IEEE Meeting: An Introduction to RF Safety Testing + 5G NR Update
From the MTT-SBC and Tucson Section
6pm, Thursday March 13
Room ECE 530
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Building
University of Arizona
1230 E Speedway Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85719
This presentation will cover the basics of non-ionized radiation, national, and international testing standards and typical safety programs for facilities, plus a live demonstration of RF safety testing hardware
Gerard Spinelli, North American Manager, Narda Safety Test Solutions
Gerry is based in New York and has been with Narda Safety Test Solutions for 24 years. Narda is a leading provider of advanced measurement equipment and testing solutions for electromagnetic fields (EMF).
Gabe Alcala, Business Development Manager, ATEC
Gabe Alcala has been with ATEC for 18 years, specializing in RF & Microwave and EMC test and measurement. In his role at ATEC, a global provider of test and measurement equipment, Gabe is dedicated to educating customers and the broader industry on the essential principles of RF safety.
Tucson Section Meeting Notice:
IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer Carlos Cordeiro
An Overview of IEEE 802.11 and WiFi
Date: Wednesday February 5, 2025, 6PM
Location: ECE 530, Electrical and Computer Engineering Bldg, U of A
Abstract: Wi-Fi, a cornerstone of global wireless connectivity, is estimated to handle 50% to 80% of the world’s Internet traffic. Its foundation is the IEEE 802.11 standard, developed by the IEEE 802.11 working group through a series of amendments. These amendments address a broad spectrum of advancements, including new physical layers, medium access protocols, security, privacy, and wireless location technologies. In this talk, we will delve into the history of IEEE 802.11, focusing on the key amendments that have driven the evolution of Wi-Fi through its various generations (Wi-Fi 4, 5, 6, and 7). We will also examine ongoing IEEE 802.11 projects that are expected to shape the future of Wi-Fi. Finally, we will provide a technical overview of Wi-Fi 7, the latest generation, which delivers remarkable peak data rates exceeding 30 Gbps to meet the growing demand for high-speed connectivity.
Bio: Dr. Carlos Cordeiro is an Intel Fellow and serves as the wireless CTO in Intel’s client computing group. Carlos leads Intel’s global wireless connectivity standards and ecosystem team and is responsible for defining Intel’s next generation wireless connectivity technology strategy, ecosystem engagements, and regulatory planning. Carlos has had a leading role in the technology development, standardization and productization of various generations of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, having developed major technology innovations that are found in billions of wireless devices. He is an IEEE Fellow and serves as the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Wi-Fi Alliance, the organization that defines Wi-Fi.
Due to his contributions to wireless communications, Carlos received several awards including the Wireless Broadband Alliance’s prestigious CTO of the Year Award in 2022, the 2017 IEEE Standards Medallion, the Intel Inventor of the Year Award in 2016, the IEEE Outstanding Engineer Award in 2011, and the IEEE New Face of Engineering Award in 2007. He is the co-author of two textbooks on wireless published in 2006 and 2011, has published over 130 papers in the wireless area alone, and holds over 450 patents. He is the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Communications Standards Magazine and has served as Editor of various journals including the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Wireless Communication Letters and the ACM Mobile Computing and Communications
Upcoming meeting notice for Tucson IEEE members:
Date: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024, 6:00 PM MT, Location: ECE ROOM 530,
“100-300 GHz Wireless: Transistors, ICs, Systems”, Dr. Mark Rodwell, University of California, Santa Barbara
rodwell@ece.ucsb.edu
Abstract:
We describe the opportunities, and the research challenges, presented in the development of 100-300GHz wireless communications and imaging systems. In such links, short wavelengths permit massive spatial multiplexing both for network nodes and point-point links, permitting aggregate transmission capacities approaching 1Tb/s. 100-300GHz radar imaging systems can provide thousands of image pixels and sub-degree angular resolution from small apertures, supporting foul-weather driving and aviation. Challenges include the mm-wave IC designs, the physical design of the front-end modules, the complexity of the back-end digital beamformer required for spatial multiplexing, and, for imaging, the development of system architectures requiring far fewer RF channels than the number of image pixels. We will describe transistor development, IC design, and system design, and describe our efforts to develop 140GHz massive MIMO wireless hubs, and 210GHz and 280GHz MIMO backhaul links.
