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CHAPTER MEETINGS SCV-CNSV - 9/2 | Camera Array Technology Through Time - Time-Slice effect, ad-hoc arrays, applications ... [more]

SCV-TMC - 9/4 | Build Your Influence to Get Things Done - across teams, departments, disciplines, key pointers ... [more]

SCV-CS+EDS+SSC - 9/9 | A New Nonvolatile Memory Technology - Persistence Pays Off - S/DRAM, MRAM, redundancy, trends ... [more]

SCV-SPS - 9/10 | Evolution of the UC Davis Breast CT Scanner - tomography, improvements, correction, pre-processing ... [more]

SCV-Mag - 9/10 | Magnetic Materials in Medicine: Applications in Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of Disease ... [more]

SCV-PV - 9/10 | Assessing the Value of Solar PV Energy - mainstream, value, macroeconomic trends ... [more]

SCV-MTT - 9/11 | Microwave and Millimeter Wave Power Amps: Technology, Applications, Benchmarks, and Future Trends ... [more]

SCV- 9/15 | IEEE Senior Member Grade Elevation Night - you qualify! download req'ts, forms, drop in ... [more]

SCV-Nano - 9/16 | Nanogel Star Polymers as Interesting Soft Colloid Materials for Biomedical Applications - imaging, MRI, PET ... [more]

SF-PES+IAS - 9/17 | Bloom Energy -- Transforming Distributed Generation - solid oxide, cost-effective, case studies, tour ... [more]

OEB-Life - 9/17 | A Perspective on Desalination - basics, infrastructure, drawbacks, new methods ... [more]

SCV-PES+IAS - 9/17 | Data Center Infrastructure Power Mgnt at Facebook - 3 talks, data visualization tools, lessons learned ... [more]

SCV-EMB - 9/17 | Modeling Health Behaviors Using Mobile Sensing - phone data, at-risk patients, between office visits ... [more]

Computer - 9/18 | Smarter Product Development: Agile and Security - webinar: connected products, development, analysis ... [more]

SCV-CSS - 9/18 | Control of Multi-Robot Systems: From Formations to Human-Swarm Interactions - coordination, rules, agents ... [more]

SCV-SSC - 9/18 | Miniaturized Passive Radios for Wireless Tagging and IoT Applications - battery-less, data-rate, range ... [more]

SF-IAS+PES - 9/23 | Power Quality and Large-Scale Solar - capacitor bank resonance, harmonic filter banks ... [more]

SCV-SIGHT - 9/23 | The Impact of Frugal Innovation on Emerging Markets through Social Enterprises - accessible, adaptable ... [more]

SCV-IT - 9/24 | Information Theory and Signal Processing for the World's Smallest Computational Video Camera - sensors ... [more]

OEB-PES - 9/24 | San Mateo-Hayward Bridge: Challenges and Lessons Learned in 15kV Substation Replacement Project ... [more]

SCV-CPMT - 9/25 | The "Invisible" Package - chip-package-PCB design, form-factor, thermal, SI, cost ... [more]

SCV-CNSV - 10/7 | ROLM: From Fruit Shed to Fortune 500 - challenges, innovations, triumphs, perspectives ... [more]

SF-PES - 10/7 | Electric Power Industry Visions and Experiences - transformation, investments, new grid, best practices ... [more]

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Nov18-21: Android Developer Conference (AnDevCon) - Hyatt Regency Burlingame [more] CALL FOR PAPERS: March 2-4: 16th Int'l Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) - Santa Clara Convention Center [more] - Submit papers by September 19th

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on our jobs and careers, after some summer fun and relaxation. I enjoyed 10 days of sailing a catamaran in the Caribbean, a week at Lake Tahoe and the Eastern Sierras, and several good periods of family time. But the pace picks up as we get into September, and I'm seeing many exciting chapter meeting topics, as well as seminars and conferences with leading-edge presentations and discussions.

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IEEE CHAPTER MEETINGS (cont.)

SCV-CPMT - 10/8 | PCB Design and Fab Process Variations for Embedding Passive and Active Components - discretes, passive and active, assembly ... [more] SCV-EMC - 10/14 | Gigahertz Two-Band Common-Mode Filters for 10-Gbit/s Differential Signal Lines - band gap, PCB ... [more] SCV-CS - 10/14 | Agile Update - And Is It For You? â€“ Panel - speakers from Symantek, HP, more ... [more] SCV-EMB - 10/15 | Electrodes in the Brain: Where Do You Want to Put Them and How Do You Get Them There? - stereotactic hardware, confirming ... [more] OEB-Life - 10/15 | Climate Change: Reasons for More Debate and More Optimism -acting ... [more] Computer - 10/16 | Smarter Product Development: Agile and Mission-Critical IT - webinar: create, manage, practices ... [more] SCV-SPS - 10/22 | MEMS-Enabled Microscopes for in-vivo Studies of Cancer Biology - implanted, imaging, real time ... [more] OEB-IAS - 10/23 | 1-day Seminar: Electrical Safety Essentials - hazards, approach, prevention, case histories ... [more]

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Sponsored by the Santa Clara Valley Section of IEEE

IEEE Senior Member Grade Elevation Night Date: Monday, September 15, 2014

Time: 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM (drop in at any time between 5:30 PM and 7:30 PM)

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The IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section, in conjunction with PACE, is sponsoring a Senior Member Grade Elevation night for all IEEE members who meet the requirements for grade elevation to Senior Member. The requirements are posted at:

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GaN Power Amplifiers Sep 9-11

The Radio Modem: RF Transceiver From Antenna to Bits and Back Sep 15-19

Wireless LANs Sep 22-24

Introduction to Data Converters Sep 22-24

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Penetration Testing for Network Security Sep 25-26

October 2014: RF Power Amplifier Techniques using Si, GaAs, and GaN Semiconductors Oct 6-9

DSP: Understanding Digital Signal Processing Oct 8-10

CMOS RF Circuit Design Oct 27-29

RF Measurements: Principles/Demonstration Oct 27-31

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Call for Papers

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March 2-4, 2015. Santa Clara Convention Center

The International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) is the leading Electronic IC and System Design conference. ISQED emphasizes a holistic approach toward electronic design and intends to highlight and accelerate cooperation among the IC & System Design, IP providers, EDA, Semiconductor Process Technology and Manufacturing communities. ISQED spans three days, Monday through Wednesday, in three parallel tracks, hosting over 100 technical presentations, several keynote speakers, workshops/tutorials and other informal meetings. Past conference proceedings and papers have been published in the IEEE Xplore digital library and indexed by SCOPUS. For any question please contact the publication committee by sending email to [email protected].

Papers are accepted in the following areas A pioneer and leading multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary conference, ISQED accepts and promotes papers in the following areas:

Hardware and System Security

Smart Sensors & IoT - Design and Technology

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EDA Methodologies & IP Cores; Interoperability, Security, and Reuse

Design Verification and Design for Testability

Physical Design, Methodologies & Tools

Emerging Process & Device Technologies and Design Issues

Design Technology Co-Optimization; Designing at the Manufacturing Frontier

Submission of Papers Paper submission must be done on-line through the conference web site. The guidelines for the final paper format are provided on the conference web site. Authors should submit FULL-LENGTH, original, unpublished papers (4 pages long and consistent with the format provided in the ISQED website) along with an abstract of about 200 words. To permit a blind review, do not include name(s) or affiliation(s) of the author(s) on the manuscript and abstract. The complete contact author information needs to be entered separately. Please check the as-printed appearance of your paper before sending your paper. In case of any problems, email [email protected]. Please note the following important dates:

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ARM TechCon 2014 delivers an at-the-forefront comprehensive forum created to ignite the development and optimization of future ARM-based embedded products. By offering three full days of technical tracks, demonstrations, and industry insight from broad and deep levels of industry-leading companies and innovative start-ups, ARM TechCon is a comprehensive learning environment for the entire embedded community, uniting the software and hardware communities. With combined activities for chip designers, system implementation engineers and software developers in a shared space, attendees will learn from each other and collaborate on innovations, while also benefiting from dedicated activities to address the specific needs of their unique communities. If your responsibilities span across both areas, we offer an all-access pass to attend the entire conference, the best value – plus there’s an IEEE discount.

