IEEE Northern VA Section Newsletter for October 2016

In This Issue

• Section Report
• Volunteer with the Section – Nominations Still Open
• Acknowledgements
• Upcoming Events
• Survey: What Pilot Initiatives Interest You?

Section Report:

Our Society chapters were extremely active last month featuring offerings from Dr. Mukta Farooq an IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer and GlobalFoundries Fellow, who gave a technical lecture about 2.5D/3D Integration Technology. Dr. Jeff M. Byers, offered an interesting discussion on Machine Learning as applied to complex data as part of the Computational Intelligence offering.  The Communications Society offered a discussion by Dr. Chiman Kwan who guided attendees through a discussion on unmanned aerial vehicles and control issues relating to loss of communications.

The Computer Society partner events focused on Fedramp and the Cloud Computing Commercial offering approval process, featuring Mr. Matt Goodrich and Mr. Michael Carter; Program Risk and Identification and Remediation and the technology that drives results, featuring Ms. Laurie Wiggins; and a Design Application Workshop utilizing elements of creativity research, featuring Ms. Janet Cook.

Additionally, our Women In Engineering affinity group offered a virtual mentoring session, where Ms. Domini Clark, Ms. Hanna Sicker, and Ms. Nicole Gray offered attendees career enhancing tips, techniques, and tools for their ever expanding professional development toolkit.

Lastly, the section sponsored the 2-day IEEE Smart Tech Signature event in Arlington, VA, featuring a plethora of informative and interesting sessions on Systems Engineering, Cyber Security, Big Data, IoT, and Technologies for 5G.

For more information or to see events further in advance, visit our web site, http://sites.ieee.org/nova.

                                                Kate Duncan

                                                2016 IEEE Northern VA Interim Chair

Volunteer for the Section

Section nominations are once again open for officers and directors. It is also the prime opportunity to let your section know whether you have an interest in participating as a committee member or want to stand up a brand new chapter. Reach out to the Nominations and Appointments Committee Chair, Mr. James Magee at: James.Magee@lp3.com

Acknowledgements

This month we express our appreciation (alphabetically by first name) to:

• Joel Goodman for coordinating the fascinating Computational Intelligence event
• John Zhang for coordinating the innovative IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecture Event
• Kafi Hassan for coordinating the informative Communications Society event
• Marty Schulman for his tireless leadership and dedicated service to IEEE NoVA
• Murty Polavarapu for designing, developing, recruiting, and implementing a spectacular IEEE Smart Tech Signature Event in Arlington, VA 

Upcoming Events

Following is a list of events in October and early November brought to our attention that may be of interest to members. Inclusion in this list does not imply section involvement and registration may be required. Follow the link for details, and click on the “Add Meeting to Calendar” link on vTools for an automated import into popular calendar managers.

Thursday, October 20, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm

            Building High Performing Cyber Teams a lean Belbin Team Approach

            Oracle Corporation, Reston, VA

            https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/37640

Tuesday, October 25, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm

            Understanding Cyber Adversaries with the Post-Exploit Threat Model

            MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA

            https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/37617

Tuesday, October 25, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm

            Autonomy in the Real, Unstructured World

            TeqCorner, McLean, VA

            https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/41437

 Saturday, October 29, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

            Build an Internet of Things Weather Station

            Montgomery College, Germantown, MD

            https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/41696

Wednesday, November 02, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

            Three Generations of Airborne Astronomy – History and Personal Recollections

            Ballston, VA

            https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/41332

Thursday, November 03, 9:30 am – 3:00 pm

            IEEE Memory Day; History, Current Status, and Future of Semiconductor Memory

            Micron Technology, Manassas, VA

            https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/41572

Thursday, November 03, 7:00 – 8:30 pm

          Radio Astronomy with the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope 

          College Park Aviation Museum, College Park, MD

          https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/41643

Monday, November 14, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

            Promoting Creativity

            Virtual Webinar

            https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/37527

Thursday, November 17, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm

            The Future of Cybersecurity is Civilian?

            Leidos, Reston, VA

            https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/37639

Survey

Fall is the time for us to reach to our members to gather their preferences as to new pilot initiatives the section is contemplating undertaking. Answer our survey and let us hear your thoughts on how you can become more involved!