IEEE Madison Section - 2016 Meeting Archive

December Section/EMB-018 Meeting "Wisconsin NITRO Lab"

Thursday, December 16th, 2016, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Talk

This talk outlines a wide array of approaches where building electronic devices for interfacing with nervous tissue can aid in the study, diagnosis and treatment of neurological disease.  Applications will cover topics ranging from advanced prosthetic devices to building artificial neural circuits in a dish.

Bio

November LMAG Meeting "Wisconsin Energy Institute Tour" CANCELED

Thursday, November 10th, 2016, 4:30PM - 5:45 PM 

Facility

Tour

We have requested a tour that includes: Energy and architectural features of the building, Electrical and mechanical systems, Laboratory features, Human interface features, Research activities and resources, Educational activities and resources, Community outreach programs, WEI financial support.  The date is tentative.  Please look for a message entitled "Engage industry in high-impact research collaborations" soon detailing the final event details.

October ECN Meeting "A municipal citywide FTTP network for Madison?"

Thursday, October 6th, 2016, 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM

Talk

Bio

Barry M. Orton is an Emeritus Professor from the UW-Madison Liberal Arts and Applied Studies Department. For over 25 years his primary duty at the UW-Madison has been to assist Wisconsin municipalities with broadband issues. He is a veteran consultant to cable television franchising authorities, specializing in telecommunications planning and public opinion research in addition to broadband policy and regulation. Barry has been involved in franchise negotiations, renewals, rate and customer service regulations, and transfers of ownership procedures. Orton has served local government clients in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, and Wisconsin.

Barry Orton was an original founder of the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA), the professional organization of local telecommunications regulators, and for many years was president of NATOA's Wisconsin chapter. In 2005, NATOA elected Orton a Life Member in recognition of his contributions to the organization. In addition, Professor Orton has been active in teaching professionals how to utilize the Internet.

Dr Orton's PhD and Masters are from Rutgers in Urban and Regional Planning, and he also has a BS in Business and Economics from Lehigh University. Before joining the UW faculty in 1980, he was on the Rutgers faculty in Journalism and Mass Communications.

September Section and LMAG Meeting "Microgrids"

Thursday, September 8th, 2016, 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM

Social gathering starts a 11:15 AM--talk at 11:30

Talk

A New Energy Paradigm: Microgrids -- The National Academy of Engineering includes the electrical power system as one of the top engineering achievements of the twentieth century. Abundant and available electric power helped spur America’s economic development and distributed benefits widely, from cities to farms. This achievement clearly shines as an example of how engineering has changed the world. But today as we look at our energy needs there is a need to rethink the delivery of electricity. We need higher efficiencies, less emissions and better reliability. Progress towards these objectives can be achieved by moving generation sources close to the loads allowing for effective use of waste heat and increased reliability. The resulting complexity of many small sources can be reduced using microgrid concepts. A microgrid is an aggregation of loads and micro-sources operating as a single system providing both power and heat. This control flexibility allows the microgrid to present itself to the bulk power system as a single controlled unit that meets local needs for reliability and security.

Bio

Robert H. Lasseter received the Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in 1971. He was a Consulting Engineer at General Electric Co. until he joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1980. His research interests focus on the application of power electronics to utility systems. This work includes microgrids, FACTS controllers and use of power electronics in distribution systems. Professor Lasseter is the technical lead of the CERTS Microgrid Project, a Life Fellow of IEEE, past chair of IEEE Working Group on Distributed Resources and IEEE distinguished lecturer in distributed resources.

August Section Meeting "Engineers and Ethics"

One Hour PDH credit toward PE certification in the Ethics Category will be given to those who attend

Thursday, August 4th, 2016, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Social gathering starts a 11:45 AM--talk at noon

Talk

"Engineers and Ethics: An Overview of Ethical Standards that Apply to Design Professionals" The talk will start with a review the ethical standards that apply to design professional and discuss their key points. It will then move on to examples of real life cases to help the attendees get a flavor of the many ethical issues that arise in the judicial system. Bring your attention and questions for an evening of learning.