Keynote Talks “The ARM Roadmap – 2014 and Beyond”, Mike Muller,

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“CEO Keynote and Strategic Direction”, Simon Segars, CEO, ARM

“Technology Innovation for Social Good”, Erica Kochi, Innovation Officer, UNICEF

“Drones and the Maker Market”, Chris Anderson, CEO, 3D Robotics

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ARM TechCon Expo Wed, Oct 1: 11:00 am to 6:00 pm; Thurs, Oct 2: 10:30 am to 5:30 pm

Technical Sessions: Over 125 talks in eleven tracks on System Design, Chip Implementation, Debugging, Verification, Graphics, Heterogeneous Computing, Power Efficiency, Safety and Security, Software Development and Optimization, Optimization for Infrastructure and Cloud, and New Frontiers -- across five areas of interest: Embedded, Enterprise/Networking and Cloud Infrastructure, Mobile, IoT (M2M), and Wearable (Sensors) Diamond and Platinum Sponsors:

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AnDevCon Comes Back to Burlingame!

AnDevCon is the technical conference for software developers building or selling Android apps. Whether you're an enterprise developer, work for a commercial software company, or are driving your own start-up, if you are building Android apps, you need to attend AnDevCon. You’ll find hundreds of experienced developers and engineers (like you) choosing from more than 50 classes to bring Android open source development to a high level. Exhibit Hall hours:

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classes gave a great opportunity to learn more about Android development in general AND gave the

opportunity to network with other people at all levels. It's a great learning place with wonderful people!”

Andrew Mauer, Sr. Project Manager, B-Line Express, Inc.

November 18-21, 2014 Santa Clara Convention Center

The 11th annual Printed Electronics USA conference and exhibition covers all the applications, technologies and opportunities, giving the big picture, with speakers from around the world from a range of industries including consumer goods, healthcare, military, electronics, advertising, publishing and others. Commercialization and the full range of technologies are the emphasis, from interactive packaging to sensing fabrics and ultra low cost wireless identification tags.

Wearable Technology LIVE! for displays, batteries, backplanes, conductors, sensors; robust, light, thin, flexible and even stretchable.

Graphene LIVE! with inks targeting a variety of printed products/components such as RFID antennas, smart packaging, transparent low-cost switches, more.

3D Printing LIVE! Gain a comprehensive understanding of the state-of-the-art in 3D Printing, across a range of application areas and the latest technological advances.

November 18-21, 2014 Hyatt Regency Burlingame

Technical Classes Keynotes, Exhibits, more

Keynotes: “What's New in Android,” Chet Haase, Google “Cross-Platform Tools: Your Ticket to 4 Billion Devices,” Jeff McVeigh, Intel’s Developer Products

Technical Classes: • Achieving App Performance Gains with 64-bit Android • What's New with Bluetooth and the IoT • Android and the Brain-Computer Interface • Android Emulator Myths... Busted • Thread Communications • Automotive Android • Bringing Android Content to the Big Screen with Google Cast • Cloud-Powered Android Apps • Going Native on Android • How to Survive a Legacy Code Apocalypse • Making Apps for Android Wear … plus dozens more.

Earlybird registration thru Sept 5th – save $300 And save $200 by using Code “IEEE”

on 3- or 4-day passport, or free exhibits admission.

For information and to register, visit

www.AnDevCon.com

The Application of Printed, Organic & Flexible Electronics

18 Master Classes on Nov 18 & 21: • Intro to Printed Electronics • Intro to Energy Harvesting • Conductive Inks and Transparent Conductive Film • Supercapacitor Energy Storage: • 3D Printing Materials • Wearable Electronics and E-Textiles • Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes and 2D Materials • Printed Sensors and Actuators … and more!

Earlybird rates through August 29th. Use code "IEEE40-PEU14" for additional 40% discount.

Exhibits-only option available.

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Exhibit at the Tradeshow! Over 200 leading companies will be showcasing innovative technologies and commercial applications in the field of printed electronics and 3D Printing at the world’s biggest tradeshow on the topic – an ideal place to meet your potential customers. For information on exhibiting, please contact Sarah Parish, [email protected]

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Camera Array Technology Through Time

Speaker: Tim MacMillan, GoPro, Inc. Time: 6:00 PM Cost: $28 for full buffet dinner Place: Shiva's Indian Restaurant, 800 California

St, Mountain View RSVP: from website Web: www.CaliforniaConsultants.org

Tim Macmillan is a multi-award winning director, film-maker and photographer. During his time at Bath Academy of Art and at University College London in the UK in the early 1980s (as recorded here), Tim both discovered a method of "freezing time" in a motion-picture tracking shot and also invented the "Time-Slice Camera" to produce this effect. Since then he has refined and developed the Time-Slice® technology, and also established Time-Slice Films Ltd., with a view to establishing the frozen-time effect within the TV and motion-picture industries.

Tim's history in film and television spans work as inventor, engineer, cameraman, technical special effects director and director in music videos, commercials, short films and feature-film productions. He brought a number of new products to market at Grass Valley Cameras, and currently works at GoPro where he explores novel uses for their tiny, high quality cameras.

The Time-Slice effect was invented by speaker

Tim Macmillan in the 1980s. It was made popular with its use in a series of ads in the 1990s and ultimately the 1999 movie The Matrix, and this effect has become a standard feature of many action movies and TV commercials. With the recent proliferation of higher quality cameras in consumer devices, users are now experimenting with ad-hoc arrays of DSLRs such as GoPros and camera phones.

Tim MacMillan will present the rich history of the design and use of camera arrays in the worlds of photography and cinema effects, starting with the genesis of motion pictures nearly 150 years ago. He will chart the design philosophies that led him to explore the modern technologies enabling this effect, and he will also look at how the new wave of imaging technologies are enabling new and surprising applications.

TUESDAY September 2, 2014

SCV Consultants' Network of Silicon Valley


Build Your Influence to Get Things Done

Speaker: Lucy Freedman, Syntax for Change Time: Registration and networking at 6:00 PM;

Mgmt Forum at 6:30 PM; Dinner at 7:00 PM; Presentation at 7:30 PM

Cost: $11 for IEEE members; $14 for non-members

Place: Ramada, 1217 Wildwood Ave, Sunnyvale RSVP: from website Web: www.ieee-scv-tmc.org

Lucy Freedman is the author of Smart Work: The Syntax Guide to Influence (2012). Her company, Syntax for Change, helps technical organizations make sense of the human side of change so they can turn current challenges into breakthroughs in business growth. Her client list includes Intel, H-P, Agilent, Cisco, Sun, and Tokyo Electron, among other technical, scientific, financial, and government organizations. Lucy recently organized a web-based Master Class for Change Agents in the Workplace, “Cultivating Change.” She delights in helping clients achieve observable results.

As a technical leader in a complex organization,

you depend on a lot of people to get the crucial things done. A huge part of your success comes from your ability to influence others, both within your team and across departments and disciplines. Even if you have solid grounding in management and interpersonal skills (and how many engineering degrees provided that?), the demands for these skills are escalating. In addition, many of our hidden assumptions are up for question. We need to grow our conscious competence at leading collaborative conversations.

We’ll explore contrasting sets of assumptions and their effects by trying them on and observing what happens. You will gain key pointers on managing real-world situations and building positive influence.

THURSDAY September 4, 2014 SCV Technology Management


A New Nonvolatile Memory Technology - Persistence Pays Off

Speaker: Edward Grochowski, Computer Memory

and Storage Consultant Time: Networking and Refreshments at 6:30 PM;

Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: none Place: Cadence Bldg 10, 2655 Seely Ave, San

Jose, and live over the internet RSVP: from website Web: computer.ieeesiliconvalley.org

Dr. Ed Grochowski is a well known speaker on magnetic and solid state storage technology. He began his career with IBM’s microelectronic silicon activity in New York and later joined the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose. He has served the memory and computer storage industry for many years. His interests included hard disk drives, magnetic component evolutionary trends, solid state memories including Flash, STT RAM, other non-volatile material technologies and their associated devices. Dr. Grochowski holds twelve patents and has authored and presented numerous articles on magnetic disk drives, MRAM and NV component technology, including a website of storage trend charts. He has a Ph.D. from New York University. Ed served as Executive Director of IDEMA USA and for over ten years chaired the conferences and technical committees for DISKCON USA and DISKCON Asia Pacific, as well as the prestigious Symposium series. He was a long-time coordinator of the 4K byte sector standards committee. Ed is also a member of the IEEE.

