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Advancing Technology for Humanity

ALMANACK Published ten times/year, January through

June and September through December.

IEEE SECTION NIGHT IEEE Section Night meetings are con-

ducted nine times/year on the 3rd Tues-day of the Month, January through May and September through December.

ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE ADCOM meetings are conducted on the

2nd Tuesday of the Month, January through June and September through De-cember. Members are welcome to attend the meeting only. Reserve a seat by calling the office by the Friday before the meeting.

June 2016

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday1 2 3 4

NORTHERN VA WORKSHOP

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12 13 14 15 16 17 18ADCOM PSEG Tour

ALTERA WORKSHOP

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26 27 28 29 30

INSIDE THE ALMANACK

CURRENT EVENTS Altera University Workshop……….2 IEEE Sarnoff Symposium………….4 PSEG Life Member Tour…………..6 Gerald W. Gordon Award……….. ..8 IEEE Northern VA Workshop…....11

RECENT NOTABLE EVENTS IEEE Radar Conference 2016…….12

SECTION NOTES Status Change………….…….........15 Ernest’s Page……………………...16 Section Notes………………….. ...18

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PHILADELPHIA SECTION of the IEEE Counties of Membership: Pennsylvania: Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia.

New Jersey: Burlington, Camden and Gloucester

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ALTERA UNIVERSITY WORKSHOP

IEEE PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER OF CONTROL SYSTEMS SOCIETY PRESENTS

An Altera® University Program Training Workshop INSTRUCTOR: DR. STEPHEN BROWN

June 15, 2016 Drexel University, Bossone Research Center 10:00 AM - 3:30 PM Bossone 605, 3140 Market Street, Philadelphia,

PA 19104

Workshop Description: This Workshop is a derivative

of class room training provided by The Altera® University Program Training courses. This program is meant to provide introduction to the many state-of-the-art educational ma-

terials Altera has developed to enrich your digital logic and computer opti-mization skills. This course will in-clude development hardware to be used along with hands on training.

Instructor Biography

Stephen Brown received the Ph.D. and M.A.Sc degrees in Electrical En-gineering from the University of To-ronto, and his B.A.Sc. degree in Elec-trical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick. He joined the University of Toronto faculty in 1992, where he is a Professor in the De-partment of Electrical & Computer Engineering. He is also the Director of the University Program at the Intel Programmable Solutions Group (for-merly the Altera Toronto Technology Centre), a world-leading research and

development site for CAD software and FPGA architectures.

His research interests include field-programmable VLSI technolo-gy, CAD algorithms, and computer architecture. He is a principal investi-gator in the LegUp project, which provides an open-source high-level synthesis framework. He won the Ca-nadian Natural Sciences and Engi-neering Research Councils 1992 Doc-toral Prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in Canada.

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He has won multiple awards for excellence in teaching electrical engi-neering, computer engineering, and computer science courses. He is a co-author of more than 100 scientific re-search papers and three textbooks:

Fundamentals of Digital Logic with Verilog Design,

Fundamentals of Digital Logic with VHDL Design, and Field-Programmable Gate Arrays.

Details: - Fee: $20 for IEEE Student Members;

$30 for IEEE members and Students; $40 for Non-IEEE members

- Lunch will be provided. - Registration Link: https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/39921

Agenda:

10:00-10:30

30 min.

Introductory slides

10:30-12:00

90 min.

Hands-on Tutorial for Digital Logic (Quartus Prime Lite 15.1 tools will be used)

12:00-12:30

Lunch (provided by IEEE CAS Society Philadelphia Chapter)

12:30-2:10

100 min.

Introduction to ARM with Hands-on exercises:

Exercise 1: Greatest Common Divisor (Basic assembly program)

Exercise 2: Dot product (Assembly program with memory access)

2:10-2:15

Break

2:15-3:30

105 min.

