December 2006 VOL. 54, No. 9

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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.

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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: , 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 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. The goal of GOLD is to support student members at the initial stage of their careers and the joint EMBS-GOLD reception w as a ―golden‖ opportunity to establish an informal networking L to R: Lisa Lazareck, Prof. Joel Levitt, Kai Chen, Nikolas Nonis environment. In addition to the organizers and those attending the EMBC.06 conference, an open invitation was extended to the New York Section Chairs and leaders and all GOLD members from Region I. The GOLD Region I and the NY Section leaders kindly offered to help organize, promote, and speak at the reception. As the result of a strong advertising campaign, including a poster advertisement and e -mail notices, over seventy-five GOLD members attended the reception. The Reception would not have been successful without the support of the EMBS Executive Officers Laura Wolf and Jodi Strock; EMBC.06 Organizers Dr. Atam Dhawan, Dr. Andrew Laine, Dr. Metin Akay, Dr. Ki Chon; GOLD Executive Officer Cathy Downer; GOLD Chair Darrel Chong; Past GOLD Chair and GOLD-Society Interaction project leader Gerald Anleitner. Their constant encouragement, interest and opinions were very much appreciated. The volunteers of Region 1 /N e w Y o rk d id a su p e rb jo b o f a d v e rtising th e e v e n t a n d a s s isting d u ring th e re c e p tion . ■ Note: The NYNY/LI/North Jersey chapter of the EMBS presents Dr. Darcy Kelley on December 19 (p. 8) and Prof. Joel Levitt on December 26 (p. 10).

IEEE Region I — Call for Papers Graduate Student Paper Contest (IEEE GSPC2007)

The IEEE Region1 Student Activities Committee is presenting its second Graduate Student Paper Contest, 2007 (IEEE GSPC2007) open exclusively to graduate students studying at an institute within Region 1 who are IEEE members. The GSPC is designed to challenge your knowledge and skills and scientific and technical excellence. Accepted papers will be presented at the IEEE 2007 Long Island Systems, Applications and Technology Conference (LISAT2007), held on Friday May 4, 2007 at the Institute for Research & Technology Transfer at Farmingdale State University in Farmingdale, New York. Papers must be written on any subject in IEEE's technical fields of interest, including but not limited to the following: • Circuits and Devices • Communications Technology • Electromagnetism and Radiation • Com puter • Energy and Power Engineering • Signals and Applications • Systems and Control • Industrial Applications Submission Procedures Prospective authors are invited to propose papers in any of the technical areas listed above. The number of authors for one paper is limited to three. The first author has to be an IEEE graduate student member. The paper must be submitted electronically to IEEE GSPC2007 Committee Chair Babak Beheshti ([email protected]).

Submission forms and details of the GSPC are provided at: http://www.ieee.org/r1sac

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POWER ENGINEERING SOCIETY AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS SOCIETY NEW YORK & LONG ISLAND CHAPTER

YOU ARE INVITED TO A JOINT MEETING of the IEEE and Edison Engineering Society

December 12, 2006 Refreshments: 5:15 pm - Program: 5:00 – 7:00 pm

General Electric Co. Consumer & Industrial

Switchboards vs. Switchgear Selection; ANSI; UL; NEMA

All Invited!

T h is m o n th ’s s p e a k e r is J e rry F ink , S e n ior s p e c ifica tion e n g ine e r fro m G e n e ra l E lec tric C o . J e rry provides engineering design guidance to consulting engineers, industrialists, commercial users and electrical contractors. Jerry Fink is a graduate of SUNY, and has worked at GE for the past forty years in various roles. Con Edison Executive Dining Room, 19 th Floor,

4 Irving Place, NY 10003 - Nearest Subway: Union Square

NO WALK-INS Allowed for Security reasons! RSVP: Jim Nucito: [email protected], Sukumar Alampur: [email protected]. Telephone: 914-714-9206 — Fax: 866-613-7400

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- 6 - NY Monitor Vol. 54 No. 9 — December 2006 NY Section Engineering Management Society Invites you to attend a special presentation

Rehabilitating NYC Transit Subway Stations from Design through Construction

he presentation will illustrate the engineering techniques used and will T highlight the pitfalls & the triumphs experienced in performing a multimillion dollar rehabilitation project for a mid-town Manhattan subway station. The presentation will cover the requirements for complex work from inception of the design through the construction and acceptance of the completed project by the NYCT Operations Department.

