February 2003 (VOL 50, NO. 6)
See You At The Awards Dinner Dance February 22, 2002 (See Detail on Back Page)
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Chairman’s Column February is an important month for New York Section engineers. Two significant events this National Engineers Week month are the annual dinner Our nation’s first president was a military dance honoring Section engineer and land surveyor. George engineers and the celebration Washington’s surveying skills led to his title as of National Engineers Week, first U.S. Engineer. On June 9, 1778, at Valley which is a national program Forge, PA, General Washington issued an order designed to help build public calling for engineers and engineering education. awareness of, and This order is considered to be the beginning of appreciation for, the the U.S. Army Engineers School. In honor of engineering profession. George Washington, National Engineers Week is always celebrated at the time of his birthday. Annual Dinner Dance This year the week of February 16-22, 2003 has, Traditionally the Section’s dinner dance is held therefore, been designated National Engineers to recognize and honor engineers who are Week. nominated and elected to the grade of IEEE The National Society of Professional Engineers Fellow. The grade of IEEE Fellow is one of first established this annual event in 1951. highest honors bestowed upon an engineer for Beginning with President Truman in 1951, U.S. their particular technical contributions to the Presidents have sent special messages of engineering profession. The New York appreciation to the various engineering Section’s tradition of offering its newly elected professions in recognition of the week. Fellows the opportunity of receiving their award The purpose of this annual event is to bring to in the presence of their colleagues, friends and the public’s attention the work and contributions family at the Fellow Awards Dinner Dance is of the nation’s engineers. Engineers play an the social event of the year. important role in enhancing health care, In addition to honoring IEEE Fellows at this improving the environment and making our event, special recognition and awards are given homes and workplaces safer and more to engineers who are recipients of the IEEE comfortable. Region 1 Award and the New York Section’s Currently hundreds of engineering societies, Outstanding Engineer Award. In 2002 the name government agencies, corporations, small was changed to the “Awards Dinner Dance” to businesses and colleges and universities sponsor include all the following award categories: and participate in National Engineers Week. IEEE Fellows, IEEE Region 1, New York Here’s the information if you are interested in Section and Special Recognition Awards. participating: Festivities at our annual social event include a National Engineers Week Headquarters cocktail hour, an elegant dinner, dancing to a 1420 King Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 live band and the awards ceremony. Dancing Tel. 703-684-2852, Email: [email protected] and socializing with friends and associates are Some of the activities during Engineering Week the highlights of the evening. Past affairs were are: ZOOM into Engineering; Introduce a Girl held at the Plaza Hotel, Windows of the World to Engineering Day; Future City Competition; (top of the World Trade Center), the New York NSPE Federal Engineer of the Year Award; Hilton and the Greentree Country Club in New Asian American Engineer of the Year; and the Rochelle. Discover “E” Program. Please check out the This year our dinner dance will be held in the National Engineers Week website, magnificent Union League Club located at 38 www.eweek.org for more information on these East 37th Street in Manhattan, on the corner of and other activities. In closing I would just like Park Avenue. Details and a reservation form to say “Thank You” to all of my fellow can be found on the back of this Monitor. engineers for your contributions in making this world a better place.
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Title Name & Address Phone*, Fax Number & E-mail Chairman Robert (Bob) M. Pellegrino (212) 780-3756 [B] Con Edison Co. (212) 780-3777 [F] 4 Irving Place, 12th floor [email protected] [E] New York, New York 10003 Vice Chairman Benjamin Schall (212) 460-2109 [B] Chapter Con Edison (212) 679-3857 [F] Operations 4 Irving Place [email protected] [E] Room 1550-S New York, NY 10003 Vice Chairman Kenneth Vought (914) 419-3595 [B] Section Activity RT&T Incorportated (914) 271-5247 [F] 30 Woodlake Drive [email protected] [E] Croton-On-Hudson, New York 10520 Treasurer Robert Noberini (212) 254-1639 (B) Consultant (212) 529-8511 (H) th 130 East 18 Street, Apt. 9U [email protected] [E] New York, NY 10003 Secretary Paul Sartori (212) 460-4349 [B] Con Edison (212) 777-5970 [F] 4 Irving Place [email protected] [E] Room 1500 New York, NY 10003 Junior Past Ralph Tapino (718) 761-5104 (H) Chairman 71 Amsterdam Avenue [email protected] [E] Staten Island, NY 10314
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Downtown PATH Restoration the innovative engineering and construction solutions proposed by the The past meeting of the PES / IAS was PA. Mr. Buchsbaum, who has held one not to be missed. The Chapter of the many supervisory engineering positions New York Section featured Jack including a stint at Con Edison of Buchsbaum, P.E., Chief Electrical approximately eight years, provided an Engineer of the Post Authority (PA) of informative, educational, and insightful New York and New Jersey. exploratory description of the advancing site improvements.
