September Newsletter

Welcome to the September issue of IEEE Hawaii Newsletter!

Our submission this month is brief, with some important announcements:

Welcome to our New Members:

Jerry M Adams, Christopher Brough, Bronson Riley Edralin, Edler Espiritu,

 Steven Ewers, Mark Lester Hernandez, Douglas Herring, Bosco Yubo Huang,

Matthew Kenji Inouye, Eric Jordan, Kayla Kawamata, Kyle A Levesque,

Deliang Liu, Deliang Liu, Ken Matsushige, Kainalu MH Matthews, Sean

Mizoguchi, Kaleo Kekuailiahi Norman, Kevin Shin, Mary L Smith, Richard G

Tabor, Kristina Miyuki Terao, Matthew Yee, and Justin Yoshimoto.

Student Chapter: Career Day, 10-10-12, 1-4pm @ Holmes Hall:

This event is hosted every semester to provide current CoE students the

opportunity to get to know local and mainland engineering companies, and

potentially be awarded internships and jobs. SWE supports this career

fair by volunteering to help facilitate the event.

UPDATE - Competition to design new Section Website EXTENDED:

Open to all Student members, our website development contest aims to

develop a better web presence for our Hawaii Section and chapters.

Registration and Submission dates have been extended!! David Morse is

organizing the contest. Contact him for details at David.Morse@ieee.org,

or visit our interim homepage at www.ieee-hawaii.org for more

information.

Our October Monthly Meeting - Technical Talk and EXCOM:

We are holding our October meeting on Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. This dinner
meeting will be at the usual place and time. That is 5:30PM at Zippy's,
59 North Vineyard Boulevard Honolulu, HI 96817. Map:
http://zippys.com/live/locations/vineyard/.

Technical Talk - This meeting will include a short EXCOM meeting
followed by a Communication Chapter technical talk entitled "What's New
in Communications?" presented by Eran Agmon. Everyone please come and
join us for a great evening. This is the start of our IEEE Day
celebrations with many IEEE promotions.

EXCOM Meeting Agenda

1. Schedule technical and professional talks and activities. November
should include a talk by Edward Tavares of Verizon who will speak on
network security. November is also when our Business Card Exchange event
traditionally takes place. The Business Card Exchange is an annual
professional activity event held at UH-Manoa in conjunction with the
student branch. We also are looking into arranging STEM and Computer
Society Events. We are always looking for suggestions from our members
about the types of technical talks we should hold.

2. Make sure all attendees know about the pertinent promotions and
contests taking place on IEEE DAY 2012. We should enter the photo
contest again this year and make sure that potential new IEEE members
know about the promotion giving them $25.00 off on the registration fee.

3. Our Committee on Conference Bids needs to review the status of fund
raising, registrations, and papers for the IEEE GHTC 2012 compared to
2011 with a view toward preparing a bid hosting IEEE GHTC 2014.
Information on this topic will be presented. Montreal and Seattle are
also interested in putting in a bid. The San Francisco section is
hosting IEEE GHTC 2013, but has not settled on an exact location because
of cost considerations. Portland is hosting a new conference next year,
SUSTECH 2013, which they hope to make into an annual event which could
be hosted be various section like the GHTC.

4. We need to review the changes made by IEEE in June to the rules by
which we are governed. These include term limits and election
requirements.

If there are additional items that should be added to the EXCOM agenda,
please notify John Camery at john.camery@gmail.com

* section websites: -
https://webinabox.vtools.ieee.org/wibp_home/index/R60017 -
http://ieee-hawaii.org/ (new - in development)

* additional updates on John's blog: http://hawaii-ieee.blogspot.com

* please send questions and suggestions to david.morse@ieee.org

New Members in the Past Month

We  would like to welcome the following new members to the Hawaii Section of the IEEE:

Jerry M Adams, Christopher  Brough, Bronson Riley Edralin, Edler  Espiritu, Steven  Ewers, Mark Lester  Hernandez, Douglas  Herring, Bosco Yubo Huang, Matthew Kenji Inouye, Eric  Jordan, Kayla  Kawamata, Kyle A Levesque, Deliang  Liu, Deliang  Liu, Ken  Matsushige, Kainalu MH Matthews, Sean  Mizoguchi, Kaleo Kekuailiahi Norman, Kevin  Shin, Mary L Smith, Richard G Tabor, Kristina Miyuki Terao, Matthew  Yee, and Justin  Yoshimoto.

