VTools training for WSU Tricities

Industry representative from Keysight teach RF and spectrum analyzer basics and then participants compete to find RF interference sources.

Join us for our usual introductory KiCad PCB design workshop, zero to hero for new circuit designers!

Join us for a General Body Meeting with Guest Speaker Upal Mahbub and IEEE Officer Elections for the next academic year.

The IEEE ASU ComSoc Student Branch Chapter is dedicated to fostering an active community of students and researchers passionate about communications, networking, and emerging wireless technologies. Our mission is to create a dynamic environment for professional development, mentorship, and technical exchange. As a core part of this mission, we host a Keynote Speech Series featuring distinguished leaders whose work informs and inspires our members. These sessions are designed to bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and industry practice, providing our student community with direct access to the visionaries shaping the future of connectivity.

Mock Interviews, Professional Photographs, Employer Tabling, Lunch & Network, Giveaway

Join us for the upcoming technical talk —attend in person at Stockman’s Restaurant or virtually via Microsoft Teams 

Title:

Digital Twins of Radioactive Environments: EV-Powered Robotics and Sensor Fusion in Inaccessible Zones

Abstract:

Nuclear waste repositories present significant infrastructure monitoring challenges due to hazardous conditions and restricted human access. This talk presents the design, prototyping, and field deployment of an integrated mobile robotics platform developed for generating high-fidelity digital twins of inaccessible nuclear storage environments.

The system integrates an electric vehicle providing sustained field-deployable power and base station functionality, a quadruped robot capable of navigating confined and irregular terrain, and custom sensing and edge-computing modules incorporating 3D LiDAR, high-resolution visual cameras, and environmental monitoring sensors. Together, these components enable extended autonomous inspection missions across full operational shifts.

Post-processing algorithms fuse multi-modal sensor streams to produce accurate 3D digital twin models of facility structures, supporting remote visualization and condition assessment without personnel exposure. The platform has been validated through deployment at a Department of Energy nuclear waste storage facility, demonstrating reliable terrain traversal, comprehensive data acquisition, and accurate facility reconstruction.

The talk will also touch on lessons learned from real-world deployment and the broader applicability of this framework to hazardous site characterization and nuclear decommissioning operations. Questions and discussion welcome.

Speaker: Pengcheng Cao

Pengcheng Cao is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Physical Process Science & Realization group of the EES&T Department. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from UC San Diego and a Master's degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University. His research interests span robotics in hazardous environments, data-driven digital twin modeling, and control system stabilities. He has over 10 scientific publications and 6 contributed talks. While working at INL, he is also serving as the Professional Activities Chair of IEEE Eastern Idaho Section.

Weekly IEEE Meeting

With special speaker: Dr Steve Chiu of ISU

He will be discussing the Semiconductor Industry with respect to his trips to Taiwan and California from earlier this year.

Ontario Power Generation’s Darlington New Nuclear Project (DNNP) is at the forefront of deploying Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology in Canada, anchored by the GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300. As North America’s first commercial, grid-scale SMR, DNNP plans up to four units totaling 1,200 MW. The project introduces advanced safety features, including natural circulation cooling, integral isolation valves, and passive heat removal, while supporting thousands of jobs and boosting Ontario’s economy. A collaboration between OPG, GE Vernova Hitachi, AtkinsRéalis, and Aecon-Kiewit, DNNP strengthens Ontario’s clean energy leadership and sets a model for SMR deployment globally. With construction underway, DNNP will help meet rising electricity demand, advance electrification, and deliver reliable, carbon-free power, showcasing nuclear innovation’s vital role in climate action and economic growth.

Event Moderator: Dr. Maike Luiken, PhD, SMIEEE, IEEE-HKN, FEIC, FCAE, is managing director, R&D, at a start-up company, Carbovate Development, and Adjunct Research Professor, Western University, Canada.

The officers of the Oregon/SW Washington Chapter of the Industry Applications Society invite you to join us Wednesday evening, April 15, 2026, for our dinner, meeting, and technical presentation.  We appreciate the support of all who attend our dinners and presentations.  We will be meeting at our “home base” 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 QDOBA Mexican Eats. 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.

Join us for an exclusive tour of General Dynamics NASSCO, where you’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at one of the nation’s leading shipbuilding facilities.

Please make sure to arrive on time to commence the tour with the group. Late arrivals may not be accommodated.

Important Requirements:

U.S. Citizenship:
Participation is limited to U.S. citizens.

Dress Code:

• Closed-toe shoes are mandatory.

• Shirts must cover the entire torso and have at least a ¼ sleeve (no tank tops or muscle shirts).

• Trousers must be full-length and cover the entire leg.

No Cameras Policy:
Cameras, photography, and recording devices are strictly prohibited during the tour.

Safety Gear:
Hard hats and safety glasses will be provided and must be worn at all times during the tour.

IEEE Members:
If you are an IEEE member, please register using your IEEE account.

Failure to comply with the dress code, citizenship requirement, arrival time, or no-camera policy will result in denial of entry. We appreciate your cooperation in ensuring a safe and secure visit!

IEEE will be partnering with graduating senior in EECE Sebastian on hosting a 3 part workshop on PCB design using Altium! Come learn how to use Altium to create a schematic and PCB for a litium battery charger. We have limited seats, so come join fast! The first session will be hosted on April 15th at 3:30pm, if you have any questions about the workshop feel free to reach out! We will see you there.

How to Build an 8-Core Hyperthreaded Monster Computer on a Budget

It is hard to find a computer exactly the way that one wants and needs just sitting on the shelf in a store. Some companies offer custom made ones but with a price to match. Additionally, no one source has all of the things that one would want. Quality becomes another issue as most people shop with price as a major controlling factor so companies are parsimonious in procuring the components.

Dr Morantz has combined his Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, and good common sense to build an 8-core hyperthreaded monster computer with strong performance and reliability while working within a financial budget to fits his own needs and desires.

