The presentation discusses the challenges in achieving digital privacy and the important role of technologists and policymakers while encouraging engagement from individuals and businesses.

When talking about the complexity and the importance of digital privacy, there is currently a balancing act between privacy rights and technological advancements. As technologies in digital privacy, like encryption techniques, continue to evolve, it will be essential for policymakers, businesses, and individuals to work together ensuring that personal data is protected, and privacy rights are upheld in the digital age.  In building trust, collaboration among technologists, policymakers and businesses must effectively address digital privacy challenges and protect consumer rights.

To help bridge the digital privacy and communication gap between technologists and policymakers, as well as building trust among the public at large and businesses, this presentation will also include discussion on the IEEE Digital Privacy Model.  The model is intended not to provide a prescription and implementation of solutions but serves as a vehicle for productive discussion on covering the broad and dynamic aspects of digital privacy issues.

To learn more about the work and how you can get involved with IEEE Digital Privacy Initiative and/or to keep apprised of future events such as the Reframing Privacy in the Digital World workshop, please visit:  https://digitalprivacy.ieee.org 

The Electron Devices Society Santa Clara Valley/San Francisco joint Chapter is hosting Prof. Francesca Iacopi. The title of the lecture is ‘More-than-Moore miniaturisation with graphene and cubic silicon carbide’

(Benson Center is our student center and off-campus parking is a viable option, though not as safe as on-campus with a parking pass. We can arrange for free 2-hour parking for attendees. The parking permits can be picked up at the venue after they have parked their cars in the visitor lot.) 

Campus map can be found here: https://www.scu.edu/map/

It is well known that harnessing graphene’s properties on a silicon platform could deliver a broad range of novel miniaturized andreconfigurable functionalities. It is less known that some key functionalities for MEMS/NEMS, nano-optics and metasurfaces can be uniquely unlocked by the combination of graphene and silicon carbide [1, 2, 3].
Over the last decade, we have developed an epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide on silicon technology that inherently delivers both capabilities. This platform allows to fabricate any complex graphene flat or 3D nanopattern in a site – selective fashion, ie without etching of the graphene, at the wafer -scale and with sufficient adhesion for integration [1, 4].
We will review the learnings from the development of this technology and some of its most promising applications. We show that the sheet resistance of epitaxial graphene on 3C-SiC on silicon is comparable to that of epitaxial graphene on SiC wafers, despite substantially smaller grains. We also indicate that the control of the graphene interfaces, particularly when integrated, can be a more important factor than achieving large grain sizes [4]. In addition, we show that well- engineered defects in graphene are preferable to defect -free graphene for most electrochemical applications. Promising examples of application of this technology in the More- than – Moore domain include integrated energy storage [5], MIR sensing and detection [6], and sensors for electro-encephalography [7, 8] for brain-computer interfaces [9]..

[1] B.Cunning et al, Nanotechnology 25 (32), 325301, 2014 [2] E.Romero et al., Physical Review Applied 13 (4), 044007, 2020 [3] P.Rufangura e
al, Journal of Physics: Materials 3 (3), 032005, 2020 [4] D.Katzmarek et al, Nanotechnology 34 (40), 405302, 2023 [4] A.Pradeepkumar et al, ACS
Applied Nano Materials 3 (1), 830-841, 2019 [5] M.Amjadipour, D.Su and F.Iacopi, Batteries & Supercaps 3 (7), 587-595, 2020 [6] P.Rufangura et
al, Nanomaterials 11 (9), 2339, 2021 [7] S.Faisal et al, Journal of Neural Engineering 18 (6), 066035, 2021 [8] S.Faisal et al, ACS Appl. Nano
Mater. 6 (7), 5440-5447, 2023 [9] F.Iacopi and CT Lin, Progress in Biomedical Eng. 4 (4), 043002, 2022.

