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November 2014 Volume 63, No. 11
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Beck’s Bytes ......................................................................................................................................... 2
Possible Cyber-Attacks and Mitigation Strategies on Smart Power Grid ................................. 3
FERC Structure and Significant Recent Outage Events .............................................................. 4
Young Professionals Happy Hour Social .......................................................................................... 5
Visual Representation and Metrics for Classification with Image Sets .................................... 6
A Win-Win Situation .......................................................................................................................... 6
Global City Team Challenge and ISO/IEC/IEEE P21451-1-4 (Sensei-IoT)............................... 7
IEEE Smart Grid Vision for Computing: 2030 and Beyond ......................................................... 8
Electric Power Industry Conference co-sponsored by the Power Electronics Society .......... 9
IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition 2014 Conference ....................................... 10
Members of Joint IAS and PE Society Receive IAS Distinguished Lecturer Recognition. . 12
Welcome Our New Senior Member:............................................................................................... 13
Editor: Philip Cox, p.e.cox@ieee.org; Contributors: Jim Beck, Joe Cioletti, Louis Hart, Kristopher
Mascher, Kal Sen, Dave Vaglia and Matthew Valenti
All announcements for publication in a particular month’s bulletin are due to the Editor by the 20th of the
previous month. The accuracy of the published material is not guaranteed. If there is any error, please bring it to
the Editor’s attention. The Section’s web site, https://webinabox.vtools.ieee.org/wibp_home/index/r20037, has
recent issues of the bulletin and lots of other useful information
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 Beck’s Bytes
Section
Chair - Dr. Jim Beck, jebeck@ieee.org
Vice Chair -- Frank Pietryga, fwp@pitt.edu
Greetings! I hope you're having a wonderful fall.
There's not much to report this month, other than a
quick reminder that it's time to renew your IEEE
membership. Also, I'd like to give a shout out to the
IEEE Young Professionals (YP) affinity group. If
you're a recent graduate and new to IEEE the YP group
is a great way to get involved. Kris Mascher is
planning a YP happy hour this month, so check the
bulletin for details.
Also, our immediate past chair, Lou Hart, is working on
putting the ballot together for the 2015 executive
committee. He's looking for volunteers for secretary,
so if you're interested please contact Lou.
Thanks, and have a great month!
Jim Beck, Pittsburgh Section Chair, 2014
Treasurer – Jim Lagree, JamesLLagree@Eaton.com
Secretary – Dr. George Gao, zhigao@ieee.org
Immediate Past Chair – Dr. Louis Hart, louishart@ieee.org
Awards Chair – Dr. Ralph Sprang, rsprang@ieee.org
Webmaster – Gerry Kumnik, g.kumnik@computer.org
UpperMon Subsection
Chair: Dr. Gianfranco Doretto,
Gianfranco.Doretto@mail.wvu.edu
Chapters
Communications Society – Chair: Dr. Balaji Palanisamy,
bpalan@pitt.edu; Sec: Phil Cox, p.e.cox@ieee.org
Computer Society – Chair: Dr. Ralph Sprang,
rsprang@ieee.org
Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing
Technology/Electron Devices Societies – Russell Dudek,
russell.dudek.us@ieee.org; Treas.: Dr. Louis Hart
Engineering In Medicine & Biology Society
Chair: Dr. Wei Wang, wangwei3@pitt.edu
Electromagnetic Compatibility Society
Chair: Michael J. Oliver
emi@majr.com (814) 763-3211
Power Electronics Society – Chair: Dr. Kal Sen,
senkk@ieee.org
Power & Energy & Industry Applications Societies
Chair: Dave Vaglia, davevaglia@ieee.org; Past: Mey Sen,
senml@ieee.org 412-373-0117
Magnetics Society – Chair: Dr. Matt Moneck,
mmoneck@andrew.cmu.edu
Nanotechnology Society - Chair: Dr. MinheeYun
yunmh@engr.pitt.edu
Robotics Society – Chair: Gene Kern, geneKern@ieee.org
Signal Processing Society – Chair: Dr. Deniz Gencaga
d.gencaga@ieee.org
Society on Social Implications of Technology
Chair: Joe Kalasky, P.E., j.kalasky@ieee.org 724-244-1609
Affinity Groups
Young Professionals (formerly GOLD) – Chair: Kristopher
Mascher, krismascher@gmail.com
Life Member – Chair: Open
Women In Engineering – Chair: Dr. Gabriela Hug
ghug@ece.cmu.edu
Committees
Consultants Network – Dr. George Crawford,
gwc2gwc2@gmail.com
Professional/Career Activities (PACE)
Chair: Joe Cioletti, P.E. jcioletti@ieee.org
Student Activities – Dr. Irvin Jones, irjones@ieee.org
Membership Development – Steve Mozelewski,
Steve.Mozelewski@gmail.com
Publicity – Chair: Thomas Dionise, P.E.
