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IEEE Buenaventura April 2019 Newsletter
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Local IEEE Events •  Apr 2: Cultivate Network Effects — Engineering & Business Series — Hub101 •  Apr 10: Students from Ventura County to Show Off Their Robots — La Reina, Library •  Apr 18: Deployment and Control Algorithms for Wheel Cluster Formation Satellites •  Apr 24: A Next-generation Implantable Device: A Wirelessly Powered Intravascular Pacer — CLU, Gilbert Room 253 •  Apr 27: IEEE Buenaventura Senior Member Elevation Clinic — Register by April 15 Other IEEE Announcements •  Join IEEE Now and Save 50% Other Local Happenings •  IEEE Employer Members — Be a C.I.T.Y. Host Reports from Previous Events •  Spring Section Mixer and Expert Panel Event Job Opportunities and Sponsors •  Advanced Personnel Profiles — Staffing & Recruiting Since 1995 •  Syntesis Global — Management Consulting
Local IEEE Events
April 2, 2019 Cultivate Network Effects — Engineering & Business Series Pizza and Networking: 6:00 PM Interactive Session: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Facilitator: Doug Parker Free admission. Register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2019-04-ent Abstract This session will provide a deeper dialogue about the importance of curating and growing your professional network. Doug Parker “Kickass Doug” passion involves working to promote the diversity, creativity, value and opportunities; presented by #OUREntrepidNetwork (characterized by resolute ambition, passionate, bodacious, creative, driven, gutsy, lionhearted, wide-eyed, innovative and undaunted; entrepreneurial; ‘an intrepid problem solver’; ‘an intrepid woman likely to change the world’.) As explained by Joshua Cooper Ramo the author of the Seventh Sense – Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks, “the formation of networks of all kinds, for trade, and biology, and finance and warfare and any of a thousand varied needs, is producing new and still dimly understood sources of innovation and new power centers.” About the Facilitator Doug Parker runs Kickass Café a meetup group. Kickass Café is a gathers of entrepreneurs that meet every Friday at the Matter-Lab office in Camarillo. The Kickass Café meetup brings together startups, investors and partners to tackle critical challenges. The purpose is to accelerate the adoption of progressive technologies through knowledge-sharing and the formation of new partnerships and alliances between key stakeholders. Guests enjoy a wide variety of pitches, demonstrations and expert panel discussions. The last 20 years Doug worked as a Systems Engineer and Project Manager focused on Product Development, Operations, Marketing & Sales. As a member of a team of systems engineers and project managers he has been responsible for marketing and delivering systems engineering and technical risk management expertise. Location Hub101 Cal Lutheran Center for Entrepreneurship 31416 Agoura Road Westlake Village, CA 91361 (map) Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura Entrepreneurship Group April 10, 2019 Students from Ventura County to Show Off Their Robots Pizza/Refreshments: 6:30 PM Meeting: 7:00 PM Presenters: Students from Ventura County schools Meetings are free and open to the public. Register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2019-04-cs Abstract Students from Ventura County schools will demonstrate the robots they built for the VEX Robotics Competition. We will hear an introduction from the teams, followed by an extended demonstration. Bring your kids! This is an excellent opportunity to get them interested in science and engineering. About VEX The VEX Robotics Competition, presented by the REC Foundation, is the largest and fastest growing middle school and high school robotics program globally with more than 20,000 teams from 50 countries playing in over 1,700 competitions worldwide. Each year, an exciting engineering challenge is presented in the form of a game. Students, with guidance from their teachers and mentors, build innovative robots and compete year-round. Location La Reina High School, Library 106 West Janss Road Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (map) Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura Computer Society Chapter, and Robotics and Automation/Industry Applications Chapter April 24, 2019 A Next-generation Implantable Device: A Wirelessly Powered Intravascular Pacer Dinner (optional): Available at 6:00 PM for $12, payable at the door. Presentation (free): 7:00 PM Speaker: Parinaz Abiri Free admission to presentation. Abstract Cardiac arrhythmias and conduction disorders affect millions of patients worldwide, with nearly a million pacemaker implants performed yearly to remedy these disorders. Despite great advancements in implantable cardiac pacemaker technology in the past few decades, complications from pacemaker leads continue to compromise nearly 10% of all implants. This has motivated significant research for the development of leadless devices, including battery-based systems, power harvesting devices, and stimulators wirelessly powered through radiofrequency radiation. This presentation will focus on a novel inductive power transfer system with remote-control stimulation. This architecture is capable of significantly improving power efficiency and reducing tissue energy absorption in a highly asymmetrical system in which the pacer is made small enough to be implanted intravascularly. About the Speaker Parinaz Abiri is a Bioengineering PhD candidate at UCLA while simultaneously pursuing her MD as a Geffen Scholar at the David Geffen School of Medicine. She completed her BS in Biomedical Engineering Summa Cum Laude at UC Irvine. During her graduate work, Parinaz has worked on several patented and published projects, including a