Informal networking will begin at 11:30AM. Presentation will begin at 12:00PM. Tour begins at 12:15.
| Speaker: | Mr. Mark Stover |
| Location: | Promega BioPharmaceutical Technology Center (BTC) 5445 E Cheryl Pkwy, Room Number: 122 Madison, WI 53711. See Map |
| Menu: | Typically pizza, salad, and soft drinks |
| Lunch Price: | $5.00 for members, $10.00 for non-members and free for students. |
| RSVP: | Please
register by November 14 online at the IEEE Madison
Section events
page.
Non-member guests are always welcome! |
| Contact: | If needed, please contact Charles Gervasi or Mark Vincent. |
First, Mr. Mark Stover, manager of Continuous Improvement at Bruker AXS in Fitchburg Wisconsin, will present the manufacturing process of x-ray diffractometers produced at the Bruker AXS plant. In addition, he will talk about how lean manufacturing concepts are being applied to a low volume, high mix production facility. Second, Mr. Stover will take the audience on a tour of the actual plant (right next door to the presentation venue) to see first-hand how lean manufacturing concepts have actually been put into practice at Bruker AXS. A walkthrough of the production floor, including stops at displays of lean manufacturing initiatives, is planned. Come early and eat – the talk will take the first 15 minutes with the tour taking the next 45 minutes.
Mr. Mark Stover is Manager of Continuous Improvement at Bruker AXS in Fitchburg, WI. He is responsible for the organization’s ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System (QMS) and is helping Bruker management learn more about the lean thinking that supports the QMS. Prior to joining Bruker in 2007, Mark worked as a Senior Consultant for Wipfli, LLP a consulting and accounting company with offices in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Mark has worked with and for manufacturing companies since 1985 as a Credit Manager and in operations, safety, and quality. Mark is a member of the Downtown Madison Rotary Club and an ASQ CMQ/OE. He lives in Columbus, WI with his wife Kate. They have two grown daughters.
11:30 Informal Networking
11:45 Pizza Catered
12:00 Talk Begins
12:15 Tour Begins
01:00 Tour Ends
| Speakers: | Mitch Bradt,
PE, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dept. of Eng. Professional
Development. Rick O'Connor, PE, We Energies Engineering Manager Mike Jackovich, PE, We Energies Electrical Engineer |
| Meeting Location: |
UW Engineering Hall, 1415 Engineering Drive Madison, Wisconsin, United States 53706 See Map |
| RSVP: | Please
register by November 3 online at the IEEE Madison
Section events
page.
Non-member guests are always welcome! |
| Contact: | If needed, please contact at Mark Vincent, Charles Gervasi or Mitch Bradt |
1:00 Depart Engineering Hall
1:45 Arrive at GHWP
2:00 Meet We Energies --TOUR
4:00 Tour ends. Board Bus for return to campus
5:00 Arrive back at Eng. Hall
The Glacier Hills Wind Park, located in the towns of Randolph and Scott in Columbia County, is designed to generate 162 megawatts (MW) of electricity and will be capable of powering approximately 45,000 average residential homes. The site will consist of 90 Vestas V-90 1.8 MW Type 3 turbines. Construction began on May 17, 2010, and will be completed by the end of 2011. The project is being constructed by a Wisconsin-based alliance that includes The Boldt Company of Appleton, Michels Corporation of Brownsville and Edgerton Contractors, Inc. of Oak Creek. This tour will include a presentation during the bus ride to the site on some electrical aspects of the Type 3 turbine and the GHWP. While on the tour, a We Energies Project Engineer will discuss the development, layout and construction of the GHWP project, including a visit to one of the turbines and to the collector substation. Rick O'Conor will provide the tour of the wind farm and Mike Jackovich will provide the substation tour.
