Section Bulletin October 2018 Volume 67, No. 10

Included in this issue:  Notes From the Chair ...... 2  Port Authority Tech Tour of the ...... 3  Consultants Network Meeting on Developing a Business ...... 4  21cm Intensity Mapping: The CHIME (Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment) . 4  IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer - Resilient Distribution Systems ...... 5  Rolls-Royce – Pioneering the Power that Matters ...... 5  IEEE EPS Distinguished Lecturer - Making micro LED Displays ...... 6  IEEE Pittsburgh Section Outing to The US Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB ... 7  Call for Section Officer Volunteers ...... 8  Call for Student Activities Coordinator Volunteer ...... 9  WVU engineering student wins first place in Green Entrepreneur Competition ...... 9

Editor: Philip Cox, [email protected]; Contributors: Joe Cioletti, George Crawford, Gianfranco Doretto, Drew Lowery, John Mazurowski, Sid Pant, Kal Sen, Sarika Solanki, and Dan Wilson

All announcements for publication in a particular month’s bulletin are due to the Editor by the 20th of the previous month. The accuracy of the published material is not guaranteed. If there is any error, please bring it to the Editor’s attention. The Section’s web site, http://sites.ieee.org/pittsburgh, has recent issues of the bulletin and lots of other useful information.

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Section  Notes From the Chair Chair - Dan Wilson, [email protected]

I would like to welcome back our Pittsburgh section Vice Chair -- Navid Binesh, [email protected]

student members that have been on summer break. I Treasurer – Ted Zyra, [email protected] Asst. Treasurer – Evan Watson, [email protected] hope the past month of getting back into studies has Secretary - Haifeng Wang, [email protected] been successful and you are ready for the year ahead. Immediate Past Chair – Dr. Drew Lowery, [email protected]

Also, I would like to thank all of our section members Special Events Chair – Dr. Kal Sen, [email protected]

in advance for renewing your memberships for next Webmaster – Gerry Kumnik, [email protected]

year. As you may have seen in last month's bulletin, UpperMon Subsection our section won an award in 2018 for Outstanding Chair: Dr. Gianfranco Doretto, [email protected] Section Membership Retention. This is directly a result of the efforts put in by our volunteers, as well as the Chapters dedication to IEEE shown by our section's members Communications Society – Chair: Dr. Balaji Palanisamy, [email protected]; Sec: Phil Cox, [email protected] over the past three years. Our section is vibrant and has Computer Society – Chair: Dr. Ralph Sprang, a number of different activities each month; your [email protected]

membership dues help to ensure that this can continue. Electronics Packaging/Electron Devices Societies – Chair: John Mazurowski - [email protected] So please consider renewing your membership - you Engineering In Medicine & Biology Society can start renewing now, as the renewal period now Chair: Steve Mozelewski, [email protected]

begins in August. Your IEEE membership offers many Electromagnetic Compatibility Society - Chair: Michael J. Oliver, [email protected] (814) 763-3211 benefits to you. If you are not yet a Senior Member, Magnetics Society – Chair: Vincent Sokalsky, look out for future Senior Member events which can [email protected]

help you apply for member grade elevation. Nanotechnology Society: Guangyong Li - [email protected]

Power Electronics Society – Chair Sid Pant - [email protected] Finally, please check the bulletin this month for our Power & Energy & Industry Applications Societies upcoming events. Our volunteers work hard to have Chair: Steve Dobos, [email protected]; Vice-Chair: Julie Clark; Treas.: Dave Vaglia, [email protected] interesting events and topics, and we love to see Robotics Society – Chair: Joseph Giampapa, [email protected] attendance at these meetings so that we know that our Signal Processing Society – Chair: Nicholas.O’Donoughue members are getting value out of their IEEE [email protected]

memberships. Thank you to all our volunteers for their Society on Social Implications of Technology Chair: Dr. Kal Sen, [email protected]; Vice Chair: Joe hard work. Kalasky, P.E., [email protected] 724-244-1609

Council of Electronic Design Automation Chair: Baris Taskin, Daniel Wilson [email protected]

2018 IEEE Pittsburgh Section Chair Affinity Groups Young Professionals (formerly GOLD) – Chair: Matthew Rehder [email protected]

Women In Engineering – Chair: Mey Sen, [email protected]

Life Members: Joe Kalasky, P.E., [email protected]

Committees Consultant network: George Crawford - [email protected]

