IEEE Madison Section - 2008 Meeting Archive
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
| Speaker: | Gary Choncholas, Software Team Leader at GE Healthcare, Madison, WI | |
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Rocky Rococo's Pizza 7952 Tree Lane (Madison Beltline Hwy. at Mineral Pt. Rd.), 608.829.1444 |
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| Menu: | Pizza buffet, salad and soft drinks | |
| Lunch Price: | $10.00 (free for UW-Madison Student Branch members) | |
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by January 13th to Mitch Bradt via email or call 608.263.1085
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Non-member guests are always welcome!
This presentation will describe a technique for measuring lung volume using nitrogen washout. Determining lung volume is clinically important for measuring the efficacy of lung recruitment. In certain situations and disease states, the lung can partially collapse. Under positive pressure ventilation, the lung can experience cyclic opening and closing at the open/closed boundary which can have deleterious effects on the lung tissue in less than a day. Opening (recruitment) the lung prevents this from happening. Knowing the lung volume before and after the recruitment procedure can determine if the recruitment procedure was effective in reducing the collapsed lung volume. Once the lung is open, positive pressure is introduced at the end of exhalation (PEEP) preventing the lung from recollapsing. Too much PEEP can reduce cardiac output. Knowing lung volume at various PEEP values can help determine a suitable PEEP.
Gary Choncholas is the Software Team Leader and is a Senior Software Engineer with Datex-Ohmeda (now a part of GE Healthcare). He obtained his B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983 and 1986, respectively. He has held a number of positions using his skills with microprocessors, software, digital signal processing towards the end of product development in healthcare and other fields.
| Speaker: | Dave Herbst, Manager of Commissioning and Testing Services, Realtime Utility Engineers, Madison, WI |
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Room 1106, Mechanical Engineering Bldg, 1512 University Ave, Madison, Wisconsin Parking in lot 17, adjacent to Mechanical Engineering Building is FREE, after 4:30 pm |
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| Menu: | Mexican Buffet and soft drinks | |
| Lunch Price: | $10.00 (free for UW-Madison Student Branch members) | |
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by February 18th to Subhadra Ganti via email or call 608.664.2008 ext 172
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Non-member guests are always welcome!
The growth in the Wind Generation industry in the US has been accelerating for about 10 years with the most growth has been in the past 5 years. Wind generation and the associated substation designs present a few interesting issues not encountered in traditional substation designs. System Protection examples from several different wind projects will be presented and discussed.
Dave Herbst the Manager of Commissioning and Testing Services at Realtime Utility Engineers in Madison. Mr Herbst has nearly 25 years of experience as a System Protection and Control Engineer. His work as both a design engineer and field testing engineer has given him the opportunity to be involved with wind generation projects from 5 kW to 300mW. Dave is a 1983 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Madison with a degree in Electrical Engineering. Mr Herbst is proud to be an avid outdoorsman who grew up on the frozen tundra of Northern Wisconsin.
| Speaker: | Kenneth Hartman, VP of Operations and Chief Security Officer for Visonex, LLC. |
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| Location: |
Rocky Rococo's Pizza 7952 Tree Lane (Madison Beltline Hwy. at Mineral Pt. Rd.), 608.829.1444 |
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| Menu: | Pizza buffet, salad and soft drinks | |
| Lunch Price: | $10.00 (free for UW-Madison Student Branch members) | |
| RSVP: |
by March 17th to Subhadra Ganti via email or call 608.664.2008 ext 172
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Non-member guests are always welcome!
Healthcare IT is undergoing a radical transformation. There are several factors at work. Among these are the dramatic increases in the cost of healthcare, the amount of money that the federal government is pumping into healthcare IT, and technology innovations. There are a handful of companies that dominate the large 'Hospital Information System' market space, but there are also thousands of small companies that are each zealously marketing their own solutions to address the needs of highly specialized market niches. Many of these upstart companies are inspired by the web technology driven societal changes (often called Web 2.0) wherein anyone with a computer can become a programmer, publisher, or news commentator. What separates the good from the bad? What does it take to be successful? How do you ensure continued success?
Ken will share war stories and lessons learned while helping Visonex gain a strong national market presence in Chronic Outpatient Dialysis. While his discussion will focus on dialysis, the concepts are easily extended to other niche markets. The discussion will include his thoughts on thriving in your niche, how to understand your market, commoditization of service, pricing, SOA, and Evolutionary Delivery Method.
Kenneth Hartman is the VP of Operations and Chief Security Officer for Visonex, LLC. Visonex is a medical informatics company that serves dialysis centers (www.visonex.com). Prior to joining Visonex, Ken worked for Kraft Foods for ten years in a variety of engineering and management positions. Ken has also worked for The Dial Corp. and Grede Foundries as a project engineer. Ken is applying the Total Quality Management techniques that he learned while working in manufacturing to create systems that enable improved delivery of quality care to dialysis patients. Ken holds a BSEE from Michigan Technological University. Ken is serving as the 2008 Chair for the Madison IEEE Section.
| Speaker: | Kreg Gruben, Associate Professor, Departments of Kinesiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering, UW-Madison |
| 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) |
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by April 14th to Shazia Ahsan via email or call 906.370.2958
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Non-member guests are always welcome!
