Date: Tuesday, April13, 2010 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

Title: Energy Storage Projects in American Electric Power
Abstract: After a successful deployment of a 1 MW, 7.2 MWh energy storage system in 2006 and its successful peak shaving performance, AEP decided to deploy more distributed energy storage systems. During 2008-9, three 2MW, 14.4MWh substation batteries were installed in Ohio, West Virginia and Indiana. In December 2009 a heavy snow storm caused a 2-day power outage in West Virginia and one of the 2MW batteries provided backup power for many houses, serving them for two cold days until the normal power feed was restored. This was the first application of battery backup power system of this scale. In pursuit of its goal to realize more value from each energy storage application while keeping the application cost down, AEP is now developing Community Energy Storage (CES), a new technology-neutral platform for utility energy storage applications. CES is a “virtual substation battery” located at customer sites. It’s a group of small kW-scale batteries installed in customers’ backyards run as fleet, responding to a “control hub” located in a substation.

Presenters: Dr. Ali Nourai (AEP Distribution Research and Technology) & Tom Walker (AEP Grid Management Deployment). Nourai retired from AEP in March and joined KEMA Inc as an executive
Consultant.

Please RSVP to Vinod Simha by email to vsimha@aep.com or by phone at 614-552-1717 by 4:00 PM, April 12, 2010. Advise when you RSVP, if IEEE member and/or P.E.

Guest Speaker: Mr. John Paserba

When: 5:30-6:45pm Wednesday, April 14th
Where: Scott Labs E001

The event will be focused around career management that will be beneficial to all students at any level in their education: freshman, graduating seniors and graduate students.

RSVP is required for this event. You must reply to Tejas Kataria at tejas@ieeeosu.org by Tuesday, April 13th at 5pm.

Pizza will be provided!

Please join us for our 2010 New Member Reception. We have many activities planned:

1. Networking specialist Laura Rees from roma creative--Learn how to be a better networker!
2. Business card exchange
3. Light meal
4. Socialize with other IEEE members in Central Ohio

Please join us on 21 April 2010 from 6:30 - 8:00 at the Benchmark bank in Gahanna (directions).

Please RSVP online at www.ieeecolumbus.org/node/156

Limited to the first 35 people!

ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
Sponsored by the IEEE EDS/Photonics Chapter under its Distinguished Lecturer Program

Suman Datta
Monkowsky Associate Professor
The Pennsylvania State University

Thursday, April 22, 2010
1:30 PM, 260 Dreese Laboratory

Abstract: Since 1926 it is well accepted that the continuous nonzero nature of solutions to Schrodinger’s wave equation used to represent electrons, even in classically forbidden regions of negative kinetic energy, allows for a finite and tunable probability of tunneling from one classically allowed region to another (for example band to band tunneling in a semiconductor). We are investigating a novel transistor architecture based on such tunneling mechanism as a step towards demonstrating steep switching transistors for energy efficient logic and embedded memory applications. In this seminar, we will address the following topics regarding the tunnel transistor architecture: a) the choice of appropriate materials to tune the transfer characteristics over a specified gate swing b) the characteristic screening lengths in these device essential for scaling dc) an effective way to estimate the switching speed of such devices, d) digital circuit design methodologies utilizing tunnel transistors, and, finally, e) the importance of nonequilibrium carrier dynamics on the device terminal characteristics. We will present the experimental tunnel transistor results till date and show that inter-band tunnel transistor is a promising architecture for future low power computing and storage applications.

Bio: Suman Datta is the Monkowsky Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Penn State University with a joint appointment in the Penn State Materials Research Institute. Suman received his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1995 and his Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, USA, in 1999. As a member of the Logic Technology Development and Components Research Group at Intel Corporation, from 1999 to 2007, he was instrumental in the demonstration of the world’s first enhancement and depletion mode indium antimonide based quantum-well transistors operating at room temperature with record power-delay product, the first experimental demonstration of the effect of metal gate plasmon screening and channel strain engineering in mitigating the remote soft optical phonon induced mobility degradation in high-k/metal-gate CMOS transistors and, finally, the investigation of the transport properties and the electrostatic robustness in non-planar “Tri-Gate Transistors” for extreme scalability. Since Fall of 2007 he has been at Penn State University exploring new materials, novel nanofabrication techniques and non-classical device structures for CMOS “enhancement” as well as “replacement” for future energy efficient computing applications. He has over 68 archival refereed journal and conference publications and holds 97 US patents.

ECE Department
Spring Picnic!
Brought to you by your OSU IEEE Student Chapter

When: Wednesday, May 5th, 5-8pm
Where: Fred Beekman Park (West Campus)

FOOD!! GAMES!! PRIZES!!

*BBQ
*Live Band
*Raffle Prizes
*Sporting Events (Volleyball, Frisbee and more)
*Network with faculty, other students and IEEE Columbus Professional members!

PRICE: $5 Non-IEEE Members,
$2 IEEE Members,
Free for OSU faculty and staff

*** 1 PDH Certificate for Professional Engineers (PEs) Now Available ***

Title:
Evolution of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)

Abstract:
Commoditization of voice service has reached such a state that anyone with a server to provide registry and addressing (identification) functions can offer it to the Internet community using the voice over the Internet protocol (IP) or VoIP technology. Traditional client-server model has evolved to peer-to-peer and cloud models for near-real-time voice and multimedia (gaming, video, etc.) sessions.

Voice mail service is being replaced by Instant messaging (for presence-announced users), use of Star codes for advanced call/session feature activation is being replaced by Web based service-provisioning interface, and so on. Similar revolution is also happening in the areas of IP-based Television (IPTV) service development and distribution.

These are only a glimpse of what is possible with the new/emerging converged services paradigm. However, many issues related to reliability/availability, security/privacy, mobility, service provisioning and continuity, regulation, operations, and quality of service and experience (QoS/QoE) still remain open.
In this discussion, we will explore the current activities of the traditional service providers to find implementable and operable solutions to these problems in the evolving Next Generation Networks (NGNs). The objective is to support VoIP, IPTV, and other multimedia services /seamlessly /over a variety of interconnected networks using the emerging IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) and service-oriented architecture/network (SOA/SON) based standards.

Bio:
Dr. Bhumip Khasnabish is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He has authored numerous patents and publications in a variety of areas related to converged services and new generation networking. He recently authored a Book Chapter (Chapter 4) entitled "Next Generation Technologies, Networks, and Services," for publication in "Next Generation Telecommunications Networks, Services, and Management," Edited by T. Plevyak and V. Sahin, Copyright 2010 IEEE, NJ, USA.

Location:
DeVry University
1350 Alum Creek Drive
Columbus, OH 43209
Room 8
(614) 253-7291

Google Maps:
http://is.gd/aZ63v

When
11 May 2010
5:30P to 7:00P

A light meal and refreshments will be served.