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http://www.IEEE.LI/pulse/ VOL. 60 NO. 7 SEPTEMBER 2010 Congratulations to All of Our Award Winners CALENDAR OF IEEE EVENTS Contents: SEPTEMBER 2010 Scenes from 2010 Awards Banquet 1 Long Island Consultants Network Events and Meetings 2, 6, 13, 15, 22 Meeting Award Nominations Sought 4 Topic: TBA Industry News 6, 15, 25 Speaker: TBA IEEE Day October 7-8 2010 8 1 Location: The Great Room, Briarcliffe Hofstra’s 75th Anniversary 8 College, Bethpage, LI Time: 7:00 PM Long Island’s Electronic History 10-11 Instrumentation & Measurement Key to YOUR Benefits 17 Society Meeting Tips for Students on Job Market 19 Topic: What’s New In LabVIEW 2010? Speaker: Robert Berger Relativity ... Space Travel/Warp 20 2 Location: Telephonics, Farmingdale, LI A Visit to Thomas Edison’s Lab 22 Refreshments 6:00 PM, Lecture 6:30 PM IEEEXtreme Programming 23 IEEE-USA News 25 MTT Society Meeting Topic: Conquering Noise for Accurate RF and Microwave Signal Measurements Speaker: Ernie Jackson THE PULSE OF LONG ISLAND 15 Location: Narda L3, Hauppauge, LI Produced by the Long Island Section of the Institute of Refreshments 6:00 PM, Lecture 6:30 PM Electrical & Electronic Engineers Email: [email protected] New York Institute of Technology Topic: NYIT Cyber Security Conference The PULSE of Long Island is published monthly except July and August by the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc., Headquarters: Speaker: Various 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331. $1.00 per member per year Location: Auditorium on Broadway (included in annual dues) for each member of the Long Island Section. 1871 Broadway at 61st Street Periodical postage paid at New York, NY, and at additional mailing 15 New York, NY offices. 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DEAGRO Women in Engineering (WIE) Northrop Grumman Corporation CHRISTINA NICKOLAS Office 516-575-6217 Hearst Corporation [email protected] [email protected] 3 THE PULSE September 2010 www.IEEE.LI/pulse/ Award Nominations Sought for the IEEE Long Island Section by Jesse Taub, IEEE Long Island Section Awards Chairman One of the most important aspects Section Award nominations must be sent to me no of our profession is to recognize and later than Dec.1, 2010. More details on our Section award individuals and organizations Awards can be found on our Awards Committee. that have made noteworthy webpage at: contributions. These contributions http://www.IEEE.LI/awards can be technically related, managerial or working to better the status of FELLOW AWARDS colleagues. Our IEEE Long Island Section considers it an important The member grade of Fellow is awarded to no responsibility to recognize noteworthy more than 0.1% of all IEEE members each year. It is contributions by its members. given to an individual who has made distinguished contributions (usually technical and in some cases, To this end, we have an active Awards Committee that managerial) to electrical and electronic engineering. seeks out deserving members and organizations so as to present them with appropriate awards at the Section’s The nomination process is arduous. It requires the Annual Awards Banquet. listing of written evidence of the candidate’s contributions (usually publications and patents) and We are currently seeking nominations there must be five references submitted on behalf of for Section and Fellow Awards. the candidate’s by at least five IEEE Fellows. I Accordingly, I am asking all of our particularly encourage current Fellows to be members to spend some time to sponsors because they often are in the best position nominate a deserving colleague. to seek out potential candidates. Someone made the effort to sponsor you. There is moral imperative to SECTION AWARDS do the same for a worthy colleague. Our Section Awards are: Our Awards Committee looks forward to your · Alex Gruenwald Award – For outstanding participation in the Awards nomination process. contributions to our profession on Long Island, and to the IEEE at large. We would be happy to assist prospective sponsors in the preparation of any of the nomination forms. If · Charles Hirsch Award – For an innovative you have questions please contact me at: technical contribution that is likely to have economic benefit to Long Island. [email protected] · Athanasios Papoulis Award – For an To nominate a colleague, co-worker or friend whose outstanding technical educator who has career and body of work you consider eligible for demonstrated innovative teaching techniques. elevation to the IEEE Fellow Grade, go to the Online Nomination Process for IEEE Fellow Grade · Outstanding Young Engineer Award - For a page and follow the directions at: member who has made important technical contributions prior to age 35. http://tinyurl.com/fellows-nominate · Harold Wheeler Award – For an individual who Please note in order to avoid mistakes when filling has demonstrated outstanding technical out a nomination form, it is suggested you use the management abilities. checklist on the "Before Submitting Your Fellow · Outstanding Student Branch Award – To an Nomination" page when completing nominations at: IEEE student branch on Long Island that has provided a framework for professional http://tiny.cc/fellows_submit development. Refer to the left side navigation under the IEEE · Friend of the Section Award – To a Long Island Fellows Menu for more information and resources on based company or organization that has aided the the IEEE Fellows Program. For questions and/or IEEE LI Section by providing prominent and concerns, contact: continued support, monetary assistance or help. [email protected] 4 THE PULSE September 2010 www.IEEE.LI/pulse/ 5 THE PULSE September 2010 www.IEEE.LI/pulse/ Long Island Section IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society and the Long Island LabVIEW User Group (LILUG), are presenting: “What’s New in LabVIEW 2010?” Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 6:30 PM Refreshments will be served at 6:00PM. This seminar is free & all are invited. Speakers: Robert Berger, National · Feedback-Driven Improvements Island/New York City area, where he Instruments · Export Graph Data to Excel now serves as the senior district sales Abstract: The latest version of · Import External FPGA IP manager. Robert is a current IEEE LabVIEW software adds programming · Packed Project Libraries member and chair of the IEEE and productivity features to help you Instrumentation and Measurement improve your application efficiency and Speaker Bios: Robert Berger received Society in the Long Island Section as performance and achieve more with a Bachelor of Science in electrical well as Secretary of the Long Island evolving PC and embedded technology engineering from Texas A&M Section. He has been an active platforms. University, Robert worked in the presenter at IEEE sections in both the Gain productivity with features Dallas and New York areas.