Coordination of leg muscles controls the ground reaction force that allows us to stand and walk. A stroke disrupts lower limb muscular control so that the ground reaction force is misdirected. That misdirection will rotate the body leading to a fall. Compensatory strategies may be adopted to preserve upright posture. We will discuss the implications of this coordination deficit for post-stroke rehabilitation.
Kreg Gruben is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Kinesiology, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wiscosin - Madison. He served as a post-doctoral fellow at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in NY and at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland prior to joining the faculty at UW-Madison in 1994. Kreg holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a BS in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
| Speaker: | John Diaz de Leon II, Consulting Engineer Transmission Planning, AMSC Power Systems, AMSC (American Superconductor), an energy technologies company |
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University of Wisconsin Milwaukee - EMS-E190 3200 N. Cramer St., Milwaukee, WI |
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| Menu: | Pizza and soda will be provided by the IEEE | |
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to ptindall@ieee.org via email or call 262.506.6919
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Non-member guests are always welcome!
Mr. Diaz de Leon II will discuss the issues involved in connecting wind farms to the transmission grid including:
John A. Diaz de Leon II, PE joined American Superconductor in 1999 after working for Alliant Energy/Wisconsin Power and Light Co. for 20 Years. He earned his Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin. His current position at AMSC is Consulting Transmission and Distribution Planning Engineer. He performs planning studies to analyze transmission and distribution systems for voltage, capacity, stability, transfer capability, harmonic, and power quality problems. He also conducts studies to analyze wind farm interconnection requirements that include LVRT and HVRT capabilities, harmonic and power quality problems, voltage regulation, and power factor control.
| Speaker: | Brett Hulsey, MNS, President, Better Environmental Solutions |
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| Location: |
Rocky Rococo's Pizza 7952 Tree Lane (Madison Beltline Hwy. at Mineral Pt. Rd.), 608.829.1444 |
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| Menu: | Pizza buffet, salad and soft drinks | |
| Lunch Price: | $10.00 (free for UW-Madison Student Branch members) | |
| RSVP: |
by June 16th to Shazia Ahsan via email or call 906.370.2958
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Non-member guests are always welcome!
Brett is President and Founder of Better Environmental Solutions, a consulting firm promoting practical solutions to save lives, jobs and money. He authored "Ethanol: A Convenient Solution to an Inconvenient Truth" for the American Coalition for Ethanol, "Cellulose Prairie: Biomass Potential in Wisconsin and the Midwest" for the Governors' Ethanol Coalition, "Clearing the Air with Ethanol" for the Corn Growers, "Saving Lives, Jobs and Money" and "Highway Health Hazards" for the Sierra Club, and more than 20 reports on sustainable agriculture, clean air, water, and the environment.
He has been the Dane County Board Supervisor since 1998 and chair of the Dane County Lakes and Watersheds Commission and the Personnel and Finance Committee. He serves on the National Association of Counties Environment, Energy and Land Use Steering Committee where he authored policies to fund more farm conservation practices, more biofuels, restore wetlands, and call for immediate action to reduce global warming air pollution.
Brett has a Masters in Natural Science from the University of Oklahoma and a B.A. in Political Economy from Middlebury College.
The Blue Sky Green Field Wind Energy Center, located in the towns of Calumet and Marshfield in NE Fond du Lac county, is designed to generate 145 megawatts (MW) of electricity and is capable of powering approximately 36,000 average residential homes. The site consists of 88 Vestas V-82 turbines. Construction began in June of 20076, and the site was placed into commercial operation in May or 2008 by We Energies. There will be an open-house at the BS-GF Office on Saturday Sept 13th, 9:30 am - 1:00 pm. Address is: N9470 County Highway W, Malone, WI 53049. For maps point your browser at: http://www.we-energies.com/business_new/energyeff/BSGFTour.pdf
No need to RSVP. Just show up!
| Speaker: | David Marca, Adjunct Faculty at the University of Phoenix |
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| Location: |
Rocky Rococo's Pizza 7952 Tree Lane (Madison Beltline Hwy. at Mineral Pt. Rd.), 608.829.1444 |
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| Menu: | Pizza buffet, salad and soft drinks | |
| Lunch Price: | $10.00 (free for UW-Madison Student Branch members) | |
| RSVP: |
by September 15th to Shazia Ahsan via email or call 906.370.2958
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Non-member guests are always welcome!
Innovation is an invention or an application of technologies or theories that can alter business and the economy. After 2009, the economy could decrease due to major world-wide forces. If this occurs, business might need to alter its offerings, operations and organization to survive So, e-Business innovation might need to focus on combining internet, wireless, broadband, video, and speech recognition technologies to create extremely flexible front offices while simultaneously creating extremely efficient back offices.
