Madison Section Newsletter

• April LMAG/Section: "ICE Cube at The WSM"

  
• Event:  Family Fun Event and Technical Talk on the Ice Cube Project
• Date/Time: Saturday, April 29th,  from 9:00 AM until 2:00 PM
  Museum opens at 9:00 AM and closes at 3:00 PM
  Lunch at 12:00 Noon
  Technical Talk at 1:00 PM
• Speaker: Professor Francis Hazen of the IceCube Project
• Talk: The IceCube Project
• Lunch: Pizza and a Drink -- Free!
  
• Location: 
      Wisconsin Science Museum
      211 N. Carroll St., Madison, Wisconsin
      Building: Madison College Downtown Campus
      Room Number: 6th Floor South
  
• RSVP: Please Register at the IEEE Madison Section event page.
    Non-member guests are always welcome.
• Member Donations: IEEE Madison will Match them (up to a limit).
  
  Event: This is a Family Event along with a Technical Talk and a Benefit for the Wisconsin Science Museum.  Bring the whole family to explore the Wisconsin Science Museum and enjoy a lunch on us.  For those more technically interested, stay for the technical talk about the NSF-Sponsored IceCube Neutrino Detector now operational in Antarctica.  Child care for young children will be provided for those parents wishing to attend the technical talk.
  
  Talk:  IceCube is the world’s largest neutrino detector, which encompasses a cubic kilometer of ice at the South Pole Station in Antarctica. It is a huge particle detector that records the interactions of a nearly massless subatomic particle called the neutrino. IceCube searches for neutrinos from the most violent astrophysical sources: events like exploding stars, gamma-ray bursts, and cataclysmic phenomena involving black holes and neutron stars. It is a powerful tool to search for dark matter and could reveal the physical processes associated with the enigmatic origin of the highest energy particles in nature.
  
  In addition, exploring the background of neutrinos produced in the atmosphere, IceCube studies the neutrinos themselves; their energies far exceed those produced by accelerator beams.
  
  Speaker: Dr. Francis Hazen is a theoretician studying problems at the interface of particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. Since 1987, he has been working on the AMANDA experiment, a first-generation neutrino telescope at the South Pole. AMANDA observations represent a proof of concept for IceCube, a kilometer-scale observatory recently completed.

• April  19th  WPSE Project Management Seminar
  

  Link: Click here for more information.
  
  Date and Time:
       Wed, April 19, 2017
       7:30 AM – 5:00 PM CDT
  Location:
       Milwaukee Marriott West
       W231N1600 Corporate Court
       Waukesha, WI 53186
  
  

• May LMAG "SoftSwitching Technologies Talk and Tour"
  


• Event:  Technical Talk and Tour of Rockwell Automation/
               SoftSwitching Technologies in Middleton
• Date/Time: Thursday, May 11th,  from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM 
• Speakers: Dr. Bill Brumsickle and Josh Kagerbauer Talk: Voltage Quality Assurance for Automated Processes
• Dinner: Pizza, beverages, and cookies. Voluntary donation: IEEE Member $5, Guest $10
• Location: 
      Rockwell Automation
      8155 Forsythia Street
      Middleton, Wisconsin
      United States 53562
      Room: Front entrance
• RSVP: Please Register at the IEEE Madison Section event page.
    Non-member guests are always welcome.
  
  
  Event: This is a technical talk and tour of SoftSwitching Technologies, now owned by Rockwell Automation.
  
  Talk:  Highly automated industrial process lines, from aseptic yogurt cup packaging to 120-inch 4K flat panel display fabrication, require a level of electrical power consistency beyond what can be economically provided by electrical utility companies.  A variety of IEEE, IEC, and industry standards exist to evaluate industrial equipment tolerance to voltage variations, particularly voltage sags.  We show why sags are a common problem and discuss methods to reduce the economic consequences.  Then we tour the facility where Rockwell’s DySC (Dynamic Voltage Sag Corrector) products, from 1 amp to 2 mega-VA sizes, are assembled and tested.
  
  Speakers: Dr. Bill Brumsickle received his bachelors degree in physics from Univ. of Washington, Seattle, and his masters and Ph.D degrees in electrical power systems from Univ. of Wisconsin—Madison.  Bill joined SoftSwitching Technologies in 1997 and Rockwell Automation in 2012, when Rockwell acquired SST’s DySC product line.  He is presently a Senior Engineering Manager.  He is a Senior Member of IEEE and has served on several IEEE and international standards working groups.
  
  Josh Kagerbauer received his bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering from Univ. of Wisconsin—Madison.  Josh joined SoftSwitching Technologies in 2006. He has worked on DySC product development for SoftSwitching Technologies and Rockwell Automation for 11 years. Josh is presently the DySC product Hardware Engineering Manager. He is a current member of IEEE.
  
  

• Senior Member Elevation

  The IEEE-Madison Section has formed a panel of volunteers who will review applications for elevation to Senior Member.  There many benefits to Senior Member status including recognition, executive leadership, letters of commendation, and a gift certificate and Senior Member Plaque.  Also, Senior Members get to review others for Senior Membership.  If you are interested in elevation to Senior Membership, follow the detailed instructions in this Senior Membership Details Link. Then send an email to the Section Chair ( tjkaminski (at) ieee.org ) with a copy of the resume submitted.  Your resume will be reviewed and forwarded to the panel for approved references.

• Meetings Reviews

  March Section Meeting: Tony Kapela from 5Nines gave a detailed technical talk at the University of Wisconsin Computer Science Department lecture hall.  Turnout for  the talk was over 50 people and many of them were CS students.  Tony's talk spanned a great number interesting areas, including antennas, RF design, Protocols, and a brief history of his education in the field. The talk lasted over an hour with many questions from the audience.  For a detailed review of the talk (provided by Charles Gervasi) click here.  Tony provided us with a link to the slides for his talk (all 108 of them!) here.
  
  
  
  

• 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.

• Life Member Affinity Group

  The first Thursday of January, March, May, September and November is reserved for a meeting on a topic selected from a broad range including such areas as technology, science, history, culture and leisure.

• 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.

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