IEEE Madison Section - 2004 Meeting Archive
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Speaker: Dee Fussell, Software Engineer, Sonic Foundry, Inc.
Location: Rocky Rococo's Pizza
7952 Tree Lane (Madison Beltline Hwy. at Mineral Pt. Rd.),
608.829.1444
Menu: Pizza buffet, salad and soft drinks
Lunch Price: $10.00 (free for UW-Madison Student Branch members)
RSVP by January 26th to Les Schroeder via email or call 608.260.1356
Non-member guests are always welcome!
This months presentation will begin with a brief introduction to Sonic Foundry - who we are and what we do. We will then discuss streaming media with some emphasis on audio and video capture and give an overview of the Mediasite Live product.
DeLosse K. Fussell (Dee) graduated from UW-Madison in 1994 with a double major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Since then he has worked with several companies including Infovet, Inc., Nicolet Instrument Corp., Fussell Software and Consulting doing various forms of software development and programming. Currently with Sonic Foundry, he is the lead developer working on the award winning Mediasite Live product used for media capture, manipulation and streaming. When he's not working, he's golfing, or fishing, or golfing, or playing racquetball, or golfing.
Panelists: Fernando Alvarado, Ian Dobson, Ian Hiskens;
Power Engineering Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dennis Ray, Executive Director, Power Systems Engineering Research Center (moderator)
Location: Rocky Rococo's Pizza
7952 Tree Lane (Madison Beltline Hwy. at Mineral Pt. Rd.),
608.829.1444
Menu: Pizza buffet, salad and soft drinks
Lunch Price: $10.00 (free for UW-Madison Student Branch members)
RSVP by February 9th to Les Schroeder via email or call 608.260.1356
Non-member guests are always welcome!
On August 14, 2003, large portions of the Midwest and Northeast United States and Ontario, Canada, experienced an electric power blackout. The outage affected an area with an estimated 50 million people and 61,800 megawatts (MW) of electric load in the states of Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Jersey and the Canadian province of Ontario.
The Interim Report from the Joint U.S.-Canadian Task Force grouped the contributing causes of the blackout as follows:
FE and others have criticized the Interim Report. Through six commissioned papers, FE asserted that “Deregulation of power generation deserves much of the blame for the cascading power failure.”
The Joint Task Force is now preparing its recommendations in response to its findings. Our panel will identify likely recommendations, and will offer their perspectives on what needs to be done to mitigate the frequency and scope of blackouts.
Speaker: Frederick Kelcz, Associate Professor of Radiology, University of Wisconsin Medical School
Location: Rocky Rococo's Pizza
7952 Tree Lane (Madison Beltline Hwy. at Mineral Pt. Rd.),
608.829.1444
Menu: Pizza buffet, salad and soft drinks
Lunch Price: $10.00 (free for UW-Madison Student Branch members)
RSVP by March 11th to Les Schroeder via email or call 608.267.4448
Non-member guests are always welcome!
The breast is one of the few organs for which a national program for screening for cancer has been proven effective. The breast is pliable and poses problems of consistent positioning which can plague correlation between different imaging modalities. Furthermore, there are no internal landmarks and there is frequent overlap in the appearance of benign and malignant breast conditions. This talk will review the technical aspects of current breast imaging using mammography, ultrasound and MRI, and criteria used by the radiologist to try to detect malignancy. The strengths and weaknesses of each method will be addressed and attention will be given to engineering related challenges. There will also be discussion of biopsy techniques using various methods of image guidance. Finally, we will discuss statistical parameters used to determine the accuracy of an imaging technique and its possible effect on saving lives through the early detection of malignancy.
Dr. Kelcz received his PhD in Physics at the University of Wisconsin and worked at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City at the dawn of clinical MRI. He then received his MD from the University of Miami (PhD to MD program) and trained in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Minnesota before coming back to Madison for training in an Abdominal Imaging Fellowship. Dr. Kelcz has served has Chief of the Abdominal Imaging Section, Interim Co-Chief of Mammography and continues to be Section Head of MRI in the Abdominal Imaging Division. His interest in applying MRI to breast imaging arose as a result of clinical assignment in mammography and he is responsible for starting the Breast MRI clinical and research program at the University of Wisconsin.
