PRODUCED BY THE LONG ISLAND SECTION OF THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS VOLUME 61, NO. 5 MAY 2014 THEPULSE OF LONG ISLAND Inside This Issue ❖ May / June 2014 Calendar of Events 4 ❖ Long Island’s Electronic History 5 ❖ SBPLI Recognizes IEEE LI Section for its First Robots Support 6 ❖ 2014 IEEE LI Section Awards Banquet 7-8 ❖ Notable IEEE Member Testimonials 9 ❖ May Lectures and Seminars 10-16 ❖ IEEE USA 2014 Career-Focused Webinars 17 ❖ Region 1 Awards Nominations 18 ❖ 2014 Conferences 19-24 ❖ IEEE Society Memberships, Join Today! 25-27 ❖ Employment Opportunities 28 ❖ IEEE Resume Lab 29 CHAIR’S MESSAGE John Schmidt, Chairman, IEEE Long Island Section May is upon us and hopefully Spring weather will finally settle in. It is getting tiresome scraping ice off my car windows, though I suspect I will miss it this summer, which is being forecast to be unusually hot and rainy. One of the great benefits of IEEE membership is the various Lectures, Seminars, Presentations and Conferences sponsored and organized by the Long Island Section. Most are free, a few have attendance fees, and all are an exceptional value in terms of the information provided and networking opportunities that they offer. To start off the month, we have the 2014 Long Island Systems, Applications and Technology Conference (LISAT2014) on Friday, May 2, 2014 at Farmingdale State College. The Conference will feature three all-day parallel tracks of presentations that highlight new and interesting work on a variety of electronic systems, technologies and applications with most of them based right here on Long Island as well as a student paper track. In addition, a full-day Professional Development Track titled 'Power/Energy/Industrials' will provide attendees up to 0.6 CEUs (6 PDHs) for three (3) two-hour sessions. We are fortunate to have a very active PACE committee in our Section. This month, we have another presentation in the Financial Planning Series, ‘Estate Planning Seminar’ by Matthew L. Mandell from Ameriprise, as well as two lectures being held at the Cradle of Aviation Museum; the first is ‘An Evening with Long Islander Space Shuttle Astronaut Jim Wetherbee’, and the second is ‘Mars Exploration with NASA Engineer Kobie Boykins’. A joint PACE/Life Members/SSIT lecture on 'Long Island STEM Hubs' will be presented by Kenneth White a recognized leader in Science Education on Long Island and within the U.S. Department of Energy from Brookhaven National Laboratory. The aim of the IEEE Long Island Section is to promote STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and prepare Long Island students with skills to be part of the high-tech workforce in order to support economic growth in our region. At the end of March I attended the Long Island Regional First Robotics Competition at Hofstra University, both as a representative of the IEEE Long Island Section and as a proud father of a contestant. The Long Island Section is a Sponsor of the School Business Partnership of Long Island (SBPLI) which organizes and runs the competition, and they presented us with a Certificate of Appreciation. The excitement of the event is difficult to convey – teams participated in multiple rounds of ‘Coopertition’ over two days. Coopertition is founded on the concept and a philosophy that teams can and should help and cooperate with each other even as they compete. As one example of this, an announcement would be made that a team needed a particular part to replace a failed unit, and other teams would provide that part to their competitor. I also recognized many of our members volunteering at the competitions as judges, officials, and technical assistants and I was even recruited to be a judge next year. My son learned how to solder and how to program in LabVIEW this year so I am delighted to be a big supporter of this program. Any member is welcome to attend our next Executive Committee (ExCom) meeting on Monday May 19th – just send me an email at [email protected] and I will add your name to the attendance list. Thank you! John G. Schmidt Chairman, IEEE Long Island Section [email protected] Page 2 May 2014 Volume 61, Number 5 OFFICERS IEEE Long Island Section Officers and Affinity Groups IEEE Long Island Section Officers Chairman Treasurer JOHN SCHMIDT METODI FILIPOV Office: 516- 859-1679 Office: 631-882-5992 [email protected] [email protected] First Vice Chair Secretary JOHN VODOPIA LOU D’ONOFRIO Office: 631-673-7555 [email protected] EXT. 128 [email protected] Junior Past Chair THOMAS LANZISERO Second Vice Chair M. NAZRUL ISLAM Senior Past Chair Office: 631-546-2464 SUSAN FRANK [email protected] Affinity Groups Young Professionals Student Development / Activities ADAM CHALSON NEIL RAMOS 631-755-7344 [email protected] [email protected] Women in Engineering (WIE) Life Members Affinity Group MIHAELA RADU VICTOR ZOURIDES [email protected] [email protected] The IEEE Long Island Consultant’s