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IEEE
Buenaventura
February
2015 Newsletter
In
This Issue
Job Opportunities
IEEE
Workshop
IEEE
Technical Talks
Other
Announcements
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Job
Opportunities
Sponsored
by Advanced Personnel Profiles
Product Manager - Implantables
Bioness (www.bioness.com), Valencia
Experience with medical device marketing. Key strategic partner of the Marketing team responsible for leading the commercial aspects of implantable products. Manage critical processes related to business planning, marketing plans, product training, portfolio management and development, market research. Requires experience working in an operating room or surgical center.
Contact Pat Jacobs - 805-579-0630 pat.jacobs@advancedpersonnelprofiles.com
Sr. Principal Test Engineer
Alfred Mann Foundation (www.aemf.org), Valencia
Conduct integration test for an electronic medical device system. This position will also lead collaboration efforts for requirements analysis and test documentation, including all related Requirements Specification, Design Description, Test Plan and Test Procedures. Facilitate System Design, System Verification and Validation Strategies in cooperation with other engineering functions. Identify, mitigate and manage technical risk as part of the design oversight process. Provide technical insight to Regulatory/Clinical to support regulatory/clinical strategies.
Contact Pat Jacobs - 805-579-0630 pat.jacobs@advancedpersonnelprofiles.com
Associate Product Manager, Rehabilitation Technology
Bioness (www.bioness.com), Valencia
The Associate Product Manager of Rehabilitation Technology will execute product development and global product portfolio strategies to exceed business objectives. A highly visible upstream and downstream team member with 1-3 years experience in product marketing with medical device experience a plus.
Contact Pat Jacobs - 805-579-0630 pat.jacobs@advancedpersonnelprofiles.com
Sr. Electrical Engineer
Second Sight (www.2-sight.com), Sylmar
The primary focus of this position is to research, develop, design and test application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for use in implanted visual prostheses. Additionally, this position involves the design and testing of electronic systems which support the research, design and manufacturing of the implanted prostheses.
Prefer direct experience in CMOS mixed signal ASIC design, fluent in analog circuit design & knowledge of IC debugging and characterization & test setups.
Contact Pat Jacobs - 805-579-0630 pat.jacobs@advancedpersonnelprofiles.com
Microfabrication Process Engineer
Second Sight (www.2-sight.com), Sylmar
Responsible for supporting the manufacturing of microfabricated electrode structures for nerve stimulation devices. Improve & optimize microfabrication processes such as photolithography, pattern transfer, metal deposition, & wet/dry etching in order to improve product yield. Coordinate identification, purchase, installation, operation and maintenance of new equipment. Use drawing and modeling tools such as AutoCAD and Solidworks to design fixtures, components and photomasks. Must be capable of working on multiple assignments and interact effectively with other departments.
Working knowledge of statistics and experimental design. CAD drafting skills, particularly AutoCAD and SolidWorks.
Contact Pat Jacobs - 805-579-0630 pat.jacobs@advancedpersonnelprofiles.com
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IEEE
Workshop
Feb
18, 2015
From
Inventor to Entrepreneur - The New Face of Entrepreneurship
6:30
PM to 8:30 PM
Instructor:
Jerry Knotts, California Coast Venture Forum
Register online here
$10 online, $20 at the door ($5 for students)
When
do you know that your idea is "good enough" to start a business?
What do you need to know before you start your own business?
What kind of corporate structure is best to choose?
How should you structure a team around you?
How much money do you need at a minimum?
Is it OK to start your business in your garage? Do your need a business
space?
And what are your options to find funding and what tradeoffs will you
have to make?
In
this interactive and illuminating workshop, Jerry Knotts, "Entrepreneur
Whisperer", will openly talk about what it takes for an inventor to
start a business in today's environment. Jerry Knotts is the President/CEO
of the California Coast Venture Forum and President of J.E. Knotts
& Associates. He has more than 30 years successful experience in
small, medium and large sized defense and aerospace low and
hi-technology companies. He served as Vice-President/General Manasger,
Defense Electronics Div, California Microwave and Vice-President,
American Nucleonics Corporation. He serves as a member of the Board of
Counselors, California Lutheran University School of Business; a member
of the SoCalBio Investor Conference Company/Company Screening Board;
and a mentor for the LARTA Institute. Jerry has notable achievements in
general business management, strategic planning, and business
development. As a consultant. He serves on numerous Corporation Boards
and provides strategic and financial planning services to small and
medium sized companies. His academic background includes a BSEE
(Electrical Engineering) from Penn State University; an MBA from
Auburn; and graduate of the Defense Systems Management College (DSMC),
Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF), and Air War College.
