ANNIVERSARYth of I40EEE Foundation FOCUS 2013 ISSUE 21 education | innovation | preservation

IEEEPresident’s member involvement withPerspective the IEEE Foundation is critical to the efforts to advance our profession, the work of IEEE, and the endeavors of engineering professionals worldwide. Building on the momentum of our 40th anniversary, we are forging even closer ties between the Foundation and IEEE. By strengthening the alignment of the goals of both organizations, the Foundation will continue to meet the social imperatives important to IEEE members.

I am pleased to These programs will be significant, we continue our work to make the announce that have a broad impact, and will partnership between the IEEE and the IEEE Founda- inspire people to connect with the IEEE Foundation even more tion is moving the Foundation and with IEEE. effective. We appeal to you to toward a much A task force composed of both donate generously now. Consider more focused IEEE and IEEE Foundation Board supporting programs such as those approach to members and professional staff are highlighted in this newsletter. You fundraising and program support. revitalizing the IEEE Foundation’s can double your gift through your The approach is strategically de- mission and vision and exploring employer’s Matching Gift Program. signed and will be executed in a ways the two organizations can Visit ieeefoundation.org to learn way that strengthens organizational work together most effectively. The more about our progress and how ties. At the heart of the new ap- goal is to increase the impact of your involvement can advance our proach is the concept of Signature your donations and support pro- profession and help bring technol- Programs. Signature Programs are grams that are, in the words of the ogy to the world. IEEE-run public imperatives with IEEE’s tagline, Advancing Tech- Respectfully, which the Foundation will partner nology for Humanity. We look to proactively raise external philan- forward to sharing our progress thropic dollars. Each Signature Pro- with you in the upcoming months. gram must display proven success Leah H. Jamieson The people served by IEEE Foun- IEEE Foundation President and fit within one of the Founda- dation programs thank all of you tion’s two Areas of Focus: who have donated, making initia- 1. Education (including History) tives such as the ones highlighted 2. Applying Technology for Social in this newsletter possible. Please Impact/Innovation continue to support our efforts as

1 | FOCUS Accelerating Advances The 2013 IEEE Honors Ceremony theme was Accelerating Advances. The event recognizes technical professionals in a wide variety of disciplines for exceptional achievements and outstanding contributions that have made a lasting impact on technology, society and the engineering profession.

Nineteen IEEE Medals and Recogni- IEEE Haraden Pratt Award, for out- tions were presented at the Honors standing service to IEEE was award- Ceremony on Saturday, 29 June in ed to Barry L. Shoop, U.S. Military San Diego, CA, USA. IEEE President Academy, West Point, NY, USA “For Peter Staecker served as the Master vision and leadership in improving of Ceremonies with co-presenter IEEE operations and governance, IEEE President-Elect Roberto de and for building a stronger founda- Marca. The IEEE Foundation is proud tion for IEEE’s strategic future.” of the role it plays in recognizing The IEEE Medal of Honor, sponsored by the IEEE Founda- these pioneers and leaders who tion, was presented at a special ceremony at Qualcomm Headquarters dared to dream and turned their in San Diego, CA, USA. Pictured from left are, 2008 IEEE President Lew Terman, 2012 IEEE President Gordon Day, ideas into reality. IEEE Medal of Honor recipient Irwin Mark Jacobs, IEEE Foundation President and 2007 IEEE President Leah Individual and corporate sponsors Jamieson, and IEEE President Peter Staecker. make the program and awards pos- sible. Thanks to the generosity of the planning, and administration of IEEE community, the IEEE Founda- affairs of great value to the electri- tion sponsors two medals and one cal and electronics engineering The IEEE Foundation sponsors the IEEE Haraden Pratt Award for out- service award, as well as numerous profession was awarded to Leo L. standing service to IEEE which was other IEEE initiatives. Beranek, Bolt, Beranek and New- presented to Barry L. Shoop, center, by IEEE President-Elect Roberto de man, Cambridge, MA, USA, “For Marca and IEEE President Peter Staecker. IEEE Medal of Honor, IEEE’s high- leadership as a co-founder of a For a complete list of honorees, est-level award, for an exceptional premier consulting firm that shaped visit ieee.org/about/awards/ contribution or an extraordinary modern acoustical practice and laid HonorsPresentations/honors_ career in IEEE fields of interest was the groundwork for the Internet, ceremony.html. You can watch awarded to Irwin Mark Jacobs and for public service.” the event on the IEEE.tv network. founding Chairman and Chief Ex- ecutive Emeritus of Qualcomm, La Each year, the IEEE Awards Board Jolla, CA. USA, “For leadership and selects industry leaders, inspiring fundamental contributions to digital educators and distinguished col- communications and wireless tech- leagues as recipients of the IEEE’s nology.” Irwin Jacobs was honored prestigious medal and recognition at a special event at Qualcomm awards. If you know someone who Headquarters on 6 June and meets the criteria for an IEEE-Level Award, visit ieee.org/awards or call presented with his medal. IEEE Founders Medal, spon- sored by the IEEE Foundation, +1 732 562 3844 to learn more IEEE Founders Medal, for outstand- went to Leo L. Beranek, flanked about the IEEE Awards Program by IEEE President-Elect Roberto ing contributions in the leadership, de Marca, on left, and IEEE President Peter Staecker. and nomination process.

