October 2011 Volume 60, No. 18 Inside This Issue

PRODUCED BY THE LONG ISLAND SECTION OF THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERS Volume 60, No. 18 October 2011 Inside this issue: Chairman’s Message By Nikolaos Golas, Chair IEEE Long Island Section October and November are going to be very busy IEEE can shape their future, and provide them with months when it comes to technical seminars, lec- career development tools to help them succeed. tures and events that the Section has planned for its This event is scheduled for Saturday, November 5, Industry News 4 & 7 members. Please try to attend as many as you can 2011 from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM at the New Jersey by visiting the Calendar Page of the IEEE Long Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark, NJ. For IEEE Day 5 & Island Website at: http://www.IEEE.LI/calendar/ additional information check the iSTEP flyer on 2011 17 As I mentioned in my September’s column, I attend- page 18 of the Pulse ed the IEEE Sections Congress 2011 (SC2011) As mentioned before, the IEEE Region 1, the st CEWIT 2011 6 that was held in San Francisco, California. Our 1 Long Island Section and the Center of Excel- Vice Chair, Dr. Susan Frank has written an article lence in Wireless and Information Technolo- describing what took place at the IEEE Sections gy (CEWIT) from Stony Brook University are co- October Congress. In addition, she is will cover the top 5 sponsoring the CEWIT2011 Conference. The 7-8 & Lectures and recommendations out of 34 that the Primary Dele- 8th International Conference will cover applications 13 Seminars gates voted and approved. These will be reviewed of emerging technologies in infrastructure, by the IEEE Member and Geographic Activities healthcare, and energy, which are three of the most (MGA) Board and will be implemented in the next 3 critical components of a smarter global environ- Long Island’s years. ment. It will be held at the Hyatt Regency Long Electronic 10 On Thursday, October 6th, the IEEE will celebrate Island in Hauppauge, on November 2-3, 2011. Regis- History the 2nd annual IEEE Day. The primary goal of this ter now at: http://www.cewit.org/conference2011/ event is to generate awareness to the public about Don’t forget to submit your nominations for the Jobs Corner 11 the IEEE. This year’s theme is "Empowering IEEE LI Section Awards to our Awards Com- Members to Create the Future" and based on mittee Chairman Jesse Taub [email protected] by the experience from last year, the organizers have December 1, 2011. Nominate a colleague or a Career prepared a new website with new features and en- 12 friend. Check the various Awards and categories at Management hancements to support this theme. Check the IEEE the IEEE Long Island Section Awards webpage at: Day website at: http://www.ieeeday.org www.IEEE.LI/awards/ Our Student members will be very busy this month Sections The Section along with the Tesla Science Center at 14 with the upcoming IEEEXtreme Programming Congress 2011 Wardenclyffe is also sponsoring the Tesla Confer- Competition 5.0 scheduled for October 22nd. ence 2011 on November 5th at the Brookhaven IEEEXtreme is a global challenge in which teams of National Laboratory. The Conference theme this LI Section Officer IEEE student members (3 students per team) sup- 15 year is ―Exploring Tesla’s Technology‖. Infor- Ballot ported by an IEEE Student Branch and advised and mation about the current status and future direc- proctored by an IEEE Member will compete in a 24- tions of wireless technology will be explored along iStep Event 18 hour time span against each other to solve a set of with highlights from the life and accomplishments of programming problems. If you have not register yet Nikola Tesla, the father of wireless technology. Also time is running out. The registration deadline is funds will be raised to purchase Tesla’s last remain- IEEE USA 19 October 7th. Register online at: http://www.ieee.org/ ing laboratory in Shoreham, NY. This Stanford membership_services/membership/students/competitions/ White-designed building is in poor condition. The xtreme Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe plans to re- Key to Your 20 Coming up we have also the iSTEP, Region 1's Benefits store the building and create a science and educa- Integrated Student Transition to Engineeing- tion center on the site. To register go to their web- Technology Professional program which pro- site at: www.TeslaScienceCenter.org Long Island vides students the occasion to network with Indus- Best Regards, Consultants 21 try Professionals and IEEE Leaders and gives them Network Nikolaos Golas, the opportunity to share career experiences and Chair IEEE Long Island Section find mentors at one venue. Students will learn how [email protected] Page 2 Calendar of Events October 2011 October 5th October 20th Long Island Consultants Network Meeting SSIT Society Meeting Trends in Electronic Packaging K-12 Education By Tom Terlizzi 6:00pm Refreshments 6:30pm Lecture 