A crowd of 66, nicely filling the His graphic presentation included computer-generated video animation and executive dining room of Con Edison, futuristic designs. First, Mr. Buchsbaum attended the meeting. described the work that had already been performed. The existing tunnels were stripped clean of all equipment, tracks, and signals so that new direct fixation rails, no ties and the maximum number of ducts possible could be installed. As Jack continued, he noted possible disasters that had been avoided like the flooding of the tunnels, which could have reached as far as 34th Street. Future plans include lengthening the Exchange Place platform to handle ten-car trains. This work is being made possible by the complete closure of this section of the PATH system, rather then working with limited access in the midnight to dawn hours. Two tunnels will handle the flow of traffic, F incoming and E outgoing. He emphasized the need to reconnect service as soon as possible with The presentation gave an overview of achievable dates, first for Exchange existing conditions, current construction, Place by June 2003, and then a new PATH improvements, station plans and World Trade Center (WTC) station by the end of 2003, both projects being on WTC attack. Easy access to all subways target. YTP, Yonkers, Tully, and Pegno and a new floating ferry terminal with were awarded a cost-plus contact for this five births are other features of this plan. work. The contact has clauses that both This is just one example of the type and reward for early delivery and penalize kind of technical meeting you will find for late delivery. The total estimated at the IEEE PES / IAS Chapter. Mr. cost of this temporary reconstruction is Buchsbaum is both knowledgeable and estimated at $244 million and is only highly regarded in the industry. His temporary because it is designed to be presentation was without flaw and he changed based on the finalization of easily responded to all queries. Daniel plans for the World Trade Center site. Taft, President of the Edison Engineering Society, presented Jack with a book
Left to right: Jack Buchsbaum, PA NY & NJ Chief Electrical Engineer and Frank Stanton, Daidone Electric’s General Superintendent.
entitled Rails Under the Mighty Hudson by Brian J. Cudahy, marking the occasion of “the inaugural subway run from 14th Street Manhattan to Hoboken which took place on January 15, 1908. January 15, 2003 was the 95th anniversary of the opening of the tubes. The project was driven hard from dream to reality by William Gibbs McAdoo who later became U.S. Secretary of the The tracks will remain as they are at the Treasury and U.S. Senator from lowest level in the bathtub. There will California.” Who knows what other be stairs throughout and no escalators position Mr. Jack Buchsbaum will with elevators to be used for the achieve? Based on his accomplishments handicapped access. The walls will be to date, maybe the Senate in 2004. of fabric mesh. There will be a forty- See you at our next meeting, foot wide sidewalk with a viewing wall Michael A. Miller and memorial to those who died at the
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January 30, 2003 (Thursday) 7:30 PM The IEEE Consultants’ Network of Northern NJ “Getting Started in Consulting” MCE-KDI Corp., 60 S. Jefferson Road, Whippany, NJ For directions call Robert Walker at (973) 728-0344 or go to http://www.kditriangle.com/directions.htm
February 11, 2003 (Tuesday) EMC Chapter meeting. This one will be held at 7 PM (Snacks at 6:30) at the Underwriters Laboratories Inc (1285 Walt Whitman Road) Melville facility. Mr. Corey Hyatt will be providing us with some insight into the new EN60601-1-2 Medical Standard.
February 22, 2003 (Saturday) 6:30 PM The New York Section’s 2002 Awards Dinner Dance Union League Club, 38 East 37th Street (Corner of Park Avenue), New York, NY For information call Mr. Ralph Tapino at (718) 761-5104, or William Perlman at (908) 810-8555
February 27, 2003 (Thursday) Time: 7:30 PM. The IEEE Consultants’ Network of Northern NJ will hold a panel discussion and presentation on “Setting And Maximizing Price On Your Consulting Services” Place: MCE/KDI Triangle, 60 S. Jefferson Road, Whippany, NJ. For directions call Robert Walker at (973) 728-0344 or go to http://www.kditriangle.com/directions.htm
March 27, 2003 (Thursday) Alternate Energy Sources – NY Section - PES / IAS Chapter At the Con Edison Executive Dinning Room, 19th floor, 4 Irving Place, New York, NY Refereseshments at 5:15 PM, Program at 5:45 PM
May 1, 2003 ( Thursday) Vehicular Technology Forum David Elliott of the LIRR will present “New Rail Car Technology vs Maintenance” Christopher Kolb of Cisco will present “ Wireless Communications on Trains” June, 2003 Joint Meeting with Computer Society October 16, 2003 Forum – Program to be announced.