Speaker: John Biondi, CEO, nPoint Inc.
Location: 1610 Engineering Hall - parking available in lot 17 (see map)
Menu: there may be pizza, and then again, there may not be pizza...
RSVP by April 12th to Les Schroeder via email or call 608.267.4448
Non-member guests are always welcome!
The nanometer, once considered an unachievable limit of manufacturing technology, has now taken center stage in the world's most advanced laboratories where the best of science and engineering are being integrated in the emerging field of nanotechnology. The ability to work at this level of precision has become more important in the areas of semiconductor fabrication, materials science and biotechnology as well. nPoint designs, manufactures, and sells devices for rapid, precise, and repeatable positioning and motion at the nanometer scale. Current products include the PiezoMAX TM series of nanopositioning systems and sensors, the C-300 series controllers and the iC series of closed-loop AFM kits.
Nanopositioning is becoming a critical enabling technology across a variety of industries and is increasingly important in various research and microscopy applications. nPoint, offers a range of nanopositioning products covering all axes of motion and possesses the capability to accomplish custom projects for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).
Mr. Biondi has over 25 years experience in the areas of general management, business formation and development, marketing and sales management in the scientific instrumentation and software solutions sectors. Mr. Biondi has previous senior management experience in a Global 1000-level instrumentation corporation and has been directly involved with three early stage companies, two that made successful initial public offerings and one, which he helped found, that was acquired. He has consulted for a range of start up ventures and has been instrumental in raising over $35 million in venture capital. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri and an MBA from Georgia State University.
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BUILDING KEY 36. Engineering Centers Building (G9) 37. Engineering Hall (H10) 38. Engineering Research Building (H9) 74. McClain Athletic Facility (H10) 77. Mechanical Engineering Building (H9) 131. Union South (I10) 143. Wendt Library (H11) 151. 1410 Engineering Dr. (H10) |
Speaker: Don Neumeyer, PE, Electrical Engineer, Public Service Commission of WI
Location: Rocky Rococo's Pizza
7952 Tree Lane (Madison Beltline Hwy. at Mineral Pt. Rd.),
608.829.1444
Menu: Pizza buffet, salad and soft drinks
Lunch Price: $10.00 (free for UW-Madison Student Branch members)
RSVP by May 17th to Les Schroeder via email or call 608.267.4448
Non-member guests are always welcome!
Don Neumeyer will discuss the role of the regulators with the many new market participants in the new upcoming developments in the Midwest electric power market. This is the third session in this year's meetings focusing on Electric Power-the other two having been the viewpoint from industry and academia.
Some of the topics to be covered include:
Don Neumeyer received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla. He has over 30 years of experience in the power industry. Don is a planning engineer with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin. His primary responsibilities include: reviewing proposed transmission and generation projects, and monitoring the new MISO market development. Prior to joining the PSC in 2002, he was a national consultant working with the deregulation processes on the east and west coasts. Other previous positions he has held include being a university plant engineer and a utility planning engineer.
Speaker: Rick A. Schmidt, Senior Communications Consultant, Power System Engineering
Location: Rocky Rococo's Pizza
7952 Tree Lane (Madison Beltline Hwy. at Mineral Pt. Rd.),
608.829.1444
Menu: Pizza buffet, salad and soft drinks
Lunch Price: $10.00 (free for UW-Madison Student Branch members)
RSVP by September 13th to Les Schroeder via email or call 608.444.9144
Non-member guests are always welcome!
This presentation will provide an overview of the various broadband Power Line Communications technology alternatives including an overview of Ambient, Amperion, Current Technologies and Main.Net. The BPL technology will be explained in as simple terms as possible. The presentation will cover the applications that can be conducted over Broadband. "Real-life" stories from BPL deployments will illustrate key lessons learned - what has gone well and not so well.
