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Upcoming Events
- Talk and Demo of Model RC Helicopters
- eLearning Course: "Introduction to IEEE 802"

eLearning Course: "Fundamentals of LTE"

September 11th, 2014 at 11:45 AM.
Meeting: eLearning Course on LTE air-interface standards and technologies, details at this link.
Details: One Hour eLearning Seminar starting at 12:00.
Location: ACS, 3119 Deming Way, Middleton, WI 53562
0.1 CEUs, 1 PDHs Certified, free for IEEE Members,
$10 Registration for Non-IEEE Members
Food and Beverage will be available for $5 IEEE Members, $10 Non-Members
Please Register at the IEEE Madison Section events page.

This is a seminar provided in recorded format by the IEEE eLearning system and is available for PDH/CEU credits. IEEE members may register their credits for free. Non-Members will have a $10 registration fee, if they want the PDH/CEU credits, otherwise there is no charge for the seminar. Be sure to include your IEEE Membership number and a valid email address when you register to log the credits. This seminar is aimed at Continuing Education for the Professional Engineer and is designed to keep you informed of current technical issues.

Course Content: In this seminar, you will learn about LTE air-interface standards and technologies. After completing it, you should have obtained a high level understanding of LTE, knowing its technical features, key advanced technologies, frame structure and resource grid. Both downlink and uplink transmissions will be addressed. For downlink, we will discuss OFDMA modulation, the physical channels and their general processing, the physical signals and MBSFN. We will also highlight the MIMO technologies in downlink, which includes SIMO, transmit diversity, spatial multiplexing and multiuser MIMO.

Keywords: LTE, communications, standards

September Section Meeting: "Markov Models for Metabolic Modeling"

September 18th, 2014 at 11:45 AM.
Speaker: Dr. H. James Tripp, Bioinformaticist, DOE Joint Genome Institute
Details: Section Meeting Socialize starting at 11:30.
Location:
Promega BioPharmaceutical Technology Center
Room Number: 122
5445 E Cheryl Pkwy
Fitchburg, Wisconsin
Food and Beverage will be available for $5 IEEE Members, $10 Non-Members
Please Register at the IEEE Madison Section events page.

Abstract: The last decade has seen impressive advances in biology, driven by the acquisition of petabytes of genomic information. Among the many long-standing mysteries that have been solved through the application of mathematical theory and engineering tools to biological information systems has been “the great plate anomaly:” many bacteria can be seen under a microscope but not grown under standard conditions. The application of hidden markov models and graph theory to genomic data solved this century-old puzzle. Genes can be found and annotated for enzymatic function using hidden markov models. Metabolic models of the network of enzymatic functions in the genome can then be represented by a graph where edges represent enzymes and the nodes represent products. A case study will show how a globally important “unculturable” marine bacterium known as SAR11 was brought into culture, shedding light on “the great plate anomaly.” It will conclude with a discussion of extensions of this method from single organisms to entire communities of interacting organisms in any environment, from the human body to underwater volcanoes.

Biography: Dr. Tripp is currently a bioinformaticist at the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, CA. His research interests are microbial metabolism, microbial ecology, molecular evolution, and improvement of data quality in public databases housing genomic information. Prior to that, he was the Bioinformaticist for a joint venture between the University of California at Santa Cruz and the Monterrey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, with responsibility for bioinformatics applications running on a 48-cpu cluster. At Oregon State University he built a prototype genome annotation and data mining system for his own research, which was then ported to the Web for use by other researchers. He has shared his research results at Wood’s Hole Oceanographic Institute, Stanford University, the University of Southern California, the Red Sea Research Center in Saudi Arabia and the Korean Oceanographic Research and Development Institute. Prior to his work in genomics and metagenomics, Dr. Tripp was a computer systems consultant to the health care industry for 20 years. In that capacity he oversaw the design, development, and implementation of financial systems and data warehouses for the States of Texas, Virginia, and Connecticut, as well as Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations in Washington DC, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Cornell University and a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Oregon State University.