Professor Francesca Iacopi is an IEEE Fellow with over 20 years’ industrial and academic research expertise in semiconductor technologies, with 160 peer-reviewed publications and 10 granted US patents, spanning interconnects, CMOS devices and packaging. Her research focuses on the translation of basic scientific advances in nanomaterials and novel device concepts into implementable integrated technologies. She is known for her seminal work on the integration of porous dielectrics in on-chip interconnects, and for
the invention of the alloy -mediated epitaxial graphene platform on SiC/Si pseudo-substrates. She was recipient of an MRS Gold Graduate Student Award (2003), an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2012), a Global Innovation Award in Washington DC (2014) and was listed among the most innovative engineers by Engineers Australia (2018). Francesca is an IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer and serves regularly in technical and strategic committees for IEEE and the Materials Research Society.
She is an Elected Member to the IEEE EDS Board of Governors (2021, 2024) and serves in the Editorial Advisory Board for ACS Applied Nanomaterials, and the IEEE The Institute magazine. She is also the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Trans. on Materials for Electron Devices (IEEE T-MAT). She leads the Integrated Nanosystems Lab, in the Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney. She is a Chief Investigator of the CoE in Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS), funded by the Australian Research Council.

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Being fresh out of grad school (FOOGS) in 1988, I reacted to PID controllers in the usual way for young Ph.D. recipients: with a certain “hands-off” smugness.  Yet, as the years in industry wore on, I kept encountering these ubiquitous devices in practice and had to learn to deal with them, understand them, and roll my own.  What I found led me to consider PIDs, not as a separate art from advanced methods, but as a fundamental building block which can be used as part of most controllers, simple or advanced.  It seemed that – at least in the mechatronics world – PIDs were considered too simple for much interest in academia while practicing engineers didn’t seem to care why they were working.  In the process world, where PIDs studied far more, the issues and methods of mechatronic PIDs seemed like obscure corner cases.  Depending upon the teaching text, issues of sampling and digital representation may have been completely omitted.  There were other surprises.  While PIDs were almost universal and standard, they were almost never unified or standardized. Furthermore, what seemed to limit performance was not the structure of the controller itself, but the lack of accurate system/process models based on repeated physical system measurements. Finally, the mechatronic and process PID goals and foibles were not that different once one considered the different system, time constant, and measurement constraints.  We will discuss these issues with the goal of getting a more unified view of PIDs across our application domains. We will provide a handful of common PID forms and show how they are related, so that we can approach any PID structure with the same analytical approach. We will finally look forward to how PIDs can be used, not only as a fundamental teaching tool for explaining control outside of our research circles, but as a critical component for advanced control methods.  As the great Paul Simon might say, “Mama don’t take my PID away.”

In-Person Location - Rusty’s Pizza ­­ 5934 Calle Real, Goleta, CA 93117

or Optional Virtual Webex Attendance   

6:00 PM – Complimentary Pizza, Salad, Beverage­

6:25 PM – Central Coast Status

6:30 PM – Dr. Ben Mazin Presents

Please join us on April 17th when Dr. Ben Mazin will speak about continuing research and development in his lab that has developed superconducting detectors that, among other uses, enable the detection of smaller and darker objects, exoplanets around nearby stars. Guests are welcome. Please Register Now below. Note Attendance Type: In-Person or Virtual. Best regards, Ruth Franklin IEEE Central Coast Chair

Best regards, Ruth Franklin IEEE Central Coast Chair

As glass is gaining a lot of attention and momentum as a state of the art semiconductor packaging technology, industry is looking to complete the supply chain to enable this promising technology. Several advances have been made in the field of metallizing glass core through vias, and in today’s presentation, we will discuss several options and MKS’ take on delivering a manufacturable solution. We will discuss options for seed layer deposition and highlight the MKS wet metallization technique that allows us to directly plate on glass. We will also go over several options for electrolytic plating of the bulk copper conductor for the through glass vias.

Utilities are evolving quickly with new technologies, growing demand and changing generation sources. Learn how Idaho Power is modernizing the electrical grid, mitigating wildfire risk and developing plans to meet the communities’ growing needs—all while keeping energy reliable, affordable and clean.

Abstract: Vince Bowen spent 31 years at the INL. He held positions at all of the INL desert areas and wrote the guidance for using a graded approach determining Quality Level (trade off in rigor and cost) for INL to use in their processes and procedures. His experiences are unique and touch on virtually all engineering disciplines that work for the INL. 