The presenter will also provide an overview of the costs involved, alternatives for various business models, and comparisons of competing technologies such as satellite broadband Internet, 802.11b, 802.16, and spread spectrum radio - as well as an overall outlook on BPL.
Rick joined Power System Engineering in 2001 with a BS degree from the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse and a MBA from Cardinal Stritch University - Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has had managerial and consulting experience with leading telecom companies over the previous twenty years. Rick is actively managing data communication projects for utilities including: wireless SCADA system infrastructure selection, two-way mobile radio technology selection, and wireless workforce management implementation, and BPL.
Speaker: Edward Fisher, Chief Engineer, Wicab Inc.
Location: Rocky Rococo's Pizza
7952 Tree Lane (Madison Beltline Hwy. at Mineral Pt. Rd.),
608.829.1444
Menu: Pizza buffet, salad and soft drinks
Lunch Price: $10.00 (free for UW-Madison Student Branch members)
RSVP by October 18th to Les Schroeder via email or call 608.444.9144
Non-member guests are always welcome!
Wicab's Tongue Placed Machine-Brain Interface and first commercial application: Restoration of balance in subjects with Bilateral Vestibular Dysfunction. Wicab has developed a tongue placed electrotactile machine brain interface for directly transmitting electronic signals into the nervous system. Application areas for the platform technology include biomedical, neural prosthesis (for sensory deficit or loss), gaming, virtual reality, teleoperation, telemedicine, and man in the loop control systems. See www.wicab.com for more information.
Ed joined Wicab Inc. in 2003 with a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Previously Ed was pursuing a graduate degree at the UW with Professor Paul Bach-y-Rita M.D. who owns Wicab. Ed is Chief Engineer for Wicab and leads the instrumentation effort for research and commercial applications.
Speaker: Teresa Esser, author
Location: Rocky Rococo's Pizza
7952 Tree Lane (Madison Beltline Hwy. at Mineral Pt. Rd.),
608.829.1444
Menu: Pizza buffet, salad and soft drinks
Lunch Price: $12.00
RSVP by November 12th to Dennis Bahr via email. Checks made out to IEEE Madison Section can be mailed in advance to Dennis Bahr, 3510 West Beltline Hwy, Middleton, WI 53562 or you can pay at the meeting.
Non-member guests are always welcome!
Teresa will be speaking on "Secrets, Strategies, and Stories from America's High Tech Entrepreneurs." Teresa is nationally known and has written many articles and a book on the High Tech environment in America (see http://www.wistechnology.com/byauthor.php?myauthor=Teresa%20Esser). She has even written about one of our very own successful entrepreneurs here in Madison, Mr. Ralph Kauten (see article at http://www.wistechnology.com/article.php?id=1232). Her book "The Venture Cafe" can be found and purchased on the internet at http://www.ebookmall.com/alpha-titles/Venture-Cafe-Esser-Warner-cr.htm. She will have autographed copies of her book for sale at the meeting.
Speaker: Clark E. Johnson, President, Caritas Technologies
Location: Rocky Rococo's Pizza
7952 Tree Lane (Madison Beltline Hwy. at Mineral Pt. Rd.),
608.829.1444
Menu: Pizza buffet, salad and soft drinks
Lunch Price: $10.00 (free for UW-Madison Student Branch members)
RSVP by November 15th to Les Schroeder via email or call 608.444.9144
Non-member guests are always welcome!
Most television systems today - including conventional high-definition systems - are optimized for consumer entertainment. While appropriate for feature film presentation, where both the lowest production and distribution costs rule design, consumer systems inherently are unsuitable for accurate reproduction: they are temporally and spatially incorrect, distort color, and portray highly compressed and artifact-laden motion. By design, television appliances eliminate potentially important information where a high level of perceptual data may be mandated for scientific analysis, surveillance, medical diagnosis and similar applications. This talk will discuss factors that can reduce the "impedance mismatch" between electronic imaging devices and the human visual system.