Introduction to Cyclone V HPS with Hands-on exercises:

Exercise 3: HPS Peripherals

Exercise 4: FPGA peripherals

Exercise 5: Data streaming from ARM core to FPGA fabric over AXI/Avalon

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The 37th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium 2016 New Jersey Institute of Technology Conference Center

Newark, New Jersey, USA September 19-21, 2016

Sponsored by IEEE Princeton/Central Jersey Section (IEEE Region 1) http://sites.ieee.org/SARNOFF2016

ABOUT IEEE SARNOFF Since 1978, the IEEE Sarnoff Sympo-sium has been bringing together tele-com and communications experts from industry, universities, and gov-ernments. The Sarnoff Symposium continues to grow as a premier forum in the northeastern United States for

researchers, engineers, and business executives, drawing an attendance from all over the world. Besides tech-nical sessions, the Symposium will include keynotes, invited talks, expert panels, tutorials, demo/exhibits and posters presentations.

The Symposium is soliciting state-of-the-art research papers, panels and tutorial proposals including, but not limited to, the following topics: * 4G/5G Communications * Network Architecture * Cloud and data center networks * Network Design * Cognitive radio and opportunistic networks * Network Performance * Communications and Information Theory * Internet-of-Things * Cyber-physical systems and networks * Optical Communications * Green networking and Sustainability * Optical Networking * M-Health, E-Health and Smart Health- care * Self Configuring Networks * Mobile Networks

* Smart Cities and Communities * Near field communications * Software-Defined Networks * Network Function Virtualization * Standardization Efforts and Needs * Cloud Computing * Security, Trust, and Privacy * Network architectures for Smart Infrastructures * UAV, Underwater and Underground Communications * Network virtualization * Wireless Communications * Networked Applications and Services * Wireless Networks * Network Analytics * Wireless Sensor Networks

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Authors must submit their papers using EDAS on or before Tuesday, May 31, 2016:

https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=22080.

All papers will be reviewed for tech-nical content and scope by the technical program committee. Accepted and pre-sented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be in-cluded in IEEE Xplore. The page limits are SIX (6) pages for the long paper track and THREE (3) pages for the short paper track. Papers should be in PDF format, two columns, font size 10 or greater and compliant with other IEEE Sarnoff Symposium manuscript guidelines, which can be found on the conference website. Sub-mitted papers must be unpublished and not currently under review for any oth-er publication. Authors of accepted pa-pers must sign an IEEE copyright re-lease form and also present their paper at the conference for their paper to be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore.

Important Dates: * Paper submissions: May 31, 2016 (FINAL AND FIRM EXTENSION) * Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2016 * Camera-Ready Paper Submission and Author Registration: July 29, 2016 * Conference dates: September 19-21, 2016 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs: Deepak Kataria, IP Junction Inc.; Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, New York Institute of Technology; TPC Co-Chairs: Christian Makaya, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Rudra Dutta, North Carolina State University; Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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IEEE Life Member Tour PSEG Mercer Generating Station June 14, 2016 By M. Robert Paglee, P.E. (Ret.), IEEE LM

The Life Member Group, headed by Merrill Buckley, is sponsoring a tour of the PSEG Mercer Generating Station on June 14, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. The large coal-burning facility was upgrad-ed in recent years with advanced tech-nology pollution controls, creating an example that demonstrates what can be achieved. The Mercer Generating Station of PSEG Power LLC is capable of gener-ating 648 MW of electricity by utiliz-ing steam turbine generators. Steam is produced by two coal-fired natural circulation boilers. Although these boilers are capable of burning natural gas, the primary fuel is bituminous

coal. The two steam units have similar equipment supporting each unit, includ-ing coal scrubbers, electrostatic precipi-tators, selective catalytic reduction and flue gas desulfurization, boilers, gener-ators, and mechanical support equip-ment.

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After investing over $600 million in recent years for pollution control equipment, Mercer Generating Station is demonstrating how 200 tons of coal can be burned per hour for power gen-eration with relative cleanliness. Emis-sions of sulfur dioxide, mercury, ni-trous oxides and soot have been re-duced by up to 90 percent according to company officials. Environmental con-trols include a 14-story dry scrubber, a baghouse with 10,000 fabric filters, a carbon-injection system for mercury reduction, and a catalytic reduction unit where ammonia is injected to convert nitrous oxide into nitrogen and water.

The tour is open to IEEE members and others, but it is necessary to make a reservation by phoning the IEEE office at (484) 270-5136; space may be lim-ited to 25 visitors, so it's best to call early. Each visitor's name and his/her employer's name or affiliation must be stated; retired persons or students can be so listed.

