IEEE Oregon January 2026 Executive Committee Virtual Meeting

EXCOM Meeting for IEEE PES Seattle Officers 

Let’s start the quarter right! Join IEEE for a fun and welcoming social evening. We’ll share what IEEE is all about, what the club does, how you can get involved now, and opportunities for the future. Our Chair will also highlight exciting conferences that she and other students have attended.

Afterward, we’ll play Jeopardy and give out prizes. Don’t miss out!

Advanced sensor data analytics and cloud computation are redefining the way modern power grids are monitored and managed. With increasing integration of inverter-based resources (IBRs), there's a critical need for high-resolution, real-time data from systems such as phasor measurement units (PMUs) and point-on-wave sensors recently referred to as waveform measurement units (WMUs). These technologies enable enhanced situational awareness, rapid event detection, and deeper insights into grid dynamics. To support these capabilities at scale, cloud platforms are emerging as essential infrastructure. By eliminating geographical and physical constraints, cloud systems enable seamless data transmission, enterprise-wide access, and scalable analytics. Following a review of these advanced, we will introduce a sensor-to-cloud architecture, allowing synchronized measurement data to stream directly from substations to the cloud, facilitating real-time visualization, alarming, parameter estimation, and event analysis. This architecture also supports Virtual Power Plant (VPP) management by providing the operational data needed for coordinated control and optimization of distributed energy resources, marking a significant shift in utility operations and digital transformation strategies.

Join us for a private, guided tour of the world-famous Bullitt Center—described by Architectural Digest as “the greenest office building in the world.” Facilitated by the University of Washington Center for Integrated Design (CID), this behind-the-scenes tour will take you through the second-floor lobby, mechanical and electrical rooms, greywater and rainwater treatment systems, vacuum toilets, and the building’s “irresistible” central stairway. You’ll learn how the Bullitt Center achieves net-zero performance and meets the rigorous standards of the Living Building Challenge.

All visitors must bring and wear a face mask during the tour. Tours are open to all ages, accessible for those with limited mobility, and typically last about an hour and a half. Please note that strollers are not permitted on the tour but may be parked in the lobby.

Short-circuit current ratings (SCCR) and interrupting ratings form the backbone of electrical safety, coordination, and compliance in modern power systems. This presentation explores how UL 508A Supplement SB intersects with the National Electrical Code (NEC) to define the limits of what electrical equipment can safely withstand and interrupt under fault conditions.

The presentation examines how UL product listings and component ratings interact with NEC Articles 409, 110.9, and 110.10, clarifying how available fault current, protective device selection, and equipment labeling all converge in practice. Real-world examples will illustrate how engineers can properly determine SCCR, verify interrupting ratings, and ensure that the overall system meets both code and product standard intent.

Key Topics

• Fundamentals of SCCR and interrupting ratings
• Relationship between UL 508A Supplement SB and NEC Articles 409, 110.9, and 110.10
• Evaluating equipment for compliance and labeling accuracy
• Case studies from industrial and institutional systems

The Sacramento Valley YP Group Meeting is a coordination and planning forum for YP reporting officers and committee members. This meeting focuses on reviewing past activities, discussing financial reporting and expenses, and planning upcoming IEEE Young Professionals events and initiatives.

Key agenda items include progress updates from officers, discussion of future event proposals, budget planning and expense reporting, and alignment with IEEE guidelines and regional goals. The meeting also provides a collaborative space to address operational challenges, share best practices, and ensure timely and effective execution of planned activities.

This meeting is intended for IEEE YP officers and designated volunteers involved in event planning, finance, reporting, and program coordination, and plays a critical role in maintaining transparency, accountability, and smooth operation of IEEE YP activities.

Looking to upgrade your events?  Not sure where to start?  This training session will cover events, resources available, best practices, how to budget for events, and how to effectively advertise them. This is for section, chapter, and affinity group volunteers.  If this time does not work for you, there is another session on January 16th.

