***FREE COFFEE OR TREAT FOR STUDENTS***

Join us for an inspiring morning of professional growth and networking at our "Connect & Caffeinate: IEEE Young Professionals Networking Hour." Whether you're an early-career engineer, a student, or an industry enthusiast, this event provides an ideal platform to connect with like-minded professionals, exchange insights, and stay informed about upcoming IEEE events. Over freshly brewed coffee, we'll discuss exciting opportunities, share ideas, and build valuable networks.

As an added bonus, at the end of the hour, our Young Professionals officers will be hosting their meeting. All attendees are welcome to listen in, learn more about our initiatives, and even get involved in shaping the future of our community.

We look forward to seeing you there as we caffeinate, connect, and collaborate to boost your professional journey!

Sponsored by Black Label Brewing Company

Sail to Alaska with IEEE-USA!

IEEE-USA's cruising saga continues in 2024 to the magnificent, wild Alaskan frontier. Building off of the success of IEEE-USA’s 50th Anniversary Cruise, IEEE-USA will be hosting a 7-night Alaska Cruise 9-16 September 2024. We’ll be cruising in style aboard Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas from Seattle to stops in Sitka, Skagway, Juneau, and Victoria, BC, before concluding our cruise back in Seattle.

Please remember that to participate in the IEEE-USA Alaska Cruise activities, you must book through the IEEE-USA Alaska Cruise site.

Details: cruise.ieeeusa.org

Monthly exec meeting

Monthly Young Professionals Executive Committee meeting

Prof Andrew McStay (Bangor University, UK) will present “Automating Empathy in Human-AI Partnerships: Issues, Ethics and Governance” at 6pm (UTC+1) / 1pm EDT on 10 September ’24. Click here to convert to your local time.

IEEE UK and Ireland SSIT Chapter and SSIT IST-Africa SIGHT are cooperating with a number of IEEE OUs including: North Jersey Section SSIT Chapter; Northern Virginia/Baltimore/Washington SSIT Chapter; Bahrain Section SSIT Chapter; Vancouver Section Jt. Chapter,TEM14/PC26/E25/SIT30; New Jersey Coast Section SIGHT; New Jersey Coast Section Jt. IM/Computer Society Chapter; Southeastern Michigan Section Computer Chapter; North Jersey Section: TEMS Chapter, Computer Chapter,  Jt APS/MTT Chapter, WIE AG and SIGHT; UK and Ireland Computer Society Chapter; Columbia Section,  Columbia Section Life Member Affinity Group; Long Island SSIT Chapter and Systems Council Chapter, Phoenix Computer Society Chapter and Maine Section Joint ComSoc/Computer Society Chapter to organise this SSIT Lecture as a joint Webinar on 10 September ’24.

Registration

IEEE and SSIT Members as well as non-IEEE Members are invited to Register and participate.

IEEE Members should include their IEEE Membership Number when registering.

Access to online Meeting

Registered participants will be provided with the link prior to the event.

Guest Lecture Focus

This lecture considers General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) products marketed as ‘empathic partners’, ‘personal AI’, ‘co-pilots’, ‘assistants’, and related phrasing for ‘human-AI partnering’. Open AI, Inflection, Google, Microsoft, and others, all promise empathic capacities. Current and nascent domains of use include work, therapy, education, life coaching, legal problems, fitness, and entertainment. The lecture focuses on the risks and opportunities of empathic human-AI partnering, what new governance (if any) is required, and the role that soft law standards may play in leading in supporting hard law.

To explore empathic human-AI partnering, the lecture will initially provide historical context to these technologies, case examples, and a sense of current governance for technologies used to empathise. With this understanding in place, the lecture will progress to consider need to contrast upstream and downstream understandings of GPAI, complexities of this separation for governance, balancing of short and long-term risks, social and ethical questions unique to empathic human-AI partnering, issues of global cultural variation regarding empathic human-AI partnering, balancing of interests of ethical diversity and unity in creation of soft law and standards, and lessons that can be learned from existing and nascent P7000 standards.

