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Almanack 1 April 2015

Membership in these counties: Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia, (PA) Burlington, Camden, Gloucester (NJ)

Vol. 60, No. 4 www.ieeephiladelphia.org April 2015

SECTION MEETING April 21, 2015 Dinner: 6 pm Speakers: 7 pm and 8 pm Sheraton University City Philadelphia Meal Cost: $25.00 (students $15.00) Parking cost paid by section Edmund Berkeley: Modern Methods of

Thinking and the Social Responsibility of Computer People. Bernadette Longo, Ph.D., New Jersey

Institute of Technology

Spare time startups - How to build an

idea into a company without breaking the bank Jonathon Beschen Note: In the event of bad weather please call the Sheraton after 1pm the day of the

meeting at 215-387-8000. Ask the front desk if the meeting has been canceled.

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PHILADELPHIA SECTION of the IEEE

Almanack

Inside the Almanack. IEEE Night 2, 3 Chair’s message 3 Future City 3 MATE competition 4 CSDES Tour 5 Senior Members 5 Section notes 6 Science carnival 6 CONET 7, 8 PESD/IAS 9 SP/Cs/Ps 10 Ernest’s 1

Section Awards 12–21


IEEE NIGHT

Philadelphia Section Meeting Joint with: Computer Society(C), Professional Communication Society(PCS)

Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 Time: Dinner is at 6 pm. Program starts at 7 pm, and 8 pm. Location: Sheraton University City, 36th and Chestnut, Philadelphia Cost of dinner is $25.00 (students $15.00); meeting only is free (Real cost of dinner is higher, which is mostly subsidized by section) Reservations are needed, call 484.270.5136 or email the section office. [email protected] or use vtools in the web site Indoor parking is at location and paid by section. Bring ticket to be stamped. Note: In the event of bad weather please call the Sheraton after 1pm the day of the meeting at

(215) 387-8000. Ask the front desk if the meeting has been canceled. Edmund Berkeley: Modern Methods of Thinking and the Social Responsibility of Computer People. Bernadette Longo, Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology I have recently completed a book manuscript for a biography of Edmund Berkeley and have been working with the Charles Babbage Institute and the National Museum of American History Archive Center at the Smithsonian Institute for 15 years. A synopsis of the project will be my program

Bernadette Longo is an Associate Dean in the College of Science and Liberal Arts and an Associate Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Her research explores intersections of technology, communication, and culture. Dr. Longo received a History Committee Fellowship in 2012 from the Association for Computing Machinery to complete a biography of computer pioneer Edmund Berkeley. She also received the 2014 Emily Schlesinger Award from the IEEE Professional Communication Society in recognition of her contributions to the Society and to the field of technical communication. Dr. Longo is a Senior Member of IEEE and is currently a member of the Professional Communication Society Administrative Committee. An article on her work in the Democratic Republic of Congo, “R U There? Cell Phones, Participatory Design, and Intercultural Dialogue,” appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication in 2014. With co-authors David Kmiec and Julia Williams, Dr. Longo is under contract with IEEE Wiley Press to develop The IEEE Guide to Writing in the Engineering and Technical Fields, which will be available in 2016.

Spare time startups - How to build an idea into a company without breaking the bank Jonathon Beschen The speaker will share some basic principles for cultivating an idea, testing the market, and finding a price point without breaking the bank or expending a lot of time. From these principles, entrepreneurs can


determine exactly what kind of structure and scaling potential their company has - not to mention building a framework for discovering success each step of the way.

Jonathon Beschen is an entrepreneur and founder of seven technology companies (soon 8!). He is the CEO and Directing Partner in three actively managed companies, as well an advisory board member for two tech companies. Jonathon also serves on multiple non-profit boards including the Chester County Workforce Investment Board and Liberty Valley Initiative. Chair’s Message By Phil Gonski, P.E.

Behind the Scenes at Longwood Gardens A tour and class is scheduled for April 29 at Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square PA.

watch the web site or emails for fuller details. Right now save the date. The tentative plan for this tour would be as follows: Group would arrive at Longwood Gardens between 4:45 and 5:00 pm on the evening of 4/29/15. The Tour will start with everyone meeting at the Acer Classroom (one of the classrooms on site) One of Longwood staff or Electrical Supervisor David Fraczkowski will give a short Power Point presentation regarding the Gardens in general and specifically electrical power and control infrastructure. We will then proceed out into the Gardens in two groups of about 10 to 20 each at 6 to 6:30 pm (depending on the length of the classroom meeting). The tours will be done by about 8:30 to 9 pm.

Future City

The IEEE Special Award this year went to Penn wood Middle School in Darby Pa. Teacher in charge is Susan Chan-Peter. Here is the photo of the team.

MATE is an international competition that challenges grades 5--12, community college, and university students from all over the world to design and build Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) to tackle missions modeled after scenarios from the ocean workplace. The Section has been asked to provide some volunteer judges. The form is on the next page.