This presentation covers this project from design phase to completion. Advantages and disadvantages will be discussed along with sourcing and assembly tips. This whole project took several months and has been very rewarding, both in having the computer that is needed and wanted, and being a learning process. Much knowledge and experience was gained with this project. Dr Morantz will go through the steps explaining what he did and why.

This is a hybrid in-person and online event. Pre-registration is required for either.

Conversational AI systems today speak with remarkable confidence, often giving the impression of understanding and reasoning. However, teams deploying these systems often quickly encounter familiar problems: drift, hallucinations, contradictory answers, and conversations that quietly lose their original purpose. Why do systems that seem so capable end up behaving so unpredictably?

In this talk, Elena Gostrer will examine these behaviors from a practical, product-engineering perspective. Rather than exploring model internals, this talk will focus on what actually happens when humans interact with probabilistic language models – and why traditional software assumptions fail in conversational settings.

Elena will also discuss what architectural patterns teams are adopting to keep in control, and she’ll highlight why combining generative AI with explicit structure, state, and constraints is becoming essential. Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of why conversational AI breaks, what helps it behave more reliably, and how to think differently about designing human-AI interactions.

The next session of the IEEE Oregon Section Executive Committee meeting

Tuesday 14 April 2026 at 6:30pm Pacific

Please Join Us:  Distinguished Talk  before Seattle Section EXCOM

Tuesday, April 14
6:00–7:00 PM — Featured Speech

This event is prior to  the Seattle section EXCOM

7:00-8:30 PM 

Featured Speaker: Dr. Sheree Wen

Title: How Can We Make the AI Data Centers' Infrastructure Sustainable and Benefit Both the Environment and Society?

Abstract:

AI data centers are rapidly expanding and are among the most energy-intensive infrastructure of our time, consuming power comparable to that of entire cities such as Seattle or Silicon Valley. Their water consumption is also close to, or even exceeds, that of an entire city.

In some areas of the United States, this unprecedented demand has already led to harmonic disturbances, power fluctuations, and, in extreme cases, risks of grid instability.

This talk will explore and analyze the environmental and energy challenges posed by AI data centers.

Dr. Wen will present both near-term and long-term solutions, including innovative approaches to breakthroughs in power generation, innovative design to reduce energy consumption and minimize environmental impact, new developments in chip and system design, and the enabling of sustainable, high-performance AI infrastructure for the future. 

In addition, recommend potential solutions to address citizens’ concerns regarding the possible relocation of their homes or businesses due to eminent domain associated with new power transmission and related infrastructure projects.

Don’t miss this timely and impactful discussion on shaping a sustainable AI-powered world. 

Bio

Dr. Sheree Wen served as the United States National Commissioner to UNESCO – the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization- and is currently the President of UNESCO Washington State.

Dr. Wen earned her Ph.D. in Engineering, Solid State Physics, and Statistics from UC Berkeley. After her Ph.D., she joined IBM Research. Nominated and recognized by several international Academicians. She was awarded the Young Scientist of the Year award and a gold medal. She solved critical issues that hindered the rollout of the world's first MIP computer systems, making major contributions. She served in senior management at IBM, where she was responsible for corporate technical strategies, worldwide manufacturing, corporate quality, and university grants.

Dr. Sheree Wen later built companies that researched and developed innovative products.  She established factories in Asia and Yonkers, New York, producing leading-edge electronic products supplied to the Federal Government, including the DOD, DOA, NAVY, Chief of Staff, and state and local governments. Her factories made OEM products under the names of IBM, AT&T, Unisys, and the Wen brand.  Her products were distributed worldwide through brand stores, wholesale, and chain stores, including Walmart, Sam's Club, OEM outlets, and major distributors.  

Her companies were recognized as 5-star quality suppliers by NASA and Boeing; She was awarded the United States Small Business Administration’s Award of Excellence.  Dr. Wen was the Inventor of the first innovative hacker-free LCD display, awarded leadership certificates by the Department of Defense (DOD).

At IEEE, Dr. Wen has served in multiple leadership roles, including

Chair of the IEEE Humanitarian Partnership.
Chair of the IEEE USA Communication Policy Committee and Cybersecurity Committee.
Region 6 Chair of Women in Engineering.
Region 6 Chair of the Government Relations Committee.
Vice Chair of the IEEE USA R&D Policy Committee
Region 6 Chair of the AI Initiative
Chair of the IEEE Seattle Section.

Dr. Wen also organized conferences and

Chair of the 2024 IEEE 140th Anniversary, Innovation Renaissance across three centuries, 
2024 IEEE World leaders AI Summit, AI enablement workshops, Best of AI online workshops, Sip and Inspire with AI receptions.
The General Chair of the 2025 IEEE New Era AI World Leaders Summit: Uniting Satellite, Humanity, and the Smart World, a landmark conference that brought together global leaders, corporate executives, and academic experts. Event details are available at  https://attend.ieee.org/neweraai25/

Vice Chair of the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC 15)

Throughout the years, Sheree has devoted herself to the public good. She serves on numerous non-profit boards and donates generously to support causes.

The United States National Commissioner to UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. 
Deputy Mayor of the City of Medina, WA 
Chair of UNESCO Women Artists
United States Committee on International Council on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS)
Washington State Emergency Management Committee.
Washington State Art Commission
Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) Board
Pacific Northwest Ballet Board
The University of Washington Library Board.
Puget Sound Research Council (PSRC) Economic Development Board
Westchester County, NY Economic Development Board.
King County Emergency Management Advisory Committee
Washington First Robotics
UW Bothell Technology Advisory Board 

Dr. Wen has contributed numerous technical white papers to the United States Senate, Congress, Washington State, and local governments, and has actively participated in many committees and boards. She holds multiple patents and has published numerous technical papers. She has served on commissions reviewing research programs at U.S. national laboratories, including nuclear reactors and related facilities. She also served on a Washington State committee that reviewed the Hanford nuclear site.