Engineers are paid to solve problems. Like most things in the engineering world, a consistent and repeatable process helps improve effectiveness and speed. The content of that process varies based on the complexity of the issue being addressed. At one end of the spectrum are problems with known causes and known solutions. Simple execution of the solution is what's needed. At the other end are situations where the objective may not even be known. Detailed in-depth methods like Design for Lean and Design for Six Sigma apply to these complex problems. This talk will describe a method that sits between the endpoints of the problem-solving continuum, a logic-based approach useful for low to medium-complexity problems. Most issues that engineers face fall in this range.

Please register for the event using the link provided below. No CEUs or PDHs will be offered for this event.

Park in the parking structure and walk across the ground floor bridge to RA4. Room is outside the security control. If you can't find your way, call me at 503-901-6162.

IEEE Seattle Section Excom meeting with chapter and society chairs. 

This workshop features detailed presentations by global experts on reverberation and anechoic chambers. Discover (or revisit) the essential aspects of reverberation chambers (RC) measurements, including their basic principles, field distribution modeling, and measurement uncertainty determination including some latest discoveries in metrology aspects of RCs. Learn about the challenges of testing at frequencies above 18 GHz, which have been conducted up to 231 GHz without a standardized validation method. Historically, sites validated below 18 GHz were assumed to be acceptable for higher frequencies, but this assumption lacked the support of data. With the introduction of transmitters operating at 25 GHz, 38 GHz, and higher frequencies, accurate site validation has become increasingly important. ANSI C63® and CISPR are working on developing site validation methods for frequencies from 18 GHz to 40 GHz to improve measurement accuracy and consistency. The ANSI C63 standard includes considerations for both anechoic and reverberation chambers. Join us to gain insights from two experts on these topics.  Plus, as an added bonus for the technical program, learn about a novel technique for millimeter-wave (30-300 GHz) measurements and how this impacts the EMC community.

NOTE: There is no cost to attend this meeting, and all IEEE members and guests are welcome!  However, you MUST register in advance in order to secure seating and lunch. Attendance is limited!  Seats will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Dr Das Sharma, an Intel Senior Fellow and co-GM of Memory and I/O Technologies, Data Platform and Artificial Intelligence Group will give a seminar titled "On-Package Chiplet Innovations with Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe): Challenges and Opportunities". UH/Manoa Holmes Hall #244 from 7-8PM on Wednesday Sep 11th. 

Join us for a session on Smart Cities Austin Texas USA. Find out why Austin is one of the Top Smart Cities on the Globe. 

In this current age where renewable energy resources are penetrating into the distribution systems, the need of understanding the concepts and operational challenges of deploying microgrids is imperative. IEEE PES Orange County section is taking this initiative of keeping the industry and academia aware of the latest challenges in this field. As a first, in a series of several lectures in the coming months, our guest speaker from EdgeTunePower Inc., Dr. Arman Ghasaei, will be giving us an overview of the microgrids in general, followed up with some of the pressing issues with microgrids. At the end of the presentation there will be a demo with of a microgrid system with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) setup.  

About the Speaker:

Arman Ghasaei is the visionary Founder and Chief Technology Officer of EdgeTunePower Inc. (ETP), where his leadership has been instrumental in positioning the company as a technical powerhouse in the energy industry. Arman received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2020 and founded EdgeTunePower Inc. (ETP) immediately after completing his Ph.D. program. With a deep commitment to advancing sustainable energy solutions, Arman has guided ETP through a series of groundbreaking projects that have set new standards in the field.

One of the most notable achievements under his direction is the successful interconnection of a utility-scale Battery-Energy-Storage-System (BESS), a project that played a critical role in establishing Canada’s first Net-Zero Energy (NZE) microgrid community. This pioneering initiative not only highlights ETP’s technical capabilities but also underscores Arman’s dedication to pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the pursuit of a sustainable energy future.

