It was a very close election this year and I would like to announce that Jay Perin has been elected as the Member At Large section officer serving for the terms in 2012 and 2013. The Member At Large officer is a voting member of the sections executive committee and participates in running the section and planning its meetings. Congratulations Jay.
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“Roaming Mars: A Personal Perspective” Dinner Meeting
Guest Speaker: Scott Lever, Mission Manager, Mars Exploration Rovers Project
When: Wednesday 25 January 2012
Where: Atrium Hotel
Address: 30 Tri-County Parkway
Cincinnati Ohio 45246 (more…)
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USING ELECTRONIC HOSPITAL RECORDS AND DATA WAREHOUSING TO SUPPORT QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND CLINICAL RESEARCH
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012 |
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Raffel’s – 10160 Reading Road (see below for directions) |
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5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. - Social Time |
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6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. - Dinner |
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7:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. - Presentation |
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$12- $20, See information in Reservations |
MENU SELECTIONS:
Buffet Menu: Spinach Stuffed Tomato, Pan Fried Tilapia w/Lemon Caper Sauce, Beef Stroganoff, Parsley Buttered Potatoes, Steamed Fresh Broccoli, Buttered Noodles, Tossed Salad, Dinner Rolls and Butter.
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) has a long history of using quality improvement methods to improve patient outcomes. The arrival of electronic health records (EHRs) has allowed these quality improvement methods to become more widespread in scale and more real-time in nature. Over the past several years, CCHMC has implemented an enterprise-wide EHR, and as part of this implementation, has worked to develop screens that allow for the capture and eventual calculation of condition-specific outcome measures. In parallel to the rollout of the EHR, CCHMC has also deployed a research patient data warehouse built upon an open-source informatics framework called i2b2. Developers at CCHMC have extended this framework to make it suitable for storing outcomes data and also as a platform for research patient registries. This talk will focus on the rationale and technical solutions that have made these efforts possible.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Keith Marsolo, PhD
Assistant Professor
Director, Software Development & Data Warehouse
Division of Biomedical Informatics
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
LOCATION: Raffel’s is located at 10160 Reading Road, south of Glendale-Milford Road on the east side of Reading. Take I-75 to the Glendale-Milford Rd. Exit, go east on Glendale-Milford Road approximately ¾ of a mile to Reading Rd. and turn right on Reading.
RESERVATIONS: (Please note New Procedure) Please make reservations for each meeting by going to: http://www.ieeecincinnati.org/meetings/. Please click on the appropriate link and complete the reservation. You may now pay on-line.
DINNER RESERVATIONS
Members: $12.00
Non-members: $15.00
Two ways to pay for dinner:
1) [Register and pay the fee now] using PayPal.
2) [Register and pay the fee at the meeting]. Check or cash; correct change appreciated.
Make checks payable to “IEEE Cincinnati Section”.
Those desiring to use their bank’s bill payer service to send a check, rather than paying at the meeting, should contact Reservations@ieeecincinnati.org for details.
Reservations close at noon on Thursday, January 19th, 2012 (Updated).
DINNER RESERVATION CANCELLATION POLICY
An email to Reservations@ieeecincinnati.org prior to the close of reservations is required to properly cancel your reservation. Failure to cancel does not eliminate your responsibility to pay for the dinner. Refunds for PayPal payments are more complicated, and we request that you leave the funds on deposit for a future meeting.
WALK-INS: Walk-ins are available for this meeting.
All Reservations must be made by noon, Thursday, January 19th, 2012 (Updated)
PE CREDITS: Depending on the subject matter, attendance at IEEE Cincinnati Section Meetings now qualifies the attendee for Professional Development Hours towards renewal of Professional Engineers Licenses. Required documentation will be available following the meeting! The Section Meetings also provide a great opportunity to network with fellow engineers in the area.
Add comment December 15th, 2011
Submitted by Marc Bell, Editor
Copyright 1997 IEEE. Reprinted with permission from the IEEE publication, “Scanning the Past” which covers a reprint of an article appearing in the Proceedings of the IEEE Vol. 85, No. 8, August 1997.
Harold S. Black and the Negative Feedback Amplifier
Seventy years ago this month, H. S. Black (Fig. 1) of Bell Telephone Laboratories conceived the negative feedback amplifier while aboard the Lackawanna Ferry on his way to work. Thirty years later, 
M. J. Kelly, president of the Bell Labs, characterized Black’s invention as ranking with the de Forest audion “as one of the two inventions of broadest scope and significance in electronics and communications of the past 50 years.” Kelly credited the negative feedback amplifier with having made possible the long-distance telecommunications networks that covered the country, as well as transoceanic telephone cables. He noted that by 1957, the application of the negative feedback principle had transcended telecommunications and had stimulated “the entire explosive extension (more…)
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If you are interested in upgrading your membership to Senior Member, please contact any member of the Executive Committee.
NEW MEMBERS
The following individuals are IEEE members who are new to our Section:
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Abdulla AL lbdah Hussein Al Qurain Abdulaziz Alanazi Mishary Aldulaljan Monther Aleisa Hussain Alfakhr Lbrahim Alhaik Fawaz Alhajri Hani Alharbi Omar Alhelal Ali Alkhumairi Adnan Almuwallad Mohammed Alnajrani Abdullah Alshehri
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Mubarak Alzahrani Russell Banner Edwin Craig John Curran Chunsheng Fang Nathan Jaskowiak William Manning Oscar Moreno Amr Najjar David Pennington Michael Sagan Will Wallace Rong Wang Christopher Yazell
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We wish to welcome these members to the Cincinnati Section!!!
Add comment December 15th, 2011
IEEE Green Technologies Conference Extends Deadline for Papers on Current & Emerging Renewable Energy Sources & Energy-Reduction Technologies
WASHINGTON (21 November 2011) — IEEE Green Technologies Conference organizers have extended the deadline for technical papers to 1 December.