Additional sessions cover IEEE basics and organization vitality (strong volunteers and serving your membership).

This talk will provide an overview of radiation effects in integrated circuits and discuss radiation
hardening techniques. The talk will focus on single-event effects (SEE) and will review the impact of
SEE in storage and combinational logic circuits. The semiconductor industry has been striving to keep up
with Moore’s law scaling predictions through innovative process solutions from planar to FinFET and to
current nanosheet processes. This has helped develop high-performance application specific integrated
circuits (ASIC) to suit a variety of space and terrestrial applications. On the other hand, with technology
scaling and the associated increase in packing densities and reduction in operating voltages, the critical
charge needed to cause single-event effects in digital circuits has decreased significantly resulting in
increased vulnerability to radiation. This talk will review hardening-by-design approaches used for
overcoming single-events in memories, latches and logic circuits. Error correction techniques for
memories along with spacial- and time- redundancy based approaches for latches and logic circuits will
be presented. Recent advancement in the radiation-tolerant design approaches that tradeoff performance
penalty with the extent of radiation tolerance to suit different applications will be discussed along with the
performance overhead vs. radiation tolerance comparisons. Finally, the talk will review scaling trends and
bias dependence of single-event upset rates from planar to FinFET processes with an emphasis on the
opportunities and challenges for radiation hardening in highly scaled technologies.

SETI, or the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, attempts to answer one of humanity’s oldest questions: Are we alone in the universe?  While astronomers have devoted significant effort to finding exoplanets and trying to observe evidence of remote astro-biology, a parallel exploration involves observation of “technosignatures”, or radio signals that originate outside the solar system with characteristics suggesting an intelligent source.

In many ways radio SETI is a special class of communications problem in the realm of electrical engineering, with aspects of game theory in the mix.  Consider the challenges: the signal is unknown, and may be intentional (a beacon) or unintentional (involving navigation or communications).  The transmit frequency is unknown.  If a limited message is sent, the modulation will be unknown, and even if bits are produced, the message must be decoded.  Energy or geometry may limit persistence, so only a small fraction of observations in any pointing direction will have a chance at detection.  Without knowledge of the signal, matched filtering is not possible.  Link budgets may force limits on the signal bandwidth (narrowband tones) or time duration (pulse trains).

This talk will introduce the SETI problem and describe the scope of efforts underway in the radio SETI community.  Search strategies to maximize detection rate will be described, and narrowband SETI algorithms will be introduced.  In recent years, SETI search capabilities have vastly improved with the use of interferometric arrays covering GHz-class bandwidths, commensal observing, and the use of racks of GPU-enhanced servers, significantly raising the potential for new discoveries.

 SDIEEE EXCOM Meeting

Executive Committee meeting to discuss all San Diego IEEE activities.  All IEEE members welcome to attend. Please RSVP. 

• 5:30 pm, Meeting Starts
• 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm,    meeting (in person and/or remote) 
• Meeting Adjourned

To add to the agenda, please email upalmahbub@ieee.org.   

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 – Mike Ricci Presents

Please Register Below and join us on for the January Tech talk, where Mike will honor us with an interesting talk on LaunchPoint's patented lightweight permanent magnet starter generator and discuss our applications of it to hybrid-electric flight. Mike is my CTO, he is a brilliant engineer, IEEE Central Coast is lucky to have him come and talk with us! He is a great presenter and I am also excited to hear his talk and I’ve been working with him for the past 3 years!  Best regards, Jordan Ross IEEE Central Coast PACE Chair.

Link to Register yourself and Guests

NOTE: On-site registration is fully booked; we have reached the limits of our facility.  Please join us on-line.

Hybrid Bonding has emerged as the technology of choice in the semiconductor industry for ultra-fine-pitch interconnection. With significant benefits for interconnect density and device performance, it will become widely adopted for a broad range of high-performance semiconductor devices in the years to come. The success of Hybrid Bonding technology for high-volume manufacturing depends critically on the process technology as well as materials and equipment. Design, performance characterization, thermal management and reliability are also important considerations to enable applications in various areas.