Professional/Career Activities (PACE) Chair: Joe Cioletti, P.E. [email protected]

Student Activities – open; student reps: Chair:, Sam Talkington; Vice-chair: Will Howard, [email protected];

Membership Development – Steve Mozelewski, [email protected]

Publicity – Chair: Thomas Dionise, P.E. [email protected] (724) 779-5864

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 Port Authority Tech Tour of the Monongahela Incline

Date: Thursday, October 11th Place: Monongahela Incline Lower Station (Park at , take ‘T’, etc.) Time: 7:00 PM Presenters: Port Authority (Josh Banyas, Dave Matlin, Jeff King) Sponsors: Pittsburgh Section Professional Activities Committee (PACE – Joe Cioletti) and Life Member Affinity Group (Joe Kalasky). RSVP to: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/177734 (Tour is limited to 20 attendees – two groups of 10)

Come join the Port Authority of Allegheny County on a scenic technology tour of the Monongahela Incline, located by Station Square. This historical funicular is still heavily used by travelers between the top of Mount Washington and Station Square, where intermodal connections can be made to light rail, bus and automobile transportation modes.

(From Wikipedia) The Monongahela Incline is a funicular located near the Smithfield Street Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Built by John Endresin 1870, it is the oldest continuously operating funicular in the United States. It is also one of two surviving inclines (the other is the nearby Duquesne Incline) from the original 17 passenger-carrying inclines built in Pittsburgh starting in the late 19th century. Its lower station is across the street from the Station Square shopping complex, and is easily accessible from the light rail system at the Station Square station.

 Length: 635 feet (194 m)  Elevation: 369.39 feet (112.59 m)  Grade: 35 degrees, 35 minutes  Gauge: 5 ft (1,524 mm) broad gauge  Speed: 6 mph (9.7 km/h)  Passenger Capacity: 23 per car  Opened: May 28, 1870  Renovated: 1882 (with steel structure)  Original steam power replaced with electricity: 1935  Renovated: 1982-83 new track structure, cars and stations  Renovated: 1994 upper, lower stations, restored cars, replaced electric motors and controls[6]

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 Consultants Network Meeting on Developing a Business

Mark your calendar for October 11th at 7:00PM. The Pittsburgh Section of the Consultants Network will be giving another in a series of meetings focused on developing an engineering consulting business.

There will be two speakers: Nigel McQuin talking on “Engineering Consulting Through the Eyes of a Local Practitioner" and the second will be George Crawford talking about the Pennsylvania Professional Engineering process.

This is a joint meeting between the Consultants Network and the Life Membership Affinity Groups of the IEEE Pittsburgh Chapter. All are welcome to attend.

Venue: Sewickley Public Library, 500 Thorn Street, Sewickley, PA 15143. There is a parking lot at the rear of the library. The meeting will be in the Community Room on the second floor.

Additional information can be obtained by emailing [email protected].

 21cm Intensity Mapping: The CHIME (Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment) Instrument and Design

Speaker: Kevin Bandura Date: Thursday, October 18, 2018 Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Place: 135 Advanced Engineering Research Building (AER) West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

Abstract: The CHIME (Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment) instrument is designed with a scientific mission to measure the large-scale structure of the universe in three dimensions. One of the current great mysteries of nature is Dark Energy, which is causing the current accelerated expansion of the Universe. Dr. Bandura will describe the CHIME instrument, part of a new class of digital radio telescopes, including the concept and requirements for analog and digital signal processing. In particular, he will discuss the implemented analog system and hybrid FPGA and GPU based correlator currently in operation, and how this leads to flexibility and expanded telescope capabilities.

Biography: Kevin Bandura is an Assistant Professor at West Virginia University in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Department of Physics and Astronomy. His current research interests are in signal processing for radio astronomy, cosmology, and fast radio bursts. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University. He also received M.S. and B.S. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University.

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 IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer - Resilient Distribution Systems

Speaker: Chen-Ching Liu Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Place: 113 Mineral Resources Building (MRB) West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

Abstract: Recent development of the smart grid significantly enhanced the level of automation in the distribution grids. With high level deployment of remote-controlled switches, distribution feeders can be restored efficiently after power outages. In this presentation, computational algorithms for utilization of smart meters, remote control capabilities, and feeder restoration will be discussed together with their practical implementations. The role of microgrids in distribution system restoration will be evaluated. Traditional techniques, however, are not designed for extreme events in the distribution systems. The same is true for widely adopted reliability indices. New thinking of system design, operation, and metrics will be important for resiliency of future distribution grids.

