The Future Grid Reliability Study (FGRS) was performed by ISO New England at the request of the New England Power Pool (NEPOOL) as the 2021 Economic Study. The ISO’s Economic Studies evaluate various potential futures for electric generation resource mixes, changes to demand for electric power, transmission topology changes, and other possible assumptions against various economic and engineering metrics to inform and guide the states government, industry stakeholders, the public, and future ISO work. The FGRS was a seminal Economic Study that was developed by NEPOOL for over a year before its submission to the ISO – evaluating three different visions of the 2040 New England power grid and numerous alternatives through up to five types of analyses. In FGRS, visions of the future power grid has departed significantly enough from current operations that it strains current modeling tools. This presentation will cover the origin of FGRS, the goal of the study, how the ISO performed the study, key takeaways, lessons learned, and future work that builds off of FGRS. Speaker(s): Patrick Boughan, Agenda: 5:30 Arrival & Social Hour 5:55 Announcements 6:00 Presentation & Dinner Priya Indian Cuisine, 460 Memorial Drive, Chicopee, Massachusetts, United States, 01020

The monthly Rochester IEEE Executive Committee meeting brings together all of the leaders of the Section, Chapters, and Groups. ExCom members: Please send your updates on past and upcoming events to the (mailto:[email protected]) to be included on the agenda prior to the meeting. We review plans for upcoming Rochester meetings within our Section, Chapters, and groups at this meeting. If you are looking to become more engaged in IEEE in the Rochester Section, please plan on attending an Excom meeting! Agenda: - Section Officer Reports - Section Chair Report: (mailto:[email protected]) - Section Vice-Chair Report (mailto:[email protected]) - Section Treasurer Report: Emmett Ientilucci - Section Secretary Report: Eric Zeise - Old Business - New Business - Chapter Society and Group Reports - Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society and Communications Society (AES10/COMM19) - Computer Society and Computational Intelligence Society (C16/CIS11) - Electron Devices and Circuits and Systems: (mailto:[email protected]) - Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMB18): (mailto:[email protected]) - Rochester/Binghamton/Buffalo/Ithaca/Syracuse Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRS29): (mailto:[email protected]) - Life Members Group: (mailto:[email protected]) - Microwave Theory and Techniques Society / Antennas and Propagation Society (MTT17/AP03): (mailto:[email protected]), (mailto:[email protected]) - Photonics Society (PHO36): (mailto:[email protected]) and (mailto:[email protected]) - Power and Energy Society / Industry Applications Society (PE31/IA34): (mailto:[email protected]); (mailto:[email protected]) - Signal Processing Society (SP01): Eric Zeise - Technology Management Council (TM14): (mailto:[email protected]) - Young Professionals: (mailto:[email protected]) - Student Chapter Reports: (mailto:[email protected]) - Rochester Institute of Technology: (mailto:[email protected]) - University of Rochester: (mailto:[email protected]) - Committee Reports - Membership Report: (mailto:[email protected]%20) - Awards Report: (mailto:[email protected]) - Electronic Communications Coordinator: (mailto:[email protected]), (mailto:[email protected]) - Newsletter Report: (mailto:[email protected]) - PACE Report: (mailto:[email protected]) - E. Liaison Reports - R1 Western Area Chair: (mailto:[email protected]) - Rochester Engineering Society (RES) Report: (mailto:[email protected]) - Rochester Council of Scientific Societies (RCSS) Report: (mailto:[email protected]) - Open Discussion - Adjournment Bldg: Tandoor of India, 376 Jefferson Rd, Rochester, New York, United States, 14623, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/351995

Come join us for an afternoon of RF training where Rohde & Schwarz subject matter experts will cover select RF & microwave topics. We will start with basic concepts like signal and transmission characteristics, and continue through with testing challenges of key components like amplifiers, mixers, and oscillators. What will you learn? ► High-level overview of RF and microwave systems ► Techniques for testing transmitters, receivers, and other key components ► Insights regarding amplifier gain, freq response, IM, noise figure, and more ► Importance and consideration of mixers in modern RF systems ► Phase noise & spurs test techniques Please join us at 2:30pm for registration / coffee. Co-sponsored by: Kevin Dorrian, Rohde & Schwarz USA, Inc. (https://www.rohde-schwarz.com/) Speaker(s): Application Engineer, Agenda: 2:30 PM: Registration & Coffee 3:00 PM: Technical Presentations Begins ► RF Systems Overview ► Fundamental of Transmitter & Receiver Testing ► Mixer & Frequency Converter Testing 5:00 PM: Buffet dinner provided by Rohde & Schwarz ► Amplifier Test overview ► RF Oscillator & VCO DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Syracuse, 6301 NY-298, East Syracuse, New York, United States, 13057