Join us to learn about this expanding field, and discover how it will affect heterogeneous integration and system design.  We expect registrations for our on-site program to be filled by the middle of January; we apologize if you are not able to attend in person, but we encourage you to join us via WebEx. 

Abstract: 
This seminar will present a vision for “human-in-the-loop” precision medicine enabled
by emerging wearable, nearable, and ingestible bioelectronics. The talk will highlight
thread-based diagnostic platforms—including sweat-sensing bandages, saliva-sensing
floss, and smart sutures for monitoring wound healing—that integrate seamlessly with the
body and daily routine for continuous biochemical and physiological sensing.
The seminar will also cover advances in microneedle systems for controlled drug delivery
of multiple drugs with different dose rates, and for minimally invasive sampling of
interstitial fluid for biosensing. In the ingestible domain, the talk will introduce
swallowable capsules for gastrointestinal sensing and spatially resolved sampling of the
gut microbiome, offering new insight into host–microbe interactions beyond what fecal
testing can provide.
Together, these technologies point toward a future of personalized, real-time health
monitoring and intervention, reshaping how we detect disease and manage care.

DInner meeting at Blacksheep Wine bar and merchant in Chandler downtown

Dr. Alvin Loke from Intel Corporation will be presenting a Distinguished Lecturer Seminar titled "Impact of Advanced CMOS Technology on Analog Design" on Friday January 23rd at 4:30 PM. This will be the second talk of a two talk series.

Online attendees may register through the following link: https://hawaii.zoom.us/meeting/register/cBFZq9yzSVGuNuEhveuG0g

Please note that online attendance is ineligible for seminar credit.

Registration link to first talk "The Road to Gate-All-Around CMOS": https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/518256

with Kelsey Semrod, senior water resources scientist,  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Hassan Niazi, integrated human-Earth systems researcher, Joint Global Change Research Institute

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 27, 1 pm - 2 pm Pacific Time

Abstract:

Energy and water systems are deeply interconnected, leading to complex interdependencies that change in magnitude with changing natural, socioeconomic, and policy landscapes. Energy systems rely on water directly, for activities like cooling power plants or as a “feedstock” for hydropower and electrolysis, and indirectly, for mining primary fuels or cultivating biomass. Similarly, water systems require energy for a range of applications, such as groundwater extraction, reservoir operations, and water conveyance and treatment. Co- management of these interdependent and often competing energy and water flows is crucial for understanding the complexities of both systems and ensuring resilience.

Abstract: Implantable microsystems are revolutionizing healthcare by enabling continuous monitoring, targeted therapy, and closed-loop interventions inside the human body. At the core of this innovation, electronics packaging ensures safe, reliable, and effective access to life-saving therapies. Miniaturization remains a major challenge, driven by demands for longevity, power autonomy, and regulatory constraints on changing device form factors.

Guided by Medtronic’s mission to contribute to human welfare by applying biomedical engineering to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life, we continue to advance packaging technologies that enable devices such as cardiac monitoring devices, pacemakers and defibrillators, spinal cord and deep brain neurostimulators, and wearable sensors. This talk will highlight emerging trends shaping next-generation implantable systems and examine future challenges—from biocompatibility and reliability to regulatory hurdles—that must be overcome to fully realize their potential.

Biography: Neha Patel is a Distinguished Engineer at Medtronic, where she leads innovation in implantable microsystems and advanced electronics packaging for medical devices. After spending a decade at Intel developing semiconductor packaging expertise, Neha transitioned to healthcare to apply that expertise toward improving patient outcomes. Driven by a passion for engineering solutions that make a meaningful difference, she continues to push boundaries in miniaturization and high-reliability design for next-generation medical implants.