ThomasJDionise@eaton.com (724) 779-5864
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 Possible Cyber-Attacks and Mitigation Strategies on Smart Power
Grid
Speaker:
Date:
Time:
Place:
Jignesh Solanki, Ph.D.
Monday, Nov. 3, 2014
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
G102 Engineering Sciences Building (ESB)
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
RSVP:
Matthew Valenti, Valenti@ieee.org
Organizer: Upper Mon Subsection
Abstract
In the present grid real time control systems are the energy management systems and distribution management
systems that utilize measurements from real-time units (RTUs) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
(SCADA). The SCADA systems are designed to operate on isolated, private networks without even basic
security features which are now being migrated to modern IP-based communications providing near real time
information from measuring and controlling units. To function “brain” (SCADA) properly “heart” (RTUs)
should provide necessary response thereby creating a coupling which makes SCADA systems as targets for
cyber-attacks to cripple either part of the electric transmission grid or fully shut down (create blackout) the
grid. Cyber-security research for a distribution grid is a topic yet to be addressed. To date firewalls and
classic signature-based intrusion detection systems have provided access control and awareness of suspicious
network traffic but typically have not offered any real-time detection and defense solutions for electric
distribution grids. This presentation will discuss the cyber security issues and possible mitigation solutions
using data mining techniques.
Speaker Bio
Jignesh Solanki received his B.E. from V.N.I.T, Nagpur, India and his M.E. from Mumbai University, India
in 1998 and 2000 respectively. He received Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from
Mississippi State University, USA in 2006. He was involved in research activities at IIT Bombay, India. He
has been Research Assistant Professor in Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, since August 2009. Prior to that, he worked for Open Systems
International Inc, Minneapolis, MN as a Senior Engineer for three years. He is a co-recipient of National
Science Foundation award. He has chaired several conference sessions and is a reviewer in several national
and international conference/journal publications. He is a vice-chair of IEEE power and energy society
student activities subcommittee. He served as a panelist in several National Science Foundation and
Department of Energy proposals. He received IEEE multi-agent systems working group award in 2008, IEEE
power and energy technical student activities working group award in 2012 and is a member of IEEE since
2002. His research interests are cyber security in smart grid, multi-agent applications in power system and
power system control.
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 FERC Structure and Significant Recent Outage Events
Speakers:
Title:
Date:
Time:
Place:
David Cole, PE, MBA, IEEE Member and Ken Githens, EE, MBA
FERC Structure and Significant Recent Outage Events
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
November 13, 2014
Social 6:30 PM, Program 7:00 PM
Westinghouse Energy Center
4350 Northern Pike, Monroeville, PA 15146
RSVP:
Required at https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/29371 by November 6, 2014. Please
indicate if you are an IEEE member by entering your membership number. If you would like to receive
PDH, please bring a copy of this announcement for verification of your attendance. A non-Member who
would like to receive PDH is required to pay $10 to “IEEE Pittsburgh Section.” A Member who would
like to receive PDH is required to show membership ID.