Bio: Vince was born in Idaho and raised in Pocatello graduating from Highland High school. Shortly after graduating from High School, Vince started his career in the US Nuclear Navy serving as a prototype instructor and as a nuclear electrician aboard the USS Phoenix, a nuclear submarine. He left the Navy as a Chief Petty Officer qualifying as an Engineering Watch Supervisor aboard the submarine. Following his Navy experience, he has worked at Idaho National Laboratory at numerous locations and a variety of positions with the most significant positions including Nuclear Facility Manager of the Specific Manufacturing Capability (Abrams tank armor), Hot Fuel Examination Facility (post irradiation examination of nuclear fuel), Fuel Conditioning Facility (reprocess spent nuclear fuel), and Transient Reactor Test Facility (qualify fuel for Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing). Additionally he qualified as a Senior Reactor Operator and Shift Supervisor at the Advanced Test Reactor. He has managed people since he was 15 years old starting as a construction foreman. Vince has a Bachelor’s Degree in University Studies with an Emphasis in Nuclear Facility Management. He has a Master’s Degree in Public Administration. Both degrees were obtained from Idaho State University. He is married to Elizabeth Bowen, has three sons, and seven grandchildren. Vince’s hobby is Fishing.

* The brewing will begin at 4:45 with the topical discussion starting at 5:00 and ending at 5:45 to allow for post-presentation conversations. The event will adjourn at 6:00. Finger food will be provided to keep the stomachs from growling .

Join us for an exciting virtual event on "AI for Electronic Design Automation," where we will delve into the revolutionary applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence in the field of electronic design. Our featured speaker, Priyank Kashyap, a Hardware Engineering Specialist at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, will showcase the use of generative adversarial networks in modeling high-speed receivers, addressing complex multi-physics problems like thermal analysis of PCBs and 3D-ICs, and exploring the potential of current models like LLMs in electronic design flows. This event promises to be a captivating deep dive into the cutting-edge technologies shaping the future of electronic design!

This exciting student event welcomes any IEEE member, student, or engineer to come get involved and see a display of IEEE student work from the past year! This event is open to all schools' participation with an email to the hosts or signup via the QR code. The event will have allotted time slots to display students' IoT arcade games as well as time for an RC competition. For parking permits at Cal Poly Pomona, please fill out the signup form and ensure that the appropriate steps are taken to get a parking pass.

2024 Spring Membership Elevation Project on 4-20-2024

The virtual meeting will start at 11:00 a.m. and ends by 12:00 p.m. (noon) on April 20, 2024 followed by a Drive Thru Grab and Go host by Metro LA Section at Stonefire Grill in Pasadena CA (Stonefire Grill, 473 N Rosemead Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107). The participants can do their Drive Thru after they complete their assignments as requested by Dr. Huang, the Section Membership Chair.

RSVP: Please email the following by 4/15/2024

Eremita Miranda at eremitam@outlook.com

Dr. Shouhua Huang at shouhua.huang@jpl.nasa.gov

Those who are interested in this project, please send an email with your CV, membership number, and a brief about your 5-year significant performance to: shouhua.huang@jpl.nasa.gov  and eremitam@outlook.com.  You will receive more information on this event including the Drive Thru Grab and Go lunch from the Event Chair. (eremitam@outlook.com)

This is addressed to three groups:

1. to those who want to be elevated to the IEEE senior member (SM) level and are ready to fill the application. If you do, please send an email to Dr. Huang with your resume, your membership number, and a brief about your 5-year significant performance / achievements in IEEE designated fields.  He is the Metro Section Membership Elevation Chair (shouhua.huang@jpl.nasa.gov ) cc the Event Chair: eremitam@outlook.com
2. The other Group is addressed to those members that are already senior members. They want to contribute to the profession as a reference to applicants. Please send Dr. Huang an email with your membership number if you want to be a reference. Please cc the Event Chair: eremitam@outlook.com
3. The other Group are typically YPs seeking help for them to plan ahead to qualify for the Senior membership as early as possible in their careers and want to learn as much as possible from qualified /experienced engineers

Metro LA Section Elevation Committee, led by Dr. Huang, the Metro LA Membership Elevation Chair, is making a great effort to help members apply for Senior membership. To qualify, the applicant must have been in the IEEE-designated profession fields for 10 years or longer. Senior member is the highest honor a member can apply for. The next step is Fellow grade; to be nominated for a Fellow, the nominator must be a senior member or a Fellow.  The member has to be a senior member at least 3 years.

