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INSIDE THIS ISSUE � October 2016 Calendar of Events 7 � Long Island’s Electrical & Electronic History 8 � Lectures & Seminars 9-13 � IEEE Long Island Section Award Nominations 14 � Long Island Photonics Conference 15 � Conferences 15-18 � Nikola Tesla’s 160th Birthday: Tesla Science Center Awards Ceremony 19 � STEM Research Challenge Competition 20-21 � IEEE Felllow Grade Nonimations 22 � Volunteer Opportunities 23
OCTOBER 2016 VOL. 63, NO. 8 CHAIR’s MESSAGE
The IEEE Long Island Section has put together a couple of seminars, conferences and events. The Section is fortunate to have a group of dedicated volunteers who are very active with their respective societies and committees. Please join me to commend the sincere effort of all our volunteers. Hope you know that the IEEE designates extraordinary Members in different fields as Distinguished Lecturer (DL) in the respective society. The individual society encourages the DLs to lead their fields in new technical develop- ments and covers their travel.
We are proud to announce that a couple of DLs are scheduled to give special lectures on Long Island. Thanks to the Signal Processing Society, Photonics Society and others for taking initiative in inviting the DLs. Hope you will attend these extraordinary lectures.
The nominations for the Section Officers and volunteers are in process. If you are interested or know anybody who is interested and capable to serve on any of the Section committees, please let us know.
October 4, 2016 will be celebrated as the IEEE Day. Please join the Section to commend the hard works of all Engineers and Scientists, and to promote the mission of IEEE.
You are also cordially invited to join the World Maker Fair on October 1-2, 2016.
As always, your comments and suggestions are valuable to us. Looking forward to hearing from you on how we can better serve the community.
Thanking you,
M. Nazrul Islam, PhD Chair, IEEE Long Island Section [email protected]
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PULSE OCTOBER 2016 PAGE 3 SECTION OFFICERS / AFFINITY GROUPS & COMMITTEES
IEEE LONG ISLAND AFFINITY GROUPS AND COMMITTEES SECTION OFFICERS Employment Student Chair Assistance Development Activities M. NAZRUL ISLAM CHARLES PLECKAITIS GLENN LUCHEN Office: 631-673-7555 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Educational Women in First Vice Chair Activities Engineering (WIE) MARJANEH ISSAPOUR MARJANEH ISSAPOUR MIHAELA RADU Office: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Entrepreneur Awards Committee Second Vice Chair Network JESSE TAUB LOU D’ONOFRIO BILL WILKES SR [email protected] Office: 631-928-7894 [email protected] Membership Development Professional Activities Treasurer M. NAZRUL ISLAM NIKOLAOS GOLAS SANTO MAZZOLA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Legal Affairs Secretary Young Professionals JOHN VODOPIA DAVOR DOKONAL ROBERT SCHMID [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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AEROSPACE & ELECTRONIC ANTENNAS AND CIRCUITS AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS SOCIETY (AES) PROPAGATION SOCIETY (APS) SYSTEMS SOCIETY (CAS) SOCIETY (COMSOC) Chair: Dave Mesecher Chair: Bryan Tropper Chair: James Colotti Chair: Lawrence Hausman Email: [email protected] Vice Chair: Sandy Mazzola Vice Chair: Alex Doboli Vice Chair: Arnold Stillman Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]
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COMPUTER SOCIETY (CS) ELECTROMAGNETIC ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT SOCIETY (IMS) Chair: Davor Dokonal COMPATIBILITY SOCIETY (EMCS) & BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBS) Vice Chair: Metodi Filipov Chair: Santo Mazzola Chair: Glenn Luchen Chair: Joe Jordan Email: [email protected] Vice Chair: Bob DeLisi Vice Chair: John Vodopia Vice Chair: Ephraim Adeola Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]
® MICROWAVE THEORY AND PHOTONICS SOCIETY (IPS) POWER & ENERGY/INDUSTRY TECHNIQUES SOCIETY (MTT) NUCLEAR AND PLASMA APPLICATIONS SOCIETY (PES & IAS) SCIENCES SOCIETY (NPS) Chair: Adam A. Filos Chair: Saikumar Padmanabhah Chair: Shaorui Li Vice Chair: M. Narzul Islam Chair: Greg Sachs Vice Chair: Eric Darvin Vice Chair: Graham Smith Email: [email protected] Vice Chair: Rob Schmid Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]
POWER ELECTRONICS PRODUCT SAFETY SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS SOCIETY (PELS) ENGINEERING SOCIETY (PSES) SOCIETY (SPS) OF TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY (SSIT) Chair: Alberto De Leon Chair: James Colotti Chair: Jessica Donaldson Chair: Howard Edelman Vice Chair: Ronald DeLuca Vice Chair: Glenn Luchen Vice Chair: Position Vacant Vice Chair: John Vodopia Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]
The Long Island Section of IEEE has 17 Chapters. Each Chapter is a technical subunit of the Long Island Section, associated with an IEEE Society. The Chapters, as well as the Section, are always welcoming volunteers. If you would like to help with any of the Long Island TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT SOCIETY (TEMS) Chapter's steering groups, please do contact the relevant Chair: Brian Quinn Chapter Chair, Vice Chair, or one of the Section officers. Vice Chair: Bhuvan Pasham Email: [email protected]
PULSE OCTOBER 2016 PAGE 5 IEEE MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
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PULSE OCTOBER 2016 PAGE 6 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
OCTOBER 2016 NOVEMBER 2016
October 5, Wednesday October 21, Friday November 2, Wednesday IEEE Consultants Network IEEE LI Photonics Society Long Island Consultants of Long Island, Lecture: Long Island Network Meeting Piston Displacement Photonics Conference Briarcliffe College, Bethpage, LI Measurements Using Farmingdale State College, Room Huntington 4 Microwaves Farmingdale, LI 6:30 PM - Refreshments By Fred Bassall Campus Center, Ballrooms A&B 7:00 PM - Lecture LIU-Post Campus, Lorber Hall, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM 720 Northern Blvd., October 22, Saturday Brookville, LI November 2-3, Weds. & Thurs. 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM IEEE LI Computer Society Course CEWIT 2016 Conference Emerging Technologies October 13, Thursday CENG-30 for a Smarter World IEEE AESS and AIAA/IISE, Lecture: Linux Based Houston, We've Had A Problem Embedded Melville Marriott, Melville, NY Here: The Amazing Story Of The Systems Design 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM Rescue of the Apollo 13 Crew By Babak Beheshti By Sam Greenbergo NYIT Old Westbury Campus, Bethpage Public Library Northern Blvd., Old Westbury, LI November 4-6, Fri. & Sat. 47 Powell Avenue, 2016 IEEE MIT 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Bethpage, NY Undergraduate Research 6:00 PM - Social Time October 24, Monday Technology Conference 6:30 PM - Pizza IEEE LI Antennas and Massachuesetts Institute 7:00 PM - Presentation Propagation Society, Lecture: of Technology (MIT), October 18, Tuesday Low-cost Small Cambridge, Massachuesetts IEEE LI Signal Processing Smart Antennas For Society and Aerospace Wireless Communications and Electronic: By Professor Steven Gao November 28, Monday Systems Society, Lecture: BAE Systems EXCOM Meeting Advanced Techniques 450 Pulaski Road, Greenlawn, NY Telephonics, Farmingdale, LI of Radar Detection in 6:30 PM - Refreshments 5:45-6:15 PM - Dinner Non-Gaussian Background 7:00 PM - Lecture 6:15-8:00 PM - Meeting By Maria Sabrina Greco SUNY College, Farmingdale, NY October 24, Monday Roosevelt Hall, Room 111 EXCOM Meeting 6:00 PM - Pizza Telephonics, Farmingdale, LI 6:30 PM - Introduction 5:45-6:15 PM - Dinner 6:45 PM - Lecture 6:15-8:00 PM - Meeting