Judge Sign-up Form

Villanova University Bartley Hall

50th Ithan Avenue Villanova, PA 19085

May 9, 2015 (Print please)

Name: ____ Email:

Regional: Pennsylvania Company/Univ./Org._____________________________

Title___________________

T-Shirt size: S M L XL XXL XXXL Cell Phone #:

Have you previously judged any Robotics competitions? ο YES ο NO

ο BEST ο FIRST Tech ο FLL ο MATE ο VEX If YES, what categories have you judged? (Check all that apply)

ο Technical Reports ο Engineering Presentations ο Poster Displays/Interviews

ο Spirit/Sportsmanship ο Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs)

ο Coach Award ο Innovative Design Award ο CAD Awards ο Special Competition Awards

Please check the one that best describes your affiliation:

ο Business/Corporation ο College Student ο Government ο High School Faculty/Employee

ο University Faculty/Employee ο State Dept. of Education ο Other _______________

Check the events that you would be willing to judge:

Check Judging Category Location Day Time

Engineering Evaluation Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)

Pavilion Pool Saturday, May 9 10:30 am – 2:30 pm

Engineering & Communication: Technical Report

Bartley Hall Lobby- Room #1064

Saturday, May 9 10:30 am – 2:30 pm

Engineering Communication: Poster Display

Bartley Hall Lobby


Engineering Communication: Presentation

Bartley Hall Rooms 2044-6 & 2075-76


Spirit and Sportsmanship Bartley Hall Atrium & Pavilion Pool


Special Challenge Awards Bartley Hall & Pavilion Pool


We invite you to check the categories that you would be WILLING to judge. We thank you now for your willingness to volunteer to help with judging. All should wear comfortable clothing, rubber soled shoes or sneakers. Judges Registration: Lobby room 1047. Pre-judging orientation will be held in Bartley Hall Lecture Hall at 9:00 am prior to judged events. Opening ceremonies will begin at 9:45 am. VU COE. Will provide breakfast and lunch. See you soon. Email Form by April 15 to: Velda Morris ♦ MATE PA Regional Coordinator ♦ Email: [email protected]


Garrett Clayton ♦ MATE PA Judge Coordinator ♦ Email: [email protected]

IEEE LIFE Member Group Tours the US Navy Combat System Engineering Development Site in Moorestown (CSEDS) By Life Members Bob Paglee, P. E., and Peter Silverberg

The IEEE Life Member group, using the connections of Merrill Buckley, arranged a tour of the Navy's CSED Site in Moorestown. On 17 February, 24 persons participated; most of them are shown in the photo below standing behind a model replica of the “Cornfield Cruiser” facility in the entrance lobby. Despite the threat posed by a substantial snowstorm on the prior day, the tour of the site, hosted by the U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin, was successfully concluded, with many interesting presentations in areas not restricted by security.

The quality, on-site technical support provided by the AEGIS TECHREP team and Lockheed Martin is critical to validate the AEGIS Combat System design and production, testing and delivery of combat system equipment and computer programs for the U,S, Navy and for our international partner Navies in Australia, Japan, Norway, Republic of Korea, and Spain. The team also evaluates operational suitability, provides logistics support, oversees contractor depot operations, and supports BMD flight test missions and operational evaluations.

The IEEE Life Member group credits the personnel from both the Navy and Lockheed Martin whose outstanding effort made the tour possible and so interesting.

New Senior Member The Senior Member Advancement Panel met in Charleston SC March 7. We congratulate Christopher Yang on his advancement. The next Senior Member Review Panel Meeting will be held on 25 April 2015 in Taipei, Taiwan.


Section notes

IEEE PHILA. SECTION OFFICERS Chair: Philip Gonski, P.E., [email protected] Vice Chair: Adam Fonteccio. Ph.D., [email protected] Treasurer: Richard Primerano, Ph.D, [email protected] Secretary: Leonardo Urbano, Ph.D, [email protected] Past Chair: Mark Soffa, [email protected] Excom meets second Tuesday of the month (April 14) at the Sheraton University City. Members are welcome to attend. Reserve a seat by calling the office by the Friday before. Main Office: 11 Bala Avenue, Bala Cynwyd PA 19004, 484.270.5136 [email protected] Almanack Staff Publisher: Philip Gonski, P.E. Editor: Peter Silverberg Asst. Editor: Janet English-Cartwright, Ph.D., [email protected] News and notices contact [email protected] or 856.461.6615 or fax 509.461.6617 Deadline for the May issue is April 14, 2015

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Volunteers for Philadelphia Science Carnival The Engineer’s Club of Philadelphia will be sponsoring a booth at the Philadelphia Science Carnival again this year! The Carnival is a highly visible outdoor event that provides opportunity for exchange between children, teens, families and local scientists/engineers! This all-day affair will take place Saturday May 2. The goal is to provide family-oriented science entertainment with a hands-on activity or an interactive demonstration to get kids excited about all types of engineering! This is a great outreach opportunity to interact with kids and teens of all ages. We are looking for volunteers and activities. If you are interested in participating or have any questions feel free to

contact Emily Scholl at [email protected].


CoNet - Meeting Announcement for Tuesday, April 7, 2015

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Title: Systems Engineering Trades for Digital Receiver Design in Geolocation

Presented by: Michael A. Mayor, MSE, PE

Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Place: Sheraton University City, 36 & Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia PA 19104 Fairmount/Franklin Suite – downstairs from main lobby

Parking: free for CoNet Members at the Sheraton indoor garage – use the 36th street entrance. Take your garage ticket, and have it stamped when you sign in to the meeting.

Networking/Social time: Starts at 5:30 PM

Dinner: 6:15 PM (Be sure to allow for rush-hour traffic.)

Program: 7:00 to 9:00 PM The IEEE Philadelphia Consultants Network (CoNet) is an Affinity Group of the IEEE. Most Members are electrical or computer engineers. The CoNet mission is to share knowledge through technical and business networking. Details: http://www.philaconet.com/meetings-2.php

Open: You do not have to be an IEEE member or a CoNet Member to attend this meeting.

Meeting updates will be sent by e-mail: Be sure your current e-mail address is in our records. If in doubt, confirm your current e-mail address to [email protected].

CONSULTING TALES FROM THE STREET: There will be a short presentation on experiences that some of our members have had in their consulting career.

