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Abstract  
Wi-Fi is an outstanding success story. Although it has been around for decades, it continues to evolve by adding new functionalities, improving performance, and delivering new services. It is difficult to imagine going one day without Wi-Fi. In this talk, we will discuss the latest generation of Wi-Fi technology, namely, Wi-Fi 6. Wi-Fi 6 is a revolution compared to any of the previous Wi-Fi generations because it introduces capabilities that are essential to support a much denser number of devices per access point, best-in-class security, greater capacity, and lower latency. We will cover some performance characteristics of Wi-Fi 6, provide a market update, and conclude with future directions towards Wi-Fi 7.  

Biography: 
Dr. Carlos Cordeiro is the CTO of wireless connectivity at Intel Corporation, where he is responsible for next-generation wireless connectivity technology strategy, standards, ecosystem engagements, and regulatory. In the Wi-Fi Alliance, he is a member of the Board of Directors and serves as its Technical Advisor. Due to his contributions to wireless communications, Dr. Cordeiro received several awards including the prestigious Intel Inventor of the Year Award in 2016, the 2017 IEEE Standards Medallion, the IEEE Outstanding Engineer Award in 2011, and the IEEE New Face of Engineering Award in 2007. Dr. Cordeiro is the co-author of two textbooks on wireless published in 2006 and 2011, has published over 100 papers in the wireless area alone, and holds over 250 patents. He has served as Editor of various journals including the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Wireless Communication Letters and the ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review journal. Dr. Cordeiro is an IEEE Fellow.  

Abstract: Soft electronic devices that can acquire vital signs from the human body represent an important trend for healthcare. Combined strategies of materials design and advanced microfabrication allow the integration of a variety of components and devices on a stretchable platform, resulting in functional systems with minimal constraints on the human body. In this presentation, I will demonstrate a wearable multichannel patch that can sense a collection of signals from the human skin in a wireless mode. Additionally, integrating high-performance ultrasonic transducers on the stretchable platform adds a new third dimension to the detection range of conventional soft electronics. Ultrasound waves can penetrate the skin and noninvasively capture dynamic events in deep tissues, such as blood pressure and blood flow waveforms in central arteries and veins. This stretchable platform holds profound implications for a wide range of applications in consumer electronics, sports medicine, defense, and clinical practices.

Bio: Dr. Sheng Xu is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Nanoengineering at UC San Diego. He received his B.S. in Chemistry and Molecular Engineering from Peking University in Beijing, China, and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His group is interested in soft wearable electronics for health monitoring and human-machine interfaces. His research has been presented to the Congressmen and Congresswomen as testimony of NIH extramural research during a Congressional Hearing. He has been recognized by a number of awards, including the MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, NIH NIBIB Trailblazer Award, Wellcome Trust Innovator Award, 3M Nontenured Faculty Award, Samsung Global Research Outreach Award, Nokia Bell Labs Prize, SPIE DCS Rising Researcher, Lattimer Faculty Fellowship, and MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award (one of the 32 recipients of this award since its inception in 1991). He is a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and a Frontier of Engineering of the National Academy of Engineering. He serves Nano Research as a Young Star Editor.

Note: WebEx URL will be sent out on August 11, 2020 evening to those who registered before the meeting.

Over seventy percent (70%) of enterprise IT projects fail. For larger, more complex projects over a million dollars the failure rate jumps to ninety-five percent (95%). These failures cost US companies roughly 0 billion every year. Two-thirds of these failures happen for just one reason. It’s not the technology. It’s not the team. It’s because what the business is trying to do is never fully communicated; therefore, it’s never fully understood.

The origins of this communication problem are not what we have assumed. Psychologists and neuroscientists have recently discovered that the human brain does not work the way we thought it worked. And that discovery has profound implications for how we need to manage our project communications. The purpose of this presentation is threefold: (i) To unpack how two-thirds of enterprise IT projects fail; (ii) To explain the mental processes that are responsible for those failures; and (iii) To offer a simple solution—a checklist—that can be used by anyone to prevent such a communication problem from destroying their IT project.

IEEE Orange County Section Executive Committee Monthly meeting - occurs every 2nd thursday of the month.

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Smartphones are the most common connection to the internet and can contain a wealth of information when it comes to an investigation. Over 396 million downloads of social media Apps occur in one quarter, and this number is growing exponentially. So, how do you find this data to capitalize on the value it can add to your investigation? Review of the data from each type of social network as well as if it exists on the device or in the cloud will be covered. Techniques to capture data from open source options as well will be reviewed.

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If you attended the last section meeting with Isaac Vanderberg and Launch Alaska, you might remember that one of the cohorts for Launch Alaska is a nuclear startup known as Oklo, Inc. Oklo’s first product is a micro reactor design that supplies power in the ranges typically required for small towns, villages, mining/industrial sites, and so forth (a few megawatts of electric power as opposed to hundreds of megawatts).

As we have been discussing various energy solutions for our state, we have, so far, discussed energy storage, wind, solar, hydro, carbon dividends and just about everything BUT nuclear power. However, if nuclear power can be made to work on scales that are suitable for Alaskan applications, this would be a colossal game-changer. Instead of barging in hundreds of thousands of gallons of diesel fuel to coastal towns (or flying diesel in to interior communities), a single power plant could potentially power its community or industrial site for years or decades between refuelings, and this power would be provided 24/7/365 without regard for the weather. Instead of using heating oil, people in rural communities could utilize either the waste heat from the reactor or use electric heat. Overall, this has the potential to drastically reduce air pollution and reduce the cost of living out in the bush, and the developments that result from developing micro reactor technology have the potential to enable other solutions as well.