Thanks for joining. Please come out and join in our local activities.

Our October Monthly Meeting

We are holding our October meeting on Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. This dinner meeting will be at the usual place and time. That is 5:30PM at Zippy's, 59 North Vineyard Boulevard Honolulu, HI 96817. Map: http://zippys.com/live/locations/vineyard/.  Everyone please come and join us for a great evening. This is the start of our IEEE Day celebrations with many IEEE promotions.

Technical Talk

This meeting will include a short EXCOM meeting followed by a Communication Chapter technical talk entitled "What's New in Communications?" presented by Eran Agmon.

 

EXCOM Meeting Agenda

1.   Schedule technical and professional talks and activities.  November should include a talk by Edward Tavares of Verizon who will speak on network security. November is also when our Business Card Exchange event traditionally takes place. The Business Card Exchange is an annual professional activity event held at UH-Manoa in conjunction with the student branch. We also are looking into arranging STEM and Computer Society Events. We are always looking for suggestions from our members about the types of technical talks we should hold.

2.   Make sure all attendees know about the pertinent promotions and contests taking place on IEEE DAY 2012. We should enter the photo contest again this year and make sure that potential new IEEE members know about the promotion giving them $25.00 off on the registration fee.

3.   Our Committee on Conference Bids needs to review the status of fund raising, registrations, and papers for the IEEE GHTC 2012 compared to 2011 with a view toward preparing a bid hosting IEEE GHTC 2014.  Information on this topic will be presented. Montreal and Seattle are also interested in putting in a bid. The San Francisco section is hosting IEEE GHTC 2013, but has not settled on an exact location because of cost considerations.  Portland is hosting a new conference next year, SUSTECH 2013, which they hope to make into an annual event which could be hosted be various section like the GHTC.

4.   We need to review the changes made by IEEE in June to the rules by which we are governed. These include term limits and election requirements.

If there are additional items that anyone wants to discuss, please add a comment or notify me. Thanks.

Report for Region 6 Meeting

                           Hawaii Section Highlights 2012

Our Hawaii Section spans several islands and currently has 743 members including 129 student and graduate student members.

Our elected officers include John W. Camery, Section Chair; Chris Russell, Vice Chair; and Marji Clemente, Treasurer. The chairs of Hawaii Chapters are Mark Rognstad, Oceanic Engineering Society; Oscar Libed, ComSoc/SPS; Kevin Miyashiro, MTT Society; and John Camery, Computer Society. The chapters vice chairs are:  Ryan Miyamoto, MTT Society; and David Morse, Computer Society.  David Morse is also the section Professional Activities chair and newsletter editor.

In Hawaii, we face the challenge of working with members on different islands, meeting their needs and supporting their events. On the island of Maui, we have a new student branch and a new membership development chair, Adrian Cogan. The Student Branch Counselor is Jungwon Park who organized the volunteers for the NOMS Conference. The ComSoc Conference, NOMS (Network Operations and Management Symposium) 2012, was held on Maui last April.  Tom Moore served as General Co-Chair for NOMS 2012. The ComSoc/SPS chapter and Hawaii Section had a meeting on Oahu with NOMS conference team last January.  There are four IEEE conferences scheduled for Maui in the next three months. Adrian needs a way to become involved in these conferences. There was some interest in Maui and across the islands in forming a Joint Chapter of the Power Engineering and Industry Applications Societies, but nobody was willing to serve as organizers and officers.   

Mark R. Rognstad, University of Hawaii at Manoa Hawaii Mapping Research Group Honolulu, Hawaii organizes the Hawaii Underwater Robot Challenge each year.  In May, David Morse and Al Toda assisted him as judges in this very successful event. Likewise, Chris Russell and Tep Dobry earlier helped with the Hawaii State Science fair. We committed the same amount as last year for certificates and awards to students and their teachers. Marji Clemente, Dave Morse and Al Toda took part as a panel for our technical meeting in April. In May, we had meetings to work on a conference bid for GHTC 2013, but ultimately decided not to submit it. We now have a conference committee consisting of Chris Russell and David Morse to work on a bid for GHTC 2014. In September, we had a technical meeting again this year to discuss the E-Cat. 

