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The New Mexico Tech Student Branch of the IEEE has updated its webpage with information on their latest activities. You can check out their page here.
If you want to contact them, please send an email to Chris, their President at: nmt.ieee@gmail.com
Congratulations to the officers and their faculty adviser, Dr. Hector Erives.
Cheers,
Gilberto (Section Chair)
Science & Society Distinguished Public Talks
Co-sponsored by the Albuquerque Section of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and its Life Members Affinity Group, Sigma Xi (the Scientific Research Society), the UNM Department of Physics & Astronomy, and the UNM Division of Continuing Education.
Presents
Whose innovations are helping? Comparing climate change solutions from engineers, architects, planners, chemists, biologists, and others
By Clinton J. Andrews
Thursday, 20 November 2014
The University of New Mexico Conference Center, Auditorium
1634 University Blvd. NE
Meet & Greet: 5 p.m.
Pizza with the speaker will follow the lecture
For more details check the attached flyer:
Cheers,
Gilberto (Chair)
The Albuquerque IEEE Joint Chapter presents the talk: The Low-Noise Receiver Systems Developed for the EVLA.
Presented by: Bob Hayward, NRAO Senior Engineer (Retired), Socorro, NM.
Time: 7:30 pm Wednesday, October 22, 2014. Social hour begins at 5:45 pm. Dinner begins at 6:30pm.
Location: The Canyon Club (was Four Hills Country Club), 911 Four Hills Road SE, Albuquerque.
Dinner Menu: Soup of the Day, Top Sirloin, Asparagus, Garlic Mashed Potaoes, Dinner Rolls/Butter, Chef’s Choice Dessert, Coffee, Iced Tea and Water.
Cost: There is no charge and no reservation required to attend just the talk. $25 per person for dinner (full-time student members of IEEE, $15). reservations required. RSVP by email to harrisonmgabq@comcast.net or phone Mike Harrison at (505) 239-2663.
PLEASE NOTE: This dinner meeting will be held at The Canyon Club which requires a pretty accurate number of meals to prepare by noon on Monday before the Wednesday meeting. Please try to make your reservation by Monday, October 20. The Canyon Club is often flexible so it is worth trying to make a late reservation.
Presentation Summary: The Very Large Array (VLA), located less than an hour’s drive west of Socorro, NM, is widely regarded as the world’s most scientifically productive radio telescope. Operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), this aperture synthesis interferometer consists of 27 movable antennas, each 25 meters in diameter, which can be configured to provide the resolution of an antenna whose size can range from 1 to 36 kilometers in width. When commissioned in 1980, the VLA could only observe celestial sources in four narrow frequency bands centered at 1.5, 4.7, 15 and 23 GHz. Over the next 20 years, its receiver systems were incrementally improved
to give the Array better sensitivity and wider frequency coverage. But as the 21st century dawned, the VLA’s performance was still limited by its 1970’s era technology.
The recently completed Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA) project has provided many major enhancements, including the installation of 240 new, state-of-the-art, low-noise, cryogenic receivers that now enable astronomers to observe at any frequency between 1 and 50 GHz and with bandwidths as wide as 8 GHz, some 80 times broader than before. Over the 10 year long EVLA upgrade effort, the author was deeply involved in the design and testing of the prototype receiver hardware as well as the production of several of the new receiver bands. This talk will discuss the EVLA’s front-end systems and the innovative solutions developed by the various NRAO design teams to meet the
demanding performance goals required for the project, including such critical microwave components as the broad-band feeds, circular polarizers, low-noise amplifiers and multifunction MMIC modules. Finally, an explanation of the system tests that were used to evaluate the cryogenic receivers will be presented.
If time permits, the talk will also attempt to put the VLA into historical context by briefly discussing the early days of radio astronomy and radio interferometry, as well as describing the evolution of the VLA’s low-noise receiver system from its inception to the present day.
