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Pittsburgh Section

Bulletin May 2017 Volume 66, No. 5

Included in this issue:

Notes From the Chair .............................................................................................................................. 2

IEEE Pittsburgh Section Annual History and Awards Dinner ....................................................... 3

EMC - Electromagnetic Environmental Effects in the Military..................................................... 4

Maximize Your Technology – Go Global ! ............................................................................................. 6

Protecting Renewable Energy Based Microgrids ............................................................................... 7

IEEE Pittsburgh Section Baseball Outing with Tailgate Party ..................................................... 8

2017 PES Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award Announcement .................................................. 9

New Members Welcomed to the Pittsburgh Section .................................................................... 11

Call For Papers For IEEE Nano 2017 ................................................................................................. 12

Pitt Student Activities.......................................................................................................................... 13

Editor: Philip Cox, [email protected]; Contributors: Brandon Grainger, Drew Lowery, Mike Oliver, Kal

Sen, Ralph Sprang, Zoe Toigo and Dave Vaglia

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

mailto:[email protected]

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Notes From the Chair

As we do every May, the IEEE Pittsburgh Section will host

its annual History and Awards Dinner. This year, that will be

in the University Club at the University of Pittsburgh. As the

Institute celebrates its continued successes, it is appropriate

the Pittsburgh Section review its heritage. Unfortunately,

engineers are too busy developing the products and service

needed to advance the quality of life to record much of their

work. There are some records that provide fascinating

insight into the lives of our preceding engineers that have

been archived by the Engineering and Technology History

program for which IEEE is a supporting member. I would

like to share some of those records.

The Section was organized October 13, 1902, with Mr. P. M.

Lincoln as the Chairman. He later became National President

of what was then called the American Institute of Electrical

Engineers. The only section to precede Pittsburgh was one in

Minnesota, which was organized six months earlier. The first

Section technical meeting, attended by approximately 100,

was on December 4, 1902, in the Westinghouse Club room

in Wilkinsburg, PA.

When the Institute was first organized, it did not include a

section organization. It was through the effort of Dr. Charles

F. Scott, the National President and a member of the

Pittsburgh Section, that the Section plan was adopted by the

Institute.

The Pittsburgh area is lucky enough to have multiple student

members and student branches. Those are also part of our

honored heritage. The first student branches were established

at:

Pennsylvania State College on December 20, 1902.

University of Pittsburgh on February 26, 1914

West Virginia University on November 13, 1914

Carnegie Institute of Technology on May 18, 1915.

In the early 1900’s, it was appropriate that an Institute

Section should be organized in Pittsburgh. The City was the

focus of electrical engineering. Many manufacturing

companies were based in the area with their large cadre of

engineering talent. It is with the same spirit that we continue

to celebrate our strong history of electrical engineering

professionals at our annual dinner by identifying a local

Engineer of the Year, newly elevated IEEE Fellows, and

newly elevated Life Members, along with those who

continue to contribute to the success of the Section.

Drew Lowery

2017 IEEE Pittsburgh Section Chair

Section

Chair - Dr. Drew Lowery, [email protected]

Vice Chair -- Dan Wilson, [email protected]

Treasurer – Gene Kern, [email protected] Asst. Treasurer – Ted Zyra

Secretary - Navid Binesh, [email protected]

Immediate Past Chair – Jim Lagree, [email protected]

Special Events Chair – Dr. Kal Sen, [email protected]

Webmaster – Gerry Kumnik, [email protected]

UpperMon Subsection

Chair: Dr. Gianfranco Doretto, [email protected]

Chapters

Communications Society – Chair: Dr. Balaji Palanisamy, [email protected]; Sec: Phil Cox, [email protected]

Computer Society – Chair: Dr. Ralph Sprang, [email protected]

Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology/Electron Devices Societies – Chair: Dr. Louis Hart, [email protected]

Engineering In Medicine & Biology Society Chair: Steve Mozelewski, [email protected]

Electromagnetic Compatibility Society Chair: Michael J. Oliver [email protected] (814) 763-3211

Power Electronics Society – Chair: Dr. Brandon Grainger [email protected]

Power & Energy & Industry Applications Societies Chair: Steve Dobos, [email protected]; Vice-Chair: Julie Clark; Treas.: Dave Vaglia, [email protected]

Magnetics Society – Chair: Vincent Sokalsky, [email protected]