MAIN SPEAKER: Michael A. Mayor, MSE, PE

Main Speaker’s Abstract: Systems Engineering Trades for Digital Receiver Design in Geolocation. Locating a Radio Frequency Transmitter has been known since Heinrich Hertz started experimenting with radio waves in the late 19th Century. The advent of Radar in WWII allowed for the location of objects which are not emitting (but reflecting) radiation. Radio Location Systems (RLS) have gone through an exponential evolution in capabilities and complexity. The correct functioning of an RLS depends on many subsystems and components which must be assembled according to strict engineering rules. Furthermore, like in all engineering systems, any given system or subsystem cannot be “all things to all people”. To this extent, significant Systems Engineering tradeoffs must be conducted at the component, subsystem and system level. After a brief historical overview of location systems, this talk will focus on the design of a key RLS subsystem which is a Digital Receiver. Specifically, I will present a tradeoff between sensitivity and dynamic range and the impact of the Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) effective Noise Figure on the receiver performance with respect to Emitter Geolocation Accuracy.


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Main Speaker's Background: Mr. Mayor is currently an Independent Consultant providing Systems Engineering services from Proposal Preparation through System Design and Development. His areas of expertise are in the area of Secure Wireless Communication, Low Interference (Low Signature) Communications Systems and Emitter Geolocation. His consulting services include Radio Frequency (RF) propagation modeling and analysis, Software Defined Radio, Digital Receiver Design, Digital Signal Processing algorithms and the selection and application of Digital Instrumentation to System Test and Measurements. Formerly, he was Vice President/Chief Scientist for Advanced Technology Research in the ITT Corporation, Defense Electronics Group. He conducted Research and Development programs for secure Defense Communications and Intelligence Systems, including Digital Receiver Design, Digital Signal Processing Algorithms for Conventional, Non-Linear and Non-Stationary Systems, Emitter Geolocation and Encryption methods and algorithms. Mr. Mayor authored six patents in the areas of Spread Spectrum Signaling and Digital Instrumentation. He received the ITT Engineered for Life Award for substantial technical contributions in the areas of Tactical Communications and Emitter Location Systems. Mr. Mayor is a Licensed Professional Engineer and holds an MSE from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania.

ADMISSION, RESERVATIONS AND PAYMENT

Admission Fees CoNet Members* IEEE Student Members All Others

A: With Dinner $30 $40 $40

B: Meeting-Only Free Free $15

A: With Dinner: Reservations and advance payment are required. 1) Reserve by sending an e-mail to [email protected] Include your full name

and telephone number. 2) You will get an e-mail confirmation with instructions for paying by check or credit card. 3) Advance payment is required to reserve space for dinner. 4) Payment by check must be received no later than Monday, March 30, 2015.

The credit card deadline is Wednesday, April 1st, 2015.

B: Meeting-Only: Reservations are preferred. Walk-ins are accepted if space is available. 1) Reserve by sending an e-mail to [email protected]. Please include your full

name and telephone number. 2) You will get an e-mail confirmation with instructions for paying by check or credit card. 3) Advance payment is not required for meeting only admission. 4) Check or exact cash is accepted at sign-in. (No credit card payment at sign-in.)

Questions about this meeting can be directed to Mike Mayor 484-524-3264 or [email protected]

* For information on becoming a member, you may go to http://www.philaCoNet.com/whyjoin.php


Meeting of the Philadelphia Joint Chapter

IEEE Power & Energy and Industry Applications Societies

Topic: Lightning Protection 101

Speaker: Todd D. Vought, VP Business Development and Founding Partner, VFC Date and Time: Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Lunch @ 11:45 a.m.; Presentation: 12:10 – 1:30 p.m. Cost: No Charge for Presentation

$13 for lunch ($10 for Full-Time Students) Location: Burns Engineering, Inc.

1835 Market St., Suite 300, Philadelphia, PA 19103 Public Transportation: SEPTA (Rail to 30th Street or Suburban Station and/or Trolley to 19th &

Market Street) Reservations: To register, visit: www.ieeephiladelphia.org, mouse over “Section Meetings and Events Calendar” and click on “Calendar” to find this meeting. If you have problems or cannot register online, e-mail or call Stas Muzylowski at [email protected] or 215-979-7700, ext 7790, by 5:00 p.m., Monday, April 13th, 2015. Abstract: Protecting todays Digital Facilities from Lightning and Transient currents takes a coordinated design approach. Grounding, Potential Equalization, Surge Suppression, and Lightning Protection Systems must be designed and implemented in a comprehensive way. “Total Site and Facility Protection 2015” addresses each of these systems with an emphasis on structural Lightning Protection. VFC has been protecting American facilities and infrastructure since 1989. Since that time it has grown into the nations largest Lightning Protection Company. Our Lightning Protection and Specialty Grounding Systems are deployed throughout the United States and internationally. The Speaker: Todd is an L.P.I. Certified, Master Designer / Installer of Lightning Protection Systems. Certified since 1984. Since its inception in 1989, Todd Vought has been a partner and part of the management team at VFC’s Lightning Protection business. Growing the business from 4 employees to its current position as the largest Lightning Protection Services Company in the United States. *************** A Certificate of Attendance will be available upon request ************

Chapter Chair: Jonathan Schimpf, Burns Engineering - [email protected] (215-979-7700, ext 7709) Vice Chair: Rich Delp, Schiller and Hersh Associates - [email protected] (215-886-8947) Secretary: Stas Muzylowski, Burns Engineering - [email protected] (215-979-7700, ext 7790) Treasurer: Justin Mazur, Schneider Electric- [email protected] (215-646-7694) Join Our Group on LinkedIn! http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3033618&trk=hb_side_g Check out our website: https://sites.google.com/site/ieeepesiasphiladelphiachapter/ IEEE Philadelphia Section website: www.ieeephiladelphia.org


