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May 2012

CHAPTER MEETINGS

OEB+SCV-Life - 4/30 | The Drive for Electric Vehicles: Tesla - starting the company, future of transportation, advances ... [more]

SCV-Phot - 5/1 | Growing SDL through the Telecom Boom - entrepreneurship, new laser, growth, barriers, $41B acquisition ... [more]

SCV-TMC - 5/3 | Successful Virtual Teaming: How To's for China and India - working effectively, best practices, communication ... [more]

Stanford-WIE - 5/3 | Engineering Welfare & Innovation in Develop-ing Economies - challenges, roadmap, economies, women … [more]

SCV-Rel - 5/3 | Integrating Reliability into Lean Six Sigma - DfR, product/process link, yields, costs, qualification ... [more]

SCV-GOLD - 5/3 | Gordon Biersch Brewery Tour - networking, tour, bring a friend ... [more]

SCV-CS - 5/7 | Architecting Android Apps - building blocks, activities, services, providers, receivers, glue, ICS ... [more]

SCV-EMC - 5/8 | Dipoles for Dummies (and the rest of us) - Henry Ott, radiation, susceptibility, from logic, cables, PWBs ... [more]

Computer - 5/9 | Managing Software Project "Technical Debt" - webinar: delayed technical work, different types, best practices ... [more]

SCV-CPMT - 5/9 | ITRS and INEMI Roadmaps: Changes in Packag-ing Materials and Architectures for 2012 - 2.5D, 3D, TSVs ... [more]

SCV-PV - 5/9 | Increasing CPV Market Penetration through Efficiency-scalable Multijunction Solar Cell Technology ... [more]

SCV-ComSoc - 5/9 | Mobile Patent Wars - patent litigation, smart phones, tablets, stifling innovation ... [more]

SPECTRUM - 5/10 | The Online Car: How Will Cars Change Once They're Permanently Connected to the Internet? - benefits ... [more]

SCV-Nano - 5/15 | Nanostructured Thin Films Via Layer-by-Layer Assembly at the Industrial Scale - molecular layer deposition ... [more]

SCV-Mag - 5/15 | Magnetoresistance and Spin-transfer Torque in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions - electrodes, MRAM, oscillators ... [more]

SCV-CNSV - 5/15 | Bluetooth Re-Invented: Bluetooth Low-Energy - Low Energy, simple applications, coin cell power ... [more]

SCV-EMB - 5/16 | Integrated Food and Activity Sensors with Gastric Stimulation System for Obese Subjects - weight loss ... [more]

Computer - 5/17 | Conquer Complexity with Effective Application Lifecycle Mgmt and a Focus on Design- webinar ... [more]

OEB-IAS - 5/17 | An Overview of Network Security Fundamentals for Substations - ethernet, architecture, vulnerabilities ... [more]

SCV -Section - 5/21 | Senior Member Elevation Night - time to upgrade? Make it easy ... [more]

OEB-SPS - 5/23 | Signal and Imaging Sciences Workshop: Compres-sive Sensing for Signal Processing - no-cost, full-day ... [more]

SCV-CSS - 5/23 | Application of Structural Load Feedback in Flight Control - Fixed Wing, efficiency, weight, fuel, performance ... [more]

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Chapter Short Courses & Seminars Senior Member Elevation Night – May 21 [more]

Engineering Welfare & Innovation in Developing Economies Conference – May 3, Stanford [more]

Emerging Medical Computing: Healthcare Up-Close and Personalized - June 16, Stanford [more]

IEEE President-Elect Petition Drive [more]

Howard Michel, MGA VP

Conference Calendar

May 6-11: CLEO: Laser Science to Photonics Applications - San Jose Convention Center [more]

May 14-17: Android Developer Conference (AnDevCon) - Hyatt Regency Burlingame [more]

June 3-7: 49th IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) - Moscone Center, S.F. [more]

June 5-8: IEEE Int'l Green Computing Conference (IGCC'12) - Hilton Hotel, San Jose [more]

June 16: Emerging Medical Computing: Healthcare Up-Close and Personalized - Stanford [more]

June 19-21: AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Conference - Hyatt Regency, Garden Grove CA [more]

Call for Papers:

Nov 4-7: 45th Annual Asilomar Conf on Signals, Systems, and Computers - Pacific Grove [more] Submit abstracts by May 1

Oct 7-10: IEEE Int'l Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SOC) - Santa Cruz [more] Submit abstracts by May 1

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May 2012 • Volume 59 • Number 5

IEEE-SFBAC ©2012

IEEE GRID is the monthly newsmagazine of the San Francisco Bay Area Council of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. As a medium for news for technologists, managers and professors, the editorial objectives of IEEE GRID are to inform readers of newsworthy IEEE activities sponsored by local IEEE units (Chapters, Affinity Groups) taking place in and around the Bay Area; to publicize locally sponsored conferences and seminars; to publish paid advertising for conferences, workshops, symposia and classes coming to the Bay Area; and advertise services provided by local firms and entrepreneurs.

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From the Editor

If you’ve been an active contributor to our profession for at least 5 to 8 years, then you may qualify to be elevated to Senior Member of IEEE. Most of our local members have been practicing engineers for a dozen years or more, so you’re potentially a candidate!

The Santa Clara Valley Section makes it fairly easy to make an application. First, they have a guide to the process (see page 4). Second, several of their active officers and volunteers will assist you in “word-smithing” the application to show your achievements to best advantage. Third, they’ll actually serve as your three endorsers.

So, set aside some time during May to gather the materials you’ll need – an updated resume, the template for laying out your achievements. Then plan to come by the Senior Member Advancement session on May 21st.

Best regards,

Paul

NOTE: This PDF version of the IEEE GRID – the GRID.pdf – is a monthly publication and is issued a few days before the first of the month. It is not updated after that. Please refer to the Online edition and Interactive Calendar for the latest information: www.e-GRID.net

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IEEE GRIDChapter Meetings (continued)

SCV-CPMT - 6/13 | New Drivers and Strategies for Multi-Die Packaging - 2.5D, 3D, interposers, KGD, solutions ... [more]

SCV-CS - 6/16 | Emerging Medical Computing: Healthcare Up-Close and Personalized - full-day event, modeling, treatment ... [more]

OEB-IAS - 6/21 | 30-Cycle Automatic Transfer Switches and Selective Coordination - ratings, upgrades, expansions ... [more]

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Sponsored by the Santa Clara Valley Section of IEEE

IEEE Senior Member Grade Elevation Night Date: Monday, May 21, 2012

Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (drop in at any time between 6:00 PM and 7:30 PM)

Location: Cogswell Polytechnical College, Board Room 1175 Bordeaux Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089

Refreshments will be provided

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:

www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/senior

Summary: * be an engineer, scientist, educator, or technical executive in IEEE-designated fields; * have been in professional practice for:

7 years if you hold a baccalaureate degree in an IEEE-designated field; 6 years if you hold a baccalaureate and a masters degree; 5 years if you hold a doctorate

* show professional maturity and "significant performance" over a period of at least five of those years in professional practice.

IEEE members who meet these requirements are encouraged to attend. Potential Senior Members will have an opportunity to meet with Senior/Fellow Members and possibly obtain the references that are required for the application, as well as to get a formal Nomination from the Section.

Get the Application Template from the GRID website: www.e-grid.net/docs/1205-sr-mem-template.doc, enter your background/answers and bring 4 copies. Do NOT begin the application process on the IEEE website (this is done AFTER our meeting). Write a few sentences on our template, or else in a file on the flash memory device, explaining/summarizing your professional experience and how you have significantly performed your professional duties for at least five years. We’ll help you refine these statements.

To help our volunteer Senior/Fellow members evaluate your application, particularly the sections on Professional Experience and Significant Performance, please prepare a Curriculum Vitae (CV) / resume that contains details that don’t “fit” into the application; the CV also contains details that explain possible questions that arise in the minds of the reviewers. Bring 4 copies of this resume.

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Autonomous systems are increasingly being

deployed in many unmanned, space, and robotic platforms. Systems with high-level autonomy capabilities can greatly improve efficiency and reduce costs associated with the design and operation of many aerospace systems. Designers, managers and systems architects working in exploration robotic systems, autonomous rendezvous and docking, adaptive control, integrated system health management, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), and ground-based unmanned systems should plan to attend.

