OCTOBER 2001

PUBLICATION OF THE NORTH JERSEY SECTION OF THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS

Instructors Wanted!The IEEE North Jersey Section needs

instructors with any combination of thefollowing qualifications, skills andexperience (both teaching and consultingexperience) to teach EducationCommittee training seminars in the NorthJersey Area. The classes may take placeone or two evenings each week for aminimum of 10 classes (2.5 hrs x 10classes = 25 hrs). Otherwise, classesmay be offered on Saturdays dependingon IEEE member’s request andavailability of the venue or place.

Topics of interest:§ Introduction to Java Programming

(including RMI, Network Programming,Multi-threading etc)§ Advanced Java Programming

(JavaBeans, EJB, J2EE etc.)§ XML, HTML, XHTML, DHTML

programming and development§ Visual Basic Programming with Access

or SQL Server§ Advanced Visual Basic with ASP,

COM, DCOM etc.§ Oracle Database Programming§ Database Administration (Oracle, SQL

Server)

The Education Committee is open tocomments or suggestions. Resumesshould be sent to Bhanu Chivakula atb.chivakula@computer.org. Pleasecontact the undersigned for furtherinformation:

Ä Dr. Fred Chichester, Chair EducationCommittee, Voice mail (973) 744-3065

Ä Bhanu Chivakula, Co-Chair EducationCommittee, email: b.chivakula@computer.org.

NJ PES/IAS:

California EnergySituation

On October 18th, the IEEE North JerseyChapters of IAS/PES will sponsor asession on the evolving energy supplyand pricing events being experienced onthe west coast.About the Talk

California was the first state torestructure both its wholesale and retailelectricity markets. Since the fall of 2000,the fabric of their innovation has begun tounravel, due to a combination of baddesign and bad luck. This presentationwill discuss the history of California'srestructuring efforts and its implicationsfor the electricity industry.About the Speaker

The speaker will be Laura Manz,Manager-Transmission Planning andTechnical Services at PSE&G.

Time: 7:00 PM, Thursday, October 18,2001.Place: PSE&G Training Center, Edison,NJ. Directions: Route 287 to Route 1North, about 500 feet. Right on PiersonRoad. PSE&G first drive on left.Information: Ken Oexle (973) 386-1156 (k.oexle@worldnet.att.net).

November Workshopfor Students, Plan toAttend!

The Professional Skills DevelopmentWorkshop is coming up. This annualworkshop will be held in early Novemberat Stevens Institute of Technology inHoboken, NJ.

If you don't already know, thisworkshop is to provide students anopportunity to get professional skillseducation that is not available in anacademic environment. Comparable tolast year's workshop, the agenda willinclude topics emphasizing softer skillsthat engineers need to succeed in today'sworking world. Previous topics includedcareer planning and management,overcoming fears, and publiccommunication skills.

The Fall 2001 program will include newprofessional topics and new speakers.The focus will be on critical topics such aspractical engineering experience,presentation skills, and many others.Remember, this workshop is open to allinterested engineering students that wantto learn such professional skills and havean edge before they goto work.

Details and pre-registration will beingon the web soon. Stay tuned for moreinformation at the North Jersey SACwebsite or contact Amit Patel(a.j.patel@ieee.org).

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NJ Section PACE & SMC Society:

Micro Control UnitSeminar

During the month of October, throughthe joint cooperation of the ProfessionalActivities Committee (PACE) and theSystems Man and Cybernetics (SMC)Chapter, the Section will present aseminar on MCUs. Our guest speakerand presenter will be John Magrane, Sr.FAE, from Microchip Technology Inc.Information about Microchip TechnologyInc. can be found at their web sitewww.microchip.com.About the Seminar

The Seminar “Introduction toPICmicros®” will be divided into threesessions and presented on October 4, 18,25th. For “Hands On Experience” you areinvited to bring your laptop computer.More detailed information will beincluded in our October Newsletter.

Session 1, Oct 4th

Architecture Overview, Program andData Memory Organization, Register FileConcept, Peripherals, Special Features.

Session 2, Oct 18th

Instruction Set Overview, Encoding, BitByte and Literal Instructions, PIC16 andPIC18 comparisons.

Session 3, Oct 25th

Development Tools, MPLAB IDE (ProjectManager, Assembler, Simulator) ICE2000Emulator, ICD, Programmers, CCompilers.

About the SpeakerJohn Magrane is a Sr. FAE, Group

Leader for Microchip Technology Inc. HeGraduated from Rensselear PolytechnicInstitute with a BS in Physics and minorsin Electrical Engineering andManagement. John has hardware andsoftware design experience withRaytheon and LORAL. He has 7 yearsexperience as an FAE supportingMicrocontrol based designs. The last 21/2 John has been with MicrochipTechnology Inc.