Biography:
Mark Rodwell holds the Doluca Family Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSB and directs the SRC/DARPA Center for Converged TeraHertz Communications and Sensing. His research group develops nm and THz transistors, and high-frequency integrated circuits and systems. Prof. Rodwell received the 2010 IEEE Sarnoff Award, the 2012 Marconi Prize Paper Award, the 1997 IEEE Microwave Prize, the 2009 IEEE IPRM Conference Award, and the 1998 European Microwave Conference Microwave Prize.
Engineers Week 2024 will run from February 18 to 24. This year’s theme — Welcome to the Future! — is about celebrating today’s achievements and paving the way for a brighter and more diverse future in engineering. IEEE Engineers week 2024
The University of Arizona IEEE MTT-S Branch will be presenting a talk on
Extreme Field Control with Electromagnetic Metasurfaces
Professor Anthony Grbic
Dept. of EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
https://mtt.org/profile/anthony-grbic/
September 28th, 2023 at 6:00PM in ECE 530
Extreme Field Control with Electromagnetic Metasurfaces
The research area of metamaterials has captured the imagination of scientists and engineers over the past two decades by allowing unprecedented control of electromagnetic fields. The extreme manipulation of fields has been made possible by the fine spatial control and wide range of material properties that can be attained through subwavelength structuring. Research in this area has resulted in devices which overcome the diffraction limit, render objects invisible, and even break time reversal symmetry. It has also led to flattened and conformal optical systems and ultra-thin antennas. This seminar will identify recent advances in the growing area of metamaterials, with a focus on metasurfaces: two dimensional metamaterials. The talk will explain what they are, the promise they hold, and how these field-transforming surfaces are forcing the rethinking of electromagnetic/optical design.
Electromagnetic metasurfaces are finely patterned surfaces whose intricate patterns/textures dictate their electromagnetic properties. Conventional field-shaping devices, such as lenses in prescription eye glasses or a magnifying glass, require thickness (propagation length) to manipulate electromagnetic waves through interference. In contrast, metasurfaces manipulate electromagnetic waves across negligible thicknesses through surface interactions, by impressing abrupt phase and amplitude discontinuities onto a wavefront. The role of the visible (propagating) and invisible (evanescent) spectrum in establishing these discontinuities will be explained. In addition, it will be shown how metasurfaces allow the complete transformation of fields across a boundary, and how this unique property is driving a new generation of ultra-compact electromagnetic and optical devices with unparalleled field control. Metasurfaces will be described that exhibit various field tailoring capabilities including multiwavelength and multifunctional performances and extreme field shaping. In addition, metasurfaces with multi-input to multi-output capabilities will be presented that open new opportunities in adaptive and trainable designs.
Biography
Anthony Grbic received the B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1998, 2000, and 2005, respectively. In 2006, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, where he is currently a Professor. His research interests include engineered electromagnetic structures (metamaterials, metasurfaces, electromagnetic band-gap materials, frequency-selective surfaces), microwave circuits, antennas, plasmonics, wireless power transmission, and analytical electromagnetics/optics.