October 21, Friday IEEE LI Photonics Society Long Island Long Island Photonics Conference Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, LI Photonics Conference Campus Center, Ballrooms A&B 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
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Long Island’s Electrical and Electronic History By Jesse Taub, IEEE Long Island Section Historian
Last month’s issue described our Section’s participation in the Tesla 160th birthday celebration held on the grounds of his Wardenclyffe laboratory in Shoreham. The event was organized by the Tesla Science Center which will be housed in the Tesla Laboratory in the future. I indicated that four of our IEEE members spoke about aspects of Tesla’s life and his inventions. The first talk was given by me and is reprinted below. The texts of the other three talks will be published in subsequent Pulse issues.
WHAT ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS CAN LEARN FROM TESLA Studying Tesla’s patents and technical papers, while over 100 years old, can be beneficial to today’s electrical engineers. Time limits allow me to give only two examples. The first is his invention of the induction motor which was described in a paper given at an AIEE meeting in May of 1888.* The AIEE merged with the IRE to become the IEEE in 1963. The title of Tesla’s paper was “A New System of Alternate Current Motors and Transformers”. It described his invention of the AC induction motor. It quickly caught on and was extensively used in industry and home electrical appliances. What struck me the most was that he described his brilliant invention in great detail and used almost no mathematics. It is an excellent example of how an inventive mind could visualize things working without the need for design formulas. While engineers today rely on computer simulation for their design, he was able, with a strong intuitive gift, to overcome the lack of design tools. The lesson that I took away from this is that, as good as our CAD is today, we still need to cultivate the ability to picture in one’s mind a working concept before going through a computer simulation process.
The second example is his experiments with wireless power transmission. Tesla became convinced that he could transmit electrical power without wires over long distances and possibly around the world. He did experiments at Colorado Springs and then at Wardenclyffe in the early 1900’s. While the idea was not demonstrated, we should not lose sight of his ability to conceive great things that might work, was a very special gift. For example, his idea of sending wireless power is finding application in medical devices, such as cardiac pacemakers. They can now be recharged via wireless means, thereby eliminating the need for replacement operations. Helicopters have been experimentally demonstrated to stay in the air as long as possible by getting their power from ground based microwave beams. The point is that the original idea may fail, but it can live on in a different form.
There Are Lessons To Be Learned From These Examples For Today’s Engineers: • Think big. You want ideas that can have significant benefits to society and try to first look at your ideas conceptually before getting mathematical. • Your idea may not work just because you like it. It is essential to model its performance using the appropriate theory and CAD tools. • If the modeling is successful, you can then proceed to construct prototypes. • If the modeling is unsuccessful, do not, throw the idea out immediately. Sometimes a minor variation could lead to success. Keep trying as long as your reasons for continuing are rational. • You should also consider more modest applications. For example, by limiting wireless power transmission to shorter distances, other inventions could materialize.
While today’s engineers rely heavily on design software, a study of Tesla’s brilliant approach to big problems will show that there is much to learn from him that has passed the test of time. *This paper can be accessed from IEEE Xplore. It was reprinted in the February 1984 issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE on pages 165-173.
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THE IEEE CONSULTANTS NETWORK OF LONG ISLAND (LICN) IS PRESENTING A LECTURE TITLED: PISTON DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENTS USING MICROWAVES
DATE: COST: Wednesday, This lecture is free October 5, 2016 and all are invited.
TIME: 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm PRESENTED BY: Fred Bassali, P.E., Ph.D LOCATION: CEU CREDITS: LIU-Post Campus 0.2 CEU Credits. Lorber Hall, 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville, LI No fee for CEU credit.
ABSTRACT: SPEAKER BIO: Existing hydraulic and pneumatic systems for the measur- Dr. Fred Bassali, P.E., Ph.D. received his B.S. degree from the ments of piston displacements have marked limitations. Polytechnic Institute of New York; his M.S. degree from Colum- System components exhibit non-idealistic behaviors from bia University; and his Ph.D. from the New Jersey Institute of which measurements can be adversely affected. This presen- Technology, all in Electrical Engineering. He has extensive tation describes the use of microwaves to overcome those experience in designing RF & Microwaves Circuits and Systems, limitations. Discussions will cover apparatus construction Antennas, Amplifiers, Oscillators, Modulators, Demodulators, including antenna design, installation and impedance match- Phase-Locked Loops, Frequency Synthesizers, Direct Digital ing, the effects on measurement of piston location, software Synthesizers, Receivers, Noise Sources, Transmitters, Communi- requirements including finite difference time domain analysis cation Circuits, Power Electronics, Medical Electronics, Devices and a comparison of theoretical versus measured results. that utilize Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) such as Nitinol (Nickel Titanium - TiNi). Dr. Bassali’s recent research experience WHO SHOULD ATTEND?: includes the application of Finite Difference Time Domain for Engineers, technicians and students who are interested in Bodies of Revolution (BOR-FDTD) to maximize the bandwidth uses of microwaves for measurement service. of the sensor antennas while the evanescent modes in the near LOCATION: field are minimized. His research also includes the implementa- This lecture will be held at: LIU-Post Campus, Lorber Hall, 720 tion of a Time Domain Radar Automotive applications as well Northern Boulevard, Brookville, NY. as the application of RF in conjunction with Nano Particles for treatment of cancer. He has functioned as chief engineer at the DIRECTIONS: International Microwave Corp from 1984 to 1988, & he worked Go to: http://licn.org/pmwiki/uploads/Events/LIU-LICN.jpg as an RF and Microwave consultant since 1989. He designed for directions. the first trainable garage door opener, referred to as the HomeLink® (over 50 million pieces sold) for which he received REGISTRATION: 16 patents. He currently holds more than 20 patents. At the The presentation is open to the general public. Pre- City University of New York, Dr. Bassali has taught Satellite registration is not required, but is requested. Please send Communications, Power Electronics, Advanced Electronics, e-mail to [email protected]. There is no admission fee and Digital Electronics, Communication Systems, Matlab, Circuit there is no fee for CEU credit. Theory & Transmission Lines.