Time: Approximately 6:30-9:00 PM,Thursdays, October 4, 18, 25, 2001.Place: Fairleigh Dickinson Universityauditorium RA-100, Robison Annex,Teaneck, NJ.Attendance/Information: Noadmission fee, but limited to members ofIEEE and the American EngineeringAssociation, Inc., (AEA). For IEEEmembership info, contact IEEE atwww.ieee.org or Mike Liechenstein,m.liechenstein@ieee.org, (973) 471-0721. For AEA membership, contact theAEA at www.aea.org or Richard Tax atrtax@bellatlantic.net., (201) 664-6954.

NJ Communications Society:

High SpeedSwitch/Router Design

On October 18th, the IEEE NorthJersey Chapter of CommunicationsSociety will sponsor a presentation on"High Speed Switch/Router Design." Thespeaker will be Dr. Jian-Guo Chen.About the Talk

This talk will focus on various aspectsof implementing high speedswitches/routers. It will cover suchoperations as: table lookup/classification,traffic policing, buffer management, trafficbuffering, queuing, and scheduling. Thistalk will also cover the issuesswitch/router designers have to facewhen the networking speed scales upfrom OC-48 to OC-192 and beyond,especially the memory bandwidth andlatency related issues.About the Speaker

Jian-Guo Chen is a member oftechnical staff in the Network Processorand Switch (NPS) group of AgereSystems Inc. At Agere, he is responsiblefor architecture design of IProuters/network processors, especiallytraffic management part. Currently, he isworking on the 10G network processorarchitecture design. Before joining Agere,he worked at Bell Labs of LucentTechnologies on the ATM switch designsince January 1997. Dr. Chen receivedhis PhD degree in electrical engineeringfrom the New Jersey Institute ofTechnology, Newark, in 1997.

All Welcome!You do not have to be an IEEE

member to attend. Light refreshments willbe served at 4:45 PM.

Time: 5:00 - 6:00 PM, Thursday,October 18, 2001 (refreshments start at4:45 PM).Place: New Jersey Institute ofTechnology (NJIT), Room 202, ECECenter, Newark, NJ. Directions areavailable at www.njit.edu.Information: Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973)596-3670 (nirwan.ansari@njit.edu).Please check http://www-ec.njit.edu/~ieeenj for the latest updates.

October 2001Volume 48, Number 4Publication No: USPS 580-500“The IEEE Newsletter” (North Jersey Section), ispublished monthly except June and July by TheInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,Inc. Headquarters: 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor,New York, NY 10016-5997. $1.00 per memberper year (included in annual dues) for eachmember of the North Jersey Section. Periodicals-class postage paid at New York, NY and atadditional mailing offices. Postmaster sendaddress changes to: “The IEEE Newsletter”, 445Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ08855-1331. USPS 580-500 (ISSN 1076-3732).

NEWSLETTER STAFFEditor...........................................Keith SaracinelloBusiness Manager..................Theresa Saracinello

Deadline for receipt of material is the 1st of themonth preceding the month of publication. Allcommunications concerning editorial and businessmatters, including advertising, should be sent tothe Business Manager via e-mail at k.saracinello@ieee.org or to The IEEE Newsletter, c/o KeithSaracinello, 25 Messenger Ln, Ringoes, NJ08551, (908) 791-4067.

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REPORT ADDRESS CHANGES TO:IEEE Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, (732) 981-0060. It is not necessary to inform the North Jer-sey Section when you change your mailingaddress. “The IEEE Newsletter” and other sectionmailings use a list provided by IEEE’s nationalheadquarters.

SECTION OFFICERSChairman....................................Dr. Nirwan Ansari

nirwan.ansari@njit.edu (973) 596-3670Vice-Chairman-1 ...............................Rodney Cole

rgcole@ieee.org (973) 299-9022 Ext. 2257Vice-Chairman-2 ................................. Milton Korn

miltonkorn@aol.com (973) 365-2757Treasurer...................................... Dr. Durga Misra

dmisra@njit.edu (973) 596-5739Secretary........................................ Wayne Owens

wowens@crestron.com (201) 767-3400, ext. 226

Members-at-Large:Bhanu Chivakula (b.chivakula@computer.org)Naz Simonelli (naz@sprynet.com)Dr. Richard Snyder (r.snyder@ieee.org)

The North Jersey Section ExecutiveCommittee usually meets the first Wednesday(except holidays and December) of eachmonth at 7:00 PM. Meetings are open to allmembers. For information on meeting agendacontact Secretary Wayne Owens at (201) 767-3400, ext. 226, wowens@crestron.com.

