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1 February 2005 (VOL 53, NO. 2) The MONITOR PUBLISHED BY THE NEW YORK SECTION OF THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS Visit our web page at: PERIODICAL TIME SENSITIVE MATERIAL

2 Chairman s Column The IEEE Awards Dinner Dance celebrates the awards of those who have contributed of their time and effort in making the IEEE an integral part of the engineering community. It honors those raised to the Fellows Grade and highlights those who have received other awards. We remember tonight especially all those present, who make up the working force of the IEEE and give so freely of their time and effort without compensation and take a moment to reflex over the past year with a well deserved Thanks for helping out. Here we will have a chance to relax, get acquainted and reacquainted. An astonishing range of sights awaits you in beautiful Trianon Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel. Bask in the distinctive skyline and the soaring skyscrapers of New York City all part of an unfolding vista you'll enjoy during this dining and dancing experience. Enjoy a sumptuous dinner prepared fresh by dedicated chefs, then dance to live music or enjoy friendly conversation. Reduce stress! Don't waste time haggling with evening plans. Save time! Plan and book now. Delight in an evening of relaxation. Enjoy hors d'oeuvres at your table, followed by an appetizing crudités and cocktails in the Petit Trianon. An attentive staff serves bottled wines, beer, cocktails, and soft drinks throughout the evening. Take a stroll or relax as the band captures the mood on the dance floor. The annual award dinner dance has grown from its first inception with fewer than 50 people served to more than 200. I invite you to attend the IEEE Awards Dinner Dance on February 12, 2005 and look forward to seeing and welcoming you. Sincerely, Paul Sartori GET TO KNOW YOUR IEEE NEIGHBORS! Most IEEE Sections are contiguous (directly bordering) with one or more other Sections. If you are not already acquainted with your neighbors, it s a good idea get to know them! This is a situation that Sections can use to their mutual advantage. Here are some examples: Do you think Internet Section programs are too expensive for your Section? Invite a neighboring Section to share the costs and the benefits. (See for Information about IEEE supported Internet conferencing.) Do you share upcoming meeting announcements with your neighbors? There may be members in your Section for whom it is convenient to travel to another Section s meetings. Or a particular meeting may be of such interest that it is worth a special trip. Your Section may be able to take the opportunity of a distinguished lecturer visit to a neighboring Section by inviting them to stay one more night in the area and speak to your members (or conversely, you may be able to share a speaker with another Section). Other activities that you can consider sharing with close-by Sections are virtual communities and Continuing Education Programs. You may be able to think of still other ideas that will work for your mutual benefit. If you would like to contact a contiguous Section, but don t know who the volunteers are, send an to sec-chapsupport@ieee.org. Help Wanted Managing Editor IEEE Monitor, New York Section Contact: Robert Pellegrino, Nominating Committee: Phone: or by PellegrinoR@ConEd.Com 2