Mitch Bradt is a Program Director for continuing engineering education in the disciplines of Wind Energy, Power Electronics, Electrical Distribution and Electrical Safety. Prior to being in academia, he has been a consulting engineer designing substations and wind farms, has worked at a manufacturer of grid connected power electronic equipment (D-SMES, D-VAR, STATCOM), and got to blow up aircraft while serving the the US Air Force. He received his BSEE from Marquette University in 1993 and MSEE with a focus on Utility Application of Power Electronics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996.
Informal networking will begin at 11:30AM. Presentation will begin at 12:00PM.
| Speaker: | Dr. Patrick Flandrin, Ecole Superieure de Lyon |
| Location: | Promega BioPharmaceutical Technology Center 5445 E Cheryl Pkwy, Room Number: 122 Madison, WI 53711. See Map |
| Menu: | Typically pizza, salad, and soft drinks |
| Lunch Price: | $5.00 for members, $10.00 for non-members and free for students. |
| RSVP: | Please
register by October 23 online at the IEEE Madison
Section events
page.
Non-member guests are always welcome! |
| Contact: | If needed, please contact Charles Gervasi. |
Chirps (i.e., transient AM-FM waveforms) are ubiquitous in nature and man-made systems, and they may serve as a paradigm for many non-stationary deterministic signals. The time-frequency plane is a natural representation space for chirps, and we will here review a number of questions related to chirps, as addressed from a time-frequency perspective. Global and local approaches will be described for matching and/or adapting representations to chirps. As a corollary, joint time-frequency descriptions of chirps will be shown to allow for effective definitions of instantaneous frequencies" via localized trajectories on the plane. A number of applications will be mentioned, ranging from bioacoustics to turbulence and gravitational waves.
Patrick Flandrin gained his engineer's diploma from the ICPI Lyon in 1978, became Docteur- Ingénieur in 1982 then Docteur d'Etat ès Sciences Physiques (higher level doctorate in physics) in 1987, at the INPG de Grenoble. He joined the CNRS in 1982 where he is currently a research director. He has just been awarded the 2010 CNRS Silver Medal. Since 1991, he has worked at the physics laboratory of the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, in the SISYPHE (SIgnals, SYstems and PHysics) research team. His present research themes are: non stationary signals, time-frequency, wavelets, and laws of scale and complex systems. The common denominator of his research, which is interdisciplinary in nature, consists in the signal perspective which places Patrick Flandrin's work at the confluence of applied mathematics, physics and computing. He seeks to provide a precise mathematical framework for the methods he focuses on, to enable a simple physical interpretation of them and to associate them with efficient calculation algorithms.
Informal networking will begin at 11:30AM. Presentation will begin at 12:00PM.
| Speaker: | Dr. Azadeh
Davoodi |
| Location: | Rocky Rococo's
Pizza 7952 Tree Lane (Beltline Hwy. at Mineral Pt. Rd.) Madison, WI 53717 … telephone: 608-829-1444 |
| Menu: | Pizza, salad, and soft drinks |
| Lunch Price: | $5.00 for members, $10.00 for non-members and free for students. |
| RSVP: | Please
register by August 15 online at the IEEE vTools.Meetings event page http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/7601.
Non-member guests are always welcome! |
| Contact: | If needed, please contact Mark Vincent at mvincent@ecw.org. |
The components that make up the integrated circuits in electronic devices are nano-sized and number in the billions. Sometimes "bugs" lurking in these complex systems can emerge and
cause significant performance errors. One category of electronic bugs that can occur after a chip is fabricated is known as timing errors. These errors can cause components to slow down and
take longer to execute operations. These errors occur, not because the circuit isn't functioning correctly, but because it fails to operate correctly at the desired speed. The nanoscale
components in the chip are so small they can have weird physical behaviors that can only be detected after they are fabricated. The validation process involves manually opening up a chip
and examining billions of transistors, which is extremely time-consuming. Timing errors often are interdependent, meaning they emerge only when certain operations are performed together. This
means testing for timing errors requires predicting the chip's behavior during a vast number of possible operations and combinations of operations. This talk provides an alternate approach to
testing. Namely: instead of manually opening up and examining chips, developers could simply use data from the sensor components as a compact representation of important areas of the
design that may be causing timing errors. Dr. Davoodi will also discuss special sensor components that can be added to a chip's design, as well as methods to analyze measurements
from the components. The new components will provide custom timing information for a particular chip design, allowing developers to predict, detect and even solve errors more quickly.