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North Jersey Section ActivitiesOctober 2001

Oct. 3−“NJ Section Executive Committee Meeting” − 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Wayne Owens at(201) 767-3400 ext. 226 or wowens@crestron.com.

Oct. 4−−“Micro Control Unit Seminar (1st Session)” − NJ PACE and SMC Society, 6:30 – 9:30 PM, Fairleigh DickinsonUniversity auditorium RA-100, Robison Annex, Teaneck, NJ. Dr. Mike Liechenstein (973) 471-0721(m.liechenstein@ieee.org) or Richard Tax (201) 664-6954 (rtax@bellatlantic.net).

Oct. 7-11−“2001 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference”, NJ VTS Chapter, Sheraton Convention Center Hotel/ACConvention Center, Atlantic City, NJ. For more details see http://www.fallvtc2001.org or contact Art Greenberg ata.h.greenberg@ieee.org or (973) 386-6673.

Oct. 12−“International Conference on Computing and Information Technologies (ICCIT'2001)”, Montclair StateUniversity, Upper Montclair, NJ. For more details see http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~ICCIT2001/ or contactICCIT'2001 Secretariat at iccit2001@pegasus.montclair.edu or (973) 655 - 4250.

Oct. 17−“Next-Generation Wireless Networking” - NJ VTS Chapter, 7:00 PM, Fairleigh Dickinson University,Muscarelle Building, Teaneck Campus, NJ. Mel Lewis (201) 692-2348 (mlewis@fdu.edu) or Art Greenberg (973) 386-6673 (a.h.greenberg@ieee.org).

Oct. 18−“California Energy Situation” − NJ IAS/PES Chapters, 7:00 PM, PSE&G Training Center, Edison, NJ. KenOexle (973) 386-1156.

Oct. 18−−“Micro Control Unit Seminar (2nd Session)” − NJ PACE and SMC Society, 6:30 – 9:30 PM, FairleighDickinson University auditorium RA-100, Robison Annex, Teaneck, NJ. Dr. Mike Liechenstein (973) 471-0721(m.liechenstein@ieee.org) or Richard Tax (201) 664-6954 (rtax@bellatlantic.net).

Oct. 18−−“High Speed Switch/Router Design” - NJ Communications Chapter, 5:00-6:00 PM, , NJIT, 202 ECE Center,Newark, NJ. Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670 (nirwan.ansari@njit.edu). Please check http://www-ec.njit.edu/~ieeenjfor the latest updates.

Oct. 25−−“Micro Control Unit Seminar (3rd Session)” − NJ PACE and SMC Society, 6:30 – 9:30 PM, FairleighDickinson University auditorium RA-100, Robison Annex, Teaneck, NJ. Dr. Mike Liechenstein (973) 471-0721(m.liechenstein@ieee.org) or Richard Tax (201) 664-6954 (rtax@bellatlantic.net).

Oct. 25−“Engineering Opportunities at Fort Monmouth and Picatinny Arsenal” – NJ Consultants' Network, 7:30 PM,KDI Triangle, 60 S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or www.TechnologyOnTap.org.

Upcoming Meetings

Nov. 7−“NJ Section Executive Committee Meeting” − 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Wayne Owens at(201) 767-3400 ext. 226 or wowens@crestron.com.

Nov. 8−“Micro Devices” − EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM, NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Richard Snyder(973) 492-1207, Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra@njit.edu), or Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542.

Nov. 15−“Seminar: Building A High Volume Scalable Web Site” - NY Computer & Communications SocietyChapters, 9:00 AM – 4:45 PM, Consolidated Edison, Management Dining Room (19th Floor), 4 Irving Place, New York,NY. Yuan Yao (Yuan.Yao@equant.com) or http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/chptrs/nyc/.

Nov. 15−“Project Management for Telecommunications Services” - NJ EMS, 7:00 – 9:00 PM, NJIT, 202 ECE Center,Newark, NJ. Wayne Owens at (201) 767-3400 Ext. 226 or wowens@crestron.com.

Dec. 7−“Electric Power Cable Seminar” − NJ IAS/PES Chapters, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM, GPU Energy, 300 Madison Ave,Morristown, NJ. R. Vittal Rebbapragada (609) 720-3209 or via e-mail at r.rebbapragada@ieee.org.

