January 2012 Volume 60, No. 21 Inside This Issue

PRODUCED BY THE LONG ISLAND SECTION OF THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERS

Volume 60, No. 21 January 2012

Inside this issue: Chairman’s Message By Susan Frank, Chair IEEE Long Island Section

Happy New Year to all Long Island Section members! I hope you enjoyed the holiday season, and that this year brings our profession and community prosperity and success. I would like to thank you for electing LISAT2012 4 me as your new Section Chair. It is an honor and a privilege to walk in the shoes of the distinguished line of IEEE Long Island Section Chairs. See our webpage for the full list.

Long Island’s I would like to thank our executive committee members for all the efforts and contributions they’ve made Electronic 6 and continue to make for Long Island. In particular, I thank Nikolaos Golas, for his tireless efforts as History IEEE Long Island Section Chair in 2011, and congratulate him on his election as the Metropolitan Sections Activities Council (METSAC) Chair for 2012/2013 term. I cannot do justice to Nick’s dedication 2012 IEEE Long to the IEEE in a few short lines, but in brief, he deserves much credit for leading us through a banner year, 7 Island Officers as is apparent in the “Long Island Section Report, 2011”, a four page summary.

I started my career at AIL, now ITT Exelis, which puts me in the company of many of the engineers in the Nikola Tesla 8-9 defense industry on Long Island. I have a doctorate in computer science from Stony Brook University, article specializing in memory management of visualization systems, and I have shifted toward the cyber-security area of late. I have taught both full-time and part-time at several local colleges. I am open to any sugges- Student Video 10 tions, critiques or advice. Just drop me an e-mail. Competition IEEE’s motto is “Advancing Technology for Humanity.” The engineers that I know do this one way or an- January other all the time as a lifelong endeavor. This year, the Executive Committee goal is to encourage this by Seminars & 11 sponsoring several technical conferences, hosting another Senior Membership night, increasing activities in Lectures our Society Chapters and Affinity Groups, and to hold another milestone event. We also plan to partici- pate in an area Technical Workshop and in the iStep program, designed to strengthen new member 2012 ExCOM enthusiasm. 13 Meeting Dates Everyone is encouraged to get involved with the Long Island Section. Last year there were over 100 tech-

14 nical meetings on Long Island, and we sponsored several local conferences and workshops, which are IEEE USA posted in the PULSE and on the IEEE Long Island Section website. These meetings are a great way to network and to stay in tune with the latest breakthroughs in technology. We hold a monthly Executive 2012 IEEE Committee meeting at Telephonics in Farmingdale. The Executive Committee meetings for 2012 are listed 15 Region 1 Awards on the IEEE Long Island Section Calendar on page 13. This is an open meeting that you can attend to see what’s going on in the Section. Send me an email and I will add your name to the attendance list.

Long Island Section volunteers are crucial to the success of our Section. If you are interested in volunteering, the Long Consultants 16 Island Section webpage contains a list of current positions. Please look at it and choose a vacant task you Network would like to try; we’ll find you a place.

Have a Happy and Healthy New Year.

Best Regards, Susan Frank, Chair IEEE Long Island Section [email protected] Page 2 Calendar of Events

January 2012

January 4th Long Island Consultants Network Supply Chain Management By Roshan A. Shaikh, Ph.D. 7:00pm - 9:30pm Briarcliffe College - Bethpage, NY

January 19th AES & AIAA Joint Meeting Doing Business in China: Issues for an American Engineer By Robert Waite 6:00pm Networking 6:30pm Refreshments 7:00pm Lecture Bethpage Library - Bethpage, LI

January 30th EXCOM Meeting 5:45pm Dinner 6:15pm Meeting Telephonics - Farmingdale, LI

February 2012

February 16th National Engineer’s Week Seminars Dave & Busters - Farmingdale, LI

February 27th EXCOM Meeting 5:45pm Dinner 6:15pm Meeting Telephonics - Farmingdale, LI