Azadeh Davoodi has been an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin Madison since Fall 2006. She received her PhD and MS degrees both in
Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland College Park, and her BS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Tehran Iran. Her research
interest is in the area of Electronic Design Automation of Integrated Circuits. Azadeh is recipient of a 2011 NSF CAREER award.
Informal networking will begin at 11:30PM. Presentation will begin at 12:00PM.
| Speaker: | Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates |
| Location: | Rocky Rococo's
Pizza 7952 Tree Lane (Beltline Hwy. at Mineral Pt. Rd.) Madison, WI 53717 … telephone: 608-829-1444 |
| Menu: | Pizza, salad, and soft drinks |
| Lunch Price: | $5.00 for members, $10.00 for non-members and free for students. |
| RSVP: | Please
register by August 15 online at the IEEE vTools.Meetings event page http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/7603.
Non-member guests are always welcome! |
| Contact: | If needed, please contact Mark Vincent at mvincent@ecw.org. |
This presentation discusses the drivers for consumer digital storage, the different mobile and static usage models for digital storage in consumer devices and the resulting consumer storage hierarchy. Important characteristics of consumer storage devices are shown and guidelines are given for how digital storage should be designed in consumer devices. Demand for higher resolution content and for capturing ever greater details of the life of family members will drive increases in commercial as well as personal content storage demand. Sharing of content within a home or over the Internet creates much greater demand for storage since a shared file can be multiplied many times through network sharing. Implementation of a virtualized integrated storage utility into most homes with appropriate ease of use, suitable for consumers, will benefit customers by providing greater access.
Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates is a storage analyst and consultant. He has over 30 years in the data storage industry with multiple engineering and management positions at high profile companies. He has many publications and six patents to his credit. Tom is the author of Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics: The Essential Guide, Newnes Press, March 2008. Coughlin Associates provides market and technology analysis (including reports on several digital storage technologies and applications and a newsletter) as well as Data Storage Technical Consulting services. Tom is active with SMPTE, IDEMA, SNIA, the IEEE Magnetics Society, IEEE CE Society (Adcom member, TPC member, Associate Editor and VP Operations and Planning), and other professional organizations. Tom is the founder and organizer of the Annual Storage Visions Conference (www.storagevisions.com), a partner to the annual Consumer Electronics Show as well as the Creative Storage Conference held before the NAB show (www.creativestorage.org). Tom has also been the chairman of the annual Flash Memory Summit. He received a B.S. in Physics and an M.S.E.E. from the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Shinshu University in Nagano, Japan.
Informal networking will begin at 11:30PM. Mr. Marca‘s presentation will begin at 12:00PM.
| Speaker: | David A. Marca |
| Location: | Rocky Rococo's
Pizza 7952 Tree Lane (Beltline Hwy. at Mineral Pt. Rd.) Madison, WI 53717 … telephone: 608-829-1444 |
| Menu: | Pizza, salad, and soft drinks |
| Lunch Price: | $5.00 for members,$10.00 for non-members and free for students. |
| RSVP: | Please
register by May 16 online at the IEEE vTools.Meetings event page http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/6669.
