IEEE Twin Cities Fall Workshop 2017
The IEEE Twin Cities Section is sponsoring its second Fall Workshop. This paid event features two simultaneous tracks on a variety of technical topics. Incredible speakers including our keynote speaker the Chief Technical Officer of Seagate, Mark Re!
The lineup of sessions include topics from Magnetics, Design of Experiments and Career Development panels among others.
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- $99 IEEE Member
- $109 Non-IEEE General Admission
The event features a free banquet breakfast, lunch and afternoon snacks. The event is an excellent place to earn PE License Continuing Education Credits [1].
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- Date: 18 Sep 2017
- Time: 07:00 AM to 05:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
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Speaker: Dr. Karen Zita Haigh
Company: Raytheon
Modern mobile communications networks operate in highly dynamic, potentially hostile environments. Current approaches to selecting strategies that improve communications tend to be static and limited to known RF environments, and therefore perform poorly against novel conditions. It is instead desirable to adaptively configure the radio to maintain consistent communications. Our goal is to automatically select actions that improve mission performance, even in highly‐dynamic or novel RF environments. Our Strategy Optimizer adaptively selects a configuration in real‐time, and cognitively learns how to handle new communications environments during the mission. The Strategy Optimizer is multi‐threaded, allowing parallel decision making and learning, and semantically‐agnostic (i.e., it uses no labels), supporting easy deployment to new platforms and domains.
Title: Advanced Sensing for Intelligent Manufacturing
Speaker: Dr. Robert Gao
Company: Case Western Reserve University
"Advanced sensing presents the prerequisite for realizing intelligent manufacturing. Sensors monitorproduction operations in real-time, often in harsh environment, provide input for diagnosing the root cause of quality degradation and fault progression such that subsequent corrective measures can be formulated and executed online to control a machine’s deviation from its optimal state. With the increasing convergence among measurement science, information technology, wireless communication, and system miniaturization, sensing has continually expanded the contribution of mechatronics to intelligent manufacturing, enabling functionalities that were not feasible before in terms of in-situ state monitoring and process control. New sensors not only acquire higher resolution data at faster rates, but also provide local computing resources for autonomously analyzing the acquired data for intelligent decision support.
This talk presents research on advanced sensing for improved observability in manufacturing process monitoring, using polymer injection molding and sheet metal microrolling as two examples. The design, characterization, and realization of multivariate sensing and acoustic-based wireless data transmission techniques in RF-shielded environment are first introduced. Next, computational methods for solving an ill-posed problem in data reconstruction are described. The talk highlights the significance of advanced sensing and data analytics for advancing the science base and state-of-the-technology to fully realize the potential of intelligent manufacturing."
Title: Overview of Electrical Grounding Practices from Substation to Instrumentation
Speaker: Wayne Hochrein, MS PE
Company: WEH and Associates LLC
"Overview of grounding requirements for various applications including substation, residential, industrial, data centers and low voltage instrumentation. Including applicable sections of National Electric Code (NFPA 70) and the Standard for Installation of Lightning Protection, (NFPA 780). Review includes safety requirements and measurement techniques to determine a ‘good ground’.
Examples for electrical service grounding for residential buildings, commercial facilities including a data centers. Discussion of best practices for grounding related to control signals and instrumentation cabling. Shielding for ground loop and Electromagnetic Compliance (EMC) performance will be briefly discussed."
Title: Achieving Success via Multifactor Testing with Design of Experiments
Speaker: Shari Kraber
Company: Stat-Ease, Inc
"Multifactor tools for design of experiments (DOE) have accelerated technology developments for the better part of a century—first in agriculture and then in industry. DOE greatly surpasses one-factor-at-a-time (OFAT) experimentation for its parallel-processing efficiency and effectiveness for uncovering surprising interactions. Recent computational advances make DOE more powerful and easier than ever for engineers working on product and process development.
This briefing for IEEE begins by making the case for DOE versus OFAT via a compelling real-world success story. It then lays out a tried-and-true strategy of experimentation, with some fun case studies at each step along the way. Expect to come away with an appreciation for modern DOE tools. These statistical methods will greatly enhance the chances of success in your experiments, or those of your colleagues to whom you spread the word."
Title: How Your Online Content Can Propel Your Career
Speaker: Joanne Meehl, MS, IJCDC
Company: Joanne Meehl Career Services
If you’re familiar with SEO (search engine optimization) for websites, know that this model for finding information is applicable to highly-sought employees as well.
You'll be found online not only for new jobs but also for collaboration, for speaking gigs, and other career-building opportunities. While it’s great to be able to tell people you know that you know and use the latest technology, it’s considered career-smart to serve as an approachable expert.
This workshop will address where you can post articles and other content for the biggest impact, especially LinkedIn and industry-leading blogs; Google is your friend as you put this content out there. Joanne will show examples.
What to post? How-to’s, checklists, tips, and guides are sought after. And there are reflection and similar, more philosophical takes on your industry, as well. Joanne will show examples.
Go beyond your LinkedIn profile, your resume and similar traditional tools and learn how to use today’s technology so that you are seen as the expert that people want to talk with -- and want to hire.
Title: Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR): Introduction and Recent Advancements
Speaker: Tim Rausch Ph.D.
Company: Seagate
Title: Industrial Internet of Things (IOT)
Speaker: Wendy Folsien
Company: Honeywell
In the domain of manufacturing, competitive advantage has historically been gained by installing better physical machinery and systems to locally control those machines. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) gathers the information generated by these systems of physical assets, and tilts the competitive edge toward information rather than capital. Physical assets are governed by physical principles and we’ll discuss how understanding physics and chemistry ties in with developing analytics.
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"The Minnesota Board does not pre-approve courses and activities, however to the best of our knowledge this course/activity meets the continuing education requirements outlined in MN Statute 326.107. Final discretion is up to the Board.”
Minnesota PE License Continuing Eduction Credits Requirements