19–21 June 2012

Hyatt Regency

Garden Grove, CA

Keynote and Plenary Speakers Robert Manning, Chief Engineer, MSL

Brian Argrow, Director, Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles, University of Colorado

Col Eric “Scam” Mathewson, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), Director, UAS Strategy, The Boeing Company

Lt Gen Michael A. Hamel, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development, Orbital Sciences Corporation

Steve Chien, Senior Research Scientist and Technical Group Supervisor of the Artificial Intelligence Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• JPL Tour June 18 • Sessions June 19-21

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DAC is the premier event for the design of electronic circuits and systems, and for EDA and silicon solutions. The DAC technical program is made up of tutorials, workshops, Pavilion panels and dozens of technical sessions divided into 12 Topical Areas, plus keynotes, panels, and over 175 exhibits.

See the listing of Keynote Speakers, Workshops, highlights of Tracks and

Sessions in the May GRID.

Workshops and Colocated Events:

(Typical Listing – subject to change)

• International Workshop on Diagnostic Services in Network-on-Chips

• NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems

• Workshop on Mobile and Cloud Computing

• Workshop on Synergies between Design Automation and Smart Grid

• Workshop on Bio-Design Automation

• Workshop on System-Level Interconnect Prediction

• 6th IEEE International Workshop on DFM&Y

• High-Level Design, Validation and Test Workshop

• Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust

• Workshop on Logic and Synthesis

• Symposium on Application-Specific Processors

• Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures

Separate registrations required – includes DAC Exhibit Hall Monday through Wednesday.

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tool use and methodologies Free networking receptions each night

DAC User Track: With its focus on significant contributions from the EDA tool user community, this track shares challenges and benefits of tool usage and provides educational and networking benefits for end users as well as tool developers. The User Track differs from vendor-specific user forums in that it is not tied to a specific EDA vendor. Presentations highlight the challenges and benefits of EDA tool usage, including tools from EDA vendors, tools developed in-house, and combinations.

Exhibits: Exhibitors, you should know that DAC is a great showcase for your products. It's the one place you have to be. Attendees comprise thousands of highly qualified decision-makers from leading semiconductor, telecom, and consumer electronics companies and related organizations, including: * Design Engineers * Corporate and Engineering Management * Developers and Researchers * Financial and Industry analysts * Media Professionals

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Access the Advance Program on the website beginning in mid-April.

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CALL FOR PAPERS 46th Annual Asilomar Conference on

Signals, Systems, and Computers

Asilomar Hotel and Conference Grounds Pacific Grove, California

November 4-7, 2012

www.asilomarssc.org

Authors are invited to submit papers before May 1, 2012, in the following areas: A. Communications Systems: 1. Modulation and Detection, 2. Error Control Coding, 3. OFDM / Multicarrier, 4. Cognitive Radio, 5. Adaptive Waveforms, 6. Wireless Security/Privacy, 7. Power line communication, 8. DSL and Wireline Technologies, 9. 60GHz, 10. Optical Communications, 11. 4G Applications

B. MIMO Communications and Signal Processing: 1. Space-Time Coding and Decoding, 2. Channel Estimation and Equalization, 3. Multi-user MIMO, 4. Base Station Cooperation, 5. Limited Feedback Techniques, 6. Interference Management

C. Networks: 1. Transmission Techniques for Ad Hoc Networks, 2. Wireless Sensor Networks, 3. Network Information Theory, 4. Cooperative Diversity, 5. Relays, 6. Heterogeneous Networks, 7. Cognitive/Adaptive Sensor Networks

D. Signal Processing and Adaptive Systems: 1. Compressive Sensing, 2. Machine Learning Based Statistical Signal Processing, 3.Information Theoretic Signal Processing, 4. Cognitive Information Processing, 5. Adaptive Filtering, 6. Fast Algorithms

E. Array Signal Processing: 1. Source Localization, 2. Source Separation, 3. Adaptive Beamforming

4. Robust Methods, 5. Computational Aspects, 6. Applications (Sonar, Radar, Microphone arrays, etc.)

F. Biomedical Signal and Image Processing: 1. Medical Image Analysis, 2. Imaging Modalities, 3. Advances in Medical Imaging, 4. Biomedical Signal Processing, 5. Biomedical Applications, 6. Bioinformatics, 7. Image Registration and Multi-modal Imaging, 8. Image Reconstruction, 9. Computer Aided Diagnosis, 10. Functional Imaging, 11. Visualization

G. Architecture and Implementation: 1. Energy efficient design, 2. High-speed computer arithmetic, 3. Reconfigurable signal processing, 4. Multicore, manycore and distributed systems, 5. Algorithm and architecture co-optimization, 6. System-level representation and synthesis, 7. Cyber-physical system prototypes/testbeds H. Speech, Image and Video Processing: 1. Speech Processing, 2. Speech Coding, 3. Speech Recognition, 4. Narrowband / Wideband Speech and Audio Coding, 5. Document Processing, 6. Models for Signal and Image Processing, 7. Image and Video Coding, 8. Image and Video Segmentation, 9. Image and Video Analysis, 10. Image / Video Security, Retrieval and Watermarking, 11. Image and Video Enhancement / Filtering, 12. Biometrics and Security, 13. Wavelets

Submissions should include a 50 to 100 word abstract and an extended summary (500 to 1000 words, plus figures). Submissions must include the title of the paper, each author's name and affiliation, and the technical area(s) in which the paper falls with number(s) from the above list. Check the conference website (www.asilomarssc.org) for specific information on the electronic submission process. Submissions will be accepted starting February 1, 2011. No more than FOUR submissions are allowed per contributor, as author or co-author. All submissions must be received by May 1, 2011. Notifications of acceptance will be mailed by mid July 2011, and author information will be available on the conference website by late July 2011. Full papers will be due shortly after the conference and published in early 2012. All technical questions should be directed to the Technical Program Chair, Dr. Erik G. Larsson, e-mail [email protected] or the General Chair, Dr. Miloš Doroslovački, e-mail [email protected].

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

General Chair: Miloš Doroslovački, The George Washington University Technical Program Chair: Erik G. Larsson, Linköping UniversityConference Coordinator: Publication Chair: Michael Matthews, ATK Space Systems Publicity Chair: Linda DeBrunner, Florida State University Finance Chair: Frank Kragh, Naval Postgraduate School

The site for the 2012 Conference is at the Asilomar Conference Grounds, in Pacific Grove, CA. The grounds border the Pacific Ocean and are close to Monterey, Carmel, and the scenic Seventeen Mile Drive in Pebble Beach.

The Conference is organized in cooperation with the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, and ATK Space Systems, Monterey, CA. The IEEE Signal Processing Society is a technical co-sponsor of the conference.

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Getting Things Done Across Organizational Borders -- Date/Time: Tuesday, May 8, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM -- Location: – Synopsys, Mtn View -- Fee: $400 for IEEE Members; $500- non-members

Virtual Teams: Working Together Apart

– Date/Time: Tues, May 8, 9:00AM – 5:00PM – Location: – Integrated Device Technology, San Jose

Fee: $400 for IEEE Members; $500 non-members

Problem Solving and Decision Making -- Date/Time: Tuesday, June 19, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM -- Location: – Integrated Device Technology, San Jose -- Fee: $400 for IEEE Members; $500- non-members

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AnDevCon Comes Back to Burlingame!

AnDevCon III 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:

Wednesday May 16, 11:00 am – 7:00 pm Thursday May 17, 11:00 am – 2:30 pm

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5 Habits of Intentional Leadership – Wed-Thurs, Sept 12-13, 9:00AM-5:00PM – Location: Synopsys, Sunnyvale

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The Drive for Electric Vehicles: Tesla Motors

Speakers: Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard,

founders of Tesla Time: Networking at 6:00 PM; Dinner at 6:30 PM;

Presentation following Cost: $15 (includes buffet dinner) Place: Michael's at Shoreline Restaurant, 2960

North Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View RSVP: from website Web: www.ieee4life.org

Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard have worked together for many years, first working as consultants to the disk drive industry. They later founded NuvoMedia, which pioneered the distribution of front-list books in electronic form, and which created the first modern electronic book, the Rocket eBook.