For more information about these meetings and lectures, please visit: http://www.IEEE.LI/calendar/index.htm Volume 60, No. 21 Page 3

Long Island Section Officers

Chair Treasurer SUSAN FRANK, Ph.D PLATO APERGIS Farmingdale State College RFI Office 631-361-8667 Office 631-231-6400 [email protected] [email protected]

First Vice Chair Secretary ROBERT BERGER THOMAS LANZISERO National Instruments UL Office 516-507-7001 Office 631-546-2464 [email protected] [email protected]

Second Vice Chair JT DAVID BOMZER Junior Past Chair NIKOLAOS GOLAS Day Pitney LLP Office 212-297-2477 Telephonics Corporation Office 631-755-7059 [email protected]

Senior Past Chair JON GARRUBA Northrop Grumman 631-704-4697

Affinity Groups

GOLD Affinity Group Student Development / Activities ADAM CHALSON MICHAEL J. CO 631-755-7344 Parker Hannifin Corporation [email protected] Office 631-231-3737 ext. 2123 [email protected] Life Members Affinity Group LOU LUCERI Women in Engineering (WIE) [email protected] CHRISTINA NICKOLAS Hearst Corporation [email protected]

The IEEE LI Section Website The IEEE LI Section website is update regularly to reflect recent section activity and upcoming events. Each society and affinity group has a dedicated page which describes their function and includes contact information. Visit our site at: www.IEEE.LI

Consultant’s Network of Long Island The Consultant’s Network of Long Island maintains a referral service of engineering, computer, managerial & technical professionals. For more information, please visit their website at www.consult-li.com.

Membership Development For more information on membership with the Long Island Section of the IEEE contact: Nikolaos Golas 631-755-7059 [email protected] Page 4

LISAT 2012

LISAT 2012 Eighth Annual IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications and Technology Conference Friday, May 4, 2012 Farmingdale State College of the State University of New York Farmingdale, NY

Call for papers, presentations, exhibitors and student papers

The Long Island Systems, Applications and Technology (LISAT) Conference features several parallel professional tracks including topics in systems, applications, and technology; a PDH program and an Exhibition. We are soliciting submissions for participation in both the technical program, applications program, and the exhibition, and are interested in papers, presentations, and exhibits that showcase the development and use of technology by local organizations. LISAT 2012 will also provide the opportunity for select student papers to be presented. Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to submit papers in an area of their interest or current work.

Preliminary acceptance to the technical program will be based on a 300-to-500-word abstract. Authors of accepted abstracts shall be required to provide a six (6) page IEEE standard manuscript for publication in IEEE Xplore, and will be required to make a Power Point TM presentation at the conference. Manuscripts are subject to the LISAT Technical Pro- gram Committee’s peer review and may require revision prior to final acceptance. Important dates for the Technical Program are:

Important Dates: Abstracts Due - December 10, 2011 Notification of Accepted Abstracts - December 17, 2011 Manuscripts for publication and copyright releases due - February 24, 2012 Notification of acceptance of manuscripts (subject to final edits) due - March 16, 2012 Presenter registration, final manuscript edits, and Power Point presentations due - April 6, 2012

Detailed instructions on submission, manuscript and presentation templates, and information on the conference are available on the LISAT web site at www.ieee.li/lisat . Manuscript format must agree with requirements specified in the Author’s Kit which will be made available.

Each presentation will be 20 minutes long followed by 5 minutes of Q&A. One presenting author for each paper will be allowed to register at a discounted rate. At least one author must register for the conference for each paper/ presentation. If one presenter is presenting multiple papers, then multiple registrations are required. A limited number of tutorial and application presentations which will not be published by the IEEE may also be accepted.

LISAT has a strict “No Podium, No Publish” policy. Manuscripts will only be published in IEEE Xplore if a presentation is made at the Conference.

LISAT encourages submissions from all areas of engineering, science, and technology. Past topics have including home- land defense, alternate energy sources, green building technologies, mobile communications, computer and network security, microwave technology, electromagnetic compatibility, mobile ad hoc networking, sensor fusion, antenna systems and processing, radio locationing, radar systems and techniques, climate control, and biomedical engineering.

