voice Mail at 513-629-9380 by Noon, Tuesday, May 20, 2008 if you plan to attend. Please leave your Name, IEEE Member Number, and a daytime telephone number.

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:  This month’s meeting will feature presentations by senior students from the College of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati.  We have also extended an invitation to students from the Computer and Electronics Engineering Technology program at Northern Kentucky University and the Electrical Engineering program at Miami University.  Students will present their findings in a brief slide show, demonstrate their projects, and answer questions from the audience.

Membership News – May 2008

NEW MEMBERS
The following individuals are IEEE members who are new to our Section:

Ali A. Alfayez
Balaji Ananthanpillai
Kevin Berndsen
Robert Brockman
Thomas P. Ferrell
Royden J. Forsythe
Slobodan M. Gataric
Yi Hu
Von Edwin Huffaker
Hoang Lai
Eric L. Lapresto
Daniel Legg
Wei Li
Michael R. Logies
Michael A. Miskus
Guangdong Pan
Karen Price
Mamoun Sawah
Patrick E. Searfos
Brent A. Shields
Scott Smith
Christopher P Trampel
Tim Tylinski
Phillip Ulrich
Timothy Joseph Wurth

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

History of Electrical Engineering – May 2008

Scanning the Past: A History of Electrical Engineering from the Past
Submitted by Bob Morrison, Editor

Copyright 1995 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. 83, No. 5, May 1995.

William D. Coolidge and Ductile Tungsten
Eighty-five years ago this month, William D. Coolidge presented a significant paper concerning the discovery of a new method of producing ductile tungsten at a meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE). The breakthrough which he reported had been achieved by a research team led by Coolidge at the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, NY , and it was to have a major impact on production of electric lights, electronic tubes, and numerous other applications.

Coolidge was born in 1873 on a farm near Hudson, MA. He graduated in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1896 and spent a year as a laboratory assistant at MIT. He then accepted a graduate fellowship for study in Germany where he earned the Ph.D. in physics from the University of Leipzig in 1899. He then returned to MIT where he worked as a laboratory assistant to Prof. Arthur A. Noyes and did some teaching until 1905, when he joined the General Electric Research Laboratory. He soon began what proved to be a very difficult quest for a way to produce ductile tungsten suitable for filaments in incandescent lamps. He became assistant director of the Research Laboratory in 1908, and two years later, reported the successful outcome of the ductile tungsten project. (more…)

IEEE News – May 2008

TECHNICAL PAPERS SOUGHT FOR IEEE WIRELESS HIVE NETWORK CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON (23 April 2008)
— Organizers of the IEEE Wireless Hive Network Conference (IEEE WHNC 2008) are seeking technical papers from authors presenting the latest research, innovations and implementations related to the theory and practice of wireless sensor network systems, printed electronic device technologies, cognitive radio and related information system support.

IEEE WHNC 2008 (http://www.ieee-whnc.org/index.html) will be held at the Courtyard by Marriott in Austin, Texas, on 7-8 August. It will feature keynote addresses and panel discussions by leading experts, as well as innovative technology presentations. (more…)

Energy Conference – May 22

Join Tri-State Energy Professionals as they present and discuss the future of energy generation, distribution and use. Learn about the issues faced by climate changes, renewal energy sources and fuels, increasing demands for electricity and natural gas, and worker training for the challenges ahead in the 21st century.  For Complete Details 

From Brian’s Desk

Many thanks to Scott Holland for his excellent presentation “Function MRI of the Brain” at our March meeting.  Scott was introduced by David Pettigrew, the Chair of our new EMBS Chapter.  It was great to see many new faces at this meeting.  We hope to see you again this month, and for many meetings to come.

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April 2008 Section Meeting Information

“RE-ENGINEERING THE CITY”

DATE: Thursday, April 24, 2008
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 FOR DINNER: $10.00 per person – REGARDLESS OF MEMBERSHIP OR MEMBERSHIP GRADE!

NOTE:  DINNERS ARE ALWAYS OPTIONAL – YOU MAY ATTEND THE PROGRAM ONLY. 

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Membership News – April 2008

NEW MEMBERS
The following individuals are IEEE members who are new to our Section:

Frank Auffinger
Thomas Glenn Barker
Matt Brungs
Luis D. Canisalez
Robert A. Clemens
Colin Flynn
Grant Horning
Xuchu Hu
Randy Jenkins
Pritpal Kandah
Timothy Kassis
Geoffrey George Fritz Kuester
Eric L. Lapresto
Daniel Legg
Michael R. Logies
James Russell Lord
David Minshall
Jerry Pike
Ronald Springer
Tim Francis Tolle
Xin Wang
Gwen Rene White
Robert L. Withrow
Toby Zou

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

History of Electrical Engineering – April 2008

Scanning the Past: A History of Electrical Engineering from the Past
Submitted by Bob Morrison, Editor

Copyright 1995 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. 83, No. 4, April 1995.

James K. Clapp
Sixty-five years ago this month, the PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERS (IRE) included a paper on antenna-measuring instrumentation by James K. Clapp. At the time he was employed as an engineer with the General Radio Company of Cambridge, MA, where he spent most of his professional career.

Clapp was born in December 1897 in Denver, CO. He worked for the American Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company during 1914-1916. He served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919 and worked briefly for the Radio Corporation of America in 1920. He graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts institute of Technology (MIT) in 1923 and earned an M.S. at MIT in 1926. He taught communications engineering at MIT from 1923-1928. Also, he served as radio editor for the Boston Evening Transcript and as chief engineer of the newspaper’s radio broadcasting station. In 1928 he joined the engineering staff of the General Radio Company and the following year published a Proceedings paper on short-wave radio experiments. One of his first assignments at General Radio was to develop a commercial quartz crystal frequency standard.

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