Concern about climate change and about the geopolitical consequences of our dependence on oil persuaded Martin and Marc to found Tesla Motors and create the Tesla Roadster, proving that electric cars not only made sense, but could also be highly desirable cars. Tesla Motors has sold over 2000 fully battery electric Roadsters and became a public company on the U.S. NASDAQ exchange in July 2010. Tesla's four-door electric sedan (www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F8ZyAelR6A) will be introduced this year.

Marc and Martin left Tesla Motors several years ago, and have recently finished a project at Volkswagen Group, helping to bring electric vehicle technology to one of the world's biggest car manufacturers.

The co-founders of Tesla Motors will give a talk on why they started the company, why the future of transportation is electric, what advances are on the horizon, and what this might mean to the IEEE community.

MONDAY April 30, 2012

OEB & SCV Life Members


Growing SDL through the Telecom Boom: Lessons in

Entrepreneurship

Speaker: Donald Scifres, Ph.D., SDL ventures, founder and former CEO of SDL, Inc.; past President of IEEE Photonics Society

Time: Networking and light dinner at 6:00 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM

Cost: none Place: Keypoint Credit Union, 2805 Bowers Ave,

Santa Clara RSVP: from website Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/leos

Don Scifres began his career at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center where he co-established a new laboratory for the study of semiconductor lasers and light emitting diodes. While at Xerox, Scifres held positions of Manager of Optoelectronics and Xerox Research Fellow. At Xerox, he and his colleagues developed high-power semiconductor laser arrays leading to the founding of SDL, Inc. in 1983. Under his direction as CEO and Chairman of the Board, SDL, Inc. became one of the fastest growing companies in the fiber optics and optoelectronics industries. In February 2001, SDL, Inc. merged with JDS Uniphase Corporation (Nasdaq: JDSU). At the time the merger was announced in July 2000, SDL, Inc. had grown to approximately $500 million in sales, with over 2,000 employees in eight locations worldwide. SDL's market cap was $41 billion, making the merger the largest technology deal ever done at that time. Scifres was co-chairman of the board of JDS Uniphase Corporation, Chief Strategy Officer, and headed mergers and acquisitions.

In February 2003, Scifres left JDS Uniphase and founded SDL Ventures, LLC and SDL Capital, LP, investment companies based in Los Altos.

Scifres also served as president of IEEE LEOS (now the IEEE Photonics Society) president of LEOMA, the Lasers and Electro Optics Manufacturers Association, and is an active investor in both public and private companies. He is on the board of directors of several non-public companies and has been awarded several medals for engineering excellence and innovation. He holds over 140 U.S. patents and has published over 300 technical articles.

Don Scifres was the rare individual who was able

to invent a new class of product (the high power semiconductor laser), then founded a joint venture with just a few people, and grew it to a company of thousands of people that was acquired by JDSU in Feb 2001 for $41B. Most of the growth took place during just three years: 1998-2000. In this story is a remarkable case study of what it takes to overcome the usual barriers to growth, to re-invent the organization, and do whatever it takes to keep up with the demand ramp. Join us to hear the story of how Don and his team accomplished this, and his advice for entrepreneurs today. He will also talk about his current investments through SDL Ventures, and what areas he believes are promising for future investment.

TUESDAY May 1, 2012

SCV Photonics


Successful Virtual Teaming: How To's for China and India

Speaker: Marian Stetson-Rodriguez, M.S., President,

Charis Intercultural Training Corporation Time: Networking at 6:00 PM; Mgmt Forum at

6:30 PM; Dinner at 7:15 PM; Presentation at 7:45 PM <br>

Cost: $10 for IEEE members; $13 for others (through May 1)

Place: RAMADA Silicon Valley, 1217 Wildwood Ave, Sunnyvale

RSVP: from website Web: www.ieee-scv-tmc.org

Marian Stetson-Rodriguez, M.S., is President of Charis Intercultural Training Corporation, a global management development consulting firm serving technology clients for over 25 years. Marian has worked with global teams spanning APAC, EMEA and the Americas as companies expand, acquire, outsource, and create joint ventures. For Silicon Valley, Marian sees the highest-volume team collaborations with China and India. With skills in organization development, research in cross-cultural teamwork, and Web 2.0 tools, she helps virtual teams establish successful practices, handle time zones, build trust, and reach higher performance. Marian leads the Charis staff of 25 consultants in 11 countries to deliver intercultural training for managers with global projects. She is adjunct faculty at Santa Clara University Graduate Engineering and MBA programs, where she teaches how to work in global teams and build success in multicultural environments.

If you’re not working with colleagues in China or

India today … you soon will be! Each night Silicon Valley teams hum with meetings spanning the Pacific, but are they working effectively? Learn best practices for launching teams and forming trust with teams in China or India, when you can’t meet face-to-face. Achieve “frequent, disciplined, accurate communication” the life blood of virtual teams. Identify 3 ways shift handoffs can be more successful. Discover best practices for email and teleconference meetings for both cultures, and evaluate which Web 2.0 tools can build your communication channels with engineers in China and India.

THURSDAY May 3, 2012

SCV Technology Management


Engineering Welfare & Innovation in Developing

Economies (EWIDE) Conference

Speakers: Dr. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg, Akili Dada; Bridgette Sexton, Google Africa; Pooja Upadhyaya, Mobilizing Health; Eva Enns, Stanford University

Time: 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM Cost: $12 for IEEE Members, $15 others Place: 3rd floor (Mackenzie Room), Huang

Engineering Center, Stanford RSVP: from website Web: ewide.weebly.com

Dr. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg is Founder and Executive Director of Akili Dada, an award-winning leadership incubator that is nurturing the next generation of African women leaders. Akili Dada's innovative and holistic approach includes rigorous leadership training, personalized mentoring, and comprehensive scholarships to brilliant, high-potential young women from some of Africa's most impoverished families.

Wanjiru is also an Assistant Professor in the Politics department at the University of San Francisco, where her research and teaching interests center on the politics of philanthropy, gender, Africa, ethnicity, and democratization, and on the role of technology in social activism. Originally from Kenya, she earned a B.A. in Politics from Whitman College and Masters and Ph.D . degrees in Political Science with concentrations in African Studies and Gender Studies from the University of Minnesota.

In her dual roles, Wanjiru divides her time between the U.S. and Kenya, where Akili Dada is based. Working at the intersection of academia and social entrepreneurship, Wanjiru is passionate about the synergy between rigorous academic analysis and committed social activism.

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Developing economies, such as in Africa, India,

China, and Brazil, will see the highest GDP growth in the next decade. However, this growth often comes at the expense of greater socio-economic divide. Well-designed technology products, such as economical healthcare tools, better connectivity (via internet/cell phones), and accessible education, present a huge potential to bridge the socio-economic divide in developing economies and especially empower women in these economies. While technology products may not be an answer to all their problems, good design of technology products will ensure their widespread impact in developing economies in terms of improving their standards of living.

The Engineering Welfare & Innovation in Developing Economies (EWIDE) conference aims to discuss the challenges and future road map in designing engineering technologies that can empower developing economies, especially women in such economies. The conference will bring together social entrepreneurs, industry leaders, researchers, and students from a wide variety of engineering disciplines to spark a lively debate on the design aspects, successes and failures in technology design for developing economies. We hope that the conference will motivate you to think about technology design from a humanistic perspective and network with others working toward this goal.

Bridgette Sexton is a

Global Entrepreneurship Manager working to further Google's efforts to empower entrepreneurs around the world. She brings with her a truly global background and a passion for making the impossible happen. Prior to her current role, Bridgette led Google's outreach efforts in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA), based out of Ghana. In this role, she built programs that enable software developers, startups and businesses to utilize Google's tools to drive innovation and content generation on the web. Her efforts expanded Google's reach to over 19 countries, training thousands of people while creating sustainable local tech communities. Before moving to Africa, Bridgette was a on the scalable 3rd party sales team focused on non-traditional agencies, based in San Francisco, California.

THURSDAY May 3, 2012Stanford Women in Engineering


Prior to joining Google, Bridgette's diverse background spanned jumpstarting a micro-finance organization in Peru, attracting foreign direct investment in the investment promotion Nicaragua, working at Alcoa in the marketing strategy unit and studying in Thailand. Bridgette is an avid runner, a culinary experimenter and a singer.

