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Membership in these counties: Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia, (PA), Burlington, Camden, Gloucester (NJ)
Vol. 61, No. 3 www.ieeephiladelphia.org March 2016
AWARDS BANQUET April 2, 2016 Union League Broad and Sansom Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19102 Saturday, April 2, 2016 Hosted Reception 5:45 PM Dinner 6:45 PM
SECTION MEETING March 15, 2106 Dinner: 6 pm Speakers: 7 pm and (Justin Mazur) and 8 pm (Doug Kribel) Sheraton University City, Philadelphia Meal Cost: $25.00 (students $15.00), Parking cost paid by section Details inside the Almanack on Page 3
March 2016 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Adcom 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 IEEE Night
16 17 St. Patricks Day
18 19 TCF
20 Palm Sunday
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23 PES/IAS
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27 Easter 28 29 30 CAS/CSS/SMCS Science Fair
31 1 2 Banquet
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IEEE NIGHT Philadelphia Section Meeting
Joint with: Communications/Information Theory(COM/IT), Signal Processing/Broadcast Technology/Consumer Electronics(SP/BT/CE) Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 Time: Dinner is at 6 pm. Program starts at 7 pm, and 8 pm. Location: Sheraton University City, 36th and Chestnut, Philadelphia Cost of dinner is $25.00 (students $15.00); meeting only is free (Real cost of dinner is higher, which is mostly subsidized by section) Reservations are needed, call 484.270.5136 or email the section office. [email protected] or use vtools in the web site Indoor parking is at location and paid by section. Bring ticket to be stamped. Note: In the event of bad weather please call the Sheraton after 1pm the day of the meeting at
(215) 387-8000. Ask the front desk if the meeting has been canceled. Uninterruptible Power Supply High Efficiency Modes Justin Mazur, P.E. Schneider Electric
UPS systems have provided power to Critical Loads for about 70 years. Newer Transformerless Double Conversion UPS designs from multiple manufacturers can now offer additionally two types of higher efficiency modes: ECO Mode and ECOnversion Mode. Common for both higher efficiency modes is that the static bypass switch is used for powering the load through the bypass path. This will reduce power loss as the efficiency of the bypass path is typically around 98% to 99%. This also means that the load is more exposed to unconditioned utility power. We will discuss details on the applications, selection and operation of UPSs. In addition, we will discuss the methods to increase UPS Efficiency without reducing availability of your Data Center, Process or other Critical Loads. Justin Mazur, PE is the Consulting Engineer Specialist for Schneider Electric’s IT Business of Critical Power and Cooling. He is a specialist with over 22 years of Mission Critical Experience and 10 years with Schneider Electric.
Justin started his career in Building Management System design. He designed control systems and programming for complex Central Plant and large Air Handling Unit applications. In 2007 he came to Schneider Electric and is responsible for the Power and Cooling support to the Consulting Engineer community in the Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware Area.
He has a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University and is a Licensed Professional Engineer in his home state of Pennsylvania.
Refinery 101 Doug Kriebel, P.E.
One of our most important Industrial Sectors is Oil and Gas. It currently supports 9.8 million workers with more jobs being added.
A key part of this is refineries, which turn crude oil into transportation fuel, heating oils, waxes, lubricants, and an entire host of petrochemicals A refinery can appear overwhelming. There are tanks, pipes, pumps, compressors, motor, turbine, heat exchangers, instruments, controls and other equipment. The purpose of this talk is to explain what a refinery does, and how the major units,
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processes and equipment make it happen. Even if you are not currently involved in the O&G business, it’s an interesting topic for any engineer. Doug Kriebel P.E, is a Principal at Anchor Pump and Engineered Equipment (previously Kriebel Engineered Equipment, Ltd.). Doug has over 20 years of industrial experience in pump design, application and hydraulic systems; heat transfer; mass transfer; industrial water treatment; air pollution control systems.
Professional activities include ISPE, the CCN, the Joseph Priestly Society and AIChE. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and was named the 2011 Delaware Valley Engineer of the Year by the Technical and Professional Societies of the Philadelphia Area. He has a BS in Chemical Engineering, and is a licensed Professional Engineer.
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Section notes
IEEE PHILA. SECTION OFFICERS Chair: Philip Gonski, P.E.; [email protected] Vice Chair: Peter M. Silverberg; [email protected] Treasurer: Robert Johnston; [email protected] Secretary: Tal Singer; [email protected] Past Chair: Mark Soffa; [email protected] Adcom meets second Tuesday of the month (March 8.) at the Sheraton University City. Members are welcome to attend. Reserve a seat by calling the office by the Friday before. Almanack Staff Publisher: Phil Gonski, P.E. Editor: Peter Silverberg Asst. Editor: Janet English-Cartwright; [email protected] News and notices contact [email protected] or 856.461.6615 or fax 509.461.6617 Deadline for the April issue is March 15, 2016
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Sponsor: Motorola Solutions Foundation “For contributions to research and development, clinical translation, and commercialization of biomedical microsystems.”