David Marca is an Adjunct Faculty at the University of Phoenix. His six books and 24 papers cover e-Business, e-Commerce, business process reengineering, and software engineering. He holds a patent in workflow technology. His last book, entitled "Open Process Frameworks: Patterns for the Adaptive e-Enterprise," was published by the IEEE in 2006. David is a member of the IEEE, ACM and PMI.
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Mitch Bradt, PE, Program Director, University of Wisconsin-Madison Pat Riley, PE, Project Manager-Wind Energy, Alliant Energy Steve Saylors, PE, Chief Electrical Engineer, Vestas Americas Steve Williams, Senior Engineer, S&C Electric |
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Board Coach USA/VanGalder Bus in front of Engineering Hall, 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison Parking is available in Lot 17 adjacent to Engineering Hall ($8.00) |
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| Lunch: | We will stop at Fisherman's Cove Restaurant (N9176 Highway 151, Fond du Lac, WI) for lunch. | ||
| Cost: | $15.00 (Student IEEE members are FREE) | ||
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by Oct 13th to Mitch Bradt via email with your choice of lunch option - fish, chicken, or veggie (see below for detailed menu) NOTE: the bus is full as of 2008-10-13. Contact Mitch Bradt to see if there are any cancellations |
Non-member guests are always welcome! Space is limited!
Background on Cedar Ridge: Construction is nearing completion at Cedar Ridge Wind Farm in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. On May 9, 2007 Wisconsin Power and Light Company (WPL), and Alliant Energy Company, received unanimous approval from the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSCW) to build Cedar Ridge Wind Farm in the Towns of Eden and Empire in Fond du Lac County. Ground was officially broken in October 2007, and construction is nearing completion as turbine erection winds down on the 7,800 acre site. Cedar Ridge Wind Farm has 41 turbines that will produce approximately 68 MW of electricity.
Mitch and Pat will give short presentations on wind power, and on Cedar Ridge in particular. The farm is comprised on 41 Vestas V-82 (Type 1) 1.65 MW generators. The windfarm balance-of-plant includes an S&C D-STATCOM for grid regulation compliance. We will visit both the turbines and the substation. If we are able to visit the Forward wind farm, we will get to see the GE 1.5 MW (Type 3) generators, as well as the substation.
For more information visit the Cedar Ridge website.
Note: You must wear closed-toe shoes (i.e. no sandals) and boots are recommended. If you own a hard-hat, please bring it. Alliant does have hard hats on site, but we are a bigger group than normal.
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| 8:00 am | bus Arrives at Engineering Hall |
| 8:30 am |
bus Departs Continental breakfast provided on bus drive to Cedar Ridge Wind Farm located near town of Eden Presentation and Video related to Wind Energy on bus |
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arrive at Cedar Ridge Wind Farm Visit substation, maintenance building, and erected turbine, |
| 12:30 pm | depart Cedar Ridge |
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arrive at Fisherman's Cove Restaurant Eat from a set meal of plated salads, and one of the following three meal options: |
| Fish: Orange Roughy Ala Greque - Orange Roughy Sauteed With Roma Tomatos, Capers, Green Onions, Fresh Basil, Sun-dried Tomatos, and Lemon Zest In A WhiteWine Feta Cheese Cream Sauce | |
| Chicken: Medditeranean Chicken - Sauteed Chicken Breast With Roma Tomatoes, Fresh Basil, and Sun-Dried Tomatoes In A Feta Cheese White Wine Sauce | |
| Veggie: Sauteed Vegetable Stuffed Crepes With A Light Ricotta, Baked With An Asiago Marinara Sherry Cream Sauce | |
| 2:20 pm |
depart restaurant |
| 4:10 pm | back at Engineering Hall |
| Speaker: | Andy Feest, Solutions Architect, Cisco Systems |
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| Location: |
Rocky Rococo's Pizza 7952 Tree Lane (Madison Beltline Hwy. at Mineral Pt. Rd.), 608.829.1444 |
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| Menu: | Pizza buffet, salad and soft drinks | |
| Lunch Price: | $10.00 (free for UW-Madison Student Branch members) | |
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by November 17th to Shazia Ahsan via email or call 906.370.2958
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Non-member guests are always welcome!
Andy Feest has been in the Networking/Telecommunications industry for 20 years, the last 12 of them with Cisco Systems. For 9 of those years he has focused on Voice and Video communications systems. He will talk about some of the new and interesting stuff Cisco has been working on in the field of collaboration technologies including Telepresence. Cisco TelePresence combines high-quality audio, high-definition video, and interactive elements to deliver an in-person meeting experience over your network.
Unfortunately due to several speakers canceling, we will not be holding a December meeting. The annual officer election scheduled for this month will instead be held at the January 2009 meeting.