Meeting Announcement Organized by the IEEE Philadelphia Section

Signal Processing Society Chapter

Co-Sponsored by the Computer Society Chapter and the Aerospace Electronic Systems Society Chapter

Dr. Gavin Brown, Manchester University, UK will present

A Unifying Framework for Information Theoretic Feature Selection

Date/Time: Thursday, April 16 - 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Place: Drexel University, 31st & Market St., Bossone Building, Rm#302

Dr. Brown will present a unifying framework for information theoretic feature selection, bringing almost two decades of research on heuristic feature selection criteria under a single theoretical interpretation. This is in response to the question: “what are the implicit statistical assumptions of feature selection criteria based on mutual information. The talk will summarize the framework we developed, as well as the potential extensions it allows, including work on “positive unlabeled" and semi supervised data.

Dr. Gavin Brown is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK and a member of the Machine Learning & Optimization Group where he focuses his research on feature selection and extraction, ensemble learning, Markov blanket algorithms, and online learning. He is (co-)author of over 50 publications, including many in IEEE and ACM and has been a Science, Engineering, and Technology Lecturer of 2013. He has been invited to give talks at Xerox Research Centre, Keynote and Plenary speeches for several conferences and was an invited lecturer at a summer school on machine learning.

Dr. Brown’s Web Page: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~gbrown/

Meeting is free, however, to attend you must register. https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/33307

Location: http://drexel.edu/about/directions/university-city-map/

Parking: http://www.drexel.edu/dbs/parkingServices/locations/parkingMap/

Gail L. Rosen, PhD Co-Chair IEEE SP/BT/CE Chapters [email protected]

Michael A. Mayor, PE Co-Chair IEEE SP/BT/CE Chapters

[email protected]


Ernest's Page Technology & politics (anti-science) By Ernest Cohen, Ph.D.

Too many decisions in American politics and industry are wrong, sometimes from lack of knowledge, sometimes from arrogance, and sometimes to please influential (or financial) supporters in spite of the larger considerations. I will start off with a current example of the latter; climate change deniers in Congress. What they personally understand about the problem is irrelevant, their campaign funds are sweetened by money from fossil fuel interests, and these fossil fuel interests are out to cast doubts in the public mind. The history of campaigns to confuse the public on scientific matters goes a long way back. Before climate change, the tobacco industry kept the public believing that the health hazards of smoking were “not proven” for at least two decades. And before that, manufacturers of organic materials kept the cancerous nature of their products hidden for a long time. The earliest example of “confuse the public on technical facts” of which I know, dates back over a century, and in our own field. Thomas Edison had no real understanding of AC. All the early electrification projects were DC. (As a teen, I remember going to a party in Manhattan, where a special power converter was necessary to operate a record player, because that part of New York was still on DC.) By publicizing how executions of criminals were being done with AC, Edison hoped to get the public afraid of AC power systems. It did not work.

A few years back, the top executives in the American automobile industry noted that diesel powered cars, built in Europe, were beginning to sell in this country. Deciding that they needed to meet this threat, they proceeded to introduce diesel-powered cars into their product lines. Not having experience with diesel engines, the executives asked the technical staff to modify the gasoline engines. Unfortunately, the forces in a diesel engine are a lot higher than the forces in a gasoline engine. The result was very poor reliability, and the American auto industry had to drop the diesel option from their product line. I appreciate the problem: when I was an electrical engineer on the Pleasants Power Station project, I was responsible for the emergency back up power system, which was a bank of diesel engines. The specs said, “Converted gasoline engines were not acceptable.”

When I worked as a “management scientist” for ARCO, (Atlantic Richfield Oil Company) the marketing executives noted how car washes in some areas were selling a lot of gasoline, and decided ARCO should have some also. So I went out to check into the matter. The first thing I did was to have my car washed here, since I had never been to a car wash before. Then I arranged two trips; one to the Chicago area to see four car washes, and the other to Pittsburgh, where the company had opened their first one as a test. My report was not well received by the marketing department. First, I noted from seeing them in Chicago, a good car wash can sell a lot of gasoline, but it must be a well-run car wash first.

And the Pittsburgh test was even more enlightening about the marketing department itself: They checked out competition, but did it wrong!! They had mapped every station selling gasoline within several miles but failed to note an existing car wash nearby on the same street. The strong point of that operation was a large parking lot, within walking distance of the “Point,” the Pittsburgh business district. They would take cars out of the lot to wash them, so you did not have to wait. Sort of a valet operation.

Within a month after the ARCO test was opened, this other car wash had put in gasoline pumps. Why was the Marketing Department surprised? For the same reason they did not understand the car wash business.


Section Awards. The annual Awards Night Dinner was held March 28 at the Union League of Philadelphia. Presentation photos will be up on the web site rather than hold up publication of this issue.

2015 Awards Dinner Featured Speaker

Alan Mathason NextFab

Alan Mathason is the Chief Operations Officer at NextFab in Philadelphia, PA. NextFab's mission is to revive manufacturing through Access, Awareness, Competence, and Commerce in digital design and modern manufacturing. Alan strives to create a scalable and sustainable environment at NextFab where members and staff can collaborate and grow ideas from thoughts to products.

Alan has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Miami and M.E. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. Prior to NextFab, Alan was with GE Intelligent Platforms, where he held roles ranging from Electronic Hardware Designer to Intellectual Property Manager to being part of Senior Engineering Management. Alan holds several patents in Industrial I/O technologies.

Meritorious Award Merrill W. Buckley, Jr.