3 The MONITOR Postmaster: Send Address change and returns to the IEEE MONITOR, c/o Membership Services, IEEE Service Center, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ (ISSN ) Published monthly, except for June, July and August, by the New York Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., c/o Michael A. Miller, Con Edison room Phone (212) , Fax (646) IEEE Corporate Office, 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY Annual subscription: $4.00 per member per year (included in annual dues) for each member of the New York Section: $10.00 per year for non-ieee members All communications concerning The IEEE MONITOR should be addressed to: The IEEE MONITOR, c/o Michael A. Miller, Con Edison room 1208, 4 Irving Place, NY, NY or MillerM@ConEd.Com Responsibility for contents of articles, papers, abstracts, etc. published herein rests entirely with the authors, not the editor, Publication committee, IEEE or its members. Periodicals Postage Paid at New York, NY and additional mailing offices. Vol. 53 No. 2 February, 2005 OFFICERS SECTION CHAIRMAN Paul J. Sartori VICE CHAIRMAN, OPERATIONS - Stanley Karoly VICE CHAIRMAN, ACTIVITIES Ken Vought TREASURER Warner W. Johnston SECRETARY David Weiss COMMITTEE CHAIRS AWARDS CHAIRMAN - Peter Mauzey BY-LAWS William Coyne HISTORIAN Melvin Olken MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Leon Katz P.A.C.E. CHAIRMAN - Peter J. Greco PUBLICATIONS CHAIRMAN - Frank E. Schink PUBLICITY & PUBLIC RELATIONS Paul Sartori EDUCATION Len Rubenstein SPECIAL EVENTS Ralph Tapino STUDENT ACTIVITIES David Weiss TAPPEN ZEE SUBSECTION Robert M. Pellegrino LONG RANGE PLANNING William Perlman WEBMASTER Harold Ruchelman STAFF MANAGING EDITOR - Michael A. Miller ASSOCIATE EDITOR - Harold Ruchelman HISTORIAN - Melvin Olken COMPUTER SOCIETY Metro New York Members Appointed to IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitors Program The Metropolitan New York Section is pleased to congratulate Robert Gezelter and David Zeller of our section on their appointment to the Computer Society s Distinguished Visitor Program for terms ending in December It is especially pleasing to note that the Metropolitan New York Section accounted for 14% of the speakers appointed to this program. The Northern New Jersey Section was also well represented, with Larry Bernstein (Stevens Institute of Technology) and Manish Prarashar (Rutgers University) appointed. Together, the two sections accounted for 28% of the speakers appointed to the panel. The Computer Society s Distinguished Visitor s Program for the North American Region provides speakers on leading edge topics for section meetings throughout the region, enabling Computer Society chapters throughout North America to keep abreast of technologies and related issues. Marty Izzak, as a past chapter chair of the New York / North Jersey chapter of Engineering Management Society, proposed to sponsor a new Engineering Management Chapter. The New York Section executive committee accepted this. Marty will help to establish and maintain this chapter. If you are interested in joining please contact Marty at his office. His telephone number is Marty Izaak, Senior Project Manager, Urban Engineers, Inc. The IEEE Engineering Management Society (EMS) directs its efforts toward advancing the practice of engineering and technology management as a professional discipline, encouraging theory development for managing organizations with a high engineering or technical content, and promoting high professional standards among its members. Dr. Irving Engelson, FIEEE 2004 Engineering Management Society President 3

4 Professional Activities Information Page This page dedicated to member professional activities information New York Section PACE Calendar of Upcoming Events: The following are proposed Section activities. Please contact me if you plan to attend a meeting. March 9; April TBD; April 13; General Meeting Financial Seminar General Meeting If you have suggestions on areas of professional activities that interest you please contact me. Peter Greco PACE Chairman Tel.: Fax: p.j.greco@ieee.org IEEE-USA s and IEEE Job Site: This highly rated job listing service was replaced by a new internet-based job site, and is sponsored by IEEE-USA and IEEE Spectrum. The site allows the active and passive job seeker more control over the recruiting process. For more details go to: IEEE EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE WEB SITE: < The Employment Assistance Web Site brings together dozens of job-search resources in a single location. The site includes the following: Entry-Level Employment Assistance Site: If you are an engineering graduate, recent graduate, of IEEE Student Member looking for the first job this is one of the best places to begin your career. Special entry-level employment services include job listings, links to company sites and job-search tips and techniques: < entry.html> IEE-USA s New Resume Referral Service: Put your resume for maximum exposure! IEEE-USA in cooperation with Resume- Link has established a members-only Resume Referral Service which IEEE members may register, FREE of charge via web registration or by hard copy. Your resume will stay on file for six months (with an option to renew the listing up to a year). Make sure you check out this great new service to promote your credentials! For hard copy registration forms, contact Resume-Link at or <socmember@resume-link.com>. EMPLOYMENT AND CAREER ENHANCEMENT PUBLICATIONS The Engineers Guide to Lifelong Employability This is a practical complete resource book on locating and obtaining good jobs throughout your career. Features over 200 pages of in-depth text that will allow you to master the engineering job search. IEEE Members: $19.95 Engineering Careers into the 21 st Century Offers strategies and insights for engineers working in today s dynamic professional environment IEEE Members: $