About the Speaker: About the Speaker: Bob Hayward has spent over 3 decades developing digital spectrometers and low-noise receiver systems for radio telescopes. He was born in Nova Scotia, Canada. He received his BSc in Physics in 1977 from Dalhousie University and
his MSc in Radio Astronomy from Queens University in 1981. He began his career in radio astronomy instrumentation in 1979 when he joined the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Ottawa as a digital engineer supporting the 150-ft telescope at the Algonquin Radio Observatory (ARO). His was placed in charge of the construction, testing and system integration of the ARO Auto-Correlation Spectrometer which contained over 3,000 ECL, TTL and CMOS integrated circuits. In 1986 he was named the Project Engineer for the pair of 345 GHz receivers which HIA developed for the 15-meter James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii. He left Canada in 1996 and
moved to Tucson, AZ, to become the Chief Engineer at the10-meter Sub-Millimeter Telescope Observatory (SMTO).
In 1999 he joined the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, NM, where he spent the next 13 years designing, building, testing and maintaining receiver systems for the Very Large Array (VLA) and the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). His first job was to act as the lead engineer in the development of new 80-96 GHz W-Band receivers for the VLBA. From 2004 to 2008 he managed the Front-End and Feed Systems element of the Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA) upgrade project which required the prototype design of 8 new receiver bands and the construction of a total of 240 low-noise cryogenic receivers.He was also the lead engineer on the development of the new L, K,
Ka & Q-Band EVLA receiver systems.
Bob retired from NRAO In 2012 as the Senior Engineer for Front-End Systems in Socorro. Since then he has spent his newly found free time doing historical research into some of the more obscure stories in the history of radio astronomy instrumentation. Bob became a member of the IEEE in 1980. From 1993 to 1996 he was the Secretary of the Canadian National Committee for the International Union of Radio Science (CNC /URSI).
Chapter Officers for 2014:
Chairman: Everett Farr (505) 846-0956 efarr@farr-research.com
Vice-Chair: Michael Harrison (505) 239-2663 harrisonmgabq@comcast.net
Treasurer: Paul Cravens (505) 730-3397 paul.l.cravens@usace.army.mil
Secretary: This office is currently unfilled. There are few responsibilities. It would look good on someone’s Resume’.
EMC Liaison: Bud Hoeft (505)889-9705 bud.hoeft@ieee.org
MTT-S Liaison: George Oltman (505)299-3369 g.oltman@ieee.org
NPSS Liaison: Jane Lehr (505) 277-0298 jane@ece.unm.edu
Science & Society Distinguished Public Talks
Co-sponsored by the Albuquerque Section of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and its Life Members Affinity Group, Sigma Xi (the Scientific Research Society), the Department of
Physics & Astronomy, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, and the Division of Continuing Education.
Presents
Colour, Music, and Emotion in Synesthetes and Non-Synesthetes
By
Stephen E. Palmer
Thursday, 18 September 2014
The University of New Mexico Conference Center, Auditorium
1634 University Blvd. NE
Meet & Greet: 5 p.m.
Pizza with the speaker will follow the lecture
Stephen E. Palmer received his B.A. in Psychology from Princeton University in 1970 and his
PhD in Psychology at UCSD in 1975. He has taught in Psychology and Cognitive Science at UC Berkeley ever since, where he also served as Director of the Institute of Cognitive Studies. He is best known for his research on perceptual organization and his interdisciplinary book, Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology. He now studies visual aesthetics of color and spatial composition, as well as cross-modal associations between music and vision.
Abstract. Music-to-color associations were studied in synesthetes and non-synesthetes for several kinds of music, including classical, single-line piano melodies, and 34 different genres of popular music (from heavy metal to country western). When non-synesthetes chose the colors that “went best” with each selection, faster music in the major mode was strongly associated with more saturated, lighter, yellower colors. Further evidence shows that these music-to-color associations are mediated by emotion (e.g., the happy/sad ratings of the music were highly correlated with the happy/sad ratings of the colors chosen as going best with the music . Similar emotional effects were present for lower-level musical sounds. The similarities and differences of synesthetes’ and non-synesthetes’ color experiences will be discussed.IEEE and Sigma Xi present the talk: Colour, Music, and Emotion in Synesthetes and Non-Synesthetes.
