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IEEE Salutes You!. IEEE UC Berkeley Student Branch Meeting January 23, 2001 IEEE CSU Fresno Student Branch Meeting February 22, 2001. 1. Where I’ve been 2. Where you’re going 3. What to take with you. Oakland-East Bay Section. Bill DeHope, OEB Treasurer. My Life Story. 1970-1975.
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IEEE Salutes You! IEEE UC Berkeley Student Branch Meeting January 23, 2001 IEEE CSU Fresno Student Branch Meeting February 22, 2001 1. Where I’ve been 2. Where you’re going 3. What to take with you Oakland-East Bay Section Bill DeHope, OEB Treasurer
My Life Story... 1970-1975 Helix HighSan Diego • Mark-sense Hollerith cards • kflop speeds • Univac/punched cards • Mflop speeds 1975-1980 SDSUPhysics/Math NOSC/SPAWARAcoustics/EM propagation Stanford EEPhysical Electronics Hughes Aircraft/US Air ForceMicrowave Tubes • MFE CDC-7600 • 100 Mflop speeds • 8088 PC 1980-1985
My saga continues... General AtomicsFusion/Star Wars 1985-1991 • VAX 11-780s • Mac Plus/SE • 100 Mflops • UNIX workstations • Gflop speeds 1991-1997 Varian/CPIPalo Alto; gyrotrons 1997-1999 • Internet explosion Physics InternationalHPM/Radiation EffectsSQUIDs/Pulsed Power 1999-? • Gflop desktops • ASCI Tflops Lawrence LivermoreNational LaboratoryStockpile Stewardship
Your Future, Your Journey Education choices: Graduate school: MS, D.Eng, PhDOther training: MBA, JDProfessional accreditations: PE Job choices: Research? Directed development? Production? Established firm or startup? Future expectations in salary, security? Location? Deciding Factors: Your interestsYour skills & talents Your past training The “market”
Tools of the Trade • Your general knowledge--you know more than you think! • Basic science • Unbiased, critical thinking; the scientific method; “librarianship” • Your specialized knowledge--your unique skill-set • Your character • your actions, integrity, morality (Golden Rule, honesty, etc) • responsibility with time, resources, deliverables & promises • “team player”, proper balance of humility and assertiveness • work hard, go the extra mile, be confident and optimistic • communication: English pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, writing, LISTENING--unbiased & unfiltered, feedback, body language • Life-long learning--just to “keep up”, enhance your skill-set, correct some deficiencies • Your unique experiences--projects you’ll work on, school of hard knocks, what you’ve picked up “on the streets”
What they don’t teach you in college:Basic Project Management • Plan the Work (5-10%) “failing to plan is planning to fail” • Build a team, get buy-in • Know the interfaces, estimate the boundaries • Write it out in some detail, for some people • Communicate the vision to everyone • Get the big picture; aim high in steering • Work the Plan • Assess progress--“Ride the range”, Listen • Communicate the progress--avoid surprises in meetings • Know your options, have lots of Plan B’s • Maintain team unity, camaraderie, and commitment; Give complements • “Your project is the most important one there is.” • This is simple stuff. It works on any size project. Everything’s a project. • You don’t have to make a career of this or even use the “M” word. • Don’t do your job >80% of the time • 80% real work, 10% management, + ...
The missing 10%: Marketing • Your money: • 10% for others (benevolences, charity) • 10% for savings, for the future • Spend the remaining 80% • Your time: • 10% for “managing” others • 10% for marketing, for the future • Work the remaining 80% • At work, time = money • Your project, your career, your firm, your life, needs marketing • What is marketing? • Communication, assessing perceptions, engineering perceptions, appearance, networking • The other “M” word. • The best advertising is free. • There is a future in engineering. Marketing is your ability to control it.
1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 So did I choose the right career? (Why EE?) • Participate in revolutions! • Be an explorer, discoverer • Knowledge/understanding enriches your life • Improve the quality of life for others • Job satisfaction (ref. Headhunter friend) • Stepping stone to other careers (e.g. management) • Big tent; lots of niches; diverse field • Fairness of treatment • Honesty/decency of coworkers • Bridge between ME and SW • Public perception of technology • Speak the international language; help shrink the world!