As a consultant, Dr. Grochowski has been associated with Hitachi GST, IDC, TrendFocus and Coughlin Associates. He has participated as an expert witness in many cases involving patent litigation and trade secret protection. He is experienced in depositions as well as generating written analyses of patent evaluations.

With Coughlin Associates, he has co-authored comprehensive storage reports addressing HDD and NV storage technology trends and capital equipment requirements for the years 2008-2018. He has supported the iNEMI reports on storage technology.

The application of a spin torque tunneling

technology to MRAM devices has opened new opportunities for higher density circuits which may be very competitive with DRAM as well as SRAM. STT RAM devices have the potential of significantly reducing SOC dimensions while maintaining similar functionality and storage capacity. By converging the functions of DRAM, FLASH, ROM and SRAM this non volatile technology can provide a new generation of high density circuits which will simplify system architecture and enhance performance. It could be possible to enhance the STT RAM technology to provide a multi-bit device ideal for high-density and low-cost storage applications. A comparison with other NV storage and memory technologies will be discussed.

TUESDAY September 9, 2014SCV Computer, with Electron Devices and Solid State Circuits


Evolution of the UC Davis Breast CT Scanner

Speaker: Prof. John M. Boone, UC Davis Medical

Center Time: Networking and light dinner at 6:30 PM;

Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: Donation for food Place: AMD Commons Bldg, 1 AMD Place,

Sunnyvale RSVP: from website Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/sps

Dr. John M. Boone is an academic medical physicist who has worked at UC Davis in the Department of Radiology for 22 years. He received his undergraduate degree in biophysics from the University of California Berkeley, and went on to receive the Masters and PhD in Radiological Sciences at the University of California Irvine. Prior to his appointment at UC Davis, he served in faculty positions at the University of Missouri Columbia and at Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia). Dr. Boone is the principal investigator of the Breast Tomography Project at UC Davis, and has developed breast CT technology over the past 12 years, with over 600 women imaged on his three breast CT scanners. Dr. Boone is in a leadership role in the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), as President-Elect (2014), President (2015), and Board Chair (2016). In addition to breast CT, Dr. Boone has published widely on issues pertaining to radiation dose in whole body computed tomography, image quality assessment, and computer modeling studies. Dr. Boone has published about 200 peer-reviewed papers, and is a fellow of the AAPM, the Society of Breast Imaging, and the American College of Radiology.

The breast tomography project began at the

University of California Davis around the year 2000. Since then, for prototype breast CT scanners have been designed, fabricated, integrated, and tested clinically. This process, over 600 women have had breast CT scans on these platforms. The breast CT systems at UC Davis made use of existing hardware such as an x-ray, x-ray tube and generator, and motor/encoder systems, but all other aspects were designed in-house, fabricated at a local machine shop under contract, and assembled and integrated in our laboratory. In this presentation, an overview of the hardware evolution will be presented, outlining the improvements in image quality through each prototype scanner. A thorough discussion of the image processing requirements of the breast CT system will also be discussed, including image correction methods, image preprocessing (prior to reconstruction) for scatter correction and Hounsfield Unit calibration, cone beam reconstruction, and image analysis methods including post-reconstruction flat fielding, and the assessment of quantum and anatomical noise of the breast.

WEDNESDAY September 10, 2014

SCV Signal Processing


Magnetic Materials in Medicine: Applications in Diagnosis,

Management, and Treatment of Disease

Speaker: Tim St Pierre, School of Physics, The

University of Western Australia Time: Networking and pizza at 6:45 PM;

Presentation at 7:30 PM Cost: none Place: Western Digital, 1710 Automation Pkwy,

San Jose RSVP: not required Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/mag

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.

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.


SCV Magnetics


Assessing the Value of Solar PV Energy

Speaker: Alan Goodrich, SunEdison Time: Networking and refreshments at 6:30 PM;

Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: none Place: Palo Alto Research Center (Pake Auditorium),

3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto RSVP: not required Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/pv

Alan Goodrich joined SunEdison in November 2013 as Director of Strategic Planning. Prior to joining SunEdison, Alan led the manufacturing cost analysis group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, which informs resource allocation and technology strategy decisions facing NREL and DOE. He spent nearly ten years at IBIS Associates, a management-consulting firm where he specialized in assisting clients, including Fortune 500 companies, with business development and technology strategy decisions concerning advanced materials and manufacturing technologies.

Mr. Goodrich is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s School of Decision Sciences and Engineering where he received a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Management Engineering and received his MBA from the University of Colorado.

Solar energy is rapidly becoming a mainstream technology. Many factors have contributed to the precipitous decline in the cost of solar energy -- a trend, the magnitude of which often dominates popular perception of the technology. In fact, several macroeconomic trends have also increased the value of solar energy. In this presentation, Alan will share perspectives on the drivers of solar energy value from a global company that manufactures, installs, operates, and owns solar assets.

WEDNESDAY September 10, 2014 SCV Photovoltaics


Microwave and Millimeter Wave Power Amplifiers:

Technology, Applications, Benchmarks, and Future Trends

Speaker: Dr. James J. Komiak, MTT Distinguished Lecturer, BAE Systems

Time: Networking and snacks at 6:00 PM; Presentation at 6:30 PM

Cost: none Place: Agilent Technologies, 5301 Stevens Creek

Blvd, Santa Clara RSVP: not required Web: meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/ list_meeting/27273

James J. Komiak (M’89-SM’90-F'05) received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1978. Dissertation research developed the “Real Frequency Technique” for broadband matching an arbitrary load to a resistive generator. He has 35 years experience in system, module, and MMIC design for EW, communication, and radar applications. Currently he is a BAE Systems Global Engineering/Scientific Fellow at the Electronic Systems MicroElectronics Center (MEC) in Nashua, NH. He has over 100 publications and 10 patents. Elected to the grade of IEEE Fellow in 2005 for “Contributions to Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits, High Power Amplifiers, and Transmit/Receive Modules.” Received the Martin Marietta Jefferson Cup Award--"Outstanding Technical Leadership in Development and Demonstration of High Power and High Efficiency Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit Amplifiers and T/R Modules for Phased Array Radar (June 1993)" and his work is represented in the MTT Symposium MMIC Historical Exhibit‑‑"World's First Octave Band MMIC with Power Output in Excess of 10 Watts (1989)". Silver Award Winner of the BAE Systems Chairman’s Award for Innovation for “Blue Force Locator & Monitor” (2001) and “Next Generation Power Amplifiers” (2012). Received the BAESystems Engineering Fellows Leave A Legacy Award (2007). Inducted into the Association of Old Crows Electronic Warfare Hall of Fame in 2008. MTT-S, IMS TPC/TPRC, MTT-5, GaAs IC Symposium (2000 Chairman), former ABET ECE PEV , CEAA.

Solid State Transistor Device Technologies

covered include Si BJT, Si LDMOS, MESFET, HBT, PHEMT, InP HEMT, MHEMT, and GaN HEMT. Content includes principles of operation, structures, characteristics, classes of operation, and device state of the art benchmarks. Power amplifiers utilizing these device technologies covering UHF through Sub-Millimeter Wave are described including amplifier state of the art benchmarks. Applications include communications, radar, electronic warfare, and instrumentation.

THURSDAY September 11, 2014 SCV Microwave Theory and Techniques


Nanogel Star Polymers as Interesting Soft Colloid Materials

for Biomedical Applications

Speaker: Dr. Robert D. Miller, IBM Almaden Research Center

Time: Networking, Pizza at 11:30 AM; Presentation at 12:00 PM

Cost: none Place: TI Auditorium E-1, 2900 Semiconductor

Drive. Santa Clara RSVP: from website Web: sites.ieee.org/sfbanano

Robert D. Miller received his PhD in Organic Chemistry from Cornell University. He joined IBM at the T.J. Watson Research Laboratories in Yorktown Heights NY after his postdoctoral year and moved to the San Jose Research laboratory in 1972. He currently manages the Advanced Organic Materials Department at the IBM Almaden Research Laboratory. His research activities have included a wide range of technologies from: basic photochemical processes and mechanisms, radiation sensitive polymers and microlithography, controlled polymerization techniques, to nanoporous thin films for Bioscience, Optics and Photonics, photovoltaic materials and structures, sublithographic self assembly using block copolymers, air bridge dielectrics, radiation definable dielectrics, solution and CVD precursors for low-k applications, and others.