IEEE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT CONSULTANTS John Dunn at 516-378-0979. NETWORK OF LONG ISLAND
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IEEE AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS LONG ISLAND CHAPTER AND AIAA/IISE PROUDLY PRESENT THE FOLLOWING LECTURE: HOUSTON, WE'VE HAD A PROBLEM HERE: THE AMAZING STORY OF THE RESCUE OF THE APOLLO THIRTEEN CREW
DATE: LOCATION: Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 Bethpage Public Library 47 Powell Avenue TIME: Bethpage, NY 11714 6:00 PM - Social Time 6:30 PM - Pizza PRESENTED BY: 7:00 PM - Presentation Sam Greenberg Former Grumman LM COST: Consulting Pilot Members & Guests: $5.00 Students: Free
ABSTRACT: SPEAKER BIO: Probably everyone knows about the Apollo 13 mission. If you Sam Greenberg graduated from the Bronx High School of were not alive in 1970 when the crew had a “problem” Science and the United States Naval Academy. After receiv- then perhaps you saw the movie or the NOVA program. ing his Navy wings and carrier qualification, he flew multiple Sam was there. He was at Grumman when teams from engine patrol aircraft such as the P-2V Neptune and the NASA, Grumman, and other contractors were working EC-121K Warning Star and then served as a Navy test pilot. together to bring the crew safely back to Earth. And Sam He continued his Navy career as a reserve officer and retired was the engineer who sent the mock towing bill to North with the rank of Captain. Sam served Grumman Aerospace American Rockwell, Pratt and Whitney, and Beech Aircraft as a Lunar Module Consulting Pilot during the Apollo for the Grumman Lunar Module towing the Command and program and was there from Apollo 7 through 15. He was Service Modules back from the Moon. Join us to hear this then Marketing Manager for Grumman Training Systems. first-hand account of one of the most thrilling & nail-biting He is a certified flight instructor with over 3000 instruction engineering triumphs of the twentieth century. hours. In 2011, he was awarded the FAA Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award. DIRECTIONS: The library is west of Route 135 in Bethpage. Take Route RESERVATIONS: 135 to Exit 8, then West on Powell Ave. for about 0.25 RSVP By October 12, 2016, [email protected] miles. The library is on the south side of the street. Park or (516) 458-8593 across Powell Ave., opposite the library.
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THE LONG ISLAND CHAPTER OF IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY & AEROSPACE & ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS IN COLLABORATION WITH THE EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE OF IEEE LI AND RENEWABLE ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY CENTER OF FARMINGDALE STATE COLLEGE PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: ADVANCED TECHNIQUES OF RADAR DETECTION IN NON-GAUSSIAN BACKGROUND
DATE: LOCATION: Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 SUNY College at TIME: Farmingdale, LI 6:00 – 6:30 PM Pizza Roosevelt Hall, Rm 111. 6:30 – 6:45 PM Intro PRESENTED BY: 6:45 – 7:45 PM Lecture Dr. Maria Sabrina Greco, 7:45 – 8:00 PM Q&A Associate Professor at COST: University of Pisa, The lecture is FREE IEEE Distinguished and all are invited, Lecturer IEEE Members, Non- Members, and Students
ABSTRACT: DISTINGUISHED LECTURER BIO: For several decades, the Gaussian assumption on the distur- Maria Sabrina Greco graduated in Electronic Engineering in bance modeling in radar systems has been widely used to deal 1993 & received the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication with detection problems. But, in modern high-resolution radar Engineering in 1998, from University of Pisa, Italy. From systems, the disturbance cannot be modeled as Gaussian December 1997 - May 1998 she joined the GTRI, Atlanta, USA distributed and the classical detectors suffer from high losses. In as a visiting research scholar. In 1993 she joined the Dept. of this talk, after a brief description of modern statistical and Information Engineering of the University of Pisa, where she is spectral models for high-resolution clutter, coherent optimum, Associate Professor since Dec. 2011. She's IEEE fellow since and sub-optimum detectors, designed for such a background, Jan. 2011 and she was co-recipient of the 2001 IEEE AESS will be presented & their performance analyzed against a Barry Carlton Award for Best Paper and recipient of the 2008 non-Gaussian disturbance. Different interpretations of the Fred Nathanson Young Engineer of the Year award for contri- various detectors are provided that highlight the relationships butions to signal processing, estimation, and detection theory. and the differences among them. After this first part, some In May and June 2015 she visited as invited Professor the discussion will be dedicated to how to make adaptive the detec- Université Paris-Sud, Paris, France. She's also member of the tors, by incorporating a proper estimate of the disturbance IEEE AESS and IEEE SPS Board of Governors and Chair of the covariance matrix. Recent works on Maximum Likelihood and IEEE AESS Radar Panel. She's been SP Distinguished Lecturer robust covariance matrix estimation have proposed different for the years 2014¬2015, and she's AESS Distinguished approaches such as the Approximate ML (or Fixed-Point) Lecturer for the years 2015-2016 and member of the IEEE Estimator or the M-estimators. These techniques allow improv- Fellow Committee. Her general interests are in the areas of ing the detection performance regarding false alarm regulation statistical signal processing, estimation & detection theory. In and detection gain in SNR. Some of the results with simulated particular, her research interests include clutter models, coher- and real recorded data will be shown. ent and incoherent detection in non¬Gaussian clutter, CFAR techniques, radar waveform diversity and bistatic/mustistatic active and passive radars. She co-authored many book chap- DISTINGUISHED LECTURE COORDINATORS: ters and more than 170 journal and conference papers. Dr. Donaldson, Chair, SPS, IEEE LI Section, [email protected] Mr. Dave Mesecher, Chair, AES, IEEE LI Section, [email protected] Prof. Marj Issapour, Chair, EA, IEEE LI Section [email protected]
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THE AI LONG ISLAND SECTION & THE AI LONG ISLAND COMPUTER SOCIETY PRESENT: CENG-30 LINUX BASED EMBEDDED SYSTEMS DESIGN