2 | FOCUS Celebrating with Our Donors IEEE Goldsmith Legacy League members and IEEE Heritage Circle members at the Edison, Maxwell and Faraday levels are invited to attend the IEEE Honors Ceremony and dinner as special guests of the IEEE Foundation. Together we celebrate the collegial spirit of IEEE membership and honor their peers for exceptional innovations that have made a lasting impact on tech- nology, society, and the engineering profession. Those who are Forever Generous and leave a legacy gift to the IEEE Foundation are members of the IEEE Goldsmith Legacy League. Our Honored Philan- Richard J. Gowen (Dick) and Nancy Gowen are enjoying dinner at the IEEE thropists are individuals who have given consistently Honors Ceremony as guests of the IEEE Foundation. The Gowens are members of both the IEEE Goldsmith Legacy League and the IEEE Heritage throughout their career and lifetime. They are members Circle at the Alexander Graham Bell Level. As 1984 IEEE President and IEEE of the cumulative giving donor recognition group, the Foundation President from 2005 through 2011, Dick is the longest-serving President of the IEEE Foundation and a dedicated donor. In June, Dick was IEEE Heritage Circle. elected President Emeritus of the IEEE Foundation.

Grants Program Update The40 IEEE Years Foundation of has beenInspiring inspir- Three the of the majorFuture accomplishments IEEE Foundation has awarded ing the future of technology for the in the past 40 years have been 16 grants totaling more than past four decades and its impact has establishing an endowment fund for US$350,000 thus far in 2013. been felt around the world. the IEEE History Center; supporting Widespread support for worthy Established in 1973 to support the the IEEE Awards Program including projects worldwide provided 8 scientific and educational purposes sponsoring IEEE’s highest award, the grants in Regions 1-6; 3 grants of IEEE, the IEEE Foundation initially IEEE Medal of Honor; and the estab- each to Regions 8 and 9, and accepted and administered donations lishment of the IEEE PES Scholarship Region 10 received 2 grants. to fund IEEE awards. It expanded its Plus Initiative in 2011 to encourage Our grants program supports scope to fund educational, historical- students to pursue careers in power projects in the areas of Educa- preservation, and peer-recognition engineering. tion, History of Technology, programs. What better time than our 40th and Applying Technology for The Foundation depends on the Anniversary to build on our past Humanitarian Causes. Your generosity of donors: IEEE members, accomplishments to create an even donations make it possible individuals, corporations, and IEEE or- more inspired future? In 2013, the IEEE for the IEEE Foundation Board ganizational units. In 1989, it received Foundation is assessing how it can of Directors and the IEEE Life US$4 million from the Trusts of Alfred have even greater impact through the and Gertrude Goldsmith. In 1998, Members Committee to fund IEEE programs it supports. These pro- the IEEE Board of Directors donated projects of interest to IEEE grams will be significant, inspire closer US$7.6 million from the sale of the Members through the IEEE ties between the Foundation and IEEE, United Engineering Center building, in Foundation General Fund, New York City. By 2012 the Founda- and advance technology for humanity. the IEEE Life Members Fund tion was managing and investing Visit ieeefoundation.org to read and the IEEE Humanitarian US$35.3 million through 130 funds more about IEEE Foundation past Technology Fund. geared to support IEEE initiatives. and present.