In 2009, Pooja Upadhyaya

launched Mobilizing Health, a non-profit that has developed a technology and community model to connect rural villagers to first-rate medical advice via text messages. With fullt-time staff on the ground and the help of twenty committed physicians and thirty village leaders, Mobilizing Health has now connected more than 4,500 patients in India. In the next month, new technology integration will allow for thorough patient histories and automatic symptom tracking. For more information, here is their Executive Summary: http://bit.ly/MHpage.

Eva Enns will join the

Division of Health Policy and Management in the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health as an assistant professor in fall 2012. Her research is concerned with the application of mathematical, economic, and systems analysis to problems in health policy, health operations, and medical decision making. In her dissertation work, she has focused on the influences of network structure and contact patterns on the spread of infectious diseas e and developing methods that leverage network structure in designing optimal disease control policies.

She received an SB degree in electrical engineering from MIT (2006) and an MS degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University (2008). She will receive her PhD in electrical engineering, with a minor in Management Science and Engineering, from Stanford University in June 2012. She is a recipient of the Henry Ford II Award, the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, the National Science Foundation Graduation Fellowship, and the Rambus Inc. Stanford Graduate Fellowship.


Integrating Reliability into Lean Six Sigma:

Linking Product/Process Reliability with Business

Process Excellence Speakers: Mike Silverman, Managing Partner, Ops A

La Carte; Dr. Shree Nanguneri, CEO, MGBS Inc.

Time: Snacks and networking at 6:30 PM; Presentations at 7:00 PM

Cost: none Place: Hewlett-Packard Building 48, Oak Room,

19111 Pruneridge Ave, Cupertino RSVP: not required Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/rl

Shree Nanguneri has over 20 years of experience as a Lean Six Sigma consultant that inclusive of his tenure at GE Plastics. Shree has a deep understanding of the voice of the customer toward process improvement and customer feedback. He is a senior master black belt and has trained several hundreds of professionals in process breakthrough, utilizing, lean six sigma methods, including QFD. Shree works in the East Bay area of Livermore. He just published his first book on Lean Six Sigma titled “Lean Six Sigma Tweet” in June 2011.

Mike Silverman is founder and managing partner at Ops A La Carte, a professional consulting company that has an intense focus on helping customers with end-to-end reliability. Mike has over 25 years of experience in reliability engineering, reliability management and reliability training. He is an experienced leader in Design for Reliability techniques. Through Ops A La Carte, Mike has had extensive experience as a consultant to high-tech companies, and has consulted for over 500 companies in over 100 different industries in most of the United States and 15 countries around the world. Mike is an expert in accelerated reliability techniques and owns HALT and HASS Labs, one of the oldest and most experienced reliability labs in the world. Mike has recently completed his first book on reliability entitled “How Reliable Is Your Product: 50 Ways to Improve Product Reliability”. Mike is currently the IEEE Reliability Society Santa Clara Valley Chapter Chair.

Design for Reliability (DFR) is intended, starting

early in the design process, to optimize product reliability by identifying, minimizing, and managing the risks of product failure over time.

Design for Lean Six Sigma (DFLSS) is intended to maximize the return on investment by optimizing product development and production. DFLSS results in higher yields, lower implementation costs and smoother introduction of cutting edge technology. This allows quick product qualification and production launch. DFLSS should also minimize the risks of errors in design and production that could affect the product’s function.

We will discuss the apparent tension and actual synergy between DFR and DFLSS.


SCV Reliability


Gordon Biersch Brewery Tour Time: Be there at 5:30 PM Cost: $3 for members/students; $5 for others Place: Gordon Biersch Brewery, 357 East Taylor

Street, San Jose RSVP: from website Web: www.eventbrite.com/event/

3285054687?ref=ebtnebregn

Come out to network with your fellow Bay Area

engineers as we tour the Gordon Biersch Brewery in San Jose! Bring your friends and learn how our favorite tasty beverage is brewed.

Please arrive on time to take part in the tour! Registration is mandatory, no refunds, and no

walk-ins allowed. All registrants must by 21+ to attend.

Alcohol will not be provided by the event organizers (IEEE SCV GOLD).


SCV Grads of the Last Decade (GOLD)


Architecting Android Apps Speaker: Marko Gargenta, Founder of Markana.com

and renowned Andriod expert Time: Networking/Refreshments at 6:30 PM;

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

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

Marko is the founder of Marakana.com and is the developer of Marakana Android Training series. He has taught Android to 1,000+ developers and sales engineers at companies such as Cisco, Motorola, Sprint, Qualcomm, Intel, HTC, Sharp, US Department of Defense and many others.

He is the author of Learning Android book published by O’Reilly Media. This book is based on Android Bootcamp and incorporates best learning practices for new developers to start creating applications for this exciting open source mobile platform.

Marko is also the co-chair of Android Open, an O’Reilly conference focusing on the Android ecosystem. Marko frequently speaks at conferences and events such as OSCON, AnDevCon, Sprint Developers Conference, IEEE, ACM, and many others. He lives in San Francisco.

Android brings to the table a whole new set of

building blocks. Each has its own unique properties. Building an app is mashing them together in a unique way. Often, there are multiple approaches to seemingly the same result. Knowing what component to use when, is often a balance of art and science.

In this talk, we will explore main building blocks of Android: activities, services, providers, receivers as well as intents that glue them all together. We’ll learn about properties and variations of each. By the end of this talk, you should know how to write a straw-man implementation of basic building blocks, when to use them, and how to connect them together.

This talk is based on Ice Cream Sandwich release of Android (4.0).

MONDAY May 7, 2012

SCV Computer


Dipoles for Dummies (and the rest of us)

Speaker: Henry W. Ott, Henry Ott Consultants Time: Networking/light dinner at 5:30 PM;

Presentation at 6:30 PM Cost: fee for the dinner (on site) Place: Applied Materials Bowers Cafeteria, 3090

Bowers Ave., Santa Clara RSVP: not required Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/emc

HENRY W. OTT is President and Principal Consultant of Henry Ott Consultants, an EMC/ESD training and consulting organization located in Livingston, New Jersey. Mr. Ott has literally "written the book" on the subject of EMC, and is considered by many to be the nation's leading EMC educator. He not only knows the subject, but has the rare ability to communicate that knowledge to others. Mr. Ott has over thirty years of experience in the field of EMC.

Prior to starting his own consulting company, he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories (now Alcatel-Lucent), Whippany, New Jersey, for 30 years, where he was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. At Bell Labs, he worked on projects relating to missile guidance systems, nuclear effects instrumentation, analog and digital tape recorders, telephone transmission and signaling systems, microprocessors, and acted as a consultant on Electromagnetic Compatibility.

He is the author of two books, "Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering" (Wiley, 2009) and the popular "Noise Reduction Techniques in Electronic Systems" (Wiley 1976 and 1988). "Noise Reduction Techniques in Electronic Systems" is ofter referrd to as the "bible" on EMC. The first edition has been translated into Japanese, Russian, Bulgarian, and Polish, and the second edition has been translated into Italian, Japanese, and Chinese. Together, the two English editions have sold over 65,000 copies.

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An understanding of basic antenna theory is

helpful for all engineers, especially those involved in EMC. After all, if a product radiates (or is susceptible to RF energy) it is an antenna, even if you prefer to call it something else – such as a microprocessor, an IC, a PCB, a power cord, or an USB cable.

This presentation is a simple, insightful, and intuitive discussion of how a dipole antenna works, and how the operation is related to the common-mode radiation from a product. Attendees will end up with an understanding of dipole antenna theory, and know why dipole antenna theory is so important to EMC engineering. All of this is accomplished without using mathematics or writing a single equation.

Mr. Ott is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and an Honorary Life Member of the IEEE EMC Society. For over twenty years Mr. Ott has served the EMC Society in various capacities including: member of the Board of Directors, Education Committee Chairman, Symposium Committee Chairman, and Vice President for Conferences. In addition he is a past Distinguished Lecturer for the EMC Society, and lectures extensively on the subject of EMC. He is a member of the ESD Association and is a NARTE Certified Electrostatic Discharge Control Engineer. He holds an amateur radio (ham radio) operator's license with the call sign WA2IRQ.