Speaker

Steve Nelson is a Shareholder in the Litigation and Risk Management Practice Group at Von Briesen & Roper in Milwaukee, WI. Steve has extensive experience in litigation and concentrates his practice in commercial litigation including construction, professional liability defense , civil and business disputes, contracts and lease disputes, toxic tort, OSHA counseling and citation defense, personal injury defense, product liability, and Wisconsin fair dealership law. He has litigated on behalf of clients involved in complex construction matters including tunnel and sewer construction, building construction, highway construction and matters involving professional negligence.

June ECN Meeting "Mid-Year Meet and Greet"

Thursday, June 2nd, 2016, 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM

Meeting

May Section Meeting "Madison Science Museum"

Co-sponsored by Life Member Affinity Group

Thursday, May 19th, 2016, 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM

Social gathering starts a 11:45 AM--talk at noon

Talk

Museum personnel will briefly review the history and vision for the Madison Science Museum. They will present an overview of the current exhibits and describe planned exhibits and current exhibit development projects. We will discuss ideas for IEEE collaboration and support.

Tour

During the tour of the Museum, museum personnel will be available to answer questions and talk about the exhibits.

1. Hall of Fame: This exhibit covers the history of science throughout Wisconsin with emphasis on UW connections and Nobel Prize winners.
2. Luminous Scores: Reflections on Light in Art and Science: In this exhibit, visitors will explore the work of Floor van de Velde, whose depictions of color, light, and sound are based on the research of Robert Wood.
3. Imaging of Our World: Visitors move through this exhibit through increasing orders of magnitude, starting with subatomic particles, through a migrating bird’s eye view, up through galactic scale.
4. The Wonders of Lasers: The exhibit covers the history and diverse uses of lasers today with an emphasis on lasers in medicine, engineering, art, entertainment and cutting edge technology applications.
5. Robotics and Makers Playground: Visitors can wander through the makers playground, play with robots, generate energy, build, tinker, and explore the world of engineering.
6. Biotech in Wisconsin: This exhibit highlights the history of several local biotechnology companies that have had a profound impact in their field and put Wisconsin on the map in the sciences.
7. Wisconsin Landscapes in Infrared: A temporary exhibit featuring the works of four photographers Bob Beaverton, Kathy Sleeted, Oleg Moskwin and Peter DeVault. The exhibit complements the museum collection of IR images used in research, astronomy and art and honors Robert Wood, the father of infrared photography, who spent the early years of his career in Madison.

April Section Meeting "The Adult Role Models in Science (ARMS) program"

Thursday, April 21st, 2016, 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM

Social gathering starts a 11:45 AM--talk at noon

Talk

The Adult Role Models in Science (ARMS) program is founded on the basic idea that the best way to transform science education for children is to help adults—from teachers to undergraduates to researchers to parents—become and see themselves as competent scientific role models. Each trained role model can mentor many children, and that's how ARMS is able to reach hundreds of kids each year.

Bio

Dolly Ledin works to engage scientists in collaborating with educators to engage youth in the process of science. She has worked as outreach coordinator for the University of Wisconsin WISCIENCE for the past 25 years.  She has worked as an elementary and middle school teacher, an environmental educator with the Wis. Dept. of Natural Resources and an adjunct faculty with Univ. of Wisconsin Stevens Point. Most of Dolly’s work has focused on the Madison community, building long-term partnerships between the university, local K-12 schools and organizations that serve youth.  She has also led environmental science courses for teachers in Puerto Rico, led university students on a study-abroad course in rural Ecuador and spent a year as the environmental education coordinator at the Cloud Forest School in Monteverde, Costa Rica.  She has an MS in Land Resources from UW Madison Institute for Environmental Studies (now the Nelson Inst.)   She received the Sister Joel Read Civic Leadership Award from the Wisconsin Campus Compact in 2015.