FOCUS | 3 While we would have eventually established an internship program Spectrum’s Intern Program on our own, the grant we received from the IEEE Foundation enabled ByKickstarted Susan Hassler, Editor-in-Chief, IEEEby Spectrum Foundation Grant us to set up a strong, stable program an activity that has clear benefits that has produced quantifiable, long- both for the magazine and for the term results. IEEE, and Spectrum, journalists themselves. have made a valuable contribution to the technology journalism com- So, in 2000, the IEEE Founda- munity through this effort. tion approved a three-year grant to sponsor the “IEEE Spectrum Foundation Grants Preserve History Journalism Internship.” The project served two needs: it helped IEEE Technology Study Spectrum do additional reporting Center Opens by providing it with additional edito- IEEE Foundation awarded a grant rial staffing, and it provided young of US$19,800 for the establish- IEEE Spectrum Journalism Intern Holli Riebeek is now journalists with a significant writing the Education and Outreach Specialist at NASA Goddard ment of The Sarnoff Study Center Space Flight Center (Sigma Space). In 2003, she proudly and editing opportunity. in connection with The College of shared her experiences interning at IEEE Spectrum with 2000-2004 IEEE Foundation President and 1989 IEEE We always planned, in part, to New Jersey’s (TCNJ) Sarnoff Col- President Emerson Pugh. measure the success of the project lection in Trenton, NJ, USA. When I first joined IEEE Spectrum, by looking at the success of our This world-class collection was Ken Foster, one of Spectrum’s most interns—did they find permanent donated to TCNJ in 2010 and dedicated editorial advisory board journalism jobs or consistent is named for David Sarnoff, the members, called me up with an freelance work? Success was al- chairman of RCA and founder of idea. Why not, he said, ask the IEEE most immediately apparent: Of the the National Broadcasting Com- Foundation to sponsor a formal original group of interns, one went pany. It contains more than 6,000 internship for journalists eager on to the Carnegie Mellon public objects showcasing RCA’s con- to specialize in engineering and affairs department, and another to tributions to 20th century elec- technology reporting? He agreed NASA Tech Briefings. tronics and telecommunications. These artifacts can be viewed at to help shepherd our proposal And after the IEEE Foundation grant tcnj.edu/sarnoff. through the grant process, and ended, we continued to spon- the rest, as they say, is history. A sor interns of high caliber, already The Study Center, opened on 2 October, serves as the central winner of numerous journalism attracted to Spectrum by word-of- educational component of the awards, IEEE Spectrum is one of mouth recommendations of our Sarnoff Collection. It contains a the leading magazines in technol- internship program. To date, several state-of-the-art classroom which ogy journalism. Its stature makes it former interns have joined the staff facilitates the use of the collec- possible for Spectrum to fulfill an at Spectrum, notably Senior Edi- tion for hands-on learning and educational role as well, by training tor Erico Guizzo, and other former student engagement with the young journalists in state-of-the- interns have moved on to become scientific and historical aspects of art technology journalism. One writers and editors at Scientific technological innovation. It also effective way to accomplish this American, New Scientist, Discover calls attention to the achieve- is to have young journalists work Magazine, MIT Technology Review, ments of New Jersey scientists closely with experienced editors to and the New York Times. One be- and engineers. IEEE groups are produce high-quality materials for came a Fulbright scholar, studying welcome to visit. publication–in print and online– space science in Russia.