Biography: Chen-Ching Liu is American Electric Power Professor and Director, Power and Energy Center at ECE, Virginia Tech. He was Boeing Distinguished Professor at Washington State University, Pullman, WA. During 1983-2005, he was a Professor of EE at University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Liu was Palmer Chair Professor at Iowa State University from 2006 to 2008. From 2008-2011, he served as Acting/Deputy Principal of the College of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences at University College Dublin, Ireland. Professor Liu received an IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000 and the Power and Energy Society Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award in 2004. In 2013, Dr. Liu received a Doctor Honoris Causa from Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania. Chen- Ching chaired the IEEE Power and Energy Society Fellow Committee, Technical Committee on Power System Analysis, Computing and Economics, and Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award Committee. He served on the U.S. National Academies Board on Global Science and Technology. Professor Liu is a Fellow of the IEEE and Member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences.

 Rolls-Royce – Pioneering the Power that Matters

Speaker: Mike Ross Title: Head of Business Improvement, Rolls-Royce Date: October 25, 2018 Time: Refreshments - 6:30 PM; Presentation - 7:00 PM Place: Westinghouse Energy Center, 4350 Northern Pike, Monroeville, PA 15146 RSVP: Required at https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/177504 by October 23, 2018. If you are an IEEE member, you must enter your membership number. If you would like to receive PDH, please bring a copy of this announcement for verification of your attendance and your membership identification card. A non-Member who would like to receive PDH is required to pay $10 to “IEEE Pittsburgh Section.” Organizer: Power Electronics Society (PELS)

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Abstract: Mike Ross will introduce Rolls-Royce, one of the world’s most preeminent engineering companies. Mike will share some of the company’s engineering successes from over 100 years of pioneering cutting edge technology, and the company’s 21st Century vision championing electrification and digitization in the aerospace, transport and electrical generation markets. Electrification of propulsion systems promises a revolution in the transport of people and goods, and digitization in nuclear generation will enhance the demand for new low carbon electricity generation. Mike will discuss the Rolls-Royce vision of Pioneering the Power that Matters.

Speaker: Mike Ross has received degrees of Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland and a Postgraduate Diploma in Nuclear Reactor Technology from the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, UK. Currently he is Head of Business Improvement with Rolls-Royce focusing on their nuclear businesses in the US and Canada. Mike has 25 years’ experience with Rolls-Royce in the nuclear industry, mostly serving the UK’s naval nuclear propulsion program. He has extensive experience in nuclear reactor operation and previously led the US-UK nuclear propulsion technology exchange program.

DIRECTIONS TO WESTINGHOUSE ENERGY CENTER

From Pittsburgh: take Interstate 376 East (Parkway East). Take Exit 84A to Monroeville. Cross Business Rt 22 at the traffic light and proceed on Rt 48 South (Moss Side Blvd) approx ½ mile (two traffic lights). The 2nd traffic light is at a 4-way intersection with a Marathon station on the right and a Sunoco station on the left. Turn left onto Northern Pike. Proceed approx 0.2 miles and turn right at the 1st traffic light onto Westinghouse Dr. Travel 0.7 miles to the 3 flags where the building’s main entrance is located. Parking in the evening will be plentiful. Use the main entrance and check with the security guards inside. You will be directed to the proper room for your meeting.

From the PA Turnpike: take Exit 57 (Monroeville). After the toll plaza, get in the left lane to get on Business Rt 22 West. At the first light, turn left onto Rt 48 South (Moss Side Blvd) and follow the above directions.

 IEEE EPS Distinguished Lecturer - Making micro LED Displays

Speaker: Dr. Christopher (Chris) A. Bower, Chief Technology Officer, X-Celeprint Limited Date: October 25, 2018 Time: 6:00 pm Dinner 6:30 pm Introduction to the Electro-Optics Center 6:45 pm Presentation Place: Penn State ARL Electro-Optics Center, 222 Northpointe Boulevard, Freeport, PA RSVP: Please register at: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/177828 NOTE: The Electro-Optics Center requires proof of citizenship for entry. Access for Non US Citizens requires a visitor form and two weeks’ notice; please register by October 10. Organizer: Electronics Packaging Society