The UH-Manoa student branch was recognized as the Central Area’s Best Student Branch last year and is even more enthusiastic this year.  They have a fantastic set of activities planned for the year.  Already scheduled are  the First General Meeting - W 8/29 5pm-7pm, Summer Internships and Coops Seminar - W 9/12 5pm-6:30pm, Resume Writing Workshop - W 9/19 5pm-6pm, and Bytemarks Talk with Burt Lum - R 9/25 5pm-6pm The tentative events that do not have definite dates include: AutoCAD Workshop, Matlab Workshop, Soldering Workshop, Technical Resume Writing Workshop, Interview Workshop, Eagle and/or PCB Design Workshop, H-Power Tour, Referentia Tour, Solar Farm Tour, Krispy Kreme Fundraiser, T-shirt Fundraiser, Game Tournament Fundraiser, Weekly Sports Day Social Event, BBQ Social Event, Movie Night Social Event and an S-PAC. The Hawaii Section and UH-Manoa Student Branch also have joint meetings, such as, a Branch Business Card Exchange meeting usually held in November and the Engineering Week Awards Banquet in February. Grant A. Torigoe helps to organize these events.

The Hawaii Section is working hard to revitalize the Computer Society and the ComSoc/SPS Chapters.  The Computer Society Chapter hosted a meeting with the President of the Computer Society in April and a meeting with HICapacity.org in August.  The Computer Society Chapter plans to elect new officers in December.  The Chapter is also sponsoring a website design completion. We met with Yi Zhu, Assistant Prof. of Computer Science at Hawaii Pacific University, who is interested in getting his students involved. The Computer Society Chapter and the Hawaii Section now have blogs, http://hi-ieee-cs.blogspot.com/ and http://hawaii-ieee.blogspot.com, as well as, traditional websites. The ComSoc/SPS Chapter has scheduled technical meetings for the first Monday in October and November. Eran Agmon of Comtest will speak on "What's New in Communications?" in October and Edward Tavares of Verizon will speak on network security in the second talk.

Submitted with aloha by John W. Camery, Hawaii Section Chair.

19 Oct. Deadline for Nominations

New Faces of Engineering 2013

A Recognition Program for Engineers Week 2013

The New Faces of Engineering program highlights the vitality, diversity and rich contributions of engineers 30 or younger. It is sponsored by the National Engineers Week Foundation, a coalition of engineering societies, major corporations and government agencies. IEEE-USA has participated since the program began in 2003.

If you would like to nominate a student for the New Faces of Engineering College Edition program, go to www.facebook.com/CollegeEdition.

Objectives

The campaign is designed to enhance and improve the image of engineering by:

• Putting faces to what has often been referred to as “the stealth profession”
• Showing a group of young, diverse and talented engineers, thereby portraying engineering as an exciting profession open to everyone
• Providing both stimulation and incentive for college engineering students to explore the variety of career options available to them with their engineering degrees, as well as encouraging high school students to study engineering in college
• Helping engineering students understand they are part of a global profession

Eligibility Criteria

• Engineers 30 or younger as of 31 December 2012 are eligible.
• Nominees must have a degree in engineering from a recognized U.S. college or university, or from an equivalent international educational institution. Degrees in engineering technology, science, computer science and similar disciplines do not qualify; a degree in computer engineering is acceptable.
• Nominees must be a member in good standing of a sponsoring Engineers Week (EWeek) partner.
• Self-nominations are not allowed.

IEEE Selection Criteria

• An ad hoc committee of IEEE members selects the IEEE/IEEE-USA New Face of Engineering, as well as up to four runner-up engineers.
• The committee evaluates nominees based on their educational attainment and engineering achievements in design, research, development, test, manufacturing or management.
• Nominees are also judged on their participation and accomplishments in professional and technical society activities. Particular consideration is given to work (e.g. volunteering, publishing, conference presentations) in IEEE technical societies.

