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You are invited to attend the following free IEEE/IET/IPENZ seminar orgainsed by the IET.
Title: EMF measurements, calculations and mitigation
Speaker: Garry Melik, Magshield Products (Aust.) Internatio
Date: 2007-04-19
Time: 17:30:00
Location: Vector Limited, 101 Carlton Gore Road, Newmarket.
Garry's presentation will cover EMF measurements for power lines and underground cables and calculation methods for simple configurations of wires with current. Garry will also discuss mitigation options for power lines, underground cable, M.E.N and water pipes.
Garry Melik is a qualified electrical engineer with an Ms.Eng in Electric Power Systems and Networks. Garry's work experienced includes working at the Power Research Institute in Baku, USSR, conducting transient analysis, and working for the State Electricity Commission of Victoria dealing with issues related to system development, insulation coordination, electromagnetic fields and induction. Since 1996 Garry has been running his own engineering consulting business. He has authored and co-authored several technical papers and written a book on EMF mitigation which was published in 1996 by the Electricity Supply Association of Australia (ESAA). He also conducts EMF training courses for power industry engineers in different states of Australia.
This is the sesquicentennial year of the birth of Nikola Tesla, one of the most outstanding electrical engineers and scientists of all time. This anniversary is being celebrated all over the world. In the USA this celebration was supported by the National Academy of Engineers. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Auckland initiated a Public Lecture presentation to honor Nikola Tesla for his enormous contribution to the understanding and development of use of electricity that contributed to the industrialization and global development of America and the rest of the world in the 20th century.
Title: A Tribute to Nikola Tesla - The Man of Inventions
Speaker: Dr. Stevan Berber
Date: 2006-12-07
Time: 18:00:00
Location: Room 1.439, Engineering Bldg, Auckland Universtity, 20 Symonds St
This lecture is dedicated to Nikola Tesla’s 150th birthday being celebrated all over the world. The lecture presents his life and achievements in science and technology. Nikola Tesla was a visionary genius whose sometimes radical ideas established the basis for many things that now power our world with energy and information. His technological achievements became an integral part of our civilization and our daily life. Without his inventions of the polyphase alternating current system the widespread electrification that touched the majority of people on the planet would not have been possible. In writings about Tesla, one often finds statements such as that he "invented the twentieth century" or "the twenty first century", or even that he "invented the future". Beside the polyphase alternating current energy transmission he invented motors and generators, radio apparatus based on the use of resonance, remote control, neon and fluorescent lightning and hundreds of other devices which can be found in more that 700 of Tesla's patents. Tesla is one of only two Americans to have a unit of electrical measurement named in his honor. His work and achievements have inspired millions of scientists and engineers all over the world in the last 2 centuries to believe that anything we can imagine can be accomplished. His obsession of exploiting the power of nature passed a long way from the accomplished idea of using power on the Earth, through the idea of using the power of the Earth as a planet, towards the vision of using the power of the Universe.
You are invited to attend the following free IEEE/IET/IPENZ seminar orgainsed by the IEEE and AUT.
Title: 2006 IEEE New Zealand Workshop in High Performance and Grid Computing
Date: 2006-11-30
Time: 09:00:00
Location: WA220 lecture theatre, Wellesley Campus, AUT, Auckland
The workshop provides an ideal forum for professionals from both academia and industry to participate and learn about the latest research and development in high performance, reconfigurable and grid computing, advanced networks, e-science,education and other related areas. It is also an excellent opportunity for the students to present their work and learn from the professionals. This workshop includes the key presentations on the most recent developments in e-Science, the Kiwi Advanced Research Network (KAREN), BestGrid program, New Zealand Supercomputing Centre, a guest talk from Western Australia, a number of presentations from New Zealand universities, and talks on funding opportunities. One of the aims of the workshop is to strengthen the links between academia and industry. Opportunities for Networking: morning and afternoon teas, lunch, and after workshop "shout". Presentations: Although the program is nearly full, there are still a few slots available. FCFS (first come first served) method is applied, so be quick. Please forward this invitation to anyone who you think might be interested. Please respond via email to ieeeparallelworkshop@aut.ac.nz with your name and email address if you wish attend or present on the workshop. Further information can be found on http://www.aut.ac.nz/research/research_institutes/eri/uaer/ieee.htm
Title: Software Architecture and Component Model for Adaptive Dependable Software Systems
Speaker: Prof Dr Andreas Rausch
Date: 2006-11-07
Time: 18:25:00
Location: Room 3.401, School of Engineering, Univ of Auckland
IT components with information processing and communication capabilities are embedded in almost all commonplace and industrial objects. In our daily life we depend more and more on these IT omponents. On the other hand, users will increasingly expect that those IT components collaborate autonomously and thus provide emergent properties. Hence we have to guarantee their dependability, even though the resulting organically grown IT systems are never developed and tested in advance: If, for example, a novel type of child safety seat with integrated child detection is used on the front passenger seat, the passenger side airbag could be deactivated automatically and the child safety lock could be activated. However, if the safety seat is located on the rear passenger bench, the passenger side airbag must not be deactivated! Providing those kinds of adaptive dependable IT systems with emergent properties is a great challenge. In the talk a software architecture will be presented that allows IT components to be integrated (resp. removed) at execution time. The dependability of the resulting IT system can checked with regard to the specified functional, non-functional, and emergent properties based on an underlying formal model.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Rausch is heading the chair of software architecture at the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern. He received his Ph.D. from the Technische Universität München at the chair of Prof. Dr. Manfred Broy. His main research activities in the field of Software Engineering are software architectures, model-based Software Engineering and process models. He was responsible for the research project WEIT developing the standard system development process model of the german government and military called V-Modell XT. Andreas Rausch has joined and headed various large interdisciplinary research projects concerning the foundations of software engineering. He has lead various industrial software projects,developing large distributed systems, and is one of the four founders of the software house 4Soft GmbH.
You are invited to attend the following free IEEE/IET/IPENZ event orgainsed by the IET YM branch.
Title: Short Papers Evening Competition
Date: 2006-10-10
Time: 17:30:00
Location: Room 3.403, School of Engineering, Univ of Auckland
To help with catering, please register with David Lau at detlau@theiet.org by Friday, 6th of October.
The Auckland branch Younger Member Section of the Institution of Engineering and Technology invites all IEEE members to attend a free IET/IEEE/IPENZ presentation on "Behind the scene" view into the implementation of CDMA technology in NZ by Neal Richardson, Mobile Data – Technology Manager, Telecom NZ.
Title: Implementation of CDMA technology in NZ
Speaker: Neal Richardson
Date: 2006-09-26
Time: 18:00:00
Location: Room 3.407, School of Engineering, Univ of Auckland
Neal will first describe how and why Telecom selected CDMA as their Wireless Data offering. Then he will provide an overview on the CDMA and T3G technology plus the implementation processes. Neal will also provide a brief outlook into the future of the Telecom 027&025 networks.
With over 20 years of experience Neal Richardson's career follows the evolution of data communications in New Zealand. From the days of analogue data, Digital Data, Frame relay, ATM and then Telecom's first step into Wide Area IP Networking, Neal's has had major roles in all of these developments. Since 1999 Neal has taken the lead in developing the Wireless Data capability through the deployment of the Telecom NZ 027 CDMA network. Over recent years Neal has been developing standards for CDMA technologies and has authored a number of white papers and international standards. Called upon regularly to present at national and international conferences, Neal's presentation style is affable, down to earth and informed.
Title: Effective Tool Generation by Architecture Description
Speaker: Andreas Krall
Date: 2006-08-17
Time: 11:00:00
Location: Room 3.403, School of Engineering, Univ of Auckland
The extremely short time to market for embedded systems makes easy retargetable tools like compilers, assemblers and instruction set simulators a requirement. Architecture description languages (ADLs) make use of one concise architecture specification for the generation of hardware, instruction set simulators and compilers. In this article we present an architecture description language for compiler generation, that allows to derive an optimized tree pattern matching instruction selector, a register allocator and an instruction scheduler. Compared to a hand-crafted backend the generated compiler produces up to 3 percent smaller and up to 9 percent faster code. The ADL is rich enough, so that other tools, like assemblers and simulators, and documentation can be obtained from one single specification.
Andreas Krall is a Professor of computer science at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria and leads the "Compilation Techniques for Embedded Processors" research laboratory. He received his PhD and MS in computer science from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in 1988 and 1983. His research interests include compilers and interpreters with emphasis on code generation, compilation techniques for embedded processors, reverse compilers, binary translation, just-in-time compilers and cycle accurate architecture simulation. He developed the Vienna Abstract Machine, an abstract machine for Prolog, and leads the development of the CACAO JVM (www.cacaojvm.org). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Functional and Logic Programming and the International Journal of Embedded Systems.
The Auckland branch Younger Member Section of the Institution of Engineering and Technology invites all IEEE members to attend a free IET/IEEE/IPENZ seminar by Hanna Sykulska, the winner of Write Around The World Competition.