Organizer: Power Electronics Society (PELS) and Power & Energy Society/Industry Applications
Society
Abstract: FERC’s role in reliability standards and jurisdictions will be reviewed. Three significant
outage events, Southwest Outages on 2-4-11, North East Snow Storm on 10-29-11 and Arizona
Southern California on 8-9-11 will be presented.
Speakers: David Cole and Ken Githens
David Cole: Mr. Cole joined the Commission in January 2011 as an Electrical Engineer in the Division
of Compliance in the Office of Electric Reliability. Prior to coming to the Commission, Mr. Cole retired
from Allegheny Energy (AE) with over 34 years of service. His most recent position was Manager of
Technical Services for the AE Generation and Marketing subsidiary. Previously he held various other
management positions at numerous divisions with AE, including Director, Allegheny Energy Solutions.
He was on the board of directors for Cogenix and Vice President of AE Solutions.
He held various positions in the power generation, transmission engineering, generation planning,
substation standards, unregulated T&D sales, Allegheny Solutions, and generation technical services
departments. His experience includes the planning, engineering and construction of transmission
substations. He was the power transformer expert for 12 years and responsible for insulation
coordination, arrester, CT, PT and CVT’s standards. He authored the initial EHV and medium power
transformer specifications. During the time in generation planning, he provided documentation for value
of generation capacity calculations for numerous PURPA project, assisted with the Maryland
collaborative commission testimony and performed numerous studies for combustible gas stations and
coal fired stations. While he was in Solutions, he and his staff developed the business plan, negotiated
alliances with numerous vendors, performed sales and marketing, and opened six remote offices
throughout the North East. He was responsible for the total P&L of this subsidiary.
Power station field project experience includes; GSU transformer replacement installations, testing and
start up of new power station distributed control systems, installation of water canons, coordinating
breaker maintenance, repairing coal yard control systems, and numerous other projects. Power station
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corporate experience includes; developing battery and relay testing standards, six sigma transformer
failure analysis, issuing relay setting orders, managing arc flash, relay coordination and equipment duty
studies and supervising motor, vibration, coal auditing, boiler efficiency and heater control experts. He
and his staff investigated PRC001, PRC 004, VAR and PRC 005 and CIP issues.
Mr. Cole earned a BS degree in Electrical Engineering in 1977 and an MBA in 1999 both at the
University of Pittsburgh, is married, and has two daughters. He is a member of the IEEE and has a
Professional Engineering license in PA.
Ken Githens: Mr. Githens joined the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in October 2009 as an
Electrical Engineer in the Division of Compliance in the Office of Electric Reliability.
Prior to coming to FERC, Mr. Githens retired from Allegheny Energy with over 37 years of service.
During that time he held various engineering positions in the relay and protection, power generating and
construction, control area operations, and transmission planning departments.
Mr. Githens is a graduate of Penn State in 1973 with a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Indiana
University of PA in 1992 with an MBA. He resides in Greensburg, PA.
DIRECTIONS TO WESTINGHOUSE ENERGY CENTER
From Pittsburgh take Interstate 376 East (Parkway East). Take Exit 84A to Monroeville. Cross Business
Rt 22 at the traffic light and proceed on Rt 48 South (Moss Side Blvd) approx ½ mile (two traffic lights).
The 2nd traffic light is at a 4-way intersection with a Marathon station on the right and a Sunoco station
on the left. Turn left onto Northern Pike. Proceed approx 0.2 miles and turn right at the 1st traffic light
onto Westinghouse Dr. Travel 0.7 miles (past the guard stand) to the 3 flags where the building’s main
entrance is located. Parking in the evening will be plentiful. Use the main entrance and check with the
security guards inside. You will be directed to the proper room for your meeting.
From the PA Turnpike, take Exit 57 (Monroeville). After the toll plaza, get in the left lane to get on
Business Rt 22 West. At the first light, turn left onto Rt 48 South (Moss Side Blvd) and follow the above
directions.