Network Membership Section Website of Long Island Development The IEEE LI Section website is The Consultant’s Network of For more information on update regularly to reflect recent Long Island maintains a referral membership with the Long section activity and upcoming service of engineering, computer, Island Section of the IEEE, events. Each Society and Affinity managerial & technical profes- e-mail Nikolaos Golas at: Group has a dedicated page which sionals. For more information, [email protected] describes their function and please visit their website at: includes contact information. www.consult-li.com Visit our site at: www.IEEE.LI Page 3 May 2014 Volume 61, Number 5 CALENDAR OF EVENTS May and June 2014 MAY 2014 May 2, Friday May 8, Thursday May 19, Monday Long Island Systems PACE Meeting EXCOM Meeting Applications and Estate Planning Seminar Telephonics Corporation Technology Conference By Matthew L. Mandell Farmingdale, LI SUNY Farmingdale, LI Telephonics Corporation, 5:45 PM - Dinner 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM Farmingdale, LI 6:15 PM - Meeting 6:00 PM - Refreshments, May 5, Monday May 19, Monday 6:30 PM - Lecture PACE Meeting PACE Meeting An Evening with May 13, Tuesday Mars Exploration with Space Shuttle EMBS/PSES Meeting NASA Engineer Kobie Boykins By Kobie Boykins Astronaut Power Harvesting and Cradle of Aviation Museum, Jim Wetherbee Integrated Sensing in Garden City, LI By Jim Wetherbee Implantable Devices 7:00 PM - Lecture Cradle of Aviation Museum By Milutin Stanacevic Garden City, LI Underwriters Laboratories (UL) May 20, Tuesday 7:00 PM - Lecture Melville, LI SSIT, Life Members & PACE Meeting 6:00 PM - Refreshments Long Island STEM Hubs May 7, Wednesday 6:30 PM - Lecture By Kenneth White Long Island Consultants Telephonics Corporation Network Meeting May 14, Wednesday Farmingdale, LI System Virtual Computers IEEE AESS / AIAA Meeting 6:00 PM - Refreshments By Len Anderson China’s Rise as an 6:30 PM - Lecture Briarcliffe College Aerospace Nation May 22, Thursday The Great Room By Dr. Richard P. Hallion Product Safety Engineering Society Bethpage, LI Hofstra University and Power Electronics Society Meeting 7:00 PM - Meeting Hempstead, LI Safety Considerations 6:30 PM - Social Time in Power Supply Design 7:00 PM - Presentation By Louis R. Diana Telephonics Corporation, Farmingdale, LI 6:00 PM - Refreshments 6:30 PM - Lecture For more information JUNE 2014 about these meetings and lectures, please visit: June 4, Wednesday June 5, Thursday Long Island Consultants Instrumentation and www.IEEE.LI/calendar Network Meeting Measurement Society Meeting Briarcliffe College Telephonics Corporation, IEEE The Great Room Farmingdale, LI LONG ISLAND SECTION Bethpage, LI 6:00 PM - Refreshments 7:00 PM - Meeting 6:30 PM - Lecture Page 4 May 2014 Volume 61, Number 5 LONG ISLAND’S ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC HISTORY By Jesse Taub Long Island’s Electrical and Electronic History By Jesse Taub, IEEE Long Island Section Historian We continue to explore early Pulse issues to see what activities were of interest to our members in the Section’s early days. Some highlights from the 1954 issues that are available on our Section’s website, www.IEEE.LI, are discussed this month. The May 1954 Pulse described a talk to be given at the Section’s monthly meeting on “The Atomic Battery”. The speaker was Dr. Paul Rappaport of RCA Labs. His battery used particles from radioactive strontium 90 to bombard a PN semiconductor junction. My guess is that this would have been of interest to engineers designing nuclear powered submarines. This issue advertised a field trip to the RCA Rocky Point facility that was used to send trans-Atlantic radio messages. Some of the ads in this issue were for very dated equipment such as a vacuum tube volt meter. The September Pulse announced a talk by Henry Bachman, a young engineer from Wheeler Labs on a microwave impedance plotter. He demonstrated the displaying of complex impedance vs. frequency on an oscilloscope. This was years before commercial products from companies such as Hewlett Packard became available. Henry, as many of you know, went on to be a Vice-President of Hazeltine and was an IEEE President. This same issue had a report from the Section Chairman, Vincent Learned of Sperry, on membership. He noted that the Section’s membership increased by 20% over the past nine months. There were also seven new Fellows. These impressive numbers speak for themselves. The October meeting’s topic was “Operation Research.” The speaker was Bernard Stowens of Sperry. Over 200 attended which attested to the high interest in what was then, an emerging field. November’s speaker was Dr. Franklin Cooper, of Haskins Laboratories, on speech systems. His work was a precursor of the field of speech recognition which is now ubiquitous. I was amused by an ad in the November issue for a UHF Megacycle Meter.