Nomination Process

• Nominations can only be submitted through the designated contact at the EWeek sponsoring societies and government agency partners. All nominees must submit their applications to these societies, not to Eweek headquarters.
• Applications must be complete and must be submitted electronically by sponsoring Eweek societies on the nomination form provided. Incomplete nominations may delay processing or cause a nomination not to be considered.
• Complete nominations must be submitted to Sharon Richardson, s.richardson@ieee.org by 19 October 2012.

Nomination Form [MS Word] [PDF]

Recognition

IEEE selects one individual to be featured with the New Faces from other participating societies and government agencies in a full-page ad in USA Today during Eweek, 17-23 February 2013. Each photo will be captioned with the engineer’s name, sponsor, employer and a brief statement of the individual’s accomplishments.

The National Engineers Week Foundation will profile each of the top individuals at www.eweek.org and at www.discoverengineering.org, the EWeek Web site for middle school students.

The engineering trade press will be targeted for feature stories on the top individuals. Media contacts provided by nominees will also be sent information.

Up to four additional engineers will be publicized on the EWeek Web site and promoted by their sponsoring engineering society.

The top candidates may participate in an e-mail and/or online question and answer discussion forum with engineering undergraduates globally at a future event. Candidates are asked to list languages in which they are fluent.

Our IEEE Day Meeting

IEEE Day 2012 will be celebrated on October 2, 2012.  It is the third time in history when all engineers worldwide are going to celebrate the IEEE Day.  It is on the anniversary of the first time IEEE members gathered to share their technical ideas in 1884.  While the world benefits from what’s new, IEEE is focused on what’s next. Thus, this year the theme of the IEEE Day will be “Engineering the Future and Beyond”.

 

We usually hold a dinner meeting the first Monday of each month. That makes our next meeting on Monday, October 1, 2012. Our dinner meeting will be at the usual place and time, 5:30PM at Zippy's, 59 North Vineyard Boulevard Honolulu, HI 96817. Map: http://zippys.com/live/locations/vineyard/. This meeting will include a short EXCOM meeting followed by a Communication Chapter technical talk entitled "What's New in Communications?" presented by Eran Agmon. It will hail the start of IEEE Day this year.

 

In order to create a deeper cohesion among the members, IEEE Day website will be running the following networking events:

• Photo wall of the year: every member will be invited to share a picture showing himself/herself in real action (at laboratory, desk, classroom, with an oscilloscope, posing next to a wind turbine and a transformer, …) or in an IEEE event.
• Let’s wear IEEE Day T-shirt: members can find the link on the IEEE Day website where they can order their t-shirts. (They can also download and print the logo locally)
• Upload your IEEE Facebook profile picture: Taken during the IEEE Day. You can find more information in this page.

September EXCOM Meeting

John W. Camery, presiding
Attendees:
John Borland
Al Toda
Yi Zhu, Assist. Prof. of CompSci, Hawaii Pacific University
Patrick Finneran
(David Morse called to say he would be delayed)

Minutes:

Al Toda volunteered to help find a speaker for a ComSoc/SigProc Chapter Meeting. Yi Zhu expressed an interest in becoming involved in the local Computer Society Chapter activities and in getting his students involved. He wants to discus possible activities further with Dave Morse. We will hold another technical meeting the first Monday of next month  We want to make sure that the ComSoc/SigProc Chapter gets two technical meetings reported for this year. We will look into holding another Business Card Exchange Meeting with the student branch most likely in November again this year. 

Labor Day Section Technical Meeting

                                             The E-CAT

Last year we had an October technical meeting in which the E-Cat was discussed.  This year we discussed the progress on the E-Cat since then. Official information on the E-Cat is at www.ecat.com.

Changes since Last Year’s Talk

1. Size Change. The 1MW E-Cat from a year ago was the size of a shipping container. The new design on the drawing boards is a drum of measuring 1.2 x 0.4 meters.  There are 100 reactors inside, each of one having about 1,200 sq. cm of surface area.
2. Temperature.  The output temperature of the unit last year was only enough to make dry steam. The new prototype reactor has operated up to 1200° C which is close to limit possible with nickel.

