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Happy Holidays December 2006 VOL. 54, No. 9 S eason’s greetings Happy Holidays Send Address change and returns to the IEEE MONITOR, c/o Membership services, IEEE Service Center, PO Box 1331, Periodical Piscataway, NJ 08855 (ISSN 0164-9205) Time Sensitive Material NY Monitor Vol. 54 No. 9 — December 2006 OFFICERS The Monitor SECTION CHAIR – Kenneth E. Vought VICE CHAIR, OPERATIONS – Stanley Karoly Postmaster: Send Address change and returns to the VICE CHAIR, ACTIVITIES – David M. Weiss IEEE MONITOR, c/o Membership services, IEEE Service TREASURER – Warner W. Johnston Center, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855 - (ISSN SECRETARY – David K. Horn 0164-9205) Please note, the Editor cannot change/remove COMMITTEE CHAIRS addresses. AWARDS CHAIR – Amelie Gong Published monthly, except for June, July and August, by BY-LAW S – William Coyne the New York Section of the Institute of Electrical and CHAPTER ORGANIZATION CHAIR – Bertil C. Lindberg Electronics Engineers, Inc., IEEE Corporate Office, 3 Park EDUCATION – Henry Bertoni Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10016 -5997 HISTORIAN – Melvin Olken All communications concerning the LONG RANGE PLANNING – William Perlman NY IEEE MONITOR should be addressed to: MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT – Leon Katz NY IEEE MONITOR P.A.C.E. CHAIR – Matt Nissen c/o: Victor Butler, PUBLICATIONS CHAIR – Frank E. Schink 7 Beacon Ct., PUBLICITY & PR – Joern Fellenberg Brooklyn, NY 11229 SPECIAL EVENTS – Ralph Tapino Phone: (718) 968-5199 Fax (216) 927-1235 STUDENT ACTIVITIES – Balvinder Blah E-mail: [email protected] TAPPEN ZEE SUBSECTION – Robert M. Pellegrino Annual subscription: $4.00 per member per year W EBMASTER – Harold Ruchelman (included in annual dues) for each member of the New EDITORIAL STAFF York Section: $10.00 per year for non -IEEE members. MANAGING EDITOR — Victor Butler Responsibility for contents of articles, papers, GUEST EDITOR — Marlen K. Waaijer abstracts, etc. published herein rests entirely with the ASSOCIATE EDITOR — Jean Redmond authors, not the editor, Publication committee, IEEE or ASSOCIATE EDITOR — Jithendra Yogarasa its members. Periodicals Postage Paid at New York, ASSOCIATE EDITOR — Harold Ruchelman NY and additional mailing offices. HISTORIAN — Melvin Olken You can always find the Monitor online in PDF format at: http://www.ieee.org/nymonitor Table of Content Calendar of Events 3 Election Report of 2007 Executive Committee 4 EMBS-GOLD Network Reception report by Lisa J. Lazareck 5 Graduate Student Paper Contest (IEEE GSPC2007) 5 PES/IAS meeting announcement for December 12 6 EMS IEEE NY Section announcement for December 14 7 EMBS meeting announcement for December 19 8 WIE October Meeting report 9 EMBS meeting announcement for December 26 10 IEEE WIE announcement for January 23, 2007 11 LISAT 2007 Call for papers and exhibitors 12 MTA job announcement 13 New York Section 2007 Awards Dinner Dance announcement/form 13 Advertising Policy and cost 14 Submission of Events—Guidelines and deadlines 14 Perc Inc. Review course schedule and sign -up form 15 Perc Inc. Course announcements 16 On the cover: Verrazano -Narrows Bridge viewed from Bay Ridge Brooklyn: www.irasperipheralvisions.com; Rockefeller Center, holiday decorations: Jithendra Yogarasa; Rockefeller Center, Radio City Hall, holiday decorations: Stephan Edelbroich, http://www.photo-exhibits.com and Central park in winter. Cover design by Jithendra Yogarasa. - 2 - NY Monitor Vol. 54 No. 9 — December 2006 Calendar of Event s (mark your calendar) Wednesday, November 29, 2006 – 5:30pm – 7:30pm IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc) NY Chapter Meeting: Dr. Nabil Ghaly: "Communications Based Train Control" Location: MTA, 2 Broadway, New York, NY 10004 No walk-ins allowed for security reasons! RSVP required: Go to: http://www.comsoc.org/~nyc/ or call Warner Sharkey 917 686 -6183 Tuesday, December 5, 2006 – 4:00pm – 6:00pm Power Engineering Society & Industrial Application Society (PES – IAS) - New York & L.I. Chapter ExCom Meeting Location: Con Edison, 4 Irving Place, New York, NY 10003, Room 1549S RSVP required: [email protected] No walk-ins allowed for security reasons! Tuesday, December 12, 2006 – 5:00pm – 7:00pm Power Engineering Society & Industrial Application Society (PES – IAS) - New York & L.I. Chapter Jerry Fink from General Electric Co.: "Switchboards vs. Switchgear" Location: Con Edison, 4 Irving Place New York, NY 10003, Executive Dining Room, 19th Floor RSVP required: James Nucito at [email protected] or Sukumar Alanpur at [email protected] No walk-ins allowed for security reasons! Thursday, December 14, 2006 – 5:30pm – 8:00pm Engineering Management Society (EMS): Special Presentation: Joseph Mendola: ―Rehabilitating NYC Transit Subway Stations from Design through Construction‖ Location: Urban Engineers, 350 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10118, 60th Floor, Empire State Building RSVP by December 5, 2006 to