IEEE Region 2

This is the monthly administrative meeting of the IEEE Washington Section. All IEEE members in our Section are welcome to attend. IEEE members who wish to volunteer for the Washington Section Administrative Committee are encouraged to attend. Agenda: Planning for Fall Activities Discussion of upcoming events in the Washington Section Room: 2nd Floor conference room, Bldg: College Park Airport Operations Building, 1909 Corporal Frank Scott Dr, College Park, Maryland, United States, 20740

You may use the following link to write a summary of any monthly updates from your committee, chapter or affinity group. Information received by 8 AM on WEDNESDAY the week of the event will be incorporated into the meeting agenda. https://docs.google.com/document/d/16fAXNobJVhkE038f_OZmulen_F8dVFxsezA4IUNQmaw/edit?usp=sharing IEEE members can access prior meeting minutes hosted on the Pittsburgh Section's (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_UTt5t_dxNP1M5dO87OOeR25t8P7qQHp?usp=sharing). Access to the shared drive is restricted to the (https://www.ieee.org/membership/products/google-apps.html). Location for this event is virtual. Meeting link and call-in information will be emailed one hour before the event. --------------------------------------------------------------- New to IEEE Pittsburgh? For those new to the Pittsburgh Section Executive and Administrative Meeting, we welcome all IEEE members in the area to attend! This is a standing meeting held on the 3rd Thursday of every month. We review our upcoming activities relevant to engineers in our section. Feel free to use the report link above to ask any questions you may have, join us on Slack, or read through our welcome guide for more information about how you can get involved with IEEE Pittsburgh. (https://ieeepittsburgh.slack.com/) (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lyWneXlANAQAiJN2p6Bi9kAatooxIQ-YzlGpWRmRGBw/edit?usp=sharing) (https://webinabox.vtools.ieee.org/wibp_calendar/index/R20037) Agenda: First 30 minutes of the event are reserved for socializing. The meeting portion starts at 7 pm (eastern time zone). The meeting agenda will be emailed on Monday the week of the event for early registrants. Room: Program Room, 4000 Gateway Campus Boulevard, Monroeville, Pennsylvania, United States, 15146, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/372733

Executive Committee planning meeting for upcoming events. All ExCom's are Virtual. These are open to all members including students. At this time the meeting will be remote. Connection information will be sent out at 3:00pm on the day of the meeting to those who have registered. Please register for the meeting by noon of the day of, even if you are an Officer. We meet on the 3rd Thursday of each month We do not meet July, August, and December. With that in mind the 2023 dates are: Jan 19, Feb 16, Mar 16, Apr 20, May 89, Jun 15, Sep 21, Oct 19, Nov 16 Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/340068

In filtering an noisy radar image, we can encounter the distortion overlapping with the desired information in the time–frequency. This is especially true when filtering noise in a radar or SAR image as such there is smearing in the image with the classical discrete Fourier Transform. That is there is chirps of much magnitudes overlapping with one another to where the radar image appears smeared. To compensate for this quandry, we propose a novel application of Discrete Fractional Fourier Transform in in Euclidean space that ascertains optimum angle of rotation in time-frequency domain to isolate the noise from rest of signal. Co-sponsored by: Wright-Patt Multi-Intelligence Development Consortium (WPMDC), The DOD & DOE Communities Speaker(s): Ernest Mitchell Agenda: In filtering an noisy radar image, we can encounter the distortion overlapping with the desired information in the time–frequency. This is especially true when filtering noise in a radar or SAR image as such there is smearing in the image with the classical discrete Fourier Transform. That is there is chirps of much magnitudes overlapping with one another to where the radar image appears smeared. To compensate for this quandry, we propose a novel application of Discrete Fractional Fourier Transform in in Euclidean space that ascertains optimum angle of rotation in time-frequency domain to isolate the noise from rest of signal. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/374724

Join the Columbus Section Awards Recognition Dinner. Our Columbus Section was awarded the Medium Section Outstanding Award for 2022 and was also recognized at 2023 Section Congress in Ottawa, Ontario that was held on Aug 10, 2023. In addition, the Columbus Section is proud to receive the 2023 Individual Region 2 Awards – ALL Five Awards! - Helen Winfrey Professional Leadership Award - Paul Berger, Ph.D. Outstanding Engineering Educator Award - Daniel Chionuma Outstanding Service Award - Dan Recker Outstanding Engineer Award - DeVry Online Outstanding Student Section Award Please register early as seating is limited. Send additional inquiry to [email protected] Agenda: 6:00 Welcome and Networking 6:30 Dinner 8:00 Awards Presentation 8:30 Closing Bldg: Brio Italian Grille Polaris, 1500 Polaris Pkwy, Columbus , Ohio, United States, 43240