DIRECTIONS In traveling north from the Philadelphia area, PSEG's Mercer Generating Sta-tion is easily reached via either I-95 or I-295. For directions via GPS, use the following address: 2512 Lamberton Rd., Hamilton NJ 08611. To travel on the PA side, use I 95 north to the inter-section with U.S. 1 eastbound, then cross the river (as if toward Trenton). But instead take NJ 29 immediately southbound, then exit onto Lamberton Rd., continuing south to the PSEG en-trance gate. You will be met there by the PSEG Tour Director, Mark Schwartzkopf, Fossil Compliance and Programs Manager (or his aide) for di-rection to the parking area.

On the NJ side, take I 295 north to its intersection with NJ 29 north (toward Trenton), then exit to southbound NJ 129/Canal Blvd. until it meets Lamber-ton Rd. next to the river. Turn left onto Lamberton and follow it to the PSEG entrance gate as described above.

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ITC Is Now Accepting Nominations for the 2016 Gerald W. Gordon Award for Student Volunteerism

The International Test Conference (ITC) is offering the Student Service award described below. It is in memory of Gerald W. Gordon, who was a member of the Philadelphia IEEE Sec-tion, and a dedicated volunteer on ITC’s Steering Committee from its in-ception.

The International Test Conference (ITC), the Test Technology Technical Council and the IEEE Philadelphia Section sponsor the Gerald W. Gordon Award. The award to the recipient consists of complimentary tutorial reg-istration for one morning and one af-ternoon tutorial for each of the 2 days they are offered, complimentary full conference registration for ITC, com-plimentary registration for one of the at conference workshops, up to $750 for travel expenses to the conference and free lodging for the nights of attend-ance. Eligibility Requirements

The Gerald W. Gordon Award recip-ient must be a student in good standing at an accredited university or college. Award recipients must have done vol-unteer work for one or more IEEE con-

ferences, symposia, workshops and/or organizations dedicated to the devel-opment of electronics design and test-ing fields.

Consideration shall be given to the amount of volunteer service given; the breadth of volunteer service given; the impact of the volunteer service give; and worthiness of the candidate. Nomination Process

The form for nominating a candidate can be obtained by clicking on the fol-lowing link, “2016 Gerald W. Goradon Award Nomination form”. The nomi-nator must complete and submit an ap-plication form to summarize why the applicant is qualified for the award and list the relevant service work. In addi-tion, the nominator must identify 2, but not more than 5 endorsers. The nomi-nator must inform the endorsers that they need to email an endorsement of the candidate as described on the nom-ination form. The nomination form and endorsement emails should be sent to [email protected]. No lat-er than September 1, 2016. All candi-dates will be notified of the selection decision by September 15, 2016.

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Gerald W. Gordon Award Endorsements Endorsers This award requires at least two and no more than five endorsements. Please provide the names and ad-dresses of your designated endorsers below. Your endorsers will need to send an email endorsing the candidate for the Gerald W. Gordon Award.

The endorsement should be sent to [email protected] and should evaluate the nominee on the "criteria for volunteer service record" above. Endorsements must be submit-ted by 1 September, 2016.

Note: All applicants/nominators should email the endorsement forms to the en-dorsers and make sure they are sent in no later than September 1, 2016. Endorser 1

First name/initial: Last name: Address: Phone: E-mail:

Endorser 2 First name/initial: Last name: Address: Phone: E-mail:



Endorser 5 First name/initial: Last name: Address: Phone:

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Nomination Form

Gerald W. Gordon Award For Student Volunteer Service to the IEEE

This nomination form and all endorsements must be received by September 1st, 2016.

All forms must be sent to:

Kenneth Mandl Teradyne Corp.

e-mail: [email protected]

Nominee First name/initial: Last name: Address: Home phone: E-mail: Fax:

University/College of Enrollment Name:

Address: Degree Program: Expected date of Graduation:

Citation

Give a brief citation (thirty words or less) indicating the most salient reason the nominee is qualified for the award.

Relevant Service Work List and explain the candidate’s volunteer service to IEEE events, programs and organizations.