5 Calendar of Upcoming Events January 18, 2005 (Tuesday) PES/IAS Program Committee Meeting is scheduled for 5:30 PM at the Con Edison, 19 th floor, Executive Dining Room, 4 Irving Place, NYC., Subject: The Medical Examiner on DNA Identification, RSVP to John Michelsen at (914) or by at JohnM@GraphAlloy.com February 7, 2005 (Monday) Student Activities Committee presents Networking Session, 5:30 7:30 pm, Con Edison, 19 th floor, Executive Dining Room, 4 Irving Place, New York, NY, refreshments will be provided, contact DAWeiss@NYCT.com or Balvinder@IEEE.Org February 12, 2005 (Saturday Evening) 2005 Awards Dinner Dance, Trianon Ballroom, New York Hilton Hotel and Towers at Rockefeller Center, 1335 Avenue of the Americas (between 53 rd and 54 th Streets) Contact: William Perlman (908) W.Perlman@IEEE.Org or Ralph Tapino (718) RalTap@Aol.Com February 17, 2005 ( Thursday) PES/IAS Technical Discussion Group Meeting and the Edison Engineering Society Presentation: Mass Electric Construction Company discussing Seismic Bracing in the Con Edison Executive Dining Room, 4 Irving Place, 19 th Floor, New York, NY. For information or Reservation call : Sukumar Alampur Sukumar@JRLA.comn or (646) / Jim Nucito J.R.Nucito@IEEE.org or (732) Ext February 22, 2005 (Tuesday) Broadcast Technology Presentation on Closed Captioning in NTSC Television. Contact: Warner W. Johnston at ABC TV, or Warner.W.Johnston@ABC.com February 24, 2005 (Thursday) at 5:30 PM the Section GOLD & COMSOC Chapters will jointly sponsor a meeting, hosted by Nortel Networks 320 Park Avenue, NYC. The first forty interested IEEE NY Section Members that register will receive Carl Selinger's presentation on the soft skills graduate Engineers must master to advance in their professional careers and enjoy more gratifying, personal lives. Interested IEEE Members should or telephone GOLD Chapter Chair Nikolas Nonis nikolas.n.nonis@verizon.com, to register in advance. February 24, 2005 (Thursday) MESC presents Dr. James Yardley, Director of the Nano-Science Center at Columbia University speaking on Nano-Science and Technology Part, Present, and Future at the NY Academy of Sciences, 1 st Floor, 2 East 63 rd Street, New York, NY. March 22, 2005 (Tuesday) PES/IAS Program Committee Meeting is scheduled for 5:30 PM at the Con Edison, 19 th floor Auditorium, 4 Irving Place, NYC., Subject: Wind Power by Andy Garsils of the Long Island Power Authority. RSVP to John Michelsen at (914) or by at JohnM@GraphAlloy.com Future City Competition: Mentors are needed. The program asks for a hour commitment over the months of October 2004 to January 2005, sign up at For more information contact Cengiz Mumcuoglu at cengiz.mumcuoglu@slattery.skanska.com phone April 6, 2005 (Wednesday) Computer Society Meeting. Topic: Wireless Network Security by Mr. Robert Gezelter of RLG Software Consulting. Mr. Gezelter is a IEEE Distinguished Speaker. April 14, 2005 (Thursday) The Vehicular Technology Society Sharing Forum presents The Importance of Scalability in Video Surveillance Architectures by Dr. Francesco Ziliani of Visiowave and The Second Avenue Subway Project by Mark Griffiths of DMJM+Harris at One Penn Plaza, NY register on line at or contact Mike Fitzmaurice at October 12, 2005 (Wednesday) Computer Society Meeting. Topic: Computer Communication Architectures by Dr. Morris Schwartz, Chief Communication Engineer from NYCT. 5

6 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Student Activities Committee Power Engineering Society /Industrial Application Society -IEEE Invites College Branch Counselors & Student Representatives to its second NETWORKING SESSION Date: February 7, 2005 Time: 5:30pm 7:30pm Location: Con Ed Bldg 4 Irving Pl, 19 th floor Refreshments will be provided!! RSVP BY: Jan 30, 2004 David Weiss, SAC Chair, NY Section Balvinder Blah, SAC Chair, PES daweiss@nyct.com balvinder@ieee.org Blavinder Blah Goes to Seattle to attend IAS Society Meeting & Brings home award for New York Chapter! It was very nice to attend the IAS meeting in Seattle. Please find some photos that have been taken during the Award Luncheon and the Chapters Display. I would like to express my thanks and congratulations to the Seattle Organizing Committee especially to Mr. Erling Hesla for the organizing this excellent Annual Meeting. The Chapters Display was a very good idea and one of the highlights was the display of the Seattle Chapter. Congratulations! 6