In June 2022, Texas A&M University was awarded $1.2M for the Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program 2022 (PSIAP-2022) funding opportunity. The project aims to build a digital-twin-enabled testbed with state-of-the-art user interface/user experience technologies and advanced simulation models to provide a photorealistic virtual reality environment for first responders and emergency managers to engage, experience, and explore the latest sensing and communication technologies. Co-sponsored by: IEEE-USA MOVE Program Speaker(s): Dr. Jian Tao, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/368627

Being an IEEE Member has its perks - networking, technology, conferences, the list goes on. What about the Other benefits to being an IEEE Member? As part of this lunch webinar, learn about the different programs you can take advantage of with your IEEE membership! This webinar will be presented by: Emily Surratt Associate Manager Member Group Insurance Programs, Finance and Administration Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/371005

The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Philadelphia Chapter is holding a technical meeting. The topic is DC Traction Power Systems Design. Our speaker is Fernando Soares, Traction Power North America Sales Lead, with Powell Industries. This presentation discusses the different elements, applicable standards, and common industry practices used in dc traction power substation design. The objective of this presentation is to provide designers and specifiers with helpful and technical knowledge on traction power substation equipment as well as recommendations for developing project requirements. Attendees may apply for 1.0 PDH provided through the IEEE Certificates Program, accepted in all states. Send $5.00 (USD) payment to Brandon Swartley via Zelle at [email protected] and complete the online evaluation at https://r2.ieee.org/philadelphia-vts/forms/. Evaluation form must be completed and payment received within one week to receive PDH certificate. Speaker(s): Fernando Soares Agenda: Introduction Technical presentation - Most Common North American DC Rail Systems and Categories - LRT DC Traction Power Distribution Network Overview - Introduction to a DC Traction Power Substation - DC Traction Substation Grounding Practices - Medium Voltage Switchgear - Transformer Rectifier Units - DC Switchgear - DC Disconnect Switches - Negative Grounding Devices - Substation Automation System - Power Control Rooms/Prefabricated Buildings Questions Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/372462

The development of IEEE Technology Roadmaps bring together a bevy of international experts to chart out a mapping of continued evolution and predictions of the underlying basic technologies. In this talk the speaker, Rakesh Kumar, will show examples of the evolution of silicon, wide bandgap semiconductor, heterogeneous integration technologies and Next generation Networking Technologies and will illustrate how they provide the groundwork for making these humanitarian solutions possible. He will provide select examples of some exciting solutions using Wireless and Compute technologies, IoT, AI/ML and similar capabilities to create solutions in spaces such as Agriculture, Healthcare, Smart Lighting and Power Generation and Distribution, and many others. Technology innovations are the enablers as we develop humanitarian solutions. Speaker(s): Rakesh Kumar, Room: Meeting Room, Bldg: Patrick Henry Library, 101 Maple Ave E, Vienna, Virginia, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/369368

Identifying shortest paths between nodes in a network is a common graph analysis problem that is important for many applications involving routing of resources. An adversary that can manipulate the graph structure could alter traffic patterns to gain some benefit (e.g., make more money by directing traffic to a toll road). This presentation considers a recently published attack in which an adversary removes edges from a graph to make a particular path the shortest between its terminal nodes. We develop a defense against such attacks by modifying the weights of the graph that users observe. The defender must balance inhibiting the attacker against any negative effects of the defense on benign users. Specifically, the defender's goals are: (a) to recommend the shortest paths possible to users, (b) for the lengths of the shortest paths in the published graph to be close to those of the same paths in the true graph, and (c) to minimize the probability of an attack. We formulate the defense as a Stackelberg game in which the defender is the leader and the attacker is the follower. In this context, we also consider a zero-sum version of the game, in which the defender's goal is to minimize cost while achieving the minimum possible attack probability. We show that this problem is NP-hard and propose heuristic solutions based on increasing edge weights along target paths in both the zero-sum and non-zero-sum settings. We present defense results with both synthetic and real network datasets and show that these methods often reach the lower bound of the defender's cost. Speaker(s): Dr. Benjamin Miller, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/374165