Location: Macro Technology Works Building Conference Room 3654 (Google Maps)

Agenda:
Refreshments: 5:30-6:00pm
Seminar Talk: 6:00-7:00pm
MTW Tour: 7:00-7:30pm

The new year brings a rapidly shifting job landscape shaped by AI adoption, evolving skill demands, and changing expectations across industries. Whether you're just entering the workforce, navigating a mid-career pivot, or seeking renewed clarity in your professional direction, the 2026 job market requires agility, strategic positioning, and smart use of technology.

In this session, we explore how AI is transforming job searches and career development, from personal branding and skills mapping to tailoring resumes and preparing for interviews. We’ll discuss the realities of today’s talent market, what employers are looking for, and how professionals at every stage can stay competitive. Participants will gain actionable strategies for career progression, mid-career reinvention, and developing capabilities that align with emerging workplace trends.

This webinar sets the tone for the year ahead, equipping you to approach 2026 with confidence, clarity, and a roadmap for sustaining career momentum.

EXCOM Meeting for IEEE PES Seattle Officers 

Autonomous vehicle fleets generate massive volumes of sensor and operational data that must be reliably transferred to cloud infrastructure to support development, validation, and production operations. Designing scalable data exchange mechanisms is challenging due to the large number of vehicles involved, changing network conditions, and different requirements on data volume, latency, and reliability.

This talk presents a system-level view of data exchange between autonomous vehicle fleets and cloud infrastructure. It explains how different data transfer approaches such as physical media, high-speed wired connections, and cellular networks are used together to support large-scale fleet operations. The talk also describes how data handling can be adapted per vehicle based on its role and operating mode, enabling large-volume data uploads, timely reporting of safety-critical events, and continuous fleet health monitoring within a unified system. Key challenges related to reliability, security, and scaling are discussed, along with practical lessons learned from operating real-world autonomous driving systems.

Tom Walker of Virtual Sphere LLC

Topic:

How to Start your own Software Business

Based on his own software startup business as well as many years in the field of consulting, engineering and software development, Tom Walker discusses the methods, requirements, needs and cautions regarding starting and funding a software business

Biography:

Tom has extensive education and experience in the software business.  He is currently CEO of Virtual Sphere LLC, a technical software and photonics consulting group.  Prior to that he was Senior Director of Research and Development at Synopsys Corp, Pasadena. He has also held the position of VP and Software Chief Technical Officer at Optical Research Associates.  Tom has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cal State Long Beach and is an active member of several industry organizations:  IEEE, SPIE, OSA and ACM

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

What does it take to engineer a system that must run nonstop for years, without failure, inside the most hostile environment imaginable—the human body? In this talk, Ian Coll McEachern shares lessons from two decades designing Class III medical devices, surgical robotics, and most notably, contributing to the architecture and development of an artificial heart. Instead of focusing on any single invention, this talk reveals the methodology behind navigating extreme technical risk when dozens of tightly coupled subsystems must evolve simultaneously.

Ian will walk through a practical framework for managing complexity: identifying unknowns early, building parallel test beds, using simulation to reduce risk before fabrication, and validating assumptions through rapid physical prototyping. Attendees will see how constraints—size, power, fluids, mechanics, biocompatibility, and reliability—become a forcing function for innovation rather than a barrier, and how disciplined iteration beats brute force engineering every single time.

While rooted in life-critical medical devices, these principles apply far beyond healthcare. Whether designing robotics, storage hardware, automation systems, or high-reliability consumer products, this presentation will present a field-tested roadmap for tackling daunting engineering challenges, orchestrating cross-domain complexity, and building systems that must not fail.

Abstract:

Speaker:

Thursday February 19, 2026

11:30 AM: Networking, Pizza & Drinks

Noon -- 1 pm: Seminar

Please register on Eventbrite before 9:30 AM on Thursday February 19, 2026

IEEE members  non IEEE members

(discounts for unemployed and students )

Student Professional Awareness Conference (SPAC) is an event with several workshops held for students to come develop their skills to become better engineers. 

EXCOM Meeting for IEEE PES Seattle Officers