Arman’s expertise extends beyond just technical implementation; he is also deeply involved in strategic planning and innovation, ensuring that ETP remains at the cutting edge of the energy sector. His work continues to have a transformative impact, as he leads ETP in developing solutions that address the complex challenges of modern energy systems. Through his unwavering commitment and forward-thinking approach, Arman Ghasaei is driving ETP’s mission to lead the way in the transition to clean, reliable, and sustainable energy.

Joining in Person at UCI-Applied Innovation Center:

For those people who will joining the event in-person from UCI Applied Innovation Center, please proceed to the conference room on level 2. Parking is free around the Innovation Center. 

Abstract:  Doppler radar technology can measure human physiological activity for a wide range of biomedical needs. Compact economical radar systems have been demonstrated as a non-invasive means of measuring vital signs through clothing and bedding, including heart and respiratory rates and signatures, activity, sleep posture, tidal respiratory volume, and pulse pressure. The value of such physiological monitoring extends beyond healthcare for applications including search and rescue, secure authentication, and smart buildings.

This talk will provide an overview of state-of-the-art in Doppler radar physiological monitoring and related applications.

Speaker:

Olga Borić –Lubecke received the B.Sc. degree from the University of Belgrade in 1989, the M.S. degree from Caltech in 1990, and the Ph.D. degree from UCLA in 1995, all in electrical engineering. Since 2003, she has been with the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where she is currently a Professor of electrical engineering. Prior to joining UH, she was with Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies where she pioneered research in biomedical applications of wireless systems.
From 1996 to 1998 she was a visiting researcher at RIKEN, in Sendai, Japan. From 1995 to 1996 she was a resident research associate at
NASA JPL. She has authored over 250 publications, two books, four book chapters, and three patents, and co-founded two start-up companies. Prof. Borić –Lubecke is an IEEE Fellow, a Fulbright Senior Scholar (Malaga, Spain), and a Foreign Member of the Academy of Engineering of Serbia.

Summary: Built by the Army Corps of Engineers between 1933 and 1942, Grand Coulee Dam was the largest concrete structure in the world for decades. With the expansion of the third power station in 1974 made it the largest power plant in the world at the time. It still remains the largest power plant in the USA with a capacity of over 6 GW in three power stations. It also has a large pumped storage facility of several hundred MW that links to the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project. As the center-piece of the Columbia Basin Project, the dam's reservoir supplies water for the irrigation of 671,000 acres.

Tour Summary:

The tour will start at 12:00 noon at the Visitor Center where we will receive a safety briefing.  We will then get into USBR vans and head to the Crown Point Viewing Area, North Dam, Banks Lake Headworks, Pumping Generating Plant, 3rd Powerhouse and top of dam. Then back to the vans and visitor center by 4:30.

Visit Requirements:

·         This is a hard hat, VIP tour of an operating power plant so closed toe shoes and sensible clothing is required. Shorts, dresses, sleeveless shirts, tank tops, high heels are not permitted.

·        Photo ID is required for this tour. Unfortunately, US Citizens only due to the time it takes to perform background checks.  US citizens will be asked to provide a copy of their ID sent directly by email or mail to the USBR at least one week in advance of the tour and will be required to present their driver’s licenses or valid ID the day of the tour.   The email address of where to send your ID will be provided after registration. 

·         No backpacks, fanny pack, bags, purses, etc., are allowed.  Wallets fitting in a pocket are OK.  Water will be provided along the way.

·         This is a technical tour for IEEE members and their quests. There is a shorter tour available for the public that may be more appropriate for others such as younger children.  More info on the public tour can be found at https://www.usbr.gov/pn/grandcoulee/visit/index.html

·         Coming early or staying late, the daily nightly laser show starts at 8:30 pm.

·         There is a significant amount of standing, walking and climbing stairs on this tour.