Merrill W. Buckley, Jr., an IEEE – AIEE member for over 40 years, has served on many Chairs including the Philadelphia Section Chairman in 1979 – 1980, and the IEEE National President in 1992.

Merrill currently is the Philadelphia Section’s Awards Committee Chairman, however his actual engineering accomplishments and achievements go well beyond IEEE activities. For example during his Lockheed Martin career he was an indispensable part of the Program Management for the development of the Aegis Radar Deflecting System for the US Navy.

Merrill Buckley’s commitment to engineering education spans 39 years across RCA, GE, Lockheed Martin, as well as collaboration with many universities, colleges, and corporations worldwide. He has received the IEEE Centennial Medal and the IEEE Award for Meritorious Achievement In Continuing Education. He taught both IEEE’s First and Sixth Philadelphia Section Videoconferences and Chaired the Villanova University EE Advisory Committee. He is also s retired Naval Officer in Electronics/Communications.


His service of 29 years to the IEEE ranges over many volunteer positions on the local, national and international levels. They include Director of Division VI, IEEE-USA President, and the IEEE President of the Institute (Worldwide). Mr. Buckley is still serving the IEEE. He is a member of the Philadelphia Section Administrative Committee, Chairs the Awards Banquet, and is a Member of the Life Member Committee.

Alan L. Kirsch Award Savannah Lee

Drexel University

Savannah Lee is a third-year Electrical Engineering Drexel student. She was inspired to pursue engineering after her research project, “A Characterization of Enolase: A Glycolytic Enzyme in Plasmodium Yoelii,” was chosen to be presented at the International Science and Engineering Fair. Furthering her interest, Savannah designed a dehydration detector, “Detecting Dehydration through Skin Conductivity,”,that won first place in poster competitions of both the Society of Women Engineers and the Drexel Freshman IEEE. This inspired her to join IEEE, where she served as the outreach chair for one year followed by being elected President of the Student Branch. Savannah earned the IEEE Section Leader Scholarship and third place in the IEEE Undergraduate Paper Contest. This year, she organized the first student-run hackathon at Drexel, Dragonhacks, with over 150 participants. She hosts STEM events for over 100 middle school students. She serves over 289 members by planning numerous IEEE technical and non-technical events. Savannah completed a co-op as a Hardware Engineer at Woodward McCoach and anticipates starting her next co-op as a Mission Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin. Savannah’s sunny disposition, unrelenting encouragement toward other students, and dedication to IEEE lends her to the recognition of the Alan Kirsch Award.

Chapter of the Year Award Of the 36 Technical Societies and Councils represented in IEEE, the Philadelphia Section has 16 Chapters covering disciplines of 24 Societies and Councils. The Chapters assist in the broad technical education of the membership. They sponsor technical meetings, seminars, educational courses and inspection trips. In addition, the local chapters support society conferences held in the Section territory. Chapters displaying outstanding activities and efforts during the year are singled out for recognition through the "Chapter of the Year Award." This year there are two recipients. Antennas and Propagation/Microwave Theory and Techniques Societies (AP/MTT)

Chair: Afshin Daryoush, Ph.D. Drexel University

This chapter was reactivated after over ten years of dormancy, with the assistance of a number of local IEEE volunteers in January 2014. Meetings have been primarily held at the Drexel University campus. Four chapter talks were organized in 2014 with the BenMAS2014 as the capstone event for our chapter. The following individuals have served as the Philadelphia joint


AP/MTT chapter o�cers: Chapter Chair, Afshin S. Daryoush; Vice Chair, Sridhar Kanamaluru; Secretary and Treasurer, Asher Madjar and Publicity and Local Arrangements, Gene Bruschke.

Afshin Samimi Daryoush is the current Chapter Chair of the Philadelphia Joint AP/MTT (1993-1995, 2014-2016). Dr. Daryoush has also served the IEEE in various capacities, such as chair of Philadelphia joint AP/MTT chapter, founding faculty advisor to the Graduate Student Chapter at Drexel University (2007-present), member of IEEE publications (1998-2001), and IEEE Fellow (2014) Committees. He has organized various IEEE conferences since 1993, particularly served as TPC Chair of RWS2008 and chair of the RWW2009, MWP2010, BenMAS2014, and IMS2018. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 1999 and became member of the Franklin Institute’s Committee on Science and the Arts in 2011.

Signal Processing/Broadcast Technology/Consumer Electronics Societies (SP/BT/CE) Co-Chair: Michael A. Mayor, P.E. Co-Chair: Gail L. Rosen, Ph.D., Drexel University

Starting with a planning meeting, we continued with a survey to ascertain what the membership wants from the local Chapter. Subsequently, we conducted a social meeting (Meet Your Colleague) where the membership had an opportunity to meet and socialize/network with engineering colleagues. During the year we had four technical meetings addressing diverse technical topics of interest to the membership. These meetings included a Distinguished Lecturer and the meetings addressed topics ranging from Radar Applications, Biomedical Engineering, Information Security and Antenna Analysis and Design. We also participated in the Organizing Committee of the Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium, where one of us served as a Session Program Chair.

Michael Mayor is currently an Independent Consultant providing Systems Engineering services from Proposal Preparation through System Design and Development. His areas of expertise are in Secure Wireless Communication, Low Interference (Low Signature) Communications and Emitter Geolocation Systems. His consulting services include Radio Frequency (RF) propagation modeling and analysis, Software Defined Radio, Digital Receiver Design, Digital Signal Processing algorithms and the selection and application of Digital Instrumentation to System Test and Measurements. Formerly, he was Vice President/Chief Scientist for Advanced Technology Research in the ITT Corporation, Defense Electronics Group.