Nanotechnology Society - Chair: open

Robotics Society – Chair: Gene Kern, [email protected]

Signal Processing Society – Chair: Nicholas.O’Donoughue [email protected]

Society on Social Implications of Technology Chair: Joe Kalasky, P.E., [email protected] 724-244-1609

Council of Electronic Design Automation Chair: Baris Taskin, [email protected]

Affinity Groups

Young Professionals (formerly GOLD) – Chair: Matthew Rehder [email protected]

Women In Engineering – Chair: Paige Kassalen, [email protected]

Committees

Professional/Career Activities (PACE) Chair: Joe Cioletti, P.E. [email protected]

Student Activities – Dr. Irvin Jones, [email protected]; student reps: Chair: Brandon Contino [email protected], Vice-chairs: Will Howard, [email protected]; Zoe Toigo, [email protected]

Membership Development – Steve Mozelewski, [email protected]

Publicity – Chair: Thomas Dionise, P.E. [email protected] (724) 779-5864

































IEEE Pittsburgh Section Annual History and Awards Dinner

Date: Friday, May 5, 2017

Time: 5:30 PM: Arrival

6:00 PM: Dinner and Awards Presentations

7:00 PM: Keynote speech

Speaker: Paige Kassalen

Title: Market Analyst for the Future of Mobility for Covestro, LLC

Place: The University Club, University of Pittsburgh

123 University Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.

Phone: 412-648-8213

Cost: $30 per member; $50 member plus guest (Cash Bar is available)

RSVP: LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER: Send your check by April 28, 2017. Seating is

limited to 40 people. Please send your check, payable to “IEEE Pittsburgh Section,” to Mey Sen, 126

Pauline Dr., Monroeville, PA 15146. Please provide the name of your guest, if any. Send an email

immediately to Mey at [email protected].

Organizer: IEEE Pittsburgh Section.

Traveling around the world with a solar-powered airplane

Abstract: Swiss pilots and explorers, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, set out and accomplished

something that still seems impossible today: the First Round-The-World Solar Flight, powered only by

the sun, with no fuel or polluting emissions. Together they created Solar Impulse 2: an airplane able to

fly day and night with the potential of completing their mission.



In March of 2015, the team began the monumental journey in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. They traveled across

Asia and reached Hawaii, breaking a record for the longest solo solar flight ever achieved in aviation

history. The project was halted in Hawaii after problems arose from overheating of the batteries.

While the team was stationed in Hawaii, Paige Kassalen, Pittsburgh native, was selected for a temporary

assignment representing her company, Covestro, on the Solar Impulse ground crew. She joined the

team’s ground crew in February of 2016 as the only American, only female engineer, and youngest

member. In this role, she traveled with the world’s first solar-powered airplane (Solar Impulse 2) as it

completed its historic flight around the globe.

Her experience with Solar Impulse not only gave her the opportunity to apply her electrical engineering

background in a new and exciting way, but it also marked the beginning of Kassalen’s role as a

spokesperson for young students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).

As the youngest and only female engineer and American on the ground crew of the first solar plane to

circumnavigate the world without fuel, Paige has already redefined gender barriers in engineering at the

age of 23. Her story was showcased around the country profiling her passionate work as a female in

STEM including Forbes, Glamour and The Huffington Post. Most recently, she was selected to be a part

of the exclusive Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the energy sector.

EMC - Electromagnetic Environmental Effects in the Military

Date: Thursday, May 11, 2017

Time: Dinner 6:30 PM, Presentation starts at 7:00 PM

Location: Westinghouse Electric Company Headquarters, Cranberry Township, PA

Attendance/Cost: Free to IEEE members and guests.

Guest Presenter: Mr. Kris Hatashita

Abstract: Military electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) is a matter of life and death as modern war-

fighters rely on the safe, secure and reliable functioning of their devices. Military EMC includes aspects

of electronic interoperability that are seldom or never

considered in the commercial realm. This talk presents

technical details of EMC consideration in tactical and strategic

military operations. The topics discussed include hazards of

electromagnetic radiation to ordnance (HERO), electromagnetic

data security (EMSEC), counter improvised explosive device

(CIED) EMC issues and includes first-hand experiences of work

done in the Afghan theatre.

Biography: Kris Hatashita has a Bachelor of Science in

Physics and has been an EMC professional for thirty years

working for industry and government organizations as an EMC

subject matter expert. His list of clients includes General

Dynamics Canada, The Royal Canadian Mounted Police,


Lockheed Martin Canada, The Canadian Parliament and The Communication Security Establishment

Canada.