He is a member of the American Chemical Society and the Materials Research Society and currently serves on the editorial advisory boards of Chemical Reviews and Advanced Functional Materials. During his career, he has received five IBM awards for outstanding technical achievements, 31 invention plateau awards and is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. Dr. Miller was elected a Fellow of the Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering (PMSE) in 2006, the Materials Research Society (MRS) in 2007 and the American Chemical Society in 2011. In 2009, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and is the recipient of the 2010 American Chemical Society award for Chemistry of Materials. Dr. Miller is a co-inventor on more than 70 patents and patent publications and has published more than 350 articles in refereed technical journals.

Polymers have numerous biomedical applications

including delivery of therapeutic materials, imaging applications, tissue regeneration, antimicrobial action and others. We have developed a route to nanogel core star polymer amphiphiles with control over size, functionality, end groups and molecular architecture. These particles can either be biostable or biodegradable depending on the desired application. These materials encapsulate hydrophobic materials such as dyes at the 10-15% level without covalent bonding. The outer shell also sequesters magnetic particles for MRI studies and ligates ions such as copper 64 for PET. The outer shell can also be used to generate a functional silica shell or catalyze the electroless deposition of a gold shell. The later leads to a surface plasmon resonance absorption shifted into the near IR suitable for inducing hyperthermic processes in cells upon irradiation. We have also studied the antimicrobial properties of suitable substituted nanogel star polymers derivatives.

TUESDAY September 16, 2014 SCV Nonotechnology


Bloom Energy - Transforming Distributed Generation

Speaker: Asim Hussain, Senior Director Marketing

and Customer Experience, Bloom Energy Time: Lunch at 11:30 AM; Presentation at 12:00

PM; Tour at 1:00 PM Cost: $5 for IEEE members, students, $10 for

non-members Place: Bloom Energy, 1299 Orleans Dr,

Sunnyvale (new location) RSVP: by Sept. 15 from website, or to Sean Ely,

[email protected] 415-973-7192; limited to the first 50 registered.

Web: www.e-grid.net/docs/1409-sf-pes.pdf

Asim Hussain is the Senior Director of Marketing and Customer Experience Bloom Energy, responsible for new market development, sales enablement, customer engagement and experience, product and corporate marketing, and new product development. Prior to Bloom, Asim worked for CURRENT Group, a Smart Grid solutions provider, as the Chief of Staff for the CEO he focused on strategic planning, marketing and business development activities. He previously advised electric utility and telecommunication clients on strategy and systems integration initiatives while working for Deloitte Consulting. Asim earned a BS in Commerce with Distinction from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.

Bloom Energy is a provider of a revolutionary

distributed power generation offering based on a proprietary solid oxide fuel cell technology that provides its customers with a clean, highly reliable and cost-effective alternative to the traditional electric grid. Outline:

1. Introduction to Bloom Energy 2. Technology Overview 3. Value Proposition for Customers 4. Customer Case Studies

The meeting will conclude with an optional tour of the Bloom Energy facilities.


SF Power & Energy


A Perspective on Desalination

Speaker: Dr. Michael Stadermann, Lawrence

Livermore National Laboratory Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Cost: $15.00 includes buffet dinner Place: Willow Tree Restaurant, 6513 Regional St,

Dublin RSVP: from website Web: www.ieee4life.org

Dr. Michael Stadermann is a chemist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He received his doctorate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has authored and co-authored 35 peer-reviewed publications and 3 patents. Currently, he develops materials for the National Ignition Facility.

Dr. Stadermann spent the first few years of his career studying nanomaterials and their electronic properties. These studies expanded into a general interest in surface science, sensors, and storage of electrical energy, which in turn led to capacitive desalination. Dr. Stadermann has been pursuing novel capacitive desalination methods for the last four years in collaboration with Professor Santiago at Stanford.

Availability of potable water is frequently regarded

as one of the world’s most urgent issues. Over a sixth of the world’s population does not have access to fresh water on a daily basis, and many regions are water strained. One method to increase the potable water supply is desalination. However, current desalination technologies were designed with Western needs in mind, and the cost and infrastructure requirements of these technologies makes them a preferred solution only in few parts of the world. In this talk, water and desalination needs around the globe will be described. An overview of the basics of desalination and the most important desalination methods in use today, along with their advantages and drawbacks, will be presented. Finally, a promising new desalination method developed recently at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), flow-through electrode capacitive desalination, will be introduced. This method utilizes a novel porous material as an electrode to remove salt from water electrostatically. The change in electrode geometry has increased throughput of this method by a factor of ten compared to existing capacitive deionization methods, and makes this new method competitive with other commercial desalination methods. The new technology has the promise of reducing energy cost, especially for low salinities, and its scalability may alleviate infrastructure requirements, making it especially useful for developing countries.


OEB Life Members


Data Center Infrastructure Power Management at Facebook

Speakers: Paul Hsu, David Cenizal, Glen Bayley and others, Facebook

Time: Checkin and appetizers at 6:00 PM; Presentations at 7:00 PM

Cost: none; open only to IEEE members (join today!)

Place: Facebook Building 10, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park

RSVP: from website Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/pes_ias

- Introduction to Facebook Data Centers- Paul Hsu &

David Cenizal - Data Visualization Tools- Glen Bayley - Lessons Learned Along the Way- Data Center

Facilities Ops Engineering Q&A - You must be an IEEE member to attend - You must bring a form of ID for check in - Please pre-register by September 9, 2014 - There is no on-site registration so please register

ahead of time Open only to IEEE members, at no charge. You

must pre-register by September 9, 2014, no on-site registration available. If you have not joined IEEE this year, we are offering a membership promotion on the Registration website..

WEDNESDAY September 17, 2014 SCV Power & Energy and Industry Applications


Modeling Health Behaviors Using Mobile Sensing

Speaker: Anmol Madan, Co-founder and CEO,

Ginger.io Time: Optional dinner at Stanford Hospital

Cafeteria, 6:15 PM; Presentations at 7:00 PM

Cost: none Place: Room M-114, Stanford University Medical

School, Stanford RSVP: not required Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/embs/pages/

upcoming.html

Anmol Madan is co-founder and CEO at Ginger.io, and currently leads the overall product vision and business strategy. Anmolhas extensive research experience in modeling large-scale human behavior data using statistical and pattern recognition methods, and commercialization of these technologies. His past research has been featured in academic publications in computer science such as IEEE Pervasive, ACM Ubicomp, Science, and is frequently cited in popular media and press. He received his PhD from the Media Lab, at MIT (with Alex Pentland), and also worked at Microsoft. He is a frequent speaker on the topics of behavioral analytics, data privacy, and healthcare entrepreneurship.

Mobile phones are a pervasive platform for

opportunistic sensing of social and health related behaviors. In this talk, I discuss how sensor data from mobile phones can be used to model and predict health outcomes. The talk starts with a review of research at the MIT Media Lab, and then transitions into how Ginger.io has built a commercial platform to collect, annotate, analyze and drive healthcare interventions at scale, deployed with major US hospital systems and healthcare providers.

The Ginger.io three-part platform -- patient app, behavioral analytics engine, and provider dashboard -- applies this technolgy to give care providers a window into their patients' health between office visits. Our mobile app uses smartphone sensors to passively collect information about a patient's daily patterns. Using this data, our machine learning models are able to detect at-risk patients significantly better than the standard of care. Any concerning changes in behavior are communicated to the provider through our simple, action-oriented web dashboard. Ginger.io is part of the care solutions at instituions such as Kaiser Permanente, Novant Health, UCSF, Duke Medical and Cincinnati Children's.