7 IEEE New York Section G.O.L.D. & COMSOC Chapters You are invited to the February Joint meeting of G.O.L.D & COMSOC Thursday, February 24, :30PM Presenting as Guest Speaker: Carl Selinger Author of Stuff You Don t Learn in Engineering School Carl is an Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering at The Cooper Union, teaches graduate-level aviation and transportation planning courses at SUNY Maritime College; airport management course at CUNY York College, affiliated with the Aviation Institute; transportation and marketing courses at Pace University, New Jersey Institute of Technology and City College of New York. He is a faculty advisor to Cooper Union's chapter of Tau Beta Pi (the national engineering honorary society), which elected him "Eminent Engineer". Carl is President of the Cooper Union Alumni Association, and was Cooper Union s "1993 Alumnus of the Year." Carl holds civil and transportation engineering degrees from Cooper Union, Yale University, and Polytechnic University. He is active professionally: Associate Member, Airports Council International North America (ACI-NA) on the Business Information Technologies Committee and liaison with the Business & Commercial Management Subcommittee; American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE); Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE); American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE); and Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS), where he is Mentor to young professionals and chaired the NY Chapter s Student Affairs Committee, the chapter which honored him as "1998 Member of the Year." He is an Honorary Member of the Sperry Transportation Award, and has chaired ASCE's National Transportation Policy Committee. Carl will gives us a overview of, "Stuff You Don't Learn in Engineering School, which covers such non-technical soft skills -- like decision-making, setting priorities, negotiating, teamwork, running meetings, and writing and speaking better -- to be more effective and happier persons. Refreshments: 5:30PM Program 6:00PM Call for Advanced Registration by Thursday, February 15, 2004 to: Nick or n.nonis@ieee.org Please provide Name and Company affiliation. No Walk-ins Allowed for Security Reasons Location: Nortel Networks Nearest Subway: 42 St /Grand Central 230 Park Avenue (45 St & 46 St) New York, New York ALL ARE INVITED! 7

8 Electrical Engineering, Amusement Parks and the Movies By Melvin I. Olken, P. E. Historian Amusement parks make great use of electricity. Indeed, it was specifically for the purpose of using electricity that many of the first amusement parks in the United States were built. The electric-streetcar companies saw them as a way of using the excess generating capacity that the companies had in the evenings and on the weekends. (The companies almost always generated their own electricity.) By building an amusement park at the end of line (read Coney Island), where real estate was least expensive, the companies not only found a use for the available electricity but also created business for the streetcars during slack periods. These amusement parks, often called trolley parks, sprang up in U.S. cities in the late 1880s and over the next two decades. There were, of course, electrically powered rides, such as carousels and Ferris wheels, and the spectacular lighting of these parks was a principal attraction as well. Not surprisingly, amusement parks have been a favorite setting for filmmaking. A very early movie is "Coney Island" (1917), with some of the greatest stars of the silent-film era, including Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle, and the Keystone Kops. Coney Island's Luna Park had opened in 1903, and it boasted 250,000 electric lights. In the century since then, Coney Island has appeared in numerous movies, such as "Coney Island" (1943), "Carnival of Blood" (1970), "The Wiz" (1978), and "He Got Game" (1998). In "Annie Hall" (1977) the neurotic 8 Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) returns to his boyhood home in Coney Island. His father ran the bumper-car ride, and the family house was directly underneath the roller coaster (suggesting one source of Alvy's neurosis). For filmmakers, amusement parks usually connoted joie de vivre. The 1927 movie "It", which made Clara Bow famous and gave her the nickname "The It Girl", features the lights of an amusement park and a fun house there. In amusement parks, lovers enjoy each other's company, and pursue each other, as in the recent "Amélie" ("Le fabuleux destin d'amélie Poulain"). Yet the amusement park, though designed as a place of pleasure, can easily be a chilling, even a frightening place, particularly when it is deserted. Orson Welles made famous use of this in "The Lady from Shanghai" (1948), with its chase through an empty amusement park culminating in a shoot-out in the hall of mirrors, and in "The Third Man" (1949), with Harry Lime's rendezvous at Vienna's giant Ferris wheel when there is no one in the area. That same Ferris wheel, incidentally, appears almost forty years later in the James Bond movie "The Living Daylights" (1987), and a British agent is killed nearby. The final, terror-fraught scene of "Charlie Chan in the Chinese Cat" (1944) occurs in a seemingly deserted fun house. And Alfred Hitchcock, in "Strangers on a Train" (1951), managed to give an amusement park, even when full of people, a dire and foreboding atmosphere. Equipment malfunction at amusement parks occurs in many movies. Often it is for humorous effect. In "Bean" (1997) the protagonist reprograms a flight-simulator ride and sends people flying, and in the movie "1941", made in 1979, a Japanese submarine fires on an amusement park near Los Angeles, causing a Ferris wheel to come off its base and roll down a pier into the ocean. Sometimes the effect is frightening, as in the aforementioned "Strangers on a Train", when a carousel whirls out of control, or gory, as in the crash at the beginning of "Rollercoaster" (1977).