October Section Meeting: "Magnetic Materials in Medicine"

Wednesday, October 1st, 2014 at 11:45 AM.
Speaker: Tim St Pierre, School of Physics, The University of Western Australia
Details: Section Meeting Socialize starting at 11:30.
Location:
Promega BioPharmaceutical Technology Center
Room Number: 122
5445 E Cheryl Pkwy
Fitchburg, Wisconsin
Food and Beverage will be available for $5 IEEE Members, $10 Non-Members
Please Register at the IEEE Madison Section events page.

Abstract: Scientists working in the field of magnetic materials are increasingly focusing their attention on new applications of magnetic detection and magnetic transduction techniques in the biomedical sciences. Iron is a key functional element in the human body and surpasses all other naturally occurring elements in the body in terms of both the variety and magnitudes of its magnetic states. In many diseases, the quantity and the magnetic state of iron are altered by the disease. Hence, detecting and measuring the magnetic properties of the iron in vivo or in samples of body fluids can give insights into the state of health of a human subject. Example applications include assessing the risk of organ damage in hereditary hemochromatosis, determining the dose of iron chelator drugs required for patients with thalassemia, and identifying infectious forms of the malarial parasite in finger-prick blood samples. Scientists are also working on the development of synthetic magnetic particles that can be injected into the human body for the diagnosis and treatment of disease. The particles used are generally in the size range of 10 to 100 nm. They can be used to enhance the contrast in magnetic resonance images to help identify tumors in tissue, to act as local heat sources to treat cancer, and to carry, concentrate, and release drugs more specifically than drugs without a magnetic carrier. In this presentation, the physical and chemical principles behind these biomedical applications and their impact on medicine will presented at a level suitable for a generalist audience.

Biography: Professor Tim St Pierre heads the BioMagnetics Research Group in the School of Physics at The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. He trained at the University of Liverpool, UK, gaining a BSc with Honours in 1983 and a PhD in 1986. Following postdoctoral positions at Murdoch University in Western Australia, he was appointed to the faculty at The University of Western Australia in 1995. Professor St Pierre’s main scientific interests are in the application of physics to medicine and biotechnology. His research focuses on applications of magnetic measurement and characterization techniques for the non-invasive characterization of iron in biological systems. He and his team developed the non-invasive liver iron measurement technology, FerriScan®, which has been commercialised and used in over 20,000 patient measurements in hospitals around the world. He is currently working on magnetic methods for detection of parasites in human blood and fecal matter. He has published over 150 peer reviewed papers in the fields of iron and magnetism in biology, biotechnology, and medicine in journals such as Blood, Circulation, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In 2010 he won a Clunies Ross Award from the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering for his work on non-invasive measurement of tissue iron deposits.

Section News
- eLearning Seminars -- Two Down, Two More to Come
  
  Our first summer "off season" has featured two eLearning Seminars in June and July where engineers could receive PDH/CEU credits while brushing up on new technology. The first event on "Cyber Security of Industrial Controls Systems" had 12 attendees and the second on "Smart Grid" had 19. The results were successful enough that the IEEE-Madison Executive Committee decided to continue the eLearning Tutorials for two more months, and hopefully, as a permanent monthly event. For August and September, we will be holding the eLearning Seminars at ACS, Inc. in Middleton on the SECOND Thursday of the month. Many thanks to ACS for hosting the seminars at their Middleton Facility. If you are interested in having other specific talks in the eLearning series, please contact Tom Kaminski via email at tjkaminski (at) ieee.org. Available eLearning Courses are provided at this IEEE eLearning site.
- Will You Chair: EMB18? -- Engineering in Medicine and Biology
  