4 | FOCUS Foundation Grants Preserve History ByIEEE Robert D. Colburn, History Research Coordinator, Center IEEE Historyis Publishing Center History Life Members Support As part of its mission to bring the history of technology to a wide GE Film Restoration audience, the IEEE History Center has been busy with a number The IEEE Life Members of publishing initiatives. The Center is proud to unveil Bell Labs Committee awarded a grant Memoirs: Voices of Innovation which is available in trade paperback for US$13,133 to the Sche- and Kindle® editions from Amazon.com. nectady Museum, NY, USA for use in preserving a significant microwaves, organic field effect collection of 16mm films transistors, pulse code modula- from the General Electric tion, synthetic speech, transistors, Corporation. The films, dat- traveling-wave tubes, and vocoders ing from 1915-1985, tell the are among the topics recalled by story of the electrification of the contributors to this book. the United States and include Two additional IEEE History early advertising films, educa- Center books will be available on tional science films, and films Amazon.com at the end of this documenting engineering and year. New York Power by Joseph manufacturing processes. J. Cunningham describes the his- The grant allowed The Sche- tory of the electrification of New nectady Museum to digitize York City, one of the densest electri- its collection of more than cal loads in the world. The Birth of 1,500 motion pictures, create Electric Traction: The Extraordinary a YouTube channel “Schenect- Life and Times of Inventor Frank ady Invention and Technol- Julian Spraque recounts the life ogy Films,” and re-house the Bell Labs Memoirs: Voices of In- and accomplishments of the inven- films in acid-free containers. novation examines the innovative Some of the films had not spirit and creative energy of Bell tor who made electric railways been viewed by the public in Labs during the directorship of Wil- possible and their signaling safe. more than 90 years; but as liam Baker, as described by twelve These books will join an already im- of 1 May, 2013, the YouTube people who worked there. The pressive list that the History Center channel youtube.com/user/ culture of Bell Labs comes to life has published on-line. Twenty-six SchdyInventTech contained through their first-hand accounts. additional publications are available The research done at Bell Labs led 376 videos, 564 subscribers for free, on-line on the Global His- to many devices and techniques and 243,502 video views. tory Network (GHN) in the Archival that helped build our present It averages 30,000 views Collections at ieeeghn.org. and 80 new subscribers per world. Acoustic cameras, adaptive The IEEE History Center is financial- month. The most popular vid- predictive coding, block diagram eos include Thomas Edison, compilers, cryptography, diamond ly supported by numerous Institu- welding, X-rays, Man-Made crystal research, digital communica- tions and individuals. Your generous Diamonds and the 1960s GE tion, echo research, inverse filter- support is greatly appreciated in robotic projects. ing, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), helping to maintain the numerous magnetic bubble memories, activities of the Center.

FOCUS | 5 Empowering Bright Minds Your generous donations help empower the world’s brightest and most capable young minds. Funds held by the IEEE Foundation provide annual financial support for technologically related education programs. You can make tax-deductible (in US) donations to these Scholarship Funds as well as more than 130 IEEE Managed Funds at ieee.org/donate or by check payable to the IEEE Foundation, specify the fund you wish to support, and mail to: IEEE Foundation, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. To discuss alternative giving methods, please call the IEEE Development Office at +1 732 562 3915 or e-mail [email protected].