September 16, 2003 (Tuesday) Golf Outing - NY Section - Engineering Management Society At the Links, Union Dale in Dutchess County, New York 18-hole championship golf course only 90 minutes from New York City. Includes lunch, golf, dinner and prizes.
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President’s Column, February 2003 Jim V. Leonard, We helped establish the site as an IEEE P.E., 2003 IEEE- Historical Milestone during National USA President Engineers Week, 2000. Greetings to U.S. IEEE members. I We hope to hold IEEE-USA Operating look forward to Committee meetings at the U.S. Military serving as your Academy in West Point, N.Y., and the president in 2003. U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. IEEE has student It looks like our branches at each one. U.S. IEEE membership of about 235,000 is probably only about 25 percent of the In late March, we will hold a market. So my first request is that you Professional Development Conference join the IEEE Member-Get-A-Member and IEEE-USA Leadership Workshop at program and sign up at least one new the Seattle Airport Hilton. Please member. consider sending a PACE representative With the terrible events of September from each section. 11, 2001, the outlook for the U.S. has drastically changed. We now have a Our CARE program is a grassroots effort frightful and fanatical enemy. Our to urge U.S. IEEE members to visit their government is setting up a homeland congressional representatives in their security force to help protect us, and home district. IEEE-USA’s Technical Policy Council will assist in the effort. Unemployment among U.S. engineers has climbed steadily over the past The 9/11 events affected us all. The several years. We presented our following week, my aunt and uncle, concerns over this and other workforce Anne and Bert Souther, were brutally issues at the National Academies’ Pan- murdered in their La Habre, Calif., Organizational Summit on U.S. Science home. The murders are still an unsolved and Engineering Workforce in mystery. So, while it’s very important November. for IEEE-USA to plan and support professional careers, it means little if We will lobby Congress to restore the terrorists and other criminals threaten yearly 65,000 H-1B visa limit (now our personal security. 195,000) to help U.S. engineers and computer scientists with increased In 2003, we will also look at heroes employment opportunities. And we hope within IEEE. Our first retreat will be to re-establish IEEE-USA employment held at the Thomas Edison Museum, assistance at the Section level. named in honor of the man who helped found IEEE. We will also celebrate Pearl Log on to the IEEE-USA Web site Harbor Day there with a visit to meet (www.ieeeusa.org) and take a look at our George Elliott, Jr., an SCR-270B radar ongoing activities and decide how you, operator at the Opana Point (Hawaii) our most valued asset, can help us help radar site, which first detected the you. Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.
IEEE NEW YORK SECTION Executive Committee 2003 MEETING SCHEDULE
Meetings are usually held on the second Wednesday of the month, starting at 1:00 p.m. The February meeting will be the Awards Dinner Dance. There are no meetings in July, August & December. Meeting dates are as follows: January 15, 2003 February 22, 2003 (Awards Dinner Dance) March 12, 2003 April 9, 2003 May 14, 2003 June 11, 2003 July 2003 -- > No Meeting August 2003 -- > No Meeting September 10, 2003 October 8, 2003 November 12, 2003 (Election Meeting – Location to be announced) December 2003 -- > No Meeting (Happy Holidays!)
BRAIN TEASER CHALLENGE SOLUTION by Butch Shadwell
There were actually a couple of correct answers submitted to last months BTC. If you recall, dancing Tony was interested in the response of a nuclear/ionization type smoke detector to the sudden decompression of a room in space. In order to answer this I must review the operation of the typical ionization smoke detector. First, the sensor in one of these units is composed of two chambers with a metal partition between them. This partition normally has a tiny piece of Americium 241, a radionuclide, mounted in the center such that the flux of alpha particles it emits will ionize the air both above and below the metal partition. Next, the sensor has upper and lower electrodes that are oppositely charged so inducing a current flow through the ionized air in the sensor. With the metal partition in the center of this current path, the voltage with respect to either of the end plates is approximately v/2 under normal circumstances. One last important feature of this sensor is that one side of this divided chamber allows for very free airflow while the other does not. So, when smoke gets into the open side of the chamber, the particles tend to adsorb or impede the flow of ions causing a higher resistance on that side of the chamber. This produces a voltage shift at the center partition that can be measured and thus an alarm is detected.