DATES: PRESENTED BY: LOCATION*: Saturday, October 22, 2016 Babak D. Beheshti, PhD, NYIT Old Westbury Campus Professor and Associate Northern Blvd., Old Westbury TIME: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Dean of School of Engineering & Computing Sciences, NYIT * For groups of 10 or more attendees from the same REGISTRATION: company, the course venue may be moved to the https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/41077 E-mail: [email protected] company premises upon request.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND? COURSE CONTENTS The course is designed for engineers and developers MODULE 1 who are interested in building embedded Linux INTRODUCTION TO EMBEDDED WINDOWS solutions. While a background in C language is helpful, • Shell Interface • File system • Navigating the file system Linux and C programming backgrounds are not • Access Control and sudo Privileges required, and are introduced in this course. This course QUICK INTRODUCTION TO C LANGUAGE is also targeted at experienced developers requiring a FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS • Program Structure • Fundamental Programming refresher course on embedded systems design from a Constructs • Development Tools • Writing and compiling software point of view. C programs using makefiles • Running C Programs in Linux MODULE 2 COURSE SUMMARY: EMBEDDED WINDOWS PLATFORMS This course introduces the student to the use of an AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS embedded Linux platform to design and develop • Introduction to Raspberry Pi • Hardware Overview embedded applications and products. Students are • Initial Bring up of the Board • Setting up the Network Access • Exploring the File System and the GUI • Setting up a guided through an introduction to the embedded Linux Remote SSH Client to communicate to the Raspberry Pi and C programming. Use of other programming INSTALLING & CONFIGURING A WINDOWS languages such as C#, Java and Python are briefly VIRTUAL MACHINE ON A LAPTOP OR DESKTOP explored. Students are then exposed to the network COURSE OBJECTIVES: COMPUTER interfacing of an embedded Linux platform wirelessly to • To gain a basic understanding of C Programming • Installing VmPlayer™ • Installing and configuring Ubuntu Linux the Internet via SSH as well as user developed custom within the embedded Linux environment sockets. Interacting with the physical environment for • To learn basic networking of embedded Linux SOCKET INTERFACE & COMMUNICATION OVER A NETWORK • Setting up a socket in C on the Raspberry Pi sensing and control via digital and analog interfacing are platforms for remote sensing and control then covered. Sample code examples and hardware • Setting up a socket in C on a laptop • To gain experience in hardware & software interfacing • Data Transfer via the Established Sockets interfaces are also explored. of external devices to an embedded Linux platform MODULE 3 INSTRUCTOR: • To understand real time constraints of a Linux GPIO INTERFACE IN RASPBERRY PI environment and use of multi-processing and Babak D. Beheshti, PhD (http://bbeheshti.wix.com/main) • Overview of the Peripheral Interfaces • GPIO Specifics on multi-threading to meet deadlines the Raspberry Pi • Configuring GPIO Ports & Interfacing with is Professor and Associate Dean of School of Engineering • To gain confidence to apply these concepts to one’s External Devices • Working on an Example to Read from & Computing Sciences at NYIT, and President of BDB External Push Buttons • Working on an Example to Write to LED next embedded Linux project Consulting. Babak has a BE and an MS degree in DEBUGGING YOUR CODE • Debug Tools Overview • Use of GDB Electrical Engineering from Stony Brook University, and REGISTRATION FEES* a PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of MODULE 4 REGISTER BY REMOTE ACCESS USING THE WEB INTERFACE Massachusetts, Dartmouth. A 25-year embedded-systems 10/10/16 10/20/16 veteran and expert, he has designed systems as well as • Apache webserver on RPI • Implementing a simple webserver Non-Member $475 $525 site using PHP • Linking the embedded C code to the PHP code managed and participated in joint R&D programs with AI Member** $375 $425 many Asian, European and US companies including USE OF OPERATING SYSTEM SERVICES AI Student Member $200 $250 TO MANAGE COMPLEX TASKS Qualcomm, Siemens Mobile, Nokia, Samsung, KDDI and * A basic Raspberry Pi 3 Ultimate Starter kit will be included in the registration fee • Concept of Threads • Multi-threading Using POSIX • Example LG. Babak's areas of interest include wireless sensor ** Proof of AI membership is required Implementation of Multiple Embedded Tasks Running on networks, embedded real time systems, wireless and Fees will be refunded in full if the seminar is canceled or the registrant cannot be Multiple Software Threads • Use of fork() and exec() in Linux accommodated due to capacity limitations. Other refunds will be considered. cellular systems, and digital signal processing. Decision to run: Oct 20, 2016 DOS & DON’TS IN DESIGNING
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THE LONG ISLAND CHAPTER OF THE IEEE ANTENNAS & PROPAGATION SOCIETY IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE FOLLOWING LECTURE: LOW-COST SMALL SMART ANTENNAS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
DATE: LOCATION: Monday, Oct. 24, 2016 BAE Systems 450 Pulaski Road, TIME: Greenlawn, NY 6:00 pm: Food & Refreshments PRESENTED BY: 6:30pm: Professor Steven Gao Lecture IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Chair of RF COST: and Microwave This seminar is free Engineering, University and all are invited. of Kent, Canterbury, UK
ABSTRACT: ersity of California at Santa Barbara (US), & a Senior Lecturer, Professor Gao will be discussing smart antenna technology as Reader & Head of Antenna and Microwave Group at Northum- it relates to broadband satellite communications, terrestrial bria University (UK). Prior to joining Kent as a Professor in Jan. 2013, he was the Head of Satellite Antennas and RF System mobile communications (4G and 5G), radar and the future Group at Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey (UK).Prof. Internet of Things. Gao is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE AP Society, an Associ- ate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Associ- LOCATION: ate Editor of Radio Science, General Chair of LAPC’2013, UK, This lecture will be held at BAE Systems located at 450 Chair of Special Session on “Satellite Communication Anten- Pulaski Road, Greenlawn, NY. The facility is located just east nas” in CSNDSP’2012, Poland, Chair of Workshop on "New of Park Ave (Suffolk County Rte 35) on Pulaski Road. Technology Development for Space" in IMS’2015, US, Chair of Workshop on "Digital Beamforming Space-Borne Synthetic REGISTRATION: Aperture Radars” in EuMC’2016, UK, etc. He was a Guest Registration is required, and is available online only. Please Editor of IEEE Trans on Antennas and Propagation for Special Issue on "Antennas for Satellite Communications"(2015), and visit the