Members and Non-Members Welcome

PLEASE POST

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VTS Chapter:

Next-GenerationWireless Networking

The North Jersey Chapter of the IEEEVehicular Technology Society will host atalk on 17 October 2001. The topic is"Next-Generation Wireless Networking"by Dr. Richard D. Gitlin, Visiting Professorof Electrical Engineering at ColumbiaUniversity.About the Talk

By 2003 projections are that thenumber of cell phones worldwide willapproach a billion, and that by 2005wireless voice service will outnumberfixed-service. In this time frame it is alsolikely that more wireless data devices willbe connected to the Internet than wiredPCs.

It may very well be that the mobilephone/terminal will become the e-commerce platform of the future and thatmost consumer devices, PCs, digitalcameras, music players, etc., will havewireless connectivity. To support thisdramatic growth, the wirelesstelecommunications industry has reachedthe consensus that future third and fourthgeneration [3G/4G] wireless networksshould be based on the ubiquitousInternet Protocol [IP] protocol andassociated technology. The paradigmshifts in the access and backbonewireless networks to an IP-based packetmode network architecture are verysignificant discontinuities that dramaticallyovershadow the earlier industry shift fromanalog to digital technology. These next-generation networks are expected to bemultimedia, high performance networks,which will support rapid service creation,and will provide the Quality of Service[QoS] and reliability that is matched to theapplication. Together, all of these factorsmake the design of real-time, multimediamobile IP networks, one of the centralresearch challenges of this decade. Thispresentation will describe the likelyevolution path to an all-IP wirelessnetwork, and will discuss some of theassociated issues, technologicalfoundations, and challenges to realize thisvision for 3G and 4G wireless networks.About the Speaker

Dr. Richard D. Gitlin is VisitingProfessor of Electrical Engineering atColumbia University where he doesresearch and teaches courses in wireless,broadband networking, and digitalcommunications. Before assuming thisposition, he was with LucentTechnologies for more than thirty years,where he held several executivepositions. He was the Chief TechnicalOfficer and Vice President of R&D, of theData Networking Systems Business Unit,

where he was responsible for productdevelopment, architecture and systemsengineering, standards, and advanceddevelopment for all data networkingproducts. Previously he was Senior VicePresident for Communication SciencesResearch at Bell Labs, LucentTechnologies where he managed and ledresearch in wireless systems, broadbandand optical networking, multimediacommunications, and accesstechnologies. Throughout his career hehas conducted and led pioneeringresearch and development in digitalcommunications and networking that hasresulted in many innovative productsincluding: the industry leading ATLANTAATM Chipset, Globeview - the world’s first20 gigabit/sec ATM switch, wire-speedand quality of service [QoS]-aware IPswitches, multicode technology for CDMAwireless data (IS-95B), and the record-setting BLAST fixed-wireless loop systembased on advanced spatial domain (smartantenna) processing. Earlier in his careerhe led the team that pioneered theV.32/V.34 voice-band modems, and in1986 he was a co-inventor of the DSLdigital subscriber line technology.

He is the co-recipient of three prizepaper awards including the 1995 IEEECommunications Society’s Steven O.Rice Award for the best original paperpublished in the IEEE Transactions onCommunications, the 1994 IEEECommunications Society’s FrederickEllersick Award for the best paperpublished in the IEEE Communications,and the 1982 Bell System TechnicalJournal Award for the best paper incommunications science. Dr. Gitlin is theco-author of the text DataCommunications Principles, more than 95technical papers, numerous conferencepapers and keynote presentations. Heholds 43 patents in the area of datacommunications, digital signalprocessing, wireless systems, andbroadband networking. He is a Fellow ofthe IEEE and is also a Bell LaboratoriesFellow.

Dr. Gitlin has served as Chair of theCommunication Theory Committee of theIEEE Communications Society, as amember of the COMSOC Awards Board,as Editor for communication theory of theIEEE Transactions on Communications,as a member of the Board of Governorsof the IEEE Communications Society, anda member of the Nominations andElections Board. He has served on theAdvisory Committee for ComputerScience and Engineering (CISE) of theNational Science Foundation. He hasbeen an Adjunct Professor of ElectricalEngineering at Princeton University. Hewas a founding Editorial Board member ofthe Bell Labs Technical Journal, and he

currently serves on the Editorial Boards ofMobile Networks and Applications and theJournal of Communications Networks(JCN).

Dr. Gitlin received the D. Eng. Sc.Degree from Columbia University in 1969.For more info:

http://www.columbia.edu/ ~rdg74

All Welcome!You don’t have to be an IEEE member

to attend. Bring your friends. There is nofee or need to register. Lightrefreshments will be served.

Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, October17, 2001.Place: Fairleigh Dickinson University,River Road, Teaneck, NJ. MuscarelleBuilding - room to be announced. TakeRoute 4, get off at River Rd. Park in themain lot. Muscarelle Hall is the brownbrick building at the top of the stairs offthe parking lot. Note: do not go to theHackensack Ave. campus. Signs will listroom number for talk.Information: Mel Lewis(mlewis@fdu.edu) 201-692-2348, or ArtGreenberg (a.h.greenberg@ieee.org)973-386-6673.

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NJ EDS, C&S Chapters:

Micro DevicesOn November 8, 2001, the IEEE NJ

Section Electron Devices, and Circuitsand Systems Chapters together with theNew Jersey Institute of Technology willhost a talk on “Micro Devices.” Thespeaker will be William Trimmer.About the Talk

Man has been developing tools anddevices on the size scale of his hands formillennia. Cooperative efforts have alsomade substantially larger mechanicalsystems such as cranes, ships, and evencanals and roads possible. Strangelyenough, small scale structures have nothistorically been put to the same goodadvantage. Recent tools and fabricationtechniques are changing this.

A few of the numerous opportunitiesinclude genetic engineering, micro-surgery, drug delivery, the science andengineering of small scale phenomena,pressure sensors, accelerometers, microvalves and fluid controllers, microactuators, distributed intelligence,communications and many others.

This talk will provide an overview of thehistory, recent developments, and thepotential for the future of the field ofmicromechanics and MEMS. Thecapabilities of different technologies andpromising applications will be examined.The audience is encouraged to askquestions about their areas of interest.About the Speaker

William Trimmer is one of the originalresearchers in the field of micro mechan-ics. He organized and was Editor of theIEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectrome-chanical Systems for six years, andstarted and was Editor of the Microme-chanics Section in the Sensors andActuators Journal. He organized and co-chaired the first workshop in the interna-tional series of MicroelectromechanicalSystems Workshops, and he publishedthe IEEE book Micromechanics andMEMS. He has co-developed a microoptical fiber switch, a shape memory alloyactuator, an inch worm motor, a geneticengineering tool, and a sacrificialtechnique for making micro devices.All Welcome!

You do not have to be a member of theIEEE to attend.

Time: 7:00 PM, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2001.Free buffet will be starting at 6:00 PM.Place: New Jersey Institute ofTechnology (NJIT), Room 202, ECECenter, Newark, NJ. Directions areavailable at www.njit.edu.Information: Dr. Richard Snyder (973)492-1207 (RS Microwave), Dr. DurgaMisra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra@njit.edu)or Dr Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT).

NJ EMS Chapter:

Project Management forTelecommunicationsServices

On November 15, 2001, the IEEE NorthJersey Section Engineering ManagementChapter will host a presentation on "Proj-ect Management for TelecommunicationsServices" by Dr. Mostafa Hashem Sherif.About the Talk

The discipline of Project Managementhas been dealing mostly with industrialprojects in construction, aerospace anddefense. In the last decade, manydifferent industries including softwareengineering have applied projectmanagement techniques to meet thetriple constraints of cost, quality andschedule. However, very few textbooksor courses on project management haveaddressed the special needs of projectmanagers in service organizations.

The focus of this talk is ontelecommunication services. First, wegive examples to show how the approachto project management differs in thissituation from that of equipmentmanufacturing or software development.We then show how these differencesaffect the context in which projectmanagement is applied in the areas ofscope management, quality managementand risk management.About the Speaker

Mostafa Hashem Sherif is a PrincipalMember of the Technical Staff at AT&TLaboratories. He received his BSc inElectronics and Communications andMSc in Electrical Engineering from CairoUniversity, Egypt in 1972 and 1975respectively, and PhD in Engineeringfrom the University of California, LosAngeles in 1980. In 1996, he obtainedhis Masters of Science in theManagement of Technology from StevensInstitute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ.

Dr. Sherif is a senior member of theIEEE, a member of Sigma XI, a CertifiedProject Management from the ProjectManagement Institute, a member of theAwards and Recognition workingcommittee of the AT&T ProjectManagement Council and a member ofthe evaluation committee for theCommission on Science and Technology,State of New Jersey, reviewing pre-proposals for the R&D ExcellenceProgram. Since 1993, he has been astandards editor for the IEEECommunications Magazine. In 2000, hewas appointed to the board of the IEEEPress as the representative of the IEEECommunications Society.

