March 2, 2016
Can I see Batman vs. Superman in my home tonight on Demand? A Gentle Introduction to
Video Compression
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: Ray Duran
Meetings are free and open to the public. Please
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Abstract
Videos
take up of lot of memory space, about 17MB per second from a camcorder video.
When shared across a network with a system that needs to stream the tape in
real time, the video must be compressed by the sender and restored by the
receiver. The talk will be about the technology, and the engineering and
basic math of streaming video. In particular, the speaker will introduce the
basics of JPEG-2000 equivalent video compression.
About the Speaker
Ray Duran is a Principal FPGA Design Engineer at
Extron Electronics. He has 25 years of engineering experience in the field of
programmable devices and has become an expert in the design, development and
programing of very high speed digital signal processing chips for
applications requiring the management of high data throughput and rapid
analysis such as video and military based systems with intense computing
analysis. Ray graduated with a BSEE degree from the California State
University Fresno in 1988. He recently obtained a master' in engineering from
UCLA in 2014.
Location
CLU
Swenson Center, Room 101
California Lutheran
University
141 Faculty Street
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Parking: Visitors
may park on CLU streets after 7 PM without a permit. Before 7 PM, we recommend that you park in
the G1
visitor lot on the southwest corner of Olsen and Mountclef, and walk to
the Swenson building. Do not park in the faculty/staff lots, and do not park in the areas
marked “Homeowner Parking Only”.
Presented By:
IEEE Robotics and Automation / Industry Applications Chapter
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March 3, 2016
Career Development Webinar: How to Keep Your Career Relevant at all Times,
Job Trends in Technology and the "S Curve"
11 AM - 12 PM
Hosted by Syntesis Global
Presenter:
Nathalie Gosset, IEEE
The webinar is free of charge. Please
register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2016-03-career
Abstract
This
event is the first of a series of webinars focused on how to thrive and
capitalize on career change and "not just do different things, but do
things differently."
This
talk is presented by Nathalie Gosset, EE, MS, MBA who is the Chair of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Buenaventura Section. The
take away of the talk are:
• How to join the list of most
wanted employees.
• Cultivating a fresh and
unique professional identity removes the risk of obsolescence.
• 21st century job relevance is
a new art to be learned.
• Strategies to find the hidden
jobs with great growth potential.
About the Speaker
Nathalie Gosset, EE, MS, MBA is the Chair of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Buenaventura Section. She
has woven her engineering, marketing, and business expertise throughout her
professional life. Ms. Gosset is a sought-after public speaker who tracks
emerging technical market segments and identifies new types of jobs that are
entering the technical fields. She is the former Sr. Director, Market and
Technology Innovation Evaluation at the Alfred E Mann Institute at the
University of Southern California, where she reviewed more than 600
innovations and established the commercial value of the best ideas. Ms.
Gosset has 29 years of experience in the development and commercialization of
technology-based products. Prior to AMI, she headed engineering groups where
she specialized in the turnaround of startup companies with special focus on
engineering team leadership (VP of Engineering at Sabeus, Director of
Engineering at Novera). She worked for
large companies where at Alcatel after ten years in optical design
engineering, she became Director of the Program Management Office overseeing
the activities of about 600 engineers.
The
IEEE Buenaventura Section is grateful to Syntesis Global who is hosting this
webinar series. Syntesis Global introduces the “new standard” for creating a
culture of excellence in leadership development, organizational dynamics,
career transitions and outplacement services: Syntesis Global™. With over
thirty years of business experience, Syntesis Global™ offers state-of-the-art
Performance Consulting through Executive Coaching, Change Management, Team
Building, Organizational and Career Management services.
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March 9, 2016
Continuous Test Automation
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: Marc Hornbeek
Meetings are free and open to the public. Please
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Abstract
This
talk will explain the evolution of automated testing, and outline the challenging
requirements that are faced by DevOps operations that need to scale to high
capacity. It will be demonstrated that meeting the requirements of high
capacity DevOps requires a leap beyond simple automated testing. A higher
level of automation is needed and the laboratory itself must evolve to meet
these challenges. Traditional bricks
and mortar lab infrastructures are not sufficient. What is needed is
advancement in Continuous Test Automation and a companion Lab-as-a-Service
(LaaS) that is flexible, programmable on-demand and as reliable as a data
center.
