e-Newsletter: September 2023

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Join the IEEE Vancouver Section in its celebration of IEEE Day – October 3, 2023

Every year, on the first Tuesday of October, members and friends of the Vancouver Section gather to celebrate the founding of the IEEE and everything it represents. IEEE Day is an opportunity to reflect on the contributions of past volunteers and look ahead to the future of the IEEE. IEEE Day celebrates the first time in history when engineers worldwide gathered to share their technical ideas in 1884. For the Vancouver Section, this is a special year because of the 10-year anniversary of the centennial monument being dedicated. We also have the speaker, Mazana Armstrong, revisiting the history that led to the monument being put in place ten years ago.

For more information about IEEE Day activities around the world, visit
https://ieeeday.org and please register for the Vancouver Section Celebration. We look forward to greeting you on IEEE Day!

IEEE Day Keynote Speaker Announced

The Vancouver Section is pleased to announce that Dr. Mazana Armstrong will be the keynote speaker for our IEEE Day celebration to be held on Oct. 3rd, 2023. Dr. Armstrong’s presentation will focus on the history of the Vancouver Section Monument, its unique design and its artist creator.

Summer Social Event attracts over 40 attendees

Members, guests and friends of the Vancouver Section gathered on August 26th at KPU’s Surrey Campus to bask in the summer sunshine, socialize and enjoy food and drinks in a picnic setting.

Power Energy Society needs a Webmaster

The
Joint Chapter Power Energy Society (PE31/DEI32) is looking for a volunteer webmaster. Please contact Anand Shah at
anandrs97@ieee.org for more information.

Upcoming Events

Introducing the Rock Crusher: A Flow-Based Model for Backlog Management

Steve Adolph of
cPrime

Organizer:
Joint Management Chapter

Thursday, September 21, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Online.

Nearly 40 years ago, Fred Brooks wrote, “The single hardest part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.” In the early days of agile software development, the value stream may have begun and ended with the product owner. It was just the product owner who decided precisely what to build. However, over 20 years, Agile has grown up from just “…uncovering better ways of developing software” to uncovering better ways to create the agile enterprise. Deciding precisely what to build is a complex enterprise process. Our traditional simple models of backlog management have not kept up. The result is broken value streams that impede flow. As agile grew up, so did the need for how we manage the backlog. We can no longer hide the “hardest part” behind the backlog and product owner if we want to be an agile organization and compete in the digital age.

Steve is an Agile Coach at cPrime, where he is passionate about helping improve people’s working lives. Steve has been in this industry longer than he cares to think about. If you remember Fortran, TTL, and 8-bit logic, then you’re probably in his demographic. Steve started his career doing engineering and building cool things like telephone switches and railway signaling systems. Around the late 90s, he was seduced by the dark side of a greater salary plus an office with a door that could close and moved into management. There he became interested in how ways of working and organizational culture influence enterprise outcomes.

Distinguished Lecture: “Noise Performance challenges for MOS devices at nanoscale”

Prof. Renuka P. Jindal, Eminent Scientist & Chief Technology Officer, Vanderziel Institute of Science and Technology, LLC

Organizer:
Electron Devices Society Chapter

Thursday, October 19, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm, Online and in Room: ASB 10704, Bldg: Applied Science Building, SFU, 8888 University Dr., Burnaby, V5A 1S6.

After the first demonstration of the MOSFET in 1960 at Bell Laboratories, the understanding of its intrinsic noise mechanisms quickly followed. However, the poor sensitivity of integrated lightwave receivers could not be explained based on the above analyses. To understand and push these limits of the then-nascent MOS technology, discovery and understanding of a host of extrinsic noise mechanisms was actively pursued at Bell Labs. In this presentation, a physical understanding of both intrinsic and extrinsic noise mechanisms in an IGFET is developed.

Renuka P. Jindal joined Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey following his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1981. His pioneering research in submicrometer-MOS devices produced a tenfold noise suppression, making MOS technology ideally suited for fibre optics and wireless communications. Dr. Jindal demonstrated single-chip silicon gigahertz-band RFICs and invented novel devices and circuits using finite-medium-avalanching and enunciated the principle of random-multiplication.