 Young Professionals Happy Hour Social
Ready for a break from the grind? Come meet other IEEE young professionals for a happy hour social at
the Waterfront on Wednesday, November 12 from 4-6PM.
For more specific details, contact Kris Mascher @ k.m.us@ieee.org
Thanks,
Kris Mascher
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 Visual Representation and Metrics for Classification with Image
Sets
Speaker:
Date:
Time:
Place:
RSVP:
Organizer:
Shiguang Shan, Ph.D.
Monday, Nov. 17, 2014
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
G102 Engineering Sciences Building (ESB)
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Matthew Valenti, Valenti@ieee.org
Upper Mon Subsection
Abstract
Visual representation is the fundamental of many computer vision tasks. Historically, the last decade has
witnessed the prosperity of local features and sparse representation. And, more recently, feature learning is
blooming for learning hierarchical representation. However, most of them focus on the representation of single
image or a few images, which however is quite different from biological vision system (BVS). During most vision
tasks, BVS actually takes numerous images of the object of interest even in few seconds, benefiting from
unconscious eye movement. In this talk, I will introduce some of our recent works on visual representation and
metrics for classification with image sets, in which multiple images are densely sampled for the object to be
recognized. In our methods, the image set is collectively represented as a Riemannian manifold, thus forming
some interesting novel problems, including distance computation between manifolds (papers in CVPR08/09/12),
Manifold alignment via Universal Manifold Model(paper in CVPR14), and Learning Euclidean-to-Riemannian
Metric (paper in CVPR2014).
Speaker Bio: Shiguang Shan received M.S. degree in computer science from the Harbin Institute of Technology,
Harbin, China, in 1999, and Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT),
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China, in 2004. He joined ICT, CAS in 2002 and has been a
Professor since 2010. He is now the Deputy Director of the Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing of
CAS. His research interests cover image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, and machine learning.
He especially focuses on face recognition related research topics. He has published more than 200 papers in
refereed journals and proceedings in the areas of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, one of which won
"Best Student Poster Award Runner-up" in CVPR08. He has served as Area Chair for many international
conferences including ICCV'11, ICPR'12, ACCV'12, FG'13, ICPR'14, and ICASSP'14. He serves as workshop
co-chair of ACCV14, and website co-chair of ICCV15. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Image
Processing, Neurocomputing, and EURASIP Journal of Image and Video Processing. He received the China's
State Scientific and Technological Progress Awards in 2005 for his work on face recognition technologies.
 A Win-Win Situation
We frequently hear something referred to as a 'Win-Win situation'. Volunteering to help lead the
Pittsburgh section or one of its chapters of a technical society is, in my opinion as one who has done so,
is a 'Win-Win'. The volunteer benefits from the experience and knowledge gained, and the section
benefits from the volunteer's insight and effort.
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Pittsburgh section is looking for candidates for the executive committee of 2015. As the end of 2014
approaches, we are seeking candidate(s) particularly for 2015 Secretary. Our Life Members affinity
group is likewise in need of a new chair. I think you will not regret it if you do yourself and the section
a service - let me know that you want to take on one of these positions.
Louis Hart Immediate Past Section Chair louishart@ieee.org
 Global City Team Challenge and ISO/IEC/IEEE P21451-1-4
(Sensei-IoT)
Speaker:
Date:
Time:
Place:
Sponsor:
William J. Miller, Chairman, P21451-1-4
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
6:30 PM Social/Light Dinner, 7:00 PM Talk
Former Westinghouse Energy Center, 4350 Northern Pike, Monroeville, PA 15146 (see
directions on page 5)
PACE, RSVP to Joe Cioletti, jcioletti@ieee.org
Abstract: In this presentation we will discuss the NIST Global City Team Challenge which was initiated
by Presidential Directive in 2013 as part of the Smart America Challenge. We will discuss a new
framework to facilitate transport of sensor data to bridge various protocols via an ISO/IEC/IEEE
P21451-1-4 XMPP Interface, the first Semantic Web 3.0 Standard for M2M/Internet of Things (IoT).