  The IEEE-Madison Section petitioned for, and received a charter for a Chapter of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in 2007. In order to stay on the IEEE role, this Chapter must have at least two meetings a year. Based on our past few years, we have held Section meetings that could be listed as joint meetings of both the BME18 Chapter and Madison Section. If you are active in the BME field, please consider applying for the Chair of the MBE18 Chapter. Your input in selecting speakers would be valuable to your BME colleagues. Contact Tom Kaminski via email at tjkaminski(at)ieee.org.
- Fall Talk Schedule
  We have a great Fall schedule for the IEEE-Madison Section meetings. For September, we have lined up Dr. H. James Tripp, a Bioinformaticist from the DOE Joint Genome Institute. Earlier this summer, data from the Genome Institute and Bioinformatic techniques were used to save a child at UW-Madison Hospitals who had a brain infection they could not identify. Fast computing algorithms were used to identify the source of the infections -- the first time such a technique was used. This exciting new field, merging computational algorithms with biological data has great promise. For October, Dr. Tim Pierre from the University of Western Australia, a Distinguished Lecturer from the IEEE Magnetics Society, will give a talk on the medical use of magnetic materials. Tentatively, Dennis Bahr will give the November Section talk about a new compact neutron source for use in a neutron camera. We plan to have a social event for the December meeting, honoring some of our long-term and distinguished Section members.
- Madison Section Officer Nominations
  Steve Schultheis, Vice Chair for the IEEE-Madison Section, will be heading up a search committee for Section Officer Nominations. If you are interested in helping, or if you know of people who should be nominated, please get in touch with Steve via email at ss(at)ieee.org.
Regular Meetings

Section Meetings
The third Thursday of January through May, and September through December is reserved for a meeting to provide recent research, developments, trends and/or innovations in one of our membership's technical areas.
IEEE-MSN-ECN Networking Meetings
- Purpose: Presentations, Discussions, networking
- Date: First Thursday of even-numbered months
- Time: 11:45 AM to 1:00 PM
- Location: Sector67, 2100 Winnebago Street (East Side of Madison)
- Parking: Park in lot or on Winnebago Street.
- Process: Members are encouraged to make introductions, describe endeavors, and make request for: contacts in target companies, needs, resources.
- Contact: For assistance, call Tim Chapman 2 0 6 - 2 5 7 0

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Madison IEEE Section
The IEEE-Madison Section of the IEEE is a section in Region 4 of the IEEE-USA organized to serve IEEE members in the Madison, WI area with over 600 members. The 2014 Officers and Board Members are Tom Kaminski - Chair, Steve Schultheis, Vice Chair, Charles Gervasi - Treasurer, Brandon Zemlo - Secretary, Timothy Chapman - Webmaster, Tom Kaminski - ECN Chair, Members at Large: Mitch Bradt, Clark Johnson, Dennis Bahr, Craig Heilman, Sandy Rotter.
Job Openings
Check out WIEES.com for electrical engineering jobs in Madison and the surrounding region. This site is maintained as a service for electrical engineers. Jobs are displayed starting with the most recent postings first. You can filter results by location and job type. If you are hiring an electrical engineer in our area, for full-time or contract work, you can post the job in the Contact Us section on the WIEES.com site. Here is a sampling of the new job listings:

Senior Electrical Engineer at BB7 in Madison, WI

Contact Us
The IEEE-Madison Section has a number of volunteer positions open if you are interested in helping out. Please direct any questions or comments to Tom Kaminski via email to tjkaminski(at)ieee.org.

The IEEE Madison Section Newsletter Published 9 times per year (Jan-May, Sep-Dec) by the Madison, Wisconsin Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), for its members in South-Central Wisconsin. Online at http://ieee-msn.truenym.net/ For address changes: notify IEEE headquarters at: http://www.ieee.org/ or address-change@ieee.org . Editorial or comments contact: Tom Kaminski <tjkaminski at ieee.org>. Permission to copy without fee all or part of any material without copyright notice is granted provided the copies are not made or distributed for direct communication advantage, and title of the publication and its date appear on each copy. To copy material with a copyright notice requires specific permission. Please direct all copyright-related inquiries or requests to the IEEE Copyright Office. Thank you.

Madison Section Newsletter

Upcoming Events

Talk and Demo of Model RC Helicopters

eLearning Course: "Introduction to IEEE 802"

eLearning Course: "Fundamentals of LTE"

September Section Meeting: "Markov Models for Metabolic Modeling"

October Section Meeting: "Magnetic Materials in Medicine"

Section News

eLearning Seminars -- Two Down, Two More to Come

Will You Chair: EMB18? -- Engineering in Medicine and Biology

Fall Talk Schedule

Madison Section Officer Nominations

Regular Meetings

Section Meetings

IEEE-MSN-ECN Networking Meetings

Membership Upgrades

About IEEE

Madison IEEE Section

Job Openings

Contact Us