9 POWER ENGINEERING SOCIETY AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS SOCIETY NEW YORK & LONG ISLAND CHAPTER YOU ARE INVITED TO A JOINT MEETING of the IEEE PES & IAS with Edison Engineering Society on WIND-GENERATED POWER Presented by: Andris Garsils Mr. Garsils is the Manager of Distributed Resource Management for KeySpan Energy. Mr. Garsils manages over 90 independent power facilities, hundreds of photovoltaic installations, and several small wind turbine installations representing over 1000 MW of interconnected facilities. Mr. Garsils responsibilities include coordination of interconnection studies, construction of distributed generation projects for LIPA s clean energy program, interconnection, testing, protection, interfacing of HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) with distributed generation owners and operators on contractual and operational issues, supporting the LIPA system operators with respect to distributed generation interactions, representing LIPA s interests on technical committees and administration of over $500 million in annual financial transactions related to distributed generation facilities. He is a member of the evaluation team for LIPA s 140 MW off shore proposed wind turbine generating station. Mr. Garsils has a bachelors degree in ME from NY Institute of Technology and a MBA from LIU. He is an active member of the IEEE 1547 (Interconnection of Distributed Generation) Working Group and development of He is a member of the NY State Standardized Interconnection Requirements Working Group and the UL-1741 Standards Technical Panel. His talk will focus on: Wind Generation Potential Economic Impact US Energy Legislation Cost to Customer The Turbines All activities are posted on the PES & IAS Chapter Web Site: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 Refreshments: 5:15 pm Program: Starting at 5:45 pm Location: Con Edison 19 th Floor Auditorium 4 Irving Place, NY Reservation to : John Please Post JohnM@GraphAlloy.com or Michael A MillerM@ConEd.com Nearest Subway: Union Square Please Post All Invited! No Walk-ins Due to Security THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC. 9

10 IEEE THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC. Vehicular Technology Society April 14 th Technology-Sharing Forum Join the NY Section of the VTS presenting The importance of Scalability in Video Surveillance Architectures Dr. Francesco Ziliani of Visiowave & The Second Avenue Subway Project By Mark Griffiths, PE of DMJM+HARRIS April 14th, 2005, 6:00 to 8:00 PM Refreshments and Registration: 5:30PM Hosted by: Cisco Systems, Inc. 5 th Floor One Penn Plaza, New York City Dr. Ziliani s presentation introduces the concept of «scalable video coding» in the framework of video surveillance architectures. Scalability is the key feature of MJPEG200 standard and of a new MPEG standardization effort driven by the mobile telephony industries and by the major actors in digital video surveillance. It enables an optimum design of large video surveillance architectures and offers a high level of flexibility to their extensions. It represents the right answer to many of the challenges of digital video surveillance in transit environments. This concept has been successfully introduced by VisioWave in ambitious projects such as the Paris s subway video surveillance systems. Mark Griffith will discuss the proposed Second Avenue Subway (SAS) Project which is a multi-billion new subway system in Manhattan configured as a two-track subway extending approximately 8.5 miles from the vicinity of 125th Street in northern Manhattan to the financial district in lower Manhattan. Sixteen new stations will be provided to serve the new subway. Some of these stations will be relatively shallow cut and cover structures and others will be deeper and mined. Several connections are proposed between the SAS stations and the existing subway system to facilitate the transfer of passengers. The presentation will also discuss the numerous systems planned to the line. Advance registration is required for admission. There is a $35.00 charge for the forum and refreshments, Checks Payable to IEEE NY Section Registration Mail to: Mr. Joern Fellenberg Online at Transportation Systems 16 th floor, 498 Seventh Ave New York, NY IEEE Members and non-members may register for the October forum. If you are an IEEE member, please provide your membership number. Program specifics and directions: Online at the VTS NY Website, or Contact Mr. Mike Fitzmaurice at VTS New York 10