The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and shall be conferred only by invitation of the Board of Directors upon a person of outstanding and extraordinary qualifications and experience in IEEE-designated fields, and who has made important individual contributions to the profession. The nomination process is very time consuming; however, the section nomination chair, Ms. Eremita Miranda (eremitam@outlook.com) is willing to spend the time to help members achieve the Fellow grade. She requires that the candidate must have contributed to the section as a high performer officer.  For more information on the fellow program, please go to: www.ieee.org/fellow.

Computing with Quantum Systems : Making it a reality

Abstract:

Quantum computing is a field that has garnered significant attention as an alternative method of
computation. In contrast to the classical computing paradigm of the past 50 years, quantum
computing relies on quantum superposition and quantum entanglement to facilitate great speedup in
certain computations. In this talk, I will introduce the fundamental ideas of quantum computing,
describe the potential uses of quantum computers, and give an overview of the Intel Quantum
computing research effort and the current state of the field.

Shavindra P. Premaratne 

Shavindra is a Quantum Systems Engineer and Research Scientist, working in the Applications & Quantum Architecture group at Intel Labs. His primary focus is on the integration of the quantum computing full stack. Broad experience in quantum device control & design, quantum & device simulations, systems modeling, automating measurements, and data analysis combined with expertise in the physics of quantum computing is crucial to his work conducted at Intel labs.

Shavindra holds a PhD and MS in Physics from University of Maryland – College Park (USA), a BSc in Physics from University of Peradeniya (Sri Lanka), and a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from University of Colombo (Sri Lanka).

registration is mainly to prevent wastage of food because of casual registrations and no-shows.

Synopsis:

The first talk investigates the challenges faced by refugee populations globally, emphasizing ethnocentric biases. Focusing on Syrian refugees and contrasting media coverage of the Ukrainian crisis, the talk describes how to leverage empirical research in human-computer interaction (HCI). The key goal of the project that will be discussed is to assess bias among Ukrainian and Syrian refugees using eye-tracking technology to study participants' decision-making and analyze pupil size data. The talk will investigate whether biases observed in media portrayal of refugees can be detected through HCI research.

The second talk presents insights into understanding music using machine learning to analyze and categorize various aspects of music. The talk will explore how music is digitally represented using features analogous to building a fingerprint for each song. The presentation then explores various dimensionality reduction techniques for music feature analysis. The speakers present a novel approach using representation learning in lower dimensions to evaluate the efficacy of mel-spectrogram features in capturing music characteristics across diverse languages. By visualizing the features in transformed spaces, the speakers explain how insights can be gained into fine-grained attributes like vocalist timbre, gender, language, and industry prominence. Spectral and non-spectral algorithms, including PCA, t-SNE, and UMAP, are employed to analyze music datasets. The speakers’ findings demonstrate UMAP's superior performance in discerning subtle musical nuances. The research paper that the speakers co-authored on a similar topic won the best paper award at the 10th ICMC, a Springer conference in 2024. The audience will discover how machines are learning the language of music, opening doors for new music exploration and analysis tools.

Session topics:

• Creating value for yourself in an interview so you can land the position and money you deserve
• How to ask for a raise by building your case and turbo charging your resume while you’re at it
• How to methodically pursue a new position, in addition to applying to job postings
• Internal recruiters versus outside recruiters – everything you ever wanted to know about a recruiter but was afraid to ask
• The art of references (conduct reference checks for yourself or have somebody do it for you)

Material to be provided:

• Interview Preparation
• Resume expander

Recent interest in joint radar-communications (JRC) has led to the design of novel signal processing techniques to recover information from an overlaid radar-communications signal as well as transmit a common signal for both systems. In this talk, we focus on two important tools for the design and signal processing of JRC systems: learning and sparsity. The interest in learning-based JRC is driven largely by the need to solve difficult nonconvex optimization problems inherent in a JRC design as well as to address the highly dynamic channel environments. Toward fully realizing the coexistence/co-design of both radar and communications, the optimization of resources for both sensing and wireless communications modalities is crucial. But the optimization-based approaches suffer from high computational complexity and their performance strongly relies on factors such as perfect channel conditions, specific constraints, and mobility. In this context, learning techniques provide robust performance at an upfront training cost. We discuss applying learning to various JRC aspects including channel estimation, antenna selection, resource allocation, and wideband beamforming. The second half of the talk focuses on exploiting sparsity in a general spectral coexistence scenario, wherein the channels and transmit signals of both radar and communications systems are unknown at the receiver. In this dual-blind deconvolution (DBD) problem, a common receiver admits a multi-carrier wireless communications signal that is overlaid with the radar signal reflected off multiple targets. The communications and radar channels are represented by continuous-valued range-time and Doppler velocities of multiple transmission paths and multiple targets. We exploit the sparsity of both channels to solve the highly ill-posed DBD problem by casting it into a sum of multivariate atomic norms (SoMAN) minimization. Toward the end of the talk, we focus on highlighting emerging JRC scenarios, particularly at mm-Wave and THz frequencies, vehicular applications, distributed radar-communications networks, intelligent surfaces, and aerial channels.