Contacts:

For more information about the technical program contact: Dave Mesecher, Technical Program Committee Chair at [email protected] For information on exhibiting at LISAT contact: Dave Bomzer at [email protected] For all other information contact: Dan Rogers, LISAT2012 Conference Chair at [email protected], or Conference Co-Chair Charles Rubenstein at [email protected]. Volume 60, No. 21 Page 5 Page 6

Long Island’s Electronic History By Jesse Taub, IEEE Long Island Historian

The Pulse normally has a monthly article related to history. This month we will look to the future as we continue to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the IRE.

Predictions for 2062 By Jesse Taub

In the December Pulse, I presented some predictions for 2012 of advances in electronic engineering that were made in 1962. I then looked at how close they came to being realized. The forecasts had been published in the May 1962 of the Proceedings of the IRE. Now that 2012 has arrived and we are celebrat- ing the 100th Anniversary of the Proceedings, it is timely and intriguing to again look 50 years ahead and imagine what advances will influence our lives in 2062.

I encourage all of you to send your predictions to the Pulse and we will cite them in future issues. To start things off, some of my thoughts follow.

Implanted Sensors

The rapid advances in semiconductor IC technology will continue for at least the next 20 years. This will make for more versatile, low cost chips that operate at very low power and will be small enough to be implanted in human organs. This will allow us to monitor the functioning of all vital organs and our blood chemistry. The sensed data will be transmitted to a central monitoring station. If any reading is abnor- mal, you and your doctor would be notified.

Robotics

Robotic technology is already demonstrating uses that human beings cannot or should not perform. We can envision dangerous occupations such as coal mining being done by robots. This will require lower cost robots and communication systems that can monitor and control each robot. There may also be mining and construction operations in arctic and tropical regions that humans could not perform.

Genetic Engineering

While the decoding of the genome is primarily biology, the analysis and organization of data involves computer technology. By 2062, it should be possible to evaluate each individual’s DNA and assess genetic defects. Concurrent with this development, new drugs will be developed to combat the deficiencies. I envision new software that will aid in achieving this goal.

Conclusion

I predict that Long Island engineers will play significant roles in these developments. The Pulse is interested in obtaining other predictions for 2062 from our IEEE members. Please send them to me at [email protected]. Volume 60, No. 21 Page 7

2012 IEEE Long Island Section Officers

Congratulations to the 2012 IEEE Long Island Section Officers

Chair SUSAN FRANK

First Vice Chair ROBERT BERGER

Second Vice Chair JT DAVID BOMZER

Treasurer PLATO APERGIS

Secretary THOMAS LANZISERO

Industry News

Northrop Grumman Names Bart LaGrone to Lead Airborne Early Warning and Battle Management Command and Control Programs Northrop Grumman Corporation has appointed LaGrone is also responsible for managing the sup- Bart LaGrone vice president, airborne early warning port and sustainment of the E-2C Hawkeye current- and battle management command and control ly flown by the U.S. Navy, France, Japan, Taiwan, (AEW/BMC2) programs. Egypt and Singapore, and the support and sustainment of the C-2 Greyhound, the U.S. Navy's carrier- In this position, LaGrone is responsible for the con- onboard-delivery system. tinued development and production of the E-2D Ad- vanced Hawkeye supporting the U.S. Navy's future Most recently, LaGrone was the deputy integrated AEW/BMC2 requirements. The company has deliv- project team (IPT) leader for the Broad Area Mari- ered nine E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes, including the time Surveillance (BAMS) program. In previous as- program's two system design and demonstration signments, he served as the IPT lead for the Ad- aircraft, and is under contract to build 20 more. The vanced Hawkeye system development and demon- U.S. Navy is expected to purchase 75 through 2021. stration program successfully leading that program It has also received E-2D export authorization from through its critical design review, first flights and the U.S. government for the United Arab Emirates milestone C. and India. Page 8

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla, A Man Ahead of His Time, Whose Time is Now

By Dr. Mary L. Daum, Treasurer Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe

Nikola Tesla, inventor, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer, is best known for developing the modern AC polyphase power distribution system. Tesla had nearly 300 patents; his inventions included the AC motor, the bladeless turbine, fundamental aspects of wireless communication (including legal priority for invention of the radio), robotics, logic gates, and VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing) aircraft. He was a man of quirky personality, dogged throughout his life by financial woes, and a genius whose name deserves to be more widely known and honored.