April ECN Meeting "Cloud Servers Discussion"

Thursday, April 7th, 2016, 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM

Social gathering starts a 11:45 AM--talk at noon

Talk/Demo

Tom Kaminski and Tim Chapman will give a short talk and demonstration on setting up your own Cloud Server.  One server, hosting an interactive book with Redmine project management was used for teaching.  The second server, an M2M server for data collection and display shows details of the "Internet of Things" approach to connecting small SoC to user laptops through cloud servers.

Discussion

After the short talk, the ECN group will open the floor for discussions of participant's experience with cloud servers.  Bring your questions, suggestions, experiences to share.

March Section Meeting "Beethoven, Shannon and the Compact Disk"

Thursday, March 17th, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Social gathering starts a 11:45 AM--talk at noon

Talk

An audio compact disc (CD) holds up to 74 minutes, 33 seconds of sound, just enough for a complete mono recording of Ludwig von Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (‘Alle Menschen werden Brüder’) at probably the slowest pace it has ever been played, during the Bayreuther Festspiele in 1951 and conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler. Each second of music requires about 1.5 million bits, which are represented as tiny pits and lands ranging from 0.9 to 3.3 micrometers in length. More than 19 billion channel bits are recorded as a spiral track of alternating pits and lands over a distance of 5.38 kilometers (3.34 miles), which are scanned at walking speed, 4.27 km per hour.

Bio

Greg Carman received the Ph.D. degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1991. He joined the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1991. He is the director of a new National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center entitled Translational Applications of Nanoscale Multiferroic Materials (TANMS) and is engineering director of the Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology in the Department of Surgery at UCLA. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems Structures and for Smart Materials and Structures. He received the Northrop Grumman Young Faculty Award in 1995 and three best paper awards from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in 1996, 2001, and 2007. He was elected Fellow of the ASME in 2003 and was awarded the ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Prize honoring his contributions to smart materials and structures in 2004. In 2015 SPIE honored him with the Smart Structures and Materials (SSM) Lifetime Achievement Award. Presently his research interests focus on analytical modeling, fabrication, and testing of multiferroic (magneto-electric) materials and developing devices for medical applications.

March LMAG Meeting "Charter Street Power Plant Tour"

Thursday, March 3rd, 2016, 5:00 - 6:30 PM

Please arrive 5 minutes early -- 1.5 Hour Walking Tour with Stairs

• Control room
• 225,000 Lb/Hr natural gas boilers
• Natural gas meter pit
• New utility tunnel and steam exit locations
• Water treatment plant
• Steam turbine generator
• Campus cooling chillers and pumping systems
• Fuel oil tank (back-up fuel to natural gas)
• Optional roof tour - If weather permits, those who wish to climb the additional stairs to the roof can see the boiler stacks, and the cooling towers for the boiler feedwater, and the chiller.

February ECN Meeting "Challenges of Operational Scaling"

Thursday, February 4th, 2016, 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM

Social gathering starts a 11:45 AM--talk at noon

Talk

Kevin will discus his background and the services provided by the Small Business Development Center.  He will relate what the SBDC sees from early stage and second stage companies, particularly those with outside investors. Companies should recognize the five engines of growth. Kevin will lead an interactive exercise to score participants on the five engines.  Companies also need to connect to their markets and develop Mission Vision Values.  Kevin will be available to answer any questions the entrepreneur might have.

Bio

Kevin Kaufman brings a depth of experience working with small and medium sized businesses to his position as Business Consultant at the Small Business Development Center at UW-Madison. From strategic planning to financial projections to buy/sell valuation to operational excellence, Kevin’s background as a commercial banker, national sales manager and eight years of consulting experience will help your company define and achieve its goals. Kevin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from UW-Whitewater and an MBA from UW-La Crosse.

February Section Meeting "MobileIgniter: Internet of Things"

Thursday, February 18th, 2016, 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM

Social gathering starts a 11:45 AM--talk at noon

Talk

Dominic DiMarco, co-founder of Mobile Igniter, a Madison-based tech startup specializing in early stage research and development of devices for “the connected home of the future" will discuss this new field.