Anthony Grbic has made pioneering contributions to the theory and development of electromagnetic metamaterials and metasurfaces: finely textured, engineered electromagnetic structures/surfaces that offer unprecedented wavefront control. Dr. Grbic is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is currently an IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Distinguished Microwave Lecturer (2022-2025). He is also serving on the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Field Awards Committee and IEEE Fellow Selection Committee. From 2018 to 2021, he has served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board, International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena – Metamaterials. In addition, he has been Vice Chair of Technical Activities for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, Chapter IV (Trident), IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section, from Sept. 2007 – 2021. From July 2010 to July 2015, he was Associate Editor for the rapid publication journal IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. Prof Grbic was Technical Program Co-Chair in 2012 and Topic Co-Chair in 2016 and 2017 for the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting. Dr. Grbic was the recipient of AFOSR Young Investigator Award as well as NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award in 2008, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in January 2010. He also received an Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, a Henry Russel Award from the University of Michigan, and a Booker Fellowship from the United States National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science in 2011. He was the inaugural recipient of the Ernest and Bettine Kuh Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award in the Department of Electrical and Computer Science, University of Michigan in 2012. In 2018, Prof. Anthony Grbic received a 2018 University of Michigan Faculty Recognition Award for outstanding achievement in scholarly research, excellence as a teacher, advisor and mentor, and distinguished service to the institution and profession. In 2021, he was selected as 1 of 5 finalists worldwide for the A.F. Harvey Engineering Research Prize, for his pioneering contributions to field of electromagnetic metamaterials. The A.F. Harvey Prize is the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET’s) most valuable prize fund.
IEEE Electrical Safety Workshop 2024, March 4 – 8, El Conquistador Tucson – 10000 N. Oracle Rd Oro Valley AZ https://electricalsafetyworkshop.com/
The Phoenix IEEE EMC Chapter meeting to be held on Thursday, May 11th, 2023. Dr. Robert Johnk from NTIA, will be presenting “ HIGH-RESOLUTION TIME–DOMAIN SITE MEASUREMENTS USING ORDINARY EMC ANTENNAS”. Bob is one of the IEEE EMC Society’s distinguished lecturers and an expert in radio-channel propagation measurements. Please use this link to go straight to the registration page.
Thursday March 23rd, 2023, 6:00 PM, ECE 530, University of Arizona
“A Comparison of Terahertz Permittivity Measurements of Several Dielectric Materials Using Frequency and Time Domain Methods and their relation to System Reliability”
Dr. Jeff Seligman, Raytheon, jeffseligman@gmail.com
Abstract: Electronic systems have always depended on understanding and measuring material attributes. Modern systems across all sectors are now reaching the Terahertz bands. THz presents departures from traditional microwave design. Parameters such as dielectric response are beginning to span the historical gap between radio and optical. Determining, then exploiting these parameters for practical use is a challenging new field. Measurement techniques, test system instruments and configurations, Dr. Seligman’s actual results, and eventual applications for this near-experimental realm of new electronics forms the outline of this talk.
IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND PLEASE CONTACT JUDE COOMPSON at JCOOMPSON@ARIZONA.EDU FOR LIMITED ACCESS TO THE ZOOM RECORDING
Enjoy free food and drinks in Room #530, ECE building, University of Arizona.
Dear IEEE Reliability AZ Chapter Colleagues:
Please find below the Zoom link for the NASA Osiris Rex Mission presentation we are co-hosting tomorrow:
You may also access it vis W7SA.org, and clicking on Calendar for March 23.
Title: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx: The Journey So Far
Abstract:
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission team has passed many milestones in its long journey to study near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu; overcoming unforeseen obstacles including house-sized boulders in its path, pandemics, and concerns of sample loss after successful sample collection in October 2020. This presentation will focus on recent discoveries and results of the long-awaited Touch-and-Go-Sample Acquisition Maneuver (TAG event).
Important discoveries have been made all along. We learned how to navigate in a microgravity environment around the smallest Solar System object ever orbited, about ground-truth comparisons of distant astronomical observations and asteroid materials up close, dynamic particle ejections from Bennu’s surface, and new understanding of “rubble-pile” asteroid formation and history in the Solar System. The returned sample will reveal even more important details about its parent asteroid and organic materials important to life.
Short biographical:
Dolores Hill
Sr. Research Specialist, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
Since 1981 Dolores has analyzed a wide range of meteorites at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson, AZ, provided technical support, and participated in public outreach for space missions and LPL laboratories. Dolores currently works with sample teams for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, LPL laboratories, and coordinates LPL outreach activities. Dolores has a lifelong interest in amateur astronomy. Near-Earth asteroid (164215) Dolores Hill is named after her.
IEEE Members of the Tucson Section
The Tucson Section would love to do more for the members of the section. That would include putting on more meetings and doing volunteer work for our profession and the community. However, we can’t do that without your help and participation.