Kris is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, a Lecturer at the Canadian Forces School of Communication

and at the Electronics at the Royal Military College in Kingston. He is also a consultant to the Canadian

Department of National Defense for the Army Communications Group. Kris was on the EMCS Board

of Directors from 2014-2015 and was the General Chairman of the 2016 EMC Symposium in Ottawa.

While working for Garrett Aerospace, Kris was selected to undergo training through CSE in the joint

Canada-US Industrial TEMPEST Program. Kris is a Certified TEMPEST Professional – Level II by the

United States National Security Agency.

RSVP: Sign up is required in advance (May 8th deadline) to allow security to register members and

guests. To register go to the calendar tab at our website

(https://webinabox.vtools.ieee.org/wibp_calendar/index/CH02085) or the Pittsburgh Section’s website

to signup: https://webinabox.vtools.ieee.org/wibp_calendar/index/R20037

Questions? Contact Mike Oliver ([email protected]) or Dave Vaglia ([email protected])

Professional Development Hours: If you would like to receive PDHs, please bring a copy of this

announcement for verification of your attendance. A non-Member who would like to receive PDHs is

required to pay $10 to IEEE Pittsburgh Section. A Member who would like to receive PDHs is required

to show current membership ID.

Directions to Westinghouse Headquarters Cranberry Woods

Directions from the South: Take 79 North to the route 228 east exit. Stay in right lane and drive by Marriott

Hotel (on right). Turn right into Cranberry Woods facility and stay in left lane. Make first left into

Westinghouse Headquarters and drive straight through roundabout. Park in visitors parking places that are

located on either side of the entry road.

Directions from the East: Take the PA Turnpike (I-76) West following signs for Ohio / I-76 W. Take Exit

28 and follow I-79 N toward Erie. Stay in the entrance lane (right lane) and immediately take Exit 78, PA-

228 Cranberry/Mars. Turn right onto PA-228 E toward Mars. Turn right onto Cranberry Woods Drive. Take

immediate left at Westinghouse sign and drive straight through roundabout. Park in visitors parking places

that are located on either side of the entry road.

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Maximize Your Technology – Go Global !

Speaker: Jon Woodard, Registered Patent Attorney

Founder Woodard International Law

Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Time: 6:15 PM Presentation (dinner provided for registrants) 7:45 PM Adjourn

Place: Cranberry Township, PA

Organizer: Computer Society

RSVP: Required at http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/44028 by May 17, 2017.

Select dinner choice from menu and indicate in “special requests” section if you are a

Computer Society member. IEEE members must enter their membership number.

Abstract: One of the biggest myths about developing new inventions is that international technology

protection is prohibitively expensive and enforcement more difficult or impossible in foreign

jurisdictions. Did you know that most often, exactly the opposite is true?

This presentation will focus on the increasingly affordable and available systems and opportunities for

securing patents, industrial designs, utility models, and other types of Intellectual Property and for

enforcing those rights in the international arena. The presentation will further explore the highly

effective, available, and most importantly cost saving strategies and techniques that nearly all inventors

and businesses can easily take advantage of to help bring their innovations to the international

marketplace.

Speaker: Jon Woodard is a Registered Patent Attorney and the founder of Woodard International Law

(a.k.a. WINTLAW), a business and Intellectual Property (IP) law firm with offices in Erie, PA and

Cincinnati, OH. Mr. Woodard has more than 16 years of experience in domestic and international IP and

business law, including extensive experience practicing under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and

Paris Convention Systems for transnational technology prosecution. Mr. Woodard is a Past Chairman of

ASM’s Northwest Pennsylvania Chapter and is a current member of that Chapter’s Executive

Committee.

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Protecting Renewable Energy Based Microgrids

Speaker: Hashim Al Hassan

Title: PhD Researcher, University of Pittsburgh

Date: Thursday, May 25th, 2017

Time: Refreshments - 6:30 PM; Presentation- 7:00 PM

Place: University of Pittsburgh – Swanson School of Engineering

Benedum Engineering Hall – Room 102

3700 O’Hara Street

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261

RSVP: Required at https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/45143 by May 23rd, 2017. If you are an

IEEE member, you must enter your membership number. If you would like to receive PDH, please

bring a copy of this announcement for verification of your attendance and your membership

identification card. A non-member who would like to receive PDH is required to pay $10 to “IEEE

Pittsburgh Section.”