Papers can be submitted at http://edas.info/N11261, and authors will be notified on 4 January 2012 whether their papers are accepted. For more information on the event, see http://www.ieeegreentech.org/.
Accepted papers will be presented during the fourth-annual conference, 19-20 April 2012, at Oral Roberts University and the Hilton Tulsa (Okla.) Southern Hills. They will also be published in a conference proceedings CD and available through the digital library IEEE Xplore.
Contributed papers on topics related to current (more…)
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Try ieeecincinnati.org on your tablet or smartphone and see our new mobile friendly layout. The website automatically detects your device and delivers the appropriate layout. Let me know if you have problems or questions.
Add comment December 7th, 2011
ANNUAL HOLIDAY MEETING- TOOLS & TOYS
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Thursday, DECEMBER 1, 2011 |
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Raffel’s – 10160 Reading Road (see below for directions) |
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5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. - Social Time |
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6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. - Dinner (Reservation Required) |
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7:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. - Show and Tell |
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$12- $20, See information in Reservations |
This year for our December 1st meeting we decided to try something different. We would like everyone to bring your favorite tool or toy to share with everyone. Bring that new 3D smartphone, 3DSi, the old Radio Shack TRS-80 computer in your basement, that new handheld digital oscilloscope, the electric car you’ve been working on, that K&E mahogany slide rule you had in college or any intriguing bit of technology to share with us. We will arrange tables around the meeting room for you to set up on and if you want to give a short presentation we’ll have the video projector ready. Of course Raffels will lay out a great holiday spread so it will be a great evening.
Kindle Fire
Also, every person sitting for dinner will get a chance at the door prize, a new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet e-reader, so get your dinner reservations in.
Please let us know what you’re thinking about bringing and we will update this posting with all the stuff. So far the following items will be at the meeting:
If you have a gizmo that the members would like to see, send Charlie Nash a email and let me know what you’re bringing.
MENU SELECTIONS:
Buffet Menu: Roasted Turkey & Dressing, Baked Ham with Pineapples, Couscous Stuffed Green Peppers, Sweet Potato Casserole, Scalloped Potatoes, Seasoned Green Beans, Cranberry Relish, Dinner Rolls and Butter, and Dessert (Chef’s Choice)
RESERVATIONS: (Please note New Procedure) Please make reservations for each meeting by going to: http://www.ieeecincinnati.org/meetings/. Please click on the appropriate link and complete the reservation. You may now pay on-line.
DINNER RESERVATIONS
Members: $12.00
Non-members: $15.00
Two ways to pay for dinner:
1) [Register and pay the fee now] using PayPal.
2) [Register and pay the fee at the meeting]. Check or cash; correct change appreciated.
Make checks payable to “IEEE Cincinnati Section”.
Those desiring to use their bank’s bill payer service to send a check, rather than paying at the meeting, should contact Reservations@ieeecincinnati.org for details.
Reservations close at noon on November 24th, 2011.
DINNER RESERVATION CANCELLATION POLICY
An email to Reservations@ieeecincinnati.org prior to the close of reservations is required to properly cancel your reservation. Failure to cancel does not eliminate your responsibility to pay for the dinner. Refunds for PayPal payments are more complicated, and we request that you leave the funds on deposit for a future meeting.
WALK-INS: Walk-ins are not available for this meeting.
All Reservations must be made by noon, Thursday, November 24th, 2011
PE CREDITS: Depending on the subject matter, attendance at IEEE Cincinnati Section Meetings now qualifies the attendee for Professional Development Hours towards renewal of Professional Engineers Licenses. Required documentation will be available following the meeting! The Section Meetings also provide a great opportunity to network with fellow engineers in the area.
Add comment November 9th, 2011
If you are interested in upgrading your membership to Senior Member, please contact any member of the Executive Committee.
NEW MEMBERS
The following individuals are IEEE members who are new to our Section:
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Blake Adkins Daniel Arntsen Art Bales Nicholas Blanton Nicholas Bosler Jesse Bramble Ryan Child Suresh Damotharan Joseph Eaton Jennifer Elliott |
Andrew Galish Thomas Gorczynski Venkatesh Gutta Joshua Hill Zhen Hu Donald Johnson Seth Kravetz Jonathan Maglaty Tyler Maschino Kyle McAllister |
Ben Michels Uday Parshionikar Ralf Philipp Nancy Rivers Forrest Simmons Haibin Su George Topala Jason Varbedian |
We wish to welcome these members to the Cincinnati Section!!!
Add comment November 9th, 2011
Frank J. Sprague and the Electrification of Urban Transportation
Submitted by Marc Bell, Editor
Copyright 1997 IEEE. Reprinted with permission from the IEEE publication, “Scanning the Past” which covers a reprint of an article appearing in the Proceedings of the IEEE Vol. 85, No. 7, July 1997.
Frank J. Sprague (Fig. 1), known for his pioneering contributions to electric traction, electric elevators, and other applications of electric motors, was born 140 years ago this month. In recognition of his achievements in the field of electric power, he received the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) in 1910. He also served as president of the AIEE during 1892-1893.
The son of the plant superintendent of a hat factory, Sprague was born in Milford, CT, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1878, the same year that the Edison Electric Light Company was incorporated. He served for about two years on a naval ship known as the Richmond and acted as a special correspondent of the Boston Herald while General Ulysses S. Grant spent time on the ship during visits to China and Japan. Subsequently, Sprague served aboard the Lancaster, stationed in the Mediterranean, and installed an electric call bell on the ship. He managed to observe an exhibition of electric lighting systems, including that of Edison, in Paris, France in (more…)
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