Our speaker - Joseph Mendola, P.E., Lead Construction Manager - M T A ’s N Y C Transit - will discuss the design review process, the techniques used to handle construction concerns, the bid process and the qualification hearings that lead to the award of multimillion dollar contracts.

Topics in the presentation will include: the management of submitting proposals; the review and approval of shop drawings; safety and quality concerns while working in an active subway station; scheduling issues & working with outside agencies; user acceptance and handover to the operations department. Mr. Mendola is the lead construction manager for the Columbus Circle Station complex rehabilitation project that is currently in the construction phase and he will use examples of this project throughout the presentation.

Joseph Mendola has been with NYCT since 1995. Prior to joining NYCT, he worked at Con Edison of NY for sixteen years, originally as Facilities Planning Engineer. He was promoted to become the Superintendent of Ravenswood Generating station in Queens NY. Mr. Mendola is a Professional Engineer and holds a JD degree from Fordham Law, MBA from Adelphi University, ME from Manhattan College, and BE from Cooper Union. Thursday December 14, 2006 Refreshments will be served at 5:30 PM Presentation starts at 6:00 PM

Urban Engineers of New York is located on the 60th floor of the Empire State Building 350 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10118 Nearest Subway: 34th street station (N,R,W,Q,B,D,F)

Seating is limited, please RSVP by December 5, 2006 to: Victor Simuoli, EMS Vice Chair, NY Section 212-736-9100 x2 2 3 7 ●[email protected]

! All are Invited, no charge ! Please Post

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The IEEE Engineering in M edicine and Biology Society (NY/LI/North Jersey chapter)

HOW YOUR BRAIN WORK S (or not!)

Prof. Darcy Kelley

Tuesday Dec. 19, 2006 Seating at 7:15 PM , Lecture at 7:30 PM

. Columbia University Sherman Fairchild Center for the Life Sciences

Dr. Kelley will describe and demonstrate a series of amazing optical illusions that can give us insight into the way the brain constructs a picture of the world. She will also talk about what happens when the brain is not working as well as it should and whether you should worry about Alzheimer's when your missing car keys turn up in the freezer.

Dr. Kelley of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (http://www.hhmi.org) is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University. Her A.B. degree is from and her Ph.D. is from The , where she was also a postdoctoral fellow. She co-directed the Neural Systems and Behavior course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and fo u n d e d C o lum b ia’s d o c to ra l p ro g ra m in n e u ro b iolo g y a n d b e h a v ior. S h e is editor of the Journal of Neurobiology.

Admission is free for all. Open to the general public! Bring this publication or a copy in case you are asked by Security where you are going.

Directions: 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: IEEE-EMBS Chair Prof. Joel H. Levitt (212) 479-7805, [email protected]

- 8 - NY Monitor Vol. 54 No. 9 — December 2006 WIE October meeting of the topic is for bi-level printing or display Reported by Marlen Waaijer devices and file size reduction of images for electronic communications, while keeping the peaking at the quality of the image as high as possible. Figure 2 October 19 meeting shows the development sequence of the topic. S of the NY WIE The half tone process converts a continuous - affiliation group was Dr. tone image (A) into binary-valued pixels (B). Wenli Huang, WIE Each pixel is quantized into black or white coordinator of IEEE depending on a predetermined threshold. Region I. Dr. Huang is a Grayscale error diffusion halftoning (C) refines professor at the United the process by using a filter that allows the States Military Academy quantization error at each pixel to diffuse to its West Point in the neighbors. The trick lies in the fact that if you department of Electrical place the black and white pixels strategically, you Engineering and Computer Science. Dr. Wenli can trick the eye into seeing a continuous tone Huang started her presentation by sharing her picture. Dr. Huang showed us that sometimes, experience as a civilian professor at West Point. with contour maps for instance, the result is more A military college education is not an easy one. desirable, because the filter can be designed to Besides a rigorous academic program the cadets enhance the items that are relevant. are required to also follow a serious physical education and leadership program.  Halftone process At West Point there are over 40 majors in the  Grayscale error diffusion halftoning area of Engineering, Mathematics, Science,  Error diffusion neural network Humanities and Social Sciences, each with 10-14  Three dimensional color halftoning electives The thirty core courses that are  Application to multispectral imaging common to all majors are shown in figure 1. In addition the cadets have to take eight Military Figure 2 Science and seven Physical Education courses. Dr. Huang and the team she works with are using a technique called Neural Network error 4 Math 2 Information Technology diffusion to solve some problems of the 4 History 2 Foreign Language traditional grayscale error diffusion, and they 3 English 2 Leadership 3 Social Sciences 1 Physical Geography 3 Engineering Science 1 Philosophy/Ethics 2 Physics 1 Law 2 Chemistry

