June
1, 2016
Making Mobile Robots, Skinny Legs and All
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: David Claveau
Meetings are free and open to the
public. Please register at
www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2016-06-raia
Abstract
Robots
that use wheels are commonly available, but robots that walk on legs are
still mainly found in research labs. New technologies such as 3-D printing
and flexible electronics have made it possible to explore legged robots
without breaking the bank. At CSU Channel Islands we have been experimenting
with these new technologies and are happy to share our latest results.
About the
Speaker
David Claveau, Ph.D. is an Assistant
Professor of Computer Science at CSU Channel Islands. Before joining CI he
taught at Arizona State University where it was too hot, and before that he
lived in Canada where it was too cold. Now he lives in Port Hueneme,
California, where it is just right. At home he watches the same four or five
movies over and over again.
Location
CLU
Swenson Center, Room 101
California
Lutheran University
141 Faculty Street
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Parking: Visitors may park on CLU
streets after 7 PM without a permit. Before 7 PM, we recommend that you
park in the G1
visitor lot on the southwest corner of Olsen and Mountclef, and walk to
the Swenson building. Do not park in the faculty/staff lots, and do not
park in the areas marked “Homeowner Parking Only”.
Presented By: IEEE Buenaventura
Robotics and Automation/Industry Applications Chapter
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June
7, 2016
The Art of Market Assessment
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: Bridge Carney
$5 for IEEE members, $15 for nonmembers. Register and pay at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2016-06-ent
Abstract
Your
business is providing, or will soon provide, the best product or service!
Customers will come in great numbers…or will they? By including continuous
Market Assessment in your routine operations, you will be better prepared to
realize your hope and/or maintain your success in our world of ever changing
markets. Bridge Carney will look at the Art of Market Assessment and how to
replace some of that hope with real information. The presentation will review
the more universal basics of Market assessment, used in successful large and
small business, such as competitive analysis, TAM research, the value of FTF
input and choosing your Go-to-Market strategy.
About the
Speaker
Bridge Carney has a unique, ‘3-spoke’
career wheel of experience as Director and VP roles with high-technology
solution providers companies ranging in size from startups to multi-national
operations. The first ‘spoke’ was his broad range of responsibilities and
experiences on the Engineering side in the very first days of microcomputers.
Due to his personal ability to easily translate technical terms, concepts and
problems into easy-to-understand language for non-technical management and
clients, his interest moved him to Marketing where his responsibilities, in
the then exploding world of PC peripherals, included developing new product
specifications and market directions. In the third ‘spoke’ of experiences,
Carney took to the ‘dark side’ by accepting a rare challenge and became a top
salesperson and later managed Sales teams and Sales Operations in several
companies. He credits drawing on his earlier experiences in Engineering and
Marketing to his achievements in securing and maintaining multi-million
dollar sales business in his Sales assignments.
Location
CLU
Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 107B
Cal
Lutheran Westlake Center
31416 Agoura Road
Westlake Village, CA 91361
Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura
Section
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June
8, 2016
Virtual Reality by Wevr
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: Max Geiger
Meetings are free and open to the
public. Please register at
www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2016-06-cs
Abstract
VR
developers face unique challenges when presenting experiences in a new medium
where traditional framing and filmic convention either no longer exist or
must be re-thought. This presentation includes VR demonstrations of episodes
from "theBlu" and "John Wick VR".
Wevr,
Inc. ("weaver"), based in Silicon Beach produces, develops, and
distributes cinematic and interactive virtual reality experiences. Wevr is
also developing "Wevr Transport", a platform to enable VR content
creators to develop and distribute their own VR experiences. Wevr experiences
have been built for a variety of VR platforms, from Google Cardboard to fully
immersive room-scale experiences using the HTC Vive. Most recently, their
Vive launch title, "theBlu", has received accolades from critics
and players alike.
About the
Speaker
Max Geiger is a producer and designer
working in interactive entertainment and games. He has worked with Wevr since
2014, and has shipped launch titles for both the GearVR and HTC Vive. Prior
to joining Wevr, Max produced Giant Sparrow's "The Unfinished
Swan", winner of 2013's BAFTA award for best debut game and most
innovative game. He has also worked at Electronic Arts and was a host on
Spike TV's "Deadliest Warrior". Max is one of the first graduates
of the University of Southern California's Interactive Media and Games
division of the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Location
CLU
Swenson Center, Room 101
California
Lutheran University
141 Faculty Street
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Parking: Visitors may park on CLU
streets after 7 PM without a permit. Before 7 PM, we recommend that you
park in the G1
visitor lot on the southwest corner of Olsen and Mountclef, and walk to
the Swenson building. Do not park in the faculty/staff lots, and do not
park in the areas marked “Homeowner Parking Only”.
Presented By: IEEE Buenaventura
Computer Society Chapter
June
15, 2016
GaN Electronics: From HEMT to CMOS
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: Rongming Chu
Meetings are free and open to the public.
No registration required.