Mr. Ott is the holder of four patents, and author of numerous technical papers. He received his BSEE degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1957, and his MSEE degree from New York University in 1963. Mr. Ott has also received many awards for his outstanding contributions to the field of Electromagnetic Compatibility.

TUESDAY May 8, 2012

SCV Elecromagnetic Compatability


Webinar: Managing Software Project "Technical Debt"

Speaker: Steve McConnell, CEO and Chief Software

Engineer, Construx Software Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Cost: none Place: on the Web RSVP: rom website Web: www.computer.org/portal/web/webinars

Steve McConnell, CEO and Chief Software Engineer, Construx Software, is a renowned thought leader on software development best practices. He is the author of several best-selling books, including the highly influential, Code Complete, often cited as the most popular software development book of all time. His books have sold more than one million copies overall and have been translated into 20 languages. Steve founded Construx in 1996 to help companies apply proven best practices to their software development. In his role at Construx, Steve teaches classes, writes books and articles, and oversees software engineering practices.

“Technical Debt” refers to delayed technical work

that is incurred when technical short cuts are taken, usually in pursuit of calendar-driven software schedules. Just like financial debt, some technical debts can serve valuable business purposes. Other technical debts are simply counterproductive. In this webinar, Steve McConnell explains in detail: the different types of technical debt common debt scenarios when organizations should and shouldn’t take

on debt best practices in managing, tracking and paying

down debt the benefits of explicitly managing technical

debt You’ll gain insights into how to use technical debt

strategically and how to keep technical and business staff involved in the process.

Who Should Attend

Managers, Technical Managers, Technical Leads, Software Architects, Software Engineers

WEDNESDAY May 9, 2012

Computer Society


ITRS and iNEMI Roadmaps: Changes in Packaging Materials

and Architectures for 2012

Speaker: Dr. Bill Bottoms, Chair, Technical Working Group for Packaging and Package Substrates, iNEMI

Time: Buffet dinner at 6:00 PM, Presentation at 6:45 PM

Cost: $20 if reserved by May 7; $10 for fulltime students and currently unemployed engineers; $5 more at the door

Place: Biltmore Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Rd (Fwy 101 at Montague Expressway), Santa Clara

RSVP: from website Web: www.cpmt.org/scv/meetings/cpmt1205.html

Dr. Wilmer R. (Bill) Bottoms received a B.S. degree in Physics from Huntington College in Montgomery, Alabama in 1965, and a Ph.D in Solid State from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1969. As a faculty member in the department of electrical engineering at Princeton University, he was focused on the physics of semiconductor devices.

Following his work in Academia he worked in industry, joining Varian Associates as Manager of Research and Development in 1976. In 1981, Dr. Bottoms was the founding President of the Semiconductor Equipment Group of Varian Associates. He was also the founder and Chairman of the Board of a Japanese subsidiary of Varian.

Dr. Bottoms has participated in the start-up and growth of many companies through his venture capital activity and through his own work as an entrepreneur. These include companies both directly and indirectly related to semiconductor. Among these companies are Microelectronics Packaging Inc., Credence Systems, Third Millennium Test Solutions, Tessera, and SBA Materials.

Dr. Bottoms has been appointed to a number of government and industry committees and advisory positions. He currently serves as a Member of the Board of Tulane University and the Chairman of its Academic Affairs Committee; Chairman of the Technical Working Group for Assembly and Packaging for the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS); Chairman of the Technical Working Group for Packaging and Package Substrates for the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI); Chairman of the Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Institute (SEMI) Awards Committee.

The primary objective of technology roadmaps

has been to define in advance the difficult challenges or roadblocks that could limit or stop progress in the future. Topics that are changing rapidly and pose difficult challenges identified in the 2012 Roadmaps include:

2.5 D Interposer technology 3D-TSV integration New materials to meet

thermal/mechanical/electrical and chemical property requirements

Packaging requirements for photonic devices: emitters and absorbers of photons; photonic data communication components

New power devices (based on compound/ direct band gap semiconductors)

The difficult challenges and potential solutions in today's version of these Roadmaps will be discussed for these emerging packaging technologies.

WEDNESDAY May 9, 2012SCV Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology


Increasing CPV Market Penetration through

Efficiency-scalable Multijunction Solar Cell Technology

Speaker: Vijit Sabnis, Vice President Technology,

Co-Founder, Solar Junction Time: Networking 6:30 PM, Presentation at 7:00

PM Cost: none Place: Palo Alto Research Center (G.E. Pake

Auditorium), 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto

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

Dr. Vijit Sabnis has over 15 years of hands-on experience with III-V optoelectronic device design, wafer processing, and characterization. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University for developing III-V photonic switches for optical routers and wavelength conversion applications. Vijit also held a senior research position at Translucent, Inc where he was principal investigator on the DARPA EPIC program investigating applications of rare-earth oxides for CMOS-integrable optical amplifiers and lasers. He holds over 15 publications and 4 patents.

Increasing the efficiency and energy yield of

concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) systems is critical to ensure that this technology can compete against tracked PV and other energy sources to deliver the lowest cost of electricity in sunny climates. Over the last two years, CPV module efficiencies (DC) exceeding 30% have been achieved primarily from improvements in optical throughput and multijunction solar cell power conversion efficiencies. Increasing the efficiency of multijunction solar cells offers significant cost and performance benefits to CPV systems. Since multijunction solar cells comprise only 10-15% of the overall system cost, improvements in cell efficiencies offer significant leverage in driving down upfront capital costs and the levelized cost of electricity of a CPV project. In this talk I will discuss Solar Junction's development of dilute nitrides as an enabling materials platform for achieving solar cell efficiencies starting at 43.5% and increasing to over 50% in the coming years. This will ultimately enable CPV module efficiencies (DC) exceeding 40% and accelerate widespread adoption of CPV in high-DNI regions.


SCV Photovoltaics


Mobile Patent Wars Speakers: Colleen Chien, Santa Clara University Law

Faculty; Alex Rogers, Qualcomm; Josh McGuire, Google; Cynthia Bright, HP; Tom Lavelle, Rambus; Jonathan Wells, AJIS Consulting

Time: Networking and refreshments at 6:00 PM, Presentations at 6:30 PM

Cost: $5 donation is requested for refreshments Place: Texas Instruments Building E, 2900

Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara RSVP: from website Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/comsoc

Professor Colleen Chien is nationally known for her

research and publications surrounding domestic and international patent law and policy issues. Her work has been cited by the FTC and in Congress. She has testified before the DOJ, FTC and PTO on patent issues, frequently lectures at national law conferences and has published several in-depth empirical studies, including of patent litigation, patent amicus briefs, non-practicing entities (NPE), and the secondary market for patents. She is an expert on the International Trade Commission (ITC), a topic on which she has authored several articles and co-authors a practice guide, The Section 337 Patent Investigation Management Guide.

Prior to joining the Santa Clara University School of Law faculty in 2007, Professor Chien prosecuted patents at Fenwick & West LLP in San Francisco, as an associate and then Special Counsel. She also served as an advisor to the School of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, worked as a spacecraft engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, and was an investigative journalist at the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism as a Fulbright Scholar. She lives in the East Bay with her husband and their two active sons.

Dr. Jonathan Wells provides litigation support, expert witness and expert consulting services in the areas of wireless patents, technology and business. Dr. Wells has a Management Diploma from Stanford University, an M.B.A. (with distinction) from Massey University, a Ph.D. in Physics, from the University of Bath and B.Sc., Physics with Physical Electronics (with 1st Class Honors) from the University of Bath.

Cynthia Bright leads the IP litigation group at Hewlett Packard as Associate General Counsel since April this year. Cynthia joined HP in 2009 after more than five years at Atmel Corporation, where she had most recently been the Director of Litigation. Prior to Atmel, Cynthia spent over five years as a commercial and IP litigator at Wilson Sonsini in Palo Alto.

Patent experts and representatives from various

companies in the mobile space will discuss the impact of ever increasing patent litigation, including so-called "mobile patent wars", involving convergence devices such as mobile phones and tablets. They will address what drives current patent litigation landscape and what this ultimately means to consumers. The discussion topics would include whether the current patent system promote or stifles innovation, what role, if any, standardization plays in the current conflicts, and whether there is a better way to address the "royalty-stacking issue" associated with convergence devices. Alex Rogers will speak on patent suits between

competitors - Apple vs. HTC/Motorola/Samsung, Microsoft vs. Motorola, etc.