Tesla was born July 10, 1856, in Smiljan, Croatia. After studying and working in several eastern European coun- tries, he landed in Paris, working as an engineer for the Continental Edison Company. During this time he con- ceived the first induction motor and began developing the various devices that use rotating magnetic fields that he later patented.

He emigrated to New York City in 1884, where he began working for Thomas Edison at his Edison Machine Works. Tesla's work for Edison began with simple electrical engineering, but he soon became involved in more difficult projects. Tesla was even offered the task of completely redesigning the Edison company's direct current generators. He quit the company after a falling-out with Edison, who refused to pay Tesla what he’d promised. The rift was never healed.

After he left Edison’s employ, Tesla worked as a laborer for several years, until he had enough money to form his own company. The initial financial investors disa- greed with Tesla’s plan for an alternating current motor and eventually forced him out. In 1887, he constructed the first brushless alternating current induction motor, which he demonstrated to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (now IEEE; he later served as the vice president of the organization from 1892 to 1894). He also began investigating what would later be called X-rays. He performed several experi- ments prior to Roentgen's discovery, but never widely publicized his own ground- breaking work.

In 1888 he developed the principles of his Tesla coil (above), and began working with George Westinghouse at the Westinghouse company’s Pittsburgh labs. Westinghouse, unlike Edison, believed in the superiority of alternating current. In 1893 Westinghouse and Tesla were chosen to provide the lighting for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In the Westinghouse Pavilion (left) Tesla demonstrated wireless electrical transmission and explained the principles of the rotating magnetic field and induction motor. Two years later they built the first hydroelectric power plant at Niagara Falls. One building, Adam’s Station Powerhouse No. 3, still stands. Wardenclyffe

Wardenclyffe, with its iconic transmitter tower and laboratory, was built in Shoreham, NY, between 1901-1905 with funding from J.P. Morgan and designed by Tesla’s friend, famed architect Stanford White. The purpose of the laboratory was to establish a wireless telegraphy plant. The laboratory and transmitter were to be first used for reporting yacht races, communication with ocean steamers, and sending messages in Morse code to England. During the last week of July 1903, residents around the site experienced what was to be the only testing of Tes- la’s equipment at this facility. A thunder-like noise was heard throughout the area. Light displays were seen em- anating from the tower on several nights. These were seen as far away as the south shore of Connecticut. Volume 60, No. 21 Page 9

Nikola Tesla (continued)

The tower was never completed. The skeletal structure (right) was 187 ft. high and reached 120 ft. below ground level, where it is thought to have connected to a series of tunnels that have not yet been unearthed. Tesla’s dream was again ended by financial failure. On July 4, 1917, the tower was to be destroyed by a dynamite explosion and sold for scrap to pay Tesla’s debts. It was still standing by the end of the day, and the job was not completed until Labor Day.

Tesla returned to New York City, where he worked in a succession of laboratories. Misunderstood, his work continued to outpace the grasp of the scientists of his day. At the time of his death, he was working on a “death ray” that he had unsuccess- fully marketed to the US War Department. Tesla had many unusual quirks and phobias and may have suf- fered from obsessive-compulsive disorder, which became more pronounced in his later years. He was ob- sessed with pigeons and ordered special seeds to feed the birds in Bryant Park. He did things in threes and insisted on staying in a hotel room with a number divisible by three. He lived the last 10 years of his life in Room 3327 in the New Yorker Hotel.