The presentation will cover the following topics:

• About Oklo
• Fast Facts on the Aurora Powerhouse
• Plant Applications and Plant Features
• Technical Details
• Fuel Recycling 

If you are interested in attending this meeting, please sign up, and before the meeting starts, join the meeting via Zoom. IEEE members all over the state (or even out-of-state) are encouraged to sign up and participate. Also, if you know anybody who is not an IEEE member and who might be interested, please forward this invitation to them. Everyone is welcome to join and participate.

Hello Central Coast,

Finally, we have an outdoor venue for our August 19th Event, Arnoldi’s Italian Restaurant at 600 Olive St. on the Patio.

Distinguished Professor Eckart Meiburg will honor us with his talk, Modeling the Pacific Ocean on the Computer

Please register ASAP to reserve your spot as seating is limited. Be sure to include your email address and menu choice.

Best regards, Ruth Franklin, IEEE Central Coast Chair

People have been making musical instruments for a long time; for over 40,000 years. We use whatever we can find to make them. Today we can use 3D printers to make them. This talk will show how to apply microwave theory (transmission line theory, network analysis, and S-Parameters) to the design of woodwind instruments; especially renaissance instruments such as the flute, crumhorn, or cornetto. The talk will then show how to use 3D printing to make working instruments.

Biography of Speaker:

Dr. Jackson has had an interest in the design of woodwind instruments for many years. He has written articles on Quasi-optical components, High Temperature Superconductors for microwave applications, Ferroelectric phase shifters, and Microwave Radiometers. He has been awarded three patents. He is on the Center Staff of the RFMS of Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. He was President of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society in 2001, and is a Fellow of the IEEE.

“Combined heat and power (CHP), also known as cogenera­tion, produces both electricity and thermal energy on-site [from a single source], replacing or supplementing electricity provided from a local utility and fuel burned in an on-site boiler or furnace. CHP systems increase energy security by producing energy at the point of use, and significantly improve energy efficiency.”  https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/12/f46/CHP%20Overview-120817_compliant_0.pdf

CHP does not replace the requirement for emergency back-up diesel generation.  What it does is provide a reliable and sustainable energy source without fear of power shutdowns due to drastic weather conditions or other cause that might prompt a power outage for the grid.

The presentation will focus on the high costs of electricity and how an alternate strategy to reduce overall utility costs by taking advantage of the combined heat and power (CHP). The CHP systems offer considerable environmental benefits when compared with purchased electricity and thermal energy produced on site. By capturing and utilizing heat that would otherwise be wasted from the production of electricity, CHP systems require less fuel to produce the same amount of energy. Find out more on how you may be able use this technique to save costs and energy.

Ruonan Han

Traditional electromagnetic (EM) spectral sensors using integrated circuit technologies (e.g. automotive radars, security imagers, cameras, etc.) are normally based on remote wave scattering or absorption by macroscopic objects at remote distance; the operations are also not selective in wave frequencies. In the past couple of years, a new paradigm of chip-scale EM spectral sensing emerges with features complementary to the above: they utilize various modalities of interactions between EM waves with high-precision frequency control and microscopic particles (molecules, atoms, etc.) with close proximity to the chip. This progress is enabled by the recent advances of silicon devices and processes, as well as the extension of circuit operation frequencies into the terahertz regime. Chip-scale sensing and metrology systems with new capabilities, higher performance and unprecedented affordability now become possible. Examples include THz gas spectroscopy sensors, on-chip “atomic-clock-grade” frequency references, room-temperature CMOS-quantum magnetometers, etc. This talk will present the basic physics of the some wave-matter interactions, key enabling technologies, as well as the designs and prototypes of a few chip systems in the category described above. We will also discuss their potential applications in bio- chemical analysis, wireless networks, PNT (positioning, navigation & timing), security and so on.

Chris helps leaders and sales people gain trust, respect, admiration and loyalty from those they lead and sell to. Member of the Motivational Speakers Hall of Fame One of Inc Magazine’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers. He was named one of the Top 50 Speakers in the World.

You do not want to miss our August Tech Talk. Chris Widener, America's Number one Influence and impact strategist will be speaking to us consultants on how to excel in our speaking engagements. He will coach us on how to succeed in our presentations to clients and successful technical presentations to our peers.

The rapidly changing technologies and access to software through connected platforms have blurred the lines between consumer and medical products. This has historically resulted in some challenges for healthcare regulators and industry to recognize software as medical devices (SaMDs) and applicable regulatory requirements. The COVID-19 pandemic has also affected these products in more than one way including: demand, regulatory deadlines and overall impact to healthcare.

During this presentation we will cover:

- Impact that Covid-19 is having to these types of devices and possible Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) pathways

- Specific regulatory challenges that the non-physical nature of software raises

- Review of the definition and distinction between a SaMD and medical device software

- International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF) recent developments

- EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR) required changes

- Discussion of FDA’s pre-certification program for SaMD development

- Requirements for Quality Management System and key characteristics for SaMDs

- Review of IEC 62304- Software Lifecycle Process Standard and key considerations for Design History File

- Clinical Evaluation considerations of SaMDs

Throughout the presentation, we will highlight recent regulatory changes as they apply to Medical Device software and how businesses can best prepare for upcoming regulatory submissions.