Title: Atomic Force Microscopy for Planetary Exploration
Speaker: Hanna Sykulska
Date: 2006-08-15
Time: 17:45:00
Location: Room 3.403, School of Engineering, Univ of Auckland
You are invited to attend the following free IEEE/IET/IPENZ seminar orgainsed by the IEEE Industrial Electronic Society. Contact Dr. Udaya K. Madawala (u dot madawala at auckland dot ac dot nz) for further details.
Title: Artificial Intelligence Techniques - An Advancing Frontier in Power Electronics
Speaker: Prof. B. K. Bose
Date: 2006-08-14
Time: 17:00:00
Location: Univ of Auckland
Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, such as expert system (ES), fuzzy logic (FL), artificial neural network (ANN), and genetic algorithm (GA) have recently brought new and advancing frontier in power electronics which is already a complex and multi-disciplinary technology. The goal of AI is to plant human intelligence in computer so that a computer can think intelligently like a human being. Can a computer really think and take intelligent decision? Computational intelligence has been debated for a long time. There is no denying the fact that computer intelligence is far inferior to human or natural intelligence. Whatever the limitation is, AI-based techniques can solve complex problems which are difficult to solve by traditional methods. Currently, AI technology is advancing at a fast rate, and its applications in power electronics are also increasing fast. The potential impact of AI on power electronics is tremendous. The frontier of AI is bringing a new challenge to traditional power electronics engineers. The presentation will give a broad introduction of different disciplines of AI in the beginning, but will mainly focus on artificial neural networks and their applications in power electronics and motor drives. ANN represents the most generic form of AI to emulate human thinking. The massive parallel computation capability of neuro-computer along with the inherent fault-tolerance and harmonic filtering properties provides a powerful tool for intelligent control and estimation in power electronic systems. The principles and properties of feedforward and recurrent ANNs will be reviewed. Then, their applications in the recent literature of power electronic systems will be reviewed. Particularly, the author’s own research on ANN applications in waveform processing and delayless filtering, vector drive signal processing, and space vector PWM techniques in multi-level converters will be discussed. Finally, the conclusion and future prognosis will discuss R & D trends in this area.
You are invited to attend the following free IEEE/IET/IPENZ seminar organised by the IEEE PACE Chapter.
Title: From engineering, to management, and back again.
Speaker: Reece Kingi, Vodafone NZ.
Date: 2006-08-08
Time: 18:00:00
Location: Room 1.15, Vodafone NZ, 20 Viaduct Harbour Avenue, Auckland
The engineers' dilemma. Often engineers find that after progressing through the engineering ranks, they hit a glass ceiling in terms of further career development and advancement. In many cases the choice is to either specialise into a given technology niche, or to branch into a people management career. In this speech Reece will discuss his own experiences of this decision point, in terms of what led Reece from engineering to management, and more recently what led him back again. Reece will explore the key factors that should to be taken into account for this decision, and the implications this decision has on alternative career options.
Reece Kingi is currently employed by Vodafone New Zealand as lead architect for a major programme of work focused on advancing Vodafone's strategy to enter the fixed telecommunications market in New Zealand. In this role Reece leads a design team encompassing around 20 technical staff which spans all Vodafone technology domains. Prior to this role Reece was Manager of the Technology Messaging team (2004/5), which was responsible for the development of Vodafone's messaging platforms and services, and prior to that was Manager of Future Technologies (2002/3), a team responsible for technology strategy and planning. Before joining Vodafone Reece was employed by CLEAR Communications as a senior engineer, where he was responsible for the development of the core voice and data switching platforms. Reece graduated from The University of Auckland with a BE (E&E) in 1994 and a Graduate Diploma in Business (Administration) in 2004, and from The Pennsylvania State University with a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1996.
Title: Electric Field Analysis in High Voltage Systems
Speaker: Dr. Sivaji Chakravorti
Date: 2006-07-17
Time: 18:00:00
Location: Room 3.403, School of Engineering, Univ of Auckland
The design of insulation of high voltage apparatus between phases and earth and also between the phases are based on the knowledge of electric field distribution and the dielectric properties of the combination of insulating materials used in the system. The principal aim is that the insulation should withstand the electric stresses with adequate reliability and at the same time the insulation should not be over dimensioned. Thus a comprehensive study of the electric field distribution in and around high voltage equipment is of great practical importance.As most of high voltage field problems are so complex that graphical, experimental or analytical method of solution is very difficult, if not impossible, numerical methods of field calculation have been developed. Efficient field calculation in high voltage systems by numerical techniques based on integral equation methods such as Charge Simulation Method (CSM) or, Boundary Element Method (BEM) and also based on differential equation method such as Finite Element Method (FEM) have been carried out successfully over the last couple of decades. For each high voltage field problem, depending upon the dielectric properties, complexity of contours and boundary conditions, one or the other numerical technique is more suited. Normally high voltage equipment are insulated with materials of such high resistivity that it can be treated as infinite for field calculation. In such cases, the field distribution is purely capacitive. But for lower values of volume or surface resistivity, the field distribution is capacitive-resistive or even resistive depending upon the value of resistivity. In the case of capacitive field distribution, the instantaneous field is independent of waveform of applied voltage. But for capacitive-resistive fields a very distinctive feature is their time dependency and dependency on the waveform of applied voltage. Hence, the capacitive-resistive field calculation including volume or surface resistivity is very important in studying d.c. and low frequency fields, impulse fields, contaminated insulators, voltage dividers, cables etc. Surface Charging is an inevitable phenomenon in GIS and hence it is important for the design engineers to have a fair idea about the possible field enhancements due to surface charging that may lead to failure in operation. Suitable techniques have been developed in recent past to take into account surface charging within numerical field computation. The speaker has conducted state of the art research work in this area over the last fifteen years. The results and techniques developed have been published in international journals including IEEE Transactions. This lecture is based on the experiences gathered in the course of such research work and covers the following areas: i) Capacitive-Resistive Field Calculation including volume and surface resistivities ii) Capacitive-Resistive Field Calculation under transient voltage iii) Field Calculation including surface charging of insulators (In brief)
Dr. Sivaji Chakravorti (born 1962) did his BEE, MEE and PhD from Jadavpur University, Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta), India, in 1983, 1985 and 1993 respectively. He is a full-time faculty member of Electrical Engineering Department of Jadavpur University from 1985, where he is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering. In 1984 he worked at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, as Indian National Science Academy Visiting Fellow. He did postdoctoral research at the Technical University Munich, Germany, as Humboldt Research Fellow in 1995-96 and 1999, respectively. In 1998 he served as Development Engineer in the Power Transmission and Distribution Department of Siemens AG in Berlin, Germany. He further worked as Humboldt Research Fellow in ABB Corporate Research at Ladenburg, Germany, in 2002. He was US-NSF guest scientist at the Alexandria Research Institute of Virginia Tech, USA, in 2003 and AvH Guest Scientist at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany, in 2005. He has published 21 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 25 papers in refereed Indian journals and presented 36 papers in different international and national conferences/seminars. He has authored one book and edited two books. He has developed three online courses on numerical electric field computation, which are hosted at the US-NSF sponsored NSDL-DLNET website (www.dlnet.vt.edu). Prof. Chakravorti is a senior member of IEEE (USA), a Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology in India and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India). During 1998-2000, he was the Secretary of IEEE Calcutta Section and presently is the Chairman of its Power Engineering Chapter. In 2001 he was the Vice-Chairman of IEEE India Council. He has also served as a member of the Executive Council of Jadavpur University during 1990-1994. He is a regular referee for many international journals like IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery and on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, IEE Proceedings etc. He is the recipient of the prestigious âTechnology Day Awardâ from All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for the best project in the Research & Development Category in 2004 and the recipient of âOutstanding Small Chapter Awardâ from IEEE Power Engineering Society as the Chairman of Kolkata Power Engineering Chapter of IEEE in 2004. He is als o the recipient of several other awards like the Jadavpur University Gold Medal for standing first in both BEE and MEE examinations, The Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya Memorial Medal of the Institution of Engineers (India) in 1995-96 and The Indian Ministry of Energy: Department of Power Prize in 1994-95, Certificate of Merit of the Institution of Engineers (India) in 1996-97, 1992-93, 1991-92, 1989-90, respectively, and the Third Millennium Medal of IEEE Calcutta Section in 2000. He is actively involved in several sponsored projects funded by US-NSF, AICTE, MHRD (Govt. of India), DST (Govt. of India) and the World Bank. His current fields of interest are numerical electric field computation, computer aided design and optimization of insulation system, application of intelligent tools in high voltage systems, condition monitoring of composite insulation system, electromagnetic compatibility and life long learning techniques.
Title: Construction &Performance of an Electric Toyota
Speaker: Associate Professor Richard Duke
Date: 2006-06-26
Time: 16:30:00
Location: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Briefing Room (303. 257), Science Center, 38 Princess Street, Univ of Auckland
For almost 30 years now the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has maintained a roadworthy electric car. The first vehicle, which resembled a “Mini Moke”, was originally developed as a mobile test bed for proving AC induction motor speed controllers, which were being developed during the early 1970s for industrial applications. The development of the second vehicle in 1982 was a combined project with the Mechanical Engineering Department to modify an Austin A40 Farina. These vehicles have proved to be very valuable in a wider range of undergraduate and postgraduate power electronic projects and the publicity for both the University and the Department has proven invaluable. The Department has just completed construction of its third electric car, the conversion of a Toyota MR2. This seminar outlines the brief history of our electric vehicles and their performance. Particular attention is paid to the philosophy of the development of our latest vehicle, the electric MR2. An insight into the design decisions made and the details of construction will be presented.