Because of his eccentric personality and his seemingly unbelievable and often bizarre claims about possible sci- entific and technological developments, Tesla was ultimately ostracized and regarded as a mad scientist by many late in his life. He died impoverished on January 7, 1943, just months before the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Marconi’s 1904 patent for radio and awarded it to Tesla.

The Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe

In 1925 Wardenclyffe was purchased by Walter L. Johnson of Brooklyn. In 1939 Plantacres, Inc., purchased it and leased it to Posi-Print Corporation (later Peerless Photo Products), which later purchased the site. Peerless was subsequently taken over by Agfa-Gavaert, then a subsidiary of Bayer. The site, including additional buildings added over the years, has been idle since its use as a photo emulsion processing and manufacturing plant ceased in 1987. Listed as a State Superfund site due to contamination from heavy metals used in the manufacturing process, it underwent environmental remediation and is awaiting formal release from the state. It is now for sale. Tesla’s laboratory is boarded up (left) and has been subjected to the abuse of vandals, weather and time.

The Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe was founded in 1996 with the purpose of rescuing, restoring and renovating the Tesla laboratory for use as a museum and science education center (rendering, right). Also envisioned for the property is a physics playground and community gathering place. The site is adjacent to a planned Rails-to-Trails walking and bike path between Port Jefferson and Wading River.

Online Links to Tesla Organizations Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe www.TeslaScienceCenter.org Tesla Wardenclyffe Project www.TeslaScience.org Tesla Memorial Society www.TeslaMemorialSociety.org Tesla Museum, Belgrade www.yurope.com/org/tesla Tesla Engine Builders www.TeslaEngine.org Tesla Memorial Society of New York www.Teslasociety.com PBS program about Tesla www.pbs.org/tesla Tesla Coil Builders www.amasci.com/tesla/tesla.html Page 10

2011-2012 Student Video Competition

IEEE-USA "How Engineers Make a World of Difference" Online Video Scholarship Competition

$5,000 in Scholarship Awards to Be Presented in 2011-12 IEEE-USA Online Engineering Video Competition; Open to U.S. Undergraduate and Graduate Students

IEEE-USA is launching the organization's fifth online engineering video competition for U.S. college students on "How Engineers Make a World of Difference." IEEE-USA will present awards, in four categories totaling $5,000, to U.S. undergraduate and graduate students. Students are challenged to create the most effective two-minute video clips rein- forcing in a personal profile — for an 11-to-13-year-old "tweener" audience — how engineers improve the world.

Entries must be submitted through YouTube by midnight Eastern Time on Friday, January 27, 2012. Winning entries will be announced and shown during Engineers Week, February 19-25, 2012, and will also be featured on PBS' Design Squad website: http://pbskids.org/designsquad/.

The competition is open to all U.S. undergraduate and graduate students regardless of academic discipline. However, at least one undergraduate or graduate student on each team must be a U.S. IEEE student member. Information on how to become an IEEE student member is available at www.ieee.org/web/membership/join/join.html.

Students entering the 2011-12 competition should provide a personal profile on how an engineer or technology professional "makes a world of difference." Students can complete these profiles by: (1) describing one of their own research or class projects in terms an 11-to-13 year-old would appreciate and understand; (2) citing the contributions of a celebrated engineer; or (3) discussing why they want to be an engineer and what they would want someone in the tweener age group to know about their passion for engineering.

Entries will be judged by a professional engineering panel on their effectiveness in reaching the target audience by por- traying engineers or technical professionals as creative people who seek to make life better, in addition to judging the videos on originality, creativity and entertainment value.

$5,000 in awards will be presented in four categories: Content/Message: $1,500 scholarship award best conveying the message most closely aligned with the theme: "How Engineers Make a World of Difference" Production Value: $1,500 scholarship award for best production quality and most professional look to video Views: $1,500 scholarship award for the most viewed submission, as determined by the number of YouTube hits as of midnight Eastern Time on January 27, 2012 Early Submission: Ten $50 Amazon gift cards totaling $500 will be presented to the first 10 students who submit online entries that meet the basic competition requirements. These entries will also be eligible for the three scholarship awards totaling $4,500.