When our spacecraft is decompressed, it would have a similar result in that most of the ionized air in the open side of the chamber would quickly exit. Thus, resulting in the same sort of voltage change that the unit would detect for smoke. So, even though no one may be able to hear it, the alarm would go off. PUBLISHER'S STATEMENT All ads invoiced on publication closing date. Full The IEEE MONITOR is the official news publication payment due 10 days after issue date. Rendering of the New York Section of The Institute of Electrical invoice to ad agency does not relieve advertiser in and Electronics Engineers, Inc. The New York case agency default. Section is comprised of the five boroughs of New MECHANICAL SPECIFICATIONS York City (Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Size Staten Island) plus Rockland and Westchester Publication trim size 81/2" x 11" Counties. The publication reports on events and Image size is 7 1/2" x 10" activities of interest to the general membership Publication is black and white 3 column format. Each composed of electrical and electronics engineers and column is 14 picas wide. computer scientists, presents topical feature material Color is NOT available at this time. relevant to the engineering profession, and carries Full Page 7 - 1/2" x 10" the monthly IEEE society chapter calendar of events 2/3 Page 4 - 3/4" x 10" as a service to its readers. 1/2 Page (horizontal) 7 - 1/2" x 5" CIRCULATION 1/2 Page (vertical) 4 - 3/4" x 7 - 1/2" The IEEE MONITOR is distributed to all IEEE 1/3 Page (square) 4 - 3/4" x 5" members in the New York Section plus additional 1/3 Page (vertical) 2 - 1/4" x 10" subscribers. Monthly circulation as of December, 1/4 Page 4 - 3/4" x 3 - 3/4" 1999 is 6,200. 1/6 Page 2 - 3/4" x 5" ISSUE AND CLOSING DATES Bus. Card 2" x 3 - 1/2" The IEEE MONITOR is published monthly except Col. Inch 1" x 2 - 1/3" June, July and August. Advertising order deadline is Materials the first of the month preceding issue date. Camera Preferred material for black and white ads is ready material is due on the 5th of the month right-reading emulsion side down negative. Halftone preceding issue date. screen is 100 lines. Veloxes, other reproducible proofs MAILING INSTRUCTIONS and laser printed materials are acceptable. Address all correspondence concerning advertising Photocopied material is not accepted. Original artwork to: accepted at advertiser's risk. Composition and IEEE Monitor assembly to advertiser's layout available at nominal 24 Chamber Lane charge. Submit copy and layout for quote. Englishtown, N. J. 07726 ADVERTISING POLICY DISPLAY ADVERTISING RATES All advertising is subject to the publisher's approval. Display advertising space is available in full and Advertisers and their advertising agencies assume all fractional page sizes. To qualify for frequency liability for all content including text, illustrations, discounts, advertiser must furnish publisher with a sketches, labels, trademarks, etc., of all advertising schedule of insertion dates. Schedule may be submitted for publishing, and also assume changed by notifying publisher prior to regular responsibility for any claims arising therefrom made deadline date. against the publisher. 1X 3X 5X 9X Full Page $630 $599 $567 $536 2/3 Page 490 470 441 417 1/2 Page 395 375 356 336 1/3 Page 280 266 252 238 1/4 Page 225 214 203 191 1/6 Page 165 157 149 140 Bus. Card 85 81 77 72 Col. Inch 35 33 32 30 Covers Back 755 717 680 642 Inside Back 695 660 626 591 Preprinted Inserts Four pages: $1,070, no frequency discount. COMMISSIONS 15% commission allowed to all recognized ad agencies providing payment is received by due date. SCOOP New Items
like to see component values, and you BRAIN TEASER CHALLENGE may use other semiconductors in addition JANUARY 2003 by Butch Shadwell if you wish. And I don’t own any stock I have always been a big fan of the in ON Semiconductor, it was just the Larson comics. I guess I flatter myself to easiest place to find the data sheet. think that he and I share a similar sense RAB INDUSTRY RELATIONS of humor. One cartoon in particular CONTACTS PROJECT always comes to mind when I think of the In early November 2002, the RAB Larson stuff. He did one many years ago Industry Relations Committee (IRC) where he portrayed some mad scientist asked for your help in identifying local having emerged from his lab, after years industry/corporate firms segmented by of intensive research, with a special IEEE Sections, that you, IEEE Section helmet that enabled the wearer to Chairs, had been in contact with in understand every thing that dogs say. support of your Section's activities, or The complex collection of sounds and one that you would like to reach out to subtle cues that dogs use to communicate for their support. We had a deadline date were instantly translated into English for for responses and offered $25US to the the wearer. Then as the scientist walks first response to our request and $25US down the street amongst the to the response with the longest list of neighborhood dogs, in order to test his industry contacts. On behalf