The goal is to facilitate data sharing between devices, users, and applications in different domains and
demonstrate the benefits. P21451-1-4 (also known as Sensei-IoT) http://www.sensei-iot.org using
eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) which is commonly used in social networks
today, but now can provide transport of Smart Transducers (sensor/actuators) via a cloud computing
framework. The capabilities can also be provided locally in the event of a disaster since there may be a
lost of power and communications. Enabling this capability, the public can benefits via sensor data
sharing .Instant Sensor Messaging can benefit healthcare, transportation, cargo shipping, home and
building automation, industrial control, and emergency management. We will discuss how Sensei-IoT
provides trusted, scalable, reliable sensor networks to exchange data with various systems as well as
how Pittsburgh members can get involved in our team challenge.
Speaker Biography: William is President/Owner of Maximum Control Technologies (MaCT), a MILLER W J &
ASSOCIATES Company, provides consulting and systems integration services internationally with offices in the
United States, Canada, and Hong Kong, PRC. He is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University with a degree in
Electrical Engineering and Telecommunicatons. He has designed, managed, and installed numerous distributed
process control systems for power, pulp & paper, chemical, and cement industry. He was chair of IEEE P2030
TG4 SG 2 Use Cases and development of the Smart Grid Evaluation Criteria. He is currenly chairman of
ISO/IEC/IEEE P1451-1-4 Smart Tranducer Interface for Sensors, Actuators, and Networked Devices using of
eXtensible Markup and Presence Protocol (XMPP) for Network Device Communicatons. and the 1st Semantic
Web 3.0 Stanrdard for the Internet of Things (iOt). .
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 IEEE Smart Grid Vision for Computing: 2030 and Beyond
Speaker:
Date:
Time:
Place:
Sponsor:
Dan McCaugherty, President and CEO, Athena Sciences Corporation
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
6:30 PM Social/Light Dinner, 7:00 PM Talk
Former Westinghouse Energy Center, 4350 Northern Pike, Monroeville, PA 15146 (see
directions on page 5)
PACE, RSVP to Joe Cioletti, jcioletti@ieee.org
Abstract: This briefing describes the activities and results of the IEEE Computer Society Smart Grid
Vision Project (SGVP), chartered to develop a vision for the role of computing within the Smart Power
Grid looking forward as far as 30 years into the future. This IEEE research project included international
contributors from over forty experts representing academic research institutions, industry, and numerous
U.S. Department of Energy Laboratories. The SGVP published a peer reviewed Vision Report in 2013
and is working today on a reference model and technology roadmap. The briefing describes the visions
published in the Research Report and current work on the reference model and technology roadmap.
The SGVP team developed its visions using a three-tiered approach. From top to bottom, these three
tiers include architectural concepts, functional concepts, and technological concepts. Architectural
concepts describe Smart Grid goals and characteristics, general grid types, as well as computing
concepts considered common across grid types. Functional concepts describe how the grid will operate.
Technological concepts describe the roles of certain technologies within the Smart Grid. The team
considered multiple Smart Grid variants—from bulk generation (as is typical in developed regions) to
islanded grids (more common in developing regions). Scenarios cover stakeholders from electric
utilities, emergency responders, and energy brokers, as well as industrial power users and homeowners.
Computing technology visions include modeling and simulation, cyber security, verification and
validation, high-performance computing, and other topics.
The Vision Report is intended to stimulate research and development, education, training, and the
development of standards. The computing technologies described in this document will progress at
different rates, some stimulated by a myriad of socio-economic drivers and others by SmartGrid–
specific needs. The technologies include Computational intelligence, Cyber security and resilience, Data
analytics and databases, Distributed multiple-agent architecture, High-performance computing,
messaging-oriented middleware, Modeling and simulation, Self-integrating systems, Software
verification and validation, Virtual computing, and Visualization.