He is a recognized international experton standards for packetized voice and

digital signal processing in transmissionequipment. He was a major contributor tothe following key ITU recommendations:1) ADPCM G.726/G.727 which are usedin many telecommunications networkapplications, 2) G.764/G.765 which arethe benchmark for voice packetizationand compression in telecommunicationsnetwork equipment, 3) G.511 for testingfacsimile processing network equipmentand 4) G.720 which is the standardmethod for testing voice coders with datasignals. He has also been the maincontributor to Committee T1 reports onvoice packetization and echocancellation. He is currently one of AT&Tparticipants at the ATM Forum. He wasawarded the AT&T Labs StandardsAward by the President of AT&T Labs in1998. This year, he was invited as aspeaker at the ITU Megacom-2004symposium in April 2001 to advise thestudy group 16 on its future work plan.

He is a founding member of the seriesof conference on InternationalConference on the Management ofTechnology sponsored by theInternational Association for theManagement of Technology. He wasinvited on several occasions by theNational Science Foundation toparticipate in its activities on innovationand technology management. He is alsoa founding member of the IEEEInternational Symposium on Computersand Communications and was the co-general chair of the 2000 Symposium.He has been the guest editor for SpeechCommunications (June 1993) and theIEEE Communications Magazine(September 1997 and April 2001).

He is the author of the best sellerProtocols for Secure ElectronicCommerce, CRC Press, 2000, now in itssecond printing. The French version waspublished by Eyrolles, France under thetitle La Monnaie électronique and is co-authored with Professor A. Sehrouchni.

All Welcome!You do not have to be a member of the

IEEE to attend. Bring your friends.

Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM, Thursday,November 15, 2001.Place: New Jersey Institute ofTechnology (NJIT), Room 202, ECECenter, Newark, NJ. Directions areavailable at www.njit.edu.Information: Wayne Owens, (201)767-3400 x226 (wowens@ieee.org).

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NY Computer & CommunicationsSociety Chapters:

Seminar: Building AHigh Volume ScalableWeb Site

On November 15th, the New YorkChapter of The IEEE Computer andCommunications Society is sponsoring afull-day seminar on "Building A HighVolume Scalable Web Site."About the Seminar

More and more organizations aretaking e-business into their own hands bybuilding and operating their own webserver infrastructure. In today's fastmoving world, a successful web site canexperience explosive traffic growths. Thesuccess of a web site can quickly be lostby a system that cannot meet thecapacity required to meet their user'straffic volume. Stories of web sites thathave failed are in the press almost everyweek. The ability to scale a high volume(traffic) web site infrastructure is a majorrequirement to be successful. To helpcomputer and communication'sprofessionals meet this challenge, TheNew York Chapter of The IEEE Computerand Communications Society issponsoring a full-day seminar on BuildingA High Volume Scalable Web Site.About the Speaker

We have invited leading experts toidentify the requirements and solutionsthat allow a web site to be rapidly scaledto meet the volume growth. Dr. WillyChiu, IBM Vice-President of SoftwareDivision's High Volume Web Sites, will beour keynote speaker. He will discuss thechallenges of building and scaling a highvolume web site. There will also bespeakers from major web site hardwareand software infrastructure vendors. Atthe conclusion of this seminar theattendees will have an understanding ofthe key technical issues surrounding thebuilding of a High Volume Scalable WebSite.

Time: 9:00 AM - 4:45 PM, Thursday,November 15, 2001.Place: Consolidated Edison,Management Dining Room (19th Floor), 4Irving Place, New York, NY.Information: Yuan Yao(Yuan.Yao@equant.com). For moredetailed seminar information, checkhttp://www.comsoc.org/socstr/chptrs/nyc/.

IEEE VehicularTechnology Conference-Sponsors Wanted

The IEEE Vehicular Technology Soci-ety will hold its Fall 2001 Conference onOctober 7-11, 2001 in Atlantic City. It isone of the major international mobilecommunications conferences in the worldand will be hosted by the North Jerseychapter. Information about the confer-ence is available at www.fallvtc2001.org.

Companies that are interested insponsorship should contact SteveWilkowski at swilkowski@lucent.com.

Advance to SeniorMember Grade

Of the 346,636 members of the IEEE,only 26,125 (7.5%) are Senior Members.Many more of you are qualified tobecome Senior Members so apply for itnow. The IEEE presents an engravedwood and bronze plaque to the newSenior Members.

To become a Senior Member, you needten years of experience. A BachelorsDegree counts for three of those yearsand a Masters and Doctorates each countfor one year. You don't have to be anIEEE member for ten years. The dues forSenior Members, Members andAssociates are the same.