Three Steps to Compete and Win: Include a brief self introduction at the beginning of your two-minute video in which you state your name, your college or university, and the degree you are pursuing or receiving. Submissions should identify all members of the team, with at least one participant identified as a U.S. IEEE student member. Further, as part of this introduction, indicate that you give IEEE-USA the right to use your video and that you are incorporating non-copyrighted materials.

Finally, upload your video to "YouTube" at www.youtube.com, and send the link via email to [email protected] no later than midnight Eastern Time, Friday, January 27, 2012.

Web Help: Even if you have never uploaded a video to YouTube, you should still consider entering the competition and making your entry your first YouTube video. For tips on how to make a video on YouTube, see www.youtube.com//t/howto_makevideo. Test your video with brothers and sisters or friends' siblings who are part of the target age group. Look at previous awards winners on YouTube. Volume 60, No. 21 Page 11

January Lectures and Seminars

AES Long Island Chapter and AIAA Long Island Section and presenting a lecture titled: Doing business in China: Issues for an American Engineer By Robert F. Waite, P.E., P. C. Thursday, January 19, 2012 6:00pm Networking, 6:30pm Refreshments, 7:00pm Lecture Bethpage Public Library - Bethpage, NY

Speaker Biography: Bob Waite graduated from New York State University Technical College; obtained a Bachelor of Professional Studies (BPS) in Business from Pace University, and a BS in Metallurgical Engineering from Polytechnic Uni- versity. He has served the American Bureau of Shipping Materials Laboratory as Engineer in Charge and has been in private practice since 1991.

Bob is active in the American Welding Society (AWS) and is currently Chairman of the Mechanical Testing of Welds Committee, an advisor to the Procedure and Performance Qualification committee, and Vice Chairman of the New York Section.

His welding inspection projects in New York include the Battery Park Transportation Hub, a Brooklyn Bridge Rehabili- tation, bearing installation on the Riker's Island Bridge, the temporary PATH Station and the Alexander Hamilton Bridge.

Bob has recently spent over a year in China as Quality Control Manager on a major bridge fabrication project. He will talk about the problems an American Engineer encounters doing business in China brought about by our cultural differ- ences and challenges faced. He will discuss how the Chinese interpret the requirements for a project versus how we interpret them: what they think we want versus what we actually require.

Registration: Required. Members and guests - $5.00 for pizza. Free for students. Contact Greg Homatas at [email protected] or at (718) 812-2727.

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Fellow Awards

AWARDS – FELLOW NOMINATIONS By Jesse Taub IEEE LI Section Awards Chairman

In the September issue of The Pulse, I described the awards that our Section gives annually and solicited nominations. This article is concerned with Fellow awards.

The IEEE solicits nominations for the Fellow grade each year. They are due at IEEE headquarters on March 1st. The Fellow grade recognized members whose technical or managerial contributions have been distinguished. The nomination procedure is arduous requiring at least 5 IEEE Fellows to serve as References and a strong endorsement from one of the IEEE’s many Societies. Furthermore, the candidate’s accomplishments must be documented. This usually means publications in peer reviewed journals.

As the Section’s Awards Chairman, our Awards Committee and I want to be sure that any worthy member is nominated. Our Section has many Fellows. In recent years very few have come from industry. Brookhaven National Laboratory and SUNY Stony Brook have been our main sources. This is a concern because I am certain that we have several worthy candidates who work in our local companies. The problem appears to be that some companies do not overly encourage their engineers to publish. In my view, this is misguided. I believe that the slight risk of giving away proprietary information is more than offset by the favorable publicity for the companies.

If you know of any engineer who may qualify for Fellow, please contact me. Our Awards Committee will evaluate each candidate. We will also assist the nominator to ensure that the nomination form is properly processed. Please contact me at: [email protected].

