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IEEE Buenaventura July 2018 Newsletter
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Local IEEE Events ∙  Jul 19: Mars Helicopter Telecom — Hub101 ∙  Jul 24: Advanced IC Packaging Solutions and Reliability Challenges — Skyworks, Lawrence Drive ∙  Aug 1: IEEE Buenaventura Summer Mixer: Our Free Will vs. Artificial Intelligence — Hub101 Job Opportunities and Sponsors ∙ Advanced Personnel Profiles — Staffing & Recruiting Since 1995 ∙ Syntesis Global — Management Consulting ∙ Ameriprise Financial — D. F. Rick Speidel, Financial Advisor
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July 19, 2018 Mars Helicopter Telecom 6:30 PM Speaker: Courtney Duncan Meetings are free and open to the public. Abstract Mars Helicopter is the first attempt at aerial flight on a planet other than earth. It is slated to go to Mars with the 2020 Rover. The air near the surface of Mars is extremely thin and cold, making it a significant engineering challenge to bear the overall vehicle mass, and stay warm enough to survive, on a limited power budget. The telecom subsystem shares these constraints, while providing a radio frequency tether to the rover, in support of five planned demonstration sorties. This talk is an overview of the Mars Helicopter Mission and the Telecom subsystem implementation. About the Speaker Courtney Duncan has worked on the Space Transportation System Ku-Band communications system, the Rouge family of science grade GPS receivers, the Space Interferometry Mission Microsecond ArcSecond Testbed, MONTE for deep space navigation, the Shuttle Radar Topography mission, GRAIL, the SCaN TestBed, and the Iris CubeSat compatible deep space transponder. He currently manages the reprogrammable Signal Processing Group (337G), and leads the telecom team for the Mars Helicopter. Location Hub101 Cal Lutheran Center for Entrepreneurship 31416 Agoura Road Westlake Village, CA 91361 (map) Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura Aerospace and Electronic Systems, and Microwave Theory and Techniques chapters Flyer (PDF) July 24, 2018 Advanced IC Packaging Solutions and Reliability Challenges Pizza/Refreshments: 6:30 PM Presentation: 7:00 PM Speaker: Richard Rao Free admission. Register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2018-07-edcas Abstract This talk provides an introduction of most advanced IC packaging solutions and related reliability challenges. It covers 3D/2.5D/2.1D and FanOut WLP packaging integration, advanced interconnects such as TSV (Through Si Via) /uBumps, Si Interposer, Cu Pillar and Cu/Cu direct bonding related failure modes, and finally the Chip to Package Interaction (CPI) issues on 16 nm and beyond FinFET nodes. About the Speaker Dr. Richard Rao is currently a Technical Fellow of Microsemi, a Microchip Company, a leading supplier of high reliability integrated circuits, located in Southern California and a Senior Member of IEEE. He is the present Chair of IEEE EPS (Electronics Packaging Society) Reliability Technical Committee. Dr. Rao is responsible for the corporate reliability and advanced packaging solutions. His focus is to find advanced packages to meet the high performance, high reliability and high-power semiconductor ICs; to study the new failure modes and mechanisms of cutting edge silicon and packaging technologies as well as to develop design for reliability solutions for advanced circuits, packaging and chip to package interaction. He has a Ph.D. degree in solid mechanics of materials from the University of Science and Technology of China. Prior to joining Vitesse Semiconductor Corp (now Microsemi) in 2004, Dr. Rao held various academic and technical positions in reliability physics and engineering. He was an associate professor at University of Science and Technology of China, a research fellow at Northwestern University, a National Science and Technology Board Research Fellow in Singapore; and a principal engineer at Ericsson Inc. He has published over 30 papers on reliability physics and applications and he is a main contributor of several JEDEC standards. He is a technical committee member of IRPS (International Reliability and Physics Symposium) and ECTC (Electronics Component and Technology Conference). He is a frequent speaker to IRPS, ECTC, ISQED (International Symposium on Quality Electronics Design), ASME Symposiums and a keynote speaker to ICEPT and International Conf on System on Chip, etc. Dr. Rao has over 20 years hands on experience and knowledge in silicon to package to system integration such as HKMG and FinFET, high performance FCBGA/CSP, WLP, 2.5D/3D, chip to package to board interaction, board and system level reliability physics and applications. He was invited to give keynote speech and tutorials on several international conferences. Location Skyworks Solutions 649 Lawrence Drive Newbury Park, CA  91320 (Not the main building; please use link to arrow that pinpoints building) Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura Electron Devices/Circuits and Systems Chapter Flyer (PDF) August 1, 2018 IEEE Buenaventura Summer Mixer: Our Free Will vs. Artificial Intelligence A Panel Discussion with Technical Experts Complementary Buffet opens at 6:30 PM Panel Discussion/Q&A starts shortly after 7:00 PM Event is free of charge, but pre-registration is requested to help us plan appropriately. Register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2018-08-mixer Abstract How do we preserve our own voice and freedom of decision when big data “reads us” and gives unsolicited advice? Does artificial Intelligence manipulate our power of decision? Furthermore, recent research showed that algorithms may have kept some human biases that were involuntarily embedded at time of programming? This Summer event will be Q&A between the audience and a panel of guest experts in artificial intelligence, sensing, imaging, internet search engines and algorithms. Together, we will explore how to live in a smart environment while staying alert of the boundaries between our privacy and our connectivity. Location Hub101 Cal Lutheran Center for Entrepreneurship 31416 Agoura Road Westlake Village, CA 91361 (map) Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura Section Flyer (PDF)
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