Calendar Page of the IEEE Long Island Website the Editor-in-Chief for Wiley Book Series on "Microwave and www.IEEE.LI, click on the registration link, and fill out the Wireless Technologies". He has two books including “Space form. All are invited, and the lecture is free. Antenna Handbook” (Wiley, 2012) and “Circularly Polarized Antennas” (Wiley-IEEE, 2014), over 250 papers and several SEMINAR COORDINATOR: patents. He is a Fellow of Institute of Engineering and Technol- Bryan Tropper, Chair of the IEEE APS Society, LI Section ogy (IET), UK, and a Fellow of Royal Aeronautics Society, UK. He received URSI Young Scientist Award from International SPEAKER BIO: Union of Radio Science (URSI), 2002, Best Paper Award, Steven Gao, PhD, is a Professor & Chair of RF and Microwave LAPC’2012, the 2016 IET Premium Award for the Best Paper Engineering at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. He in IET Microwave, Antennas and Propagation, 2016, etc. His started his career since 1994 while at China Research main areas of expertise are in antennas, smart antennas, Institute of Radiowave Propagation (China). Then he worked phased arrays, MIMO, satellite antenna, RF/microwave/ as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at National University of millimetre-wave circuits & front ends, mobile and satellite Singapore (Singapore), a Research Fellow at Birmingham communications and radars. University (UK), a Visiting Research Scientist at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), a Visiting Fellow at Chiba University (Japan), a Visiting Scientist at Univ-
PULSE OCTOBER 2016 PAGE 1 IEEE LI SECTION AWARD NOMINATIONS
IEEE Long Island Section Award Nominations By Jesse Taub Acknowledging the accomplishments of our peers is important to our profession. Each year, our Section gives several awards in various categories. You are encouraged to submit nominations for worthy candidates. You can find nomination forms on the ieee.li website. Click on Awards and then click on Nomination forms. Section Award nominations must be sent to me no later than December 1, 2016. They will be reviewed by the Section’s Awards Committee. The names of the Section Awards and their criteria are listed below:
ALEX GRUENWALD AWARD CHARLES HIRSCH AWARD This Award honors an IEEE member who has made important This Award recognizes an IEEE member who has made an contributions to our profession on Long Island, and to the IEEE outstanding technical contribution that has benefited Long Island. at large. Alex Gruenwald was an IEEE pioneer in the area of profes- Charles Hirsch was a creative engineer at Hazeltine. sional activities. He was a very active member of the Long Island Section, and went on to be a Region 1 Director.. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD This Award is given to a member who has demonstrated continual ATHANASIOS PAPOULIS AWARD and distinguished leadership, outstanding career-long contribu- This award is presented to educators in engineering, science, or tions and service benefiting the Engineering community and the mathematics, either living or teaching within the boundaries of the IEEE LI Section. This award is the highest honor the IEEE Long Long Island Section of the IEEE, who has demonstrated innovative Island Section bestows on an individual. teaching techniques. Athanasios Papoulis was a distinguished professor at Polytechnic University who was committed to promot- ing quality technical education on Long Island. OUTSTANDING STUDENT CHAPTER AWARD This award is given to an IEEE student chapter that is from one of HAROLD WHEELER AWARD the Long Island engineering schools. The award recognizes This Award recognizes an IEEE member who has demonstrated outstanding activities that encourage student interest in the IEEE. outstanding technical and management abilities. Harold Wheeler was a world-famous engineer, who throughout his career at OUTSTANDING VOLUNTEER AWARD Hazeltine and Wheeler Labs, made many important technical This award honors a Long Island Section member for substantial contributions. He was a founding member of the IEEE Long Island contributions to IEEE volunteer activities at the International, Section. National, Region, Section, Chapter, or Society level. FRIEND OF THE IEEE LONG ISLAND SECTION AWARD This award is given to a company or organization in recognition OUTSTANDING YOUNG ENGINEER AWARD and appreciation of prominent and continued support of the IEEE This Award honors a Long Island IEEE member who has made Long Island Section and its members, in support of the Section's important technical contributions prior to his or her 35th birthday. goals, activities and the Engineering Profession.
AWARD NOMINATIONS Each nomination must be received by December 1, 2016 and will be reviewed by our Section’s Awards Committee. Each nomination should describe the nominee’s accomplishments that relate to the Award criterion and should suggest a suitable citation. Those selected will be honored at our annual Awards Ceremony in the Spring of 2017. Nomination information for Region 1 and Fellow Awards will be given in future issues of The Pulse.
PLEASE SEND ALL NOMINATIONS TO: Jesse Taub at [email protected]. Call at 631-320-1564 if you have any questions.
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Long Island Photonics Conference
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2016 • 8:30 A.M. TO 4:30 P.M. Campus Center, Ballrooms A & B, Farmingdale State College
The Renewable Energy and Sustainability Center at Farmingdale State College and the Photonics Society of IEEE Long Island Section are organizing a full-day conference on photonics technology. The conference includes a series of lectures The workshop will on the fundamental concepts, as well as research and developments in optics include a wide range and photonics technology. Emphasis will focus on the latest achievements in of topics in the field of photonics technology. Distinguished experts both from academia and industry photonics technology. will be invited to give keynote and invited lectures. In addition, the conference will Broad categories of the host an exhibition of photonics and related products from relevant organizations. topics include: ■ Fundamentals of light and optics ■ Solar energy and Audience: Engineers, Technicians, Professors, Teachers and Students are encouraged to attend. photovoltaics REGISTRATION FEE EXHIBITION FEE ■ Fiber optic communication IEEE Member: $25 Early Bird (before 09/21/2016): $150 ■ Optoelectronics Non-IEEE Member: $50 Regular: $200 ■ Nonlinear optics Students: Free Each exhibitor will be entitled ■ Semiconductor laser PDH Credit for Professional to two free registrations. ■ Biophotonics Society Member: Free ■ Microwave photonics PDH Credit for non-IEEE Member: $20 ■ Optical networks and systems Register online at farmingdale.edu/resc or to register by phone call Anna Godas at 631-794-6175. ■ Career in photonics