Organizer: Power Electronics Society (PELS)

Abstract: The deployment of large amounts of renewable energy is expected in the future due to the

increased energy demand, diminishing fossil fuel, and global warming. The traditional electrical grid

may not be able to handle large amounts of renewable energy resources. Hence, a different grid

architecture called the “microgrid” has been proposed by electrical engineers. The microgrid concept

was proposed as a way to facilitate renewable energy integration, increase grid reliability and security,

provide better protection, operation and control.

However, microgrids have their own protection challenges that need to be resolved in order to fully

utilize their projected benefits. One of these challenges is that traditional protection methods, such as

overcurrent protection, cannot be used mainly because of low fault currents, bi-directionality of power

flow, and IEEE1547 requirements. Therefore, fault current and voltage magnitudes cannot be used

alone as the protective indicators as they may cause breaker mis-operation or slow tripping times.

Hence, two novel methods, which are developed to protect different configurations, will be presented in

this seminar.

Speaker: Hashim Al Hassan is currently pursuing his PhD degree in electrical

engineering at the University of Pittsburgh and expected to finish at the end of

the year. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a bachelor of

science in electrical engineering, a concentration in power systems, and a minor

in mathematics in 2010. He also graduated from the University of Pittsburgh

with a Master’s degree in electrical engineering in 2014 with a research focus

on HVDC fault protection. Hashim was awarded full scholarships for the

Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. degrees. His work experience included ANSYS

Inc. where he worked as a co-op testing engineer for two rotations and Eaton

Corp. where he worked as a research and development intern for a full summer.

His research work resulted in multiple publications and a patent (pending). His

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research interest includes power system protection and control, HVDC, renewable energy integration,

and microgrids. He is currently working on developing protection solutions and post-fault control

techniques for microgrids. Hashim served as the representative for the graduate student body in the

Tenure and Academic Freedom Committee of University Senate at Pitt during the year 2014-2015. He

actively volunteers at local conferences and science events such as IEEE ECCE, intel ISEF, and

Pittsburgh Regional Science & Engineering fair. He is also a student member of IEEE and the IEEE

Power and Energy Society since 2012.

DIRECTIONS TO SWANSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Official Address: 3700 O'Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15261

Parking: Consider parking in either O’Hara Parking garage (across the street from Benedum Hall) or

Soldiers and Sailors parking garage. Street parking is also free after 6pm if available.

IEEE Pittsburgh Section Baseball Outing with Tailgate Party

Date: Friday, August 04, 2017

Time: 4:00 PM: Arrival

5:30 PM: Dinner

7:05 PM: Game – Reds at Pirates (Free Pirates hat and postgame FanJam concert)

Place: The PNC Park – Parking Lot (upper left-hand corner of Gold Lot 1A)

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Phone: 412-596-2690

Cost: $25 per ticket (no charge for Food)

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RSVP: Required by June 15, 2017. Seating at $25 price is limited to 50 people. After June 15,

please rsvp for food, but purchase your own ticket at dynamic pricing and separate seating from the

IEEE group. Please send your check, payable to “IEEE Pittsburgh Section,” to Mey Sen, 126 Pauline

Dr., Monroeville, PA 15146. Please provide the name(s) of your guest(s), if any. For any question,

please write to Matt Rehder at [email protected].

Organizers: IEEE Pittsburgh Section Women In Engineering & Young Professionals.

2017 PES Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award Announcement

Thomas J. Dionise, P.E. Advisory Engineer, Eaton Corporation

Has been awarded the 2017 Pittsburgh PES Chapter’s Outstanding Engineer

Award

Mr. Thomas Dionise was selected this year to receive the 2017 Pittsburgh PES Chapter Outstanding

Engineer Award. Mr. Dionise’s contributions to the IEEE and the Power & Energy Society along with

his contributions to the Pittsburgh Section will be recognized at the annual History and Awards Dinner

on May 5th where he will be our honored guest. We thank Mr. Dionise and acknowledge him for his

outstanding professionalism in all aspects of his work and contributions to the IEEE community.