The E-Cat’s Design

1. The nuclear catalytic powder.   Micron sized particles of nickel enriched with the heavier isotopes, viz., Ni-62 and Ni-64 are used.  They are heated to a high enough temperature to sinter and become denser forming tubules.   A pseudo magnetic field is generated in the tubules.   The Debye Temperature is 179° C for nickel.  The catalyst interface works even above the Fermi temperature of nickel where ferromagnetism disappears.
2. Containment vessel.  A containment vessel is constructed from stainless steel with lead and boron shielding.  Inside is a heating element. The powder must be heated to at least 125° C to activate it. A dilute hydrogen atomic dipole quantum gas is diffused through the tubules.  The pseudo magnetic field polarizes the gas. The dipoles are regenerated at a certain frequency.  This frequency is used to control the temperature in self sustaining mode.  Above 125 degrees, the electrical resistance of the powder decreases with increasing temperature and energy is produced.  The lead and boron provide shielding against possible bursts of gamma rays when the device is activated and deactivated.
3. Mesoscopic Catalysts.  Mono metals with oxide surface layers, such as, ZnO, MgO, and zirconium dioxide helps to keep the Rydberg gas from ionizing before it enters the tubules.
4. Secret Catalyst. A secret catalyst may be involved, such as, graphane/graphene hydrogen delamination.

Exercise: Solve the Hubbard Hamiltonian for short-lived Rydberg hydrogen atoms with long range dipole interaction ~ R^(-3.5).  

Hint: Since the Rydberg state is short-lived, interaction is not really long range.  Taking into account the propagation time of the interaction, one ignores the interaction with points more than a specific distance away on the lattice.  Convert to spherical coordinates. Use a basis which is adiabatically connected to the zero field.  The Wannier function overlaps can be used to yield the Hubbard parameters.

About the Test Depicted in the Photograph

First, the E-Cat tested was constructed using two steel tubes or cylinders of equal length. The tube with a smaller diameter was placed inside of the tube with a larger diameter. In the gap between the two cylinders (the outer surface of the inner cylinder and the inner surface of the outer cylinder) a resistive heating element was placed, along with the "charge" consisting of nickel powder, catalysts, and a tablet that would release hydrogen when heated. The ends of the cylinder were then covered with putty that could withstand high temperatures. As can be seen in the picture, the central "hole" was not covered.

The outer and inner surface of the module was coated with a black paint that would resist high temperatures. The black surface would make the device a more efficient black body radiator. 

Next, the device was positioned several feet above the floor on a metal framework. A thermal camera was positioned below the E-Cat module, looking upwards. This camera would be used to record the surface temperature of the bottom half of the module. By being positioned below the module instead of above, the thermal camera would not be exposed to hot rising air that could artificially inflate the temperature data acquired. Due to the air currents providing some amount of cooling to the bottom of the reactor, the camera was in the position that would allow for the lowest temperatures to be recorded. This makes the resulting measurements the most conservative possible.

Power was applied to the resistors inside of the E-Cat and the temperature of the module, as recorded by the thermal camera, increased over a period of several hours. The thermal camera was connected to a computer so all of the data could be recorded for analysis. A handheld laser thermometer was used to determine the temperature of the inner surface of the inner cylinder (the glowing hole in the image).

At the time of the photo, the average temperature of the outer surface was 801° C with local peak of 873 ° C. The inner surface temperature ranged from 1100 ° C to over 1200° C. Two parallel resistors were used for heating (the 4 wires you see). The value in parallel was 6 Ohm. The voltage of alternating current power (50 Hz) was 147v. The current was 24.25 amps. The power consumption was 3.56 kW. The power radiated by the two internal and external walls was estimated to equal to a total of 13.39 kW in excess of average ambient temperature of 35 ° C.  The internal wall was white-hot and unapproachable within a meter. The outer wall measured by thermal imager with an accuracy of 2%. The inner wall measured with a laser thermometer from 1.2 meters away.  The conservative values and the deficet  because heat removal convective motion estimated in at least 8% of the outer wall and inner wall cosine irradiation down to cause high angle of irradiation toward thermometer laser (pointing almost aligned with the inner cylinder)  The reaction was stable.