CONFERENCE CHAIRS : M. NAZRUL ISLAM - Professor & Chair, Security Systems & Law Enforcement Technology, Farmingdale State College Chair, IEEE Long Island Section; ADAM FILIOS - Associate Professor & Chair, Electrical & Computer Engineering Technology, Farmingdale State College Chair, IEEE Photonics Society and Director, Solar Energy Center, Farmingdale State College; MARJANEH ISSAPOUR - Director, Renewable Energy and Sustainability Center, Farmingdale State College First Vice Chair, IEEE Long Island Section
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Farmingdale State College, 2350 Broadhollow Road, Farmingdale, New York 11735 631-420-2000 farmingdale.edu 160856
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THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE & EXPO ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR A SMARTER WORLD (CEWIT2016) November 2 & 3, 2016, Melville Marriott Long Island, Melville, New York
SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE We cordially invite you to submit your contribution to the 13th International Conference & Expo on Emerging Technologies for a Smarter World (CEWIT2016). Originally known as the International Conference on Cutting-Edge Wireless & Information Technologies, this conference is organized by the New York State Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) located at Stony Brook University in New York. CEWIT2016 is the premier international forum on the applications of emerging technologies in infrastructure, healthcare, and energy, which are three of the most critical components of a smarter global environment. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
AREA 1: AREA 4: BIG DATA ANALYTICS AREA 7: INFORMATION SUBMISSION GUIDELINES THE INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) AND VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY CEWIT2016 is primarily interested in - Wireless Sensor Networks - Model Driven Data Analysis - Worldwide Economic Impact of IT serving as a venue for the discussion of - Intelligent Sensors/Devices - Data Mining in Business Intelligence - IT in Education technical contributions highlighting - Collaborative Signal/Image Processing - Text Mining & Sentiment Analysis - IT as the Job Creation Engine end-to-end technical solutions, - IoT Applications and Services - Visual Analytics - Social Media applications and systems, even if - Device and Circuit Design for IoT - Biomedical & Healthcare Informatics - Information Dissemination available only in prototype form. - Architecture & Systems Design for IoT - Distributed Robotics and Real - Global Impact Therefore, we strongly encourage authors - Interface and Control Systems for IoT - Time Data Analytics to submit abstracts describing their - IoT Data Analytics -Mobile IoT - Virtual and Augmented Reality contributions in an application-oriented - IoT Testbed and Standards - Immersive Interface IMPORTANT DATES context. Abstracts will be evaluated by - Tiled Displays Abstract Submission Deadline: May 1 conference program committee members AREA 2: CYBERSECURITY - Human Computer Interaction Notification of Acceptance: June 1, and external reviewers. Submissions will - Mobile Security - GPU Clustering Camera-Ready Paper and be judged on validity, originality, - Internet of Things (IoT) Security - Defenses against Zero-day and Presentation Materials: July 1 technical strength, practical significance, Targeted Attacks AREA 5: SMART URBAN SYSTEMS quality of presentation, and relevance to - Defenses against Insider Threats - Securing the Transportation CONTACT INFORMATION the conference topics. We encourage - Online Privacy and Anonymity Infrastructure For more information about submissions from a variety of fields - Vulnerability Analysis & Software - Transportation Infrastructure Sensing CEWIT2016, visit www.cewit.org or where in-depth application-centric ideas Protections - Traffic Simulation & Visualization contact the conference general chair addressing important challenges related - Digital Forensics - Interaction between Vehicles & the Dr. Shmuel Einav or the program to the conference theme are discussed. - Privacy Enhancing Technologies Environment committee chair Dr. Rong Zhao at Authors of accepted oral presentations - Anonymity Domain Abuse & - Integrated Management Technology +1 631-216-7000 or email may submit a full paper to be included in Trademark Dilution for Ubiquitous City [email protected]. the conference proceedings. - Sensor Network for Water and In addition to the oral presentations, AREA 3: HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES Electric Utilities VENUE we encourage participation in the poster AND MEDICAL DEVICES - Urban Pollution CEWIT2015 will be held at the Melville session to present on-going research - Advanced Medical Imaging Marriott Long Island. The Melville and innovative application projects. - Computer-Aided Diagnostics AREA 6: SMART ENERGY Marriott is conveniently situated just 20 A judging panel of industry and - Wireless Telemedicine miles from Islip Airport, 30 miles from - Noninvasive Health Monitoring - Distributed Sensor Networks for academic experts will evaluate the Smart Grid - Teleradiology JFK Airport and 30 miles from posters and determine the winners of - Personal Medical Devices - Advanced Metering Infrastructure LaGuardia Airport. For more Best Poster and Best Student Poster - Implantable Sensors - Energy Efficient Computing information please visit Awards. Please submit your abstract - Medication Adherence - Advanced Sensor and RFID http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel electronically at www.cewit.org. - Asset Tracking and Monitoring Technologies /nycml-melville-marriott-long-island/ Submission guidelines and other - Mobile Diagnostics - Smart Grid Interoperability information will be provided on - Implantable Prosthetics - Simulation and Modeling WWW.CEWIT.ORG the conference website.
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The 13th International Conference & Expo on Emerging Technologies for a Smarter World
NOVEMBER 2 & 3, 2016 Melville Marriott Long Island, Melville, NY, USA
Gaining recognition as one of the leading IT conferences, CEWIT2016 is the premier inter- national forum on the development and application of emerging technologies in infrastructure, healthcare and energy- three of the most critical components of a smarter global environment. With more than 175 participating organizations and 500 attendees, CEWIT2016 is a destination for disseminating cutting-edge ideas in information technology and for driving the local, regional and global innovation economies.