He conducted Research and Development programs for secure Defense Commun-ications and Intelligence Systems, including Digital Receiver Design, Digital Signal Processing Algorithms for Conventional, Non-Linear and Non-Stationary Systems, Emitter Geolocation and Encryption methods and algorithms. Mr. Mayor authored six patents in the areas of Spread Spectrum Signaling and Digital Instrumentation. He received the ITT Engineered for Life Award for substantial technical contributions in the areas of Tactical Communications and Emitter Location Systems. Mr. Mayor is a Licensed Professional Engineer and holds an MSE from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania.

Gail Rosen, senior member of the IEEE, is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Drexel


University in Philadelphia, PA, USA. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000, 2002, and 2006 respectively. Dr. Rosen received an NSF CAREER award in 2009 and a Louis and Bessie Stein Israel Travel Fellowship in 2012. She is on the editorial board of Biomed

Central Microbiome. Her research interests are in machine learning and signal processing methods to improve comparative genomics analyses, many of which are used to understand data from 'omics studies of human health and the environment.

Philadelphia Section Award Every year the Philadelphia Section selects one or two of its members to thank and honor for the work they have done to benefit the Section.

Emilio Salgueiro Unisys

Emilio Salgueiro received the BSEE and BSME from National University of Mexico and the Master’s degree in Engineering Science with a major in Computer Design from The Pennsylvania State University. He is a computer-performance consulting engineer with over 20 years of experience at Unisys and was former part time faculty at Penn State University. Emilio has been a Senior IEEE member since 1978. He is currently serving as PACE Coordinator on the Region 2 Committee, and have served on the Philadelphia Section Executive Committee as Chair of the Philadelphia Section, 2011; Vice Chair, 2010; Treasurer, 2009; Secretary 2008. He represented the Philadelphia Section at the 2011 World Sections Congress in San Francisco sponsored by IEEE Member and Geographic Activities (MGA) Board.

Assisted organizing Senior Member workshops, training for members in the area of various fields of engineering; monthly meetings with participation of various chapters within the section; organized the IEEE-USA presidential candidates’ debate with the participation of Mark Apter and Nita Patel; represented IEEE Philadelphia at the IEEE-USA conference in Austin, TX; participated in the creation of the Philadelphia Section Women in Engineering Chapter; participated at the IEEE-USA level in the Congressional Visitation Days held in Washington, DC; established the first use of teleconferencing to outreach members. To date we held multiple meetings using this facility. I envision this effort to continue with webcasts. The Philadelphia Section sponsored student membership and participation through paper competitions. Other sponsored activities was the Collaborative Technologies, this was a joint activity with the Dayton, OH Section.


Philadelphia Section Award Robert Johnston

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Corporation

Graduated from Drexel University with a BSEE. From 1969 to 1984 worked at Scan Data Corporation (a Division of Control Data Corporation) designing intelligent peripheral controllers and a Point-of-Sale system. In 1985 to 1991 worked at Computer Peripherals Inc (a Division of Control Data Corporation) designing intelligent Magnetic Tape drive interfaces. Also participated in the ANSI Standards committee for the SCSI 1 and 2 standards. 1991 to 1996 became a consultant working on several programs involving embedded microprocessor device controllers. Joined the IEEE CONET Consulting Network. Currently work at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Corp as a Staff Electrical Engineer designing control circuits for several Air Force sponsored programs. From 2003 to Present held various officer position in the Philadelphia IEEE Section - 2003 Secretary – 2004 Treasurer – 2005 Vice Chair – 2006 Chair – 2007 Past Chair – 2008 to present Finance Chairman.

Benjamin Franklin Key Award Firooz Aflatouni, Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering

Firooz Aflatouni received the B.Sc. degree from K.N.Toosi University of Technology in 1998 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 2005 and 2011, respectively. He was a post-doctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology before joining the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in January 2014 where he is Skirkanich Assistant Professor. In 1999, he co-founded Pardis Bargh Ltd., where he was involved in the design of inclined-orbit satellite tracking systems. From 2004 to 2006, he was a design engineer with MediaWorks Integrated Circuits Inc., Irvine, CA. Firooz’s research interests include RF, mm-wave, and sub-mm-wave integrated circuits and silicon photonics. He was the recipient of the 2011 USC department of electrical engineering best Ph.D. thesis award, 2010 Ming Hsieh top PhD student scholarship, 2010 NASA Tech Award for his work on development of a Ka-Band SiGe receiver front-end MMIC for space transponder applications, and the best B.Sc. thesis award for design and implementation of a non-geostationary satellite tracking system.

Benjamin Franklin Key Award Afshin S. Daryoush, Ph.D.

Drexel University, ECE Department

Afshin Samimi Daryoush received his BS (1981) from Case Western Reserve University, MS (1984), and Ph.D. (1986) from Drexel University, all degrees in Electrical Engineering. After


graduation, Prof. Daryoush joined Drexel University, where he has developed courses in devices, circuits, and subsystems employed in microwaves, photonics, and antennas. He is recipient of the Drexel University’s Graduate Teaching Award in 2000. He also conducts research in microwave photonics applied to telecommunications and biomedical engineering that resulted in over 300 technical papers, seven patents, and six book chapters. After receiving the Microwave Prize in 1986, 13 papers of Prof. Daryoush has been recognized as the best student papers in various IEEE conferences.

Dr. Daryoush has also served the IEEE in various capacities, such as chair of Philadelphia joint AP/MTT chapter (1993-1995, 2014-2016), founding faculty advisor to the Graduate Student Chapter at Drexel University (2007-present), member of IEEE publications (1998-2001), and IEEE Fellow (2014) Committees. He has organized various IEEE conferences since 1993, particularly served as TPC Chair of RWS2008 and chair of the RWW2009, MWP2010, BenMAS2014, and IMS2018. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 1999 and became member of the Franklin Institute’s Committee on Science and the Arts in 2011.