SCV Engineering in Medicine and Biology


Control of Multi-Robot Systems: From Formations to Human-

Swarm Interactions

Speaker: Prof. Magnus Egerstedt, Georgia Institute of Technology (CSS Distinguished Lecturer)

Time: Networking and refreshments at 6:30 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM

Cost: none Place: National Instruments, 4600 Patrick Henry

Drive, Santa Clara RSVP: not required Web: sites.ieee.org/scv-css

Magnus Egerstedt is the Schlumberger Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he serves as Associate Chair for Research and External Affairs . He received the M.S. degree in Engineering Physics and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, the B.A. degree in Philosophy from Stockholm University, and was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Harvard University. Dr. Egerstedt conducts research in the areas of control theory and robotics, with particular focus on control and coordination of complex networks, such as multi-robot systems, mobile sensor networks, and cyber-physical systems. He is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Network Control Systems, the director of the Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (GRITS Lab), a Fellow of the IEEE, and a recipient of the ECE/GT Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award, the HKN Outstanding Teacher Award, the Alum of the Year Award from the Royal Institute of Technology, and the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

The last few years have seen significant progress

in our understanding of how one should structure multi-robot systems. New control, coordination, and communication strategies have emerged and, in this talk, we discuss some of these developments. In particular, we will show how one can go from global, geometric, team-level specifications to local coordination rules for achieving and maintaining formations, area coverage, and swarming behaviors. One aspect of this concerns how users can interact with networks of mobile robots in order to inject new, global information and objectives. We will also investigate what global objectives are fundamentally implementable in a distributed manner on a collection of spatially distributed and locally interacting agents.

THURSDAY September 18, 2014 SCV Control Systems


Miniaturized Passive Radios for Wireless Tagging and IoT Applications

Speaker: Prof. Amin Arbabian, Electrical Engineering

Department, Stanford University Time: Networking and snacks at 6:00 PM;

Presentation at 6:30 PM Cost: none Place: Texas Instruments Auditorium, 2900

Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara RSVP: from website Web: sites.ieee.org/scv-sscs

Amin Arbabian received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences from UC Berkeley in 2011. In 2012 he joined Stanford University, as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, where he is also a School of Engineering Terman Fellow. In 2007 and 2008, he was part of the initial engineering team at a new startup company (Tagarray, Inc.) involved with a sub-microwatt RFID project. He spent summer 2010 at Qualcomm's Corporate R&D division designing system and circuit architecture solutions for next generation ultra-low power wireless transceivers. Amin's research interests are in microwave and millimeter-wave circuits and systems, integrated antennas and antenna arrays, physics of medical imaging, and ultra-low power sensors.

Amin is the recipient/co-recipient of multiple awards, including the 2014 DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB) best paper award, 2013 Hellman Faculty Scholarship, 2010 IEEE Jack Kilby Award for Outstanding Student Paper at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, two time second place Best Student Paper Awards at 2008 and 2011 RFIC symposiums, the 2009 CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society at UC Berkeley) Big Ideas Challenge Award and the UC Berkeley Bears Breaking Boundaries award, and the 2010-11 as well as 2014-15 Qualcomm Innovation fellowships.

For over a hundred years and starting from

Marconi’s experiment, several generations of wireless devices have connected people with stations and with each other, resulting in over 6 billion mobile subscribers in the world today. The next exponential growth in connectivity is no longer in access between people but in connecting objects and machines in the age of “Internet of Things (IoT)”. Projections show sensor demand growing from billions in 2012 to trillions within the next decade and this is largely fueled by emergence of smart sensors that combine computation, communication, and sensing.

In terms of connectivity, battery-less radios are the ultimate frontier in scaling the size and cost of a communication node. However, there are several key challenges that still need to be addressed in this area. Cost (dominated by board and interfaces), number of readable transponders (and latency in doing so), data-rate, localization and miniaturization are the issues faced by today’s technologies. Addressing these challenges will open up new application areas for IoT. This could be in commercial, medical or industrial domains.

This talk will present a single-chip 24GHz/60GHz passive and pad-less radio implemented in 65nm CMOS. This chip is fully self-sufficient with no pads or any external components (e.g. power supply). It integrates RX and TX antennas and provides a communication range up to 50 cm. A modified M-PPM 60GHz transmitter is used to communicate the data sequence. A multi-access algorithm is implemented to enable communication with thousands of radios. Pulse signaling enables real-time localization through time-of-flight. The chip operates with a standby recovered power of less than 1.5uW coming from the base station.

THURSDAY September 18, 2014

SCV Solid State Circuits


Power Quality and Large-Scale Solar

Speaker: Mike Peters, Eaton Corporation Time: Networking at 5;30 PM; Presentation at 6:00

PM; Dinner at 7:00 PM Cost: $25; $10 for students Place: Sinbad's Pier 2 Restaurant, Embarcadero,

S.F. RSVP: by September 19, to Brandon Yee,

[email protected], 510-220-4486 Web: www.e-grid.net/docs/1409-sf-ias.pdf

Mike Peters received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University in 2003. Upon graduating, he began his engineering career with Progress Energy at the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant near Raleigh, NC. In 2008, Mr. Peters accepted a position with Eaton Corporation as a Power Systems Engineer. Primary duties include performing arc flash studies, power quality investigations, harmonic analysis, power factor correction, and harmonic filter design. Mr. Peters is a member of IEEE and a registered professional engineer in the state of Colorado.

As photovoltaic systems become larger in scale

the quality of the power produced becomes very important. This presentation is a case study to quantify the resonance conditions associated with an existing capacitor bank at a large scale solar installation and provide a solution to mitigate the negative effects of the installed capacitor bank. The solution required determining the equipment necessary to convert the installed capacitor banks to harmonic filter banks.

TUESDAY September 23, 2014 SCV Industry Applications and Power & Energy


The Impact of Frugal Innovation on Emerging Markets

through Social Enterprises Speaker: Prof. Radha Basu, Director of the Frugal

Innovation Lab, Santa Clara University Time: Networking and pizza at 6:30 PM; talk/tour

following Cost: Suggested donation: IEEE Members $8;

non-IEEE Members $10; Retired Members & Students $5

Place: Bannan Engineering Lab building, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara

RSVP: from website Web: sites.ieee.org/scv-sight

Prof. Radha Basu has over 30 years experience in executive management. She is widely recognized as a leading woman entrepreneur in technology companies and as a pioneer in the Indian software business. Radha held the position of Chairman & CEO of SupportSoft, a Nasdaq-listed company, from July 1999 to May 2006. She led the company through initial and secondary public offerings in 2000 and 2003, and built it into a worldwide market leader in support automation software. SupportSoft’s customers include General Electric, Cisco Systems, Bank of America, Comcast, British Telecom, BellSouth, Procter & Gamble, Verizon, IBM and Bharti Telecom. SupportSoft is today considered a leader in the activation of consumer broadband offerings.

Prior to SupportSoft, Radha spent 20 years at Hewlett Packard with her most recent position being Senior General Manager of the Electronic Business Software Organization, which she grew to a global $1.5 billion business. Radha joined HP in 1978 as an R&D engineer in HP Laboratories, working in the field of ultrasound imaging. In 1983 she moved to Germany as European Sales & Marketing Manager of diagnostic medical products. In 1985 she set up HP’s Sales and R&D operations in India, including the India Software Operation, where she served as Managing Director. In 1989 Radha returned to the US to become General Manager of HP’s International Software Organization with responsibility for eight offshore software centers around the world.

Prof. Basu will speak about Frugal Innovation

Lab’s mission to develop accessible, affordable, adaptable, and appropriate technologies, products and solutions for emerging markets.

Radha has had significant impact on two HP groups during her career. First is the Indian software industry. In the mid-1980s she set up HP’s software center in Bangalore and the HP-TCS joint venture in Chennai. While today many high-tech companies have

software subsidiaries or development groups in India, the HP India software operation with its first satellite data link was truly ground-breaking. Radha has also had a strong influence on women in technology as a whole. In addition to blazing a trail for other women executives, she makes an effort to mentor young girls in science and woman professionals in the technology industry.

Radha was born and raised in Chennai. She holds a bachelors degree in Electronics & Communications from the University of Madras, a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Management program.