Despite the widespread proliferation of neural networks, the mechanisms through which they operate so successfully are not well understood.  In this talk, we will first explore empirical and theoretical investigations into neural network training and generalization and what they can tell us about why deep learning works.  Then, we will examine a recent line of work on algorithm learning.  While neural networks typically excel at pattern matching tasks, we consider whether neural networks can learn algorithms that scale to problem instances orders of magnitude larger than those seen during training.

The annual Del Mar Electronics and Manufacturing Show will be held at the Del Mar Fair and Exposition Center. 

The IEEE Consultants' Network of San Diego and the San Diego IEEE Section will both be hosting booths.  The San Diego chapter of IEEE Women in Engineering will be joining us as well.

A  number of IEEE members will be presenting on a variety of topics at the show.  Check out the schedule of speakers for interesting topics.

Come to the show and stop by the IEEE booth's to visit when you are there.  Register for the show today.

Join us in touring AdvRs Facilities and seeing what it would be like to have a career in their field.

*US Citizenship is REQUIRED to attend*

Installing Energy Storage Systems (ESS), Photovoltaic (PV) and Electric Vehicle (EV) equipment into power distribution systems can be complicated and expensive. However, Power Control Systems (PCS) introduced into the 2020 National Electrical Code (NEC Article 705) now allow more ESS + PV connected power to new or existing services while minimizing bus sizes, thus making retrofits easier and optimizing new installations.  Also, UL3141 (new in 2024) and UL1741 are safety and performance standards which are used to certify PCSs, smart inverters, converters, and the interconnection of EV and Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) in the system. 

This presentation offers a brief review of NEC 705, and the PCS which meets UL listing requirements.  Though applicable to power systems in general, the presentation offers a residential home as an application example of the value of a PCS.  The presentation discusses how it affects busbar loading and offers a way to integrate an ESS into existing or new systems.

In summary, the PCS, and associated standards make it easier for engineers and installers to maximize the use of multiple energy inputs for efficiency and cost, while ensuring safety and reliability.

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Abstract

Smart sensors enable a distributed computing approach which significantly reduces the bandwidth requirement for transferring sensor data when the edge computing capabilities in microcontrollers or sensors are utilized. MEMS sensors are now commercially available with a built-in Machine Learning Core (MLC), Finite State Machine (FSM) and Intelligent Sensor Processing Unit (ISPU). These sensors can execute decision trees, neural networks, and symbolic logic directly on the MEMS sensor die. This capability allows the user to develop a variety of applications for consumer, industrial, automotive or medical devices where power consumption for applications needs to be minimized. This presentation will focus on all aspects of on-sensor machine learning that are increasingly being used to build solutions with an always-on user experience with extremely low current consumption, in order of single-digit micro-amps for MEMS sensor applications.

This talk provides a comprehensive overview of Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) for Hybrid Bonding in semiconductor manufacturing. CMP is defined as a technique that combines chemical and mechanical forces to planarize films. The role of CMP in hybrid bonding (HB) is explored, emphasizing its significance in achieving controlled dishing and surface roughness. Key challenges in CMP for HB, such as scratches, dishing, and loading are addressed along with strategies for managing them. The talk concludes by emphasizing the importance of co-optimization of CMP for HB and its implications in semiconductor manufacturing and advanced packaging.