Jerry is a Senior Life Member of the IEEE and a registered Professional
Engineer.
Location
California Lutheran University
Ahmanson Science Center, Room 100
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Free parking is available in the G1 visitor lot at the corner of Olsen Road
and Mountclef Boulevard. Do not park in the
faculty/staff/resident lots.
Presented
by:
IEEE Buenaventura Section
Click here to register
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IEEE
Technical Talks
Feb
12, 2015
Frequency-Agile
Radar Electronics for the Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) Mission
Pizza
and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: Dr. Mark Fishman, JPL/NASA/Caltech
Free admission. No RSVP needed.
Abstract
The radar aboard the Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) observatory,
scheduled to launch in early 2015, is an L-band scatterometer /
synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with uniquely designed capabilities for
global retrieval of surface soil moisture. Several key science
requirements have shaped the radar architecture, including requirements
on terrestrial radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation,
calibration stability, and on silencing radiated emissions from the
electronics in the presence of the sensitive radiometer aboard
SMAP. The design uses an unconventional conical scan sequence to
collect SAR data over a wide swath while the radar frequency-hops over
1217-1298 MHz in order to avoid RFI from ground sources. In this
talk, I will discuss: 1) the design trades that led to the choice
of a frequency-hopping, "tunable LO" receiver scheme that significantly
reduces the SMAP radar susceptibility to RFI; 2) loopback calibration
to minimize bias errors in the transmit-power x receiver-gain product;
3) hardware design techniques for decreasing radiated emissions levels
in the 1.41-GHz radiometer band; and 4) pre-launch performance results
from flight radar environmental testing.
About the Speaker
Mark
Fischman received the B.S.E.E. degree from Caltech in 1989, and
M.S.-Ph.D. EE degrees from the University of Michigan, 1996-2001. He
worked as an Electronics Engineer for consumer products at Sony Corp.,
Tokyo, Japan and Pittsburgh, from 1989-95. His thesis work at Michigan
involved the development of a 1.4-GHz direct-sampling digital
radiometer to facilitate a single-chip receiver approach for aperture
synthesis radiometry. In 2001 he joined JPL, where he is currently in
the Radar Technology Group. Dr. Fischman is the lead Radar
Electronics System Engineer for the L-band radar aboard the SMAP
mission. He was an I&T Engineer for the Aquarius sea-surface
salinity instrument, and was designer of the radar's
processor/controller electronics. He is currently assigned as
Instrument Engineer for the Mars 2020 Mission Ka-band landing
radar. His research interests include sensor architectures for
scatterometry, receiver noise-reduction techniques, and RFI detection
and mitigation.
Location
Skyworks
Solutions
Conference Room
649 Lawrence Drive (Intersection of West Hillcrest Drive and Lawrence
Drive)
Newbury Park, CA 91320
Presented
by:
IEEE Buenaventura AESS/MTT-S/LMAG/EDCAS Chapters
Click here for flyer
Feb
25, 2015
Stem
Cells to Treat Human Diseases
Dinner
(optional):
Available at 6:00 PM for $10, payable at the door.
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: Dr. Amander Clark, UCLA
Free admission to presentation. No RSVP needed.
Abstract
Amander
T. Clark, PhD, a cell biologist and geneticist from the UCLA Department
of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology and Institute for Stem Cell
Biology and Medicine, will discuss how stem cells hold considerable
promise to change the way we treat disease and injury. You will learn
about the different types of stem cells available to clinicians and
scientists, with an emphasis on embryonic stem cells which are
currently being tested in clinical trials to treat Stargardts Disease.
About the Speaker
Amander
T Clark is a cell biologist and geneticist who was recruited to UCLA
Department of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology and Institute
for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine to establish a new and exciting
research program in stem cell biology. Prior to joining the faculty at
UCLA, Amander was on faculty at the University of California, San Francisco
where she worked under the mentorship of Dr. Renee Reijo Pera to build
a cell based model to study human embryo development using human
embryonic stem cells. This pioneering work was the first to demonstrate
that human embryonic stem cells could be used to differentiate the
human germ cell lineage in vitro. Amander has been the recipient of a
number of awards for her research including a Young Investigator Award
from the International Society for Stem Cell Research (2003), a Lalor
Foundation Research Award (1999-2000), An Australian Postgraduate Award
(1995-1998) and a Deans Prize for academic excellence (1994). Amander's
work has published in significant high impact Journals including
Nature, Human Molecular Genetics, Stem Cells and Cancer, and is a
sought after speaker on the topic of human embryonic stem cell biology.