Since 1984 Richard Duke has been at the University of Canterbury and is Associate Professor and for 8 years Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and present Chairman of New Zealand South Section of IEEE. He currently holds the position of Academic Dean of Engineering and Forestry. is current research interests are in the area of distributed generation, next generation power electronics, electric vehicles, cryogenic electronics and education.
Title: POWER DISTRIBUTION AND CONTROL ISSUES
Speaker: William J. Ackerman
Date: 2006-06-14
Time: 17:30:00
Location: Seminar Room 420 Kate Edgar Informations Common, 11, Symonds Street, Auckland
Operation of a power system, subject to the many constraints that are being imposed on the system operator, requires a massive increase in the quantity and quality of information regarding the status and control of the system. Satisfying this need is often put into the category of substation automation and distribution automation, with the interesting sub-categories of protocols, security, and distributed generation resources. There are many problems that must be resolved as a utility moves into large-scale use of substation and distribution automation. Some of the more serious problems are outlined, followed by a brief history and current status of protocol development for the transmission of information between substation devices and between substations and control centers. Security issues in communications technology are briefly identified. Finally, the presentation will conclude with a discussion of the impact of distributed generation resources on the power distribution system.
William J. Ackerman (Bill) started work with Automatic Electric Company on the first all-solid-state SCADA system (CONITEL-2000) after receiving his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering. He then joined Leeds & Northrup Company as Manager of Conitel Systems. Bill joined Florida Power Corporation in 1973 as Manager of Energy Control Center Operations, responsible for design and implementation of a new facility and later, overall power system generation and transmission operations. He joined ABB as a Project Manager for Energy Management Systems in 1990 and later he was promoted to Manager of Substation Automation Systems until he retired in December 2002. He is now working as an independent consultant. Bill is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE-PES Distinguished Lecturers Panel. He is past-Chairman of the Substations Committee of the PES, and of its Automatic and Supervisory Systems Subcommittee. He is a member of the U.S. Delegation to TC57 of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). He has authored and co-authored numerous papers, including the IEEE Tutorial, Fundamentals of Supervisory Systems.
Title: Stratospheric Quasi-Stationary Platforms: Can They Replace Satellite Communication Systems?
Speaker: Professor Jacob Gavan
Date: 2006-06-09
Time: 05:30:00
Location: Auckland University of Technology, Wellesley Campus, room WA220
Continuous operation of long distance radio and global communication systems is usually achieved nowadays by using Geostationary (GEO) satellites and in a small scale by Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellites who were an economic failure. The main reasons for the failure were high cost and competition from the expending terrestrial mobile and cellular systems. However, another solution is possible for local and regional communication systems operation distances of up to 1,000 km, by using Stratospheric Quasi-Stationary Platforms (SQ-SP) at a median altitude of 21 km above ground. The feasibility and main characteristics of SQ-SP systems are described, followed by aeronautical and control techniques considerations. Wireless power transmission concept, rectifier antenna (rectenna) and fuel cells operation are explained as well as main payloads and applications. The SQ-SP future systems cannot replace GEO Satellite and terrestrial mobile systems, but can be very useful as complement to those systems, especially for local and regional communication services. Last trends in the development, achievement and last trends in SQ-SP (popularly called High altitude platforms) will also be described.
Jacob Gavan earned the B.Sc. degree in the Technion Haifa 1961, the MEE in Eindhoven Technological University the Nederland, both, with distinction, in 1969 using a scholarship of Philips Ind. and his Ph.D. degree in radio communication in 1979 in ENSERG Grenoble (France) with congratulations of the Jury. He worked as an ITU Expert from 1963 to 1967 & 1971 to 1974, and held positions in the radio communication industry in Israel. He was also an Adjunct Associate Professor in Microwaves and Communication Systems at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Jacob Gavan was elected as IEEE fellow in 1995 and founded a department of Communication Engineering at the Holon Academic Institute of Technology (HAIT, Israel). He was selected to Dean of the HAIT new school of Electrical, Electronic and Communication Engineering as Full Professor from December 2001 and elected as Dean from 1/10/03 for a two years period. Prof. Jacob Gavan leaded the establishment of a M.Sc program in E! lectronic and Communication Engineering which was approved by the council of higher education in Israel and include around 130 students most of them in Communication Engineering. He was Consultant in radio communications systems especially on Radio mutual Interference and Radiation effects and RF up to millimeter waves circuitry and systems to several large Israeli and international companies. He has published over 150 papers on theoretical and applied radio and Satellite communications, electromagnetics, and Radar Systems especially on Radio mutual Interference and Radiation effects. All shown in www.hait.ac.il staff, "Jacob Gavan" CV and publications or in Google search tool for Jacob (Jacques) Gavan. Professor Jacob Gavan is active in the Union Radio Science International URSI Commission E and Chairman of E8 working group on "Interference in Radio Systems above 30 MHz" and in General Assembly Session E/C/F "Interference in radio communication". Recently Professor Jacob Gavan was elected as distinguished lecturer by the IEEE Communication society and as chairman of the student activities by IEEE Israel. His biography is listed in the International Directory of Distinguished Leadership.
Title: Software Development Lift Cycle
Speaker: Greg Allen, the CTO of Winscribe Inc.
Date: 2006-05-18
Time: 18:00:00
Location: Room 3.403, School of Engineering, Univ of Auckland
This free IEEE/IET/IPENZ seminar is organised by the the Younger Member Section of the Institution of Engineering and Technology invites. The presentation is on Software Development Lift Cycle by Greg Allen, the CTO of Winscribe Inc. Greg will give our audience an understanding of SDLC in a real world where everything is not perfect.
Title: Breakfast meeting
Date: 2006-04-20
Time: 07:00:00
Location: Alexandra Park Raceway, Green Lane. Hobson Room
The Auckland branch of the Institution of Engineering and Technology invites you to attend a special Breakfast Meeting. The President will address members on the future of the Institution now that it has changed from the IEE to the IET, what is happening, where it is going, the opportunities for members, etc. RSVP by email to George Coghill at g.coghill@auckland.ac.nz or phone (09) 419 5117 by 11th April.
Title: Real Consequences Follow Imaginary Power Disturbances (*)
Speaker: Professor Charles Henville
Date: 2006-04-19
Time: 16:00:00
Location: Room 3.403, School of Engineering, Univ of Auckland
Mr Henville is a native of the West Indies, completing his early education in St. Kitts, Grenada, Belize and Jamaica. He then moved to England to undertake a professional engineering apprenticeship with Associated Electrical Industries in Manchester, England. He obtained his BA in electrical engineering from Cambridge University in 1969 and the MA also from Cambridge in 1974. He obtained the MEng. Degree in 1996 from the University of British Columbia, Canada. His early engineering career was as a commissioning engineer with GEC Gas Turbines, based in Leicester, England. He commissioned heavy electrical and mechanical equipment in various countries in Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East. In 1974 he emigrated to Canada to join BC Hydro as a commissioning engineer for power electrical equipment. In 1977 Mr Henville ?saw the light? and became a system protection engineer within BC Hydro. He pursued a career in power system protection with BC Hydro until he retired as principal engineer in 2005. During his career he was responsible for the application and setting of protective relays on generation, transmission, and distribution at all voltage levels in that company. He is now president of Henville Consulting Inc., providing specialist engineering services in power system protection. He is vice chair of the Power System Relaying Committee (PSRC) of the IEEE Power Engineering Society. He has taken a special interest in voltage stability issues and chaired two working groups on that subject in the PSRC. He has also been active in CIGRE Study Committee B5 on the subject of protection against voltage collapse. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a registered professional engineer in the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta.
Title: Innovation - Can Engineers deliver?
Speaker: Sir John Chisholm (the President of IEE)
Date: 2006-04-19
Time: 18:00:00
Location: The Conference Centre, room 423-342 (School of Architecture), Univ of Auckland
Title: Real Consequences Follow Imaginary Power Disturbances
Speaker: Professor Charles Hanville
Date: 2006-04-04
Time: 16:00:00
Location: Massey Universiy Wellington, 4B06; Video: Massey Palmerston North AH 3.83
Mr Henville is a native of the West Indies, completing his early education in St. Kitts, Grenada, Belize and Jamaica. He then moved to England to undertake a professional engineering apprenticeship with Associated Electrical Industries in Manchester, England. He obtained his BA in electrical engineering from Cambridge University in 1969 and the MA also from Cambridge in 1974. He obtained the MEng. Degree in 1996 from the University of British Columbia, Canada. His early engineering career was as a commissioning engineer with GEC Gas Turbines, based in Leicester, England. He commissioned heavy electrical and mechanical equipment in various countries in Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East. In 1974 he emigrated to Canada to join BC Hydro as a commissioning engineer for power electrical equipment. In 1977 Mr Henville “saw the light” and became a system protection engineer within BC Hydro. He pursued a career in power system protection with BC Hydro until he retired as principal engineer in 2005. During his career he was responsible for the application and setting of protective relays on generation, transmission, and distribution at all voltage levels in that company. He is now president of Henville Consulting Inc., providing specialist engineering services in power system protection. He is vice chair of the Power System Relaying Committee (PSRC) of the IEEE Power Engineering Society. He has taken a special interest in voltage stability issues and chaired two working groups on that subject in the PSRC. He has also been active in CIGRE Study Committee B5 on the subject of protection against voltage collapse. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a registered professional engineer in the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta.
