IEEE-KC Electronic NL, 23 July 2008

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Meetings

We have program information available for those meetings that are in bold, below. For details and reservation information, go to http://www.ieee-kc.org and click on the Meetings link.

  • August Dinner Meeting. Thursday, August 14, 2008.
    Sponsored by G.O.L.D., Kansas City Chapter. Doppler Don Harman of the KC Fox Weather Team.
     
  • SWMO Subsection: 1st Tuesday of Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Mar, April, May.
    See the meetings page for details on those meetings.
     
  • September Dinner Meeting. Thursday, September 18, 2008.
    Sponsored by the Computer Society, Kansas City Chapter. Electronic means of protecting shipping containers, presented by James McConville of General Electric.
    This falls on the third Thursday, because the 2nd one is September 11.
     
  • November Dinner Meeting. Thursday, November 13, 2008.
    Sponsored by PES. Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles (PHEVs). The presenter is Bob DeVault, Strategic Planning, Energy and Transportation Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
     
  • December Dinner Meeting. Thursday, December 11, 2008.
    Sponsored by the Consultants Network. Dr. Tom Van Doren from the Missouri University of Science & Technology Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory. (Yes, that Dr. Van Doren)
     
  • March Dinner Meeting. Thursday, March 12, 2009.
    Sponsored by the Computer Society. Mobile Security. Speaker pending.
     

Meetings with no program information, yet:

  • October Dinner Meeting. October 9, 2008. Sponsored by the Communications Society. No Info. Contact Narayanabhatla.Shiva @ mail.sprint.com

  • January 2009 Dinner Meeting.

  • February 2009 Dinner Meeting.

 

Developing Management and Leadership Skills 

LeaderPoint, an approved IEEE Education Partner, offers a discount to members on their simulation-based management and leadership development sessions held in Kansas City. The next “Executive Experience” sessions are September 15-19, 2008 and October 20-24, 2008.  Please click on the link for more information:   http://www.leaderpoint.biz/ieee.htm

Waveform Diversity Presentation

Dr. Mike Wicks, Senior Scientist with the Sensors Directorate of the Air Force Research Lab and IEEE Fellow will be presenting. The title of the talk is "Waveform Diversity: Past, Present, and Future; Adaptive Processing on Transmit and Receive".

This presentation reviews important aspects of radio frequency sensors and spectrum allocation, and discusses how waveform diversity, distributed processing, spatial diversity, and knowledge-based processing can be integrated for improved surveillance systems performance. Waveform diversity in distributed radio frequency sensor systems offers the potential for breakthrough performance enhancements in the detection and identification of natural and manmade objects. This presentation discusses advances in relevant technology and emerging applications to radar.

The talk will take place at 4:00 pm Wednesday July 30 in the Apollo Room of Nichols Hall on the KU campus (2335 Irving Hill Road, Lawrence, KS 66045).

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Thought for the Day

You can focus on a task or you can literally do a half-brained job by trying to do two things at once. Which choice is better? Which choice would you want your surgeon to make?

 

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