The
talk will outline an implementation strategy for Advance Continuous Test
Automation and Lab-as-a-Service suitable for High Capacity DevOps.
About the Speaker
Marc Hornbeek is a Sr. Solutions Architect at
Spirent Communications, Automation Platform Technologies Business Unit. Marc
is responsible for Mobile Network Test, Lab and Live End-to-End Solutions, as
well as Lab Management and DevOps test and lab automation solutions. He
recently managed the DevOps team for Spirent’s Cloud and IP business unit. He
has performed as the primary architect of test and lab automation tools and
champion of test automation solutions for firms ranging from start-ups to
large multi-national companies primarily for advanced network products and
services. He has published more than 40 articles, a blogger on DevOps.com and
speaks at conferences and user forums primarily regarding topics related to
advanced automated testing of networks, DevOps, Continuous Testing, and automated
management and orchestration of network labs.
Marc
was a key contributor to the original ISO 9646 TTCN protocol test notation
standard, a founder of the ISDN User Forum and was a CCITT Rapporteur for
protocol conformance testing standards. He was the primary founder for the
first company that innovated network lab automation. He is a senior member of
IEEE and has held officer positions for the Ventura California Chapter. He
has won multiple company innovation awards for test automation and protocol test
systems that are considered strategic to the success of the businesses that
use them.
Location
CLU
Swenson Center, Room 101
California Lutheran
University
141 Faculty Street
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Parking:
Visitors may park on CLU streets after 7 PM without a permit. Before 7 PM, we recommend that you park in
the G1
visitor lot on the southwest corner of Olsen and Mountclef, and walk to
the Swenson building. Do not park in the faculty/staff lots, and do not park in the areas
marked “Homeowner Parking Only”.
Presented By:
IEEE Computer Society Chapter
March 16, 2016
Low Power Wide Area Network for Battery Powered Things in the World of
“Internet of Things”
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: Steven Jillings
Meetings are free and open to the public. Please
register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2016-03-edcas
Abstract
By
the year 2020, there will be more than 20 billion connected things in the
world to facilitate home automation, smart metering, smart cities
transportation, asset tracking, and additional ways to make our life more
efficient and safer. Bluetooth and
Wi-Fi work well for short distances between the connected devices. On an
urban scale Low Power Wide Area Network enables long range communications
between battery powered devices without depleting rapidly their energy
supply.
Our
speaker, Steven Jillings is playing an active role in the world of LPWAN
based technology that is expected to be embedded in 40 percent of the total
IoT Market by 2020. Mr. Jillings will
share an overview of LPWAN and its new emerging markets enabled by the LPWAN.
About the Speaker
Graduating
from the University of Kent at Canterbury (England) with an honors degree in
RF and Communications Engineering and with 30 years of RF design experience,
Steven Jillings has been involved with the design and development of wireless
and low-power radio solutions from the days of analogue LMR through both
POCSAG, ERMES and FLEX paging architecture to Europe’s first GPRS mobile
datacard. For the past 13 years he has been employed by Semtech in their RF
Applications Group in both Switzerland and since 2006 in Camarillo where he
is involved in developing and supporting low-power wireless solutions for the
Americas.
As a
member of the 802.15 WG he was awarded Certificates of Appreciation from
IEEE-SA for his contributions to the development of IEEE Standards 802.15.4g
(Smart Metering Utility Networks), 802.15.4k (Low Energy Critical
Infrastructure Monitoring Networks) and 802.15.4p (Rail Communications and
Control)
In
his spare time, Steven is an avid follower of (Association) Football and a
keen music blogger.
Location
CLU
Swenson Center, Room 101
California Lutheran
University
141 Faculty Street
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Parking:
Visitors may park on CLU streets after 7 PM without a permit. Before 7 PM, we recommend that you park in
the G1
visitor lot on the southwest corner of Olsen and Mountclef, and walk to
the Swenson building. Do not park in the faculty/staff lots, and do not park in the areas
marked “Homeowner Parking Only”.