Awards and Recognitions
Young Scientist of the Year; the Robert Hardy Lansing Gold Medal,
IBM Achievement Awards, and two IBM Invention Awards,
Leadership Certificate by DOD,
Top Women Supplier – NASA, Boeing.
NASA 5 Star Quality Award
The United States Small Business Administrator’s Award of Excellence.
Featured as a top woman entrepreneur by The New York Times
Featured as a 20th-century Asian Professional Woman by Japan's Asahi News
YWCA in Westchester, NY, named its women's residence Dr. Sheree Wen Sisters’ Village.

Parking Link: To reserve parking, click on the following link: https://www.offstreet.io/events/P7HVWR36
and enter your vehicle license plate. 

Join us on MU Quad lawn for spikeball!

Engineering Your Early Career

We're welcoming Manasi Danke, Lead Product Manager at Engie and founder of ResurgenZ, for a free, practical workshop on navigating the early career transition.

About Manasi: Manasi holds degrees in Computer Science and AI & Data Science, and leads product strategy for enterprise-scale platforms used by over 100 large clients. She's worked across both large companies and startups, and is deeply committed to mentorship, having supported students through Mass Fintech Hub and serving as a Resident Advisor for three years.

Through ResurgenZ, she's passionate about creating spaces for meaningful conversations around equity, empathy, and empowerment in the workplace.

Come ready with your questions — especially around internships, entering the workforce, and building confidence early in your career.

AI is quickly becoming embedded in everyday applications. It’s becoming essential for students and educators to adopt this technology to solve complex real-world problems. MATLAB and Simulink provide a flexible and powerful platform to develop and automate data analysis, deep learning, AI, and simulation workflows in a wide range of domains and industries. In this workshop we will introduce deep learning with MATLAB. We will utilize a previously trained network and modify it, using the MATLAB Deep Network Designer. The Deep Network Designer allows you to interactively build, visualize, and train neural networks. Individuals can generate the code for the neural network and finetune parameters. Users can use popular pre-trained networks or construct their own. We will also look at the MATLAB Classification Learner to run several models on a single data set. These visual approaches create a more efficient workflow.

 The talk will explore some of the research projects in the Adaptive Microsystems (AdaMist) lab led by Dr. Cretu, with an emphasis on a common vision and strategy. Polymer-based transducers, fabricated using green, rapid and low-cost processes, have been used for inertial and ultrasonic transducers. MEMS accelerometers with piezoelectric polymers show the promise of novel microfabrication technologies, while photosensitive polymers (SU-8) are the base of a new generation of CMUT (Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer) arrays. Poly-CMUT applications, from custom small probes for biomedical imaging to industrial applications like nondestructive testing and monitoring, open a new world of opportunities.

(NOTE: This event is only open to SJSU students, faculty and staff.)

Silicon Valley is commonly acknowledged as the tech capital of the world. How did Silicon Valley come into being, and what can we learn for our own careers? The story goes back to local Hams trying to break RCA's tube patents, Stanford "angel" investors, the sinking of the Titanic, WW II and radar, and the SF Bay Area infrastructure that developed –these factors pretty much determined that the semiconductor and IC industries would be located in the Santa Clara Valley, and that the Valley would remain the world’s innovation center as new technologies emerge –digital, then software, biotech, VR, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, LLMs –and be the model for innovation worldwide.
This talk will give an exciting and colorful history of development and innovation that began in Palo Alto in 1909. You'll meet some of the colorful characters –Cyril Elwell, Lee De Forest, Bill Eitel, Charles Litton, Fred Terman, David Packard, Bill Hewlett, Bill Shockley and others –who came to define our worldwide electronics industries through their inventions and process development. You'll understand some of the novel management approaches that have become the hallmarks of its tech startups. In this talk, the key Silicon Valley attributes will be illustrated and analyzed, for consideration by engineers interested in creating their own start-ups and high-tech businesses, working for them, or simply understanding them.

Join us for a tour of the Reed college small scale nuclear reactor. This is a good opportunity to learn about small scale clean energy generation. 

The technology industry is rapidly crossing a critical threshold. We are moving beyond AI as a passive Copilot (a tool that simply advises engineers) and entering the era of AI as an active Agent. These new agents are capable of autonomously diagnosing issues and executing changes directly within global production environments.
However, granting AI write-access to mission-critical infrastructure introduces a new class of systemic business risk. Without the right safeguards, autonomous systems can make unpredictable decisions or be manipulated, leading to cascading operational failures. The transition to autonomy requires technology leaders to fundamentally rethink their Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and security strategies.
In this session, the speakers bridge the gap between strategic leadership and architectural rigor. Attendees will receive a comprehensive blueprint for safely managing the transition to AI-operated infrastructure, ensuring their systems remain highly intelligent and fundamentally incorruptible.
The Dual-Track Roadmap
This session provides a comprehensive framework to navigate the era of Agentic SRE, divided into two distinct tracks:
Track 1: The Management Imperative (Strategy)
Quantifying the ROI of Autonomy: Learn how to balance the efficiency gains of autonomous systems against operational costs and underlying model risks.
Defining Agentic Oversight: Establish the critical cultural and operational boundaries between decisions that require human approval and tasks that can be safely fully automated.
Track 2: The Security Blueprint (Architecture)
Pioneering the IARA Framework: A high-level overview of the Incorruptible Autonomy Reference Architecture, a 7-pillar security model for safely deploying AI agents.
Architecting Trust: Discover how to grant AI systems temporary, just-in-time permissions to prevent unauthorized access and severely limit the blast radius of any potential errors.