Title: PROPULSION WITH AND WITHOUT WHEELS
Speaker: Prof. R. Krishnan
Date: 2006-03-16
Time: 11:00:00
Location: (To be Confirmed)
Propulsion without wheels is regaining some attention due to emerging interest in magnetically levitated but electrically propelled transportation in Germany,Japan, China and once again in USA. This talk highlights a new technology development using linear switched reluctance motor drives for such applications of propulsion with and without wheels. The talk is more directed to particular developments at the speaker’s research laboratory. Experimental systems at Virginia Tech are presented. Possible applications of the technology are highlighted. Some highlights of the ongoing research are discussed.
R. Krishnan received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech. His research interests are in electric motor drives, power electronics and applied control. He is the author of Electric Motor Drives (Prentice Hall), Feb 2001, its Chinese translation (Pearson Education Taiwan) in 2002, Indian Edition (Prentice Hall of India) in 2002 and International Edition (Prentice Hall International Edition) in 2001, and Switched Reluctance Motor Drives (CRC Press), June 2001 (first edition) and 2003(second edition), and coeditor of Control in Power Electronics (Academic Press),Aug 2002. His co-edited book Control in Power Electronics won the best book award from Ministry of Education and Sport, Poland, in 2003. His inventions constituted founding technologies for two start-up companies in the U.S. in the field brushless electric motor drives. He has been a consultant for more than 18 companies in USA. He directs the Center for Rapid Transit Systems pursuing unique, safe, high speed, energy efficient and personal electric transit solutions. He has developed and delivered short courses for industry on vector controlled induction motor drives, permanent magnet synchronous and brushless dc motor drives, switched reluctance motor drives, and linear electric motor drives. He has been a recipient of four best paper prize awards from IEEE Industry Applications Society industrial drives committee. In addition, he received the first prize from IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications for his paper. He is a Fellow of the IEEE cited for his contributions to the development of AC and Switched Reluctance Motor Drives. He was awarded IEEE Industrial Electronics Society’s Dr. Eugene-Mittelmann Achievement Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to the Field of Industrial Electronics. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He is an elected Senior AdCom Member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He served as the General Chair of the 2003 IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference and currently is one of three General Co-Chairs of the IEEE IES’ ICIT 2006 in Mumbai, India
Title: History of digital speech coding and its impact on the development of the Internet Protocol
Speaker: Prof. Robert M. Gray
Date: 2006-02-28
Time: 18:00:00
Location: Room 3.403, School of Engineering, Univ of Auckland
This talk sketches the early history of both linear predictive coding (LPC) of speech and of network protocols for realtime low bitrate speech coding for the ARPANet. Beginning with a brief technical survey of the many approaches and developments of LPC, most of the talk is a narrative of the history of LPC and of the first real time successful packet speech demonstration on the ARPANET in 1974 and its impact on the development of the Internet protocol (IP). The talk is based on oral histories, the literature, email and conversations, and the presenter's memories as a peripheral participant.
Prof. Robert M. Gray received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California in 1969, all in electrical engineering. Since 1969,he has been with Stanford University, where he is currently the Lucent Technologies Professor of Engineering. His research interests are the theory and design of signal compression and classification systems. Prof. Gray is the author or coauthor of more than 200 papers and eight books, including "Vector Quantization and Signal Compression" with A. Gersho (Kluwer, 1992), "An Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing" with L. D. Davisson (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and "Stochastic Image Processing," with C.-S. Won (Springer/Kluwer/Plenum, 2004). Prof. Gray served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Group (1974-80 and 1985-88) and of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (1998-2001). He was an Associate Editor (1977-80) and Editor-in-Chief (1980-83) of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He was co-chair of the 1993 International Symposium on Information Theory and Technical Program co-chair of the 1997 and 2004 IEEE International Conferences on Image Processing (ICIP). He was a Member and Chair of the SPS Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (1994-2003 and 2000-2001, respectively).
Title: The Role and Challenges of the Engineer in the Prosperity and Well-being of the World
Speaker: Cleon Anderson, IEEE President
Date: 2005-11-29
Time: 17:30:00
Location: Room 3.403, School of Engineering, Univ of Auckland
The vision of the IEEE promotes engineering creativity as a means of advancing global prosperity and as an answer to the desire of the world's inhabitants to live in a developed country. This is not an impossible dream. Many of the world's people lack basic necessities of life, not because the resources don't exist, but because they have not been developed or established locally. In fact, the earth is full of natural resources and there is enough as well as some to spare. The nobility of engineering lies in the ability of engineers to create value and make the world better. Engineers and the practice of engineering help economies grow by developing existing resources and creating new ones. Addressing the challenge involves an interdisciplinary engineering approach supported by a technologically educated populace and an engineering-friendly political structure.
W. Cleon Anderson is President and CEO of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) worldwide and a member of the technical staff at L-3 Communications in Salt Lake City, Utah. IEEE is the world's largest scientific, educational and professional society with over 365,000 members in more than 150 countries. Through its members, the IEEE is a leading authority in areas ranging from aerospace, computers and telecommunications to biomedicine, electric power and consumer electronics. Mr. Anderson received his BSEE (Magna Cum Laude) and MBA (Deanu2019s Scholar) from the University of Utah where he subsequently taught undergraduate and graduate courses in solid-state circuits and control systems. He was elected to 4 scholastic honor societies and named a Distinguished Alumnus of electrical and computer engineering. Anderson is a licensed Professional Engineer. He has over 40 years experience in the electronics industry with Sperry, Univac, Unisys, Loral, Lockheed Martin and L-3 Communications. As a design engineer, program manager and engineering department head he directed the development of sophisticated data link communication systems. He has received three patents. Always active in professional organizations, Anderson served IEEE in leadership positions locally, regionally, and worldwide for over 25 years, most recently for 6-years on its Board of Directors as Chairman of the Board, President, Vice President Regional Activities and Region 6 Director. He also served a 5-year Governor's appointment to the Utah State Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors Board, the last three years as Board Chairman. He has chaired the Utah Engineers Council 2-years, been secretary of the Utah Society of Professional Engineers, and served for 5-years on the Professionalism and Ethics Committee of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying.
Title: The Future and Challenges of Technology for the Prosperity and Well-being of the World
Speaker: Michael Lightner, IEEE President Elect
Date: 2005-11-29
Time: 17:50:00
Location: Room 3.403, School of Engineering, Univ of Auckland
General global prosperity and well-being has never been the key motivating force for the evolution of technology. Our challenge moving forward is to understand the ever increasing coupling between the well-being of developing countries, the success of developed countries and the overall well-being of the planet. This presentation will highlight several historical technology advances as well as more contemporary advances. It will illustrate the scientific and technological background of these advances and place them in an economic and historical perspective. Next it will concentrate on several features of technological advances and illustrate what is required for their widespread adoption and for those technologies to provide value for a wide range of countries. We will end the talk by connecting the role of companies, government, and educational organizations and professional societies in continuing the advance of technology and in ensuring that these advances benefit the maximum number of people possible.
Michael R. Lightner (S'72, M'79, SM'90, F'98) received his BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon Univerity. Dr. Lightner spent one year working for AT&T Bell Laboratories before joining the faculty at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in 1979 as an assistant professor. He left Illinois and joined the College of Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1981, where he is now a full professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. He spent one year on sabbatical at AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, and a summer at IBM Watson Research Center as a visiting professor. He also spent one summer as a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia. Professor Lightner has authored and co-authored numerous papers and chapters in the area of CAD for VLSI. He received a NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984 and AEA Outstanding Researcher/Educator Award for 1987 by the Mountain States Council of the American Electronics Association. He has also received a Service award from CAS for his work as editor of the Transactions on CAD. At the University of Colorado, he has served as Director of the ECE graduate program and was the interim Associate Dean for Research in the spring of 1993. He has received two teaching awards and a service award from the University of Colorado.. He is a member of ACM, SIAM, ASEE, and AES. He serves on a local board supporting arts and humanities activities. He has served the IEEE in numerous capacities for the past 20 years including participating in activities in the Circuits and Systems, Signal Processing, Computer and Education societies. He was secretary/treasurer and then chair of the Circuits and Systems (CAS) CANDE technical committee. He served two terms as Associate Editor of TCAD and one term as Editor. He served two terms as a member of the CAS Board of Governors and two terms as Vice-President for Technical Activities. He has served as President-Elect, President and Past-President of the Circuits and Systems Society. He was elected Division I Director and is completing his second year in that position. During this time he has served on the IEEE Audit committee, the TAB Management committee, he is chair of the TAB Products committee, the TAB Finance Committee, the GOLD committee and has participated on the Electronic Services Strategic Committee. He has participated in the Region 8, Division I/IV Chapter Chairs meeti! ng for four years. He has served on the technical committees of the ICCAD, DAC, EDAC, APCASS, DATE, SASIMI conferences and the Winter Simulation Meeting. He has served as tutorial chair, publicity chair, program chair and general chair of ICCAD. His research interests have covered circuit, logic, and high level simulation of integrated circuits, yield modeling and maximization for IC design, application of multiple criterion design techniques to digital filter design, architectural issues in DSP and more recently concentrated on synthesis and formal verification for digital systems at the finite state machine level and above. He is currently involved in an interdisciplinary effort in the area of technology-enhanced learning applied to engineering education and the development of techniques for advanced distributed learning.