That said, we are always looking for volunteers who can help us manage the Tucson Section, find and set up meetings, and run other activities in the community.
As an example, we’re running a program to bring foldscopes to kids at one of the Tucson elementary schools. This low-cost, $2 microscope made of paper is a great way to give students a window into the microscopic world. To learn what Foldscopes are and how about the way they advance primary education, visit news.stanford.edu/2016/06/16/foldscope-microscopy-everyone/. To see more about the product and guidance for the Foldscope community, visit www.foldscope.com, the outlet for Foldscope Instruments, Inc.
As a volunteer or officer, we can do more with your help. Come join us!
If you have any questions, please contact us at TucsonIEEE@ieee.org and join us at one of our meetings.
Engineers Week 2022 on February 21st – 25th
The IEEE Tucson Section is looking for volunteers to be on committees for outreach to middle schools and high schools. We would also like some volunteers to serve on the meeting committee to bring in speakers. If you are interested please contact us at TucsonIEEE@ieee.org
IEEE Tucson has been providing Foldscopes to elementary and middle schools. https://www.foldscope.com/
Foldscope is the paper microscope that began as an idea to make science more accessible. Pictures to follow.
February 24, 2022
The IEEE EMC Phoenix Chapter is co-sponsoring a virtual event on February 24th. Zhong Chen, the Director of RF Engineering of ETS-Lindgren will present on “Time Domain SVSWR for Compliance Site Validation Measurements Based on ANSI C63.25.1-2018” and Bob DeLisi, Principal Engineer, at UL in Melville, NY will present on “Update on Unlicensed and Licensed Wireless Device Standards ANSI C63.10-2020 and Draft C63.26” The Technical Program, speaker Biographies and meeting registration information are included in the attached announcement and here: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/304408 As always, please let us know if you have any questions about the registration, or if you might know of an interesting speaker for an upcoming presentation. We are closely monitoring the Arizona COVID case numbers and are looking forward to a time when we can all meet in person again!
IEEE Day 2021 is on the 5th of October!
IEEE Day is celebrating the first time in history when engineers worldwide and IEEE members gathered to share their technical ideas in 1884. One of the IEEE Day’s objectives is to show the ways thousands of IEEE members in local communities join together to collaborate on ideas that leverage technology for a better tomorrow. We celebrate IEEE members!
SAN DIEGO COMSOC/BTS VIRTUAL DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: SECURITY IN SDN/NFV AND 5G NETWORKS
Date: 20 Jul 2020 Time: 05:00 PM to 06:15 PM
Title: Security in SDN/NFV and 5G Networks-Opportunities and ChallengesBy Dr. Ashutosh Dutta, JHU/APLAbstract: Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are the key pillars of future networks, including 5G and beyond that promise to support emerging applications such as enhanced mobile broadband, ultra-low latency, massive sensing type applications while providing the resiliency in the network. Service providers and other verticals (e.g., Connected Cars, IOT, eHealth) can leverage SDN/NFV to provide flexible and cost-effective service without compromising the end user quality of service (QoS). While NFV and SDN open up the door for flexible networks and rapid service creation, these also offer both security opportunities while also introducing additional challenges and complexities, in some cases. With the rapid proliferation of 4G and 5G networks, operators have now started the trial deployment of network function virtualization, especially with the introduction of various virtualized network elements in the access and core networks. While several standardization bodies (e.g., ETSI, 3GPP, NGMN, ATIS, IEEE) have started looking into the many security issues introduced by SDN/NFV, additional work is needed with larger security community including vendors, operators, universities, and regulators. This talk will address evolution of cellular technologies towards 5G but will largely focus on various security challenges and opportunities introduced by SDN/NFV and 5G networks such as Hypervisor, Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), SDN controller, orchestrator, network slicing, cloud RAN, edge cloud, and security function virtualization. This talk will also highlight some of the ongoing activities within various standards communities and will illustrate a few deployment use case scenarios for security including threat taxonomy for both operator and enterprise networks.During