Note: Time Change

Biomedical Engineering Seminar

Speaker:

Victor Barocas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Minnesota
(Big 10 BME Exchange Scholar)

Location:

145 Mount Hall
1050 Carmack Rd
Columbus, OH 43210

DARPA Grand Challenge – Invention on a Schedule; Development of Unmanned Robotic Vehicles

Date/Time:
19 Nov 2009
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Location:
Ohio State University
Dreese Laboratories
Building 279
Room 260
2015 Neil Ave
Columbus, OH 43210

Directions/Maps/Parking:
http://www.osu.edu/map/building.php?building=279

Abstract:
Developing an innovative product or service can be challenging. Add unsolved technology goals, a fixed schedule, limited resources and budget, and the problem can seem overwhelming.
But somehow a small team with little funding or resources was able to place 12th out of 196 teams in an event created to advance technology in autonomous robotic ground vehicles... How did they do that?

The DARPA Grand Challenge and the DARPA Urban Challenge are events sponsored by the US Government to help promote the development of autonomous land robotic vehicles. The government is looking to meet a congressional mandate to have 33% of military ground vehicles operating unmanned by the year 2015.
This presentation will show how an ad-hoc team was able to compete in this international competition. Grayson will discuss technical obstacles, building a team, innovating on a fixed schedule with a small budget, utilization of an incremental development process, techniques used to accelerate technology discovery, mentoring, and the benefits of student participation. He will demonstrate with Grand Challenge pictures and video.

Speaker Bio:
Grayson Randall is president of Insight Technologies, Inc. (www.insightrobots.com), a North Carolina company which specializes in ground based robots for both commercial and military use. Insight Technologies, Inc. performs both research and development on control systems for autonomous robotic unmanned vehicles.

Mr. Randall led the Insight Racing team (www.insightracing.org) in the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Grand Challenge series of races. Insight Racing’s most recent entry was a computer driven Lotus Elise which was developed in conjunction with NC State University. The Elise would drive through city traffic without a driver, remote control, or any human intervention whatsoever.

Mr. Randall is a “Distinguished Visitor” for the IEEE Computer Society. He received the Outstanding Engineer Award from IEEE Region 3 at SoutheastCon 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia where Mr. Randall was chosen from among over 30,000 engineers in the Southeastern United States. Mr. Randall was also recognized by IEEE-USA in 2007 “for leadership that inspired pre-college students and college engineering students in the area of robotics.”

Grayson is chairman of IEEE Robotics and Automation chapter for Eastern North Carolina. He mentored a FIRST high school robotics team which won 1st place in the 2004 international FIRST competition as well as numerous other awards.

Comprehensive Engineering and Science of Biomedical Images (CESBMI)

Speaker:
Dr. Lee Potter

Location:
264 Dreese Laboratory
2015 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210

Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009 Refreshments: 5:30 to 6:00 pm
Meeting: 6:00 to 7:00 pm Earn one CPD Hour
Location: AEP Office, Conference Room 2C, 700 Morrison Rd., Gahanna, Ohio 43230

Please RSVP to Jason Byerly by email to jmbyerly@aep.com or by phone at 614-552-1492 by 4:00 PM, December 7, 2009. Indicate if PE and/or IEEE member

Presenter: Brian Wilkin, Senior Application & Sales Engineer for AMETEK Power Instruments

Abstract:
With the advent of the Smart Grid Evolution and new Regulatory Impacts such as NERC CIP, utility telecommunications infrastructures are stressed to scale and provide for new bandwidth growth. As Smart Grid telecommunications deployment moves beyond AMI to complete connectivity for control and monitoring of all elements in the Utility generation-transmission-distribution network, an explosion of bandwidth is about to occur. But is Ethernet/IP ready to provide access and transport of time-sensitive mission critical applications such as SCADA and Protective Relaying Communications? Recent test results of protective relaying latency times and priority performance over a network using DS0/T1 Packetizing Channel Muxes connected to Layer 3 MPLS enabled Routers and transported over a OC-192 SONET backbone will be discussed.

Dear IEEE Members,

As part of its FREE Webinar series, IEEE GOLD is pleased to announce “Geek in the Lead: Growing from Engineer to Manager”, an upcoming Professional Development webinar for GOLD members and Graduate Student members. Dr. B. Michael Aucoin, PE, PMP, an internationally recognized leader in innovative approaches to the challenges of the high velocity workplace, will present an entertaining and informative webinar on the most important development in the career of an engineer.