Title: Tutorial on Current Issues and Problems in Distributed Generation
Speaker: Joseph Koepfinger
Date: 2005-11-29
Time: 18:10:00
Location: Room 3.403, School of Engineering, Univ of Auckland
The conversion of energy has existed since the earliest days of civilization. With the discovery of electrical energy, there has been a constant evolution of technology to convert all forms of primary energy into electricity. Most forms of energy can be stored and used when needed. Storage of electricity is possible and is suitable economically for some applications. The current usage of electrical transmission and distribution system is designed for the conversion of some primary form of energy to direct utilization. In some instances, electrical energy is stored by converting it to another form, such as chemical energy as in a battery or hydro energy as in pump storage. Today, some energy can be stored in an electric form in capacitors and by the use of super magnetic storage. The demand for electrical energy is rarely constant since it has to follow the needs of the user. The electrical power system as it is known today in the industrially developed countries started as a! distributed generation. The need to be able to supply electrical energy on demand caused the evolution of small, isolated generating facilities, into an interconnected power system with the generation usually being located near the source of the primary energy such as coal, hydro and liquid fuels. As the large interconnected facilities developed, there became a trade off between capacity and reliability. Some planning criteria were developed to define an acceptable level of service for the price being paid for the product, such as limit on the number of outages per year and the duration for different types of customers and different density of customers. These limits are arbitrary and do not provide the customer the opportunity to make a choice on his/her quality of service. Deregulation of the power industry is changing the playing field and providing customers new opportunities to have more input into the type and quality of their electric service. This is providing an opportunity for the re-birth of distributed energy resources (DER) or distributed resources (DR). The development of the modern DR and its utilization is taking many forms. Some are being operated to back up existing electrical facilities, others are the prime source of electricity, operating individually or in a microgrid and others are being operated as an integral part of the existing electric supply system. This tutorial will review the evolution of DR, the types of DR and their characteristics, the problems and requirements associated with operations in a microgrid and in the integration with an existing electrical system. Consideration will be given to operation limitations, protection, control, communications and safety issues. There will be a discussion of some typical installations such as combined cycle installation and efficiencies. An introduction will be given to the integration of DR into low voltage spot and grid networks. Some material will address the problems associated with the interconnection of DR on electrical power distribution systems. Key to the success of the discussions will be the understanding of the terminology by all of the participants, including the instructor. The tutorial will focus on the recent development of IEEE 1547.1 Interconnection of DR and other standards under development in the 1547 series of standards. This will be an interactive tutorial where the participants will have an opportunity to raise issues and have them discussed by the participants.
Mr. Koepfinger is a consultant with 51 years of utility experiences. He recently retired from Duquesne Light Co. In his last position he was Director of System Studies and Research for Duquesne Light Company, where he was responsible for managing the research programs. Following this career he reentered the work force an just completed a two year assignment at Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station. He has worked in the field of protection, communications and control and surge protection since graduating in 1949 with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He subsequently received a Master of Science from the same University in 1953. He is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Pennsylvania and a Certified Cogeneration Professional. In addition to Mr. Koepfinger's managerial duties at Duquesne Light Co, he was responsible for the conduct of special investigations of technical problems, insulation coordination, surge protection and, in particular, the studies of electrical transient conditions in power systems. Recent investigation under his leadership involves the study of the characterization and management of electromagnetic fields, cable failure, manhole explosions, transformer fire control interconnection of distributed resources and advanced outage management systems. Mr. Koepfinger is past secretary for the Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania Electric Energy Research Council, which is composed of all of the electric utilities of the State of Pennsylvania.
Title: Security issues related to automation of business processes over the internet
Speaker: Marc Apter
Date: 2005-11-28
Time: 17:30:00
Location: Room 3.403, School of Engineering, Univ of Auckland
The automation of business processes and the conducting of business over the Internet have made the protection of organization/business information and personnel information an important issue. Engineers, Technologists, Managers, generalists, future Managers, and even non-technical persons should be sensitive to what their Information Technologists are doing, or should be doing. This presentation will present various computer security topics that should be considered.
Mr. Marc Apter received the BSEE (Electronics) Degree from The Pennsylvania State University (1964). He served in the U.S. Navy for five years. He then worked for the U.S Navy as a civilian employee for 36 years, retiring as his Organization's Command Information Systems Security Manager and Head of the Information Technology Operations and Maintenance Branch. He is currently a Senior Information Assurance Specialist for EG&G Technical Services, developing security documentation for Classified and Sensitive but Unclassified U.S. Government computer and web based systems and applications.
Title: Project Management - Completing Projects with Success
Speaker: Celia Desmond
Date: 2005-11-28
Time: 18:00:00
Location: Room 3.403, School of Engineering, Univ of Auckland
The use of proper project management is rapidly becoming a requirement in many telecommunications oriented companies and environments. Use of Project Management tools and techniques can make the difference between meeting or not meeting budgetary and time requirements. Meeting these constraints is becoming more and more critical and the competition escalates, and companies compete for shares of the market. Sometimes an even more significant problem is the customer satisfaction - which is closely related to producing what the customer wants, within the required cost and time. Or more accurately, producing what the customer really wants. At the same time, the satisfaction of the team members is also a priority. All of these requirements can be met by using Project Management processes.
Celia Desmond is known for achieving breakthrough results through others. Celia is President of World Class - Telecommunications, an organization which provides training and management skills in the telecommunications engineering and business environment, and also an associate with Procept Associates. She worked with University of Toronto to create a new Masters of Engineering in Telecommunications program which started in September 1998 - with a lead time of less than 6 months. She has lectured internationally on Programs for Success in Today's Changing Environment and also on telecommunications for two departments at University of Toronto and at Ryerson Polytechnic University. Celia has applied her skills in process reengineering, culture change and general management at Stentor Resource Centre Inc., as the Toronto Development Coach Champion, a member of the technology leadership team, a member of the TQM meeting facilitation team and project manager on a number of complex projects. She developed and implemented processes within SRCI. As Director-Industry Liaison, she was the external technical linkage to the international technical community. In various positions at Bell Canada, Celia provided strategic direction to teams of technical, marketing, and operations resources. Celia is President Elect of IEEE Canada (over 13,000 members), and in 1996-97 she served on the Board of Directors of IEEE (over 320,000 members worldwide) as Division III Director. She was previously Vice President - Member Affairs for IEEE Communications Society (over 40,000 international members), and is currently Director of Meetings and Conferences. In 1991 Celia was awarded the Donald J. McLellan Award for meritorious service to IEEE Communications Society. In 1993, Celia was made a Senior Member of IEEE. Celia has a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University, a B. Sc. in Mathematics & Psychology from Queens University, and an Ontario Teaching Certificate. She is a PMI certified Project Management Professional.
You are invited to attend the following free IEEE/IEE/IPENZ seminar hosted by The Electricity Engineers Association (EEA) and Electrix and organized by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Auckland.
Title: The Electricity Systems of the 21st Century
Speaker: Prof. Mladen Kezunovic
Date: 2005-11-21
Time: 17:30:00
Location: Room 3.403, School of Engineering, Univ of Auckland
This presentation will give an overview of the trends for future development of the electricity infrastructures with addition of distributed generation, renewable resources and optimized efficiency at the end-user. All of these developments are heavily depended on future deployment of advanced information technology infrastructure. Power systems consist of two major infrastructures: power delivery and information processing. The research related to system aspects of power delivery has been well defined and consists of many diverse areas such as system stability, protection and control, power quality, asset management, electricity markets, etc. The research related to information processing has not been that well defined since a number of advanced technologies in this area have not been yet deployed by the utilities. This talk focuses on development of advanced information processing technologies that will facilitate future deployement of the electricity infrastructure of the 21st century.