Today’s images arise from many sources: digital cameras, film photo scans, photo editing software, generative artificial intelligence, and combinations thereof. These technological innovations allow us to produce novel new imagery and even new knowledge derived from our media assets, but at the same time, they can confuse and even deceive us. The problematic credibility of media assets online is ubiquitously understood by all, but the complexity of the problem is understood by few.  Old buzz words such as ‘fake news’ and new ones such as ‘AIGC’ and ‘deep fakes’ allow us to label the problem, but not characterize the nuances inherent in judging the credibility of the images we consume daily, or the implications of the context within which we consume them, to take advantage of the beneficial outcomes of modern digital media production technologies while lessening the negative outcomes, we need to know if and how we can trust the media assets we encounter online.

In this discussion we will shine a light on the socio-technological nature of image credibility, considering the technological landscape of image generation and the human factors involved in ascertaining trustworthiness of images. We will then turn our attention to the advances being made in combatting the seemingly intractable and ever-increasing tsunami of uncertain online imagery. In particular, we will review a soon to be released JPEG ISO standard designed to support trust in images: JPEG Trust (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1), which provides a comprehensive framework for individuals, organizations, and governing institutions interested in establishing an environment of trust for the media that they use and share online.

Speaker Bio

Sabrina Caldwell is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing at the Australian National University. She teaches and researches in the areas of human-centered computing, web development and design and bioinspired computing.  She is co-chair of JPEG Trust and a member of the Australian Chapter of Creative Commons.

Real-world use examples and demos in using AI-assisted tools are introduced to increase your productivity. 

These tools include actual use of these AI-assisted tools during education week to promote events like Digital Privacy, AI Design Automation, AI Supply Chain Management, and AI-assisted Tutoring as well as for increasing awareness of these events, resultin in saving time and money.  Specifically, some of the features to be demonstrated are:

• Use of ChatGPT for Idea Generation:  Sample prompts to generate ideas for generating AI images for the above events.
  • Text-to-Speech
• Text-to-Image AI generation:  Example prompts using image generation tools such as Midjourney and Fotorr. Free design using Canva 
  • These include developing consistent characters for creating stories for k-12 in explaining why STEM fields are meaningful careers.
    • Especially, engineering where it is a challenging but rewarding discipline
    • Offering many career paths not necessarily in engineering: such as legal, medical, and entrepreneurial career paths.
  • AI-powered design assistance such as Canva
  • Edited features such as mass background removal for a bulk of images
  • With Midjourney, you can collaborate or gather ideas from other users
• Text-to-Video AI generation:   A demo of using video creation and AI assisted software to generate videos resulting in reduced production time and cost using automation in the video creation process
  • Easily create professional-looking videos without technical expertise
  • Voiceover and Text-to-Speech in adding your narration in multiple languages for a personal touch to the videos
  • Access to vast library of stock images, videos, and music to enhance videos

Overall, the AI-assisted tools are designed to empower users to create visually appealing and engaging multi-media content with ease. Whether users are working on personal projects or collaborating with a team, the various platforms process and achieve professional results. By leveraging AI technology, customizable templates, collaboration tools, an image library, and a user-friendly interface, users can unleash their creativity and bring their design visions to life effectively.

This flyer will be updated providing links that will be given below:

Artificial Intelligence for Increased Productivity

Master the Perfect ChatGPT Prompt Formula (in just 8 minutes)!

Urban aquatic ecosystems are extremely relevant connectors between people, animals and plants, making cities more biodiverse and sustainable. Yet, these ecosystems are often confronted with lack of space, cuts of vegetation, artificialization, and other urbanisation processes. This degradation can lead to numerous disservices to humans in regard to emerging pathogens, decreasing disease resistance, climate change impacts and other health concerns in cities.

This Webinar brings together two global experts on the topic of the convergence of aqautic health and human health.

OneAquaHealth aims to improve the sustainability and integrity of freshwater ecosystems in urban environments.  By investigating the interconnection of ecosystem health and human wellbeing, the project will identify early warning indicators and enhance environmental monitoring with AI-assisted tools. As a result, the project will support decision-makers in finding adequate and timely decisions as well as effective measures to restore aquatic ecosystems health and promote OneHealth.

https://www.oneaquahealth.eu/ 

Objectives of OneAquaHealth are:

• LINKS between the HEALTH OF NATURE and AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS and HUMAN HEALTH.
• LEVEL OF INTEGRITY of urban aquatic ecosystems for the maintenance of HUMAN HEALTH and wellbeing, ANIMAL and PLANT HEALTH and the MITIGATION of the RISKS OF DISEASES outbreak.
• Determine ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS for predicting DISEASES OUTBREAK RISKS related to aquatic ecosystem degradation, which may constitute EARLY WARNING INDICATORS.
• EARTH OBSERVATION DATA to monitoring early warning indicators.
• TOOL that allows the selection of measures to ACT UPON EARLY WARNINGS.
• Engage stakeholders for RISKS CONTRIBUTING to an EARLY WARNING SYSTEM.