EMBS Phoenix Chapter 2026 Meet & Greet

The EMBS Phoenix Chapter officers are excited to host our first in-person meeting in 2026, where we can meet our local community of biomedical engineers and practitioners and hear from one of our officers, Vishnu Prateek Kakarapathi on wearables + AI development from his graduate research at ASU. We look forward to meeting our membership, prospective members, networking, and planning what we want to do together next!

Pizza and light refreshments will be served.

We look forward to expanding our local EMBS chapter, so please bring a friend, or two.

 The regular monthly executive  committtee meeting was held on April 9th.

Present: Maureen, Mickey, Karl, Ken, and Larry

Treasurer's Report - we have a balance of @.3K.

Action items:

1. We're ready for the April 22 meeting - order off menu, 12 registered as of now 
2. Larry to leave current vTools event as is, and plan to add Zoom links to all future meetings and designate them as hybrid 
3. Mickey and Ken to do a dry run this week as Mickey won't be present April  
4. Mickey and Maureen to look for speakers for July 15 - How to Use AI Safely & Effectively, budget max 0

vTools: Larry to file these brief notes for our meeting in vTools with meeting update so that we're on the record for these meetings.

Chapter Meeting ideas: 

1. July 15 - How to Use AI Safely & Effectively - Maureen to work with Roger Doering to design and set up the 1st of 3 likely meetings on AI [subject to tuning]:
1. 1st is Intro, LLMs, Generic and Guidelines
2. 2nd is Code Generation
3. 3rd is Agentic AI and System Interfaces 
2. October 21 - TENT - Alameda CHRS -- https://californiahistoricalradio.com vintage gear, broadcast & ham/Lunch/possible USS Hornet to

Next meeting:  June 4, at 4PM!

OC IEEE YP Spring Bowling Meetup hosted by the IEEE Orange County Young Professionals Affinity Group

Join us for a night of fun while we bowl some strikes up in Fullerton! We will have both vegetarian and meat options for dinner.

Location: Titan Bowl & Billiards at CSUF

Address: 800 N State College Blvd, Fullerton, CA

Closest parking structure: State College Parking Structure

Parking Address: 1222N N State College Blvd, Fullerton, CA 92831

Pay for Parking with Parkmobile (App): Download it in the App Store as "ParkMobile" (green icon)

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out.

High Voltage DC Transmission has seen rapid technology advances in the last 20 years driven by the implementation of VSC (Voltage Source Converters) at GW powers and in particular introduction of MMC (Modular Multilevel Converters). The development of interconnected DC transmission grids requires significant further advance from the existing point-to-point HVDC links. It is widely believed that complex DC power grids can be built with comparable performance, reliability, flexibility and losses as traditional AC grids. The primary motivation for DC grid development is the need for power flow and trading between many DC terminals, as an example in the proposed (350 GW) North Sea DC grid, or EU-wide overlay DC grid. AC transmission is not feasible with long subsea cables, and it is inferior to DC systems in many other conditions. This presentation addresses the options and challenges with DC grid development, referring also to state-of-art technology status.

Zhangbei 4-terminal DC system (China, 2020) represents the first implemented GW-scale meshed DC transmission grid, which employs bipolar ring topology with overhead lines and 16 DC Circuit Breakers. However, multiple studies illustrate advantages of some radial, hub-based or segmented topologies, because of component costs, and challenges with interoperability, ownership, DC markets, operation, security and reliability.   

MMC concepts, including half-bridge and full-bridge modules, will underpin DC grid converters and further advances like hybrid LCC/MMC converters have been implemented recently. DC/DC converters at hundreds of MW are not yet commercially available but there is lot of research world-wide, and some lower-power prototypes have been demonstrated. DC/DC converters may take multiple functions including: DC voltage stepping (transformer role), DC fault interruption (DC CB role) and power flow control. Multiport DC hubs can be viewed as electronic DC substations, capable of interconnecting multiple DC lines.

Very fast DC CB circuit breakers (2 ms) have become commercially available recently, but the cost is considerably higher than AC CBs. Slightly slower mechanical DC CBs (5-8 ms) are also available from multiple vendors, while new technical solutions are emerging worldwide for achieving faster operation with lower size/weight/costs. 

DC grid modelling will face the new challenge of numerous converters dynamically coupled through low-impedance DC cables/lines. A compromise between simulation speed and accuracy is required, leading to some average-value modelling, commonly in rotating DQ frame, but capturing very fast dynamics and variable structure to represent fault conditions.

The principles of control of DC grids have been developed. DC systems have no system-wide common frequency to indicate power unbalance, and voltage responds to local and global loading rather than reactive power flow. DC grid dynamics are 2 orders of magnitude faster than traditional AC systems and most components will be controllable implying numerous, fast control loop interactions. Because of lack of inertia, and minimal overload capability for semiconductors, DC grid primary and secondary control should be feedback-based (man-made), fast, and distributed. International standardization efforts have begun.

The protection of DC grids is a significant technical challenge, both in terms of components and protection logic. The selectivity has been demonstrated within 0.5 ms timeframe using commercial and open-source DC relays. Nevertheless, grid operators have expressed concerns with self-protection on various components, back-up grid-wide protection, interoperability, and in general if we can achieve power transfer security levels comparable with AC grids and acceptable to stakeholders.

April Executive Committee Meeting

Welcome, SCU IEEE — ready for a fun one? 
 
Can you believe we're doing Jeopardy?!
 
We're teaming up with ACM-W for a Jeopardy social night — the perfect way to kick back, meet some cool people, and show us your trivia skills.

📅 Tuesday, April 7th 🕕 6:00 – 7:00 PM 📍 Kenna 102

Whether you're a trivia legend or just showing up for the fun, you're welcome. Come hang!

Come join us in Kemper hall to learn about Careers in Electronics and professional development for ECE students. Mr. Larry Lapides will be speaking to our club, so come prepared with any industry questions.