To get information and an application,contact Don Weinstein, KuliteSemiconductor, One Willow Tree Road,Leonia, NJ 07605-2239, (201) 461-0900,ext. 234 mornings, FAX (201) 461-0990,email: don@kulite.com.Please include your mailing address.

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Growth of ElectronicServices Drives 2002Dues Increase

For the first time since 1996, the IEEEBoard of Directors has approved anincrease in membership dues. The Boardvoted at its July meeting to increase basemember dues for the 2002 membershipyear by US $5 to US $101. The Boardalso approved a US $4 increase to theIEEE-USA assessment and a new Region1 assessment of US $2.

According to IEEE President JoelSnyder, during the past five years theIEEE has experienced increased demandfor electronic delivery of technicalinformation and member services. Thedues increase reflects the costsassociated with significant investments inInternet and Web applications.

Among the electronic services the IEEEhas launched in recent years are IEEEXplore; the IEEE Job Site featuring IEEEe-Recruiter; the Personal Email AliasService; the Online Catalog & Store; IEEESpectrum Online; the What's New @IEEE series of e-mail newsletters; andonline membership renewal.

2002 IEEE ApplicationsAre in the Mail

The 2002 IEEE membershipapplications are now in stock. A supply of2002 applications is currently in the mailto every Student Branch Counselor, everySection MD officer and Section Chair andto all IEEE offices. Only those officersregistered with IEEE and listed in theIEEE rosters will receive these materials.Adobe Acrobat "PDF" versions of the2002 membership applications are nowavailable on the following sites: Memberapplication is at

http://www.ieee.org/membership/mem_serv/genapp.pdf

Student Application is at

http://www.ieee.org/membership/mem_serv/studapp.pdf

2001 IEEE AnnualElection is Underway

Members began receiving their ballotsthe first week in September. Theballoting period is from 1 September until12:00 noon on 1 November. Only signedballots that are received in sealedenvelopes will be valid and counted in theelection.

Questions with regard to ballots or theelection process may be referred to eitherFern Katronetsky (f.katronetsky@ieee.org) at (732) 562-3932 or AngelaWyckoff (a.wyckoff@ieee.org) at (732)562-3934.

Be an Ambassador forEngineering, 2002 IEEFaraday LectureScheduled

Is your local, pre-college schoolcarrying the 2002 IEE Faraday Lecture?Do they know about it? It's not too earlyto act as an ambassador for engineering.Schools need a lot of lead-time in order toadd events to their schedules.

Inform your local school that on 6February 2002, 1:00 PM EasternStandard Time, free downlinking of the'Smart Living @ home with technology'simulcast will be available from IEEEEducational Activities (EA). Teachers'materials will be posted on the Internet inSeptember. Then, consider volunteeringat the school to answer questions aboutbeing an engineer on the day of thebroadcast. The annual acclaimed Lectureis a one-hour, PBS quality productionfeaturing lively participation from theonsite London audience. Read moreabout it at http://www.ieee.org/eab/precollege/faraday/index.htm. For moreinformation contact Celeste Torres atc.torres@ieee.org.

Free On-line How-ToGuide for CourseDesign Available fromIEEE

The IEEE Educational Activities Board(EAB) has posted an online tool forcourse designers, "Reference Guide forInstructional Design and Development."This how-to guide was developed by EABin partnership with TelcordiaTechnologies to help individuals designcourses and tutorials efficiently andeffectively. Based on the SystematicDesign of Instruction by Walter Dick andLou Chaney, the guide outlines sixdistinct steps to acquire "sound principlesof design" when creating courses. Theseclear steps are displayed on a colorful,friendly webpage. Learn to:

§ Assess the needs of the instructionalsituation§ Analyze the learners§ Write learning objectives§ Select an instructional strategy that fits

you assessment§ Develop materials that enhance your

strategy§ Evaluate your work

With each step there is a conciseconcept outline, tools to aid in theapplication of the step, and onlinereferences that can add to the material inthe outline. Links to suggestions forfurther study are on each page. Thisguide will help designers to add educationvalue to their tutorials, which can qualifythem for Continuing Education Unitcredits. Access this guide atwww.ieee.org/organizations/eab/tutorials/refguide/mms01.htm.