Nominator’s Contact Information First name/initial: Last name: Address: Home phone: Business phone: Email:

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The IEEE Northern Virginia Section Hands-On Technical Workshop Series Presents:

Build an Internet of Things Weather Station June 4, 2016

By the end of this course you will: • Learn what is meant by the "Internet of Things” • Compare several platforms and protocols • Experience breadboard prototyping techniques - no soldering needed • Program the ESP8266 System on Chip (SoC) using Arduino sketches • Interface temperature, pressure, and humidity sensors on an I2C bus • Create an account on the free ThingSpeak IoT service and upload data • View and analyze your data graphs on a standard web browser • Take home your working IoT Weather Station!

You will also perform remote Over the Air (OTA) firmware updates and create a smartphone app if time permits. Instructor: Karl Berger is a licensed Professional Engineer with over forty years of rail vehicle design experience. He is also chair of the Northern VA/Washington joint section Vehicular Technology Society chapter and an amateur radio operator.

Prerequisites: Bring and know how to use a laptop running a recent version of Windows, OS X, or Linux with Wi-Fi, an open USB port, at least 1 GB of available disk space, a modern web browser, and power supply. You must have sufficient privileges to install drivers and programs and view docu-ments. An Android or Apple smartphone with a browser and text messaging capability is optional.

Credit: 6 PDH (0.6 CEU)

Date/Time: Saturday, June 4, 2016, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm US Eastern Time Location: DeVry University 2450 Crystal Drive Arlington, VA 22202 Cost: $45 for IEEE members, $65 for non-members. Students, seniors, and mili-tary receive 10% discount. Lunch and a Wi-Fi development kit including no-solder breadboard, sensors, LCD display, and power supply are included. Registration: https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/39229

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IEEE Radar Conference 2016 May 2 to May 6 Loews Hotel Philadelphia 1200 Market St. Philadelphia, PA 19107

Sponsored by the IEEE Philadelphia Section, the IEEE Aerospace and Elec-tronic Systems Society and also Lockheed Martin as a Premier Supporter.

Lockheed Martin Space Fence

2016 Radar Conference Premier Supporter

Known as birthplace of the country, the dynamic city of brotherly love is also well-known as a science place of firsts. From Ben Franklin’s elemen-tary electricity experiments to ENI-AC’s far more advanced use of elec-tricity, innovators have come to Phil-adelphia for centuries and the city has rewarded them. Philadelphia is home to the oldest annual awards for scien-

tific achievement, the Franklin Insti-tute of Philadelphia’s gold medals. Also, over a hundred recipients have gone on to win Nobel prizes. The re-gion is also home to many companies whose products have for over 50 years shaped what the radar commu-nity acknowledges as some of the world’s most advanced radar technol-ogies.

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More than five hundred radar students and professionals joined us and participated in the IEEE Radar Conference 2016 appropriately themed "Enabling Technologies for Advances in Radar.” Original papers were pre-sented describing new technologies and techniques that significantly advance radar system capabilities for ground penetration, land, ocean, air, space and astronomy applications are welcome. Innovative system applications in air-defense, anti-missile, imaging, and mo-bile radar. Wide range of technology areas were presented such as wideband

systems, MIMO, antenna signal pro-cessing, hardware and devices, materi-als, lasers, scattering, big data pro-cessing, architectures, multi-function operation, multi-site coordination

In addition to the presentation of contributed technical papers in high quality oral and poster sessions, the committee planned a conference agen-da that included invited talks from leading experts within our community, an excellent selection of tutorials, ex-hibits, and informal gatherings for col-leagues to share ideas.

Radar Conference Volunteers By Peter Silverberg

The 2016 IEEE Radar Confer-ence was held at the Lowes Hotel in Philadelphia May 2-6. It was a success with 686 registrants from 29 countries. There was joint sponsorship by AESS (IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Sys-tems Society) and the Philadelphia Sec-tion. There were 16 exhibitors of which seven were also corporate sponsors.

The largest was Lockheed Mar-tin, a local employer.