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The Philadelphia Section of the IEEE Annual Awards Banquet & Gala
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The Union League of Philadelphia Broad and Sansom Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19102
Saturday, April 2, 2016 Hosted Reception 5:30 PM | Dinner 6:45 PM
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Chair’s Message By Phil Gonski
I would like to cordially invite all IEEE members and their family to celebrate the accomplishments of both our local students and engineers. As I write this article, we are in the middle of Engineers Week, an annual celebration of everything engineering.
This year’s banquet will focus on energy in Philadelphia. Our city happens to be at the forefront of bringing about dramatic change in the way energy is both produced and distributed. In addition, the event is held at the prestigious Union League.
Each year, over 150 attendees event to celebrate. We hope that you will be able to join us and celebrate the accomplishments of those engineers around us that are making a difference.
Banquet Keynoter We now can announce that the keynote speaker is Will Agate, VP of the Navy Yard. Will heads up the smart grid and microgrid efforts down there, and will talk about smart power grid and its impact on climate change.
TEN REASONS FOR ATTENDING THE IEEE Philadelphia Section 2016 Awards Banquet & Gala
1. This is one of the best ways to celebrate your
engineering profession and to increase your
contact and friendship with your peers in the
Delaware Valley.
2. The Philadelphia Section is one of the
largest and most influential sections in the
IEEE. Become a part of its activities.
3. For management, this is an ideal way to
reward your engineers and managers and
increase your social contact with them and
their families in a most pleasant atmosphere.
4. The Union League is one of the most
prestigious locations for professional banquets
in the Philadelphia area.
5. You will be present and participate when we
recognize and reward our outstanding members
(your peers) in a short ceremony.
6. The Philadelphia Section partly subsidizes
the banquet.
7. You will hear an interesting and provocative
keynote address.
8. Organization and corporate sponsorship will
be recognized at the Banquet, in the Award
Brochure, and in the Philadelphia Section
Newsletter (the Almanack), which goes to
4,000 professionals and decision makers.
9. The evening will conclude with a gala that
you can enjoy with your friends at your leisure.
10. All in all, this is quite an opportunity. Don’t
miss it. Be sure to reserve early! Call the IEEE Office at 484.270.5136. The reservation form is on the preceding page. Sponsorship forms are on the web site. The opportunity to sponsor closes March 18. It is now easy to use vtools to register.
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Future City
The Future City competition was held at Archbishop Carroll High School in Radnor on January 30 (a week late due to weather). Four judges were connected to the section: Devonne Jackson, Phil Gonski, Jessica Tarica, and Peter Silverberg. The team that won the IEEE Philadelphia Section Award was Grey Nun Academy, Yardley PA. The students are Victor Fiori, Ellie McLaughlin, Alex Venth, and Caroline Kuzy. Teacher guides are Micheline Balough and Kate Wolf. The mentor is Michael McAfee of Urban Engineers.
Grey Nun Team pictured
City name was Evimeria located approximately at the Straits of Gibraltar. Winning First Place overall was Lionville Middle School.
WEDNESDAY MAY 11, 2016Help us engage, excite and enlighten students about the design +
construction industry!
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Invited Seminar
Collective Phenomena in Complex Networks Speaker: Dr. Ali Jadbabaie; Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Network Science (ESE), University of Pennsylvania.
Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2016. Time & Location: 7:00 - 8:00 PM; Skirkanich Hall, Room 114, University of Pennsylvania, 210 South 33rd Street.
Abstract: In this talk, I will present a high-level overview of my research in the past decade on collective behavior
in networked, social, and engineering systems. These collective phenomena include social aggregation in animals such as schooling, herding, and flocking, and more broadly emergence of consensus, swarming, and synchronization in complex network of interacting dynamic systems. A common underlying theme in this line of study is to understand how a desired global behavior such as consensus, synchronization or a particular formation can emerge from purely local interactions. The evolution of these ideas into social systems has led to a new theory of collective decision making among strategic agents. Examples include participation decisions in uprisings, social cascades and investment decisions in infrastructure. I will investigate distributed strategies for information aggregation, social learning and detection problems in networked systems where heterogeneous agents with different observations (with varying quality and precision) coordinate to learn a true state (e.g., finding aggregate statistics or detecting faults and failure modes in spatially distributed wireless sensor networks, or deciding suitability of a political candidate, quality of a product and forming opinions on social issues of the day in social networks) using a stream of private observations and interaction with neighboring agents. I will end the talk with a description of contagion phenomena in networked systems and a new vision for graduate education at the interface of information and decision systems, data science and social sciences.