Radha has won numerous awards including Excelsior Leadership, Top25 Women of the Web, CEO of the Year 2000, Leader of the Millennium, and has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Upside Magazine and Economic Times. She was featured as a guest speaker at Wharton School, MIT Sloan School, Stanford Business School, Santa Clara University, and the Forbes Executive Summit. She is currently serving as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Simmons School of Management and on the boards of Interplast, MIT Global Climate Change Consortium, Center for Science Technology and Society and C.E.O. Women.

TUESDAY September 23, 2014

Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT)


Information Theory and Signal Processing for the

World's Smallest Computational Video Camera

Speaker: Dr. David G. Stork, Research Director,

Computational Sensing and Imaging Group, Rambus Labs

Time: Networking and refreshments at 6:30 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM

Cost: none Place: AMD Commons Building, 1 AMD Place,

Sunnyvale RSVP: from website Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/its

Dr. David G. Stork is Rambus Fellow and Research Director of the Computational Sensing and Imaging Group at Rambus Labs. A graduate in physics from MIT and the University of Maryland, Dr. Stork has published eight books/proceedings volumes, including Pattern classification (2nd ed.) and Seeing the Light: Optics in nature, photography, color, vision and holography and has held faculty appointments in eight disciplines variously at Wellesley and Swarthmore Colleges and Clark, Boston and Stanford Universities. He holds 43 issued patents and is Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), the International Academy, Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), and SPIE.

We describe a new class of computational optical

sensors and imagers that do not rely on traditional refractive or reflective focusing but instead on special diffractive optical elements integrated with CMOS photodiode arrays. Images are not captured, as in traditional imaging systems, but rather computed from raw photodiode signals. Because such imagers forgo the use of lenses, they can be made unprecedentedly small—as small as the cross-section of a human hair.

In such a computational imager, signal processing takes much of the burden of optical processing done by optical elements in traditional cameras, and thus information theoretic and signal processing considerations become of central importance. In fact, these new imaging systems are best understood as information channels rather than as traditional image forming devices. As such such systems present numerous challenges in information theory and signal processing: How does one optimize the effective electro-optical bandwidth given the constraints of optical components? What is the tradeoff in computational complexity and image quality or other metrics? What is the proper electro- optical representation and basis function set?

The talk will end with a list of important research opportunities afforded by this new class of computational imager.

WEDNESDAY September 24, 2014 SCV Information Theory (with Signal Processing)


San Mateo-Hayward Bridge: Challenges and Lessons Learned

in 15kV Substation Replacement Project

Speaker: Diep Nguyen, PE, DTN Engineers Time: Networking and social at 5:30 PM; Diner at

6:00 PM; Presentation at 6:45 PM Cost: $20 for IEEE Members; $35 for non-

Members; $10 for students/retired Place: Buttercup Grill & Bar, 229 Broadway,

Oakland RSVP: from website Web: meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/

list_meeting/28033

Diep Nguyen, PE has been a practicing electrical engineer for about four decades. He holds a BSEE and MSEE degree, both in Power Engineering from accredited universities in the Bay Area. He has been licensed by State of California in three separate engineering disciplines. He is currently working for DTN Engineers Inc. as a principal engineer. He is a senior member of IEEE, past Chair of OEB PES, and past R4 and R6 PES Regional Representative. Diep is also a senior member of ISA and was the NorCal President in 1995.

The San Mateo-Hayward Bridge is one of four

critical bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was built in 1929, and was the longest bridge in the world at the time. It links the San Francisco peninsula with the East Bay, boasting a 7-mile length with a 2-mile elevated section, which is about 200 feet above sea level. The electrical system was designed with one 15kV circuit from the San Mateo end and one 15kV circuit from the Hayward end. The 15kV power distribution system consists of a number of 15kV substations fed by the two circuits. Two are located beneath the elevated span of the bridge without access from the top of the bridge, and thus presents a big challenge for the removal of the existing switchgear and the installation of the replacement switchgear. The replacement switchgear is 15kV rated, vacuum draw-out breaker, supervised and controlled by a fiber optic-link SCADA system with automatic controls. Protective relaying is provided by modern multi-function, programmable digital relays also with fiber optic links. This IEEE PES meeting presentation discusses challenges and difficulties experienced in the project with lessons learned.


OEB Power & Energy


The "Invisible" Package

Speaker: Sam Karikalan, Senior Manager of Package Engineering, Broadcom Corporation

Time: Networking and buffet lunch at 11:30 AM; Presentation (no cost) at 12:15 PM

Cost: $25 for IEEE Members, $30 for non-members, $10 for studens/unemployed

Place: Biltmore Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Rd, Santa Clara

RSVP: from website Web: www.cpmt.org/scv

Sam Karikalan is a Senior Manager of Package Engineering at Broadcom Corporation, responsible for design optimization of all Broadcom device packages for Electrical and Thermal performance and for new packaging technology initiatives towards memory integration and system performance improvement. Prior to Broadcom, Sam worked for STATS ChipPAC, Primarion, Advanced Micro Devices and SAMEER-Centre for Electromagnetics in various technical and management roles on semiconductor IC Packaging, Signal Integrity and system-level Electromagnetic Compatibility, since 1987. Sam is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an active volunteer for the CPMT Society. He is currently the Asst. Program Chair on the ECTC Executive committee. am has eight issued and many pending US patents and many conference and journal publications to his credit. Sam holds a B.E. degree in Electronics and Communications from Bharathiar University, India.

The never-ending demand for improved electrical performance and cost reduction in IC packages has spawned many Chip-Package-PCB co-design innovations in the industry. On the one end, need for higher memory bandwidth and die-level cost reduction are driving high-end packaging technology and infrastructure development. On the other end, emerging markets such as Wearables and Internet of Things are adding more form-factor and cost pressures on the more conventional packaging technologies. Architectural-level changes and innovative Signal Integrity and Thermal solutions are needed to keep packaging performance impact and cost under control, in all such cases. Increasing I/O count in high-end applications has also enabled the development of new materials for use in large-body-size packages. This presentation will discuss some of the die, package and system-level design measures that are becoming common in the industry to help make the traditional IC package more and more 'invisible', from both performance and cost viewpoints.

THURSDAY September 25, 2014 SCV Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology


ROLM: From Fruit Shed to Fortune 500

Speaker: Katherine Maxfield, consultant and author Time: 7:00 PM Cost: none Place: Agilent Technologies, Bldg. 5, 5301

Stevens Creek Blvd., Santa Clara RSVP: not required Web: www.CaliforniaConsultants.org

Katherine Maxfield worked in marketing for tech companies for 25 years, from market research to product marketing to head of a major product line. She worked for ComQuest, TRW Vidar, ROLM and BusinessLand, and consulted for 3Com, Apple, Polycom, Aspect and many others.

Katherine is the author of Starting Up Silicon Valley: How ROLM Became a Cultural Icon and Fortune 500 Company. Other written works have appeared in literary journals and the San Francisco Chronicle.

In 1969, ROLM introduced the world’s toughest

computer -- an off-the-shelf machine able to withstand extreme military field conditions. In 1975, its CBX -- the first digital, computerized business phone system -- challenged the world’s largest corporation, AT&T.

In this talk, Kathie Maxfield will reveal the company’s challenges and innovations, its triumphs and missteps, and the frustrations faced after IBM bought it in 1984 in the biggest deal Silicon Valley had ever seen. She got the inside story of ROLM from the founders, former employees, and a number of Silicon Valley's key figures. Their perspectives, and the wisdom of hindsight (“Seemed like a good idea at the time!”), provide many humorous and heart-felt scenarios.

In 1996, the San Jose Mercury News said, “ROLM epitomized how successful an agile, well-managed startup could be in a world dominated by giants.” As the place to work in Silicon Valley during these years, ROLM set into motion the work style that characterizes many tech companies to this day.

Book Signing

Copies of Kathie's book Starting Up Silicon Valley: How ROLM Became a Cultural Icon and Fortune 500 Company will be available for purchase for $20, and for signing by her after her talk.