Benjamin Franklin Key Award Joel J. Nobel, MD (1934-2014)

This posthumous nomination is for the significant, demonstrable public benefits accrued from the engineering achievements of Dr. Joel J. Nobel. The achievements offered in support of this nomination relate to Dr. Nobel’s invention and promulgation of the MAX cardiac resuscitation cart, plus the medical technology evaluation program that grew out of that invention.

Dr. Joel Nobel was a caring physician and surgeon who had the heart and soul of an engineer. He is an extremely worthy candidate for this award. At the time of his death he was President Emeritus and Founder of the Emergency Care Research Institute (now ECRI Institute) in Plymouth Meeting, PA.

In 1966 Dr. Nobel developed MAX, the world’s first mobile emergency life support and resuscitation system. It became widely used in North America and Europe. A MAX cart was installed in the White House and another on Air Force One. The engineering significance of Dr. Nobel’s design of MAX was in the integration of all of the electro-medical devices and power systems needed in a self-contained cardiac resuscitation cart for managing a patient who experiences a cardiac arrest or a serious cardiac event. MAX was invented prior to the development of microelectronics. It was therefore equipped with integrated discrete medical devices including an ECG monitor (at that time called a “cardioscope”), a heart rate alarm, a defibrillator, a synchronized cardioverter, a graphic strip-chart recorder, a ventilator, an aspirator, a cardiac compressor, an oxygen source, a battery power supply and charger, and


medications. MAX was one of the earliest examples of a strong focus on human factors design in medical systems and devices, and it greatly reduced errors in resuscitation.

Today, thanks to the concept of Dr. Nobel’s invention of the MAX cart, and to the tremendous advances in electronics over the past 50 years, we have the ubiquitous “crash cart” in healthcare that includes medications plus a very small, battery-operated defibrillator-monitor-cardioverter-recorder and other miniaturized resuscitation devices.

Under a grant from the American Heart Association in the late 1960s, the MAX cart was developed by Dr. Nobel, and his team at ECRI, to perform real-time clinical investigation of the effectiveness of CPR techniques and to refine the teaching of that still-new procedure. That clinical investigation discovered serious performance and design hazards with some resuscitation devices being made by many manufacturers at that time. As a result, Dr. Nobel saw a need for an independent evaluator of medical technology and developed its medical device comparative evaluation program. Findings from the evaluation program were first published in ECRI’s monthly medical journal called Health Devices in 1971. The Health Devices evaluation program continues to this day. Its reports are now published online via ECRI’s website. That initial technology evaluation program is analogous to Consumer Reports, continues to serve as a basis for ECRI Institute’s pioneering applied scientific research that focuses on healthcare technology.

Accepting Dr. Nobel’s award on his behalf is:

James P. Keller, Jr., M.S.

Vice President, Health Technology Evaluation and Safety

James Keller directs ECRI Institute’s internationally recognized Health Devices evaluation program that provides independent judgment and guidance to help hospitals and health systems select and manage medical devices.

Philadelphia Section Corporate Technology Innovation Award

Important events in the company's history include the development of the 2200 series in 1986, including the UNISYS 2200/500 CMOS mainframe, and the Micro A in 1989, the first desktop mainframe, the UNISYS ES7000 servers in 2000, and the Unisys blueprinting method of visualizing business rules and workflow in 2004.

Unisys has provided advanced mission-critical IT solutions to the aviation industry for more than 45 years. Fifteen of the top 25 airlines and more than 200 airlines use Unisys solutions. And approximately 25 percent of the world’s air cargo shipments are processed by Unisys solutions. Many of these solutions, such as Cargo Portal Services, are delivered via Software-as-a-Service. TravelSky, the leading provider of information technology solutions for China's air travel and tourism industry, operates the Unisys Logistics Management System (LMS), In-transit Service Manager (ISM) and Cargo Portal Services (CPS), which it offers to China's airlines via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model hosted in Beijing. Carriers using the service include Air China and China Eastern. TravelSky also recently expanded its processing capacity with the addition of advanced hardware and software including ClearPath server technology to cater for China’s growing aviation industry.


In 2014, CRN ranked Unisys Stealth on its list of “Top 10 products for combatting advanced persistent threat,” and ranked the Unisys Forward! platform among the “Top 10 coolest servers of 2014.. Unisys also unveiled a new solution that integrates its Forward! Platform with NetApp, Inc. (NTAP) storage systems. The company claims that the solution is designed to diminish the risks of virtualizing mission-critical applications while uniting the cost efficiency and flexibility of virtualization with the reliable performance and storage features usually provided by dedicated servers.

Recipient: Jim Thompson, Chief Engineer and Vice President, Engineering and Supply Chain Leading Unisys Engineering & Supply Chain organization, Jim is responsible for the design and development of technology products that align with marketplace needs and Unisys overall goals. Jim invests a significant part of his time meeting clients and industry leaders, and incorporating their perspectives into our product development.

Jim's career with Unisys spans 27 years in various customer facing and engineering roles. Jim also holds several technology patents in the areas of operating systems, storage and banking. Before Unisys, Jim held various technical positions in several financial institutions and commercial firms, as well as being an independent consultant.

Delaware Valley Young Electrical Engineer of the Year Justin M. Buckley

Lambda Science

Justin M. Buckley received his Bachelors of Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Delaware in 2008. He is currently working part-time on his Masters degree at Drexel University.