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Join us for an enlightening seminar where we delve into the art of crafting captivating presentations tailored for both in-class seminars and oral talks at the international conferences. 
At this seminar, we'll explore the following key topics:
- Understanding How the Brain Processes and Retains Information: Gain insights into the encoding and decoding of the human brain and what the brain is attracted to.
- Tips to Capture and Maintain the Audiences' Attention: Discover effective techniques to engage your audience from start to finish, ensuring that your messages last.
- Tips to Create Informative and Impactful Slides: Unlock the secrets to making your slides clear to see, easy to read, and concise to remember.

RSVP now to secure your spot and take your presentations to the next level! 🚀

Join us Thursday, May 2, for a special IEEE-USA Washington Update to learn about how the Creating Resources for Every American To Experiment with Artificial Intelligence Act of 2023 (CREATE AI Act) shapes AI development. Our special guest, Katerina (Katie) Antypas from the National Science Foundation, will delve into the establishment of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR)—a vital hub for AI researchers and students.

Join us for a fascinating event right in the heart of one of the planet’s areas most affected by the effects of climate change: Alaska! You will learn about climate change induced impacts, indigenous experience, state of the art local research programs, remote sensing, land and oceanic field studies, and new and developing technologies for transitioning energy systems. You will debate with your colleagues ways to prioritize technology development to address challenges caused by the changing Arctic ecosystem. You will become part of a growing expert community dedicated to building IEEE technology roadmaps to return our planet to sustainability.

Check-in Thursday, May 2. Meetings Friday and Saturday, May 3-4. Check-out Sunday, May 5.

The Lakefront Anchorage Hotel, Anchorage Alaska

IEEE has secured a block of rooms at The Lakefront Anchorage Hotel . To book your room, please use this IEEE Room Block Link . The room block extends from check-in on Wednesday 5/1 to check-out on Monday 5/6, at a rate of 9 per night. Additional nights can be requested at the same rate. Credit card information will be requested but no payment applied until you check out.

The hotel is located at 4800 Spenard Road, Anchorage, Alaska. Free airport shuttle is provided by the hotel. Meals and snacks on Thursday evening, Friday morning and lunch, Saturday all day, and Sunday breakfast are provided by IEEE. Friday evening is free time for you to explore the area, with free hotel shuttles available to take you to dinner downtown Anchorage.

Registration is open until April 21, or, for in-person attendance, until all slots fill-up (maximum: 30 participants). Don’t delay registering to secure your spot! You may participate in-person or remotely each day as needed to fit your schedule. Please fill out the registrations form(s) below according to your choice(s). For example, you may register in person for one day and remotely for another day, or in-person for the entire workshop, or remotely for the entire workshop:

Monthly YP ExCom meeting. 

May 7, 2024 START TIME 6:30 pm

Zoom Only 

Please join us for a QUICK (1 hr) IEEE PHX SECTION May 2024 EXECUTIVE OPERATIONS & COMMUNICATIONS MEETING (EXCOM)

Purpose:

IEEE PHX Section Executive Operations & Communications Meeting (ExCom) February.  In this meeting we will discuss the PHX Section’s overall 2023 Goals, Strategy & starting calendar.  We will also discuss and move forward with the Section's old & new business including events, volunteer needs.  IEEE Student Chair/Leads, PHX-based IEEE Society Chair/Leads & PHX-base Affinity Leads are expected to attend or send a delegate, however any IEEE Member is welcomed.

Agenda 
Chair Reports
   - Schedule Updates
  -Upcoming events
New Officers Intro and Call for open volunteer positions

Discover How Chat GPT Can Transform Your Job Search!

Did you know that only 24% of Americans harness the power of Chat GPT? Surprisingly, this tool is most popular among the 18-24 age group. However, many users disengage within just 7 minutes of interaction.

