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DESCRIPTION:2025 IEEE Colloquium in Western Pennsylvania\n\nDate: December 
 20\, 2025\n\nPlace: Monroeville Public Library\, 4000 Gateway Campus Blvd\
 , Monroeville\, PA 15146\; Hybrid meeting. Please RSVP and the meeting lin
 k will be emailed to you by the day before the meeting.\n\nRSVP: Required 
 at [https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/503070](https://events.vtools.ieee.or
 g/m/434998) by December 15\, 2025\, 5:00 PM Eastern Time. Please make sure
  to enter your email address while registering to receive the meeting link
 . If you are an IEEE member\, please enter your membership number in the R
 SVP for accurate meeting reporting.\n\nPDH: If you would like to receive P
 DH\, please bring a printout of the event. The organizer\, Dr Kalyan Sen\,
  will sign on the announcement as a proof of attendance. Online attendees:
  please send an email after the event to senkk@ieee.org. Please include yo
 ur IEEE membership number. You will receive a reply which will serve the s
 ame purpose as the signed page for in-person attendees. A non-member who w
 ould like to receive PDH is required to pay $10 to “IEEE Pittsburgh Sect
 ion.”\n\n9:00 am: Registration &amp; breakfast\n\n9:30 am (Presentation 1)\n
 \nSpeaker: John Mazurowski\, M.S. (Physics)\, Research Engineer\n\nOrganiz
 ation: Penn State Applied Research Laboratory- EOE Division\n\nTitle: Luck
 y Times\n\n10:00 am (Presentation 2)\n\nSpeaker: Amit Chaudhary\, Lead Sof
 tware Engineer in Test\n\nOrganization: Coupa Software\n\nTitle: From Prot
 otype to Production: A Multi-Stage Maturity Model for LLM Agents Readiness
 \n\n10:30 am (Presentation 3)\n\nSpeaker: Durga Krishnamoorthy\, Senior Pr
 oduct Manager\n\nOrganization: Cognizant Technology Solutions\n\nTitle: Le
 veraging In-Store Cloud Migration to Deploy Negative Coupon Files for Real
 -Time Fraud Prevention in Retail\n\n11:00 am (Presentation 4)\n\nSpeaker: 
 David J. Hall\, PhD\, PE\, IEEE Senior Member\, Technical Consultant\n\nOr
 ganization: Curtiss-Wright Electromechanical Systems\, Cheswick\, PA\n\nTi
 tle: Simulation and Testing of a Short Stator Linear Induction Motor\n\n11
 :30 am (Presentation 5)\n\nSpeaker: Sabareesh Kappagantu\, R&amp;D Manager\n\n
 Organization: AVEVA\n\nTitle: AI accelerated Software Engineering: Preserv
 ing Architectural Integrity Under Conway’s Law\n\nNoon (Lunch)\n\n1:00 p
 m (Presentation 6)\n\nSpeaker: Thomas Dionise\, PE\, IEEE Life Fellow\, Pr
 incipal Engineer\n\nOrganization: Eaton Advanced Power Systems\n\nTitle: M
 edium Voltage Transformer Failures Due to Primary Switching\n\n1:30 pm (Pr
 esentation 7)\n\nSpeaker: Kartik Srinivasan\, MSEE\, IEEE Senior Member\, 
 Staff Systems Engineer - HIL V&amp;V\n\nOrganization: Torc Robotics\n\nTitle: 
 The Expanding Role of Hardware-in-the-Loop Validation in Modern Automotive
  and Autonomous-Vehicle Development\n\n2:00 pm (Presentation 8)\n\nSpeaker
 : Lava K Vandrangi (PhD Student)\, Sr Transmission Engineer\n\nOrganizatio
 n: Delmarva Power (Exelon)\, Delaware\n\nTitle: Revisiting Transmission Ca
 pacity in the Era of FERC Order 881\n\n2:30 pm (Presentation 9)\n\nSpeaker
 : Kalyan K. Sen\, PhD\, PE\, MBA\, IEEE Life Fellow\, Fulbright Scholar\, 
 IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer\, IEEE SSIT-President Elect\n\nOrganizatio
 n: President &amp; CTO\, Sen Engineering Solutions\, Inc.\n\nTitle: Power Elec
 tronics at its Best in High Voltage\, High Power Applications\n\n3:00 pm: 
 social\n\n4:00 pm: adjourn\n\nSpeaker(s): John\, Amit\, Durga\, Dave\, Sab
 areesh\, Thomas\, Kartik\, Lava\, Kalyan\n\nAgenda: \nAll times are in eas
 tern time zone.\n\n9:00 am: Registration &amp; breakfast\n\n9:30 am: 5 present
 ations\n\nNoon: lunch\n\n1:00 pm: 4 presentations\n\n4:00 pm: adjourn\n\nT
 he meeting link will be emailed to on-line attendees on the day before the
  event.\n\nMonroeville\, Pennsylvania\, United States\, 15146\, Virtual: h
 ttps://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/503070
LOCATION:Monroeville\, Pennsylvania\, United States\, 15146\, Virtual: http
 s://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/503070
ORGANIZER:senkk@ieee.org
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SUMMARY:2025 IEEE Colloquium in Western Pennsylvania (HYBRID)
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 nt.&lt;/p&gt;
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