“The IEEE Newsletter” – October 2001 - Page 10NJ

NJ Consultants' Network:

EngineeringOpportunities at FortMonmouth andPicatinny Arsenal

On Thursday, October 25, 2001, theIEEE Consultants’ Network of NorthernNJ (CNNNJ) will present an outstandingseminar on "Engineering Opportunities atFort Monmouth and Picatinny Arsenal" byJoseph Brady and Philip Villella.About the Talk

There are various engineeringopportunities at Fort Monmouth andPicatinny Arsenal. Knowing what andwhere they are, engineering consultants,small engineering companies andengineers, in general, can capitalize onthose opportunities. Two eminentlyqualified speakers will discuss a variety ofcurrent and future programs/projectsresident at their facilities. They will alsoprovide helpful information, such as websites, organization chart and points ofcontacts to facilitate exploringEngineering Opportunities.About the Speakers

Joseph P. Brady is the chief of Small

and Disadvantaged Business UtilizationOffice at Fort Monmouth. He has anextensive background in Procurement,Contracts, Technical Services andhelping small businesses.

Mr. Brady is the recipient of theSecretary of the Army’s award forOutstanding Achievement in MaterialAcquisition and has been awarded boththe CECOM and AVCOM Commandersaward for Civilian Service. Recently, hewas awarded the Achievement Medal forCivilian Service for CECOM/Tinker AFBRapid Response Program.

Mr. Brady has an MSA in BusinessManagement from Central MichiganUniversity, MI, and also BSBA inBusiness Management fromShippensburg State College, PA.

Philip D. Villella, is the Business &Industrial Management Team Leadersupporting R&D and Supply Acquisition atPicatinny Arsenal. He is also the SmallBusiness Advocate for Picatinny Arsenal.He has many years of experience inProcurement, Production, Quality Controland assisting small businesses of variouskinds.

Mr. Villella is the recipient of the 1996Tank Automotive-Armaments Command,Army Research and DevelopmentEngineering Center, Small Business

Award and the 2000 Army MaterielCommand Small Business Award.

Mr. Villella has a BA degree fromJersey City State College and hasattended numerous production, quality,and management courses sponsored bythe federal government.About the Consultants' Network

The IEEE Consultants’ Network ofNorthern NJ was founded in 1992 toencourage and promote the use ofindependent technical consultants bybusiness and industry.All Welcome!

You do not have to be a member of theIEEE or of the Consultants' Network toattend. Networking after the meeting isencouraged. There is no charge foradmission.

Time: 7:30 PM, Thursday, October 25,2001.Place: KDI Triangle, 60 S. JeffersonRoad, Whippany, NJ.Information: For directions and up-to-date meeting status, call Robert Walker(973) 728-0344 or visit our website atwww.TechnologyOnTap.org.

“The IEEE Newsletter” – October 2001 - Page 11NJ

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“The IEEE Newsletter” – October 2001 - Page 12NJ

Electric Power CablesA One-Day IEEE Seminar

Presented by the IAS and PES Chapters, North Jersey SectionDecember 7, 20019:00AM to 3:00PM

The PES & IAS Chapters will sponsor a daytime seminar on the design, operations, testing, electric characteristics andfailure modes of medium and low voltage electric power cables. Topics to be covered in the session include:

1) Conductor Physical and Electrical Properties – Copper & Aluminum materials

2) Insulation Systems – Low Voltage & High Voltage Cables

3) Cable Shielding – Tapes, Wires & Other Options

4) Jacket Materials

5) Cable Standards & Specifications

6) Cable Characteristics – Resistance, Inductance, Capacitance, Stress Distributions

7) Ampacity Calculations – Dielectric Loss, Conductor Loss & Shield Loss

The seminar leader is Lawrence Kelly who has an extensive career in the wire and cable industry. His backgroundincludes cable manufacturing, research and engineering assignments. He served as Director of EngineeringDevelopment at Okonite Cable. He is past Chairman of the IEEE Insulated Conductor Committee (ICC) and a votingmember on the National Electric Code (NEC). He has also taught Cable Engineering Courses at UCLA and the Universityof Wisconsin.

LOCATION: GPU Energy, 300 Madison Avenue, Morristown NJ. Directions: Route 287 to Route 124 Exit inMorristown. Follow signs toward Madison, GPU is about 1.5 miles on the left side.

COST: Registration fee for the seminar prior to November 15th is $150 (non-IEEE members), $100 (IEEEMembers), and $25 (Students with valid ID). Registrations received after November 15th mustinclude a late fee of $25.00. The Seminar fee includes lunch and break refreshments.

INFORMATION: R. V. Rebbapragada, Washington Group, International, 510 Carnegie Center, Princeton, NJ08540, phone 609-720-3209, e-mail r.rebbapragada@ieee.org

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REGISTRATION – Electric Power Cables, December 7, 2001

Reserve your place by mailing a check payable to "IEEE North Jersey Section" to: Ken Oexle11 Deerfield RoadWhippany, NJ 07981

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