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IEEE Long Island Section Calendar

IEEE Long Island Section Executive Committee (ExCom) 2012 Meetings:

January 30th Febrauary 27th March 19th April 30th May 21st June 25th September 24th October 29th November 26th December 10th

If you would like to attend any of these meetings, please contact Susan Frank at [email protected]

** Important dates **

Thursday, March 29th Awards Banquet

Friday, May 4th LISAT 2012

Industry News

Telephonics Corporation teams with Remote Sensing Solutions to develop advanced millimeter-wave radar imaging and processing systems

Telephonics Corporation and Remote Sensing Solutions announced that they have teamed to develop and produce advanced millimeter-wave radar imaging and processing systems to address a wide-range of commercial and military applications. This collaboration merges the advanced product development and manufacturing skills of Telephonics with RSS’ outstanding ability to innovate and advance microwave and millimeter-wave imaging radar and processing systems.

“We are very pleased to be working with RSS on important capabilities with near-term applications in the Civil and Military markets,” said Kevin McSweeney, President of Telephon- ics’ Radar Systems Division. “The Telephonics/RSS team is an excellent paring of expertise, focus, and experience that will add great value to the marketplace.” Page 14

IEEE USA

News

IEEE-USA Launches TechMatch Service for Entrepreneurs

IEEE-USA has teamed with Business Catapult to create a new online service that will allow entrepreneurs access to seasoned businesspersons who, at no charge, will help them improve their business plans. IEEE-USA TechMatch provides a detailed, automated assess- ment of the entrepreneur's plans and objectives, and then a committee of experienced reviewers will provide sustained, customized feedback to help improve the submitted business plan prior to presentation to prospective investors. For more information, visit the IEEE-USA TechMatch website.

Winter 2011-2012 Issue of IEEE-USA in ACTION Available

The Winter issue of IEEE-USA in ACTION includes a look at the results from IEEE-USA's latest salary survey, a recap of a FutureMedia roundtable on future megatrends, coverage of Houston Section members' efforts to bring a teacher in-service program to Texas schools, and much more. You may also download a PDF of this issue for offline reading. And our new app for iPad and iPhone is now available through the Apple App Store. Volume 60, No. 21 Page 15

2012 IEEE Region 1 Awards

Region 1 of the IEEE gives awards to its members in a variety of technical , managerial and professional categories which are described below. Nomination forms and other instructions can be found on the IEEE website: www.ieee.org and then ask for “Region 1 Awards” in the search box.

Please send your nominations to Jesse Taub, the Section’s Awards Chair at [email protected]. They will be reviewed by the Section’s Awards Committee. Nominations must be received on or before May 15, 2012. If you have any questions, please call 631-420-1564.

IEEE REGION 1 AWARDS

PURPOSE: The purpose of the Region 1 Awards Program is to publicly recognize professional and technical excellence and major accomplishments and contributions made by Region 1 IEEE members.

AWARD CATEGORIES: There are seven categories for the Region 1 Awards:

1. New Technical Concepts in Electrical Engineering For significant patents, for discoveries of new devices or applications, and for significant reductions in components or processes.

2. Electrical Engineering Professionalism For personal, high level leadership in research and design performance in support of all phases of the Electrical Engineering Profession.

3. Promotion of Self-Development for Practicing Electrical Engineers By arranging courses, seminars, and tutorials to enhance the educational level and the competence of practicing electrical engineers.

4. Enhancement of IEEE in Industry and Community Service For outstanding service to the IEEE at the Chapter, Section, Region, and national level, and for major contributions to the industry and to the community.

5. Electrical Engineering Management For managerial excellence in organization, leadership, design, and development.

6. Electrical Engineering Support for Student Activities For improving communications between the IEEE and a Student Branch or Student Group; for support and service to a Student Branch or Student Group; for service and leadership to the student community.

7. The William Terry Distinguished Lifetime Service Award This award is intended to recognize those whose personal efforts have provided leadership, creativity, guidance, hard work, and inspiration in a wide range of IEEE activities over a long period of time. Page 16

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