Non-member guests are always welcome! |
| Contact: | If needed, please contact Mark Vincent at mvincent@ecw.org. |
Many experts state that: a) specifying "all the small parts of a system" and b) correct expected system usage, can make agilesoftware development more effective. Unified Modeling Methodology (UML) addresses the former, and usability engineering addresses the latter.Taken together, they create a systems development framework, capable of: a) specifying functions, data, behavior and usage, b) rapidprototyping, and c) verifying system usability and correctness. All three methods focus on the system, while trying to ascertain context.Correct and complete context requires domain modeling. Structured Analysis and Design Technique (SADT/IDEF0) is a proven way to model anykind of domain. Its power and rigor come from: a) a synthesis of graphics, natural language, hierarchical decomposition, and relativecontext coding, b) distinguishing control from transformation, c) function activation rules, and d) heuristics for managing modelcomplexity. This talk will explain how SADT/IDEF0 domain modeling can augment, and thus bring correct and complete context to, agile systemdevelopment, Unified Modeling Language (UML) specifications, and usability engineering.
David A. Marca is a professor for the University of Phoenix Online School. His six books and 27 papers cover e-Business, businessprocess design, workflow, and software engineering. His latest book with the IEEE is "Open Process Frameworks: Patterns for the Adaptivee-Enterprise". He holds a patent in workflow technology, and is a member of the IEEE. David is also President and founder of OpenProcess,Inc., specializing in strategic planning, systems analysis and design, and e-Business consulting.
Informal networking will begin at 5:30PM. Mr. Hendershot‘s presentation will begin at 6:00PM.
| Speaker: | James R. Hendershot |
| Location: | UW Madison Engineering Centers Building, room 1025, 1550 Engineering Drive [MAP] |
| Parking: | Free after 4:30pm, Lot 17, between Engineering Hall and Engineering Centers Building. |
| Menu: | Dinner TBD |
| Dinner Price: | $5.00 for members, $10.00 for non-members and free for students. |
| RSVP: | Please
register online at the IEEE vTools.Meetings event page http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/6007.
Non-member guests are always welcome! |
| Contact: | If needed, please contact Charles Gervasi via email or by phone at 608.446.1178 |
The electric machines used around the world for the last 150 years were either battery powered DC motors or grid powered AC induction motors. We will review 21st century machine needs for all sorts of rotating and linear motion applications and how future developments are possible due to new magnetic materials and other inventions such as the transistor. Traditional designs are not well suited to electronically controlled machine (e.g. standard Nema motors were optimized to be grid powered at constant voltage and frequency). To take advantage of the possibilities of inverter fed machines, the entire AC induction motor must be revised, including new lamination materials and rotor slot design, plus different windings in both stator and rotor. We will also focus on the current serious shortage of electric machine design engineers -- The current needs for alternative energy sources is seriously restrained because very few if any undergraduate E.E. or M.E. departments in American universities offer a single course in electric machine design!
James R. Hendershot is the CEO of MotorSolver, LLC -- the designer & supplier of teaching Dyno-Kits to domestic and foreign universities for the ONR/NSF sponsored Curriculum Courses called Reforming Electric Energy Systems Curriculum for Renewables/Storage, Smart Delivery and Efficient End User. Mr. Hendershot was tutored in the design, development and testing of PM brushless motors and generators by Mr Gene Aha, (the original developer of PM brushless machines for the Apollo Space Program). He was one of the early developers of Switched Reluctance motors and generators. His research interests include developing generators and alternators for wind-turbines, EV’s, and gas micro-turbines.
| Purpose: | Special
topic: Sector67.org -- Center for Prototyping, Technology and Advanced Manufacturing Sector67 is Madison, Wisconsin non-profit collaborative for providing an environment for creating next generation technology. One of its members will speak about its concept and funding. |
| Agenda: | Informal networking will begin at 11:30am. The presentation and panel will begin at 12:00 noon. |
| Process: | Members are
encouraged to make introductions, describe endeavors, and make request for: contacts in target companies, needs, resources. Bring your elevator speech and rolodex! |
| Location: | Room 116 (turn right just inside the main door--past the elevators--end of the hall on the left) 302 S. Gammon Road (at Mineral Point--across from West Towne Mall and Memorial High) Madison, WI 53717 Telephone: 608-246-6100 |
| Food: | Nothing is ordered for this event--feel free to bring your own. |
| Parking: | At rear of building |
| Contact: | Tim Chapman 608-206-2570 |
| Speaker: | Ken Hartman [WWW] [SLIDES] |
| Location: | Rocky Rococo's
Pizza 7952 Tree Lane (Madison Beltline Hwy. at Mineral Pt. Rd.), 608.829.1444 |
| enu: | Pizza buffet, salad and soft drinks |
| Lunch Price: | $5.00 members, $10.00 non-members (free for UW-Madison Student Branch members) |
| RSVP: | IEEE members
please register online at the IEEE vTools.Meetings event page here.