IEEE GOLD Webinar: "Geek in the Lead: Growing from Engineer to Manager"
Presented by: Dr. B. Michael Aucoin, PE, PMP
Date: Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Eastern Standard Time

Register Now by clicking on the link below:
https://icm3.ieee.org/eventmanager/OnlineRegistration.asp?eventcode=ais

Increasingly, organizations rely on individuals who can successfully lead and manage technical teams. Most engineers spend the majority of their careers in management, but lack the necessary education or training. Many find the transition from engineer to manager difficult and frustrating but it need not be. The solution is a program to quickly gain the necessary attitudes and skills.

Join IEEE GOLD for “Geek in the Lead: Growing from Engineer to Manager” and learn tips that you can apply immediately to be effective in management, and build a solid foundation for a successful and rewarding career as a leader.

Visit the IEEE GOLD webinar website for more information on the session and speaker.

If you missed the October 2009 webinar, Gandhian Engineering, by Dr. R.A. Mashelkar, this session is now available for download at http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/gold/events/index.html.

The IEEE GOLD Committee is looking for members interested in contributing to the 2010 GOLD Webinar Program. If you have ideas on topics or would like to help organize these activities, please contact Lara Fast, MGA Young Professionals Program Manager at L.Fast@ieee.org.

All feedback or questions can be directed to IEEE GOLD staff at gold@ieee.org. You can also direct any questions to me at javvad@ieee.org.

Regards,

Javvad Qasimi
GOLD Chair IEEE Columbus

IEEE Columbus Section Executive Committee Meeting

Thursday, December 17, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

City Barbeque in Reynoldsburg
5979 East Main Street
Reynoldsburg, OH 43213
Phone (614) 755-8890

Their meeting room has been reserved from 7 to closing (9-9:30 pm) on Thursday December 17th.

The buffet includes three meats (chicken, pulled pork and Texas roast beef), mashed potato and baked beans, cake, and drinks from the drink bar.

Cost is $12.50 per person (There is no charge for IEEE members).

Restaurant: http://www.menusandmorecolumbus.com/CityBarbeque/Reynoldsburg.htm

Google Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&source=hp&q=5979%20East%20Main%20Stree...

MEETING AGENDA
1. Welcome by the Chair
2. Treasurer's Report
3. Secretary's Report
4. Membership Chair's Report
a. Senior Member Drive Results
5. Region II Representative's Report
6. PACE (IEEE USA) Report
7. GOLD Report
8. Society Reports
a. AP/MTT, CS, Photonics (formerly ED/LEO), EMB, PE, SP,
C/COM (Computer/Communications)
9. Student Branch Reports
a. Robotics Project Proposal by the Ohio University IEEE Student Branch
b. DeVry University, Ohio State University, Ohio University, Zane State College
10. Old Business
a. ByLaws Review
11. New Business
a. Date & Location of the next EXCOM meeting
b. Banquet Committee members for the 2010 Spring Banquet
12. Adjourn

Please register for this IEEE Columbus Section meeting. Registration is requested by December 15.

Please join us for this interesting presentation by our partner organization the Columbus Chapter of the ACM:

The Past, Present, and Future of Supercomputing
by
Paul Buerger

Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009
Time: 7:00 PM

Location:
Upper Arlington Main Library, Meeting Room A
2800 Tremont Road, Upper Arlington 43221

Abstract:
Whether you call it supercomputing or high-performance computing or high-end computing, it is an interesting niche of the computing universe. This talk involves a casual stroll through some interesting computer hardware of the past forty or so years with some speculation about future directions.

The principal application has been technical computing. That is, computation in the interest of science and engineering. Large computing systems have been used in finance for a few years and we have seen where that led.

Early supercomputers were just the fastest systems around. However, from early on parallelism has played a major role. From vectors to clusters, parallelism at some level has been involved. Currently, supercomputers consist of thousands of PC's or game computers. Future supercomputers may consist of millions of elements designed for cell phones or other hand-held devices.

Dr. Buerger has been involved with computational science and scientific computing for over forty years. For much of that time he was supporting scientific researchers in his roles in technical support at Ohio Supercomputer Center. He has served COCACM in several roles.

Reservations Requested
To make a reservation send e-mail to cocacm@acm.org by Wednesday, December 16.