What else do you need on your journey? • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers(http://www.ieee.org) • World’s largest (~320,000) technical professional society • Our charter: • “Scientific advancement and diffusion of knowledge”“Advancement of the profession”“Use skills to enhance the quality of life for all people” • Our strengths: • Peer-reviewed proceedings, practical publications, newsletters • International conferences & workshops with proceedings • 36 active technical Societies • Active local Chapters; grassroots involvement of membership • Member services (e.g. bargain life insurance) • Professional support
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The 36 Technical Societies of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Council Instrumentation and Measurement Society Lasers & Electro-Optics Society Magnetics Society Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Neural Networks Council Oceanic Engineering Society Power Electronics Society Power Engineering Society Professional Communication Society Reliability Society Robotics & Automation Society Sensors Council Signal Processing Society Society on Social Implications of Technology Solid-State Circuits Society Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Freq Control Vehicular Technology Society Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Antennas and Propagation Society Broadcast Technology Society Circuits and Systems Society Communications Society Components Packaging & Mfg Technology Computer Society Consumer Electronics Society Control Systems Society Council on Superconductivity Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society Education Society Electromagnetic Compatibility Society Electron Devices Society Engineering Management Society Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society Industrial Electronics Society Industry Applications Society Information Theory Society
Refereed Publications of IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging Transactions on Antennas and Propagation Transactions on Applied Superconductivity Transactions on Automatic Control Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Transactions on Broadcasting Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Transactions on Communications Communications Letters Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies Transactions on Control Systems Technology Transactions on Education Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing Transactions on Electron Devices Electron Device Letters Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility Transactions on Energy Conversion Transactions on Engineering Management Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Transactions on Image Processing
More Refereed Publications of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications Transactions on Industrial Electronics Transactions on Information Theory Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement Journal of Lightwave Technology Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics Transactions on Magnetics Transactions on Mechatronics Transactions on Medical Imaging Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems Microwave and Guided Wave Letters Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques Transactions on Multimedia Transactions on Neural Networks Transactions on Nuclear Science Transactions on Oceanic Engineering Photonics Technology Letters Transactions on Plasma Science Transactions on Power Delivery Transactions on Power Electronics Transactions on Power Systems Proceedings of the IEEE
Even More Refereed Publications of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Journal of Quantum Electronics Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering Transactions on Robotics and Automation Transactions on Signal Processing Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing Signal Processing Letters Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A: Systems and Humans Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part B: Cybernetics Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing Journal of Solid-State Circuits Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems Transactions on Vehicular Technology Computer Society Publications Transactions on Computers Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Transactions on Software Engineering Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
The Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) (My personal favorite) • One of the smaller societies (~6000 members) • Publish Trans. on Plasma Science, Trans. on Nuclear Science • Host ICOPS, NSS/MIC, PAC • Typical research fields represented • fusion technology • semiconductor processing; plasma-assisted CVD • charged particle acceleration; beam transport • pulsed power technology and applications • physical electronics: solid-state, vacuum, and plasma devices • nuclear diagnostics and instrumentation • radiation effects • medical imaging • nuclear power; reactor instrumentation and controls • computational electromagnetics • Many members have physics backgrounds • http://hibp7.ecse.rpi.edu/~connor/ieee/npss_foe.html • http://www.ieee.org/newtech/reports/nps/report.html
History of NPSS The first activity of record in this field was the formation of a Nuclear Studies Committee in the IRE in 1947, to determine the proper role of the IRE in this new technical field. Subsequently, in 1949 a petition was filed for the formation of a Professional Group on Nuclear Science, and it was approved on April 5, 1949, with L. R. Hafstad as Chairman. On April 29, an organizational meeting was held, the membership at that time consisting of 54, increasing to 970 by the end of the year. The new organization became visible on a number of fronts in the early 50's. In 1953, the PGNS formed an Atomic Energy Policy Committee which fielded a strong effort to have the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 modified. These efforts came to a fruition in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Early in the 50's the PGNS became a co-sponsor of the Scintillation Counter Symposium which has now merged into the Nuclear Science Symposium. Also in 1954 the first issue of the Transactions on Nuclear Science appeared. In 1956 the number of issues of the Transactions was increased from one a year to four. At essentially the same time as the Professional Group on Nuclear Science was formed in the IRE, the AIEE formed a number of committees and subcommittees to work in this area, the most important being the Nucleonics Committee and Commmittee on Nucleonic and Radiation Instruments. With the merger of the IRE and AIEE on January 1, 1963, to form the IEEE, procedures were begun to merge the like-interest groups of the former societies. The IRE Professional Group on Nuclear Science merged with the AIEE Nucleonics Committee and the Committee on Nucleaonic and Radiation Instruments on October 29, 1963, to become the Nuclear Science Group of the IEEE. In 1972 two major events occurred for the Group. Midyear the scope was widened to include the plasma science field and in September the group was given Society status. The augmented group became the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. March of 1973 saw the debut of a second publication, the Transactions on Plasma Science. NPSS thus has the distinction of issuing two publications, in addition to a newsletter. Over the years the Society has inaugurated or assumed responsibility for a number of conferences. Every year the Society sponsors conferences on Plasma Science, Radiation Effects, and Nuclear Science. Conferences on Particle Accelerators and Engineering Problems in Fusion Research and Data Acquisition in Nuclear and Particle Physics are sponsored every other year. In addition, other conferences such as Symposium on Nuclear Power systems are co-sponsored by the Society.