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2016 IEEE MIT UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE NOVEMBER 4 - 6, 2016
THE CONFERENCE THEME IS CALL FOR PAPERS “MEET INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY”, AND Envisioning a technical conference targeted towards undergraduate students all over the globe, last year, the THE SIX FOCUS TECHNICAL TRACKS ARE: MIT IEEE Student Branch inaugurated the IEEE MIT • Machine Learning and Cloud Computing Undergraduate Research Technology Conference. This • Biological & Biomedical Engineering and Technology year we are organizing it again, with the goal that the • Robotics and Automation Technology conference will be a venue where undergraduate • Communication and Security students can meet to present, discuss, and develop solutions to advance technology for humanity. Partici- • Wearable Technology pants can attend a rich program with renowned speak- • Innovative Technologies X-Track ers, technical sessions, a student design competition, exhibits, networking, and social activities, presenting a STUDENT ACCOMMODATION great opportunity for students to interact with leading industry experts. IEEE MIT Student Branch can arrange MIT student volunteers to host visiting student attendees at the MIT AUTHORS MAY SUBMIT CONTENT IN THE FORM OF resident hall. This is only available for non-MIT Students A TECHNICAL PAPER, POSTER, OR LIGHTNING TALK. and it is free. To submit: https://ieee-r1- studentconference.myreviewroom.com MAILING LIST Please join the mailing list ([email protected]) All submissions must be written in English. Paper for more information and updates on the submission, submissions must be no longer than 4 pages with technical program, registration, and accommodation. minimum font of 10 point, single-spaced, and submis- sions may include figures, illustrations, and graphs. Abstract submissions for poster and lightning talk are INQUIRIES limited to 500 words. For inquiries, please email: [email protected] Alice Zhan (Chair), Helen Zhou (Vice Chair) All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Submission will be online, with deadline September 3rd, 2016. Notifica- tion of acceptance will be sent via email by September 2016 IEEE 24, 2016. MIT UNDERGRADUATE
A conference proceeding of all the accepted papers that RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY have been presented at the conference may be CONFERENCE published, and included in the IEEE Xplore. Electronic November 4 - 6, 2016 and online media containing all accepted submissions Massachuesetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will be distributed to all registered attendees. Cambridge, Massachuesetts
PULSE OCTOBER 2016 PAGE 1 HISTORICAL MILESTONES NIKOLA TESLA’s 160th BIRTHDAY Tesla Science Center Awards Ceremony Vic Zourides, Chair of the Historical Milestones Committee, at Wardenclyffe, July 10, 2016 IEEE Long Island Section
The Long Island Section persevered with the IEEE Historic Society to have the above recog- nized as an IEEE Historic Milestone. However, the Wardenclyffe facility at present does not qualify for an IEEE Historic Milestone as it is not yet in operation and is still undergoing a complete renovation. This is absolutely understandable. The Long Island Section then tried for a Special Citation. No rules, specifications or procedures are in effect for a Special Citation other than, as it appears, the History Committee’s order of business. The Long Island Section History Committee then felt & it was the unanimous decision of the Executive Committee to go it alone and not lose this historic opportunity of Tesla’s 160th commemoration celebration.
Five Speakers presented papers at the event 1) DR. M.NAZRUL ISLAM Chair of the Long island Section and Chair of the Photonics Society and Membership Development Society-is an Associate Professor and Chairman of the Security Systems The Long Island Section Department at SUNY Farmingdale. presented the following Dr. Islam gave an overview of the IEEE and Long Island Section. Award Plaque on July 10, 2016 at Wardenclyffe commemorating 2) JESSE TAUB Nikola Tesla’s 160th birthday. Historian of the IEEE Long Island Section and its Awards Chairman. He became a Fellow of the IEEE in 1967 for contributions to Microwave and Millimeter Wave technology. IEEE Long Island Section He presented- ”What Electrical Engineers Can Learn From Tesla” Commends TESLA SCIENCE CENTER 3) ERIC FORSYTH AT WARDENCLYFFE Fellow of IEEE and in 2000 he received the Halperin Prize awarded annually for research For its determination to in the field of power transmission development. stimulate innovation and to He presented- “Tesla’s Patent for Long Distance ElectricPower Transmission”. honorthe prolific inventor, 4) MILUTIN STANACEVIC Nikola Tesla, through the In 2005, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering creation of a world class science, at Stony Brook University, NY where he is currently an Associate Professor. technology and engineering He presented- “Tesla and Wireless Energy Transfer” educational facility and museum, and featuring 5) DAVOR DOKONAL the historic Wardenclyffe Chair of the IEEE Long Island Computer Society & editor of Pulse, IEEE Long Island newslet- laboratory of ter. Davor is a principal in AED Technology working as a business & technology advisor. the famed inventor as Davor’s paper “Tesla an Inspirational Force” presented the universal nature of Tesla’s contributions and his being in truth a “citizen of the world.” its Centerpiece
PULSE OCTOBER 2016 PAGE 19 STEM RESEARCH CHALLENGE
STEM RESEARCH CHALLENGE COMPETITION
IEEE Long Island Section and its Life Members Affinity Group organized a STEM Research Challenge competition for the East Islip High School students in East Islip on Long Island, New York. The challenge was to write a technical paper on the subject: “S.T.E.M. Research: Scientific Exploration in the Digital Age with Micro/Nano Technology”. The twelve submitted papers were reviewed by a panel of judges from academia and business, and chaired by Professor Marjaneh Issapour, Professor Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering Technol- ogy at Farmingdale State College. The criteria included the novelty of the work relating to S.T.E.M, the impact of the work on society, the goals, objectives and complexity, the significance of the findings, results and conclu- sions and the overall organization.
In this issue we start the series of six paper written by the STEM Research Challenge winning authors with the paper written by Kylie Goess, the first place winner in the grades 9 and 10 division.
Chemistry Trick Paves Way because there is no way to know for certain the proper amount for Safer Diabetes Medication of insulin to take. For instance, depending on the carbohydrate count and grams of sugar within food, some foods may require By Kylie Goess, East Islip High School the diabetic to take more insulin. If an excess of insulin is given, glucose levels of the diabetic drop, resulting in the diabetic Many people from all over the world suffer from the autoim- being shaky, sleepy, and possibly losing consciousness. If a mune disease known as Type 1 Diabetes. Type 1 Diabetes shortage of insulin is given, glucose levels of the diabetic spike usually develops in children and teenagers as a result of the up. If their glucose level becomes too high, the diabetic may body’s immune system detecting the insulin-producing cells as become sluggish and experience headaches or nausea. There is harmful resulting in the body destroying those cells. Blood no known cure for Type 1 Diabetes; however, new research glucose levels of a diabetic can often reach too high or low unfolds a possible new treatment for diabetes. which can be extremely dangerous and even life threatening
without the insulin cells working to regulate the blood glucose. A new design of insulin-based pharmaceuticals was discovered Therefore, diabetics need to either inject themselves with insulin through research at the University of Copenhagen. Patients with or be placed on a pump, which attaches to their body and Type 1 Diabetes could s be treated with more personalized diffuses insulin into the body when programmed to do so. medications with reduced side effects due to a new method of Additionally, diabetics must also do finger sticks in order to modification of insulin molecules. Knud K. Jensen, a professor determine their blood glucose level throughout the day. Finger in the department of chemistry, worked side by side with the sticks are when diabetics stick their finger with a needle to Technical University of Denmark and Novo Nordisk researchers obtain a small sample of blood that is analyzed in a glucometer, to publish their works in the journal, Agewandte Chemie which measures glucose levels. Diabetes is difficult to cope with (University of Copenhagen, 2016).