Abstract
Since
the 1st demonstration of a GaN HEMT in 1993, tremendous progress has been
made in the area of GaN electronics. Improvements of epitaxial structure and
HEMT process have enabled record device performance from DC to millimeter
wave. More recently, advancement of insulating gate and field-management
technologies based on the GaN HEMT structure has resulted in 600-V class
power switching transistors. As the GaN discrete devices are demonstrating
proved performance advantage in both microwave/millimeter wave and power
electronics application areas, ability of making GaN IC becomes an important
topic. If successful, the GaN IC can improve the performance advantage by
orders magnitude, at reduced cost. This talk will overview lessons we learned
during the development of the GaN HEMT technology, and discuss
opportunities/challenges of the GaN CMOS technology.
About the
Speaker
Dr. Rongming Chu received his PhD from UC
Santa Barbara, working on Gallium Nitride microwave transistors. After
finishing his degree in 2008, he spent two year at Transphorm Inc., a
start-up company commercializing GaN power switch technology. He joined HRL
Laboratories LLC in 2010. Since joining HRL, Dr. Chu worked on GaN-on-Si lateral
power switch, GaN-on-GaN vertical power switch, and more recently on GaN CMOS
IC technology.
Location
Skyworks
Solutions
649 Lawrence Drive
Newbury Park, CA 91320
Intersection of West Hillcrest Drive and Lawrence Drive
(Not the main building; please use link
to arrow that pinpoints building)
Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura
Electron Devices/Circuits and Systems Chapter
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June
16, 2016
The Search for Life on the Oceans of Europa
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: Robert Gounley
Meetings are free and open to the public. Please register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2016-06-aes
Abstract
NASA's
Galileo mission to Jupiter in the late 1990s produced strong evidence that
Europa, about the size of Earth's moon, has an ocean beneath its frozen
crust. If proven to exist, this global ocean could hold more than twice as
much water as Earth. With abundant salt water, a rocky sea floor, and the
energy and chemistry provided by tidal heating, Europa may have the
ingredients needed to support simple organisms.
The
Galileo mission consists of two spacecraft: an orbiter and an atmospheric
probe. The primary mission consisted of sending an atmospheric probe into
Jupiter's atmosphere and studying Jupiter, its satellites, and its
magnetosphere for two years with the orbiter.
Galileo
changed the way we look at our solar system. The spacecraft was the first to
fly past an asteroid and the first to discover a moon of an asteroid. It
provided the only direct observations of a comet colliding with a planet.
Galileo
was the first to measure Jupiter's atmosphere with a descent probe and the
first to conduct long-term observations of the Jovian system from orbit. It
found evidence of subsurface saltwater on Europa, Ganymede and Callisto and
revealed the intensity of volcanic activity on Io.
Robert
Gounley, the Deputy Orbiter Engineering Team Chief of the Galileo Mission,
will describe the design, development and flight operations of the mission
and detail the discoveries made in the neighborhood of the giant planet of
Jupiter.
About the
Speaker
Robert Gounley is the Project System Lead
of the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory(GRAIL) aimed to measure the
gravity field of the moon in unprecedented detail. He has also served as
Project System Lead for the Dawn mission to explore the Main Belt asteroids
Ceres and Vesta. Robert has contributed to the Mars Exploration Rover Mission
as Engineering Team Lead and has helped develop the NSTAR ion propulsion
system for the Deep Space 1(DS1) mission. Robert’s has extensive experience
with attitude control, propulsion, and temperature control subsystems. He has
also designed algorithms for autonomous fault detection and recovery. Robert
earned his MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology(MIT) and BSE in Mechanical Engineering from
University of Pennsylvania.
Location
CLU
Swenson Center, Room 101
California
Lutheran University
141 Faculty Street
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Parking: Visitors may park on CLU
streets after 7 PM without a permit. Before 7 PM, we recommend that you
park in the G1
visitor lot on the southwest corner of Olsen and Mountclef, and walk to
the Swenson building. Do not park in the faculty/staff lots, and do not
park in the areas marked “Homeowner Parking Only”.
Presented By: IEEE Buenaventura
Robotics and Automation/Industry Applications Chapter
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June
21, 2016
VLSI Photonics in Next-Gen Data Centers
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: Robert Gounley
Meetings are free and open to the public. Please register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2016-06-com
Abstract
Massive
data transmission for next-gen datacenter application creates a tremendous
opportunity for photonics to grow into a much higher level in volume and
integration density. In this talk, the roadmap and effort to construct such
a power-efficient and high-speed VLSI photonic link for Hewlett Packard
Enterprise’s datacenter and supercomputing business are reviewed.
Silicon-based key components, e.g., lasers, modulators and photodetectors and
their integrated transceivers with CMOS drivers will be discussed.
About the
Speaker
Dr. Di Liang is currently a senior
research scientist at Hewlett Packard Labs. His research interests include
III-V and silicon photonics, heterogeneous material integration and
nanofabrication technology. He has authored and coauthored over 130 top-tier
journal and conference papers, 5 book chapters, and was granted by 5 patents
(multiple region filing) with another 40 pending. He received his B.S. degree
in Optical Engineering from the Zhejiang University, China, and Ph.D. degree
in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, USA. He is a
senior member of IEEE and a member of OSA.
Location
Skyworks
Solutions
649 Lawrence Drive
Newbury Park, CA 91320
Intersection of West Hillcrest Drive and Lawrence Drive
(Not the main building; please use link
to arrow that pinpoints building)
Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura
Communications Society Chapter
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