In 2024, leveraging Chat GPT for your job search holds incredible potential. Elizabeth's presentation offers innovative strategies to maximize this tool's effectiveness in your quest for employment. Join us to explore expert tips, unconventional methods, and tailored prompts that will revolutionize your approach to job hunting.

     HALF-DAY SEMINAR MAY 9:  WiFi/UWB

IEEE Spokane is proud to co-sponsor an educational and comprehensive Half-Day Seminar on WiFi and Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Technologies – a no-cost event, including a complimentary lunch, co-sponsored by the Rohde-Schwarz Corporation and IEEE Spokane.   

Founded 90 years ago, Rohde-Schwarz has expanded worldwide over time, today including innovative divisions ranging from electronic test and measurement equipment to quantum computing to cyber-security.

This event, presented by Rohde-Schwarz experts, will first explore current developments in two key areas of today’s wireless communication, WiFi and UWB, and will then address unique specialized use cases for the two technologies.  Device testing topics will also be included -- and the event will conclude with a useful hands-on session in WiFi and UWB testing.

>> NOTE: Parking is free at the Spokane Public Library (SPL) Liberty Park Branch event location.

Although unique potentials of terahertz waves for chemical identification, material characterization, biological sensing, and medical imaging have been recognized for quite a while, the relatively poor performance, higher costs, and bulky nature of current terahertz systems continue to impede their deployment in field settings. In this talk, I will describe some of our recent results on developing fundamentally new terahertz electronic/optoelectronic components and imaging/spectrometry architectures to mitigate performance limitations of existing terahertz systems. In specific, I will introduce new designs of high-performance photoconductive terahertz sources that utilize plasmonic nanoantennas to offer terahertz radiation at record-high power levels of several milliwatts – demonstrating more than three orders of magnitude increase compared to the state of the art. I will describe that the unique capabilities of these plasmonic nanoantennas can be further extended to develop terahertz detectors and heterodyne spectrometers with quantum-level detection sensitivities over a broad terahertz bandwidth at room temperatures, which has not been possible through existing technologies. To achieve this significant performance improvement, plasmonic antennas and device architectures are optimized for operation at telecommunication wavelengths, where very high power, narrow linewidth, wavelength tunable, compact and cost-effective optical sources are commercially available. Therefore, our results pave the way to compact and low-cost terahertz sources, detectors, and spectrometers that could offer numerous opportunities for e.g., medical imaging and diagnostics, atmospheric sensing, pharmaceutical quality control, and security screening systems. And finally, I will briefly highlight our research activities on development of new types of high-performance terahertz passive components (e.g., modulators, tunable filters, and beam deflectors) based on novel reconfigurable meta-films.  

This is a great chance to meet other section and chapter officers!

There will be two separate meetings, with some joint sessions

   Section Officers, Starts at 9:00 AM

   Student Branch Officers, Starts at 10:30 AM

SEE THE PRELIMINARY AGENDA BELOW

This event will be available live at SEMI, as well as over Zoom. Get to SEMI by 6:30pm to network – and enjoy great pizza and refreshments! All attendees MUST register using the Eventbrite form (see link).

Counterfeiters are more active than ever, making products that are clever imitations that consumers cannot easily discern from the real thing. Estimated at .5 trillion annually and approximately 3% of world trade, it is the largest criminal enterprise in the world. American consumers tend to purchase the highest share of counterfeit goods at around 60-80% of all counterfeit goods sold. Counterfeits go way beyond consumer end-products to include components used in the automotive, electronics, aerospace, and defense industries.

In this talk, CNSV member Rosemary Coates will detail how counterfeiters have attained this huge foothold in the world market, as well as how Amazon and Chinese retailers such as Alibaba, Taobao, JD, and others are aggressively tracking and eliminating counterfeits on their platforms through new technologies such as invisible pigments, QR codes, photo mapping, and RFID. She will also discuss why industrial products and electronic components are harder to track, and the ties that counterfeiting enterprises have with terrorist organizations, international arms dealers, and drug cartels. With billions of dollars to be made through counterfeiting, the problem is expected to continue its daunting growth.

Learn about opportunities and the research challenges in the development of 100-300GHz wireless communications and imaging systems.