11 POWER ENGINEERING SOCIETY AND INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS SOCIETY NEW YORK & LONG ISLAND YOU ARE INVITED TO A JOINT MEETING of the IEEE and Edison Engineering Society Thursday, February 17 th, 2005 PRESENTING: Seismic Bracing for Non-Structural Components With the adoption of the 2000 International Building Code, (IBC), comes stricter requirements for seismic bracing. Cooper B-Line offers an extensive line of commercially available support products that can be assembled to create seismic restraints. Although the catalog offers pre-engineered designs, the products ease of use and published load data allow structural engineers to design specific restraints on a perproject basis. This presentation will cover a plethora of information regarding seismic bracing when s, where s, why s, and how s. Presentation Specifics: 1 PDH of credit for New York State licensed PE s Overview of seismic bracing for non-structural building components Overview of the multi-step submittal process for brace sizing and selection Definition of a Seismic Force Level, (aka: F p, or g-value ) Requirements of building codes on how to calculate F p Discussion from a licensed, Structural PE, over: Current and upcoming NYC Building Code requirements Liability concerns of insurance companies, project owners, contractors, and designers Thursday, February 17 th, 2005 NO WALK-INS allowed for security reasons Refreshments will be served Program: 5:00 7:00 pm Location: Con Edison Executive Dining Room, 19 th Floor Nearest Subway: Union Square 4 Irving Place, NY Call for Advance Reservation to : Sukumar Salampur@Loringengineers.com Jim x4149 J.R.Nucito@IEEE.org Please Post Please Post All Invited! THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC. 11

12 PUBLISHER'S STATEMENT The IEEE MONITOR is the official news publication of the New York Section of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. The New York Section is comprised of the five boroughs of New York City (Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island) plus Rockland and Westchester Counties. The publication reports on events and activities of interest to the general membership composed of electrical and electronics engineers and computer scientists, presents topical feature material relevant to the engineering profession, and carries the monthly IEEE society chapter calendar of events as a service to its readers. CIRCULATION The IEEE MONITOR is distributed to all IEEE members in the New York Section plus additional subscribers. Monthly circulation as of January 12, 2005 is 6,246. ISSUE AND CLOSING DATES The IEEE MONITOR is published monthly except June, July and August. Advertising order deadline is the first of the month preceding issue date. Camera ready material is due on the 5th of the month preceding issue date. MAILING INSTRUCTIONS Address all correspondence concerning advertising to: IEEE Monitor 24 Chamber Lane Englishtown, N. J DISPLAY ADVERTISING RATES Display advertising space is available in full and fractional page sizes. To qualify for frequency discounts, advertiser must furnish publisher with a schedule of insertion dates. Schedule may be changed by notifying publisher prior to regular deadline date. 1X 3X 5X 9X Full Page $630 $599 $567 $536 2/3 Page /2 Page /3 Page /4 Page /6 Page Bus. Card Col. Inch Preprinted Inserts Four pages: $1,070, no frequency discount. COMMISSIONS 15% commission allowed to all recognized ad agencies providing payment is received by due date. All ads invoiced on publication closing date. Full payment due 10 days after issue date. Rendering invoice to ad agency does not relieve advertiser in case agency default. MECHANICAL SPECIFICATIONS Size Publication trim size 81/2" x 11" Image size is 7 1/2" x 10" Publication is black and white 3 column format. Each column is 14 picas wide. Color is NOT available at this time. Full Page 7-1/2" x 10" 2/3 Page 4-3/4" x 10" 1/2 Page (horizontal) 7-1/2" x 5" 1/2 Page (vertical) 4-3/4" x 7-1/2" 1/3 Page (square) 4-3/4" x 5" 1/3 Page (vertical) 2-1/4" x 10" 1/4 Page 4-3/4" x 3-3/4" 1/6 Page 2-3/4" x 5" Bus. Card 2" x 3-1/2" Col. Inch 1" x 2-1/3" Materials Preferred material for black and white ads is right-reading emulsion side down negative. Halftone screen is 100 lines. Veloxes, other reproducible proofs and laser printed materials are acceptable. Photocopied material is not accepted. Original artwork accepted at advertiser's risk. Composition and assembly to advertiser's layout available at nominal charge. Submit copy and layout for quote. ADVERTISING POLICY All advertising is subject to the publisher's approval. Advertisers and their advertising agencies assume all liability for all content including text, illustrations, sketches, labels, trademarks, etc., of all advertising submitted for publishing, and also assume responsibility for any claims arising therefrom made against the publisher. Covers 1X 3X 5X 9X Back $ Inside Back