Join us this Tuesday for the sixth general meeting of the year! We'll be holding elections for next year's board, so if you're running for a position, make sure to attend and advocate for your position. Even if you're not running, come to get some free pizza, get updates on our club events, and and vote for the future of the IEEE student branch!

VexU Competition at LAVC 

This meeting, we went through a lot on our agenda. 

We prepared for the upcoming involvement fair (where student organizations can recruit more members), gathering officers who can table at the fair, and redesigned our trifold design. We have also developed talking points for us to know what to say to people who are interested. 

We have successfully planned out our schedule for our weekly meetings for both officer and general member meetings. We have gathered 3 professional guest speakers, as well as our lineup of workshops we will host throughout the remaining quarter. 

We have prepared elections where we will have nominations for a week. After the nomination period, each nominee will have a speech, providing their statement to all members. Afterwards, the final cohort will be voted for in the following week. 

We have also prepared the agenda for the upcoming first general meeting where we will provide documentation templates for the 10 group project teams to develop documentation for specification and design, and their roadmap to provide us with their progress on their project throughout the year. 

We have decided who we will reach out for more collaborative opportunities and events as well. 

We have also gotten progress on planning our Hardware Hackathon where we are on the road to finalizing our agenda and plans. We just need to gather the funding.

Overall, we had a lot of work completed this meeting, and we look forward to continuing hosting even more events!

Networking event at the Maritime Museum in San Diego

Collaborative event with the Southwestern College Student Branch and UCSD Computer

Society Student Chapter

SDSU is the main OU organizing the event

Quantum Computers are expensive to build, take time to run, and are prone to noise and faults which reduce qubit reliability. Quantum software programmers can benefit from ways to validate whether or not quantum programs behave as expected without running or simulating a full program. This talk will present the Quantum State Preparation Program Validation Framework (QSV), a framework that uses property-based testing to validate whether or not quantum programs meet user-specified properties.

The IEEE Hawai‘i Women in Engineering (WIE) Executive Committee (ExCom) is the leadership team responsible for guiding the vision, planning, and activities of the WIE Affinity Group within the IEEE Hawai‘i Section. Composed of dedicated volunteers, the ExCom organizes professional development events, outreach initiatives, and community-building programs that support and empower women in engineering and technology across Hawai‘i, while fostering collaboration, mentorship, and inclusive growth within the engineering community.

Dr. Peter Kinget from Columbia University will be presenting a Distinguished Lecturer Seminar titled "Circuit Labs at the Lunch Table with MOSbius" on Friday April 3rd at 11:00 AM. Attendance will be eligible for seminar credit.

Peter Kinget and his team of researchers at Columbia University developed the MOSbius platform to bring the world of analog design out of the simulator and onto the lab bench. Test and measurement of analog circuits is tricky but the "aha" moments when the circuits come to life brings a satisfying payoff that often leaves lasting impressions. If you would like to read more, take a look at the free article from SSCS Magazine Summer 2025 - Tinkering With CMOS Circuits at the Lunch Table With MOSbius [Education Corner] and consider attending this presentation.

Pierre-Olivier Jubert of Western Digital will review the design and characterization of media used in heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). 

IEEE Hawaii Joint Chapter between EDS and SSCS, in addition to the University of Hawaii SSCS Student Chapter, will support the State of Hawaii Academy of Science, Science & Engineering Fair with financial and volunteer (including project judging) support on April 3rd, 2026. This is activity is part of the IEEE Hawaii EDS/SSCS Jt Chapter's initiative for pre-university outreach.

IEEE Orange County PES/IAS Chapter's ExCom meeting

All IEEE OC PES/IAS Chapter members are requested to attend this meeting. 

To AVOID unauthorized attendance you MUST REGISTER for this event so that you can be sent the meeting link.

The zoom link is given below: 

Topic: IEEE OC PES/IAS ExCom Meeting
Time: Apr 1, 2026 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://tae.zoom.us/j/82735823597?pwd=k4j82miSJVCFkVXMsqQBqonFgxGmpb.1

Meeting ID: 827 3582 3597
Passcode: 729665

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Join 2026 IEEE President‑Elect Jill I. Gostin for an inspiring look at how real‑world challenges, career interruptions, and unexpected turns can become powerful catalysts for growth. Through personal stories and practical insights, she highlights the skills that drive long‑term success – resilience, communication, continuous learning, and the confidence to lead. This session offers actionable strategies for navigating change, rebuilding momentum, and leveraging support networks, with a special focus on the experiences of women in technology. Attendees will leave motivated, informed, and equipped to shape their own career journeys with clarity and purpose.

The San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the IEEE Computer Society invites to our free and open Virtual Tech Talks (no IEEE membership required):

Eventpage: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/transforming-enterprise-quality-engineering-practices-tickets-1985250279026?aff=oddtdtcreator

Speaker: Jyotheeswara Reddy Gottam (Connect on LinkedIn)

Title: The Triple Threat: Transforming enterprise quality engineering practices with Generative AI, Predictive Analytics, and Self-Healing Automation

Abstract: Modern software teams face mounting pressure to release high-quality applications faster while managing increasing system complexity and continuous delivery expectations within modern CI/CD pipelines. Traditional testing approaches often struggle to keep pace with rapid code changes, expanding regression suites, and the rising cost of maintaining automation frameworks. These challenges frequently lead to delayed releases, increased testing costs, and defects escaping into production.

This presentation explores how the “Triple Threat” of AI-driven testing technologies—generative AI for test script creation, machine learning–based predictive defect analytics, and self-healing automation frameworks—is transforming enterprise quality engineering practices.

First, generative AI accelerates test development by automatically generating test cases, scripts, and data from requirements, user stories, or code changes, significantly reducing manual scripting effort. Second, predictive defect analytics powered by machine learning analyzes historical defect patterns, code churn, and previous test outcomes to identify high-risk components and prioritize testing efforts where failures are most likely to occur. Third, self-healing automation frameworks intelligently adapt to UI or API changes, minimizing brittle test failures and reducing the costly maintenance typically associated with large automated test suites.