Dr. Mladen Kezunovic presently holds the Eugene E. Webb Professorship in electrical engineering at Texas A&M University. He worked for Westinghouse Electric in the U.S.A. as a Systems Engineer on development of the first all-digital substation during 1979-1980 and for a vendor in Europe as the Technical Leader for substation automation development during 1980-86. Dr. Kezunovic served as a consultant to over 30 utilities and vendors worldwide. He is the Principal of Test Laboratories International, Inc, a firm specializing in consulting, testing services, product development, and training related to protective relaying and control. He is also the leader of the T&D research stem of Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSerc), an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) of the National Science Foundation. He acted as a PI on over 50 research and development projects ranging from implementation of real-time and open-loop digital simulators for relay testing to software solutions for automated analysis of faults and power quality disturbances. His current research activity is related to new functions for substation automation, new approaches to condition-based asset management, and new applications in relaying and control. Dr. Kezunovic has published more than 300 journal and conference papers and has given more than 50 invited lectures, short courses and seminars around the world. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of CIGRE-Paris. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas.
You are invited to attend the following free IEEE/IEE/IPENZ seminar organised by IEEE PACE
Title: University-Industry Joint Product Development
Speaker: Professor John Hosking & Paul de Bazin
Date: 2005-11-17
Time: 06:30:00
Location: Room 3.403, School of Engineering, Univ of Auckland
Last year the PACE Seminar was a case study of how Designer Technology Limited developed an idea to international market success in the space of five years, using in-house resources. In addition to in-house resources, industry can draw on the research abilities of academia in the development of new products. This approach has the potential to draw on the strengths of both parties to enable the development and successful marketing of quality new technology products. The University of Auckland and Orion Software Limited cooperated in the development of the Symphonia Mapper Application which is a toolkit that allows Health IT integration developers to rapidly map and transport specific messages between new, existing and legacy applications. It was designed and developed to enable data in a diverse range of formats to be exchanged easily, swiftly and accurately. John Hosking and Paul de Bazin will discuss the process by which their two organisations successfully cooperated to bring this software product to market and the benefits that accrued to both parties. Although the subject of this seminar is a software product, the cooperative process will be of interest to anyone contemplating the launch of any technology product, but who possibly lack the research facilities or funding to perform the necessary research and development. It will also be interest to academics who wish to take advantage of the opportunities that industry can provide for applied research. Time will be allowed for an extended question and answer session. Refreshments will be served from 6:00 pm in the Atrium. Please email advice of your attendance to: p.h.over@ieee.org by 14 November, giving numbers attending.
John Hosking has BSc and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of Auckland. He joined the Department of Computer Science in 1981 and has been Head of Department for close to six years. He has developed an eclectic set of research interests covering software tools, software engineering, visual languages and environments, and data mapping systems. John is the author of more than 130 refereed research publications and throughout his career he has been very active in industry consultancy and research contract work. He has been an IEEE Member for close to 25 years, is a former Chair of IEEE NZ North Branch and a former President of the IEEE NZ Council. Paul de Bazin has a BE from Auckland University. In nine years he has taken on a variety of roles at Orion Health. Paul spent four years leading the development of Orion Health’s Symphonia suite of tools before becoming Development Manager, overseeing all product development. He has recently taken up the role of Group Manager for Orion Health’s Rhapsody and Symphonia product ranges.
You are invited to attend the following free IEEE/IEE/IPENZ seminar orgainsed by the IEEE-IAS.
Title: Construction and Performance of an Electric Toyota MR2
Speaker: Associate Professor Richard Duke
Date: 2005-11-04
Time: 11:00:00
Location: 303.257, Science Centre, Univ of Auckland
For almost 30 years now the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has maintained a roadworthy electric car. The first vehicle, which resembled a “Mini Moke”, was originally developed as a mobile test bed for proving AC induction motor speed controllers, which were being developed during the early 1970s for industrial applications. The development of the second vehicle in 1982 was a combined project with the Mechanical Engineering Department to modify an Austin A40 Farina. These vehicles have proved to be very valuable in a wider range of undergraduate and postgraduate power electronic projects and the publicity for both the University and the Department has proven invaluable. The Department is just completing construction of its third electric car, the conversion of a Toyota MR2. This seminar outlines the brief history of our electric vehicles and their performance. Particular attention is paid to the philosophy of the development of our latest vehicle, the electric MR2. An insight into the design decisions made and the details of construction will be presented.
Since 1984 Richard Duke has been at the University of Canterbury and is Associate Professor and for 8 years Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and present Chairman of New Zealand South Section of IEEE. He currently holds the position of Academic Dean of Engineering and Forestry. His current research interests are in the area of distributed generation, next generation power electronics, electric vehicles, cryogenic electronics and education.
Title: Wind power - A power source enabled by power electronics
Speaker: Prof. Frede Blaabjerg, Aalborg University, Denmark
Date: 2005-10-07
Time: 15:15:00
Location: Room 3.404, School of Engineering, Univ of Auckland
Dr. Blaabjerg is a member of the European Power Electronics and Drives Association and the IEEE Industry Applications Society Industrial Drives Committee. He is also a member of the Industry Power Converter Committee and the Power Electronics Devices and Components Committee in the IEEE Industry Application Society. He is associated editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Journal of Power Electronics and of the Danish journal Elteknik.
Frede Blaabjerg (S'86-M'88-SM'97-FM03) was born in Erslev, Denmark, on May 6, 1963. He received the M.Sc.EE. from Aalborg University, Denmark in 1987, and the PhD. degree from the Institute of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, in 1995. He was employed at ABB-Scandia, Randers, from 1987-1988. During 1988-1992 he was a PhD. student at Aalborg University. He became an Assistant Professor in 1992 at Aalborg University, in 1996 Associate Professor and in 1998 full professor in power electronics and drives the same place. In 2000 he was visiting professor in University of Padova, Italy as well as he became part-time programme research leader at Research Center Risoe in wind turbines. In 2002 he was visiting professor at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia. His research areas are in power electronics, static power converters, ac drives, switched reluctance drives, modelling, characterization of power semiconductor devices and simulation, power quality, wind turbines and green power inverter. He is involved in more than fifteen research projects with the industry. Among them has been the Danfoss Professor Programme in Power Electronics and Drives. He is the author or co-author of more than 350 publications in his research fields including the book Control in Power Electronics(Eds. M.P. Kazmierkowski, R. Krishnan, F. Blaabjerg) 2002, Academic Press. He has served as member of the Danish Technical Research Council in Denmark 1997-2003 and from 2001-2003 he was chairman. He has also been chairman of the Danish Small Satellite programme and the Center Contract Committee which supports collaboration between universities and industry. He became a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Science in 2001 and in 2003 he became a member of the academic council. From 2002-2003 he became a member of the Board of the Danish Research Councils. In 2004 he became chairman of the programme committee Energy and Environment. He received the 1995 Angelos Award for his contribution in modulation technique and control of electric drives, and an Annual Teacher prize at Aalborg University, also 1995. In 1998 he received the Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award from the IEEE Power Electronics Society. He has received four IEEE Prize paper awards during the last six years. In 2002 he received the C.Y. O¡¯Connor fellowship from Perth, Australia , in 2003 the Statoil-prize for his contributions in Power Electronics and in 2004 the Grundfos Prize in acknowledgement of his international scientific research in power electronics.
Title: IEEE/IEE/IPENZ Wireless Workshop
Date: 2005-09-02
Time: 09:30:00
Location: University of Canterbury
The traditional mixture of academic, industrial and government talks on wirelss issues, covering research, development, products, policies, and most things of interest to the wireless community in New Zealand. Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea are provided (free of charge). After 5.00pm we will adjourn to the Staff Club. This is a free workshop.
Title: Nonblocking, Repackable, and Rearrangeable Switching Networks
Date: 2005-08-23
Time: 05:30:00
Location: Room 3.407 School of Engineering, Univ of Auckland
Title Nonblocking, Repackable, and Rearrangeable Switching Networks Speaker Prof. Andrzej Jajszczyk Affiliation AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. Date Aug 23, 2005 Time 5:30 – 6:30 pm (light refreshments from 5 pm) Location Room 3.407, Engineering Bldg, 20 Symonds Street, Auckland (http://www.engineering.auckland.ac.nz/contact.html) Contact N.Nair@auckland.ac.nz Abstract: The tutorial gives an overview of major theoretical issues associated with a switching network structure proposed by C. Clos. The concepts of strict-sense and wide-sense nonblocking as well as repackable and rearrangeable networks are described, showing the development of major research areas. A taxonomy of Clos switching networks and some important results for the basic network structure are given and discussed. Other research issues are enumerated. Biography: Andrzej Jajszczyk is a Professor at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. He received M.S., Ph.D., and Dr Hab. degrees from Poznan University of Technology in 1974, 1979 and 1986, respectively. He spent a year at the University of Adelaide in Australia and two years at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada as a visiting scientist. He is the author or co-author of six books and more than 200 scientific papers, as well as 19 patents in the areas of telecommunications switching, high-speed networking, and network management. His current research interests focus on control plane architectures for transport networks, quality of service and network reliability. He has been a consultant to industry, telecommunications operators, and government agencies in Poland, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, and the USA. He was the founding editor of the IEEE Global Communications Newsletter, editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications, and editor-in-chief of IEEE Communications Magazine. Since January 2004 he is Director of Magazines of IEEE Communications Society. He has been involved in organization of numerous technical and scientific conferences. He is an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer. He is a member of the Association of Polish Electrical Engineers and a Fellow Member of IEEE. Andrzej Jajszczyk is Vice-President of the Kyoto-Krakow Foundation, fostering cultural and technical relations between Asia and Poland.