Below is a short summary of Mr. Dionise’s background and accomplishments. For a more complete

story of Tom’s achievements visit our website at: http://sites.ieee.org/pittsburgh-pesias/

Thomas J. Dionise, (IEEE S ’79, M ’82, SM ’87) is a Power Quality Advisory Engineer with Eaton

Corporation in the Power System Engineering Department. He has over 34 years of power system

experience involving analytical studies and power quality investigations of industrial and commercial

power systems. In the metals industry, he has specialized in power quality investigations, harmonic


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analysis and harmonic filter design for electric arc furnaces, rectifiers and VFD applications. He is an

instructor for Eaton’s Power Quality Monitoring Class and Harmonic Analysis Class. He is a Senior

Member of the IEEE, Chair of the Metal Industry Committee, and member of the Generator Grounding

Working Group. He has co-authored 37 technical papers on various power quality topics, including a

paper on harmonic filter design for an electric arc furnace that received the 2011 IEEE Transactions on

Industry Applications 2nd Place Prize Paper Award, and another on issues that affect data center

reliability that received the 2014 IEEE Industry Applications Magazine 2nd Place Prize Paper Award.

Tom has served in local IEEE positions, and had an active role in the committee that planned the IAS

2002 Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in PA, and received a

MSEE from Carnegie Mellon University in 1984 and a BSEE from Pennsylvania State University 1982.

Professional Affiliations

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Power Engineering Society

Industry Applications Society

IAS Metal Industry Committee

Chairman

IAS Generator Grounding Working

Group

Pittsburgh Section Past Chairman

Point Park University

Industry Advisory Board for Electrical

Engineering

Association for Iron & Steel Technology

Electrical Applications Committee

Registered Professional Engineer, PA

Mr. Dionise’s Service to IEEE

IEEE PES Pittsburgh Chapter (1982 - 1995) Chair 1989/90, and various officer & committee positions.

IEEE Pittsburgh Section (1989 - present) Chair 1996/97, various officer, director & committee positions.

IEEE Robot Car Race and Engineers Week (1993 – present) In 1993 Tom was one of the founders of the

IEEE Pittsburgh Section’s Robot Car Race held annually at the Carnegie Science Center during

Engineer’s Week for 8th graders, has participated in the event every year since the inception, and for the

past 6 years has been the Chair of the event. Since 1994, Tom has annually organized the IEEE

Pittsburgh Section demonstration table for Engineer's Week at the Carnegie Science Center. Tom has

engaged the support of dozens of IEEE volunteers and facilitated their working together to conduct these

events each year. Both events are fun and effective ways for the IEEE members to communicate to our

youth that electrical engineering can be both enjoyable and challenging, and interest future engineers.

Pittsburgh Regional Science and Engineering Fair (late 1990s to present) – Annually, Tom has

organized a team of 3 – 5 judges from the local IEEE membership to evaluate projects by students

ranging from 6th to 12th grade and select two IEEE Sponsor Awards as well as many honorable

mentions to help build interest in science and engineering, and to encourage students to continue to

participate in future science fairs.

Intel ISEF Lead Judge (2012 and 2015) Based on past involvement with the PRSEF, IEEE selected and

sponsored Tom to serve as lead judge for the IEEE President’s Award a $10,000 scholarship at the 2012

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and 2015 Intel International Science & Engineering Fair when held in Pittsburgh, PA. For both events,

Tom organized a team of 8 to 10 judges to evaluate the projects, interview the students and select the

recipient of the IEEE President’s Award. (Intel ISEF is the world's largest international pre-college

science competition, providing an annual forum for approximately 1,700 high school students from

more than 70 countries, regions, and territories to showcase their independent research).

IAS Metal Industry Committee (2002 – present) – As Chair, his vision for the committee for the future

has been one of growth. Under his leadership the committee has taken several initiatives to grow: 1)

expanded membership beyond North America by inviting and encouraging participation of IEEE

members from the worldwide metals community including South America, Europe, Middle East and

Asia, 2) sponsored a focus session on work place safety and arc flash hazards as they relate to the metals

industry, 3) reached-out to the AIST Electrical Equipment Committee to explore possible collaboration

through joint meetings and topics of common interest, 4) developing and sponsoring future focus

sessions on other subjects of common interest to the IAS.

Service to the engineering profession outside IEEE

(1995 – present) Point Park University Industry Advisory (IAB) Board for Electrical Engineering. Tom

helped the Chair of the Electrical Engineering Technology Department establish an IEEE Student

Chapter over 25 years ago. Since then, Tom has served on the IAB, participated in several ABET

accreditations, advised on curriculum enhancements, and recently advised on the transition from

offering a BSET degree program to a BSEE degree program.