August Newsletter

Aloha! Welcome to the August issue of IEEE Hawaii Section Newsletter!

Contents:

1. Student Chapters begin the year with many activities
2. Nominations for Computer Society Officers are due by Nov 9th.
3. High School hacking - Hawaii has more teams than many Big States!
4. Committee formed for preparing Conference Bids.
5. Competition to design new Section website.
6. Monday Sept. 3rd (Labor Day) ExCom meeting - all are welcome!

* section websites:

•   https://webinabox.vtools.ieee.org/wibp_home/index/R60017
•   http://ieee-hawaii.org/ (new - in development)

* additional updates on John's blog: http://hawaii-ieee.blogspot.com

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1. Student Chapters begin year with activities:

Our student chapters are very active. UH-Manoa Chapter has planned the
following events for September: (http://www4.eng.hawaii.edu/~ieee/)

•   Summer Internships and Coops Seminar - W 9/12 5pm-6:30pm
•   Resume Writing Workshop - W 9/19 5pm-6pm
•   Bytemarks Talk with Burt Lum - R 9/25 5pm-6pm

The newly created UH-Maui College Chapter had fourteen students
helping with the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
(NOMS 2012) at The Westin Maui Resort & Spa this past April. The
students described it as a tremendous experience and the chapter is
ready to support other events. (http://www.maui.hawaii.edu/ecet)

We're excited to be coordinating with other organizations, such as
AAUW, AARP and the Society for Women in Engineering. The AAUW Honolulu
Branch hosts Start Smart, a salary negotiation workshop designed to
teach students (women in particular) how to negotiate for fair and
equitable salaries. (rsvp. Joanna Amberger at             808-489-2813      )

•   Friday, September 28 3-5:45pm, Shidler College of Business
•   Saturday, October 13, 2012 9am-Noon, Laulima House, 1802 Ke`eaumoku Street, Honolulu, HI 96822

2. Nominations for Computer Society Officers:

Our Computer Society Chapter is putting out a call for nominations, so
we can elect new chapter officers by the end of the year. Nominations
are due by November 9th, with elections held the first week of
December. John Camery is serving as chapter chair and David Morse is
serving as vice chair for the chapter until the elections.

3. High School hacking - Hawaii has more teams than many Big States!

Reviewing the teams signed up so far, Hawaii exceeds the national mean
with 15! The folks at uscyberpatriot.org have pre-packaged the entire
competition with tutorials and virtual server images for kids to
launch and configure. Local schools are looking for team Mentors -
would you like to lend a helping hand? Most of the teams (high
school and JROTC) have teachers for coaches. But often, the teacher
doesn't know the first thing about technology. That's where you come
in as a Mentor! Visit the site:
http://www.uscyberpatriot.org/HowYouFit/mentors.aspx

4. Committee formed for preparing Conference bids:

Conference Committee to assess and develop bids to host future
conferences. John noted that the IEEE-USA conf. has a Sept. submittal
deadline. Additional committee members and input welcome.
(https://webinabox.vtools.ieee.org/wibp_officers/index/R60017)

5. Competition to design new Section website:

Open to all Student members, our website development contest aims to

develop a better web presence for our Hawaii Section and chapters.

David Morse is organizing the contest. Contact him for details at

David.Morse@ieee.org, or visit our interim homepage at

www.ieee-hawaii.org for more information.

6. Monday Sept. 3rd (Labor Day) ExCom meeting - all are welcome!

The EXCOM meeting will take place on Monday, Labor Day, Sept. 3, 2012

in conjunction with a technical meeting. This dinner meeting will be

at the usual place and time, viz., 5:30PM at Zippy's, 59 North Vineyard Boulevard

Honolulu, HI 96817. Map: http://zippys.com/live/locations/vineyard/.

Last year we had a technical meeting in which the E-Cat was discussed.

We will discuss the progress on the E-Cat since then. Information on

the E-Cat is at www.ecat.com.