IEEE-KC Electronic NL, 27 October 2006
In this issue:
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- SWMO Subsection Meeting
- November Dinner Meeting
- December Dinner Meeting
- January Dinner Meeting
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- February Dinner Meeting
- March Dinner Meeting
- April Dinner Meeting
- Thought for the Day
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1. Southwest Missouri Subsection Meeting
Thursday, November 9, 2006
All of these meetings will be held at the Café
Restaurant, 3527 W. Kearney St., Springfield, Missouri (Dinner 6:00pm,
Program 7:00pm).
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2. November Dinner Meeting
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Sponsored by G.O.L.D., Kansas City Chapter
Menu: (Note your choice when you register.) Beef
Florentine
- Grilled flank steak smothered in a cream sauce on top of a bed
of spinach with a side
- of sweet potatoes and glazed carrots. This is gluten-free.
- Vegetarian Option: Creamed spinach with sweet potatoes and
glazed carrots.
Program: In Pursuit of Intelligent Wearable Health Monitoring
Systems.
Presenter: Steve Warren, Ph.D., Department of Electrical & Computer
Engineering, Kansas State University.
Wireless body area networks (WBANs)
offer unprecedented opportunities to monitor state of health without
constraining wearer activities. Component-based infrastructures can be
put in place that allow wearable monitoring environments to be
configured ‘on-the-fly’ and still be far more flexible than traditional
“telemedicine” products.
Early instantiations of these
mobile point-of-care systems are now realizable due to the convergence
of technologies such as low-power wireless communication standards,
plug-and-play device buses, handheld computers, electronic medical
records, and the Internet. To increase acceptance of personal monitoring
technology while lowering equipment cost, advances must be made in
interoperability (at both the system and device levels) and security.
This presentation presents an
assessment of current WBAN technology, an overview of the technologies
required to deliver intelligent care in ambulatory environments, and a
summary of work underway to this end in the Medical Component Design
Laboratory at Kansas State University (KSU). KSU efforts target the
use of interoperability standards such as ISO/IEEE 11073, Bluetooth, and
Health Level 7.
Location: Wyndham Garden Hotel, I-435 & Metcalf
Ave, Overland Park, KS.
Ph: (913) 383-2550.
Dir: Exit I-435 Metcalf Ave N. Go 1/4 km to 107th St.
Turn right. Take immed. right @ BP. Go 100 meters; hotel is on your
left.
Times: No-Host Social Hour: 5:30 - 6:00 PM
Dinner Hour: 6:30 - 7:30 PM
Program: 7:30 - 8:30PM
Charge: Dinner $25/20* for members & guests, students $15.
No charge for presentation.
*The second price reflects your registration discount, if you register
by the deadline.
Dinner reservation deadline is noon on Monday, November 13.
The cash bar at mealtime now offers added variety to your beverage
options:
- House Wine $4.00
- Domestic Beer $3.50
- Imported Beer $4.00
- Bottled Water $2.50
- Soft Drinks $2.00
Register: november @ ieee-kc.org.
Note your name, daytime phone #, meal selection, and the names of those in your party.
Each meeting provides one hour of
professional development.
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3. December Dinner Meeting
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Thursday, December 14, 2006
Sponsored by PACE, Kansas City Chapter
Menu: (Note your choice when you register.) Cobb
Salad
- Crisp Romaine with grilled chicken, avocado, tomato, green
onion, boiled egg and bleu cheese. This is gluten-free.
- Vegetarian option: Cobb salad without grilled chicken
Program: The CReSIS Project Update and Remote
Robotics Investigations
Title:
The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS): Ice Sheet Remote
Sensing From Top to Bottom
Speaker: David Braaten, Professor, Geography and Deputy Director, CReSIS
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Abstract: The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) at the
University of Kansas is conducting and fostering multidisciplinary research that
will result in advanced technology, new data sets, and numerical models for a
more accurate determination of the mass balance of the Antarctic and Greenland
ice sheets and their contributions to sea-level rise.
Ice sheet mass balance is one of the largest unknown factors in sea-level
change, and all current mass balance scenarios do not account for the rapid
changes to ice sheets that are now being observed. Because of the immense size
and complexity of these ice sheets, data from satellite and airborne platforms,
combined with ground-based, in situ measurements and observations, are needed to
accurately assess their mass balance state.
CReSIS is developing sensors and platforms that will allow us to measure ice
sheet characteristics over an entire drainage basin of an ice sheet. One of
these systems, a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), can characterize the ice-bed
interface at fine resolution in both the cross- and along-track directions.
Field experiments have been conducted at Summit, Greenland and in West
Antarctica using the SAR, a depth sounder that can also image deep internal
layers in the ice, and two high resolution snow accumulation radars. An overview
of CReSIS, a description of the systems and field experiments, and some sample
results will be presented.
Location: Wyndham Garden Hotel, I-435 & Metcalf
Ave, Overland Park, KS.
Ph: (913) 383-2550.
Dir: Exit I-435 Metcalf Ave N. Go 1/4 km to 107th St.
Turn right. Take immed. right @ BP. Go 100 meters; hotel is on your
left.
Times: No-Host Social Hour: 5:30 - 6:00 PM
Dinner Hour: 6:30 - 7:30 PM
Program: 7:30 - 8:30PM
Charge: Dinner $25/20* for members & guests, students $15.
No charge for presentation.
*The second price reflects your registration discount, if you register
by the deadline.
Dinner reservation deadline is noon on December 11.
The cash bar at mealtime now offers added variety to your beverage
options:
- House Wine $4.00
- Domestic Beer $3.50
- Imported Beer $4.00
- Bottled Water $2.50
- Soft Drinks $2.00
Register: december @ ieee-kc.org.
Note your name, daytime phone #, meal selection, and the names of those in your party.
Each meeting provides one hour of
professional development.
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** NO-SHOWS WILL BE BILLED FOR UNPAID RESERVATIONS. **
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4. January Dinner Meeting
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Sponsored by the Consultants NetworkFor information,
contact Fred Granville, flg @ flgnetworking.com |
5. February Dinner Meeting
Thursday, February 15, 2006
Sponsored by G.O.L.D., Kansas City Chapter
For information,
contact Chris Zugelder, zugelder @ ieee.org |
6. March Dinner Meeting
Thursday, March 15, 2006
Sponsored by the Computer Society, Kansas City Chapter
For information,
contact Hjmanshu Gupta, hgupta @ holland1916.com |
7. April Dinner Meeting
Thursday, April 19, 2006
Sponsored by the Communications Society, Kansas City Chapter
For information,
contact Shiva Narayanabhatla,
Narayanabhatla.Shiva @ mail.sprint.com |
8. Thought for the Day
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Morning takes all night to arrive. Take care not to waste it. |
Wishing you the best,
Mark Lamendola
IEEE-KC Publications Officer |
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