Recognition through other honors

2010 Eaton Power Systems Engineering Department’s Engineer of the Year Award

2011 IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications 2nd Place Prize Paper Award

2014 IEEE Industry Applications Magazine 2nd Place Prize Paper Award

2014 IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications Prize Paper Award (working group paper)

2016 IEEE PCIC Honorable Mention Paper Award

New Members Welcomed to the Pittsburgh Section

Within the last month, the following members joined the IEEE Pittsburgh section

Member Elias Fallon

Jon Urso

Yanfang Ye

stephen m zelenko

Student Member Craig Brust

Ahmed Al Dahi

Andrew Thomas DiFurio

Alex Glyde

Michael Pierre Hermeanult

Joshua W Hyman

Andrew Saba

Brian Shetter

Christopher Anthony Sproull

Daniel Tiegs

Corey Steven Weimann

Graduate Student Member

Chiyu Dong

John Erickson

Shaolong Liu

Gines Hidalgo Martinez

Preethi Josephina Mudialba

Nandi Zhang


Call For Papers For IEEE Nano 2017


Pitt Student Activities

Pitt RAS Micromouse Team Attends IEEE APEC Conference

In March, Pitt RAS attended the national IEEE APEC conference this year for its international

Micromouse Competition. Ryan Matthews, Xavier Torgerson, Andrew DiFurio, and Michael

Hermenault went down to Tampa Florida to represent their team. The RAS micromouse team had their

sights set on APEC competition after placing first by a large margin at last year’s regional Student

Activities Conference. In their first year attending APEC, the team’s bot was able to successfully

navigate the maze. With new insights gained by attending this year, the team plans to return next year

with a newer, better bot.

Pitt IEEE's Arduino Day Recap

Arduino Day is an international event inviting people to share projects, stories and get involved with

electronics. This year, 499 events were hosted in 78 different countries. On April 1st, the University of

Pittsburgh IEEE Student Branch partnered with Pittsburgh TechShop to host an Arduino workshop as

part of this worldwide celebration. First, students were taught basic electronics skills to familiarize them

with the microcontroller. The second half consisted of an innovation lab to prototype a product using the

concepts they had learned.

Report from the 2017 Student Activities Conference

Fifteen students from the University of Pittsburgh attended the annual IEEE Region 2 Student Activities

Conference from April 7th - 9th at Rowan University. Competing against 27 schools from the mid-

Atlantic region, Pitt students placed in three competitions.

1st Place in Paper Competition - Kendra Farrell wrote and presented a technical paper titled "The

James Webb Telescope and Its Search through Time."

1st Place in Micromouse - Ryan Matthews, Andrew Saba, Alex Glyde, and Michael Hermenault

from the Pitt Robotics and Automation Society designed an autonomous robot that solved an 8

m^2 maze in the shortest amount of time.

3rd Place in Brown Bag Circuit - Given a set of components, the team successfully completed

five circuit design challenges involving voltage dividers, clock signals, inverters, and XOR

gates. Team members were Brandon Contino, Jenna Delozier, and Demetri Khoury.


2017 Calendar – Meetings of IEEE Pittsburgh Section Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July August Sept Oct Nov Dec

Executive

Committee

(AdCom)

19

U Pitt

Oakland

16

Panera

Robinson

16

Panera

Galleria

20

Panera

Wexford

18

Panera Bread

Robinson

TBD 19

Panera Bread

Oakland

TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD

Section 25 Engineers

Week

5 History

Dinner

4 Pirates

Baseball

Communic

ations

1 Spectrum

Sensing

7 Privacy

Protection

Computer 7

Int’l Patents

23

Int’l Patents

EMBS 21

Edible

Electronics

EMCS 11 Military EMC

Power

Electronics

18

Power Source

Buffer

20

VSC-HVDC

20

EMC

25

Control Tech.

25

Microgrids

PES/IAS 9

Chernobyl

Magnetics

Robotics

Sig.

Processing

CPMT/ED 25

Scientific Validity

Social Impl

Technology

Upper Mon 13 Resources

20

Publishing

20 NSF

3 Sample Robot

24

Neuroscience

Women in

Eng’ing

18 Dream Big

4 Pirates

Baseball

Life Mem.

Young Pros 4

Pirates

Baseball

PACE 13

Solar City

Student Act

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