Cynthia Bright will talk about NPE patent suits - are they increasing or decreasing? Has the AIA had any impact?

Josh McGuire will talk about acquiring patents for protection - CPTN's acquisition of Novell patents, Nortel patent auction, Google's purchase of IBM patents etc.

Colleen Chien will cover Patent remedies - ITC vs. district court

Tom Lavelle will address Companies' transfer of IP Assets to NPEs - Micron to RRR, Nokia to Mosaid, Apple to Digitude, etc.

Jonathan Wells will guide us through what this means for engineers

Alex Rogers is Senior Vice President and Legal

Counsel for Qualcomm Incorporated. He joined Qualcomm in January 2001. Since that time he has managed intellectual property and commercial litigation matters for the company and is currently the head of its litigation group. Prior to joining Qualcomm, he was an associate and then a partner with the law firm of Gray, Cary, Ware & Friedenrich, now DLA Piper, where he was a litigator and trial lawyer for fourteen years, specializing in intellectual property litigation for various technology companies. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Georgetown University in 1979, studied for one year at the Hebrew


SCV Communications

Patent Agent Jay Chesavage, PE

MSEE Stanford 3833 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 94303

[email protected]

www.File-EE-Patents.com

TEL: 650-619-5270 FAX: 650-494-3835


University in Israel, earned his Master's Degree in Literature from Georgetown in 1985, and then obtained his Juris Doctor from Georgetown in 1987.

Joshua McGuire is Senior Patent Counsel at Google. He joined Google in 2009 - just in time for the mobile wars, the Nortel patent auction, and the Motorola Mobility merger. Joshua is responsible for strategic mobile patent issues including patent and company acquisitions, third-party threats, licensing, and patent prosecution. He received his undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering with Special Distinction from the University of Oklahoma and a Juris Doctorate from the University of California - Berkeley School of Law. Prior to joining Google, Joshua was a patent attorney for Fish & Richardson and was a founding partner of an IT and engineering consulting firm.

Tom Lavalle is responsible for the overall legal direction of Rambus, including securities, compliance, intellectual property, and litigation. Mr. Lavelle served as vice president and general counsel at Xilinx, one of the world's leading suppliers of programmable chips, where he oversaw all legal matters. Mr. Lavelle joined Xilinx in 1999 after spending more than 15 years at Intel Corporation where he held various positions in the legal department. Mr. Lavelle earned his J.D. degree from Santa Clara University School of Law and his bachelor's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles.


The Online Car: How Will Cars Change Once

They're Permanently Connected to the Internet?

Speaker: Robert Acker, GM and Vice President, Aha by Harman

Time: 11:00 AM PDT Cost: none Place: On the Internet RSVP: from website Web: spectrum.ieee.org/webinar/2052182

Robert Acker has been a pioneering entrepreneur in the connected-car space for the past 14+ years. In that time, the automotive industry has been looking to Acker as a thought leader and visionary, and he is often quoted on trends and issues surrounding car technology in publications such as The New York Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek and Automotive News. He has been a featured speaker at top industry events, including CES, Web 2.0 Summit, Where 2.0, CTIA and Telematics Detroit, among others. Acker holds both a bachelor's degree and master's degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from MIT, and a MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Increasingly, cars can connect to cellular networks,

but the next step is broadband Internet access. What innovations in safety, efficiency, and infotainment will result, and how will it affect auto design? This webinar will discuss the different parties who must coordinate on product development -- automakers, third-party infotainment providers, cellular networks, and government safety agencies. Attendees will hear what innovations are likely to arrive as product offerings, how they may be packaged to appeal to retail car buyers, and what benefits those buyers -- and perhaps society at large -- will reap from the new offerings.


IEEE SPECTRUM Magazine


Nanostructured Thin Films Via Layer-by-Layer Assembly

at the Industrial Scale

Speaker: Dr. Ben Wang, Svaya Nanotechnologies Time: Registration & light lunch 11:30 AM;

Presentation 12:00 Noon Cost: IEEE Members and Students $5. Non-

Members $10 Place: Texas Instruments Bldg E-1 CMA Room,

2900 Semiconductor Drive, Santa Clara RSVP: from website Web: www.ieee.org/nano

Dr. Ben Wang is Founder and Vice President of Svaya Nanotechnologies and has been working in micro/nanofabrication for 15 years. Prior to his efforts at Svaya, Ben held a variety of engineering roles at Caliper Life Sciences, commercializing microfluidic lab-on-a-chip applications for drug discovery and diagnostics, and at TRW’s advanced semiconductor device group, building advanced RF devices using molecular beam epitaxy. Ben is a chemical engineer by training and received his PhD from MIT and his BS from Stanford University. Svaya Nanotechnologies is a venture-backed company based out of Sunnyvale.

Svaya Nanotechnologies is revolutionizing

surface engineering with an industrial scale molecular layer deposition (MLD) platform, based on Layer-by-Layer (LbL) self assembly, which has yielded performance advances in the fields of drug delivery, energy storage, extreme wettability and complex optics. Leveraging an efficient, self-limiting process which operates in an ambient environment (room temperature and pressure) using dilute, aqueous solutions, Svaya can rapidly deposit high uniformity films only achievable by vacuum processes today. Complex, multilayer thin films are assembled via electrostatic interactions over very large areas, at high throughput (15 linear meters/min), with precise control and uniformity. We will provide a technical background to the technology and discuss how Svaya is using it to solve critical problems in the display, architectural and automotive industries today, with such multilayer optical films as durable, high transmission antireflection films and multilayer non EM-interfering infrared reflecting films. We will highlight the details and features of the technology and also touch on how these capabilities are extensible to new markets and applications. By building off of known work from the LbL world and porting this technology onto Svaya’s MLD production platform, new opportunities will arise for functionalizing new surfaces to create performance textiles, improved energy generation systems and dynamic functional films.

TUESDAY May 15, 2012

SCV Nanotechnology


Magnetoresistance and Spin-transfer Torque in

Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

Speaker: Dr. Shinji Yuasa, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan

Time: Conversation & Pizza at 7:00 PM; Presentation at 7:30 PM

Cost: none Place: Western Digital, 1710 Automation Parkway,

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

Dr. Shinji Yuasa received a PhD in Physics from Keio University in 1996. After receiving his doctorate, he served as a staff scientist at the Electrotechnical Laboratory (Tsukuba, Japan) where he worked on spin-dependent transport in metallic magnetic multilayers. Since 2001, he has been a staff scientist at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), working on the physics and device applications of MTJs. Since 2010, he has been a director of the Spintronics Research Center at AIST. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and has given more than 80 invited talks at international conferences. For his achievement of the giant TMR effect in MgO-based MTJs, he has been awarded or co-awarded 20 prizes, including the Asahi Award in 2007. He is now serving as a program co-chair for the 2013 Joint MMM/Intermag Conference and is a member of the advisory committee for the MMM Conference and an editor of Applied Physics Express.

A magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) consisting of a thin insulating layer (a tunnel barrier) sandwiched between two ferromagnetic electrodes exhibits the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) effect due to spin-dependent electron tunneling. Since the discovery of room-temperature TMR in the mid-1990s, MTJs with an amorphous aluminum oxide (Al–O) tunnel barrier have been studied extensively. Such MTJs exhibit a magnetoresistance (MR) ratio of several tens of percent at room temperature (RT) and have been applied to magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) and the read heads of hard disk drives. MTJs with MR ratios substantially higher than 100%, however, are desired for next-generation spintronic devices. In 2001, first-principle theories predicted that the MR ratios of epitaxial Fe/MgO/Fe MTJs with a crystalline MgO(001) barrier would be over 1000% due to the coherent tunneling of specific Bloch states. In 2004, MR ratios of about 200% were obtained for MgO-based MTJs. MTJs with a CoFeB/MgO/CoFeβ structure were developed for practical application and found to have MR ratios of above 200% and other practical properties.