Otherwise please contact Charles Gervasi via email or by phone at 608.446.1178 |
This presentation will provide a balanced look at various attitudes about privacy and trust relationships. It will cover the privacy related provisions of HIPAA and the ARRA HITECH Act as well as the specific requirements of disclosure accounting and breach notification. Next, the presentation will cover the technical emerging standards that enable information systems to manage the exchange of data based on granular patient consent preferences. Lastly, the presentation will cover recent recommendations that were made to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT that will shape future privacy legislation.
| Purpose: | Special
topic: R&D Funding Sources--a Panel Discussion with |
| Location: | Room 116 (turn right just inside the main door--past the elevators--end of the hall on the left) 302 S. Gammon Road (at Mineral Point--across from West Towne Mall and Memorial High) Madison, WI 53717 Telephone: 608-246-6100 |
| Food: | Sandwich makings for 20 have been ordered |
| Parking: | At rear of building |
| Contact: | Tim Chapman 608-206-2570 |
Abstract
This event will kick-off the IEEE-ECN Spring 2011 events at the new West side location. Cheryl Vickroy of the Wisconsin Entrepreneur's Network will describe some of the government funding opportunities and then a panel of local entrepreneurs will discuss their experiences in obtaining R&D contracts. The discussion should be particularly relevant for people interested in using government funding for innovative projects
Biographies
Dennis Bahr, President, Bahr Management, Inc.
Dennis Bahr is the founder and president of Bahr Management, Inc., a company that develops and helps bring to market innovative medical devices for use in the cardiovascular, trauma, life support, and surgical markets. He also spends time doing research, such as designing new technologies, developing new mathematical algorithms, and doing computer based modeling. Dennis enjoys being involved with Science, especially developing new ideas and theories. One great enjoyment is developing new mathematical methods and algorithms to solve complex problems that people have said couldn't be solved. In fact, he enjoys science so much that he built a laboratory in his home. Mr. Bahr is also currently a doctoral candidate at the University.
Ron Teeter, COO, Orbitec
ORBITEC was founded in 1988 by Dr. Eric E. Rice, Mr. Ronald R. Teeter, and Mr. Thomas M. Crabb, who worked together at the Astronautics Corporation of America and the Battelle Columbus Laboratories. Beginning by working from their homes, the three founders rapidly gathered talented engineering and science teams. Over time, the company's focus evolved from the expertise of the founders into controlled environments, sensors and instrumentation, advanced combustion and propulsion systems, and space resources processing. Headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, ORBITEC is a national leader in aerospace research and development. In its first 20 years, ORBITEC has been awarded over $150 million in contracts from government and industry for aerospace subsystem development and integration, including the largest Phase III Small Business Innovation Research Program in NASA's history.
Mark Shults, Consultant, Manifest Technologies
Mark Shults has spent 40 years in medical R&D. About half of this time he spent at the UW Medical School with one year each at Harvard Medical School and the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. Overlapping with this academic career were positions as VP of R&D at venture-funded Markwell Medical in Madison WI (1981- 1999) and DexCom in San Diego (1999 – 2003). He was a 1999 founder of DexCom, a publicly traded (DXCM) developer and manufacturer of implantable glucose sensors. With over 300 employees, DexCom is nearing profitability. Since 2004 he has provided consulting services to academia and industry through Manifest Technologies LLC. He received two BS degrees from MIT in Aeronautical Engineering and Biology in 1970 and a MS in Biomedical Engineering from the UW Madison in 1975. Areas of interest have included artificial organs, medical instrumentation, and diabetes products. He is knowledgeable about a broad array of technologies. He is an author of many scientific papers and an inventor on about 20 issued and pending patents.