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Presentation Abstract: Displays that use direct light emission from microscale inorganic light emitting diodes (µILEDs) have the potential to be very bright and also very power efficient. High-throughput assembly technologies that accurately and cost-effectively form assemblies of µILEDs onto display substrates with high yield are key enablers for µILED displays. Transfer-printing with elastomer stamps is a candidate assembly technology for making µILEDs displays. A variety of µILED displays have been designed and fabricated by micro-transfer-printing, including glass and plastic passive matrix displays and active matrix displays utilizing transfer printed integrated circuits.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Christopher (Chris) A. Bower is the Chief Technology Officer at X-Celeprint Limited, a company founded to develop and commercialize advanced micro assembly technologies. He was formerly a Technical Manager at Semprius, Inc., where he led the team responsible for micro-transfer-printing and wafer-level-packaging of advanced microscale solar cells. His experience includes three years of research and development on three-dimensionally integrated circuits at RTI International and four years of research on nanotechnology and photonics devices at Bell Labs and InPlane Photonics, Inc. Chris received a Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 2000, where his graduate studies focused on the synthesis and novel properties of carbon nanotubes. His interests include three-dimensional integration of integrated circuits, heterogeneous integration of compound semiconductors onto non-native substrates and the fabrication of low-cost, large-format electronics using novel assembly methods. He is author on over ninety scientific publications and has filed over forty patents.

 IEEE Pittsburgh Section Outing to The US Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB outside of Dayton, Ohio

Date: Saturday, December 1, 2018 Time: 6:30 AM: Departure 9:00 PM: Return Cost: $20 per person RSVP: Required at https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/176341 by October 14, 2018. For any question, please write to Kal Sen at [email protected]. Organizers: IEEE Pittsburgh Section Women In Engineering & SSIT.

We are considering an outing to the US Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB outside of Dayton, Ohio. The event is open to the IEEE Pittsburgh Section’s members and their guests and limited to the capacity (56 people) of the bus on a first-come-first-serve basis. The event is highly subsidized by the Section. At this point, we are gauging the interest from the members. If interested, please register at the vtools weblink above. At the October ExCom meeting, the event will be finalized and those who are interested will be notified with further details.

The museum, which is free to the public, is by far the world's largest collection of military aircraft - both operational and experimental. Here are just a few of the items on view: X-15 rocket plane, U2 and SR-

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71 spy planes, B-52 B-29 B17 and XB-70 bombers, F-22 F-111 P-51 fighters, Apollo Capsule, Soyuz capsule, as well as the Second Wright Flyer, and ICBMs, cruise missiles, strange prototypes and all of the Presidential Air Force Ones (except Reagan's) etc. All exhibits are located indoors. Unlike the Smithsonian, you can touch most of the aircrafts and even go inside some of them including the historic Air Force One 707 that was modified to carry President Kennedy's coffin back from Dallas. For further information, you may click on the following weblink at: https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil

 Call for Section Officer Volunteers

The IEEE Pittsburgh Section is seeking volunteers for the position of assistant treasurer and secretary. The secretary and assistant treasurer position are the first rungs on the ladder of executive committee roles, and the duties include:

 Secretary: responsible for the monthly meeting minutes, gathering the section updates, next month’s agenda and maintaining the vitality scorecard records  Assistant Treasurer: assists the treasurer by entering transactions and helping to maintain our financial records Both positions would include:

 Communicating and coordinating with other IEEE sites, including the national headquarters in Piscataway NJ  Serving as a voting member of the IEEE Pittsburgh Section executive committee, attending our meetings, and participating in our events  Gaining experience and understanding of IEEE and our activities, as a pre-requisite for seeking volunteer positions of greater responsibility To apply, you must be an active IEEE member in good standing, a willingness to learn. The time commitment is not large, along the lines of a few hours per week. Previous volunteer experience is a plus but not strictly necessary.

All interested respondents will be vetted by the nomination committee, and the nomination committee will select one or more qualified candidates to include on the ballot in our upcoming election. Ideally, we are seeking candidates that are willing to take on this challenge, and then use the knowledge they've gained to take on other volunteer roles.

If this sounds like something that interests you, or if you have questions about it, please contact me: [email protected].

Drew Lowery, IEEE Pittsburgh Section Nomination Committee Chair, 2018.