the latter part of the talk I will give an overview IEEE 5G and Beyond Initiative, various ongoing activities of several roadmap working groups and entail procedures to get involved in this initiative.Bio: Ashutosh Dutta is currently Senior Wireless Communication Systems Research Scientist and JHU/APL Sabbatical Fellow at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labs (JHU/APL), USA. He also serves as Chair for Electrical and Computer Engineering for Engineering Professional Program at JHU. His career, spanning more than 30 years, includes Director of Technology Security and Lead Member of Technical Staff at AT&T, CTO of Wireless at a Cybersecurity company NIKSUN, Inc., Senior Scientist in Telcordia Research, Director of Central Research Facility at Columbia University, adjunct faculty at NJIT, JHU, and Computer Engineer with TATA Motors. Ashutosh serves as IEEE Communications Society’s Distinguished Lecturer for 2017-2020 , ComSoc’s Member-At-Large, and distinguished Speaker for ACM.He is the founding co-chair for IEEE 5G initiative. He has more than 90 conference and journal publications, three book chapters, and 31 issued patents. Ashutosh is co-author of the book, titled, “Mobility Protocols and Handover Optimization: Design, Evaluation and Application” published by IEEE and John & Wiley. Ashutosh obtained his BS in Electrical Engineering from NIT Rourkela, India, MS in Computer Science from NJIT, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University under the supervision of Prof. Henning Schulzrinne. Ashutosh is a Fellow of IEEE and Senior member ACM.Space is limited, please register by July 19.
IEEE Communication San Diego Section/Comm/BTS Joint chapters virtual meeting. Supported by IEEE Region 6 Communication Society. June 18, 2020 5:00 pm –6:15 pm
Space is limited, please register now. https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/232681.Title: Leveraging Economics In Wireless Multimedia Communications: From Game Theory to Machine LearningBy Prof. Wei Wang, SDSU This talk conceptualizes a new framework named Smart Media Pricing (SMP), to price the QoE rather than the binary data traffic in wireless multimedia communication services. The investigators try to establish a new dimension of price-distortion in wireless multimedia communication resource allocation, complementing traditional rate-distortion and power-distortion resource allocation approaches. The first part of this talk will chalk up a game- theoretic solution as a two-stage Stackelberg game and derive the Nash Equilibrium using a backward induction method. The second part of this talk will explore a machine learning solution leveraging economic theories and computation intelligence. The future ultimate goal is to identify possible harmonious interplay between three entities in wireless networks: Content Provider (CP), Wireless Carrier (WC), and User Equipment (UE).
IEEE EMC Chapter Meeting
We would like to invite you to join an upcoming event sponsored by the EMC Society Chapters in Chicago and Los Angeles. The topic of this event is “Advances in Automotive Performance Verification Testing for 5G and EMC Applications, the Latest Information on New Automotive Capabilities Impacting the Future of the Automotive Industry. It will be held on June 10th at 4PM MST/PDT. You can sign up for the event here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4481926461252989712
IEEE EMC Society Webinar
IEEE EMC Society held their second of several webinar series on May 4 2020, Susceptibility Testing Using Reverberation Chambers on May 4th at 8 AM MST. The talks were recorded and available to view on demand through the EMCS website (www.emcs.org).
Vinton Cerf University of Arizona day long summit on the history and future of the Internet:
Know what all this – yes, this website visit and most every smartphone connection you make – depends on? Last February 2nd, IEEE Tucson Section and three other organizers brought Vinton Cerf to the University of Arizona for a day-long Summit on the history and future of the Internet. Dr. Cerf co-architected reliable packet transport, TCP/IP, the 1973 protocol that still underlies most everything in the digital connection universe. A visionary who co-founded the Internet Society in 1992 among many other roles across five decades, lately with Google, Cerf delivered informal talks and a keynote symposium to a packed house at UA’s Health Sciences Innovation center. Angie Casarez, our Section Vice Chair, was a principal developer of the event, attended by many local members. The Whatnxt? collaboration that includes our Section is seeking out another innovator-mover-shaker for 2021. And that next technology? Stay tuned!
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