Title: WiMax (Wireless) LANs
Speaker: Gordon Antonello
Date: 2005-08-02
Time: 17:00:00
Location: Room 3.407, School of Engineering, Univ of Auckland
ou are cordially invited to attend the following IEEE/IEE/IPENZ free seminar given by Gordon Antonello, the Chairman of the WiMax (Wireless) Technical Group. Gordon is one of the 9 board members of the WiMax forum who will be in New Zealand in early August. The seminar is hosted by Fujitsu NZ Ltd and IEEE Communications Society at University of Auckland. Auckland: Location: Room 3.407, Engineering School, University of Auckland, Symonds Street. Time: 5pm, Tuesday 2nd August. Wellington: (to be hosted by Fujitsu NZ Ltd, IEEE Communications Society and MediaLab Ltd.) Location: MediaLab Ltd, Level 2, Lus Nexus House, Victoria St (cnr Vivian St), Wellington at Time: 3pm, Wednesday 3rd August. Gordon is the International Guest Speaker at the Australian Telecommunications Summit 2005 this month and will cover: - Market status of WiMax, trends and what this means for carriers and resellers, - Growth and developments in WiMax - what this means for the international Telecoms industry, - Standards and regulatory update, - Building a new WiMax offering into your business plan without cannibalising existing revenue, - Developing future WiMax business models to complement existing telecoms offerings, - How will WiMax impact on business and consumers? - What benefits will WiMax offer to the enterprise market? - What is driving the development of WiMax? - Technical considerations - Future opportunities and challenges WiMAX Forum certified equipment is expected to provide up to 50-kilometers of range and allow users to receive broadband connectivity without requiring a direct line of sight with the base station. The equipment is also expected to provide shared data rates up to 70 Mbps, which is enough bandwidth to simultaneously support more than 60 businesses with E1-type connectivity and hundreds of homes with DSL-type connectivity with a single base station. Note book PCs with inbuilt WiMax chips are likely to be available in NZ within the next 9 months just as 802.11 wireless is today. The standard for the mobile version of WiMax is expected to be completed next year. Gordon is a past CEO and a current Director of Wi-LAN Ltd, the company that holds many of the patents on which the WiMax standards are based. Wi-LAN is the Chair Company of the OFDM Forum (www.ofdm-forum.com <http://www.ofdm-forum.com/> ) and a founding member of the WiMAX* Forum (www.wimaxforum.org <http://www.wimaxforum.org/> ). Gordon has been involved in the technology since its inception. Wi-LAN Ltd is represented in NZ by Fujitsu NZ Ltd This is the first time that the WiMax forum has presented to an Australian or NZ audience and it is therefore an ideal opportunity to update yourself with this next major wireless standard.
Title: Defending Against Terrorist Attacks on Power Systems
Speaker: Prof. Bruce Wollenberg
Date: 2005-06-17
Time: 02:30:00
Location: UoA, Architecture Building, 421W-208 (ALR2), 22 Symonds St, Auckalnd
Professor Bruce F. Wollenberg received his Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering and Masters degree in Electric Power Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy New York in 1964 and 1966 respectively. He received a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1974. Dr. Wollenberg worked at Leeds and Northrup Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1966 to 1974, he worked at Power Technologies Incorporated in Schenectady New York from 1974 to 1984, and he worked at Control Data Corporation's Energy Management Systems Division in Plymouth Minnesota from 1984 to 1989. In 1989 he was appointed to a professorship at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis Minnesota where his current interests involve the development of large scale network solution algorithms using vector processing supercomputers, the extension of traditional power system control techniques to incorporate spot pricing algorithms and distributed computing technologies, the application of expert systems to enhance the information presented to power system operators using real time computers.He is the co-author with Allen Wood of the Wiley textbook Power Generation Operation and Control. Professor Wollenberg received the HKN Outstanding Teaching Professor Award (2002-03), the IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award (2002), the IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000), he is a Fellow of the IEEE (1988), he received the Control Data Corporation Technical Excellence Award (1987) and was inducted into Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi honorary fraternities (1964). He is the former Chair of the Power Systems Engineering Committee of the IEEE Power Engineering Society.
Title: Trends in Medical and Rehabilitation Robotics
Speaker: Prof. George A. Bekey
Date: 2005-05-20
Time: 12:05:00
Location: Room 3.403, School of Engineering
This large and complex area in robotics will be presented in three parts: (1) rehabilitation robotics, with emphasis on physical therapy robots, robot wheelchairs and other assistive devices; (2) surgical robotics, including the use of robots for hip replacement ("RoboDoc"), brain surgery and the recent development of large systems like the DaVinci robot to assist in minimally invasive surgery; and (3) a few comments on medical robotics, where major effort is being devoted to development of miniature cameras and sensory systems to be swallowed (for diagnosis of the gastrointestinal tract) or injected into the bloodstream and steered magnetically. Recent work in micro-robotics is an important part of this work. Much of the work in this field depends on imaging and other sensory modalities. Progress in this field depends greatly on social and economic factors, and we plan to discuss some of them from a US perspective where issues of insurance, liability and cost play major roles.
Title: Multiple Robot Systems
Speaker: Prof. George A. Bekey
Date: 2005-05-19
Time: 10:00:00
Location: 3.403 (Engineering, University of Auckland)
We begin this presentation with some comments on groups of animals and their behaviors (such as formations, cooperation, and competition) in order to obtain biological models for robot groupings. We then review some studies of systems of robots with emphasis on such issues as inter-robot communication and the ability to accomplish global goals when each robot has only local information. We then consider heterogeneous groupings of wheeled and flying robots, tiny robots in sensor nets, cooperative behavior in robot groups and assignment of tasks to individual robots in the group. Next we review formations of ground vehicles, flying vehicles and spacecraft. We then turn to swarms of robots and review the behaviors that characterize such groupings. Some current projects in group robotics will be presented, based on the speaker's recent visits to robot laboratories in Asia and Europe. The concluding section of the talk will present some design principles for systems of robots and indicate some research directions for the future.
George A. Bekey is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. His research interests include autonomous robotic systems, multi-robot cooperation and human-robot interaction. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering from UCLA. Following employment at Beckman Instruments and TRW Systems he joined the faculty at USC in 1962. He served as Chairman of the Electrical Engineering-Systems Department from 1978 to 1982, as Chairman of the Computer Science Department from 1984 to 1989 and as Associate Dean for Research of the USC School of Engineering from 1996 to 1999. He has published over 200 papers and several books in robotics, biomedical engineering, computer simulation, control systems, and human-machine systems. Dr. Bekey is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He is Editor in Chief of the journal Autonomous Robots, and Founding Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation.. During 1996 and 1997 he served as President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. His new book entitled "Autonomous Robots: from biological inspiration to implementation and control" was published by MIT Press in May 2005. George officially retired from USC in 2003, but continues to be active on a part-time basis at the University, as well as in consulting and service on the advisory boards of several high technology companies. He is also affiliated with a medical devices startup company in San Luis Obispo and a robotics company in Los Angeles.
Title: Legged Robots: Applications & Research Issues
Speaker: Prof. George A. Bekey
Date: 2005-05-19
Time: 17:00:00
Location: 3.401 (Engineering, University of Auckland)
This seminar will begin with a review of the history of walking machines with four and six legs, including the "Phony Pony", a quadruped robot built in the speaker's laboratory some 40 years ago. We present some of the design issues of legged robots, including joints and number of degrees of freedom, static vs dynamic stability, actuators and sensors. Hexapods are statically stable, while quadruped display conditional stability. The principles will be illustrated with numerous examples, from the early machines designed to carry a person to small contemporary machines like the Aibo entertainment robot. Gait patterns will be illustrated with a USC example, a robot named "Rodney" which learned to walk using genetic algorithms. We then describe recent research emphasizing the role of passive compliance in the legs, as contrasted with complex control algorithms, and show some current examples of very fast legged robots based on this principle. Finally, we provide a fast introduction to biped robots, including humanoids which are very popular in Japan and Korea.
Title: Clean Coal - Coal as an option for power generation
Speaker: Nick Barneveld
Date: 2005-05-19
Time: 19:30:00
Location: School of Engineering, University of Auckland, 20 Symonds St, Auckland. Room 3.407.
It is apparent that the public perception of coal-fuelled electricity generation is very much one of "beauty being in the eye of the beholder", but with limited beholding and dated preconceptions. The presentation will review coal-fuelled electricity generation technologies in the context of environmental performance, and their applicability or otherwise in the New Zealand electricity sector. The presentation will draw on experience of technical, environmental and transmission work undertaken by Solid Energy on the proposed coal-fuelled power stations at Buller on the West Coast and in Southland.
