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PRODUCED BY THE LONG ISLAND SECTION OF THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS THE PPOCTOBER 2016ULSEULSEOF LONG ISLAND 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] PULSE OCTOBER 2016 PAGE 2 THE PULSE OF LONG ISLAND LET YOUR VOICE HEARD The Pulse of Long Island is a newsletter for the members of the Long Island IEEE Section. You can let your voice heard by writing to the Editor. THE How to bring more value to our members? Interesting new technology, or a project? POCTOBER ULSE2016 OF LONG ISLAND An issue of interest to members of the IEEE Long Island, Long Island engineers and computer professionals, or Long Island technical The Pulse of Long Island is produced by community at large? Write to the Pulse. the Long Island Section of the Institute of Let your letter be read, and your voice heard. Electrical & Electronic Engineers. It is published monthly except during July & August. 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Please send the press release as a PDF file attached to email to & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS [email protected], addressed to the Editor, with a 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 Subject line “Pulse -PR” followed by your Phone: 1-800-678-4333 (USA & Canada) company name, and the responsible contact person's name, email and phone number in Phone: 1-732-981-0060 (Worldwide) the email body. Website: www.ieee.org ADVERTISERS: E-mail: [email protected] Please contact us at [email protected] for advertising rates. 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] Junior Past Chair Life Members Professional and Industry Liaison JOHN VODOPIA DON GRIECO BILL WILKES SR [email protected] Senior Past Chair [email protected] JOHN SCHMIDT THE IEEE LONG ISLAND CONSULTANT’S MEMBERSHIP SECTION WEBSITE NETWORK DEVELOPMENT The IEEE LI Section website is OF LONG ISLAND For more information on regularly updated to reflect The Consultant’s Network of membership with the Long recent section activity and Long Island maintains a referral Island Section of the IEEE, upcoming events. Each Society service of engineering, e-mail M. Nazrul Islam at: [email protected] and Affinity Group has a computer, managerial and dedicated page that describes technical professionals. For their function and includes more information, please visit contact information. their website at: Visit our site at ieee.li www.consult-li.com PULSE OCTOBER 2016 PAGE 4 2016 IEEE LI SECTION SOCIETIES/CHAPTER OFFICERS 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] ® 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 MEMBERSHIP NEW MEMBER BENEFITS WELCOME As an organization with 400,000 members worldwide, IEEE is also able to offer other benefits to its members, THE IEEE LI SECTION WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME from insurance to other discounts. The insurance program offers excellent Life Insurance, Professional THE FOLLOWING NEW MEMBERS FOR 2016! Liability (known as “errors and omissions”) insurance, as Maherukh Akhtar Bryan Douglas O'connor well as medical and dental insurance. Please consider Michael J Antola Xinyan Ou sharing your IEEE experience with a colleague. 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