Ms. Cheryl Vickroy, Southwest Regional Director, Wisconsin Entrepreneur's Network
Ms. Vickroy has over 25 years of business management experience in a variety of industries. Since 2002 she has owned and operated a boutique consulting firm focused on the commercialization of technology, in particular as related to planning, marketing and financing. Her practice has served a variety of emerging technologies in the biotechnology, software development and clean energy industries. During this period, Ms. Vickroy aided clients in obtaining over $18M in funding through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grant programs. Ms. Vickroy has also held leadership positions in four local start-up firms. She currently serves as an Adjunct Faculty member in the Masters in Biotechnology program at the UW-Madison. Prior to 2002, Vickroy served for 15 years as the Regional Manager of a national association. She holds a BBA in Marketing from the UW-Milwaukee and a dual MBA in Operations and Management and Human Resources from the Wisconsin School of Business at the UW-Madison.
| Speaker: | Dennis Bahr P.E. |
| Location: | 1610
Engineering Hall UW Madison |
| Parking: | North Randall Street to Engineering Drive to Parking Lot 17 ($$) |
| Menu: | Pizza, salad and soft drinks |
| Lunch Price: | $5.00 members, $10.00 non-members (free for UW-Madison Student Branch members) |
| RSVP: | Please register online by February 14 at: http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/5145 |
| Contact: | Charles
Gervasi via email
or by phone at 608.446.1178 |
Abstract
We will explore the history, theory and practice of Tesla coils, and experience emissions from a relatively good-sized coil. Come review, or learn about: Mr. Tesla, capacitance/inductance curves/relationships, basic coil theory and its inductance/resonance properties, tuned circuits and frequency splitting. You'll also see: scope outputs, an interactive Tesla coil circuit diagram, and a look at all the major the coil components. Also, we'll review safety guidelines before we experience a live demo on Dennis' hand-built unit. Fun, food, and learning for all.| Officers: | David Marca (chair and acting treasurer), Dennis Bahr (vice chair), Tim Chapman (secretary) |
| Purpose: | Standard
Networking topics: projects, needs and resources. Special topic (varies): iPhone and iPad Development Experiences (Note: The above topic has not been confirmed and may be postponed--tentative replacement is Leveraging the Mobile Platform) |
| Location: | 302 S. Gammon Road (at Mineral Point--across from West Towne Mall and Memorial High) Madison, WI 53717 Telephone: 608-246-6100 |
| Parking: | TBD |
| Contact: | Tim Chapman 608-206-2570 |
Agenda (typical)
| Speaker: | Mitch Bradt,
Program Director UW-Madison Department of Engineering Professional Development |
| Location: | Room 1111, The
Auditorium, UW Biotechnology Center 425 Henry Mall, UW Madison This evening event is being presented as part of the UW-Madison Wednesday Nite @ the Lab series--see the WN@TL web site for parking and other details.
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| Speaker(s): | Al Hagen and Scot Whitney, Henneman 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: | $5.00 members, $10.00 non-members (free for UW-Madison Student Branch members) |
| RSVP: | Charles Gervasi via
email or call 608.446.1178 |
This project proposes a rebuild of Madison’s Capitol Heat and Power Plant. Proposal details: new gas/oil fired boilers; electric chillers; thermal energy storage tank delivers chilled water to the Capitol Building and nearby state-owned facilities. New electrical will be constructed to support the entire project. Rebuild must occur while maintaining current systems. This talk will discuss project conditions, challenges and solutions.