When deployed together, these technologies reinforce one another: generative AI expands test coverage, predictive analytics focuses testing on the most critical risk areas, and self-healing automation ensures test suites remain resilient despite frequent application updates. Applied across API testing, functional testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing, this integrated approach enables organizations to modernize their testing strategy while improving reliability.

The combined impact allows enterprises to reduce testing costs by up to 40%, accelerate release cycles by 30%, and improve defect detection rates by over 50%, demonstrating how AI-driven testing can deliver measurable improvements in both quality and delivery speed across enterprise software systems.

Bio: Jyotheeswara Reddy Gottam is a Software Engineering Leader with over a decade of experience in the retail and e-commerce industry. Currently a Senior Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech, he leads end-to-end testing strategies for high-traffic marketplace platforms, driving scalability, reliability, and performance for systems handling millions of daily transactions. He specializes in Gen AI, ML, AI agents, RAG, test automation, performance engineering, and CI/CD enablement. Throughout his career, he has architected scalable automation frameworks, reduced regression cycles significantly, improved release velocity, and ensured platform stability during peak traffic events. He has also led cross-functional initiatives across payments, inventory, personalization, and mobile platforms.

John Dungan brings more than 35 years of non-profit leadership and a deep commitment to helping people through their most difficult moments. As the Community Disaster Program Specialist for the Central and Northern Missouri Chapter of the American Red Cross since 2017, he has recruited, trained, and supported volunteers who have helped thousands of families recover from disasters such as home fires, tornadoes, and floods.

In this session, John will share how you can make a meaningful impact in your community—without deploying to large-scale disasters—by volunteering locally with the American Red Cross. While the organization responds to over 60,000 disasters annually, most are neighborhood emergencies that depend on volunteers, who make up more than 90% of the workforce.

Participants will explore a range of opportunities, including direct support for families, disaster coordination, logistics, technology roles, and flexible remote options. Whether you prefer hands-on engagement or behind-the-scenes support, you’ll learn how to use your skills to make a lasting difference and help build stronger, more prepared communities.

Zoom call hosted by Open Research Institute (ORI). IEEE members and guests are welcome. This is a technical roundtable of FPGA projects from the Open Source hardware community. Participants report what they've done over the past week, what they have planned for the next week, if they have any roadblocks, and if they need any resources. The roundtable is sometimes followed by open office hours if anyone has additional questions or discussions.  

To kick off the spring season, we are having a social casual outing at Anthony's Homeport in Kirkland, right by the water.

Students, YPs, and everyone else are welcome!

If you have questions or concerns, don't hesitate to get in touch with John Vertner through his email, john.vertner@ieee.org.

Leadership Hike: Building Leaders Beyond the Classroom

Join us for a unique outdoor leadership experience designed for student officers and young professionals to connect, reflect, and grow. This interactive leadership hike, hosted along the scenic greenbelt trails in Hayward, transforms a traditional workshop into an engaging, offsite-style retreat.

Inspired by leadership summits and professional development programs within IEEE, this event emphasizes experiential learning, peer-to-peer knowledge sharing, and authentic conversations around leadership journeys.

As we hike together, participants will engage in guided discussions and reflective activities focused on:

• Leadership challenges and lessons learned from real experiences
• Building influence, communication, and team dynamics
• Transitioning from student leadership to professional impact
• Personal growth, resilience, and career development

This informal yet impactful setting fosters deeper connections, encourages open dialogue, and creates space for meaningful mentorship among peers. Whether you're leading a student branch, serving in an officer role, or navigating early career leadership, this hike offers a chance to step away from the classroom and into a collaborative, nature-inspired environment.

Hike at Green Belt Trail with Leadership Workshop, followed by lunch provided at Buffalo Bills restaurant.

Let's meet at the street parking: 2406 Oakes Dr., Hayward, California. 94541, and we will walk together to the trail head.

Breaking into today’s competitive job market requires more than technical excellence. It requires clarity, positioning, and the ability to communicate your value with confidence.

In this practical and engaging session, career strategist Shima Ghaheri shares how hiring managers actually evaluate candidates — and how students and early-career professionals can strategically present their academic work, projects, internships, and experiences to stand out.

Participants will learn how to:

• Build a LinkedIn profile that signals clarity and direction

• Structure resumes around measurable impact rather than task lists

• Approach interviews with preparation and strategic storytelling

• Translate technical competence into compelling professional narratives

Designed specifically for college students and entry-level professionals, this session offers actionable tools to move from being “qualified on paper” to being selected with confidence. By making hiring systems more transparent, the session aims to reduce opportunity gaps and empower participants to compete through preparation, clarity, and strategy.

Whether you are preparing for internships, full-time roles, or your next career move, this session will equip you with frameworks you can implement immediately.

The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming sensing infrastructures into large-scale distributed cyber-physical systems. However, conventional IoT architectures remain largely cloud-centric, relying on continuous data transmission and centralized processing. Such designs introduce fundamental challenges in energy consumption, communication bandwidth, latency, and privacy exposure, particularly as the number of connected devices continues to grow. This talk introduces the emerging paradigm of the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), where intelligence is embedded directly within sensing devices through edge computing and TinyML techniques. By enabling machine learning inference on resource-constrained microcontrollers, AIoT systems can transform traditional sensors into autonomous, context-aware intelligent nodes capable of performing real-time decision making. Beyond presenting representative AIoT systems and applications, this talk also examines broader research challenges shaping the future of AIoT systems, including platform fragmentation, intelligent sensor deployment, secure federated learning, and the need for autonomous and scalable IoT architectures. In particular, we discuss how edge-intelligent AIoT systems can support emerging digital twin frameworks, enabling event-driven monitoring and scalable healthcare applications while reducing continuous data streaming. The presentation concludes with an overview of modern development pipelines for deploying machine learning models on edge devices using frameworks such as TinyML toolchains, highlighting future research opportunities in distributed intelligent sensing systems.