Bio

Dominic DiMarco has been taking things apart to see how they work his whole life, which is how he found himself cruising IRC channels to learn how to write code for the iPhone well before Apple released an SDK. In 2011 he co-founded MobileIgniter -- an Internet of Things guide to manufacturers, retailers, and service providers. When Dominic is not running an IoT consultancy, he often takes his mom on exotic vacations -- mainly to pay her back for things taken apart.

January LMAG Meeting "Denali: Flightseeing Meets History"

Thursday, January 7th, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Social gathering starts a 11:45 AM--talk at noon

Talk

Denali (Mt. McKinley), at 20,310 feet, is the highest mountain in North America and the second highest in the Western Hemisphere. Using video and photos from a summit flightseeing tour in June 2008 in combination with maps and other photos, Denali’s place among the world’s mountains, a summary of its climbing routes and milestones of its climbing history will be presented including the role of bush pilots in transporting climbers. Also discussed are the challenges of Denali’s topography and climate to the current more than 1200 climbers per year attempting to summit. Finally, climbing and rescue challenges are illustrated by a controversial climbing disaster in 1967 with seven fatalities. This disaster has been the subject of five books written by five different authors, one of whom inadvertently drew me to a greater interest in Denali and its mountaineering culture.

Bio

Charles (Chuck) Kime is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He has degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Iowa and the University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. At UW, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering, now Electrical and Computer Engineering, in 1966 and retired from there in 2001. He specialized in computer engineering with research in system fault diagnosis and VLSI testing. Chuck was named an IEEE Fellow for his work in these two areas and was as an Associate Editor of two IEEE journals and on committees for numerous conferences in testing and fault-tolerant computing including two held at Monona Terrace in Madison. Heavily involved in computer engineering course development, he lead the establishment of the undergraduate Computer Engineering degree at UW Madison. He was the primary coauthor of four editions of the textbook Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals. Chuck’s hobbies are photography, travel and reading.

January Section Meeting "CoFe-based cylindrical nanowires"

Monday, January 18th, 2015, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Social gathering starts a 11:45 AM--talk at noon

Talk

The recent interest on the magnetization reversal process of novel families of nanowires originates in the need to have full information about their magnetic properties for different functionalization and technological applications. The electrochemical route to fabricate nanowires is attracting much interest owing to their low-cost and reliability to fabricate tailored magnetic nanowires and nanotubes. This technique enables the synthesis of nanowires with cylindrical symmetry in opposition to nanostripes prepared by lithography techniques. Arrays of such nanowires can be grown with diameter of 15 to 200 nm, and length from 100 nm up to tens of microns. Cylindrical nanowires can be also grown with compositional multisegmented character and with controlled modulation in diameter intended to play a similar role as notches in lithography nanostripes. The particular study of Co-based nanowires is relevant since their magnetocrystalline anisotropy, in opposition to Py nanostripes, plays an important role to determine the magnetization reversal mechanism by vortex or transverse domain walls and spin rotation modes.                        

Most recent results in our laboratory will be overviewed specially focusing on the spin reversal process in Co and CoFe individual nanowires after their release from porous templates. Knowledge of the fine crystalline structure, through high resolution transmission electron microscopy and other advanced techniques, is essential to determine the magnetocrystalline anisotropy and the spin reversal process.

Bio

Professor Manuel Vazquez was born in Madrid, Spain. He was awarded a PhD in Physics by the University of Madrid, 1980; had post doc stays at Max-Planck-Institute fuer Metallforschung, Stuttgart (1981-3) and at the Technical Univ. of Denmark, 1985. He was Associate Professor at Madrid University, 1985-1989, then, he moved to the Spanish Council for Research where he became Research Professor in 1996. He is presently heading the Research line of Nanomagnetism and Magnetization Processes at the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid, CSIC. His main scientific interests lie in the topic of Magnetic Nano- and Microwires, with particular emphasis on the magnetization reversal processes, domain structure and domain walls, and magnetic anisotropy (i.e., magnetostriction). With more than 400 publications, co-authoring of 9 chapter books, and about 20 patents, he has given over 70 invited talks in international conferences and research centers, has supervised about 30 PhD and hosted a number of international visitors.