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 Call for Student Activities Coordinator Volunteer

The IEEE Pittsburgh Section is seeking a volunteer for the position of Section Student Activities Coordinator (SSAC). Working closely with the Section student Representative (SSR), the SSAC is responsible for coordinating all student branch activity within the Section. This position would:

 Support and fund student activities within the Section as supported by the Section.  Communicate and serve on the Regional Student Activities Committee  Serve as a voting member of the IEEE Pittsburgh Section executive committee, attending our meetings, and participating in our events  Gain experience and understanding of IEEE and our activities, as a pre-requisite for seeking volunteer positions of greater responsibility To apply, you must be an active IEEE member in good standing, a willingness to learn. This position would be benefitted by being at a University within the Pittsburgh Section. Previous volunteer experience is a plus but not strictly necessary.

If this sounds like something that interests you, or if you have questions about it, please contact Drew Lowery at [email protected].

 WVU engineering student wins first place in Green Entrepreneur Competition

MORGANTOWN, W.Va.— An engineering student from West Virginia University won first place at the 2018 Green Entrepreneur Competition. The event was held on August 25-27, in Sao Paolo, Brazil, during the third annual Student Congress, an international seminar hosted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Power and Energy Society.

The competition brought together more than 100 students from 30 countries to work in teams to explore green energy entrepreneurial practices that could positively impact energy production and climate change throughout the world.

Hasan Ul Banna, an electrical engineering doctoral student from West Virginia University, won first place along with team mates from Jordan, India and Costa Rica, for their proposal to create a startup company that would use wheat straw, mushrooms and beans to produce natural gas. Their innovative method was designed to extract natural gas without producing harmful by-products and allow for local production that would eliminate the difficult task of transporting natural gas in developing countries. Additionally, the by-products created during production could be utilized as fertilizer, making their company both environmentally friendly and sustainable. “Producing natural gas in this way and utilizing

IEEE Pittsburgh Section Bulletin October 2018, Volume 67 No. 10 Page 9 of 11 it for the grid specially when grid is undergoing through a lot of changes was a novel idea” said Sarika Khushalani-Solanki, advisor of Hasan Ul Banna.

“I was not expecting to win and can’t begin to explain how amazing this experience was, “said Ul Banna. "The competition provided me an excellent opportunity to meet fellow students, entrepreneurs and industry members and to also work in tandem with international colleagues in solving a problem that is very pressing for not only developing countries but also developed countries. I am grateful for the opportunity.” The IEEE PES students chapter faculty advisor for West Virginia is Dr. Jignesh Solanki who can be contacted for information on other competitions where students can participate.

The winners of the competition received a commemorative plaque, certificate of achievement and a prize package from sponsors.

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2018 Calendar – Meetings of IEEE Pittsburgh Section Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July August Sept Oct Nov Dec Executive 18 15 15 19 17 21 19 16 20 18 15 20 Committee Panera Panera Panera Bread Panera Bread Panera Bread Panera Panera Bread Panera Bread Panera Morgantown Panera Bread TBD (AdCom) Bread Bread Oakland, Wexford Galleria Bread Wexford Wilkins Bread TBD Galleria Robinson Wilkins Forbes ave. Wilkins Galleria Section 24 29 21 4 5 7 11 Engineers Senior Consultants & History Entrepre- Entrepre- Consultants Week Members Employment Dinner neurs neurs Network Workshop Meeting Communic ations Computer 10 20 Job advice Ethernet 26 Social meet EMBS 22 Monitor 26 Brain Artificial lungs EMCS 24 6 Health Data EMI Filters Power 25 22 7 31 25 Electronics Ripple Voltage GMDs SMART Rolls-Royce Reduction Converters PES/IAS 22 26 24 19 20 31 6 Nuc Talk* transformers* Health Data Homestead UPS Tech* SMART EMI Filters Magnetics Robotics 30 Advocating Robotics Sig. 18 Processing Synthesizing NBA defenses CPMT/ED 20 25 Dynamics Micro LEDs Social Impl 23 - Global 4 - Russ 18 1 Technology Village Harrison Pirates Game Air Museum Upper Mon 26 16 10 18 Data Cloud Radio Pervasive Intensity Map Analytics 23 Bio 23 Health Care Monitoring Resilient Dist. Women in 23 - Global 18 1 Eng’ing Village Pirates Game Air Museum Young Pros 18 N3XT Life 15 11 Members Forensics Mon. Incline PACE 4 - Russ 15 11 Harrison Forensics Mon. Incline Student Act * Meeting was not announced in the Bulletin IEEE Pittsburgh Section Bulletin October 2018, Volume 67 No. 10 Page 11 of 11