Teenager’s Creation Wins WIE will annually select one scholar Presidents’ Scholarship in her third year of undergraduate study in an engineering curriculum The 2013 IEEE Presidents’ Scholar- at an accredited university or col- ship Award went to Isaac Christo- lege in the United States to receive pher Portocarrero-Mora, 18, Colegio a US$2,500 scholarship. Student Vocacional Monsenor Sanabria, San Membership in the IEEE is required. Jose, Costa Rica for the Develop- ment of a New Communication Method and Mechanism for Deaf- Students Join Technical Blind People. The honor, presented Community in May at the Intel Science and To preserve the memory of James Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Phoenix, A. Rooks an IEEE Life Fellow, active AZ, USA comes with a US$10,000 volunteer, and pulp and paper in- scholarship to be paid out over four dustry leader, the IEEE Foundation years of undergraduate study, a in cooperation with the IEEE Indus- plaque, framed certificate and free IEEE Presidents’ Scholarship winner, Portocarrero-Mora, try Applications Society (IAS), and created a communication device that transmits voice membership to the IEEE for the or text from a cellphone or tablet computer to a glove the Rooks family established the duration of the scholarship. embedded with vibrating sensors that the deaf and blind can interpret. IEEE-IAS James A. Rooks Memo- rial Fund. The fund supports the and received her M.Sc. from the IEEE-IAS James A. Rooks Memorial Inspired by Hugle University of Cincinnati. She co- Student Intern Program which pro- In celebration of its 25th anniver- founded Hugle Industries, Siliconix, vides registration, travel and living sary, TechSearch International, Inc. Stewart Warner Microcircuits, Inc. expenses for up to four student donated US$5,000 and partnered and Opto-Electronics Devices, Inc. interns who are working for consult- with IEEE Women in Engineering In each of these companies she ing companies to attend the annual (WIE) to establish the IEEE Fran- served as director of R&D and as IEEE IAS Pulp and Paper Industry ces B. Hugle Engineering Scholar- chief engineer. She held 16 patents Conference (PPIC). The intent is to ship for women going into the in electronics and was a pioneer in bring new industry engineers into field engineering. Frances Hugle the invention of tape automated the technical community before graduated from the University of bonding. graduation so that they see the Chicago in 1946 with degrees in To encourage young women to value of participation in the confer- chemistry, physics, and philosophy follow in Hugle’s footsteps, IEEE ence and in IAS.

6 | FOCUS High School Student Wins Scholarship Augustus Chang, who plans to study bio-engineering at the Univer- sity of California, San Diego, USA is the 6th annual recipient of the IEEE Daniel J. Senese Memorial Scholar- ship. Made possible by donations from IEEE employees and volun- teers, IEEE awards this scholarship to a senior from Piscataway High School, located down the road from IEEE Operations Center in Piscat- away, NJ, USA, who plans to major in a field of interest of IEEE. The Daniel J. Senese Memorial Scholarship was established as a Pictured from the left are PPIC Chair Alex Wu, Jonathan Green, the Student Intern from University of South Carolina and intern at International Paper in Georgetown SC, USA, and Monty Artz, Senior Electrical Engineer at the Georgetown Mill tribute to former IEEE Executive at the June 2013 IAS Pulp and Paper Conference. Director Daniel J. Senese in honor of his interest in encouraging the 2. By providing internships, co-ops Giving Students Power study of science and technology. and/or other student summer The IEEE Power & Energy Society employment to PES Scholars, (PES) Scholarship Plus Initiative is a scholarship and career experi- Visit ee.scholarship.org for more ence program created in response information. to the looming workforce shortfall in the power and energy industry. The goal is simple; to increase the number of well-qualified, entry-level engineers by helping students. To date, 549 scholarships have been distributed to students at more than 119 universities in the US and Canada. The PES Scholarship Plus Initia- tive is made possible by the IEEE Power & Energy Society, the IEEE Foundation and organizations and individuals that support the future workforce of the electric power and energy industry. There are two ways you can support the Initiative. 1. Through a financial contribution, please contact us for details and 2012 PES Scholars (left to right): Eric DePinto, Nicole Zimmerman, Stephen Collins, Sruti Nuthalapati, Ross Beppler. Eric, Stephen and Ross were also selected as the John W. Estey Outstanding Scholars from their respective Regions. levels of support information. Sruti and Ross were selected as Outstanding Scholars again in 2013.

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