Title: System-on-Chip Design Verification Technology
Speaker: Prof. Chong-Min Kyung
Date: 2005-05-12
Time: 10:00:00
Location: Lecture Theater, Room 3.403, Engineering Building 403,
This seminar consists of two parts. First part gives a brief introduction to Korea and KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) with an emphasis on their roles in IT (Information technology). Such questions as why IT is such important in Korea and how it has dealt with IT are addressed. Second part deals with SoC (System-on-Chip) Design Verification Technology. Why and how verification comes into play in the SoC design will be explained using two different examples; microprocessor and network processor design.
Chong-Min Kyung received the B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from Seoul National University in 1975, the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from KAIST in 1977 and 1981, respectively. His research area includes SoC (System-on-a-Chip) design and verification methodology, microprocessor and DSP architectures for various low-power multi-media applications. He is Founding Director of the Integrated Circuit Design Education Center and SoCium (System-on-Chip Initiative in Ubiquity and Mobility) research center. He has been a member of Korea Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) since 2004, and a member of National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK) since 2003.
Title: The 21st Century Engineer
Speaker: Adrian Pais
Date: 2005-05-05
Time: 18:15:00
Location: Room 3.402 , School of Engineering, University of Auckland
The last decade has seen a dramatic change in the economic and social landscape of society. At the forefront of this change has been the engineering profession, which has consistently produced groundbreaking innovations. Today, engineers are faced with the challenge of performing in a global environment with ever-changing business models, shorter product life cycles, cutthroat competition and conflicting values. This presentation will discuss the changing nature of the engineering profession, and the challenges and opportunities that this presents. Six essential values that an engineer should possess in the 21st century will be identified and discussed: holism, leadership, continuous learning, creativity, entrepreneurship and social responsibility. At the conclusion of the presentation, members of the audience will be invited to give their views in a discussion forum.
Adrian Pais, is one of the Younger Members and his paper won him the 2004 IEE Write Around the World prize. This prize allowed him to travel to three different YM branches around the world, expenses paid for by the IEE.
With the help of Transpower Auckland Office, IEEE PES/PELS joint society and the Student Branch is organizing a site visit to Transpower Penrose substation.
Title: Site visit to Transpower Penrose substation
Date: 2005-04-26
Time: 02:00:00
Location: Transpower Penrose substation.
With the help of Transpower Auckland Office, IEEE PES/PELS joint society and the Student Branch is organizing a site visit to Transpower Penrose substation. Visist Time : 2-4pm, Tues, 26 April 2005. Conatct : Please contact Patrick Hu at a.hu@ieee.org for more information
Title: Concrete, Steel and a Man named George
Speaker: Dr. Michael Neve
Date: 2005-03-03
Time: 10:00:00
Location: 3.403 (School of Engineering)
Recent advances in indoor wireless local area network technologies have realised the dream of un-tethered, low-cost, broadband access to internet services. However, the success (or otherwise) of these systems is very dependent on the decisions made at the time of their deployment - particularly with regard to the affect of the building environment on wireless transmissions. Techniques for modelling and predicting both coverage and levels of interference are needed, and these in turn require an understanding of the influence that composite inhomogeneous materials (which comprise typical building structures) have on the propagating fields. Experimental measurements have been performed and show that structures (such as reinforced concrete service ducts) can appreciably shadow the propagating fields, thereby causing coverage `holes' or alternatively reducing levels of interference to co-channel users. The majority of techniques/models developed to date are empirically-based, and accordingly do not give insight into the physical nature of the process and their general applicability is therefore questionable. In this seminar we will be discussing a research programme targeted at the development of improved deterministic propagation models for steel-reinforced concrete structures. The analysis of a simplified two-dimensional geometry is presented and techniques for reducing the results to a form suitable for use in system planning applications discussed.
The second International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents will be held in Decemeber at the Massey University, Palmerston North. Further details at http://conferences.massey.ac.nz/ICARA2004/. The event is co-sponsored by the IEEE NZ North section.
Title: The second International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents
Date: 2004-12-13
Location: Massey University, Palmerston North
You are invited to attend the following IEEE/IEE/IPENZ free seminar organized by IEEE.
Title: Relics of Charles Babbage in NZ and Australia
Speaker: Dr. Garry Tee
Date: 2004-10-27
Time: 18:00:00
Location: Room 3.401, Engineering Building 403, The University of Auckland
Charles Babbage's two elder sons emigrated to South Australia in the 1850s, and later some other descendants of Babbage emigrated to NZ or Australia. An Australian island is named after Charles Babbage, and two places in Australia are named after his eldest son. Some hundreds of Babbage's descendants now live in NZ or Australia, and some of them hold important collections of relics of Charles Babbage. Many other relics of Charles Babbage are now held in numerous museums, libraries and private collections, throughout NZ and Australia.
After Garry Tee graduated from Auckland University College as M.Sc. (N.Z.), his first job was as a computer, with an oil prospecting team in northwest Australia. In 1958, human computers began to be supplemented by electronic computers in geophysics, and it was obvious to him that electronic computers were going to become extremely important. Accordingly, he went to England, where he became a mathematician in English Electric Company, which manufactured DEUCE computers (based on Alan Turing's design for ACE). From 1964 to1968 he was a foundation member of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Lancaster, and then he returned to the Department of Mathematics at the University of Auckland. He has worked mostly on numerical analysis, and on the history of science. He has looked around in New Zealand and Australia for historical scientific material, and has found much more than he expected. In particular, he has found very many relics of Charles Babbage and many letters from Charles Darwin, plus numerous manuscripts of other eminent scientists, and he has published accounts of those relics. In his graduate course on the History of Computing, he explains the importance of COLOSSUS Mark 1, which was built in 1943 at Bletchley Park for cracking ciphers. It was kept totally secret until 1974, but it is now acknowledged as the first computer to work. A few years ago, he then introduced a friend now living in Auckland, who told the students how he built COLOSSUS. The previous year, he introduced another friend now living in Auckland, who told the students how she became the operator of COLOSSUS.
Title: Inductive Power Transfer - Past Present and Future
Speaker: Professor John Boys
Date: 2004-09-30
Time: 15:00:00
Location: University of Auckland, 3.402 (20 Symonds Street)
Inductive Power Transfer (IPT) was first proposed in the late 19th century but was impractical as there was no technological base to support it. At the University of Auckland work was first undertaken by the late Professor Don Otto in the early 1970's but was discontinued to be re-discovered in 1990, at a time when all the essential elements for IPT were becoming available - power electronics switches, litz wire, capacitors and ferrites. From here the technology has developed to be a major world-wide industry essential in Clean Rooms and preferred in many manufacturing situations. This Seminar will trace the development of IPT at the University of Auckland from first experiments involving highly inefficient power transfers of less than 1 watt to present day systems involving power transfers of 60 kW and up, at efficiencies of more than 90%. The seminar will cover the history of IPT, the problems that have been solved, how it was financed working closely with international companies, theoretical limitations of IPT, and research interests at the present time covering power and data aspects.
Title: Hardware Address Lookup Engine for Terabits/sec IP Routing
Speaker: Professor Arun K. Somani
Date: 2004-09-13
Time: 18:00:00
Location: Room 3.401, School of Engineering, The University of Auckland
With a rapid increase in the data transmission link rates and an immense continuous growth in the Internet traffic, the demand for routers that perform Internet protocol forwarding at high speed and throughput is ever increasing. The key issue in the router performance is the IP address lookup mechanism based on the longest prefix matching scheme. Earlier work on fast Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) routing table lookup includes, software mechanisms based on tree traversal or binary search methods, and hardware schemes based on content addressable memory (CAM), memory lookups and the CPU caching. These schemes depend on the memory access technology which limits their performance. We present a review of one trie-based scheme and suggest a binary decision diagrams (BDDs) based optimized combinational logic for an efficient implementation of fast address lookup scheme in reconfigurable hardware. The results show that the BDD hardware engine gives a throughput of up to 175.7 million lookups per second (Ml/s) for a large AADS routing table with 33 796 prefixes, a throughput of up to 168.6 Ml/s for an MAE*West routing table with 29 487 prefixes, and a throughput of up to 229.3 Ml/s for the Pacbell routing table with 6822 prefixes. Besides the performance of the scheme, routing table update and the scalability to Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) issues are discussed.
Arun K. Somani is currently Jerry R. Junkins Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University where he first served as David C. Nicholas Professor during 1997-2002. He earned his MSEE and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1983 and 1985, respectively. He worked as Scientific Officer for Govt. of India, New Delhi from 1974 to 1982 and as a faculty member at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA from 1985 to 1997. Professor Somani's research interests are in the area of fault tolerant computing, computer interconnection networks, WDM-based optical networking, wireless communication, computer architecture, and parallel computer systems. He has taught courses in these areas and published more than 200 technical papers and has graduated more than 60 MS and 17 PhD students and currently supervising 11 graduate students. He is the chief architects of anti-submarine warfare system (developed for Indian navy), Proteus multicomputer system (developed for US coastal navy), and Meshkin fault-tolerant computer system (developed for the Boeing Company). He has served on several program committees of various conferences in his research areas was the General Chair of IEEE Fault Tolerant Computing Symposium - 1997 and Technical Program Committee Chair of International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, 1999, and OPTICOMM 2003. He has been elected a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to theory and applications of computer networks.
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