Figure 1 Civilians make up 20% of the faculty, and the (A ) life of a civilian professor is equally rigorous. Besides teaching a regular course load, they participate in the leadership of the academic program, mentor junior military faculty, serve as student guidance counselors and do research. It (B ) is certainly not a nine to five job. With a strenuous schedule like this, research is mostly done during the summer and during sabbaticals. Dr. Huang spent the second part of her presentation on her current field of research: (C ) Analysis and Design of Error Diffusion Neural Networks for Digital Halftoning. From the currently apply the technique to develop 3D reactions of the audience one could tell that Dr. colorhalftoning. Space and time do not permit me Huang is an inspiring teacher. Many of us came to go further into the process. But you can find to this lecture as complete neophytes, but walked out more about Dr. Huang and her work by away with a good understanding of the subject. visiting her webpage: She was able to make a difficult subject www.eecs.usma.edu/webs/people/huang/ .■ understandable and interesting. The main thrust ( figures and images courtesy of Dr. Wenli Huang)

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“Hypoglycem ia & the tw o Paradoxes”

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Prof. J.H. Levitt

Tuesday Dec. 26, 2006 Seating 7:15 PM , Lecture 7:30pm — 9:30pm

MTA Building 2 Broadway @ Bowling Green

Professor Levitt will explain and clarify in non -technical terms some important concepts from Psychology and Medicine from the viewpoint of the Bio-Engineer. Some of the topics to be covered are:

 The function of adrenaline, the fight or flight response, relation to anxiety and panic  “Feedback control” concepts and their importance in biological systems such as sugar level regulation in humans  The special importance of high levels of vitamin C to support the adrenal gland  Paradox #1: Why people with "low blood sugar" must AVOID sugar!  Paradox #2: Why people who most need chromium supplementation may feel worse when they first start taking chromium!

Prof. Levitt holds four degrees from Columbia University and has been a member of the faculty of Pratt Institute for over 25 years. He is the Chairman of our local EMBS chapter. ( New York, Long Island, North Jersey chapter of the Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society of the IEEE). He is also the director of the Anxiety & Hypoglycemia Relief Institute (www.tranquil.info). He has lectured at Rockefeller University and elsewhere for IEEE on numerous topics.

Admission is free for all. Open to the general public! RSVP by December 19: No walk-ins allowed for security reasons! Prof. Joel H. Levitt, [email protected] (preferred) or (212) 479 -7805

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Professional Development

Dr. Mary Lanzerotti

Research Staff Member — IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

MTA Building 2 Broadway @ Bowling Green, New York

Closest Train: 4,5 lines Nearby Trains: 1,W, J and Z lines

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

6:00PM-8:00PM

Dr. Mary Lanzerotti, will speak about steps engineers and scientists can take to improve their professional development. These steps have been identified by members of the American Physical Society Committee on Careers and Professional Development (CCPD) and are presented in the first Professional Development Resource Guide that lists resources identified as important for the professional d e v e lop m e n t o f to d a y ’s e n g ine e rs a n d sc ien tists.

Dr. Lanzerotti is a Research Staff Member (VLSI Design Department) at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. She received an A.B. degree (summa cum laude) from Harvard University in 1989, a M.Phil. degree from University of Cambridge in 1991, an M.S. degree from Cornell University in 1994, and a Ph.D. degree from Cornell University in 1997, all in physics. She joined IBM in 1996. Her current research interests are the design and implementation of on-chip interconnections for low-power, high-performance, high-yield chips. Dr. Lanzerotti is a member of the IEEE -Solid State Circuits Society, IEEE–Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, IEEE Women in Engineering, and American Physical Society. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

RSVP to [email protected] by Thursday, January 18, 2007

No walk-ins allowed for security reasons!