13 ENGINEERS WEEK CELEBRATION Sponsored by THE METROPOLITAN ENGINEERING SOCIETIES COUNCIL RESERVATIONS REQUIRED Date: Thursday, February 24, 2005 Time: Program: Where: Keynote Speaker: Subject: Proclamation: Registration: 5:30 PM, Light Buffet: 6:00 PM 7:00 to 9:00 PM The New York Academy of Sciences 2 East 63 rd Street New York, NY Dr. James Yardley Director of the Nano-Science Center Columbia University "Nano-Science and Techology Past, Present and Future" The Mayor s Proclamation on Engineers Week will be presented. Cost: $50.00 mailed reservations and check required by February 17, 2005 No "At Door" payment due to limited seating You will get 2 PDH for this Meeting. PDH: The meeting has been approved by PIE for 2 PDH. Please mail your check made payable to MESC and mail with the tear-off below to: MESC, PO Box 1981, Church Street Station, New York, NY February 24, 2005 ENGINEERS WEEK CELEBRATION Fee Enclosed: Phone #: First Name: Last Name: Company: Society: Address: City: State: Zip: FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, CONTACT WASYL KINACH, info@mescnyc.org, Tel: (212) ; FAX: (212)

14 As Yogi Berra may have said, it ain t over till It s over..but is it? By Melvin I. Olken, P. E. Historian In columns printed last year, we reviewed the AC-DC battles of the late 19 th century between those entrepreneurial giants Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse and offered the conclusion that AC and the Westinghouse polyphase system triumphed. But the triumph was not quite complete. For the ensuing 100+ years, Con Edison has continued to supply DC power to a dwindling number of customers (approximately 1500) in Upper West Side apartment buildings, Garment District lofts, hotels and brownstones, all located in Manhattan. Typically these users rely on DC for power to old elevator motors, fire pumps, and other relics from the past. Some 20 years ago Con Ed retired its last DC power plant and since that time has been supplying DC customers by rectifying AC. Maintenance records indicate that there is a far higher percentage of problems in DC sections of cable compared to AC. The DC customer holdouts have withstood a 5-year campaign by Con Ed to wean them from DC via cajoling letters and surcharges. Now Con Ed has announced that all DC service will be terminated by the end of So, is it over? Well, perhaps not. The New York City subway system has always operated on DC, also supplied by Con Ed, and will continue to do so. So it appears that once again Yogi Berra has been proved correct, and that s déjà vu all over again. Engineers IEEE-USA needs your help spreading the word about the following event. Early this year, Congress will begin debating legislation that could profoundly effect American engineering professionals. We Need IEEE Members to Come to Washington on March 8th and 9th to Help Us Defend Your Profession! IEEE engineers face an unprecedented challenge, and an equal opportunity, this year. Done right, pending legislation could strengthen America s long-term competitiveness and prosperity. Done wrong, these proposed reforms could undermine job opportunities and retirement security for many American professionals, including engineers and scientists. It all depends on what Congress decides to do. Among the many important issues that Congress will debate this year the most important for engineers include proposals to: Expand the country s temporary work visa program. Although it will target low-skill workers, this proposal could substantially increase the number of temporary visas available for foreign professionals. Partially privatize Social Security and strengthen the nation s defined pension system. Change the processing of visas international students need to study in the U.S. Some proposals would make the student admissions process more restrictive. Others will expedite student admissions. Make it easier foreign engineers and scientists to permanent residents of the U.S. IEEE-USA will be working aggressively to protect the interests of IEEE members, but we can t do it alone. We need help from individual IEEE members who are concerned about the future of their profession. On the afternoon of March 8th, 2005 we invite all concerned engineers to meet us on Capitol Hill for an intensive training session on key professional careers issues. Then on March 9th, you will visit with your legislators to discuss the state of engineering in America and practical ways Congress can improve it. All IEEE members in Regions 1 6 are encouraged to participate, including students and retired engineers. No experience is necessary. All you need is a willingness to try to make the country better. IEEE-USA will provide you with background on pending legislation and tips on holding successful meetings with members of Congress. IEEE-USA held a very successful similar event last year. Only two of the participants had ever met a lawmaker before, yet all were able to successful communicate personal concerns and practical recommendations to their legislators. More information on the 2005 IEEE-USA Careers Fly-In, including how to register, can be found here: Limited support for a few IEEE members from key legislative districts will also be available. Questions? Contact Vin O Neil or Russ Harrison at (202) or Russ at r.t.harrison@ieee.org. 14