Video coding is a fundamental and ubiquitous technology in the modern society. Generations of international video coding standards, such as the widely-deployed H.264/AVC and H.265/HEVC and the latest H.266/VVC, provide essential means for enabling video conferencing, video streaming, video sharing, e-commerce, entertainment, and many more video applications. These existing standards all rely on the fundamental theory of signal processing and information theory to encode generic video efficiently with a favorable rate distortion behavior. In recent years, rapid advancement in deep learning and artificial intelligence technology has allowed people to manipulate images and videos using deep generative models. Among these, of particular interest to the field of video coding is the application of deep generative models towards compressing talking-face video at ultra-low bit rates. By focusing on talking faces, generative models can effectively learn the inherent structure about composition, movement and posture of human faces and deliver promising results using very little bandwidth resource. At ultra-low bit rates, when even the latest video coding standard H.266/VVC is apt to suffer from significant blocking artifacts and blurriness beyond the point of recognition, generative methods can maintain clear facial features and vivid expression in the reconstructed video. Further, generative face video coding techniques are inherently capable of manipulating the reconstructed face and promise to deliver a more interactive experience. In this talk, we start with a quick overview of traditional and deep learning-based video coding techniques. We then focus on face video coding with generative networks, and present two schemes that send different deep information in the bitstream, one sending compact temporal motion features and the other sending 3D facial semantics. We compare their compression efficiency and visual quality with that of the latest H.266/VVC standard, and showcase the power of deep generative models in preserving vivid facial images with little bandwidth resource. We also present visualization results to exhibit the capability of the 3D facial semantics-based scheme in terms of interacting with the reconstructed face video and animating virtual faces. Co-sponsored by: Fairleigh Dickinson University Speaker(s): Dr. Yan Ye, Agenda: Video coding is a fundamental and ubiquitous technology in the modern society. Generations of international video coding standards, such as the widely-deployed H.264/AVC and H.265/HEVC and the latest H.266/VVC, provide essential means for enabling video conferencing, video streaming, video sharing, e-commerce, entertainment, and many more video applications. These existing standards all rely on the fundamental theory of signal processing and information theory to encode generic video efficiently with a favorable rate distortion behavior. In recent years, rapid advancement in deep learning and artificial intelligence technology has allowed people to manipulate images and videos using deep generative models. Among these, of particular interest to the field of video coding is the application of deep generative models towards compressing talking-face video at ultra-low bit rates. By focusing on talking faces, generative models can effectively learn the inherent structure about composition, movement and posture of human faces and deliver promising results using very little bandwidth resource. At ultra-low bit rates, when even the latest video coding standard H.266/VVC is apt to suffer from significant blocking artifacts and blurriness beyond the point of recognition, generative methods can maintain clear facial features and vivid expression in the reconstructed video. Further, generative face video coding techniques are inherently capable of manipulating the reconstructed face and promise to deliver a more interactive experience. In this talk, we start with a quick overview of traditional and deep learning-based video coding techniques. We then focus on face video coding with generative networks, and present two schemes that send different deep information in the bitstream, one sending compact temporal motion features and the other sending 3D facial semantics. We compare their compression efficiency and visual quality with that of the latest H.266/VVC standard, and showcase the power of deep generative models in preserving vivid facial images with little bandwidth resource. We also present visualization results to exhibit the capability of the 3D facial semantics-based scheme in terms of interacting with the reconstructed face video and animating virtual faces. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/352355

IEEE LONG ISLAND SECTION, and IEEE REGION 1 present the Long Island Systems, Applications, and Technology Conference (LISAT), tto be held at the New York Institute of Technology on Friday May 5th, 2023. Exhibitors: Each table registered includes one staff member - please enter their information so we can have a badge ready on event day. For additional tables, click on 'Add Another Guest', select 'Exhibitor Table' again, and enter the information of the person on that table. For additional Exhibitor Team staff, click on 'Add Another Guest', and select 'Additional Exhibitor Team member' as the Registration Fee. Again, enter the staff members Name on the registratoin form so we can have a badge ready on Event Day. Please enter Company Name in Address Line 1 , and indicate in Special Requests if Wi-Fi is needed. Exhibitor costs: Category Registration Fee Each Table (includes 1 Exhibitor Team member per table) $300 Each additional Exhibitor Team member $50 The fee for Exhibit registration after April 1st, 2022 is $350 per table. The normal Exhibit Fee is $300.00 per table (received by April 1st, 2022). The fee for Exhibit registration after April 1st, 2022 is $350 per table. The registration for one exhibitor is included in the Exhibit Table fee. Exhibitors may request registration of additional team members for a fee of $50 each. Note that exhibitors should remain at the Exhibitor’s Exhibit Area. The enrollment of more than one supplemental exhibitor must be pre-approved to prevent unanticipated crowding of the Exhibitors area. Exhibitor Guests: Exhibitors may invite guests to the conference. All invited guests MUST register with the conference by April 1, 2022. Exhibitor Guests ( full day or afternoon) may ONLY attend the Exhibits and the vendor Product Application lectures. Exhibitors must request passes for the invited Afternoon/Full Day Guests. These requests may be denied due to capacity constraints. Note that the exhibit hall is limited to a maximum occupancy of 300 people at one time. i. After Lunch Guests- These guests may attend at no cost, but they may only enter after 1PM. ii. Full Day Guests- The fee for Full Day Guests is $25 each, and they may enter after 9 AM. These guests may take part in the food served in the exhibits area (lunch and breaks). Payment: Exhibitors may either pay online send a check. i. To pay online: (1) Fill out exhibitors contract, sign and send to address below. (2) Select “Exhibitor Registration” on the www.ieee.li/lisat website and follow instructions. ii. To pay by mail: Mail a check covering the Exhibit Fee and any Supplemental Exhibit Fee(s), payable to: “IEEE Long Island Section” via certified mail, with two (2) signed copies of the Agreement to: Daniel Rogers, ATTN: IEEE LISAT Exhibits, 60 Ocean Avenue, Blue Point NY 11715 by the deadlines above. Co-sponsored by: IEEE Region 1, the IEEE Long Island Section and its technical society chapters Agenda: 7:30 AM REGISTRATION 8:00 – 8:45 Opening Ceremonies and Award Presentations - 8:45 - 9:15 BREAK Exhibits Area 9:15 - 10:45 Sessions 1 Technical Tracks, PE Prof Devel and Product Applications Tracks 10:45 - 11:00 Break – Exhibits Area 11:00 - 12:30 Sessions 2 Technical Tracks, PE Prof Devel and Product Applications Tracks 12:30 - 1:45 Lunch – Exhibits Area 1:45 - 3:15 Sessions 3 Technical Tracks, PE Prof Devel and Product Applications Tracks 3:15 - 3:45 Break – Exhibits Area 3:45 - 5:00 Sessions 4 Technical Tracks, PE Prof Devel and Product Applications Tracks 5:00 PM End of Conference NYy Institute of Technology , Northern Boulevard, Valentines Ln , Old Westbury, New York, United States, 11568

IEEE LONG ISLAND SECTION, and IEEE REGION 1 present the Long Island Systems, Applications, and Technology Conference (LISAT), to be held at the New York Institute of Technology on Friday May 5th, 2023. http://ieee.li/lisat/ There will be three parallel tracks of technical peer-review papers, an Exhibits Hall, and a Power/Energy/Industrial Track for NYS PE credit (up to 0.6 CEU = 6 PDH). PLEASE REGISTER ONLY ONCE OR YOU MAY BE CHARGED MULTIPLE TIMES Registration Fee is NON-REFUNDABLE. Registration cancellations due to circumstances beyond the attendee's control (eg.g, illness, VISA rejection, etc.) may be refunded after review of the circumstances presented. Any such registration refund approved will be subject to a $50 processing charge. Group discounts are available, contact the chair for more info. Multiple registrations can made with a single payment - click add another guest. Please enter your employer/affiliation in the 'Address Line 1' registration field. **Attention Student Authors - if you are not an IEEE member, we encourage you to join and register at the IEEE Student Rate: https://www.ieee.org/join‎ Attendance costs: Category Early Bird Registration Cost After April 8th IEEE Member and Professional Engineers $175 $225 Unemployed IEEE member $75 $75 IEEE Student, IEEE Grad Student, or IEEE Life Member $100 $150 Non-IEEE Registrants $225 $275 First Exhibitor Staff is included, additional Exhibitor Staff are $25. Bulk Registration Fee Discount: A 10% group discount is available for five (5) or more non-Author registrations with a single payment (check or credit card) paid by 4/19/23. Please contact the conference coordinator. Group Discounts for authors are NOT available. Co-sponsored by: IEEE Region 1, the IEEE Long Island Section and its technical society chapters Agenda: 7:30 AM REGISTRATION 8:00 – 8:45 Opening Ceremonies and Award Presentations 8:45 - 9:15 BREAK Exhibits Area 9:15 - 10:45 Sessions 1 Technical Tracks, PE Prof Devel and Product Applications Tracks 10:45 - 11:00 Break – RH Exhibits Area 11:00 - 12:30 Sessions 2 Technical Tracks, PE Prof Devel and Product Applications Tracks 12:30 - 1:45 Lunch – Exhibits Area 1:45 - 3:15 Sessions 3 Technical Tracks, PE Prof Devel and Product Applications Tracks 3:15 - 3:45 Break – Exhibits Area 3:45 - 5:00 Sessions 4 Technical Tracks, PE Prof Devel and Product Applications Tracks 5:00 PM End of Conference Ny Institute of Technology, Northern Boulevard, Valentines Ln, Old Westbury, New York, United States, 11568

2023 IEEE North Jersey AI Workshop of Undergraduate and Graduate Students (IEEE NJ-AIW-UGS-2023) will be held online (Zoom), 9:00AM to 11:30AM on Saturday, May 6th, 2023. The workshop consists of several presentations, covering various topics in AI, big data, machine learning, deep learning, and applications. The presentations are based on undergraduate research, graduate research, or class projects. Organizors: WIMOLAB and HUDSONLAB @ECE/Stevens IEEE North Jersey Section Registration Required: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/344701 Conference Room: Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 506 875 4099 Symposium Program Zachary Orrico, "Predicting Poverty Using Deep Learning," 2023 IEEE North Jersey AI Workshop of Undergraduate and Graduate Students (IEEE NJ-AIW-UGS-2023), May 6, 2023. Kate Moss, "Tsunami Prediction Using Deep Learning," 2023 IEEE North Jersey AI Workshop of Undergraduate and Graduate Students (IEEE NJ-AIW-UGS-2023), May 6, 2023. Tanishka Kapoor, "Creating Art Using Artificial Intelligence," 2023 IEEE North Jersey AI Workshop of Undergraduate and Graduate Students (IEEE NJ-AIW-UGS-2023), May 6, 2023. Akshit Tayade, "Sign Language Recognition Using Deep Learning," 2023 IEEE North Jersey AI Workshop of Undergraduate and Graduate Students (IEEE NJ-AIW-UGS-2023), May 6, 2023. Sanket Zanwar, "Quora Question Pair Similarity," 2023 IEEE North Jersey AI Workshop of Undergraduate and Graduate Students (IEEE NJ-AIW-UGS-2023), May 6, 2023. Aakash Ambodkar, "Brain Stroke Prediction," 2023 IEEE North Jersey AI Workshop of Undergraduate and Graduate Students (IEEE NJ-AIW-UGS-2023), May 6, 2023. Registration IEEE member $ 00.00 Non-member $ 00.00 IEEE Student/Graduate Student/Life Member $ 00.00 Non-IEEE Student/Graduate Student $ 00.00 Organizing Committee Bldg: Zoom Meeting ID: 506 875 4099 , Hoboken, New Jersey, United States

Dear Members of the IEEE North Jersey Section, The IEEE North Jersey Section is pleased to announce its annual "Awards Banquet Event" to be held on Sunday, May 7, 2023 at the Birchwood Manor, in Whippany, New Jersey, from 3 pm until 6 pm. The Section pays tributes to the new Fellows in our Section, as well as the recipients of major IEEE and other technical awards, IEEE Region 1 Awards, and Section Awards. It is a great opportunity to relax, unwind and enjoy the company of fellow IEEE members and non-members at the banquet. Please use the vToos link to make reservation. Please register all attendees by completing the name, address, and e-mail entries on the form. Spouses and guests are welcome. (Please register each guest separately) For more information, please contact: Russell Pepe, Award Committee Chair, Email: [email protected] Ken Oexle, Award Committee Co-Chair, Email: [email protected] Har Dayal, Award Committee Co-Chair, Email: [email protected] Hong Zhao, IEEE North Jersey Section Chair, Email: [email protected] Date: 07 May 2023 Time: 03:00 PM to 06:00 PM (All times are US/Eastern) Address: (https://www.birchwoodmanor.com/), (https://www.google.com/maps/place/111+N+Jefferson+Rd,+Whippany,+NJ+07981/@40.843592,-74.4252376,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c3a7eba9f99a85:0x9b954cbde5eb018e!8m2!3d40.843588!4d-74.4230436?hl=en&authuser=0) Agenda: Tickets/Fees are applicable as follows: EXCOM members plus one guest attend free Award Recipients plus one guest attend for free Invited IEEE dignitaries plus one guest attend for free Advance registration is required for all attendees: $15 for IEEE student members (Discounted Rate) $35 for non-EXCOM members and additional guests $50 for non-IEEE members The capacity of the location is limited, so please make your reservations early. Bldg:  Birchwood Manor, 111 North Jefferson Road, Whippany, New Jersey, United States, 07981

In this presentation you will learn more about women in engineering and computing. New opportunities and challenges are presented and there will be plenty of time for networking and discussions with your fellow IEEE members, researchers, and industry participants. Co-sponsored by: IEEE Maine Section and IEEE Region-1 Speaker(s): Giovanna Guidoboni, Bldg: Barrows Hall, Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium, Orono, Maine, United States, 04469

In this webinar, the following topics will be discussed: - NTN market status, use cases, and different strategies - Testing aspects and challenges associated with NTN-IoT devices - How to use the R&S solutions for NTN-IoT device testing in R&D, conformance, and production Co-sponsored by: IEEE North Jersey Section Speaker(s): Manuel Galozy, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/360177

You are invited to attend the Roger Williams University Computer Science Senior Design Team presentations of their year-long capstone project status on May 9th 2023 at 2:00 PM Eastern. The spring semester focused on implementation. Presentations will begin at 2:10 and each is about 20-25 minutes in length. The order of presentations is listed below and a Zoom link is provided for remote access. Times are approximate 2:10 Academic Advising: Course planning can be difficult especially if a student is not following a typical template. This program assists the student and advisor in selecting courses for the upcoming semester using a drag and drop visual approach. The system also allows a student and advisor to look beyond the current semester and layout a full 8-semester plan and then adjust that plan form semester to semester to account for changes. 2:40 Onsite Scan (Google Glass): Onsite Scan is an application that changes the way information is accessed on the construction work site. Onsite Scan utilizes Google Glass Enterprise 2 technology to scan QR codes that display web pages, and this combined with an intuitive control scheme allows users to access information without needing a device in their hands. 3:10 Hololens: The HoloLens 2 is an innovative, reliable and easy to use wearable device that allows users in a construction setting to scan MSDS labels. Using augmented reality and machine learning, the NFPA diamonds can be scanned to pull up related safety information about that specific material as it pertains to the specific construction site. 3:40 Utility App: Utility app is an application that is used to create markers that use the google map API to identify the locations of pipes and other underground utilities. These markers are then integrated with GPS data so they can appear within google maps. Once the markers are linked to GPS coordinates they can be transferred between devices of equipment operators. Having such information can reduce risk of construction workers being injured by unexpected underground wires or pipes. Anthony Ruocco is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Anthony Ruocco is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: RWU Computer Science Senior Design Presentations Time: May 9, 2023 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://rwu.zoom.us/j/94775038303?pwd=U2FuN3B1M2tXTHVua0pNekFhZXhlZz09 Meeting ID: 947 7503 8303 Passcode: 583877 One tap mobile +16469313860,,94775038303#,,,,*583877# US +13017158592,,94775038303#,,,,*583877# US (Washington DC) Dial by your location +1 646 931 3860 US +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 305 224 1968 US +1 309 205 3325 US +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 646 876 9923 US (New York) +1 253 205 0468 US +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 360 209 5623 US +1 386 347 5053 US +1 507 473 4847 US +1 564 217 2000 US +1 669 444 9171 US +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) +1 689 278 1000 US +1 719 359 4580 US Meeting ID: 947 7503 8303 Passcode: 583877 Find your local number: https://rwu.zoom.us/u/ab8Sj097hZ Bristol, Rhode Island, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/359189

Section Activities Agenda: Review Secretary and Treasury reports Discuss Affinity Group Activities - Consultant Networks, WIE, YP and PACE Review technical society activities - AP/MTT/UFFC, ComSoc/SP, Computyer/SMC, PES Review committee activities - Membership, Entrepreneur Society, IndustryLiason,, Student Activities Old Business New Business 1014 Monroe Turnpike, Monroe, Connecticut, United States, 06468, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/360123

More than 38% of global energy is consumed by industry, and within industry almost 70% of electricity is consumed by electric motors. Given the huge energy cost associated with running these motors, even a 1% increase in operational efficiency will result in huge cost savings. Equipment maintenance is key to optimal motor performance. In general, equipment maintenance can be divided into two broad categories. In the first, equipment is taken out of service on a regular schedule (Preventative Maintenance- PM) and in the second, maintenance occurs when the equipment fails (Corrective Maintenance or "run-to failure"). One occurs too early, the other too late; both are wasteful in terms of time and resources. A third option is Condition-Based Maintenance/Condition-Based Monitoring (CbM). This places sensors where they can detect subsystem trends or excursions from baseline performance to alert process owners about specific problems- before failures occur- allowing replacement parts to be on hand at a conveniently planned repair time. The process owner is no longer replacing good parts on a scheduled maintenance plan, nor is he or she in crisis hair-on-fire mode because the equipment failed unexpectedly. Please join us as Richard Anslow, System Applications Manager within the Industrial Automation Business Unit at Analog Devices, gives us a fascinating introduction to CbM, and how it can improve the availability and reduce costs of systems that we support and work with! Presentation Overview: Background for CbM - What is CbM? - What are the benefits? What are the limitations? - Real life examples. - How do I spot faults from FFT signatures of a motor? Insights from Different CbM Sensor technologies - Vibration - Temperature - Magnetic Sensor types and Market outlook - Market outlook for wired and wireless sensors - Wireless sensor examples - Wired sensor examples - Cloud and Edge Artificial Intelligence Speaker(s): Richard Anslow, Agenda: 11:00 AM Technical Presentation 11:45 AM Questions and Answers 12:00 PM Adjournment Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/356460

The 2023 Awards banquet will be held this year on May 10th at The Post Office Pub, 1 Ray St, North Grafton, MA 01536. There will be a social hour with appetizers at 6:30 PM and Dinner at 7:00 PM. Please bring your IEEE membership card to receive your member service pin. This year we will specifically honoring Life Members, Life Senior Members, and Life Fellows. Life Member dinner costs will be waived. Please identify Life member in membership grade during registration. Dinner is $10.00 for IEEE members and IEEE student members and children, and $20.00 for non-members. You must register by May 5th to attend. Dinner will be Italian-based buffet style. The menu is below. Please indicate if you have any special dietary restrictions on your reservation. Caesar salad, dinner rolls, chicken parmesan, meatball marinara, penne pasta marinara, assorted dessert tray, soda, coffee and tea Directions to the The Post Office Pub can be found here: http://postofficepub.com/find-us/ Agenda: 6:30 PM Social Hour 7:00 PM Dinner 7:30 PM Presentations 1 Ray Street, North Grafton, Massachusetts, United States, 01536, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/357402

May 2023 ExCom meeting Room: TECH 148, Bldg: Technology Building, SUNY Buffalo State University, Parking lot R12, Buffalo, New York, United States, 14222, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/359783

NJ Coast Section Monthly ExComm Virtual Meeting. As an experiment, we will be using Zoom to host this Virtual Meeting. If anyone needs any technical assistance / support with Zoom, please contact Ali Daneshmand at [email protected] or [email protected]. Agenda: - Quorom Status (Ali) - Share Established Quorum & Metric - Minimum 12 out of 23 Required for Budget Voting - Examples of Qualified Voting MembersChapter Chairs, ExComm, Past Chairs, and any other qualified Voting Member - Secretary Report (Tima) - Review of March Minutes - Approval of March Minutes - Treasurer Report (Mike) - Budget Presentation (Mike Sosa) - Budget Approval Vote (Quorum Members) - Chair Report (Filomena) - Old Business - Banquet Party - not in 2023 - Banquet Holiday Party - December 05 - Upcoming Events - June 10 (Saturday) Picnic - List out the remaining scheduled ExCom Meetings - June 03 - King of Prussia - R1 Board of Governors - August 11 to August 14 - Section Congress - New Business (Chapter Chairs) - Region Awards Nominations - Chapter Chair Updates - YTD Accomplishments & Talks - Future Talks and Events Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/357993

A modern grid requires modern communications. Connectivity through Private LTE is helping to shape the future of private wireless broadband networks for utilities with the right tools, solutions, and technology—all on a platform ready to power the grid of the future, starting today. Application typically in only the telecommunications and wireless technology are now expanding to the Utility Sector enabling an improved communications landscape capable of meeting the changing needs of utility control. That means connectivity for daily operations, identifying faults, communication during natural disasters and future smart grid initiatives. Safety, security, reliability, and resiliency are on the minds of every utility leader and innovator committed to better serving their communities and service territories. Speaker(s): Jason Agenda: The seminar fee includes lunch, refreshments and handouts. Non-members joining IEEE within 30 days of the seminar will be rebated 50% of the IEEE registration charge. Four hours of instruction will be provided. If desired, IEEE Continuing Education Units (0.4 CEUs) will be offered for this course - a small fee of $55 will be required for processing. Please pay attention to the “Registration Fee” and choose the appropriate choice either with or without CEUs. CEU Evaluation Form can be found at: (https://innovationatwork.ieee.org/ieee-pes-northjersey-certificates/) At this time, our attendance is being limited to fifty (50). Please only register if you know you are going to attend, and you must be registered to participate. Room: Auditorium, Bldg: PSE&G - Hadley Road Facility, 4000 Hadley Road, South Plainfield, New Jersey, United States, 07080

GAMBIT Satellite - Panel Discussion Imagine building a camera with early 1960s technology to take photographs from 130 miles above the Earth, moving over 18,000 miles per hour, and clear enough to see trucks stored in a base. That’s just what the Research & Engineering division (originally part of Kodak and now owned by L3Harris Technologies) did while developing the camera optics for a highly classified reconnaissance satellite project called Gambit-1. Gambit was one of a series of top-secret satellites whose mission was to photograph Soviet military and industrial capabilities from orbit. Between 1963 and 1967, Gambit-1 flew 38 missions and consistently returned high resolution photographs to Earth. This allowed US National Security a view of the Soviet Union and other areas of potential hostile activity that were previously inaccessible without international incident. The Research & Engineering division developed the satellite’s 77-inch focal length camera, which provided resolution of about 2-3ft, as well as the film transport system. Once exposed, the special film was ejected from the satellite in the film return capsule, which then fell through the atmosphere to be recovered mid-air by specially equipped USAF planes and flown to Rochester for processing. The Gambit optical system designed and developed by these Rochester men and women was partially declassified in 2011 and is now on long-term loan to the RMSC by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Visitors can see the new display in the Strasenburgh Planetarium lobby. Speaker(s): Bob, David, Jim, Barry Agenda: Time (EDT) Description Venue 5:30 PM ‒ 6:30 PM Rochester IEEE SectionDessert Reception BauschAuditorium Lobby 6:30 PM ‒ 7:30 PM GAMBIT SatellitePanel Discussion BauschAuditorium 7:30 PM ‒ 8:00 PM GAMBIT SatelliteExhibition StrasenburghPlanetarium Lobby Room: Bausch Auditorium, Bldg: Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Avenue, Rochester, New York, United States, 14607

Silicon-based Terahertz systems is a field that is only about a decade old. In this time, we have seen a phenomenal growth of silicon systems operating at THz frequencies for a wide range of applications in sensing, imaging and communication. It can be argued that both the ‘THz gap’ and the ‘technology and applications gap’ is closing in meaningful ways in the THz range. Technologies beyond 100 GHz focusing on sensing, imaging and wireless back-haul links are getting attractive as we enter into a new area of highly dense network of autonomous systems requiring ultra-high speed and reliable links. In order to move beyond this inflection point as Moore’s law continue to slow, I will discuss why we need to look beyond the classical ‘device’-level metrics of efficiency and sensitivity of THz sources and detectors towards holistic ‘system’ level properties such as scalability and programmability. Such properties are critically important for applications in sensing and imaging, as evidenced across sensor fusion technologies across mmWave, IR and optical frequencies. In this talk, I will highlight approaches that cut across electromagnetics, circuits, systems and signal processing to enable THz beamforming arrays, CMOS sensors reconfigurable across the three field properties of spectrum (100 GHz-1000 GHz), beam pattern and polarization (Nature Comm’19), programmable THz metasurfaces with CMOS tiling (Nature Elec’20), and enabling dynamic spectrum shaping (ISSCC’21, JSSC’21) and physically secure sub-THz links (ISSCC’20, Nature Elec’21). In the end, I will comment on what could be the major directions for the field in the coming decade. Co-sponsored by: IEEE Future Networks Technical Community Speaker(s): Kaushik Sengupta , Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/360653

All I Needed to Know about Project Management, I Learned Planning a Wedding When Diane was planning her wedding, she had an opportunity to work on site at a nuclear power plant assisting in the development of the schedule for the second unit. Her response to the request was “I just need access to a phone during lunch.” If you have planned a wedding, a conference, an event, a move, a remodel, or other big change, you have been a project manager. Diane will provide an overview of project management using examples as small as a wedding to as large as a major power plant. She will also address how Agile may fit into your project or how the PM fits into an Agile project. For those considering project management careers, she will cover PM and Agile certifications and project management jobs. Speaker(s): Diane Bowen Collier, Agenda: IEEE-USA's free webinars/events are designed to help you find your next job, maintain your career, negotiate an appropriate salary, understand ethical considerations in the workplace and learn about other career-building strategies and public policy developments that affect your profession. For information regarding upcoming webinars or to visit our vast webinar archive, please visit: https://ieeeusa.org/careers/webinars/ This program is offered exclusively to active IEEE members. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/358724

IN Person ExCom 6PM to order dinner, business will start 6:45 Agenda: NH Section ExCom Meeting Agenda 1. Attendance Quorum check -- David Casper 2. approval of agenda including consent agenda Consent to approval of outstanding 2023 minutes (in the appropriate month's ExCom directory area) https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10bSrj8mZMapJLPlc__rIC5zgkpe22-h4?usp=share_link Consent to approval of outstanding 2023 treasurer reports https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10bSrj8mZMapJLPlc__rIC5zgkpe22-h4?usp=share_link 3. Chairs Comments Jim will be attending Region1/2 combined Board of Govenors meeting June 2-4 Parking lot: Review of how we handle budget, and possible guidelines on spending (target March meeting) 4. Action Item Report - Jim/et al -- elevation committee 5. Chapter/Affiliate Group Activity & coordination Key action: identify one or two topics in your chapter/affiliate group area of interest and plan on which month you will try to organize an activity based on that. 6. Standing Committee Activities: PACE, Education, Student, ... 7 Old Business --- Creating SSIT Chapter -- Ed Nelson; also interested: Henry Axtmayer; Bruce Hecht; others? 8 New Business Section & Chapter Election Cycle for 2024/5 Logically organize budget structure (after approval) A document with budget/funding considerations has been set up at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KAU8FhgJJOP8Z2GvM0xBbnfmeUaj-IMDYHWi0Xxxmhw/edit?usp=share_link 9 Next Meeting -- Wed. June 21 (Virtual) 10. For the good of the order -- 11 Adjourn to forum 12 Forum topics (upcoming events, etc) Discussion of budget/re-imbursement processes ========================== Our Leadership Team: Communications and Signal Processing Chair: Open Computer Society Chair: Wei Lu Vice Chair: Sridhar Raghavan Treasurer: Baris Kazar Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society Chair: Laura Wierschke Secretary: J Michael OConnor Microwave T&T/Antennas and Propagation Chair: Elizabeth H. Schenk Vice Chair: Ian Armstrong Power and Energy Society Chair: Tom Mongeon Reliability Society Chair: Michael W. Bannan Robotics and Automation Society Chair: Sridhar Raghavan Affiliate Groups Consultants Network Chair: Raj Vayyavur Life Members Chair: Alan Schecter Secretary: J Michael OConnor Women In Engineering/Young Professionals Chair: Barbara Bancroft Education Chair/Community Qiayon Yu Student Activities May Wan History Committee Jason Hui PACE Henry Axtmayer Bldg: Airport Diner, 2280 Brown Ave, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States, 03103-6828

Maine Semiconductor Industry Day brings experts from academia and industry together with policymakers to plan for the future workforce and R&D needs in this important sector of our economy. Join us in Portland at UMaine’s Portland Gateway to learn and contribute. Featuring research and innovation, workforce development, networking, and more. Participation is limited! There is no registration fee, but please register (https://umaine.edu/portland/event/ieee-maine-semiconductor-industry-day/) Co-sponsored by: UMaine Agenda: 10:00 AM – Welcome & Opening Remarks PIPS VEAZEY* | Director, Portland Gateway ALI ABEDI* | Associate Vice President for Research and Vice President, IEEE Council of RFID KODY VARAHRAMYAN* | Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School 10:15 AM – Industry Panel STEVEN LEIBERGER | Principal Technologist, Diode RISHI YADAV | Principal ASIC Engineer, Electronic Systems & Technologies Innovation Center MITRE YONG LIU | Principal Member of Technical Staff, Onsemi STEPHEN SWAN | MFAB Site Quality Manager, TI Moderator: JULIA UPTON Chair, IEEE Maine Section, and Associate Professor, Husson University 11:15 AM – Academic Panel GIOVANNA GUIDOBONI* | Dean of Engineering and Computing DAN KOLOSKI | Head of Learning Programs, Roux Institute at Northeastern University JEREMY QUALLS | Vice President for Research and Dean, University of Southern Maine BRAD KINSEY | Associate Dean of Engineering, University of New Hampshire Moderator: PIPS VEAZEY* Director, Portland Gateway 1:00 PM – Faculty Panel NURI EMANETOGLU* | Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering MUSTAFA GUVENCH | Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern Maine MAURICIO P. DA CUNHA* | Professor of Electrical Engineering ROSEMARY SMITH* | Professor of Electrical Engineering Moderator: VIJAY DEVABHAKTUNI* Department Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering 1:45 PM – Funding Panel BRIAN WHITNEY | President, Maine Technology Institute NADIA EL-MASRY | Program Director, Future of Semiconductors, National Science Foundation Moderator: JAKE WARD* Vice President, Strategic Partnerships and Innovation *Indicates University of Maine 300 Fore Street, Portland, Maine, United States, 04101

Having a secure and reliable system is key in ensuring connectivity for daily operations, identifying faults, communication during natural disasters and future smart initiatives. By creating a Private LTE network brings control back to the utilities from the public carriers. There are many new areas and technologies that have been enabled through use of different RF bands ranging from 600mHZ to 6.0 Ghz that will enable utilities to maintain protection and control while also gathering data to make better operational decisions. From EV chargers to AMI Meters, technology has adapted and so now do utilities. Speaker(s): Jason “J.T.” Mills, , Agenda: Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/359098

Road transportation, which accounts for 22 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, is undergoing a major transformation with the advent of ridesharing, autonomous driving, and vehicle electrification. Collectively these technologies, in conjunction with renewable sources of electricity, have the potential to dramatically reduce the negative impact of road transportation on the health of the planet. The successful convergence of these technologies will require electric vehicles that are low cost and fully autonomous. These attributes can be realized through dynamic wireless charging. However, this will require wireless charging technology that is well beyond current capabilities and opens new areas of research related to power and transportation infrastructure. Using examples from research on capacitive wireless charging (as opposed to the more common inductive techniques), which leverage very high frequency power electronics, this talk will highlight the opportunities and challenges in dynamic wireless charging of electric vehicles. Speaker(s): Dr Khurram Afridi 440 N Wolfe Rd, Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94085, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/356408

CubeSat Antennas— from Link Budget Analysis to Orbits CubeSats are modular and standardized modern small satellites. They have been gaining steady popularity as educational projects, low-cost space exploration vehicles for technology demonstrations, multi-point observations of space environment, and monitoring/reporting proper deployment of expensive deep space instruments. Antennas are critical components for CubeSat missions and provide some or all of the following functions: telemetry, tracking, command (TT\&C), high speed downlink for payload data, receiving positioning data, and inter-satellite cross links. To provide reliable and effective antenna solutions, it is important to understand basics of CubeSat development cycle and link budget analysis. The objective of this presentation is to offer a tour of several recent CubeSat missions and antenna designs for spacecraft, ground station, and radio beacon. The designs are guided by the link budget analysis, material selection, and form factors specific to each application. Bio Dr. Reyhan Baktur is an associate professor at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Utah State University (USU). Her research interests include antennas and microwave engineering with a focus on antenna design for CubeSats; optically transparent antennas; multifunctional integrated antennas, sensors, and microwave circuits. She is affiliated with the Center for Space Engineering at USU, the Space Dynamics Laboratory (the university affiliated research center), and collaborates with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Baktur is an an IEEE Antennas and Propagation (APS) Distinguished Lecturer of 2022-2024, AdCom member of IEEE APS, and is active in US National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science, serving as the vice chair for commission B, and the inaugural chair for the Women in Radio Science. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/358488

Major Transition of US Power Grid At this very moment, the power grid, upon which the citizens of the U.S.A. and the world rely, is in a state of major transition. Energy cost fluctuations and bulk-power market volatility have increased, often the result of the proliferation of renewable energy and the decreased use of fossil fuel-based energy. While renewable energy is a boon to our environment, many contemporary policy-makers identify that fossil fuel-based energy may still need to be employed to keep the power systems functioning because they contend that, “… the sun does not always shine and the winds also become calm.” “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” – Winston Churchill, (1952) 1 PDH credit is offered for this event. Co-sponsored by: IEEE Buffalo Section & Jt Chapter PE31/IA34 Speaker(s): Nick Agenda: Time (EDT) Description Venue 6:30 PM ‒ 7:30 PM Major Transition of the US Power Gridby Dr. Nick Gilewski Virtual Presentation 7:30 PM ‒ 8:00 PM Q&A Discussion Virtual Presentation Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/360565

5:00-6:00 pm Dinner meet and greet (registration closed) 6:00-8:00 pm ExCom meeting (virtual attendees only) Agenda: Call to Order Chair’s Report (Rhonda Green) Vice Chair’s Report (James Martino) Secretary’s Report (Udit Sharma) Treasurer's Report (Sandy Mazzola) Society Reports (Chapter Chair & Vice Chair) Affinity Group Reports (Group Chair & Vice Chair) Committee Reports (Committee Chair, Vice Chair) New Business & Voting Items (All) Action Items (Secretary, All) Closing Remarks and Adjourn (Rhonda Green) Room: No longer accepting in-person registrations, Zebra Technologies - IN PERSON AT CAPACITY, One Zebra Plaza, Holtsville, New York, United States, 11742, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/360193

With the rise of cloud-based and managed services, public safety agencies responsible for emergency operations have struggled to advance technologically without sacrificing reliability and redundancy. DEN (Distributable Emergency Network) is a solution that allows public safety agencies and other approved organizations to operate a fully managed IT infrastructure in austere environments with or without an Internet connection. We will discuss the difference between daily IT operations and disaster IT operations and why it was necessary to build the "Black Cloud". Co-sponsored by: IEEE-USA MOVE Program Speaker(s): Andy Wittman Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/361631

The demand for high-speed, low-power analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) for high-speed wireline transceivers and mmWave radios continues to grow unabated, driven in part by advances in DSP-based architectures and technology-scaling benefits in digital circuits. Recent works on high-speed ADCs operating at > 10 GHz with 6 to 8 bits of resolution have made tremendous progress, but significant challenges remain. This talk discusses techniques to achieve simultaneous high speed and high power efficiency by using the time-interleaved successive-approximation-register (SAR) architecture. We present “constant-matching scaling” and “grouped capacitors” for the digital-to-analog-converter (DAC) to aggressively reduce the capacitance and increase the speed. The ADC also demonstrates a “dual-path” bootstrapped switch to increase the sampling spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR). Employing the above and other low-power, high-speed techniques, the proposed SAR ADC obtains a single-channel speed of 1.25-GHz without the need for pipelining. The ADC uses only 8X time-interleaving to achieve an overall sampling rate of 10 GHz and a signal-to-noise-and-distortion ratio (SNDR) of 36.9 dB at Nyquist while consuming 21 mW. Speaker(s): Shiuh-hua Wood Chiang, Room: 240, Bldg: Electrical Engineering, 94 Brett Road, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States, 08854

This talk is designed to discuss managing your career. There are 12 important things to keep in mind when living and managing your career to achieve your goals. These will be explained and explored with examples and photographs based on the speaker's 49 years as an engineer, manager and executive managing people's careers, and 52 years as an IEEE member (IEEE Life Fellow) and IEEE-HKN Member. Your career is your career and understanding your priorities (which can change) and your company's objectives can help you have a rewarding and fulfilling career. Speaker(s): John D. McDonald, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/361305

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This webinar demonstrates how the receiver performance is affected, in terms of the physical layer and application layer parameters, by different types of interference signals. Co-sponsored by: IEEE North Jersey Section Speaker(s): Naseef Mahmud, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/362054