Bio: Dan McCaugherty, President and CEO, Athena Sciences Corporation. Mr. McCaugherty, brings
over 28 years experience in the research, development, and operation of complex critical systems for
federal and commercial clients to include the DoD, NASA, DOE, DOT, DHS, and various commercial
clients. After graduating with a BS in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the University
of Illinois, Mr. McCaugherty worked as a flight control engineer and technical manager on Space
Shuttle flight and ground systems. He then served as a solution architect for Verification and Validation
of critical systems at Titan Corporation. In 2001 he joined ProLogic, Inc. where as a Vice President, he
initiated lines of business in military tactical communications, net-centric simulations, IT services, data
analytics, and energy management. In 2010, he co-founded Athena steering the corporation to provide
test automation, biometrics solutions, and research in smart grid computing. Since 2011, he has served
as leader of the IEEE Computer Society Smart Grid Vision Project. He also served as panel chair for the
Smart Grid Vision projects at the 2012 IEEE Smart Grid World Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.
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 Electric Power Industry Conference co-sponsored by the Power
Electronics Society Pittsburgh Chapter
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 IEEE Pittsburgh Section Supports the IEEE Energy Conversion
Congress and Exposition 2014 Conference
The IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) 2014 (2014.ecceconferences.org) was
successfully held at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from Sunday,
September 14 to Thursday, September 18. More than 1300 people attended the conference. A total of
75 volunteers from the IEEE Pittsburgh Section and other organizations provided volunteer services and
support to the ECCE 2014 conference.
The ECCE 2014 conference program was replete with distinguished plenary speakers from the U.S.
Ames National Laboratory, ABB, General Motors, and Renewable Energy Projects Ltd., tutorials given
by experts from industry and academia, panels of experts in town hall meetings, and ample opportunities
to network and make new acquaintances in the energy conversion field. A record number of 1400
digests were submitted to the conference, and papers were selected after rigorous peer reviews and
presented in 135 oral and poster sessions.
The conference’s fantastic technical program and an ever expanding exhibit roster added to the
excitement in Pittsburgh. It is also major win for the ECCE 2014 organizing committee, in which many
IEEE Pittsburgh Section members were actively involved in and made great contributions. Under the
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leadership of the ECCE 2014 Local Committee, specifically Thomas McDermott and Kalyan Sen, 75
volunteers staffed a total of 147 sessions and events, and assured a smooth and orderly experience for all
ECCE 2014 conference attendees.
The following is a list of individuals who have volunteered their time and support to the ECCE 2014
conference. Special thanks were also given by Dr. Ayman El-Refaie, ECCE 2014 General Chair, to the
IEEE Pittsburgh Section for conference support at the ECCE Banquet on Wednesday, September 17
between 7 and 9 pm at the conference site.
Abrez Mondal, Aenik Shah, Ahmed Elsayed, Aitor Vazquez, Alessandro Pevere,
Alvaro Cardoza, Amir Pasdar, Andy Foerster, Aneesh Rajeev, Augustin Cremer,
Bing Xia, Blaine Forkner, Brandon Grainger, Brijesh Kumar, Cheng-Yu Tang,
Chongwen Zhao, Chris Scioscia, Chris Sermon, Chun Wei, Ciaran Feeney, Cong
Li, Cong Ma, Emma Raszmann, George Crawford, Hashim Al Hassan, Hsin-Chih
Chen, Irene Mathew, James Lagree, Janviere Umuhoza, Jesus E. ValdezResendiz, Jie Dang, Jing Wang, Joe Coholich, John Wanjiku, Joseph Kozak, Juan
HERNANDEZ, Junjun Deng, Kalyan Sen, Lanhua Zhang, Laura Wieserman,
Lesedi Masisi, Liang Huang, Lihong Xie, Ling Jiang, Mackenzie Morison-Knox,
Mark Scott, Matthew Korytowski, Min Huang, Olive Ray, Omar Abdel-Rahim,
Patrick Lewis, Pinank Nagda, Pratick Bakhtiani, Praveen Devakota, Qinhao
Zhang, Remus Beres, Roozbeh Bonyadi, Saeed Anwar, Saeed Jahdi, Shubhanshu
Gupta, Siavash Pakdelian, Sridhar Joshi, Stephen Whaite, Stephen Whaite, Zhe
Zhang, Steve Abate, Tanya Gachovska, Tomoyuki Mannen, Xiaoxiao Li, YangLin Chen, Yuan Tang, Yusi Liu, Yuzhi Zhang, Ze Wang, Zhe Zhang, Zian Qin.