A conference does not just hap-pen. A committee plans it and runs it. Most of the committee persons are from the section and this article recog-nizes them for a fine job,

Dr. Joseph G .Teti, Jr.; General Chair Mr. Allan Croly, Lockheed-Martin,

Deputy General Chair Dr. David J. Farina, Lockheed-Martin

Technical Program Chair Dr. John K. Smith, Senior Conference

advisor

Mr. Thomas L. Fagan, Local Ar-rangements Chair

Mr. Joseph J. Schanne, Exhibits & Corporate Support Chair

Dr. Fauzia Ahmad, Publications Chair Mr. Michael A. Mayor, P.E., Regis-

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Mr. Patrick Cahill, Electronic Ser-vices Co-Chair

Mr. Justin M. Buckley, Electronic Services Co-Chair

Mr. Robert L Johnston, Finance Chair

Mr. I. Marvin Weilerstein, IEEE Sec-tion Liaison

Mr. Peter M. Silverberg, Publicity Chair

From outside the Philadelphia section

Mr. James Onorato, Competition Chair Dr. Marshall Greenspan, Tutorials Chair Ms. Linda L. Marciano, Lockheed-Martin, Conference Coordinator 107 persons served as Technical Review Committee members

(Listed in the conference program) 35 persons served as Session Chairs (listed in the conference program)

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STATUS CHANGE By Peter Silverberg, Vice Chair

Ask not what you can do for the IEEE. Ask instead what the IEEE can do for you. Specifically, many of you can advance from Member to Senior Member with a little effort. IEEE has some goodies for you when you do: Senior Member plaque, $25 coupon for joining a new society, letter of com-mendation to your employer, an-nouncements in local media, and pro-fessional recognition. More detail is on the IEEE website including the applica-tion form.

Many of you are eligible and just need a helping hand from the Section. This is the summary of requirements:

1. A candidate shall be an engineer, scientist, educator, technical executive or originator in IEEE-designated fields: Engineering Computer sciences and in-formation technology, Physical scienc-es, Biological and medical sciences, Mathematics, Technical communica-tions, education, management, law and policy

2. Candidates shall have been in pro-fessional practice for at least ten years. (If you graduated any year up to 2007, no problem)

3. Candidates shall have shown signifi-cant performance over a period of at least five of those years

4. In addition, candidates for Senior Member grade must supply three refer-ences from current IEEE members holding the grade of Fellow, Senior Member, or Honorary Member.

I hear many times that references are hard to find. That is where the Sec-tion can help. We can identify refer-ences in your company who you did not know were Senior Members. We have Senior Members standing by who can interview you and then write a good reference. Later this year we will hold a workshop where you can meet Senior Members who will be refer-ences. Also, a reference can be from anywhere in the IEEE – no restrictions in geography.

I was on the Admissions and Advancement Committee for a three-year term, so I can tell you a few extra things. There is a general goal that a Section should advance 1% of its membership each year. For us that is 40. In 2015 we did 8. I think we can do better. Panels meet 10 times a year, so the delay from completed application to approval averages six weeks. Com-pared to a lot of things you apply for that is fast. So, it is time to advance.

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Ernest’s Page An Accidental Engineer - Part I I was a registered Professional Engi-neer (Electrical) in Pennsylvania, but I often think of myself as "an accidental engineer". At around the age of 12, I came across a bound volume of the British magazine Televi-sion for the years 1928-1929, and read the whole thing through. In Junior High school, I entered a hobby show, playing records back-wards. To do that, I cut the shading coils on the drive motor; the turntable would not start itself, but ran nicely whichever way you turned it. Of course, that meant cutting the shading coils on the family phonograph, so it wouldn't start by itself, but would rotate whichever way you turned it. Looking back upon my early life, it was a bit unusual. My oldest brother had a chemistry laboratory in the attic, and my next older brother, who ac-tually studied electrical engineering in col-lege, had an electrical laboratory. I took apart bicycles. I attended the Bronx High School of Science, which had a required shop course, called "Science Techniques Laboratory". I made an electric motor, which didn't work. My girlfriend, now my wife for almost 62 years, made a slide-wire Wheatstone bridge. Some of the work which couldn't be done at school, was done at my house, such as solder-ing on the kitchen stove. Her project was put on display. The other electrical thing in high school was that I took a course called Radio Physics in my senior year. I learned a lot about vacuum tubes. My brother had a copy of a 1928 electrical engineering handbook, which I read. Many years later, I answered a question in the professional engineering exam from the memory of things in that book.