Location
California Lutheran University
Ahmanson Science Center, Room 100
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Free parking is available in the G1 visitor lot at the corner of Olsen Road
and Mountclef Boulevard. Alternatively, CLU Public Safety has
provided us with parking passes for on street
parking. Do not park in the faculty/staff/resident lots.
Presented
by:
IEEE Buenaventura EMBS Chapter
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Other
Announcements
Feb
10, 2015
Career Events on CLU Campus
California Lutheran University will be hosting two career events on February 10 of interest to students.
1) Practical Tips on How to Find your First Internship or First Job
4:30 to 5:30 PM
Free admission.
For questions and to register, please contact Robert Rumer at rrumer@ieee-bv.org.
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBS) members who are engineers, CEOs, business leaders, and recruiters will answer your questions.
Presented
by: IEEE EMBS Chapter
2) Jobs
of the Future - Why You Need to Understand Technology
6:00 to 8:00 PM
For middle, high school and college students. Families
welcome.
Free admission.
For questions and to register, please contact Narda Fargotstein at pfargot@ieee-bv.org.
SPEAKER PANEL
Nathalie Gosset, EE, MS, MBA
Sr. Director, Marketing and Technology Innovation Evaluation, Alfred E.
Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering, USC
What are the jobs of the future? What jobs are disappearing and what
new jobs are being created? What is driving this change?
Pat
Jacobs
President, Advanced Personnel Profiles, Inc.
What background and schooling will you need to get started? Who are
employers hiring and why? What do you need to consider while in middle,
high school and college to prepare yourself.
Vivienne
Payne, Ph D
Scientist, Earth Science Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
What is it really like to work in a science career? What we do at JPL.
Presented
by:
AAUW and California Lutheran University
Click here for latest information
Location for Both Events
California Lutheran University
Lundring Events Center
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Feb
19, 2015
National
Engineering Week - 2015 Awards Banquet
at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley
4:00
to 9:00 PM
An evening honoring Engineers, Educators, Projects, Companies, and
Students
Scholarship
awards to engineering students are presented in the stunning setting of
the Presidential Reagan Library. 13 Engineering Societies from the
Ventura and Santa Barbara counties gather to honor their Engineer of
the Year and Project of the Year recipients.
Those who have registered and attending the banquet will have the
chance to tour the library before the dinner and also enjoy the
exhibition Amazing Automobiles: The Ultimate Car Exhibit.
Please join us at the IEEE table. For tickets contact Dougaskegard@ieee.org.
Tickets are $75 prior to Feb 2nd, and $80 after that. Or for
general seating, you can purchase tickets by mail using the form at this link.
Guest Speaker will be Dr. Claudia Alexander, U.S. Project Scientist for
the multinational Rosetta Project which recently placed the Philae
lander on the comet 67P/C-G. In the world of space science, Claudia
Alexander is a household name. In addition to her position with the
U.S. Rosetta Project, she was the last project manager of NASA's
Galileo mission to Jupiter and, early on, was a member of the technical
staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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Registration Opens,
4:00 pm
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Tours of Air Force One,
4:00 - 5:00 pm
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Tours of Presidential
Library, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Social Hour, 5:30 pm -
6:30 pm
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Dinner, Awards and
Guest Speaker, 6:45 pm - 9:00 pm
The Buenaventura Section of IEEE will honor Jagmohan Bajaj, Ph.D., Executive with Teledyne Imaging Sensors, with the prestigious Section award: 2015 IEEE Engineering of the Year. Xirgo Tech will receive the Section's IEEE 2015 Project of the Year award for itsXT-4860G, a Solar-powered Container/Trailer GPS Tracking Platform. Mr. Nader Barakat will receive the award on behalf of Xirgo Tech.
Presented
by:
National Engineer's Week Committee of Ventura and Santa Barbara
Counties
Click here
for latest information
IEEE
Mobile Applications Development Contest
IEEEmadC
(Mobile Applications Development Contest) is a new international
contest organized for all IEEE student members across the globe. The
main goal of the IEEEmadC is to provide additional competitive activities
for students in the scope of computer science. By competing, students
will focus on developing their technical, social and team skills.
IEEEmadC is organized in four main stages (Education, Idea, Development
and Judging stage) within six months from November 2014 until April
2015. Teams of up to three students are invited to devise and develop
mobile applications that could contribute to the IEEE community or
apply technology for humanity. We invite all students to participate in
this contest and win attractive prizes. More info is available on our
official web page: http://ieeemadc.org/ or Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/IEEEmadC.
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