·         Photos are allowed in most areas of the tour. Restricted areas will be pointed out

• To attend this tour, you will need register by August 30th, 2024.  Registration opens Monday August 5th.
• There is a .00 members and their family and non-member registration fee to attend this tour. If a family member or guest is attending with you, they will need to be registered separately.

Free IEEE Boise Section fall picnic catered by BSU and NNU student branches. Family and friends are welcome. Hope to see you there!

Registration is not required, but if you do register it will help us plan food accordingly and we'll send you an email reminder before the picnic.

Note the new location this year: Julia Davis Park Boise Pavilion. A park map is available at https://history.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/Julia-Davis-Park-and-Parking-Maps.pdf. The pavilion is just of the tennis courts in the park. Additional park information is at https://www.cityofboise.org/departments/parks-and-recreation/parks/julia-davis-park .

Second UAF IEEE student branch meeting of Fall 2024

The officers of the Oregon/SW Washington Chapter of the Industry Applications Society invite you to join us Wednesday evening, September 18, 2024 for our dinner, meeting, and technical presentation.  We appreciate the support of all who attend our dinners and presentations. We will be meeting this month at MEGI Engineering in Lake Oswego. This location is easy to access by car from the Interstate 5 Kruse Way/Lake Oswego exits. Ample free parking and entrance at the East side of the building.

The cost for dinner is with food from Famous Dave’s BBQ. There is no charge to attend the presentation only.  Our IAS Chapter always offers free dinners for local PSU, OSU, George Fox, U of P, OIT and WSUV Electrical Engineering Students who attend our meetings. This is an excellent networking opportunity for students as our meetings are attended by many professionals in consulting, industrial engineering, and electrical equipment manufacturing.

Increasing rate of progress in hardware and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions is enabling a range of software systems to be deployed closer to their users, increasing application of edge software system paradigms. Edge systems support scenarios in which computation is placed closer to where data is generated and needed, and provide benefits such as reduced latency, bandwidth optimization, and higher resiliency and availability. AI-enabled systems are software systems that integrate AI components to provide key functionality, and as such need to account for potential non-determinism in AI component outputs. Deploying AI-enabled systems at the tactical edge, to support users who operate in highly-uncertain and resource-constrained environments, such as first responders, law enforcement, and soldiers, can greatly benefit from edge AI-enabled systems to support timelier decision making. 

In this talk, Dr. Lewis will share the work that takes place at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute’s Tactical and Ai-Enabled Systems (TAS) initiative. We are an applied research and development team creating and transitioning innovative solutions, principles, and best practices for  (1) defining and improving the software stack and development tools for systems that operate at the edge, (2) defining, adapting, and improving principles and practices for software engineering of AI/ML-enabled systems; and (3) using AI/ML techniques at the tactical edge for improved capabilities and mission support.

Join us to learn about Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute research to practice approach.

What does it take to write a book? Some authors will tell you it is easy, that the story just pours out from their brain to the page. Others will tell a much different story, especially when it comes to writing non-fiction aerospace history, such as the task I created for myself. However, it was a task I enjoyed from beginning to end. I consider it an adventure to have been able to write my book “The X-15 Rocket Plane, Flying the First Wings into Space.” It is an adventure that has spanned decades, and is still going on today.

In this presentation, I share my personal journey that started in kindergarten with the idea of someday becoming an author, then my father
taking me on field trips to Edwards AFB, which gave me a first-hand look at the X-15, which, in turn, led to my fascination with this amazing, innovative, and consequential aircraft. It took decades before I put it all together to understand that this was the perfect subject for the book I wanted to write. From there it took 30 more years of interviews, research, and writing to get to the completed manuscript, yet even then my journey was just beginning. Today I travel the world and speak about the X-15, and tell the stories about not only the rocket plane itself, but all the people who made it the highest and fastest, as well as the most successful, research aircraft to ever take to the skies. Come and share this adventure with me.