of the RAB new invention, he hears what we’ve all IRC Chair Joe Kalasky, we are pleased to been dying to understand. As it turns out, announce our two winners and every bark, whine, and whimper entered Congratulations to each! the wearer’s ears as the word “Hey”. I *Cody W. Tews, IEEE Spokane Section found this to be incredibly intelligent of with the first response Larson, for when one thinks about it, by *Michael A. Miller, IEEE New York varying the intonation, one can express Section, with the longest list response just about everything dogs might want to Our prizes may have been given away, say with that one word. but if you are working on a list of So, if you were interested in building the industry contacts, please continue contraption described by Larson, one working and send it along to us. Send might need a simple constant current any additional industry contacts to source with voltage compliance from 5 to [email protected]. 20 volts DC (load resistance varies from IEEE FELLOW CLASS OF 2003 10k to 40k ohms) at 0.5 mA (+/- 10%). The new Fellows report is now available And suppose you happened to have a on the web at 2N5457 (data sheet available at http://www.ieee.org/fellows. The links http://www.onsemi.com/pub/Collateral/2 include the necessary information to N5457-D.PDF). I am looking for the contact the new Fellows should you wish simplest and cheapest circuit to send congratulatory letters from the configuration to meet this need. I would Section.
EMC Chapter Meeting As with our other meetings, an RSVP is on Medical Standards required for this event. At this point we are actively encouraging "On Line We are moving forward with our plans registration." If you have received this for the February EMC Chapter meeting. E-mail, you need only go to our web This one will be held at 7 PM (Snacks at page, click on "Register" and fill in your 6:30) on Tuesday 11 February at the NAME and MEMBERSHIP INFO. Underwriters Laboratories Inc (1285 (IEEE and EMC Society) You can skip Walt Whitman Road) Melville facility. the other information, but please Mr. Corey Hyatt will be providing us encourage others who DID NOT receive with some insight into the new this message directly to fill in all EN60601-1-2 Medical Standard. information. Although my experience has been We have speakers lined up for April and mostly in the military EMC world, I June. In April, we will focus on have found that the use of COTS measurement technology. Amplifier equipments in the military environment, Research, and their local Rep (Gil and the broad reach of the European Lipper) will be providing us with a talk requirements has forced me to keep a about harmonic and flicker measurement close watch on the "blurring of the lines" technology. This should be of interest to between the military and commercial those of us who need to make such worlds" of EMC. With that in mind, I measurements for regulatory purposes, "registered" on line for Mr. Hyatt's talk a but I expect that it will also be of interest few days ago. By the way, if you would to those of us who have make complex like some "preliminary" information (and continuous) measurements for other on this topic, the December issue of purposes... For June, we are expecting to "Conformity" includes a nice article. have Amphenol Aerospace in for a talk The "flyer" for the talk has been about filter pin technology and usage. published in The Pulse it can be found on line by going to our EMC chapter P.S. If you were at Jim Colotti's talk the web page: other night, please do not forget http://www.ieee.li/emc.htm to visit the web page and download the We certainly wouldn't want you or your slides. I am not sure how long they associates to miss out on what promises will be there, but they are there now! to be a very interesting talk.
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THE NEW YORK SECTION’S 2003 AWARDS DINNER DANCE The 2003 NY Section Awards Dinner Dance honoring the Section's Awardees will be held on Saturday evening, February 22, 2003.
This year, our dinner dance (black tie optional) will be held in the magnificent Union League Club located at 38 East 37th Street in Manhattan, on the corner of Park Avenue.
Festivities will begin at 6:30 P.M. with crudites, various passed canapes and cocktails during which we will have a chance to relax, get acquainted or reacquainted and admire the unique and interesting surroundings.
You will have the opportunity to pamper your palate with a four-course dinner featuring a choice of either a succulent Roast Rack of Lamb or a delicious Grilled Atlantic Salmon entrée, with wine service. There will be a brief awards ceremony after dinner.
The ICON (formerly MHM) Parking lot at 560 3rd Avenue, between 37th and 38th Streets, offers special rates to guests of the Union League Club, $11 for 12 hours or $20 overnight. Please get your parking ticket validated at the Club entrance.
Rooms are available for those wishing to spend the night. Our special room rate is $120.00 and reservations are required - please call 212-685-3800.
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