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PULSE OCTOBER 2016 PAGE 20 STEM RESEARCH CHALLENGE
Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and Small Angle X-ray Scatter- STEM ing, have been used to justify that the Iron II method has allowed the insulin to take the homogenous structure form. The RESEARCH AFM photographs show the surfaces of the molecules while the Small Angle X-ray Scattering photographs show the internal CHALLENGE structures (University of Copenhagen, 2016). COMPETITION Overall, Jensen has had an enormous impact on treatment for Type 1 Diabetes and the potential for helping those who suffer << CONTINUED FROM PAGE 20 from this disease. His work can hopefully be used to make Human insulin naturally takes form as homogenous grid-like further advancements in the development of medications and structures called hexamers. Producing a natural insulin formula explore a cure in the near future. Additionally, his work can is challenging because the human-made nanostructures must influence the ideas of others for a possible solution to Type 1 precisely mimic the homogenous structures. If the human-made Diabetes. I chose this research article because this disease structures are extremely precise and match the homogenous affects someone who is influential to me and a huge part of my structures, more insulin could be composed at steady, even rates life: my brother. My brother Zachary was diagnosed with Type 1 throughout the diabetic’s day. Researchers within the chemistry Diabetes at the age of 13 in the middle of his freshman year. department have developed a way to get manufactured insulin This was a drastic change for my brother’s lifestyle as well as my to assemble into the necessary homogenous form indepen- family’s. Diabetes is hard to keep up with and even harder to dently. Bipyridines, or hooks on the ends of insulin cells, autho- understand fully. However, he has managed to keep up with rize other molecules to hitch onto the cells. Iron II atoms are difficult schoolwork as an honors student and did not complain hooked onto bipyridines and permit chemists to supervise the once about how hard it was to deal with diabetes. Now a junior assembly of the structures. (University of Copenhagen, 2016). in high school, Zachary still continues to show me what perse- verance is through his tremendous success in school and the Due to people with diabetes storing the self-injected insulin positive attitude he brings with him when he faces any new underneath the skin in fatty tissue instead of in the pancreas, challenges. Jensen and his team of researchers used the Iron II method to persuade the manufactured insulin to assemble in nanostruc- REFERENCES tures to form in depots of fat independently. By doing so, Jensen Faculty of Science - University of Copenhagen. (2016, February could determine whether or not the insulin would be released 18). Chemistry trick paves way for safer diabetes medication: into the bloodstream of a human. Instead of using a human to Self-assembling nano-insulin could mean fewer side effects. test this idea, rats were injected with the new form of insulin. ScienceDaily. Retrieved February 24, 2016, from
Consequently, after being injected with this insulin, the glucose www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160218133144.htm levels of the rats fell dramatically, thus depicting that the rats did indeed receive the insulin. Nanotechnology methods, including
PULSE OCTOBER 2016 PAGE 21 FELLOW NOMINATIONS / CALL FOR LIFE MEMBER ARTICLES
DEADLINE MARCH 1, 2017 AWARDS: IEEE LONG ISLAND SECTION FELLOW GRADE NOMINATIONS By Jesse Taub, IEEE LI Section Awards Chairman
The IEEE solicits nominations for the Fellow grade each year. The 2016 nominations are due at IEEE headquarters on March 1, 2017. The Fellow grade recognizes members whose technical or managerial contributions have been recog- nized as 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 or patents. Instructions and nomination forms can be obtained by going to: ieee.org and then type in “Fellow Nominations” in the search box. I encourage all of us to look for worthy candidates
If you know of any engineer who may qualify for Fellow, please contact me. Our Awards Committee will evaluate each candidate and send in a Section Endorsement for any worthy individual. We will also assist the nominator to ensure that the nomination form is properly processed. I can be reached at: [email protected] if you wish to nominate someone.
The Section is inviting you to record your stories and histories in our monthly publication, the IEEE LIFE MEMBERS Long Island Pulse. An article of approximately 300 – 350 words is recommended. Write for Pulse! LET US HEAR FROM YOU. Send your article to: [email protected] The IEEE Long Island Section has held meetings with many of our Life c.c. Life Member Chair: [email protected] Members and Senior Engineers, in recent months. Your stories and histories in engineering are interesting, inspiring and should be recorded for future generations. You have served your profession for many years, many have served our country in the military, many as engineers fighting the Cold War. The many contributions are the legacy to this new digital age, space age, environmental age and beyond. lifemember WE WANT YOUR STORIES
PULSE OCTOBER 2016 PAGE 22 VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
We are working on a number of projects that provide volun- With the Youth Bureau STEM programs, we have teer opportunities and are trying to set up programs that the opportunity to help and guide young people will have real benefit to the volunteers as well. toward a good life. There are many young 1. Mentoring students at Farmingdale State College. people who need good role models and often, just someone to talk to. We can make the world 2. Mentoring students at New York Institute of Technology. a better place. 3. Mentoring High School Students at Northport High School for Solar Pathfinder workshop. If we are good at it, and have measurable success, we could generate proposals to Federal 4. Setting up and participating in Youth Bureau STEM programs. and State entities that support STEM programs At FSC and NYIT, we get to work with bright students trying and possibly receive awards of sufficient size to to make their way in the world. We can pass on to them the provide staff stipends to those who need it. For lessons learned through our life experience, provide some the younger volunteers, it might open a whole guidance and put forward pet ideas we would like to see new career path. developed. We can have students share and carry forward I do not view STEM programs as a path to jobs in our ideas and projects we haven't been able to finish STEM fields. There just are not enough STEM ourselves. We do good and gain enjoyable time. And we jobs on Long Island to support current graduates. gain a bit of access to campus facilities. As we meet and But I do see STEM knowledge as essential for interact with faculty, we may be able to sit in on classes and survival and rational decision making for every- lectures of interest. day life in the Modern world.
Through the Northport High School project, we get to learn Let me know of your interest and I can provide about and use the Solar Pathfinder equipment as well as specific details. Bill Wilkes 631-421-0160. guiding interested young people.
PULSE OCTOBER 2016 PAGE 23 COMPUTER SOCIETY CALL FOR SPEAKERS / EMPLOYMENT
Share Your Experience PRESENT YOUR WORK TO IEEE
Working on an interesting project? Or have an interesting topic to talk about? A startup ready to spread a word, or in need of beta testers with computer knowledge?
Computer Society Chapter invites you to present your project or your experience. For one of the upcoming meetings we’d like to mash technical and social, and have several presenters presenting interesting computer-related topics in a shorter timeframe, fostering conversation. This is an opportunity to meet each other, learn about our work and possibly identify opportunities for collaboration.
Contact IEEE Computer Society Chapter at [email protected] with your suggested topic.
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Qualifications: Candidates must have a graduate degree (Ph.D. degree preferred) in Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, or related area, and excellent communication skills. For consideration, e-mail your curriculum vitae and cover letter plus three references to Jenny Cheng: [email protected]. Please reference job code: ADJ-F2016 in your subject line. NYIT is an AA/EEO institution.
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