Graduating high school in January, 1950, I started in mechanical engineering at CCNY. Not being sure of what to do with my life, I went to the guidance office. After a se-ries of tests, the counselor said, "You have enough aptitude to do anything you want, and you seem to have equal interest in engineering and social sciences." (I still haven't made up my mind.) When I showed up at Cornell that fall, I switched from engineering to liberal arts. I did hedge my bets by majoring in Mathematics, with a minor in Physics. I stayed an extra two years to get a Master’s degree in Industrial Psychology, with a minor in Industrial Engineering. At that time, I thought that I would go into the family busi-ness, which was a manufacturing plant in New York City. I had worked there summers while in high school, and I knew that I could design production machinery for wire prod-ucts. Just to check that out, as a graduate stu-dent I took the senior course in machine de-sign, and passed with a respectable B+. My first job was in the Examinations Division of the New York State Civil Service Department.

My next job was a computer pro-grammer at the Westinghouse Steam Division in Lester, Pennsylvania, since sold to Sie-mens. Two jobs later, I was hired by the General Electric Company, Space Division. They wanted to hire me as an operations ana-lyst, because of my computer experience, but they had an opening for a "Systems Engineer, Electronics", and the manager who had to sign off on a position change was not available. So, on the basis of my teenage experience de-signing production equipment in my father's business, I was now a "System Engineer" by title.

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An Accidental Engineer - Part II I was accepted into an elite training program at General Electric: The Systems Engineering Development Program" (SEDP). One of the program options was graduate school. I had already taken several night courses in computer subjects at the University of Pennsylvania, Moore School of Electrical Engineering, but now I wanted to apply Sys-tems Engineering in the civilian economy, not just the military. Since the Moore School did not recognize my first master’s degree, I wrote up a project report in 1967, Contingen-cy Accommodation Planning (CAP), as a the-sis, and received an MS in Engineering. Now, on to the doctorate. At that time, the Moore School insti-tuted a qualifying examination for doctoral students, which was a review of undergradu-ate electrical engineering. After a conference with my advisor, I hunkered down for a few weeks with a load of undergraduate electrical engineering texts, and I passed the exam. I was getting closer to being an engineer. In 1969 I obtained an internal contract from the General Electric Transportation Division, to study the electric car. When they quickly re-alized that there was no way that a battery car could out-perform the regular Detroit product, that contract was terminated. But I used the concepts of niche markets and the interaction of central decisions (such as building a facility or factory) and individual decisions (such as buying services or a product) in bringing new technology into use. The resulting study, printed as Optimum Acceptance Rates for Public Service Systems in 1969, was about half social science, but it was accepted by the Moore School, and I was awarded a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering. General Electric re-warded me with a layoff notice. The last

thing I did at General Electric was to write an interesting paper with two co-authors: Control Engineering for Ecological Systems, with Specific Reference to Fisheries. This paper received special award at a Space Technology Utilization Seminar in November 1970. As I found out from Dr. Jane Lubchenco, a marine biologist, the concept in this paper was be-yond anything that marine biologists were thinking at the time. I spent the next 2« years as a Man-agement Scientist at Atlantic Richfield, a pe-troleum company, but I refused a transfer to Los Angeles. Instead, I took a job with Unit-ed Engineers and Constructors doing long range energy predictions. Six months later, when they cancelled that program, I was un-employed, with four children. So, I accepted an internal transfer to work on a big coal-burning power plant in West Virginia. I dealt with a wide variety of engineering matters, most of which are not covered by the standard undergraduate curriculum; such as purchasing a communication system, lightning protection for a cooling tower, grounding and corrosion protection, and a battery backup in case the plant lost all power. It seemed a good thing at that time to have a PE license. I passed the exam, and fi-nally was an electrical engineer, officially recognized by Pennsylvania. Some of the questions I answered on the basis of a 1928 Electrical Engineers Handbook, which I read in my teens. Not having clients, I did not keep up with continuing education, and lost my engineering license.

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PHILADELPHIA SECTION NOTES IEEE PHILADELPHIA SECTION OFFICERS Chair: Philip Gonski, P.E.: [email protected] Vice Chair: Peter M. Silverberg: [email protected] Treasurer: Robert Johnston: [email protected] Secretary: Chris Vaile: [email protected] Past Chair: Mark Soffa; [email protected]

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