TUESDAY October 7, 2014

SCV Consultants' Network of Silicon Valley


Electric Power Industry Visions and Experiences

Speaker: Wanda Reder, VP - Power Systems

Solutions, S&C Electric Company, and IEEE Power & Energy Society Past President

Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM Cost: $25 for IEEE members, $35 for non-

members ($5 more after Sept 16); $15 for Students & Life Members

Place: Sinbad's Pier 2 Restaurant, Embarcadero, San Francisco

RSVP: from website, or to Sean Ely, [email protected] 415-973-7192 by Sept. 30th

Web: www.e-grid.net/docs/1410-sf-pes.pdf

Wanda Reder is the Vice President of the Power Systems Solutions at S&C Electric Company offering engineering, procurement, project management and field service capabilities to utilities, developers and industrial customers. Prior to S&C, Wanda held numerous leadership positions at Exelon and Northern States Power (now Xcel) having responsibility for asset investment strategy, planning, engineering, unregulated business start-ups, and more.

Wanda is an IEEE Fellow, was the President of the IEEE Power & Energy Society in 2008 – 2009, has served on the PES Governing Board since 2002 and is on the IEEE Board as the Division VII Director. She launched IEEE Smart Grid and provided leadership for it from 2009 – 2013. The effort brings a trusted voice to the marketplace and the opportunity for multi-disciplinary exchange. She also launched and co-chairs the IEEE PES Scholarship Plus Initiative which is aimed at doubling the number of undergraduate electrical engineers pursuing a power engineering degree and she serves on the Board for the IEEE Foundation.

Wanda is a recognized leader in the industry and serves on the DOE Electricity Advisory Committee as a US Secretary appointee where she chairs the Smart Grid Sub-Committee and the Workforce Ad-Hoc Committee.

The U.S. electric grid is undergoing significant

transformation from the introduction of digital technologies, policies encouraging the growth of renewable and distributed energy resources, and increasing engagement of electricity customers and businesses in both managing and producing energy. Large public and private investments made under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) have significantly advanced smart grid technology deployments, providing real-world data on technology costs and benefits, as well as best practices. Deployments are delivering results, yet the rate of smart grid technology adoption varies across the nation and recent experiences have demonstrated that the nation’s electrical infrastructure can be susceptible to widespread outages from natural and manmade cyber-attacks. This presentation discusses a vision for the grid of the future. It will review the status of the ARRA investments, the emerging requirements for the electrical infrastructure, the differences between the traditional grid and the new grid, and discussion of the customer’s role in the system of the future.

The IEEE Power & Energy Society Wanda Reder

Pioneer in Power Award has been named in honor of Wanda. The award was created to recognize a distinguished woman in the field of power engineering who has demonstrated significant influence in multiple facets within the electric power and energy engineering field. It seeks to empower the recipient to be a role model for other women, while promoting diversity within the industry and will be presented annually at the IEEE PES General Meeting.


SF Power & Energy


PCB Design and Fabrication Process Variations for Embedding Passive and Active Components

Speaker: Vern Solberg, Technical Consultant Time: Networking and buffet dinner at 6:00 PM;

Presentation (no cost) at 6:45 PM Cost: $25 for IEEE Members, $30 for non-

members, $10 for studens/unemployed Place: Biltmore Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Rd, Santa

Clara RSVP: from website Web: www.cpmt.org/scv

Vern Solberg is a technical consultant specializing in SMT and microelectronics design and manufacturing technology. He has served the industry for more than twenty-five years in areas related to both commercial and aerospace electronic product development and is active as an author and as an educator. In addition to tutorial and workshop programs for industry related events, Mr. Solberg has been involved with the training of both students and faculty members at the University of Wisconsin, School of Engineering in Milwaukee and Kansa State Universities Microelectronics Laboratories in Salina.

Solberg holds several patents for 3D IC packaging innovations including the folded-flex 3D package technology and is the author of Design Guidelines for Surface Mount and Fine-Pitch Technology, a McGraw-Hill publication. Vern also participates in and supports several industry organizations including IPC, SMTA, IEEE and IMAPS.

Embedding components within the PC board

structure is not a new concept, however, until recently, most applications adapted only passive elements. The processes relied on resistive inks and films for the resistor elements and enhanced dielectric layering for capacitors. And although these methods remain viable, many companies have evolved into placing discrete passive and active components within the PC board layering structure. Many have found that by reducing the component population on the PC board's surface, board level assembly is less complex and the PC board can be made smaller, The smaller substrate, even when more complex, often results in lower cost. Although size and cost reductions are significant attributes, the close coupling of key elements can also contribute to improving functional performance.

The presentation will focus on the six basic embedded component structure designs described in IPC-7092. The process variations define the structure, depending on whether components are passive or active, placed and/or formed and if they are on one side of the PCB base-core or both. Both formed and placed components may be located on any number of layers, however, formed components are generally assigned to dedicated layers. The layering description actually becomes part of the type designation that is very similar in describing an eight layer (2-4-2) HDI board and the naming indicates whether the base-core represents a final assembly or is simply a mounting base onto which additional layers are sequentially added.

WEDNESDAY October 8, 2014 SCV Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology


Gigahertz Two-Band Common-Mode Filters for 10-Gbit/s Differential Signal Lines

Speaker: Miroslav Pajovic, EMC Design and

RF/Antenna Consulting Engineer Time: Networking and light dinner at 5:30 PM;

presentation at 6:30 PM Cost: $5 donation for food Place: Agilent Technologies, Bldg. 5L, 5301

Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa Clara RSVP: not required Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/emc

Miroslav Pajovic is currently an EMC Design and RF/Antenna consulting engineer. Previously, he was an EMC technical lead, designer and researcher in Cisco Systems, San Jose; Senior EMI/RF engineer in Nortel Networks, Santa Clara; and Principal RF System Engineer in several HF/RF Centers in Washington DC, and Yugoslavia. He holds Diploma Degree in Electrical and RF Engineering (equivalent to M.S. degree) from Belgrade University, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He is an author of several IEEE EMC Transactions papers published in 2007, 2008, 2010, and IEEE EMC International Symposium paper, 2013. Also, he filed USA patents in 2011 and 2012. Currently, he is focusing on R&D of Metamaterial antennas and related microwave circuits for EMC and RF/Microwave applications. .

In addition to the desired differential signals, the

undesired and EMI harmful common-mode noise may propagate along differential signal lines. Conventional common-mode filters such as ferrite chokes - which work well in lower frequencies below 1 GHz – have limited effectiveness in the gigahertz frequency range. To suppress critical common-mode at gigahertz frequencies without degrading quality of the differential signals, the gigahertz common-mode filter structure is proposed herein. This design is directed to a compact-size electromagnetic band gap (EBG) structure suitable for placement in multilayer PCBs, individual IC chip packages, or in optical transceiver modules. The filter provides common-mode suppression at 10-Gbit/s differential signal lines at the frequencies 10.3125 GHz and 20.625 GHz, where common-mode noise can be highly problematic.


SCV Electromagnetic Compatibility


Agile Update - And Is It For You? - Panel

Speakers: Kathryn Kuhn, Agile Evangelist, Product

Development IT, Hewlett-Packard; Damian Brown, Sr. Manager, Program Management, Symantec; and others

Time: Networking and Refreshments at 6:30 PM; Presentations at 7:00 PM

Cost: none Place: Cadence Bldg 10, 2655 Seely Ave, San

Jose, and live over the internet RSVP: from website Web: computer.ieeesiliconvalley.org

In her role at HP, Kathryn Kuhn works with teams that range from highly experimental teams in HP Labs to HP Server teams to Software Operations monitoring teams. Kathryn hopes to be a disruptive force for anyone who thinks that the way we develop products is just fine.

Kathryn is a self-described Agile Evangelist and Chief Analogy Officer at Hewlett-Packard. Kathryn began her career at Accenture in Washington D.C., has done service work in Guatemala, moved her family to Singapore, and now calls the San Francisco Bay Area home. Kathryn has been practicing Agile techniques in its various forms for about 11 years in large and small companies and holds several Agile certifications that are meant to impress people.

Damian Brown, Sr. Manager,

Program Management, Symantec

This talk features a panel of leading experts

discussing new developments in Agile Software Development (Kanban, Scrum, SoC, etc.). John Swan will be the moderator for the discussions.