Presented By:
IEEE Electron Devices / Circuits and Systems Chapter
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March 17, 2016
The Kepler Mission: Discovering Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: Tracy Drain
Meetings are free and open to the public. Please
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Abstract
Have
you ever wondered whether the Earth is unique? Whether there might be other
Earth-sized planets in our Galaxy? And whether any of those might be in the
“Goldilocks Zone” - the right distance from their parent star so that water
could be liquid on the surface? Scientists have wondered about these
questions for decades… and NASA’s Kepler Mission was designed, built and
launched to answer them. Kepler has been amazingly successful since it began
its search in 2009; come find out about the engineering challenges of the
mission and the great variety of planets that have been discovered in your
galactic neighborhood!
Astronomers
started to be able to detect small changes in stellar emission in the early
1990's that indicated the presence of planets around other solar systems.
These planets, called 'exoplanets" have fueled the excitement of the
aerospace community for the past 10 years because it opens our thoughts to
questions about the possible existence of other worlds, like or unlike our
own. A number of planets with masses near that of Earth have been detected.
The speaker will go over the technology that is used to detect exoplanets and
other solar systems, and discuss some of the recent discoveries from NASA.
(more background information - http://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/exoplanet-exploration/)
About the Speaker
Tracy Drain is a Flight Systems Engineer at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Tracy was born and raised in
Louisville, Kentucky, where she graduated from Waggener High School in 1993.
She received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kentucky.
While at U of K, she interned at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton,
Virginia. She went on to receive her MS in Mechanical Engineering from the
Georgia Institute of Technology in May of 2000.
In
her 15 years at JPL, she has participated in the development and operation of
the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter(MRO), Kepler (searching for new Exoplanets)
and Juno (slated to arrive at Jupiter in July 2016). MRO is still orbiting
Mars and returning valuable science data about the red planet; it also serves
as a communications relay for the rovers currently exploring Mars. Tracy left
MRO in the fall of 2007 to join the Kepler project, which was preparing for a
March 2009 launch and a mission of hunting for Earth-like planets orbiting
other stars in our Milky Way galaxy. In May 2009, Tracy joined the Juno
project on the Project Systems and Flight Systems Engineering teams. Juno is
currently in the Cruise Phase (on its way to a 2016 arrival in orbit around
Jupiter). After arrival, Juno will study the giant planet’s gravity and
magnetic fields and learn about its structure. That knowledge will help
scientists learn more details about the early history of our solar system.
Tracy
is currently the Deputy Chief Engineer for the Juno mission.
Tracy
became interested in space as a child, and her love of Math, Physics and
anything related to Space led her to pursue a career as an engineer at NASA.
In her free time, she can most often be found curled up with a good book (her
other favorite way to explore new worlds).
Location
La
Reina High School, Room 109
106 W. Janss Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Presented By:
IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Chapter
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March 19, 2016
Senior Member Elevation Clinic
9 AM to noon
The IEEE Senior Member grade is the highest level
for which an IEEE member can apply. If
you have more than 10 years of significant professional experience in
engineering*, you should
consider to join this group of elite engineers. Our section can really facilitate and
accelerate the process with a Senior Membership elevation event that will
take place on March 19. In 2015, the
section helped 27 members become Senior Member. If you are interested, please
contact sr-membership@ieee-bv.org
.
*
requirements can be lowered to 7 years of significant professional
contribution if you have a Bachelor degree in engineering, 6 years with a
Master in engineering, and 5 years with a PhD in engineering.
Presented by:
IEEE Buenaventura Section
March 22, 2016
Energy Bounds for Silicon Photonic Interconnects and Double-edged Pulsewidth Modulation
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: James Buckwalter
Meetings are free and open to the public. Please
register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2016-03-com
Abstract
An
explosion of cloud-based applications and the economy growing around these
applications has driven the data capacity requirements in data center
networks. Communication between
servers and racks is the glue within the data center and is at the heart of
data center scalability. To keep pace, communication links in data centers
require revolutionary approaches to allow increased data rates while
consuming less power consumption over the next decade. Energy efficient
communication links will demand new approaches for optical and electrical
signaling. Silicon photonic integrated circuits have been proposed for energy
efficient optical interconnects. I will review recent work on silicon
photonic devices and develop energy bounds and optimum data rates based on
electronic and photonic device scaling. Additionally, I will present a
time-domain signaling approach for high-speed serial communication that
attempts to achieve higher-order modulation while circumventing peak power
limitations for electrical signaling.