Biography: Ali Jadbabaie is the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Network Science in the department of Electrical
and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). He holds secondary appointments in the departments of Computer and Information Science (CIS) in Penn Engineering, and Operations, Information, and Decisions (OID) in the Wharton School. A faculty member in Penn’s (GRASP) Lab, he is also the co-founder and director of the Raj and Neera Singh Program in Networked & Social Systems (NETS) at Penn Engineering. NETS is a new undergraduate interdisciplinary degree program focused on network science and engineering, operations research, social phenomena and social and technological networks. From January to October 2015, Ali was on sabbatical at LIDS at MIT. From October 2015 to January 2016, he took a leave from Penn to lead the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center at MIT as its interim director. During this period, he served as the Associate Director of MIT’s newly formed Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS), where he helped create a newly-approved PhD program in Social and Engineering Systems and shaped the intellectual agenda of the newly formed Institute. Ali received his B.S. with High Honors from Sharif University of Technology, his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and his Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He was a postdoctoral scholar at Yale University for a year before joining the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) in July 2002. Aside from GRASP Lab and the NETS program, Ali is also a faculty member of The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences at Penn and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at Penn Law School. Ali is the inaugural editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, a new interdisciplinary journal sponsored by 5 IEEE Societies, an Associate Editor of the INFORMS journal Operations Research and a former Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. He is a recipient of a Career Award from NSF, an ONR Young Investigator Award, the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award of the American Automatic Control Council, and the George S. Axelby Best Paper Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is also an IEEE Fellow. He has graduated 10 PhD students, and has served as mentor of 5 postdoctoral scholars who have become research leaders both in industry and academia. His current research interests include decision and control theory with a focus on distributed optimization and control, collective behavior, network science, and the study of collective behavior in engineering systems and social and economic networks.
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Follow-on to the preliminary report published last month regarding the IEEE-sponsored tour of Inductotherm Corp. on 14 January by Robert Paglee, L.M., P.E. (Ret.)
The Inductotherm facility in Rancocas, NJ was toured on January 14 by twenty visitors. Due to time constraints, only a preliminary report with photographs was possible for inclusion in the February Almanack; this follow-on provides additional detail
An aerial view is seen below. Reception area and offices at bottom right, the factory production area appears above it and to the left. The hangers and beginning of an airstrip for Inductotherm aircrafts are seen at upper right. The open area at top-center is being readied for factory expansion
Upon arrival, visitors were required to log-in on the Inductotherm computer at the Reception Desk, and shortly after 2:30 P.M., the group was escorted to the second-floor Show/Discussion Room by Inductotherm's Tour Director Emad Tabatabaei, Vice President, Technology. Following a brief summary of the program, he introduced Senior Sales Manager Mike Nutt, shown standing at the right in the photograph below, with the visitors seated around the table.
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Mr. Nutt presentation included videos on a screen and an illustrated folder by Inductotherm
Group. entitled "I Can." It described the Melt Shops with their induction furnaces for melting, holding and pouring many varieties of molten metals.
Induction heating for forging and rolling billets and bars was also discussed.
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Such heat treatment can be applied for hardening many automotive components, including camshafts, crankshafts and gears. It is also useful for shrink-fitting components, for stress relief and annealing of metals.
The Inductotherm Group consists of forty companies around the world with fifty product lines including induction brazing and soldering systems, vacuum heat treatment, strip heating and coating, and high frequency welders.
Following the presentations in the Show/Discussion room, visitors were given safety glasses, then toured the factory floor. Two medium-size furnaces under test were viewed from an elevated platform and the procedure was described by Mr. Tabatabaei. The group then descended to the main floor where racks of electronic equipment were being assembled, and that process was described. Several large coils of copper tubing were also seen and described.
Following conclusion of a very informative tour, a photograph was taken showing most participants, as seen below. Tour Director Emad Tabatabei is standing at the far right. The group then returned to the second floor where snacks with refreshments were generously offered by Inductotherm, and visitors participated in an informative question/answer session.
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Before their departure shortly after 5 P.M., visitors were also presented with souvenirs,
including a neat black cap that features the Inductotherm logo, and before exiting, were required to log out on the computer keyboard atop the reception desk.
Engineers’ Week Banner By Peter Silverberg
Six years ago, a dozen technical societies in the Delaware Valley pooled funds with the Engineers Club of Philadelphia to buy banners celebrating Engineers’ Week. These banners hang on light poles in Center City for two weeks in February. The IEEE banner was opposite the Ormandy Ballroom on the Doubletree Hotel as
photographed here.