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LISAT2007 CALL FOR PAPERS & EXHIBITORS Friday, May 4 Third Annual IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications & Technology Conference

The Long Island Systems, Applications, and Technology Conference (LISAT) is soliciting technical papers describing research development and applications on a broad range of electronic and electrical engineering topics for LISAT2007. All initial submissions must include title and a 300 to 500 w o rd a b s tra c t, th e s p e a k e r’s fu ll n a m e , a ffiliation , a d d re s s , p h o n e n u m b e r, e m a il a d d re s s a n d a 1/3 page biography. Submissions should be emailed to the LISAT Technical Program Co -Chairs, Dave Mesecher at [email protected] and Daniel Rogers at [email protected], as well as Jesse Taub, Technical Program Consultant at [email protected]. Papers will be accepted based on their originality, content, clarity, and interest to IEEE members.

The deadline for paper submissions is December 8, 2006. You will be notified of acceptance or rejection on or before January 10, 2007 and will be given instructions for electronic submission of your full paper which is due by February 15, 2007. One author of each paper must register for the Conference and will be expected to provide a 40 minute PowerPoint presentation at the conference followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. Presented papers will be part of the CD -ROM Conference Proceedings to be given to each attendee and will become part of the IEEE Xplore database.

While LISAT welcomes a wide variety of papers on systems, applications and technology, some examples of topics of particular interest are: Homeland Defense, Satellite Communications, Mobile Communications, RF ID Tag Technology, Microwave Technology, Electromagnetic Compatibility, Mobile Ad Hoc Networking, Multi-level Network Security, Sensor Fusion, New Electrical Power Sources, Antenna Systems and Processing, Radio Locationing, Radar Systems and Techniques, and Medical Electronics

Releases and Approvals: This conference will be unclassified and attended by both US and non - U S persons. It is the author’s responsibility to obtain all required com pany and governm ent releases and approvals prior to making a paper submission. A statement that such releases and approvals have been obtained as well as a completed IEEE copyright form (signed by the submitting author) must accompany the final manuscript of each accepted paper.

For information on Exhibiting at LISAT, please contact: Fred Kruger at [email protected] or Mark Sadick at [email protected] and/or telephone: 516 -967-2970. For all other information contact LISAT2007 Conference Chair: Dr. Charles Rubenstein at [email protected] or Conference Vice Chair: Dr. Babak Beheshti at [email protected]

LISAT is sponsored by the IEEE Long Island Section and its Technical Society Chapters, and IEEE Region 1 in cooperation with the Institute for Research & Technology Transfer (IRTT) at Farmingdale State University Last year’s — LISAT 2006 — technical program

B. Beheshti; NYIT: Performance Software Implementation of a 3GPP Compliant Turbo Decoder Station • P. Bishop; Tektronix: Characterizing PLLs Using Spectrum Analyzers Station • P. Carter Jr: Voltage and Current Transferring Properties of Ninety Degree Phase Shift Networks which are Inde- pendent of Load Impedance or Admittance and Their Application to Various RF Circuits and Antenna Systems Station • J. Colotti; Telephonics: EMC Design Fundamentals • J. D ’Souza and P.Stripe; NYIT: A Low Cost Highly Reliable Virtual Network Storage System • G. Fenical; Laird Technologies: Neo-Developments in Shielding Materials • A. Gundel; Telephonics: High Performance Low Phase Noise PLL Clock Synthesizer with LVDS Outputs • V. Kulkarni; U. of Massachusetts: Control of Electromechanical Coupling in Stacked Crystal Filters • W. Kwong; Hofstra University, I. Glesk, V. Baby, C. Bres, and P. Prucnal; Princeton U.: Design of an Asynchronous Wavelength-Time Optical CDMA Testbed • R. LaRosa: Hurricane Suppression by Sea Surface Cooling • E. Masazade, M. Keskinoz, and O. Gurbuz; Sabanci U.: Proportional Time Sharing with Frame Size Adaptation of MB-OFDM Based UWB PANs • Z. Liu; Texas A&M U.: Sensor Network Key Management Time-Stamp-Counter Impact on Network Security • S. Robila; Montclair State U.: Neo-Approaches for Feature Extraction in Hyper-spectral Imagery • R. Pirich, P. Anumolu, and D. Schefer; Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems: Curved Surface Diffraction Phenomenology, Modeling & Characterization • A. Singh, C. Ramakrishnan, S. Smolka; SUNY Stony Brook: Modeling the AODV Routing Protocol in the Omega Calculus • W. Su and J. Kosinski; US Army, and M. Yu; SUNY Binghampton: Dual-Use of Modu- lation Classification Techniques for Digital Communication • H. Tawfik, Farmingdale State U., C. Rubenstein, Pratt Institute and Farmingdale State U, and Noel Blackburn and Devinder Mahajan, Brookhaven National Laboratory: Economic Analysis of Renewable Energy Systems • I. Tekin, M. Kay- nak, and Y. Gurbuz; Sabanci U.: Low Noise Amplifier Design Using 0.35 μm SiGe BiCMOS Technology for WLAN/WiMax Applications • R. Yampol- sky; U. of Buffalo, D. Novikov and L. Reznik; RIT: Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Intrusion Detection