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Gilberto (Chair)
Follow the link below to download the Q2 issue of The Downlink, the IEEE Albuqurque Section Newsletter. In this issue The Downlink includes pictures of the awards banquet and the names of the awardees.
Regards,
Gilberto
2014 Chair
On May the 19th, the IEEE Albuquerque Section held its annual awards banquet in collaboration with Sigma-Xi. Here are some pictures of the event.
Professor Harjit Ahluwalia was the master of ceremonies.
2014 Outstanding Young Engineer: Jose Luis Cruz-Campa (Sandia National Labs). His wife Tara received the award on this behalf.
2014 Outstanding Entrepreneur: John Maynard (MDDC)
2014 Outstanding Engineer: Dr. Vince Calhoun (The Mind Research Network / ECE)
2014 Outstanding Engineering Educator: Ganesh Balakrishnan (CHTM)
2014 Outstanding Graduate Student: Firas Ayoub (ECE)
2014 Outstanding Undergraduate Student: John-Mark Collins (ECE)
Professor Ahluwalia announced his retirement from UNM and received a recognition from Dr. Wolfang Rudolph, Chair of the department of Physics and Astronomy.
After the awards were presented, Professor V.M. Kenkre gave the talk: Spread of Infection in Epidemics: Random Walks, Nonlinearity, and Extintion.
On bahalf of the our Section, congratulations again to all the awardees. Our thanks to Professor Ahluwalia for his tireless contributions to our Section, and our thanks to Professor Kenkre for given such an interesting talk.
We look forward to the 2015 award nominations.
Regards,
Gilberto Zamora (Chair)
Dear IEEE member, You are cordially invited to attend the 2014 IEEE Annual Awards Banquet (jointly held with the UNM Sigma Xi Chapter) on Monday, 19 May 2014, at the UNM Division of Continuing Education Building, 1634 University Blvd NE, just north of the Indian School Road. The well-lit site offers free parking in a large lot. Program 5:00 pm: Check-in and Greet / meet Welcome new members and awardees in an atmosphere of good fellowship amidst live music by `Sweet Breeze.' Mock Champagne Punch with tasty Appetizers (cheese strays with asparagus, spicy shrimp cocktail) will be served. 6:00 pm: Dinner (with wine) served by Indulgence Cafe & Catering (delicious menu) Roasted Asian Infused salmon OR Lemon Oregano chicken OR Eggplant Parmesan Wine and garlic sauced green beans; Baby greens salad with raspberries, tomatoes, goat cheese, and almonds, served with a citrus dressing; Pinon Rice; Fresh baked rolls with butter; Amaretto cake with strawberry coulis; Iced Tea and Coffee. 7:00 pm: Awards Recognition of the awardees in several categories and induction of the new members. 8:00 pm: Banquet Talk: V. M. (Nitant) Kenkre, Distinguished Professor of Physics & Director, Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science, UNM, "SPREAD OF INFECTION IN EPIDEMICS: Random Walks, Nonlinearity, and Extinction." Dinner is $30 if you pay in advance (see web site link below) and $40 if you pay at the door. IEEE student members and current board members pay only $10 each. Dinner is complimentary for past section chairs, IEEE fellows, the awardees and their significant other. Please make reservations by 16 May 2014 on the internet using: https://www.123signup.com/register?id=drvqv Sincerely, Ray Byrne, Secretary Albuquerque Section
Earlier this month we had told you about Engineering for Kids. I hope you checked out their website or visited their location.
This time Ed, the site director, has told us they have just added four new Junior Summer Camps during the weeks of June 9-13 and June 23-27 for ages 4 to 7. Note that student(s) can sign-up for Supervised Lunch for those wishing to attend both morning and afternoon sessions.
The new camps are:
Engineering of Travel
Engineering of Pirates
Engineering of Power and Energy
Engineering of Medieval Times
The descriptions are found on-line at:
https://engineeringforkids.com/location/newmexico/camps
The new camps are thematic–they use dynamic labs and activities from all the major engineering disciplines. The information from the parent-portal page is below for your convenience:
If you have questions, please contact Ed:
Ed Hazlett
Engineering for Kids Site Director
505.816-0215