This lecture focuses on the physics of magnetoresistance and spin-transfer torque in MTJs and the application of MTJs to various spintronic devices such as magnetic sensors, spin-transfer-torque MRAM (STT-RAM or spin-RAM) with perpendicular magnetization, and novel spin-torque oscillators. In addition, new types of MTJs such as spin-filter junctions with a ferromagnetic tunnel barrier will be discussed.


SCV Magnetics


Bluetooth Re-Invented: Bluetooth Low-Energy

Speaker: Joe Decuir, Cambridge Silicon Radio Time: Presentation at 7:00 PM (SIG meetings at

6:00 PM) Cost: none Place: KeyPoint Credit Union, 2805 Bowers Ave.,

Santa Clara RSVP: not required Web: www.CaliforniaConsultants.org

Joe Decuir has been working in networking and communi-cations for over 30 years, and is currently a standards architect for Cambridge Silicon Radio. He contributed to the Bluetooth 4.0 specification, and is currently working on applications for this standard.

Joe has been giving presentations on computers and communications topics to IEEE chapters around the US and Canada. He serves as Chair of the IEEE Region 6 Northwest Area, which includes Sections in Alaska, Oregon and Washington.

Bluetooth has been re-invented as Bluetooth Low

Energy and has thereby been optimized for 1) simple applications, and 2) the ability to run on coin cells for years. The layers from the antenna up to the applications support middleware, and these layers are documented in the 2010 Bluetooth 4.0 specification. The first wave of applications are now being deployed, and there is support in mobile phones such as the iPhone 4S and Motorola Droid RAZR. Support will appear soon in PCs and other internet gateways.

Topics addressed will include the following: What is Bluetooth Low Energy? How does it work? How does it compare to classic Bluetooth and to

Zigbee (using IEEE 802.15.4)? What is it good for? Where can you learn more? This talk will include a demo.


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Integrated Food and Activity Sensors with Gastric Stimulation

System for Obese Subjects

Speaker: Rose Province, Principal Scientist, IntraPace, Inc

Time: Optional dinner at 6:15 PM; Presentation at 7:30 PM

Cost: none, for talk Place: Optional dinner location: Stanford Hospital

Cafeteria, 6:15 PM (no host, no reservations); Presentation in Room M-114, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford

RSVP: not required Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/embs

Rose Province received an MS in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1991. She has worked in the medical device industry for 20 years including the areas of cardiac rhythm management with St. Jude Medical, sleep apnea therapy with Inspiration, Inc., and at IntraPace, Inc in the area of obesity treatment. At IntraPace, her main involvement has been development of algorithms to provide exercise diagnostics from the implanted 3D accelerometer, and basic research to develop improved means for detecting food intake and enhance the efficacy of the gastric stimulation.

She does clinical and basic research to further develop medical device therapy, and is a named inventor in 10 patents related to defibrillation technology, and 3 patents in the area of breathing control with electrical stimulation.

Obesity is a chronic disease which has become

pandemic. The prevalence of worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980. In 2008, 1.5 billion adults were overweight. Of these 500 million were obese. While non-surgical management of obesity is favorable, numerous studies have shown that it is ineffective in producing and maintaining clinically significant weight loss. Surgical approaches are thus considered the only viable options for long term success in weight loss. There is a need for alternatives that are less invasive and devoid of severe complications. Gastric electrical stimulation (GES) has been recently introduced as an obesity treatment, and while clinical outcomes have been mixed, significant reductions in food intake and weight loss have been demonstrated. This talk will present the abiliti® system which was developed by Intrapace, Inc to treat obesity with GES, and in addition promotes behavioral change by providing consumption and physical activity data to patient and physicians. The intragastric and activity sensor technology will be discussed, as well as the clinical evaluation.

WEDNESDAY May 16, 2012SCV Engineering in Medicine and Biology

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Webinar: Conquer Complexity with Effective ALM (application

lifecycle management) and a Focus on Design

Speakers: Don Yantzi, product line manager, and

Cindy VanEpps, Strategic Solutions Lead, IBM Corp.

Time: 11:00 AM - Noon Cost: none Place: on the Web RSVP: from website Web: www.computer.org/portal/web/webinars

Don Yantzi is the product line manager for collaborative design management capabilities at IBM Rational where he works with clients and an extended team to define and implement capabilities for improving the integration of software and system design into the lifecycle. Don has worked in many different roles during his career including testing, development, and technical lead.

With over 25 years experience in software development, Cindy VanEpps has a wide range of experience as a developer, technical lead, project manager, requirements engineer, product development manager, trainer and consultant. As a result, she has developed rich real-world experience and pragmatic expertise in software development methodologies, project management techniques including risk management and defect management, requirements management, visual modeling, and software development. In her current role is a Strategic Solutions Lead for Rational, she is leading several initiatives that tie together different Rational tools to support specific scenarios that target industry or other specialized needs. Her range of skills across the entire software development lifecycle and supporting tools is often requested by customers for repeat engagements.

Complexity is the biggest challenge faced by companies looking to deliver innovative applications, products and solutions while managing costs. An integrated approach to application lifecycle management (ALM) that includes design management can help! Join Don Yantzi, IBM Collaborative Design Management, and Cindy VanEpps, IBM Strategic Solutions, as they share how a focus on design and the adoption of five imperatives for effective ALM can help you manage complexity, improve quality, reduce costs and increase collaboration across the entire team. They will also demonstrate IBM tooling that supports a collaborative approach to design, development and lifecycle management and allows teams to now involve stakeholders from across the organization and beyond in the design process.


Computer Society


An Overview of Network Security Fundamentals for Substations

Speaker: David Brighton, RuggedCom, Inc. Time: No-host social at 5:30 PM; Presentation at

6:15 PM; Dinner at 7:15 PM; Presentation continues at 8:00 PM

Cost: $25 for IEEE members, $30 for non-members. $15 for student and retired members

Place: Zio Fraedos, 611 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill

RSVP: by May 14 by email to Michael Nakamura, [email protected] or phone: (510) 287-2066

Web: www.e-grid.net/docs/1205-oeb-ias.pdf

With more than 34 years in various roles within the Electric Utility industry, David Brighton brings a broad-based industry perspective and experience to share with his colleagues. His career began with 13 years working at a large investor-owned electric utility in engineering and operations, followed by nearly 13 more years as an electrical utility manufacturers’ representative in the Western US and Canada. For the past 7 years He has worked directly for equipment manufactures serving both the utility and industrial markets.

David has been involved in industrial networking and cyber security for the past 5 years in his role as a Senior Regional Sales Manager for RuggedCom Inc. He has had an active role in the specification, sales, and implementation of cyber security solutions at a number of utility companies.

David holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in organizational theory and human resource management from the Evergreen State College, along with undergraduate and professional studies in electric utility engineering and systems practices. His graduate studies are in leadership, management, and organizational development.

Trends in substation automation have converged

upon a common communications architecture with the goal of having interoperability between a variety of Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) found in the substation. The network architecture currently being adopted worldwide by utilities and IED vendors alike utilizes a common underlying technology — Ethernet. With the growth of Smart Grid and utility adoption of IEC 61850, secure Ethernet communication is critical. However, with increased interconnection of networks come cyber security vulnerabilities previously non-existent with isolated SCADA networks.

This presentation will briefly cover a wide array of network security topics, ranging from the definitions of basic network security terms to the application of multi-layered security solutions in the utility and industrial settings. Topics of current interest will include NERC CIP requirements, Security Vulnerabilities, and Security Strategies for Your Network.


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Signal and Imaging Sciences Workshop: Compressive Sensing

for Signal Processing Speaker: Richard G. Baraniuk, Rice University (other

proposed talks are due by May 11th, from website)

Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Cost: none Place: Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC) –

Bldg. 6475, Greenville Road at Eastgate Avenue, Livermore

RSVP: from website Web: casis.llnl.gov

Richard G. Baraniuk is the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rice University. His research interests lie in new theory, algorithms, and hardware for sensing and signal processing. His work on the Rice single-pixel compressive camera has been widely reported in the popular press and was selected by MIT Technology Review as a TR10 Top 10 Emerging Technology for 2007. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and AAAS and has received national young investigator awards from the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research, the Rosenbaum Fellowship from the Isaac Newton Institute of Cambridge University, the ECE Young Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Illinois, and the Wavelet and CompressiveSensing Pioneer Awards from SPIE. For his teaching and education projects, he has received the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching at Rice three times, the C. Holmes MacDonald National Outstanding Teaching Award from Eta Kappa Nu, the Internet Pioneer Award from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, the World Technology Award for Education, the IEEE-SPS Education Award, and the WISE Education Award. He was selected as one of Edutopia Magazine's Daring Dozen Education Innovators in 2007. The non-profit open-access educational publishing project Connexions (cnx.org) he launched was a Tech Museum of Innovation Laureate in 2006.