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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT The New York Section M TA 2007 Awards Dinner Dance Systems Engineering Manager The New York City Transit The 2007 NY Section Awards Dinner Dance honoring the Department of Capital Program Section's Awardees will be held on Saturday evening, February Management (CPM) currently has 10, 2007. openings for Systems Engineering This year, our dinner dance (black tie optional) will be held in Manager. the beautiful Trianon Ballroom, located on the third level (coat New York City Transit CPM check is on the second) of the New York Hilton Hotel and Towers plans, designs, and manages the at Rockefeller Center, 1335 Avenue of the Americas (between construction, testing and start -up of 53rd and 54th Streets). all major capital projects for New Festivities will begin at 6:30 P.M. with crudités and cocktails York City Transit's subways and in the Petite Trianon. Here we will have a chance to relax, get buses operating departments; this acquainted and reacquainted. capital program averages over $2 You will have the opportunity to pamper your palate with a billion annually. choice of either a succulent meat or a delicious fresh fish steak. MTA New York City Transit Each gourmet entree will be accompanied by an appetizer, salad Department of Capital Program and dessert. There will be a brief awards ceremony after dinner Management (CPM) currently has and dancing to the sounds of the Dance Fever Orchestra. openings for Systems Engineering For those wishing to spend the night, hotel reservations may Manager. New York City Transit CPM be made on-line at various web service providers or directly with plans, designs, and manages the the hotel at 212-586-7000. There are no special arrangements construction, testing and start -up of made for parking. all major capital projects for New Reservations for the affair may be made by completing the York City Transit's subways and coupon below and forwarding it to William Perlman at the buses operating departments; this address indicated before February 1, 2007. Corporate capital program averages over $2 supporters: Table of 10 at $1850.00 billion annually. The successful candidate will: A special non-transferable rate of $100 for each ticket is available to IEEE members. Provide support to new technology Note that this rate is for the attending IEEE member and a guest only. Or- rail transit signals and ganizations wishing to be Industry Supporters or non-IEEE members communications systems projects, may obtain additional information and cost by contacting: program managers and technical Ralph Tapino (718) 761-5104 or [email protected] William Perlman (973) 763-9392 or [email protected] d i s c i p l i n e - based design and construction staff. Establish and MEMBER RATE RESERVATION FORM implement SE and SE management Send to: William Perlman Please indicate meal procedures; train and assist project 267 Richmond Avenue selections: Meat ______planning development of SE South Orange, NJ 07079 Fish ______Management Plans (SEMP), Concept of Operations and User Requirements Name: capture, traceability and management Company: plans. Train and guide

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Review Course for the FE Examination Review Course for the PE Examination

Statistics 2 Classes Electrical Circuits 3 Classes Civil Engineering All multiple choice, breadth / depth Mechanics of Materials 2 Classes Thermodynamics 2 Classes Structures 3 Classes Hydraulics 2 Classes Fluid Mechanics 2 Classes Chemistry 1 Class Soils 2 Classes Waste Water Treatment 1 Class Dynamics Economics 2 Classes 2 Classes Concrete 2 Classes Water Treatment 1 Class Mathematics 2 Classes Material Sciences 1 Class Transportation 2 Classes Surveying 1 Class Location Strategy First Last Location Strategy First Last Class class Class Class On Long Island Residence Inn by Marriott, 1/30/07 1/30/07 4/10/07 In NYC Con Ed Bldg. 14th St. & Irving Pl. 1/09/07 1/09/07 4/17/07 Plainview NY (Tue & Thu) NYC Room 1425 (Tue)

In NYC Con Ed Building, 14th St. 1/22/07 1/22/07 4/05/07 West- 33 West Main 1/10/07 1/10/07 4/17/07 and Irving Pl. NYC chester 4th Floor Conference Room Room 1425 (Mon & Thu) Elmsford, NY (Wed)