About the Speaker
James Buckwalter, PhD, is currently a Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California - Santa
Barbara (UCSB). He joined the faculty at the University of California - San
Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, CA as an Assistant Professor in 2006 and was promoted
to Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2012. He is
the recipient of an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship, Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award, NSF CAREER Award, and IEEE Microwave
Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Young Engineer Award. He is currently an associate editor of the
IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.
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 Communications Society Chapter
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March 23, 2016
IEEE Buenaventura Section Spring Mixer
6 PM to 9 PM
Free admission. Please register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2016-03-mixer
Be our guest, bring friends, meet new faces, relax & have fun.
We will celebrate the 131st anniversary of the
birth of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Discover
the Cal Lutheran Center for Entrepreneurship, a “Google like” dream place for
entrepreneurs.
Make
new friends, make new professional connections, and listen to Zak Cohen, our
humoristic emcee, who will reveal fun facts about something that happened in
March a long time ago. In March 1885,
AT&T Incorporated was born.
Location
Cal
Lutheran Center for Entrepreneurship
CLU
Westlake Center
31416 Agoura Road #109
Westlake Village, California 91361
Presented by:
IEEE Buenaventura Section
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March 30, 2016
Finding a Job in Biotech - Industry and Academia Panel Discussion
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Panel members to be announced. Please visit the EMBS website for updates.
Meetings are free and open to the public. No registration required.
Join
us for our annual panel discussion on finding a job in Biotech. As in
previous years, speakers from industry and academia will help you to prepare
for your job search.
Location
CLU
Swenson Center, Room 101
California Lutheran
University
141 Faculty Street
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Parking:
Visitors may park on CLU streets after 7 PM without a permit. Before 7 PM, we recommend that you park in
the G1
visitor lot on the southwest corner of Olsen and Mountclef, and walk to
the Swenson building. Do not park in the faculty/staff lots, and do not park in the areas
marked “Homeowner Parking Only”.
Presented By:
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Chapter
March 31, 2016
Quanta Image Sensor: Photon-Counting for Consumers
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: Eric Fossum
Meetings are free and open to the public.. Please
register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2016-03-pho
Abstract
This
talk will discuss the Quanta Image Sensor (QIS) concept which is an array of
perhaps a billion specialized photodetectors referred to as jots, each
sensitive to a single photoelectron, and read out in binary fashion at 1000
fps. Interesting imaging properties of
the QIS will be discussed as well as recent progress in deep-sub-electron
read noise jots without the use of avalanche gain, as well as low power
readout electronics and image formation processing.
About the Speaker
Dr. Eric Fossum is a Professor at the Thayer School
of Engineering at Dartmouth and Director of the School’s Ph.D. Innovation
Program. He is a semiconductor device
physicist and engineer specializing in image sensor technology and is
currently exploring the Quanta Image Sensor. He is best known for the
invention of the CMOS image sensor now used in billions of cameras. He was
inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2011 and is a member
of the National Academy of Engineering and a Charter Fellow of the National
Academy of Inventors.
He
received his B.S. in Physics and Engineering from Trinity College, CT in 1979,
his Ph.D. from Yale in 1984 and became an EE faculty member at Columbia. In
1990 he was recruited to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech where
he managed JPL’s image sensor and focal-plane technology R&D and invented
the CMOS image sensor. He then co-founded and led Photobit Corporation to
commercialize the technology. Photobit was acquired by Micron in 2001. He
later served as CEO of Siimpel Corporation to commercialize MEMS auto-focus
actuators for camera phones. He worked
with Samsung Electronics before joining Dartmouth in 2010. He has published
over 280 technical papers and holds over 160 US patents. Dr. Fossum co-founded the International
Image Sensor Society (IISS) and served as first President. He and his wife
operate a hobby farm in New Hampshire and he enjoys his time on his tractor.
Location
Cal
Lutheran Center for Entrepreneurship
CLU
Westlake Center
31416 Agoura Road #113
Westlake Village, California 91361
Presented by:
IEEE Buenaventura Photonics Chapter
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