Clark E. Johnson is a consultant in data storage and magnetics, currently working on augmented human vision cognition. He holds a BS in Physics and an MS in Electrical Engineering, both from the University of Minnesota.
He has spent most of his career working in magnetic recording and with technologies related to information storage. He began his career at the Central Research Laboratories of the 3M Company in St. Paul, MN and subsequently founded a number of high-tech start-ups in Minneapolis, New England and California, mainly involved in magnetic technologies and telecommunications.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a past president of the Magnetics Society. He was an IEEE Science and Engineering Fellow in Congress in 1988-89, after which he joined ARPA and was assigned to the Research program on Communications Policy at MIT where he was involved with the MIT/Polaroid/Philips camera.
Mr. Johnson holds 26 patents and is widely published. He is currently president of Caritas Technologies, which is developing intellectual property in the telecommunications area. He also chairs the Technology Transfer Advisory Committee at the University of Minnesota.
Speaker: Radoslav Barac P.E., Senior Substation Engineer, Realtime Utility Engineers
Location: Rocky Rococo's Pizza
7952 Tree Lane (Madison Beltline Hwy. at Mineral Pt. Rd.),
608.829.1444
Menu: Pizza buffet, salad and soft drinks
Lunch Price: $10.00 (free for UW-Madison Student Branch members)
RSVP by December 13th to Les Schroeder via email or call 608.444.9144
Non-member guests are always welcome!
Managing the interconnection of an Independent Power Producer (IPP) is becoming a more and more difficult process within an entire IPP project. Several planning factors are involved in identifying the locations of new IPPs. These factors include financial, environmental, legal, and engineering concerns that must be evaluated and addressed as prerequisites for the success of any new generation project.
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Orders 888 and 889 mandate open access to the nation's transmission systems, but transmission providers are still in control of the power grid and could make IPP interconnection more complicated by requiring IPPs to connect according to their own standards.
The System Impact Study and Facility Study indicate to developers the work needed to be done in order to be connected to the grid, including modifying existing transmission lines, adding new lines, developing an interconnection facility, scheduling the project phases and accurately estimating project costs. At this stage the IPP can make the decision whether to drop its request for interconnection or proceed with engineering and construction.
While IPPs usually take an individual approach to the request for interconnection, grouping them will provide interconnection to the existing transmission system at a reduced cost.
Radoslav Barac P.E. received his B. S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Kosovo in Serbia & Montenegro (Yugoslavia) in 1981, and Master of Project Management from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois in 2003. He has over twenty years of experience in the power-engineering field. Barac is a Senior Substation Engineer with Realtime Utility Engineers. Prior to joining Realtime, he was a Project Engineer with Sargent & Lundy for twelve years where he worked on various IPP projects nationwide. He is a member of the NCEES Committee for PE Electrical and Computer Exam, member of IEEE - Power Engineering Society, individual member of CIGRE and a speaker for NCEES, presenting the message of the P.E. licensure values. Barac is registered professional engineer in twenty states.
Location: Bahr Management, Inc.
3510 West Beltline Hwy, Middleton, WI, 53562-1535
608.831.2310
RSVP by December 13th to Dennis Bahr via email or call 608.831.2310.
This meeting is an opportunity for IEEE members to upgrade their membership from Associate Member to Member, or Member to Senior Member. You can receive the professional recognition of your peers for technical and professional excellence among other benefits. Details on elevating your membership from Associate to Member can be found at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/rab/md/memelv.htm. Details on the Senior Member Program and the benefits and requirements can be found on the following IEEE web page: http://www.ieee.org/organizations/rab/md/smprogram.html. You can also download an application form from the same location. Note that the IEEE recommends submitting a current resume with your Senior Member application.
NOTE: if you are already a IEEE Senior Member or a Fellow and would like to serve as a reference at this meeting, please contact Dennis Bahr via email or call 608.831.2310.