Westchester 33 West Main 1/25/07 1/25/07 4/05/07 On Long Residence Inn by 1/03/07 1/03/07 4/11/07 4th Fl. Conference Room Island Marriott, Plainview NY Elmsford, NY, Tue & Thu (Wed)

The Fundamentals Course is for the General exam and uses the latest Strategy Classes, 6:00 to 7:30 pm NCEES Reference Handbook All other classes are from 6:00 to 9:00 pm Strategy Classes are from 6:00 to 7:30pm all others from 6:00 to 9:00pm Due to security requirements at Con Ed building, Due to security requirements at the Con Ed building Registration must be completed by 1/08/07 registration must be completed by 1/20/07

Review Course for the PE Examination Review Course for the PE Examination

Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering All multiple choice, breadth / depth All multiple choice, breadth / depth HVAC, Combustion 1 Class Stress Analysis 1 Class Power 6 Classes Electronics 2 Classes Heat Transfer, Steam 1 Class Machine Design 1 Class Automatic Controls 1 Class Digital 1 Class Gas Dynamics 1 Class Vibrations 1 Class RF Transmissions 1 Class Computers 2 Classes Fluid Mechanics 2 Classes Kinematics and Dynamics 1 Class Power Electronics 1 Class Data Communications 1 Class Economics 1 Class

Location Strategy First Class Last Class Location Strategy First Class Last Class

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To complete the program classes will be held on Tue. 4/3 & Tue. 4/10

Strategy Classes, 6:00 to 7:30 pm Strategy Classes, 6:00 to 7:30 pm All other classes are from 6:00 to 9:00 pm All other classes are from 6:00 to 9:00 pm Due to security requirements at 1 Penn Plaza Due to security requirements at 1 Penn Plaza registration must be completed by 1/09/07, 4:00 pm registration must be completed by 1/15/0 4:00 pm Late registration will not be admitted until the 2 nd class session. Late registration will not be admitted until the 2 nd class session.

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Tuition (Includes non-refundable $30 registration fee) Address:______Fundam entals of Engineering R eview … … … .$725 P E R eview for C ivil E ngineering… … … … ..… $625 City, State:______Zip:______P R R eview for M echanical Engineering… … ..$595 P E R eview for E lectrical Engineering… … … ...$625 Daytime Phone:______

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The PES/IAS NY. & L.I. Chapter is pleased to announce Review Courses for FE and PE exams

Become a Licensed Professional Engineer and Secure Your Future.

Beginning in Jan 2007, PERC (Professional subjects. It covers what you learned in your Engineering Review Course) will be giving first two years of college. classes for the Fundamentals of Engineering (4/21) and Professional It is a limited reference exam where you use Engineering (4/20) exams to be held in April the NCEES Reference Handbook, and no other 2007. reference material of any kind. Please seriously consider getting one before classes begin. Purchase from www.NCEES.org.

The morning session is specified and there is no exam choice. The afternoon session has an exam choice between the general exam (PERC recommends the general exam) or a discipline The decision to get your PE License is an easy specific exam. We will discuss this issue one. Licensed Professional Engineers earn further in the strategy sessions. P lease don’t 15% more over the course of their careers miss them. because of expanded business opportunities. In addition, promotional opportunities are The Principles and Practices exam, or PE available to Licensed PEs that are not exam, as it is commonly called, is similar to available to others. It is also an excellent what you studied in your final two years of credential in the ever changing job market. undergraduate study.

PERC Inc. review classes are designed to fully Whereas the FE exam is straight forward, the equip you to pass the Fundamentals and questions on the PE exam will often require Professional Engineering Licensing Exams. some judgment to establish a starting point for Our courses teach problem solving methods, their solution. strategy and a strict adherence to NCEES exam specs. The PE exams for the review courses offered (Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical) are 80 All classes are taught by Professional multiple choice questions. These exams offer Engineers who are practitioners in their fields. a breadth exam in the morning session and a Enough theory is presented for background: depth exam in the afternoon session. The then the focus is problem solving. breadth exam is the same for all examinees. Comprehensive course materials are The depth exam is selected by the examinee. distributed for each class. More detail and discussion concerning this during the strategy sessions. Please do not In strategy sessions we talk about why miss them. candidates do not pass and build a plan to pass. This matters.

The Fundamentals of Engineering exam (FE) is 100% multiple choice and covers ten major The year 2006 marks 30 years of service to the Engineering Profession by PERC Inc.