Systems Council Chapters Report9/24/2012

Stephanie White, Secretary

SC Chapters

• IEEE Connecticut Section ChapterChapter Chair: Theodora Saunders

• IEEE Tainan Section ChapterChapter Chair: Hsiang-Cheh Huang

Chapter not found; no response• IEEE Italy Section Chapter

Chapter Chair: Paolo Carbone • IEEE Coastal Los Angeles Chapter

Chapter Chair: Henry Yeh• IEEE Toronto Chapter

Chapter Chair: Alexei Botchkarev

IEEE Connecticut Section Chapter• Aerospace and Electronic Systems (AES)/Systems Council • Chair: Theodora Saunders (Acting)

• A meeting co-sponsored by the ASME and the IEEE Connecticut AES/Sys Council chapter planned to take place on Feb. 29 from 6:00 - 8:30 p.m. at the University of New Haven (UNH), was cancelled due to the bad weather forecasts.

• The meeting was rescheduled and took place on April 17th • A mini conference is being planned for 10th November 2012

– Coordinated with UNH Dean’s office for facilities– We secured a Technical Fellow from Sikorsky– Working to secure an outside speaker (possibly) from NASA– Theo will give a presentation on Systems Engineering

• Title : Defense Aerospace Sector Challenges and Opportunities

• A combined AESS/Sys Council & MTTS lunch and learn being planned at Sikorsky• Participated in the IEEE-USA WIE annual Capitol Hill Day IN Washington, DC USA.

– The event brought together 60 or so women engineers from around the country for a day discussing ways to increase diversity in the STEM workforce, and then a day on Capitol Hill discussing STEM diversity issues with Congress

– Provided input to WIE magazine and to the WEB content • Participated as a reviewer of all the SEBoK v1.0 Release and all prior versions along with many other SE

practioners from industry and academia.

IEEE Italy Section Systems Council Chapter (ISSCC)

Chapter Chair: Paolo Carbone website: http://ewh.ieee.org/r8/italy/sysc/

1) main activity: organization of EESMS 2012 http://eesms2012.dti.unimi.it2012 IEEE Workshop onEnvironmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring SystemsPerugia, Italy, 28 September 2012

2) involvement in the organization of BIOMS2012: http://bioms2012.dti.unimi.it2012 IEEE Workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical ApplicationsSalerno, Italy, 14 September 2012

3) diffusion of the call for papers for the next IEEE Systems Conference

4) Start of process for the election of new officers

IEEE Coastal Los Angeles Chapter• Chapter Chair: Henry Yeh

• Major Annual Activity: IEEE Workshop on Green Energy Production and Adaptive Power Distribution 2010 Presentation slides: http://sites.ieee.org/clas-sysc/green-energy/2010-2/

2011: IEEE Green Energy Forum/Workshop: A System Level Discussion on Renewable Energy Production and Electric VehiclesOver 100 attendeesPresentation slides: 2011: http://sites.ieee.org/clas-sysc/green-energy/2011-2/

2012: the annual IEEE Green Energy Forum/Workshop at CSULB on Nov. 19, 2012.

Title: “Renewable Energy and Micro-grid Applications”Theme: A system Level Discussion on Renewable Energy and Micro-grid Applications, including Electrical Vehicles.

2012 Website is under construction: http://sites.ieee.org/clas-sysc/green-energy/2012-2/

• IEEE Distinguished Lecture Series and Seminars• Dr. B. Sklar, “Defining, Designing, and Evaluating Digital Communication Systems,” 11/09/11, VEC 325, CSULB.• MATLAB Seminar on “Parallel Computing,” 3/1/11, ECS 304, CSULB

• Re-Elected 2012 Chapter Officers• Chair: Dr. Hen-Geul (Henry) Yeh • Vice Chair: Dr. Chit-Sang Tsang• Treasurer: Dr. I-Hung Khoo• Co-Secretary: Sandra Hernandez• Co-Secretary: Duc Tran

IEEE Toronto Systems Council Chapter

• Chapter Chair: Alexei Botchkarev• Toronto Systems Chapter is a relatively “young”• Formation approved by IEEE MGA Board on February 19, 2011• In July 2012, the chapter was transformed into a joint chapter of the Systems Council and

System, Man and Cybernetics Society.• The Systems Chapter has organized several high-quality seminars:• “Competition and Cooperation in Societal and Technological Systems of Systems” by Dr.

Keith Hipel, Professor of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo. IEEE Distinguished Lecture. (Feb. 16, 2012)

• “Who's flying this ship? Systems Engineering for Planet Earth” by Dr. Steve Easterbrook, Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto. (Dec. 1, 2012)

• “The Development of Defence Electronics Systems - A Personal Perspective” by Robert Inkol, Senior Scientist, Defence Research and Development Canada (May 9, 2011)

• Also, the chapter co-sponsored an event organized by the Aerospace and Electronics Systems chapter: “Cooperative Control Synchronization and Games on Communication Graphs “, Dr. F. L. Lewis, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA. (Apr. 12, 2012)

• The chapter maintains its website at http://toronto.ieee.ca/chapters/systems.htm