7:00pm Telephonics - Farmingdale, LI The Great Room Briarcliffe College - Bethpage, LI October 27th Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society Meeting October 11th Methods for 3D Display of ECG Signals AESS/CSS/SPS Joint Society Meeting By Charles W. Olson Field Programmable Gate Logic Arrays for 6:00pm Refreshments 6:30pm Lecture Aerospace & Satellite NYU-Poly - Melville, LI By Hans Schmitz 6:00pm Refreshments 6:30pm Lecture October 24th Telephonics - Farmingdale, LI EXCOM Meeting 5:45pm Dinner 6:15pm Meeting October 18th Telephonics - Farmingdale, LI Computer Society Meeting Mobile Operating Systems & Android By Bruce Willins & Rick Rogers 6:00pm Refreshments 6:30pm Lecture Motorola Solutions—Holtsville, LI November 2011 November 2nd November 30th Long Island Consultants Network Meeting Signal Processing Society Meeting 7:00pm Target Detection Using Joint Tranform Correlation The Great Room By Nazrul Islam Briarcliffe College - Bethpage, LI 6:00pm Refreshments 6:30pm Lecture Telephonics - Farmingdale, LI November 2nd & 3rd 8th Annual International Conference & Expo On Emerging Technologies for a Smart World (CEWIT2011) Hyatt Regency Hauppauge, LI For more information about these meetings and lectures, please visit: http://www.IEEE.LI/calendar/index.htm Volume 60, No. 18 Page 3 Long Island Section Officers Chairman Treasurer NIKOLAOS GOLAS BRIAN QUINN Telephonics Corporation Verizon Office 631-755-7059 Office 212-856-1354 [email protected] [email protected] First Vice Chair Secretary SUSAN FRANK, Ph.D. T. DAVID BOMZER Farmingdale State College Day Pitney LLP Office 631-361-8667 Office 212-297-2477 [email protected] [email protected] Second Vice Chair Junior Past Chair ROBERT BERGER JON GARRUBA National Instruments Northrop Grumman Office 516-507-7001 631-704-4697 [email protected] Senior Past Chair SANTO MAZZOLA BAE Systems 631-262-8367 Affinity Groups GOLD Affinity Group Student Development / Activities ADAM CHALSON MICHAEL J. CO 631-755-7344 Parker Hannifin Corporation [email protected] Office 631-231-3737 ext. 2123 [email protected] Life Members Affinity Group LOU LUCERI Women in Engineering (WIE) [email protected] CHRISTINA NICKOLAS Hearst Corporation [email protected] The IEEE LI Section Website The IEEE LI Section website is update regularly to reflect recent section activity and upcoming events. Each society and affinity group has a dedicated page which describes their function and includes contact information. Visit our site at: www.IEEE.LI Consultant’s Network of Long Island The Consultant’s Network of Long Island maintains a referral service of engineering, computer, managerial & technical professionals. For more information, please visit their website at www.consult-li.com. Membership Development For more information on membership with the Long Island Section of the IEEE contact: Nikolaos Golas 631-755-7059 [email protected] Page 4 Industry News Brookhaven National Laboratories Receives $1.37M for Wind Energy Research Brookhaven National Laboratory received a significant infusion of cash recently from the U.S. Department of Energy as part of a research project to develop cheaper, more efficient technology for wind turbines. The $1.37 million comes from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, as part of a $156 million investment into energy research projects. BNL’s project, which seeks to develop a new, low-cost superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators, was one of 60 clean energy projects selected nationwide for funding. BNL will be partnering with Massachusetts-based American Superconductor on the project. All electricity generators contain coils of wire, typically made of copper, that conduct electricity. A ―superconducting‖ wire can transport hundreds of times more electric current than a similarly sized copper wire, and has the potential to make a wind turbine generator lighter, more powerful and more efficient. However, these superconducting wires traditionally cost too much to make wind generators cost-effective. BNL and American Superconductor will seek to create a high-performance superconducting wire that can handle significantly more electrical current that copper wires and costs less to manufacture, making wind generators more practical for widespread deployment. Department of Energy Awards $156 Million for Groundbreaking Energy Research Projects Arun Majumdar, Director of the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), today announced 60 cutting-edge research projects aimed at dramatically improving how the U.S. produces and uses energy. With $156 million from the Fiscal Year 2011 budget, the new ARPA-E selections focus on acceler- ating innovations in clean technology while increasing America's competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Demonstrating the suc- cess ARPA-E has already seen, the program announced this year that eleven of its projects secured more than $200 million in outside private capital investment.

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