Keynote Talk: Sensing and imaging systems are under increasing pressure to accommodate ever larger and higher-dimensional data sets; ever faster capture, sampling, and processing rates; ever lower power consumption; communication over ever more difficult channels; and radically newsensing modalities. The foundation of today's digital data acquisition and processing systems is the Shannon/Nyquist sampling theorem, which asserts that to avoid losing information when digitizing a signal or image, one must sample at least two times faster than the signal's bandwidth, at the so-called Nyquist rate. Unfortunately, the physical limitations of current sensing systems combined with inherently high Nyquist ratesimpose a performance brick wall to a large class of important and emerging applications.

This talk will overview the foundations and recent progress on compressive signal processing, a new approach to data acquisition and processing in which analog signals are digitized not via uniform sampling but via measurements using more general, even random, test functions. In stark contrast with conventional wisdom, the new theory asserts that one can combine "sub-

Nyquist-rate sampling" with digital computational power for efficient and accurate signal acquisition when the signal has a sparse structure. The implications of compressive sensing are promising for many applications and enable the design of new kinds of communication systems, cameras, microscopes, and pattern recognition systems. Special emphasis will be placed on the pros and cons of the compressive sensing technique.


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Application of Structural Load Feedback in Flight Control

Speaker: Dr. Susan Frost, NASA Ames Time: Presentation at 6:30 PM Cost: none Place: Intersil Corp, Bldg 3, 1001 Murphy Ranch

Road, Milpitas RSVP: from website Web: css-susan-frost.eventbrite.com

Dr. Susan Frost’s research interests include optimal constrained control allocation, adaptive disturbance accommodating control, and experimental flexible structure control. Applications include: fixed wing subsonic transport aircraft, utility-scale horizontal axis wind turbines, and autonomous assembly of space structures. Degrees: PhD, MS Electrical Engineering, MS Mathematics from the University of Wyoming and AB Mathematics from Wellesley College.

Reducing the environmental impact of aviation is

a goal of the Subsonic Fixed Wing Project under the Fundamental Aeronautics Program of NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate. Novel aircraft configurations and materials are proposed to improve aerodynamic efficiency and reduce empty vehicle weight, thereby reducing fuel consumption. These changes create challenges due to increased airframe flexibility and vulnerability to exceedance loads. Advances in sensors and avionics computation power suggest real-time structural load measurements could be used in flight control systems for improved safety and performance. This talk will present a framework and demonstration of a flight control system using optimal control allocation with structural load constraints and load measurements to achieve safe aircraft operation. A focus of the talk will be on the formulation and solution of the optimal control allocation problem.


SCV Control Systems


New Drivers and Strategies for Multi-Die Packaging

Speaker: Ivor Barber, Director, Package Design and

Characterization, LSI Corporation Time: Buffet dinner at 6:00 PM, Presentation at

6:45 PM Cost: $20 if reserved by June 11; $10 for fulltime

students and currently unemployed engineers; $5 more at the door

Place: Biltmore Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Rd (Fwy 101 at Montague Expressway), Santa Clara

RSVP: from website Web: www.cpmt.org/scv/meetings/cpmt1206.html

Ivor Barber graduated from Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1981 with a Bachelors degree in Technology. He has worked in Military & Aerospace and high-end package assembly at National Semiconductor, Fairchild Semiconductor and VLSI Technology.

Ivor has spent the last 22 years at LSI Corporation in Milpitas in various engineering and management positions in Assembly, Package Characterization and Package Design. Ivor is currently Director of Package Design and Characterization at LSI Corporation. Ivor holds 12 US patents related to package design.

Several forces are driving a resurgence of interest

in Multi-Die Packaging. While foundries hit increasing NRE, product cost and technical barriers, the Packaging Community has produced a plethora of Multi-Die solutions including Stacked Die, PoP (Package on Package), PIP (Package in Package), 2.5D, and 3D, and seen increasing use of MCM's (Multi Chip Modules) using prepackaged memory chips. More exotic solutions are emerging such as Embedded Die, Glass Interposers and Wafer Level Fan Out.

While these solutions, or combinations of these solutions, offer significant advances in latency, bandwidth, power and form-factor, they face significant hurdles of supply chain and KGD (Known Good Die) issues and will ultimately be judged by the cold, unforgiving eye of the accountant.

The presentation will consider these drivers and strategies from a High End Custom solution perspective.

WEDNESDAY June 13, 2012

SCV Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology


Emerging Medical Computing: Healthcare Up-Close

and Personalized Speakers: review on website Time: Registration at 8:30 AM, Presentations start

at 9:15 AM Cost: IEEE Members $40, non-members $50,

students/unemployed $20 (through May 15) Place: Braun Auditorium (Mudd Chemistry

Building), 333 Campus Drive, Stanford RSVP: from website Web: www.nfic-us.org

The intersection of computers with medical data is

creating a form of direct and individualized diagnosis and treatment that transform health care to truly being up close and personalized medicine. The IEEE SCV-CS, NATEA and The Stanford University Student IEEE Chapter are pleased to present a conference to technically map out the engineering opportunities in this arena.

Starting with computer based individual medical modeling based on genetics and biometrics, the conference will move on to cover personalized sensors in monitoring, diagnosis, treatment, and prosthetics. It will then present critical technical information on Telemedicine and the Cloud. Finally the important and critical role of the FDA in developing requirements for developers in this area will receive close attention.

This June 16th at Stanford University's Braun Auditorium, NFIC will cover the challenges and innovations of medical computing for the next generation healthcare and personalized medicine.

SATURDAY June 16, 2012

SCV Computer, with NAEA and IEEE-Stanford


30-Cycle Automatic Transfer Switches and Selective Coordination

Speaker: Jim Hoyt, Harold Wells Associates Time: No-host social at 5:30 PM; Presentation at

6:15 PM; Dinner at 7:15 PM; Presentation continues at 8:00 PM

Cost: $25 for IEEE members, $30 for non-members, $15 for student and retired members

Place: Zio Fraedos, 611 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill

RSVP: b y June 18 by email to Michael Nakamura, [email protected] or phone: (510) 287-2066

Web: www.e-grid.net/docs/1206-oeb-ias.pdf

Jim Hoyt is a principal owner of Harold Wells Associates in San Ramon, and has been with them since 1981. Harold Wells Associates is a manufacturer’s representative firm who has served northern California since 1960. At HWA, Jim has been involved in the design, application and sales of critical electrical products such as UPS systems, automatic transfer switches, paralleling generator switchgear, variable frequency drives and harmonic current mitigation products.

Recent changes to the NEC require the selective

coordination of overcurrent protective devices at hospitals and other mission-critical facilities. Transfer switches with 30-cycle closing and withstand ratings dramatically simplify designing to that requirement. Selective coordination was first required by the NEC in 1993 for elevator circuits. Amendments to the code in 2005 and 2008 strengthened the requirements and expanded them to include emergency and legally required standby systems, as well as critical operations power systems. Selective coordination, as defined in 2008 NEC, is the “localization of an overcurrent condition to restrict outages to the circuit or equipment affected, accomplished by the choice of overcurrent protective devices and their ratings or settings.” It is a complicated process of coordinating the ratings and settings of overcurrent protective devices, such as circuit breakers, fuses, and ground fault protection relays, to limit overcurrent interruption (and the resultant power outages) to the affected circuit or equipment (the smallest possible section of a circuit). In other words, the only overcurrent protective device that should open is the device immediately “upstream” from the circuit/equipment experiencing an overcurrent condition.

The 30-cycle transfer switch holds tremendous promise as perhaps the single most effective and simple solution to the complex challenges of selective coordination. The right 30-cycle switch can simplify a backup power system’s design and offer more reliable protection. Plus, it provides unmatched flexibility for future systems upgrades and expansions.

THURSDAY June 21, 2012

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