15 Women in Engineering Affinity Group Chair By Darlene E. Rivera, Chair IEEE NY Section WIE Speaker Eleanor Baum 12/8/04 Career Advice for Women Women comprise over half the population, but form only 12% of the engineering workforce. Women are underrepresented in engineering and don t set their heights high enough (as opposed to setting unrealistically high standards). Women tend to not aim high enough. Learn Corporate Culture Culture is different in different companies. Culture is sensitive to stated rules and unstated rules. Example: Dress: Programmers typically wear: Jeans, T-shirts, Sneakers, Lots of beards Prove Yourself Women tend to think that they have to prove themselves just because they re women. This is not the case. You have to prove yourself because you re new. Show that you: Can do the job technically, Learn reasonable quickly, Have reasonable work ethics, Behave appropriately/professionally You Work in a TEAM Learn it!!! Men know how to work as part of a team from being involved in sports When you re in a team: Sometimes you re a leader & Sometimes you re a follower Compromise: e.g. when you and another feel very strongly about something, compromise is the right thing to do Be really good about giving your teammates credit when it s due Have to keep learning: Stay technically Competent Beauty of engineering is things change. If you don t change, you re history. It s in the company s best interest to keep you technically competent. Go to as many classes as possible even if not directly related to your job. Take a grad course at a university. (You don t have to get a degree.) It s always good to stay current Join Professional Society Read the journals even if you don t understand everything! Just get a feel for what people think is up and coming and important. Know the BIG picture Of the project you re working on, The division you re in, The company you re at, The industry you re in regionally/nationally/globally Job you re working on is a tiny thing. It s a piece of a bigger thing. Get a big picture, systems perspective. Know how what you re doing now has to do with the bigger picture! Must understand the big picture. So the goals are: Quality, Timeliness (be current!), Continual Improvement In addition to technical competence, these are essential in a company, university, at your job! You must learn to be good communicator Learn advocacy skills Negotiating Skills Learn the business of the company you re in Understand that diverse teams are creative. Need global perspective Ethics Mentoring Networking Don t be Oversensitive Time Management (work/family) Revaluate your goals every so often - Aim high - OK to change goals - OK to leave job - OK to change industry - OK to change directions - OK to leave if you re not learning anything -OK to leave if you re not happy I hope your directions take you as far as your dreams --Eleanor Baum 15

16 THE NEW YORK SECTION S 2005 AWARDS DINNER DANCE The 2005 NY Section Awards Dinner Dance honoring the Section's Awardees will be held on Saturday evening, February 12, This year, our dinner dance (black tie optional) will be held in the beautiful Trianon Ballroom, located on the third level (coat check is on the second) of the New York Hilton Hotel and Towers at Rockefeller Center, 1335 Avenue of the Americas (between 53rd and 54th Streets). Festivities will begin at 6:30 P.M. with crudite and cocktails in the Petit Trianon. Here we will have a chance to relax, get acquainted and reacquainted. You will have the opportunity to pamper your palate with a choice of either a succulent filet mignon or a delicious fresh salmon steak. Each gourmet entree will be accompanied by an appetizer, salad and dessert. There will be a brief awards ceremony after dinner and dancing to the sounds of the New Horizon Orchestra. For those wishing to spend the night, hotel reservations can be made on-line at any web service provider or directly at There are no special arrangements made for parking. Reservations for the affair may be made by completing the coupon below and forwarding it to William Perlman at the address indicated before February 1, Corporate Sponsors: Table of 10 at $ 1, * A special non-transferable rate of $90 for each ticket is available to IEEE members. Note that this rate is for the attending IEEE member and a guest only. Organizations wishing to be Industry Sponsors or non-ieee members may obtain additional information and cost by contacting: Ralph Tapino (718) William Perlman (973) Send to: Name: Company: Address: City: William Perlman 267 Richmond Avenue South Orange, NJ RESERVATION FORM Please indicate meal selections: Filet Mignon Salmon Steak State: Zip Code: Telephone: Circle number IEEE Member # * No. Of $90.00 _1 or 2_ Sponsor s $ 1, Non IEEE Member No. Of $ Amount Enclosed $ MAKE CHECK PAYABLE TO: IEEE, NY Section