John Swan worked on IC design and design

methodology for 20 years at Motorola Labs covering the design flow from requirements and HDL entry through layout. John also worked as an SoC Consulting Manager and as IP Product Marketing Manager. John is now on contract with EDATechForce to insert leading-edge SoC & FPGA design technology into design teams. John was Awarded the IEEE Computer Society’s Golden Core and Meritorious Service Awards in 2012 for his leadership role as Chair of the CS Chapter of Silicon Valley. John earned a BSEE degree with High Honors in Computer Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has an MBA from Roosevelt University.


SCV Computer


Electrodes in the Brain: Where Do You Want to Put Them and How

Do You Get Them There?

Speaker: Eric E. Sabelman, Kaiser Permanente Hospital

Time: Optional dinner at Stanford Hospital Cafeteria, 6:15 PM; Presentations at 7:00 PM

Cost: none (no-host dinner) Place: Room M-114, Stanford University Medical

School, Stanford RSVP: not required Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/embs/pages/

upcoming.html

Eric E. Sabelman, PhD, is a biomedical engineer in the Neurosurgery Dept of Kaiser Permanente Hospital iin Redwood City, implementing technology for Deep Brain Stimulation to aid patients with Parkinsons Disease. He is an adjunct instructor at Santa ClaraUniversity School of Engineering, where he teaches a graduate course in biomaterials for medical device design. Previously, he was a principal investigator at the VA Palo Alto Rehabilitation R&D Center, where he was responsible for peer-reviewed projects in the development of microsensor-based human body motion analysis, tactile sensors, acute spinal cord injury patient care, and tissue engineering for nerve repair and reconstructive surgery. He is also an independent design consultant under the name "Pro-Zooics Research"; projects for clients have been in forensic biomechanics, emergency medical equipment, wearable dataloggers, ergonomics, space biology and industrial biotechnology. His experience includes positions as Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford University Medical School and research staff of Collagen Corporation, University of California-San Francisco Medical School, and NASA-Ames Research Center and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Sabelman received his Ph.D. degree in bioengineering from Stanford University in 1976. He is the author of more than 50 papers and conference presentations and has been awarded four patents.

The technology for chronic brain recording and stimulating electrodes is advancing, as is the range of diseases for which such electrodes may provide symptomatic relief. This presentation will briefly review electrode construction and the indications warranting electrode implantation. The principal topic to be covered will be surgical implantation of deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrodes, beginning with selecting a target for the electrode based on a patient's pre-operative imaging, and planning a (relatively) safe trajectory from anentry point on the skull. The several varieties of stereotactic hardware employed to insert an electrode – some time-tested, some new and "improved" – will be discussed. The older stereotactic frames and newer "frameless" devices have been designed to address different constraints – optimizing accuracy, ease of use, disposability vs. reusability, or compatibility with magnetic resonance imaging, but never all of these simultaneously. Finally, means for confirming the final location of an electrode and providing this information to caregivers and patients to aid in achieving the best possible therapy will be described.

WEDNESDAY October 15, 2014 SCV Engineering in Medicine and Biology


Climate Change: Reasons for More Debate and More Optimism

Speaker: Dr. Jim Steele, San Francisco State

University Time: 6:00 PM Cost: $20 for buffet dinner Place: Pyramid Alehouse, 901 Gilman Street,

Berkeley RSVP: from website Web: www.ieee4life.org

Jim Steele is an ecologist who served as Director of San Francisco State University’s Sierra Nevada Field Campus from 1985 to 2010, transforming it into one of California’s premiere environmental education and research centers. During his 18 years as principal investigator for the U. S. Forest Service Neotropical Migratory Bird Monitoring in Riparian Habitats on the Tahoe National Forest, Jim forged an intimate understanding of the myriad of factors that affect local and regional climate and the response of wildlife. Concerned that the focus on global warming was misdirecting conservation research away from more critical landscape changes and natural climate cycles, he wrote the book Landscapes and Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Change.

The media has inundated the public with horror

stories suggesting global warming is leading the earth’s wildlife into extinction. Jim Steele presents an ecologist’s perspective and critiques the current state of iconic "climate" species from penguins to polar bears to the more local pika and butterflies of California. While it is wise to think globally, all organisms react locally. Jim examines how local landscape changes and the local effects of natural climate cycles have been misconstrued as catastrophic global warming, provides a more optimistic analyses and suggests ways we can act locally to build a more resilient environment.

WEDNESDAY October 15, 2014

OEB Life Members


MEMS-Enabled Microscopes for in-vivo Studies of Cancer Biology

Speaker: Olav Solgaard, Department of Electrical

Engineering, Stanford University Time: Pizza and beverages at 7:15 PM;

presentation at 7:45 PM Cost: $5 donation for food Place: Qualcomm Cafe @ Building B, 3165 Kifer

Road, Santa Clara RSVP: from website Web: sites.ieee.org/scv-mems

Olav Solgaard earned his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 1992. His doctoral dissertation: “Integrated Semiconductor Light Modulators for Fiber-optic and Display Applications” was the basis for the establishment of a Silicon Valley firm Silicon Light Machines (SLM), co-founded by Dr. Solgaard in 1994. From 1992 to 1995 he carried out research on optical MEMS as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1995, he joined the Electrical Engineering faculty of the University of California, Davis. His work at UC Davis led to the invention of the multi-wavelength, fiber-optical switch, which has been developed into commercial products by several companies. In 1999 he joined Stanford University where he is now a Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Director of the Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory. Professor Solgaard’s research interests include optical MEMS, Photonic Crystals, optical sensors, microendoscopy, atomic force microscopy, and solar energy conversion. He has authored more than 350 technical publications and holds 60 patents. Professor Solgaard came to Stanford with the support of a Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Fellowship in 1986 and was named a Terman Fellow at Stanford for the period 1999-2002. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, and the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.

A prevalent trend in biological studies and medical

diagnosis is development of miniaturized instruments that can be implanted and enable continuing measurements and observations in the living body. Optical instruments present a challenge in this regards due to the fact that photonic systems do not scale to small sizes as favorably as electronic devices. This talk will focus on MEMS enabled miniaturization of optical microscopes that enable volumetric imaging of tissue with cellular resolution making them well suited for in-vivo, real-time imaging of physiological processes and disease progression. The enabling MEMS is a three-dimensional scanning system consisting of two miniaturized scanners. All reflective optics is used to minimize system size and chromatic dispersion. The technology allows scaling of the microscopes to less than 3.2 mm in diameter

and 5 mm in length, and yields two-dimensional images in real time. In this presentation, we outline fundamental imaging capabilities and scaling properties of the microscopes, and describe how our MEMS scanner technology and system architecture are designed to optimize the fundamental properties.

The presentation will focus on MEMS technology and does not require expertise in optics or biology.

WEDNESDAY October 22, 2014

SCV MEMS and Sensors


1-day Seminar: Electrical Safety Essentials

Speakers: Lanny Floyd, PE, Fellow IEEE, DuPont; Diosdado V. Hernandez, PE, and Sharon Chan Hu, PE, EBMUD; John Nelson, PE, NEI Electric Power Engineering; John K. Taecker, PE, Senior Regulatory Engineer, UL; Boyd Westover, PE, Eaton Corp; Michael Reed, Valero Energy

Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Cost: $250 each ($225, with 3 or more) Place: Hilton Hotel, 7050 Johnson Drive,

Pleasanton RSVP: from website Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/oeb/ias/Seminar.html

Electrical hazards in the workplace lead to

electrocutions, burns, and preventable injuries that disrupt lives and impact business productivity. While electrical hazards are not the leading cause of on-the-job injuries, accidents and fatalities, they are disproportionately fatal and costly. While these injuries are not isolated to any one industry or field of work and most could be easily avoided, awareness of electrical hazards is critical to avoiding and preventing accidents. Please plan to attend this Technical Seminar hosted by the Oakland East Bay Industry Applications Society.

Relevant topics will include: A System Safety Approach to Occupational safety Electrical Hazard Prevention Program at a Water

Utility Enhanced Engineering Techniques to Improve

Electrical Safety Codes, Standards and Listings Impact of 2015 Changes to NFPA 70E in

Switchgear Design and Manufacturing Practical Application of NFPA 70E Arc Flash

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THURSDAY October 23, 2014OEB Industry Applications

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