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 Pittsburgh Section Members of Joint Industrial Applications Society
and Power and Energy Society Receive IAS Distinguished Lecturer
Recognition.
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Mr. Nigel P. McQuin, with well-deserved bronze plate for his unceasing support
of our Pittsburgh Section
Mr. David Vaglia with Dr.Peter Magyar, Fellow IEEE, IEEE IAS Chapters and Membership
Development Department Chair
To: Members of the IAS Distinguished Lecturer Team 2015-16
- Mr. Ming Cheng
- Mr. P.S. Chandramohanan Nair
- Mr. A.M. Narayanan
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Mr. S. Mark Halpin
Mr. Nigel P. McQuin
Mr. David L. Vaglia
Mr. Seth R. Sanders
Cc:
Mr. Blake Lloyd, IAS President
Mr. Tamás Ruzsányi, IAS CMD DL Committee Chair
Respected Colleagues,
I am pleased to inform you that the IAS Executive Board approved the motion of the Chapters and
Membership Development (CMD) Department to extend the existing 2014-15 DL Team with a new
2015-16 DL Team effectively Jan 1, 2015 at the 2914 Q3 EB Meeting on Oct 8, 2014.
Please accept my sincere congratulations on being an IAS Distinguished Lecturer.
I wish you a successful DL activity in the next two years.
Best regards
Peter
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Dr.-Ing. Magyar, Peter
Fellow IEEE
IEEE IAS Chapters and Membership Development Department Chair
http://ias.ieee.org/
 Welcome Our New Senior Member:
Matthew Gaston
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2014 Calendar – Meetings of IEEE Pittsburgh Section
Executive
Committee
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
August
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
16
Panera
Monroeville
20
Panera
Bread
Wilkins
15
Robot Car
Race
20
Panera Bread
Wexford
17
Panera Bread
Forbes Ave,
Oakland
10
Senior
Membership
15
Panera Bread
Wilkins
19
Spaghetti
Warehouse
Pittsburgh
17
Panera
Forbes Ave,
Oakland
21
Panera Bread
Forbes Ave,
Oakland
18
Spaghetti
Warehouse
16
WVU
TBD
20
Panera Bread
Wilkins
18
Holiday
meeting
TBD
Section
Communic
ations
Computer
9
Awards
Dinner
21
Interference
29
Smart Grid
10
Quad Copter
21
EMG
Recordings
EMBS
EMCS
28
Apps Power
Grid
Power
Electronics
PES/IAS
6
Climate
Change
23 - Furnace
6
AFCIs
11
Data Center
Power
20
Rollercoasters
14-18
ECCE
15
Flywheel
16
Testing
Induction
Machines
23
Eaton Tour
13
FERC
14
Fuel Cells
13
FERC
17-18
EPIC
10- Meds.
20-Silicon
Magnetics
10
Quad Copter
19- Dev.
31
Stat. Anal.
Climate vars.
Robotics
Sig.
Processing
28
Biomarkers
CPMT/ED
Social Impl
Technology
Upper Mon
Women in
Eng’ing
3
Malware
Detection
24-MWaves
12
Climate
Mitigation
31
CyberPhysical
Systems
7
Com Theory
11 - Photos
14-Astronomy
Life Mem.
Young Pros
PACE
5
IoT
3 - Cyber
attacks
17
Image Sets
22
Estimating
Emissions
11
Russ
Harrison
Student Act
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Speakers
23 - Eaton
17
Smart Grid
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IPCC
12 - Social
19 - IoT
25
SmartGrid