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Meeting of the Philadelphia Joint Chapter
IEEE Power & Energy and Industry Applications Societies
Topic: SCADA for Smart Substations
Speaker: Antonio Carvalho, QEI – CG Automation Solutions Date and Time: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 Lunch @ 11:45 a.m.; Presentation: 12:10 – 1:10 p.m. Cost: No Charge for Presentation $13 for lunch ($10 for Full-Time Students) Location: Burns Engineering, Inc. Two Commerce Square 2001 Market St., Suite 600 Philadelphia, PA 19103 Public Transportation: SEPTA (Rail to 30th Street and/or Trolley to 22nd & Market St.)
Reservations: Please register here: https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/38610 or by visiting www.ieeephiladelphia.org and finding this meeting notice. If you have problems or cannot register online, e-mail or call Stas Muzylowski at [email protected] or 215-979-7700, ext. 7790, by 5:00 p.m., Friday, March 18, 2016. Abstract: Electrical substations play an important role in the distribution and feeding of the electrical grid. They represent the most important asset for electrical utilities and are a vital system for railway electrical networks. The supervision and control of these systems is currently a priority, in order to manage, operate and maintain these important assets. Today, with the deployment of multiple electronic devices inside the substations, it is important to design a system which will be able to integrate, monitor and concentrate all the information available in the substations. This is what SCADA for smart substations has to offer today. The presentation will cover: • General concepts of SCADA and Automation • Types of equipment for substation automation: RTU, IED, Protective relays, HMI • Architectures • Protocols • System integration
The Speaker: Antonio has expertise in telecommunications and has spent more than 20 years working in system integration for several projects around the world, in particular for Rail Transit systems. He is currently the director of sales for Rail Transit at QEI – CG Automation Solutions and promotes SCADA solutions to the Transit Agencies in the USA and Canada. He is a bachelor in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering with graduations in marketing, international markets and project management.
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******** 1.0 PDH certificate is available upon completion of course evaluation form ********* Chapter Chair: Jonathan Schimpf, Burns Engineering - [email protected] (215-979-7700, ext. 7709) Vice Chair: Rich Delp, Schiller and Hersh Associates - [email protected] (215-886-8947) Secretary: Stas Muzylowski, Burns Engineering - [email protected] (215-979-7700, ext. 7790) Treasurer: Aditya Shah, Amtrak- [email protected] (215-349-3119) Program Coordinator: Robert Swayne, Burns Engineering – [email protected] (215-979-7700, ext. 7781) IEEE Philadelphia Section website: www.ieeephiladelphia.org
Congressional Visit Days CVD 2016 will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, 12-13 April, in Washington, D.C. The
2016 schedule is now posted under IEEE-USA. For more information, contact Russell Harrison at [email protected].
The Science, Engineering and Technology Congressional Visits Day (SET CVD) is an annual two-day event that brings scientists, engineers, mathematicians, researchers, educators, and technology executives to Washington to raise visibility and support for science, engineering, and technology. Uniquely multi-sector and multi-disciplinary, the SET CVD is coordinated by a coalition of professional societies, companies and educational institutions. It is open to all who support science and technology, especially federal support for STEM research. The program consists of a series of briefings and meetings, culminating with a full day of visits with your Congressional delegates.
SET CVD raises awareness of the long-term importance of science, engineering and technology to the nation through face-to-face meetings with Members of Congress, congressional staff, key Administration officials and other decision-makers.
The core messages we will deliver are: Balanced federal investment in Science, Engineering and Technology is fundamental to the
future of our Nation's prosperity. Science, Engineering and Technology partnerships between government, universities, and
industries mean progress, economic growth and jobs for our Nation. Federal investments in basic research must be maintained, even in a tight fiscal environment.
CVD is free for all participants.
IEEE participants are responsible for their own travel arrangements and expenses. CVD is structured to minimize the cost of participating. In addition to fitting the event into the shortest possible timeframe, IEEE-USA will be providing breakfast and lunch at the IEEE-USA training on 12 April. The evening Capitol Hill reception on 12 April is also free for participants. Delaware Valley Science Fair It is your opportunity to volunteer for one day and have some educational fun. The entries have been vetted at the county level and only the best are to be judged. The section sponsors awards for the best use of electrical technology. Section provides a team of judges. It tends to be small. More are needed.
Detail: Judging day for the 2016 Delaware Valley Science Fairs (DVSF) will be, Wednesday, March 30th, 2016 at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, PA. I hope your schedule will allow you to participate. Registration is open through our website at www.dvsf.org. All correspondence will be done through e-mail so it is crucial that we have your correct e-mail address. Contact: John Disston Director of Judging [email protected]