His most recent interest is overall related to the development of three-dimensional magnetic nanostructures by combined electrochemical/lithography techniques, and to unveil the magnetization reversal process and domain wall structure in individual and ordered arrays of magnetic nanowires and nanotubes as well as of antidot thin films. Research efforts are being addressed to the study of Co base cylindrical nanowires/nanotubes where the tunable magnetocrystalline anisotropy plays an important role.

January ECN Informal eLearning Webinar: "LENR 101: An Introduction to Low Energy Nuclear Reactions"

Saturday, January 16th, 2016, 9:15 AM - 11:30 AM

Talk

LENR is a heat producing reaction with no measurable nuclear radioactive by-products. This  webinar “LENR 101”  is an introductory  presentation by Mats Lewan, the author of the book An Impossible Invention.  Mats is a journalist who has been present at several of the tests of the nickel-hydrogen-lithium fueled reactors conducted by inventor Andrea Rossi.  He will review LENR developments over the past 5 years  ending with a 1- Megawatt heater test presently  in continuous operation.

LENR 101: An Introduction to Low Energy Nuclear Reactions
    Part 1: A Brief History of Cold Fusion and Basic Theory
    Part 2: Technical Description of the Rossi Effect and How It Changed the LENR Field
    Part 3: What’s New? The Lugano Report, the 1 MW Power Plant, and What’s Next . . .

Bio

Mats Lewan is senior staff writer at Ny Teknik, Stockholm, Sweden – the major technology weekly in Scandinavia. He is also the managing editor of Next Magasin. Mats received his Master of Science degree in Engineering Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Mats was present at many LENR demonstrations and wrote about cold fusion and Andrea Rossi in his book An Impossible Invention: Cold fusion is an energy source that could provide clean water to Planet Earth, zero-emission vehicles with unlimited mileage, a solution to the climate crisis and much more. It is clean, compact, simple, inexhaustible and . . . physically impossible! At least that is what science has considered since an infamous and rejected scientific claim in 1989. An Impossible Invention is the true story of the Italian inventor Andrea Rossi who might have managed to make cold fusion work in his device the E-Cat. But it's also a story of what is considered impossible and why.

January Section Meeting: "Denali: Flightseeing Meets History"

Thursday, January 7th, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Informal networking will begin at 11:30 AM. Presentation will begin at 12:00 PM.

Talk

Photos and video of Denali presented with a historical perspective.

Denali (Mt. McKinley), at 20,310 feet, is the highest mountain in North America and the second highest in the Western Hemisphere. Using video and photos from a summit flightseeing tour in June 2008 in combination with maps and other photos, Denali’s place among the world’s mountains, a summary of its climbing routes and milestones of its climbing history will be presented including the role of bush pilots in transporting climbers. Also discussed are the challenges of Denali’s topography and climate to the current more than 1200 climbers per year attempting to summit. Finally, climbing and rescue challenges are illustrated by a controversial climbing disaster in 1967 with seven fatalities. This disaster has been the subject of five books written by five different authors, one of whom inadvertently drew me to a greater interest in Denali and its mountaineering culture.

Bio

Charles (Chuck) Kime is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He has degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Iowa and the University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. At UW, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering, now Electrical and Computer Engineering, in 1966 and retired from there in 2001. He specialized in computer engineering with research in system fault diagnosis and VLSI testing. Chuck was named an IEEE Fellow for his work in these two areas and was as an Associate Editor of two IEEE journals and on committees for numerous conferences in testing and fault-tolerant computing including two held at Monona Terrace in Madison. Heavily involved in computer engineering course development, he lead the establishment of the undergraduate Computer Engineering degree at UW Madison. He was the primary coauthor of four editions of the textbook Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals. Chuck’s hobbies are photography, travel and reading.

Entrepreneurs & Consultants Network (IEEE-MSN-ECN)

Regular meetings are held on the first Thursdays of even-numbered months 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM