Chapter Event
April 20 AES/LMAG Chapter Talk: Wild Weasel – The Suicide Mission
April 20, 2023 Wild Weasel – The Suicide Mission at Hub101 and online Speaker: Jerry Knotts Networking: 6:30 PM PDT Presentation: 7:00 PM PDT Register at: events.vtools.ieee.org/m/355618 [Update: We are aware of the IEEE vTools outage. If you are not able to register, please see the end of this post for location and online information.]… Read more
Dr. Bernard Sklar Discusses the ABCs of OFDM
On 18 March and 25 March 2021, Dr. Bernard Sklar gave a two-part talk to the Communications Society Chapter on “The ABCs of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)”. The main benefit of OFDM is its ability to cope with severe multipath channel conditions without the need for complex equalization filters. How does it accomplish this?… Read more
Prof. Fred Harris Discusses Recent Interesting and Useful Enhancements of Polyphase Filter Banks
On Thursday, 25 February 2021, Prof. fred harris gave a talk to the Communications Society Chapter on “Recent Interesting and Useful Enhancements of Polyphase Filter Banks”. He presented a set of severe channelizer specifications and illustrate various channelizer modifications to reduce processing cost while meeting original design specifications. Some of the new variations offer quite… Read more
Automotive Radar – A Signal Processing Perspective on Current Technology and Future Systems
Dr. Markus Gardill presented a very interesting lecture on Automotive Radars at the BV MTTS October meeting. There is a fair amount of interest in this field since there is a Automotive Radar developer/manufacturer (Delphi/Aptiv) located in this area. A few engineers from this company attended the event. The event… Read more
RainCube: First Spaceborne Radar in a CubeSat
Slides: RainCube_IEEE_MTTS_Chapter_4-21-2020 Abstract RainCube is a technology demonstration mission to enable Ka-Band precipitation radar technologies in a low-cost, quick turnaround platform. It is funded by NASA Science Mission Directorate’s (SMD) Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) as part of the InVEST-2015 (In-space Validation of Earth Science Technologies) program. RainCube is the first radar and active payload… Read more
An Engineer’s Introduction To Lightweight Backpacking …And Great Places To Go
Slides: AN ENGINEERS INTRO TO LIGHTWEIGHT BACPACKING IEEE-BV 16-Sept-2020 Recording: https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/webappng/sites/ieeemeetings/recording/play/2e781048ad2a427ebdbff417b7371ee3 This summer has been unusual for most of us. So we took a break from our usual technical talks. Instead we held lectures on topics which are more relevant to our lives.Dennis Horowitz, an entrepreneur and an avid outdoorsman gave an interesting lecture on… Read more
Rejuvenate Aging Eye with Presbyopic Implant in the Eye (PIE)
Slides: Rejuvenate Aging Eyes-DrRajeshKhanna-A Buenaventura MTTS August, 2020 meeting was held online. Dr. Rajesh Khanna of Khanna Vision Institute delivered a very interesting lecture on state of the art, vision corrective surgeries. He described the merits and advantages of different types of vision corrective surgeries such as LASIK , Prelex and Presbyopic Implants in… Read more
Facts & Stats of Pandemics
Slides:Facts-and-Stats-of-Pandemics-7 Last Updated : 5/8/2021 This summer we took a break from technical talks and addressed one of the most challenging events that a modern industrial society has faced. SAR COVID-19 or popularly known as Corona Virus has adversely effected majority of the human population of the world in 2020. Resources in various fields have… Read more
March In-Person Talks Canceled
As of March 18, all remaining in-person talks scheduled for March 2020 have been canceled due to restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19. We hope to schedule talks using web conferencing in the near future. Please visit our section calendar or subscribe to our announcements for updates.
Dr. N. Nan Chu Discusses IEEE Brain Data Bank Challenge
On Wednesday, 26 February 2020, Dr. N. Nan Chu discussed the IEEE Brain Data Bank Challenge. The challenge provides an opportunity for graduate/post-doc researchers and other professionals to present and share their results regarding brain data analytics and usability with a chance to win cash awards. Dr. Chu has agreed to let us share the… Read more