IEEE R6 combined NE & NW areas meeting Fall 2024 in Bellevue, WA

Tentative agenda: -

Sept 20 - Dinner (most likely in the Bellevue Square area)

Sept 21 -

Presentations by R6 officers: -

6:00pm - 6:30pm Travel to Bellevue

7:00pm - 9:00pm Dinner in Bellevue

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The afternoon session will have a hybrid component per request. See below

Sept 22 - Breakfast & dispersion  

Hotel registration link: - https://www.hilton.com/en/book/reservation/deeplink/?ctyhocn=LION-HF&groupCode=IE09CI&arrivaldate=2024-09-20&departuredate=2024-09-22&cid=OM,WW,HILTONLINK,EN,DirectLink&fromId=HILTONLINKDIRECT

Please note that registration will close by August 30, 2024. Please register ASAP to ensure the discounted room rate.

Modern Techniques for Accurate EMC and E3 Simulations of Full Devices and Full Platforms

By Tim McDonald, President, EMA

Social hour and dinner provided. 

• Learn what intentionality is and how it is the key to a career of impact and satisfaction.
• Discover how our mindsets drive our actions and behaviors, and some ideas of how to shift your own mindset.
• Develop a new approach to networking that is more about building relationships than collecting contacts or followers.

Join us for local networking with the Utah RF, wireless, and microwave engineering community. This year's program features features an in-person keynote by Dr. C. J. Reddy, Fellow IEEE (Altair) titled, 'Pushing the Boundaries of Computational Electromagnetics – Application to Antenna Designs, Placement, Co-site Interference Simulations and Digital Twins'.

Utah RF & Wireless Day is an annual opportunity to network and learn from Utah's academic and industrial community. The event includes technical presentations, networking time, student posters, vendor tables, and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. Sponsored by the Utah IEEE Chapters of APS/MTT/EMC/AES and the Weber State University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Registration is free.

Detailed website for this event: www.weber.edu/ece/UtahRFDay2024.html

Free Registration: 

https://sjsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEuc-GqrTsvGdGE6yu9qQCx1z2PyRVJZaDj 

Synopsis:

After a brief intro highlighting issues and solutions for data privacy in machine learning settings, Prof. Gautam Kamath will answer your questions related to data privacy, machine unlearning, research, academia, career advice, and anything in between.

Please feel free to check out the work and thoughts of Prof. Gautam Kamath, Ph.D. from MIT, http://www.gautamkamath.com/ on Google Scholar at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MK6zHkYAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gautam+kamath and generally on the Internet.

Then, please feel free to submit your questions

• via Twitter by using the hashtag, #KamathAMA and tagging @vishnupendyala
• emailing vspendyala(at)hotmail(dot)com with #KamathAMA in the subject
• during your registration on Zoom

Select questions will be answered by Prof. Kamath during the session. Audience may be able to ask follow-up questions during the session.

Join the IEEE student branch at the University of Nevada for our first IEEE Day event in Northern Nevada! We will kick off the event with a panel discussion including officers of the Professional, Young Professional, Power & Energy, and Student sections in Northern Nevada where we discuss the projects that we have rolled out for the end of the year. We will also be discussing possible benefits of joining the IEEE as well as addressing our plans for next year. Following this panel will be a professional mixer with hors d'oeuvres provided by Silver and Blue Catering. Alongside students, graduate students, and professional members will be an array of non-profits, employers, and other membership driven organizations.

Santa Clara Valley IEEE Power & Energy and Industry Applications Societies
Co-hosted by SF PES, OEB PES

Join us October 2nd for a presentation and discussion on:  PG&E & Community Microgrids

Speakers:  Shreya Kodnadu and Franz Stadtmueller: Grid Innovation | Clean Energy and Sustainability Advocates, PG&E

Cost:  IEEE Members by 9/26  Non-Members by 9/26   Register now

(After 9/26, if space available, registration will be more and non-refundable)

Date: October 2, 2024, 6:00 to 8:30 PM

Place:  Delta/Marriott Hotel Santa Clara-Silicon Valley

About the talk: 

About the talk:

When severe weather or other events take the electric grid down is your community ready? If your answer is no, a community Microgrid might be the solution.