The IEEE ASU ComSoc Student Branch Chapter is dedicated to fostering an active community of students and researchers passionate about communications, networking, and emerging wireless technologies. Our mission is to create a dynamic environment for professional development, mentorship, and technical exchange. As a core part of this mission, we host a Keynote Speech Series featuring distinguished leaders whose work informs and inspires our members. These sessions are designed to bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and industry practice, providing our student community with direct access to the visionaries shaping the future of connectivity.

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Looking for something meaningful and and stimulating for your children to do in between the holidays? We invite you and your family to join us for an inspiring Spring STEM Workshop: Team Racing and Car Building at Glad Tidings, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) educational experience designed specifically for students from underrepresented communities. This in-person event will be held at 27709 Tyrrell Ave, where you can meet other curious minds and learn from experienced instructors. Don't miss out on this opportunity to explore the wonders of STEM in a supportive and engaging environment. Register now to secure your spot!

Scholarships available, please email: benita.mclarin@gladtidingscogic.org

Where: Glad Tidings Family Life Complex

When: 3/27, 9am to 3:00pm.

Who: Students aged 8–17 (parents encouraged to attend)

STEM education is more than just learning about technology or engineering—it’s about developing critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills that are essential in today’s world. By exposing your child to STEM:

• Help them discover new interests and talents.
• Prepare them for high-paying and rewarding careers.
• Show them that they can be creators, innovators, and leaders.

Schedule:
9:00 AM- 9:30 AM | Breakfast Available· Light Breakfast including cereals, fruit and juice for children· Coffee and pastries for volunteers· Meals Catered by Divine Purpose Catering

9:30 - 10 AM | Welcome & Kickoff

• Welcome
• Event Overview
• Review of safety rules
• Introduction of volunteers, experiment leads, and technology demonstrators
• Brief explanation of how technology connects to cooking (Instant Pot sensors, microwaves & magnetrons)

10 AM | Presentation #1

10:20 AM- 12PM | Build Car and Logo Art Design

12:00 – 12:40 PM | Lunch  

1:00 – 2:45 PM | Finish Car Building, and Test obstacle course/ race track

2:45 – 3:00 PM | Closing, Photos & Thank You

Our Program’s Commitment

Through our partnership with the IEEE Oakland-East Bay Section, TryEngineering, and Glad Tidings, we are dedicated to fostering a supportive and inclusive environment. Here’s why this program is unique:

Mentors Who Care: STEM professionals from your community will guide your child every step of the way.

• Hands-On Learning: Engaging activities like designing bridges, building robots, and creating LED circuits make learning exciting.

Equity in Education: Our goal is to provide access and opportunity to all children, particularly those in underrepresented communities. 

We understand the vital role parents play in their child’s success. During the event, you’ll:

• See firsthand how STEM activities boost confidence and teamwork.
• Learn about free and affordable resources to continue your child’s STEM journey.
• Meet other parents who share the same goal of empowering their children.

This is a chance to show your child that their dreams matter and that they belong in STEM fields. Secure your spot today!

Register by March 23th
To ensure we have the proper supplies and resources, please RSVP by end of day March. 23, so we can better plan the workshop.

Together, let’s inspire a generation of problem solvers, innovators, and dreamers. We look forward to seeing you there!

Warm regards,
Aaron Lin, IEEE
Benita McLarin, Glad Tidings

Shalini Lakshmana is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: SCV WIE Mar ExCom Meeting
Time: Mar 26, 2026 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
        Every month on the 26 of the month, 36 occurrence(s)

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Modern electrical power systems require substations that are reliable, efficient, and capable of supporting rapidly evolving grid demands. This presentation explores the key components involved in substation design, with emphasis on protection systems, control architecture, and engineering studies required to ensure system reliability and operational efficiency.

The session will discuss critical elements including substation layout design, protection and control schemes and communication infrastructure. 

Attendees will gain practical insights into modern substation engineering practices, protection coordination strategies, and design approaches that minimize energy losses while enhancing grid resilience.

Megha Bhardwaj  is an Electrical Power Systems Engineer with extensive experience in substation design, protection and control engineering, and power system studies. With more than a decade of professional experience in the power generation, transmission, and distribution sectors, the author has contributed to the design, analysis, and commissioning of high-voltage substations and power delivery systems.

The author has led protection and control engineering for multiple 69 kV, 345 kV, and 500 kV AIS and GIS substation projects, including development of protection one-line diagrams, AC/DC schematics, wiring diagrams, construction installation packages, and bill of materials. The role also involved coordinating with multidisciplinary engineering teams, managing technical documentation, and supporting project scheduling and engineering deliverables.

The author has extensive experience performing load flow studies, short circuit analysis, arc-flash studies, and protection coordination using ETAP, PSCAD, and SKM, along with conducting relay setting analysis and root cause investigations to enhance power system reliability. Earlier in the career, the author worked extensively in power plant commissioning, maintenance, and electrical system design, supporting the operation of large thermal generating units and participating in the commissioning of grid-connected solar photovoltaic power plants. The author’s technical expertise includes substation protection and control design, power system analysis, electrical construction documentation, and leadership of engineering projects for large-scale power infrastructure systems.

DevOps Mindset: Accelerating Innovation Through Culture & Collaboration

Discover how adopting a DevOps mindset transforms collaboration, accelerates innovation, and enhances software delivery across modern engineering teams. In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, organizations must break down silos between development and operations to deliver reliable, scalable, and high-quality software at speed.

This session introduces the core principles, culture, and practices of DevOps—focusing on collaboration, automation, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), monitoring, and shared ownership. Attendees will gain practical insights into how DevOps drives efficiency, resilience, and measurable business impact.