wireless pacemaker to treat cardiac arrhythmias, a sensor to detect unstable arterial plaque, a wearable belt to monitor fatty liver disease, a virtual reality platform for simulating cardiac morphology, and a tracking system for catheters. Previous to her graduate work, Parinaz worked on device lead mechanics at Medtronic for nearly 5 years. She has also launched her own startup, PulseMed Inc, which focuses on developing a cardiac and pulmonary diagnostic tool for early disease detection. Location CLU – Gilbert Sports and Fitness Center, 2nd Floor, Room 253 California Lutheran University 130 Overton Court Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (map) Parking: Free parking is available in the lot east of the Gilbert building. Additional free parking is available in the lot on the southwest corner of Olsen and Mountclef. Do not park in the faculty/staff/reserved lots. Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Chapter Visit the EMBS chapter web site for details on other upcoming events April 27, 2019 IEEE Buenaventura Senior Member Elevation Clinic Hub101 in Westlake Village 9 AM to 11 AM By appointment only. Contact Reza Firoozabadi <reza.firoozabadi.us@ieee.org> no later than April 15. IEEE Senior Member is the highest grade for which IEEE members can apply. The IEEE Buenaventura Section has an efficient process to help you become a senior member. To be eligible, members must have an active 2019 membership, be engineers, scientists, educators, technical executives, or originators in IEEE-designated fields, have experience reflecting professional maturity, have been in professional practice for at least ten years (reduced to 5+ years for PhD holders, 6+ years for MS holders, 7+ years for BS holders), and show significant performance over a period of at least five of their years in professional practice. The IEEE Buenaventura Section will be holding a Senior Member Elevation Clinic on Sat April 27 to help as many IEEE members become senior members. Our local IEEE Buenaventura Section has created a process that is smooth and efficient to enable someone to be considered for senior member level. It nominates the applicants for grade elevation, aligns them with two senior members in their area of expertise, and orchestrates 20-minute interviews on April 27. This event is run by volunteers from the Buenaventura Section. There is some homework to be done by the interested members prior to the event and interviews are set by appointment. Anyone interested should contact Reza Firoozabadi as soon as possible, by April 15 at the latest.
Other IEEE Announcements
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Other Local Happenings
IEEE Employer Members — Be a C.I.T.Y. Host Pay it forward - Contribute to your community What is C.I.T.Y.? •  C.I.T.Y. = Community Internships Training Youth, a collaboration of City of Thousand Oaks, Ventura County Office of Education, CLU, Greater Conejo Chamber of Commerce, Conejo Valley USD, Conejo Youth Employment Services •  C.I.T.Y. provides internship opportunities during the summer for incoming high school seniors in the Greater Conejo Valley What’s in it for you? •  Generate positive PR for your company •  Paying it Forward enhances your employee’s engagement and develops their leadership skills Here’s what we ask of you: •  Provide a minimum of 10 hours per week on the job training •  Internships can be paid or unpaid •  Provide a workplace mentor who can meet with the intern weekly Worried about liability? •  Ventura County Office of Education provides umbrella liability coverage for unpaid internships at no cost to you What are the next steps? •  Visit www.toaks.org/city Questions? •  Francine Sprigel, City of Thousand Oaks; youthcommission@toaks.org — 805-381-7362 •  Hilary Howard, VCOE; HHoward@vcoe.org — 805-437-8046
Reports from Previous Events
Spring Section Mixer and Expert Panel Event The IEEE Buenaventura Section spring mixer was held at on Thursday, March 28 the Hub101. Operated by Cal Lutheran University in Westlake Village, CA, Hub101 offers coworking, community, and mentorship for entrepreneurs and small business owners to start, grow, and scale their startups with the help of mentors, coaches and service providers. The 2019 IEEE Buenaventura Project of the Year Award was presented to Eric Thompson, Flight Operations Manager at Aerovironment for the assistance he brought to the Park Rangers. Eric Thompson helped assess the fire damages caused by the Woosley fire with the Quantix drone developed by Aerovironment for precision agriculture monitoring. Our panelists were: Mathew Carathedathu, Object Tracking Developer at Aptiv, designs algorithms supporting the artificial intelligence embedded in automated and autonomous self-guided systems. Mathew brought insights into emulating human intelligence. Murtaza Mogri has worked on optogenetics to study specific neural circuits that play a role in the treatment effects in deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease. Murtaza is the Dir. of Business Development and Market Access at V-Wave, a developer of percutaneous implantable devices for treating patients with chronic Heart Failure. John Rivera is the Director of R&D at Boston Scientific working in the field of neurostimulation. John brings a very engaging perspective on deep brain stimulation (DBS) and new therapies. S.K. Ramesh, Prof. in Engineering and Computer Science, former Dean of Engineering at CSUN, has held several leadership roles with IEEE with the mission to advance technology for humanity. He spotlighted some of the faculty/students projects involving brain-computer initiatives and shared thoughts on the role that engineering professional organizations can play in the journey or reverse engineering the brain. Visit our Facebook page for photos of the event
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