Victor Simuoli, 212 736-9100 x2237 [email protected] Tuesday, December 19, 2006 - 7:15pm - 9:30pm Engineering in Medicine & Biology ( EMBS) NY/LI/North Jersey chapter Dr. Darcy Kelly: "How Your Brain Works (or not!)" Location: Columbia University, Sherman Fairchild Center for the Life Sciences, Room 900. Enter campus at Broadway & 116th St. (116th St. is a stop on the #1 subway line and on the Broadway bus.) Walk to North end of campus. (http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/fairchild.html) RSVP: Prof. Joel H. Levitt (212) 479-7805, [email protected] Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 7:15pm - 9:30pm Engineering in Medicine & Biology ( EMBS) NY/LI/North Jersey chapter Dr. Joel Levitt: “H ypoglycem ia & the tw o P aradoxes‖ Location: MTA, 2 Broadway, New York, NY 10004 Open to the general public. No walk-ins allowed for security reasons! RSVP by December 19: Prof. Joel H. Levitt (212) 479-7805, [email protected] Tuesday, January 23, 2007 – 6:00pm – 8:00pm Women in Engineering (WIE) Dr. Mary Lanzerotti: "Professional Development for Engineers and Scientists" Location: MTA, 2 Broadway, New York, NY 10004 RSVP required: By Thursday, January 18, 2007, Darlene Rivera at [email protected] No walk-ins allowed for security reasons! - 3 - NY Monitor Vol. 54 No. 9 — December 2006 Election of 2007 Executive Committee The IEEE New York Section election of the executive committee for the year 2007 was held on W e d n e s d a y, N o v e m b e r 8 , in P e te ’s T a v e rn , 1 2 9 E a18 s tth Street on Irving Place, Manhattan, New York. The following slate was elected to the Executive Committee for terms beginning on January 1, 2007 and ending on December 31, 2007. Elected Officers: New York Section executive committee elects Chair – Stanley Karoly Stanley Karoly as chair for the year 2007 Vice chair operations – David M. Weiss Vice chair section activities – Warner W. Johnston Treasurer – David K. Horn Secretary – Darlene Rivera Elected Committee Chairs Bylaws – William N. Coyne Chapter organization – Bertil Lindberg Message from Managing editor – Victor Butler Stanley Karoly Historian – Melvin Olken Long range planning – William Perlman I want to thank Publications – Frank E. Schink everyone in the Special events – Ralph Tapino New York Section, Web master – Harold Ruchelman and especially the N ew York S ection’s E xecutive C om m ittee, for Election result of the their support during the nominating and IEEE LIFE Member NY Affiliate Group election process, and I am proud to hold this officers for 2007 esteemed position. I am honored to know that The election took place on November 8, 2006 so many people have confidence in my ability at Pete's Tavern. The following slate was to serve the constituency of the IEEE New York elected. Section. I will try to make sure that our New York Michael A. Miller – Chair Section thrives; I will endeavor to make our Roland Plottel – Vice-Chair Executive Committee meetings interesting, and Eli Elvove, PE – Treasurer for those that know me these meetings will be Amitava Dutta-Roy – Secretary lively; and I want to encourage other members of the NY IEEE community to take an active Life Member role in the section, and hope to meet many new Affiliate Group of the New faces during the coming year. York Section elects Mi- Again, my sincere thanks for your vote of chael A. Miller as chair confidence and I am truly honored to hold this for the year 2007 position. Michael Miller, member of Stanley Karoly the IEEE since 1970, retired as a senior Stanley Karoly has a been an electrical engineer from Consolidated Edison Company engineer for more than 35 years. He has of New York, Inc. and has twenty five years worked for the New York City Transit Authority experience in electrical commercial work since 1990 and currently is the Chief Electrical supervising field. He has been an active Engineer. He received a BEE from Pratt member of the NY Section since 1990 and is a Institute and a MS in Management from past chair of the Power Engineering Society, Polytechnic Institute. He has been a member of secretary of the Edison Engineering Society, the IEEE since 1970 and has been an active treasurer of the American Association of volunteer in the NY IEEE community. Mr. Construction Engineers. He is a licensed Karoly has held various positions on the NY Electrical Contractor in the State of New Section’s Executive Committee including Vice Jersey and a master electrician and Chair Operations, Vice Chair Activities, and journeyman lineman in New York State. Treasurer. - 4 - NY Monitor Vol. 54 No. 9 — December 2006 EMBS-GOLD Network Reception A report by EMB Society GOLD Coordinator, Lisa J. Lazareck he IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) T hosted its first IEEE EMBS-GOLD networking reception at the 28th Annual International Conference, EMBC.06, in New York on Wednesday, August 30, 2006, from 7:00-9:00pm in the Ziegfeld Room of the Marriot Marquis Times Square Hotel.
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