NPSS Oakland/East Bay Chapter • Our technical meetings • Held ~every other month • No “memberships” required to attend • Announced in Grid Magazine • Grid on-line: http://www.ee.com/grid • Announced via chapter mailings • Great technical talks
Recent OEB-NPSS Technical Talks • Bill Moses, LBNL, Nuclear Detectors for Cancer Imaging, Jan 00 • Doug Wright, LLNL/SLAC, CP Violation in B Mesons, Oct 99 • Neville Smith, LBNL, Opportunities with ALS Radiation, May 99 • Ned Birdsall, UCB, Plasma Simulation, Mar 99 • Ron Rojesky, ITEC, Laser and e-beam Lithography, Jan 99 • Herb Friedman, LLNL, Medical Device Development, Oct 98 • Michael Wright, Varian, X-ray ImagingWithAmorphous Si 5/98 • Andrey Mishin, Schoenberg, Portable Linacs, March 98 • Herb Friedman, LLNL, Laser Guide Star at Lick Obs., Jan 98 • Dennis Matthews, LLNL,Laser Paint Ablation, Dec 97 • Ken Whitham, Titan Beta, Industrial Linacs (& Frascati) May 97 • Hugh Kirbie, LLNL, Solid-State Linear Induction Accels, Mar 97
Previous OEB-NPSS Technical Talks • Arne Vliecks, SLAC, Klystrons & SLED, Jan 97 • Cary Zeitlin, LBL, Space Rad Effects on Astronauts, Nov 96 • Ben Feinberg, LBL, Advanced Light Souce, May 96 • Michael Lieberman UCB, Plasma Processing, Jan 96 • Tom Budinger, LBL, PET & MRI Imaging, Oct 95 • Bob Hamm, AccSys, RFQs, May 95 • Curt Clower, LLNL, NIF, Mar 95 • Jose Alonso, LBL, Proton & Light Ion Medical Therapy, Dec 94 • Mike Zisman, LBL, B Factory, May 94 • Jay Marx, LBL, Quark/gluon Plasmas and STAR Mar 94 • Jim Brase, LLNL, Laser Guide Star, Jan 94 • Glen Dahlbacka, LBL, MEMS, Nov 93 • John DeFord, LLNL, Tech Xfer/Comp Electromagnetics May 93
Why join IEEE? • Member $ benefits (e.g. group life insurance rates) • Discounts on books, publications, conferences • Career benefits; professional advancement • You’ll be perceived as a stand-out • You will rise “above the crowd” • Many employers cover dues (Ask!) so, why not? • Be a giver, not a taker • It’s the right thing to do • It’s the professional thing to do • Ethics strengthening & support • Member friendships, camaraderie, network
A roadmap on the journey...The IEEE Code of Ethics We, the members of the IEEE, in recognition of the importance of our technologies in affecting the quality of life throughout the world, and in accepting a personal obligation to our profession, its members and the communities we serve, do hereby commit ourselves to the highest ethical and professional conduct and agree to: 1. Accept responsibility in making engineering decisions consistent with the safety, health and welfare of the public, and to disclose promptly factors that might endanger the public or the environment. 2. Avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest whenever possible, and to disclose them to affected parties when they do exist. 3. Be honest and realistic in stating claims or estimates based on available data. 4. Reject bribery in all its forms. 5. Improve the understanding of technology, its appropriate application, and potential consequences. 6. Maintain and improve our technical competence and to undertake technological tasks for others only if qualified by training or experience, or after full disclosure of pertinent limitations. 7. Seek, accept, and offer honest criticism of technical work, to acknowledge and correct errors, and to credit properly the contributions of others. 8. Treat fairly all persons regardless of such factors as race, religion, gender, disability, age, or national origin. 9. Avoid injuring others, their property, reputation, or employment by false or malicious action. 10. Assist colleagues and co-workers in their professional development and to support them in following this code of ethics.