From 2008 to 2010 he worked as a Project Engineer with Applied Control Engineering, Inc. in Newark, Delaware. In 2011 Mr. Buckley joined the staff of Lambda Science, Inc. as a research and development engineer.

Mr. Buckley’s technical capabilities and expertise include code development, integration, and system modeling using a variety of programming languages and toolkits. He has experience in SQL database design, data extraction, network communication, system administration, computer simulation, and user interface design. Mr. Buckley’s most recent activities include leading the integration of LSI’s Resource Manager (RM) and related software tools into externally developed applications. He is also the manager of LSI’s software laboratory.


Delaware Valley Young Electrical Engineer of the Year Andrew Huston

Lockheed Martin

Andrew Huston received his MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Oklahoma in 2009 and a BS in Physics from Midwestern State University in 2006. Since graduating he has worked in Radar Systems and Sensors for Lockheed Martin Corporation in Moorestown, NJ, where he serves as a Senior Member of the Engineering Staff. While there, he has developed a deep interest and involvement in land-based and ship-based radar systems engineering with an emphasis on antenna design, detection processing, and the Ballistic Missile Defense mission.

Citation: For advancing radar system design with emphasis on solid-state, digital beamforming antenna algorithms, detection processing, and multi-sensor coordination.

Delaware Valley Young Electrical Engineer of the Year

Richard C. Page III Analytical Graphics Inc.

Born in Detroit, Richard grew up in the western suburbs of Chicago where he achieved Eagle Scout and started his academic journey with interest in astrophysics. Starting on the TI-89 calculator, he began developing an increasing love for programming. As an undergraduate at University of Illinois, this culminated in winning third place nationally in the AIAA senior design competition for his Java-based trajectory design for hazardous asteroid mitigation. He went on to graduate with honors in Aerospace Engineering and continued for a Masters focusing on computational astrodynamics. Throughout this, Richard realized an aptitude and love for working with abstract data structures and numerical analysis.

After being chosen for an internship at NASA Goddard, Richard joined Emergent Space Technologies to help design and validate the Java Astrodynamics Toolkit. From there, he went on to AGI and became a key developer for the STK Components development kit; honing his skills in .NET architecture and API design. Now, he has joined AGI's Space Situational Awareness team to assist in developing the next generation of aerospace software. From Basic to Fortran, C++, Java, C#, Javascript and beyond, Richard continues to explore new technologies and loves collaborating on new ways to solve complex problems.

Delaware Valley Electrical Engineer of the Year Jude Giampaolo Lockheed Martin


Jude Giampaolo, is a lead member of the engineering staff at Lockheed Martin in Moorestown, New Jersey and has been an IEEE Member in the Philadelphia section for 16 years. Over his career, Jude has demonstrated outstanding performance on naval and ground-based radar programs as both an engineering analyst and technical leader. Jude has extensive experience with systems engineering analysis, along with specialized skills, which include digital receiver architecture, beamformer algorithm design, and electronic protection techniques. As the Lead Systems Analyst for one of Lockheed Martin’s advanced radar programs, he has led a team responsible for radar subsystem performance. Recently, Jude exhibited considerable initiative by creating a new detection processing scheme that outperforms traditional methods for Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR). This advanced technique increased radar detection sensitivity with minimal additional computing requirements. In addition to his technical roles, Jude has been an active participant in professional activities, including attendance at a prestigious gathering of Lockheed Martin Fellows at their annual conference. Jude frequently shares his experiences with the next generation of engineers through regular mentoring and daily interactions with his team members.

Delaware Valley Electrical Engineer of the Year

James Sheridan Lockheed Martin

Mr. Sheridan has been a Lockheed Martin employee in excess of 30 years. Jim is responsible for all development activities associated with domestic new construction AEGIS Destroyer as well as the AEGIS Modernization Programs for both Cruisers and Destroyers. Positive performance on Cruiser Modernization has enabled MST to play a significant role in DDG Modernization. The AEGIS Modernization program is bringing much needed capabilities to our Navy, which include a robust Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) as well as Naval Integrated Fire Control-Counter Air (NIFC-CA). Additionally he is responsible for the Ship Integration and Test activities as they pertain to AEGIS programs domestic and international efforts comprising over 140 functional employees in both engineering and program-support organizations in Moorestown and four field sites including two shipyards and a Washington field office. SI&T organization also includes program management team of responsible for managing the $60M/year Ship Integration and Test contracts. Mr. Sheridan is also a retired Navy Captain following a successful 26-year career in both Active and Naval Reserve capacity.

Recognition of IEEE Fellows Edward Dobrowolski

Navigant Energy Practice


Edward Dobrowolski is a Director in Navigant’s Energy Practice. With over four decades in the utility industry, Ed is well versed in providing clients with guidance on issues ranging from understanding of NERC standards, utility operations, and control systems. Prior to joining Navigant, Ed was a Standards Developer at NERC. Ed led experienced teams of industry subject matter experts whose work focused on strengthening the reliability of the Bulk Power System (BPS) through the creation of NERC reliability standards. Ed led the teams responsible for the definition of the Bulk Electric System (BES), Transmission Planning (TPL), system restoration, backup facilities, and transmission operations (TOP/IRO). He was also involved in the development of Geomagnetic Disturbance (GMD) standards as well as the review of EOP and FAC standards.

Before NERC, Ed spent 7 years at KEMA Consulting working with a variety of clients in the national and international arenas on the specification, contracting, and implementation of various control systems. Prior to that, Ed was at PECO Energy Co., an Exelon Company, for 31 years in a variety of positions ranging from working as an engineer in a power plant to supervision of the operations control center systems to project manager of the Energy Management System replacement project to the development of an interactive trading platform for energy commodities.

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