Dr. Kukkai Hozumi, a post-doc researcher at the University of Scranton, will be giving a technical presentation on the Earth's ionosphere. Bldg: Loyola Science Center - The University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States

When people talk about their careers, it is often easy to tell others what they do. Sharing why they do what they do can sometimes be a challenge for some people. However, Electrical Engineers who work in medical product development environments can always say why they do what they do. When a new product gets released to the market, the product can be used to improve the lives or well-being of others. Sometimes, the product can even be used to save someone’s life. That’s a great reason to get involved in developing medical products! No matter how your day, week, month, or year is going, you always know that the products you create can have a major impact on someone’s life and that’s a great feeling. In this talk, Mr. Mozelewski will discuss careers in medical product development and offer many tips on how Electrical Engineering students can position themselves to take advantage of future job opportunities with medical device companies. Speaker(s): Steve, Agenda: 6:00 PM Pizza and drinks 6:15 PM Talk begins Room: 157, Bldg: Benedum Hall, 3700 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213

Course Kick-off / Orientation 6:00PM – 6:30PM EDT; Thursday, February 20, 2025 First Video Release, Thursday, February 20, 2025. Additional videos released weekly in advance of that week’s live session! Live Workshops: 6:00PM – 7:30PM EDT; Thursdays, February 27, March 6, 13, 20, 27 Registration Fees: IEEE Member Early Rate (by February 17): $190.00 IEEE Member Rate (after February 17): $285.00 IEEE Non-Member Early Rate (by February 17): $210.00 IEEE Non-Member Rate (after February 17): $315.00 Decision to run/cancel course: February 13, 2025 Registration is open through the last live workshop date. Live workshops are recorded for later use. Course Information will be distributed on Thursday, February 20 in advance of and in preparation for the first live workshop session. A live orientation session will be held on Thursday, February 20. Attendees will have access to the recorded session and exercises for two months (until May 27, 2025) after the last live session ends! This is a hands-on course combining pre-recorded lectures with live Q&A and workshop sessions in the popular and powerful open-source Python programming language. Pre-Recorded Videos: The course format includes pre-recorded video lectures that students can watch on their own schedule, and an unlimited number of times, prior to live Q&A workshop sessions on Zoom with the instructor. The videos will also be available to the students for viewing for up to two months after the conclusion of the course. Course Summary This course builds on the IEEE course “DSP for Wireless Communications” also taught by Dan Boschen, further detailing digital signal processing most applicable to practical real-world problems and applications in radio communication systems. Students need not have taken the prior course if they are familiar with fundamental DSP concepts such as the Laplace and Z transform and basic digital filter design principles. This course brings together core DSP concepts to address signal processing challenges encountered in radios and modems for modern wireless communications. Specific areas covered include carrier and timing recovery, equalization, automatic gain control, and considerations to mitigate the effects of RF and channel distortions such as multipath, phase noise and amplitude/phase offsets. Dan builds an intuitive understanding of the underlying mathematics through the use of graphics, visual demonstrations, and real-world applications for mixed signal (analog/digital) modern transceivers. This course is applicable to DSP algorithm development with a focus on meeting practical hardware development challenges, rather than a tutorial on implementations with DSP processors. Now with Jupyter Notebooks! Speaker(s): Dan Boschen , Agenda: Kick-off / Orientation: Thursday, February 20, 2025 Topics / Schedule: Class 1: Thursday, February 27, 2025 - DSP Review, Radio Architectures, Digital Mapping, Pulse Shaping, Eye Diagrams Class 2: Thursday, March 6, 2025 - ADC Receiver, CORDIC Rotator, Digital Down Converters, Numerically Controlled Oscillators Class 3: Thursday, March 13, 2025 - Digital Control Loops; Output Power Control, Automatic Gain Control Class 4: Thursday, March 20, 2025 - Digital Control Loops; Carrier and Timing Recovery, Sigma Delta Converters Class 5: Thursday, March 27, 2025 - RF Signal Impairments, Equalization and Compensation, Linear Feedback Shift Registers Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/450597