Whether you are a developer, operations engineer, quality professional, or technology leader, this session will equip you with actionable strategies to foster a DevOps culture and modernize your software delivery lifecycle.

Come join us for lunch, and this important talk - IN-PERSON ONLY

Co-packaged optics (CPO) are heterogeneous integration packaging methods to integrate the optical engine (OE) which consists of photonic ICs (PIC) such as the photodiode laser, etc. and the electrical engine (EE) which consists of the electronic ICs (EIC) such as the laser driver, transimpedance amplifier, etc. as well as the switch ASIC (application specific IC). The advantages of CPO are: (a) to reduce the length of the electrical interface between the OE/EE (or PIC/EIC) and the ASIC, (b) to reduce the energy required to drive the signal, and (c) to cut the latency which leads to better electrical performance. In the next few years, we will see more implementations of a higher level of heterogeneous integration of switch, PIC and EIC, whether it is for performance, form factor, power consumption or cost. The content of this lecture:
— Silicon Photonics
— Data Centers
— Optical Transceivers
— Optical Engine (OE) and Electrical Engine (EE)
— OBO (on-board optics)
— NPO (near-board optics)
— CPO (co-packaged optics)
— 3D Integration of the PIC and EIC
— 3D Heterogeneous Integration of PIC and EIC
— 3D Heterogeneous Integration of ASIC Switch, PIC and EIC
— 3D Heterogeneous Integration of ASIC Switch, PIC and EIC with Bridges
— 3D Heterogeneous Integration of ASIC Switch, EIC and PIC embedded in Glass-core Substrate
— Various Forms of CPO

IEEE Central Coast March 25 Event  Improving STEM Education in California

Location - Rusty’s Pizza ­                                                  

5934 Calle Real, Goleta, CA 93117

6:00 PM – Complimentary Pizza, Salad, Beverage­

6:30 PM – Central Coast Status

6:35 PM – Dr. Behrooz Parhami Presents

Please REGISTER NOW Below and join us on March 25th when Dr. Behrooz Parhami, Distinguished Professor Emeritus UCSB and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, will honor us with his very interesting new talk on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) Education, it's importance, status, and efforts to improve. STEM is of special interest to IEEE as the quality of these subjects will determine the quality of the next generation of Engineers.  Best regards, Ruth Franklin IEEE Central Coast Chair

The majority of the health care costs related to the treatment of chronic and infectious diseases are attributed to direct care costs (e.g., hospital admissions and readmissions). The prevalence of chronic diseases and associated costs in the United States is growing at an alarming pace. The COVID-19 pandemic has further impacted the health of high-risk individuals by increasing the likelihood of more severe illness for those with underlying health conditions and associated healthcare costs. There have been ample efforts from researchers and clinicians to develop remote healthcare systems and wearable devices to manage patients with chronic and infectious diseases in home settings, which has reduced the burden on inpatient care facilities and gained further momentum during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there is a lack of reliable wearable devices that can provide clinically acceptable information to healthcare professionals, as well as a lack of emphasis on validating wearable and artificial intelligence technologies in representative populations to enable a reliable and equitable remote health management system. This talk will present the challenges and potential solutions for developing tools (i.e., wearable sensors and computational algorithms) for reliable and equitable remote patient monitoring systems for chronic and infectious diseases.

This was a workshop trying to focus on the interview prep of the Computer Engineering, and Computer Science aspect of interview. This workshop was hosted by IEEE but we had a speaker Tim Bleaker being a TI engineer that also graduated from the University of Arizona.

with Keith Henson, electrical engineer and writer

Date/Time: Tuesday, March 24, 6pm – 7 pm Pacific Time

This talk explores making synthetic fuel from municipal waste using renewable energy (solar).  The key reaction, dating back to the 1860s, involves heating carbon in steam to produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide. This endothermic reaction requires heating, traditionally done by alternately burning coke and injecting steam. Using intermittent renewable electricity for heating is now feasible.

A metric ton of carbon requires 4 MWh of heat to produce 13.1 MWh of syngas; a 3 to 1 energy gain. The gas can be stored, burned to make power, or converted into methanol, methane, jet fuel, or diesel. The water-gas shift reaction can be used to increase the hydrogen at the expense of CO. The resultant CO2 (about half) can be sorted out of the gas stream and sequestered.

Following the water-gas shift, the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process converts syngas into hydrocarbons, with water as a byproduct.

An example design uses 9,000 tons of trash daily from the Sylmar, CA landfill supplemented with coal, brush or tires to produce syngas. The project would need significant power and infrastructure, including large gasifiers and GW scale PV.

The project addresses landfill overuse and methane leakage, and provides a renewable energy solution for synthetic fuel production, though it requires substantial investment and the development of large gasifiers.

Come join us on Tuesday for our fifth general meeting of the semester! Come get some free pizza and stay up-to-date on our club events! This is also a great opportunity to pick up your IEEE Student Member Shirts if you're a paid student member!

We will also have a guest speaker from Avimosa Wireless! This presentation highlights examples of current technologies and where they are being used today, while exploring key challenges in modern telecommunications as data demand continues to grow alongside the rise of AI in everyday life.

Zoom call hosted by Open Research Institute (ORI). IEEE members and guests are welcome. This is a technical roundtable of FPGA projects from the Open Source hardware community. Participants report what they've done over the past week, what they have planned for the next week, if they have any roadblocks, and if they need any resources. The roundtable is sometimes followed by open office hours if anyone has additional questions or discussions.  

IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) San Diego has launched a "Lunch & Learn" series featuring short technical talks and panel discussions on AI/ML and emerging technologies.

We are also seeking professionals to join as speakers or panelists for upcoming events—offering a platform to share expertise, inspire others, and engage with the engineering community.