A Microgrid (MG) can provide a source of localized power during a grid outage due to extreme weather, a Public Safety Power Shutoff event or other outage. In addition, they can offer efficiency, cost and environmental benefits.  A community MG is a group of PG&E customers and Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) within a clearly defined electrical boundary able to disconnect and reconnect to the grid, so critical facilities can be safely energized.   They are typically designed to provide energy resilience to important community facilities, such as   Hospitals,  Police and Fire Stations, Gas Stations and Markets.

The local DERs, such as a solar photovoltaic (PV) system and battery, can be owned by third parties and can participate in wholesale markets for energy and related services.  PG&E will continue to own and operate the distribution system on which the Microgrid capability is built.

PG&E’s Community Microgrid Enablement Program (CMEP) and Microgrid Incentive Program (MIP) offer both financial and technical support.  Creating a community MG requires collaboration between your community, a technical engineering firm, and PG&E.  The CMEP and MIP can help you take your community’s energy resilience ideas from concept to reality. 

This presentation will offer a general definition of community MGs, including architecture, electrical design, operational modes, DER’s etc., and offer an example of an implemented solution.  Also, it will describe CMEP steps including Consultation, Application, Study & Analysis, Development, Operation.  The CMEP and MIP work together to fund all aspects of a community Microgrid. They support the development of clean community Microgrids in disadvantaged and vulnerable communities (DVCs). You can apply for either one individually, or for both programs together. 

PES/IAS web site and Detailed event description

The WTS event is the leadership perspective on the challenges and strategies needed to build the necessary infrastructure for AI to flourish. It is not a smooth road. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, tweeted that for AI to really happen, infrastructure must be there. Infrastructure includes computing and communications technologies, systems to power and cool devices, standards, security, and regulations. While having many technical aspects, it is a major technical management challenge.

This presentation examines how and why the World Technology Summit was created as an IEEE event, its topics, speakers, and the management challenges of making AI work.

This Oct 4th -- celebrating 40 years of innovation and regional engagement by EWU Computer Science -- IEEE Spokane’s EWU CS 4Oth Anniversary Event will be a festive “Event-Within-an-Event,” from 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm, at the EWU Catalyst.  Attendees can visit with Spokane IEEE at its EWU CS 40th Meet-and-Greet Table, while enjoying a major celebratory event tri-sponsored by the EWU Foundation, the EWU CS and Cyber Security Professional Board, and IEEE Spokane. 

The CS 40th Anniversary Event will be twofold --

>> FIRST: An upbeat party in honor of the many accomplishments of the EWU CS program over the decades -- with ample and festive food and beverage offerings and lots of fun decorations.  The CS 40th will also feature live guitar music by gifted musician Jonathan Nicholson.  Featured guests will include EWU President Dr. Shari McMahan and Guest of Honor Dr. Stu Steiner, founder of the now-celebrated EWU Cyber Security Program.

>> PLUS: A major technology networking event, focused on those that are part of the extensive computer and electronics sector in the region. The event will be highlighted by a short program featuring EWU President McMahan explaining and expanding on EWUs very recent rebranding as:  “The Region’s Polytechnic.” A broad range of tech companies -- including some of today’s large worldwide powers, to mid-size, to rising local startups -- will be represented at this exciting event, starting midafternoon Friday, Oct 4.

>> PARKING:  Free parking for attendees provided in the main Catalyst lot

Join us to celebrate IEEE day with a picnic on Oct 5, 2024 at Ashley Pond. We will provide pizza and drinks, as well as lawn games like corn hole and kube. I hope to see everyone there!