January
7, 2020
Sustainability through Creative Transformation — Engineering & Business
Series
6:30 PM
Facilitator: Johann Wolf
Meetings are free and open to the public. Register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2020-01-ent
Overview
IEEE
ushers in 2020, the new decade with cultural creative, Johann Wolf. An
advertising creative director a serial entrepreneur and commercial filmmaker,
he's the founder of Radioaktivefilm, Spacemonkey, and The Department of Wow.
Let's
locate the unique energy source we call inspiration. It’s the essential
driver powering all creative endeavor. Inspiration is a uniquely
self-generating fuel source: things born of inspiration always inspire
others, thus, creating even more fuel.
How
do we leverage our relationship with technology? Engage in contributing to
shape culture that prioritizes the human experience while rejecting the
fast-coming future built on de-humanizing tactics. We will discuss strategic
& creative problem solving, unique ideation methods, insightful
decision-making, and impeccable products/services delivery. Real-world
applicable creativity!
About the
Facilitator
As
an ad man, Johann Wolf is
fascinated by human behavior, psychology and how we adapt to technology,
storytelling and messaging. He is definitively anti-interruption and in favor
of projects that compel and improve the human experience.
"His
intuitive insight is unimpeachable. When paired with his extraordinary
creative mind, that consistently generates simple, unexpected, outstanding,
and always shining concepts; he defines his high value as an effective film
director and unique intellectual talent as a creative director." –
Morgan Boardman | CEO Morningstar
"Johann
Wolf is my first choice for Commercial Direction and Creative Vision. His work
is of the highest professional quality and integrity. Thanks Johann" –
Jacqueline Beaudette, Producer at Nelson Mandela: Legacy of Hope Concert
Location
Hub101
Cal Lutheran Center for Entrepreneurship
31416 Agoura Road
Westlake Village, CA 91361
(map)
Presented by: IEEE
Buenaventura Entrepreneurship Group
January
16, 2020
The X-15 Rocket Plane, Flying the First Wings into Space
Pizza/Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Speaker: Michelle Evans
Meetings are free and open to the public. Register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2020-01-aes
Overview
With
the Soviet Union’s launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold
War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into space.
This presentation tells the enthralling yet little-known story of the
hypersonic X-15, the winged rocket ship that met this challenge and opened
the way into human- controlled spaceflight.
This
remarkable research aircraft held the world’s altitude record for 41 years,
and still has no equal to match or better its speed of more than 4,500 mph.
Beyond the X-15 are the stories of the 12 men who guided it into space, and
all the people who kept the rocket plane flying for nearly a decade. This is
the story that has never been told of the vehicle that was the true precursor
to the Space Shuttle by being the first piloted and winged vehicle to exit
Earth’s atmosphere, and make a controlled reentry to a landing on hard-packed
dry desert lakebeds.
In
her research, Ms. Evans interviewed nearly 70 people, including 9 of the 12
pilots, including Neil Armstrong, Scott Crossfield, and Robert White, with
family representatives for the remaining pilots. Others she spoke with include
managers, flight planners, and the technicians and engineers who made the
X-15 ready to fly its next research mission at high altitude and high Mach.
About the
Speaker
Michelle Evans is the founder and
president of Mach 25 Media (www.Mach25Media.com) and is a writer,
photographer, and communications specialist in aerospace. She has written the
bestselling book “The X-15 Rocket Plane, Flying the First Wings into Space”
which was published by the University of Nebraska Press as part of their
“Outward Odyssey, People's History of Spaceflight” series.
Michelle's
background in aerospace engineering includes serving in the US Air Force
working on missile systems, and later in private industry accomplishing
environmental testing for systems used in airliners and spacecraft. Her
current work with Mach 25 Media provides education and display services for
astronaut appearances and other space-related events at government
facilities, science centers, schools, and other venues across the country and
overseas.
Michelle
is a Distinguished Lecturer with the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics, and her book on the X-15 was a finalist for the Eugene M. Emme
Award for Astronautical Literature. Michelle received the Diverse Community
Leader Award from Orange County Human Relations, and was recognized as one of
the 100 Most Influential People in Orange County. She has appeared in
numerous publications, including Air & Space Smithsonian, Ad Astra,
Orange County Register, Los Angeles Times, and New York Times. Michelle was
also a technical consultant on the Neil Armstrong biopic “First Man.”
Location
Hub101
Cal Lutheran Center for Entrepreneurship
31416 Agoura Road
Westlake Village, CA 91361
(map)
Presented by: IEEE
Buenaventura Section Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
Flyer (PDF)
January
21, 2020
THz Transistors and Their Application
Reception and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Speaker: Bill Deal
Meetings are free and open to the public.
Overview
Transistors
fabricated in the Indium Phosphide (InP) material systems have proven capable
of reaching fMAX greater than 1 THz. This talk describes InP HEMT
capabilities at Northrop Grumman. The talk starts with a technology
overview, and then describes different applications at submillimeter and THz
frequencies. The talk completes with an overview of MMIC, component and
sub-system results at these frequencies.
About the
Speaker
Dr. Bill Deal is a Consulting Engineer at
Northrop Grumman, where he leads the development of high frequency
electronics. His group is involved with state of the art low noise
transistor development, and is currently developing receivers to as high as
850 GHz for a variety of applications. Dr. Deal is a Fellow of the IEEE, and
has published more than 150 conference and journal papers.
Location
Skyworks Solutions
649 Lawrence Drive
Newbury Park, CA 91320
(Not the main building; please use map to arrow that
pinpoints building)
Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura
Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Chapter
January
29, 2020
AI-based Multi-modal Human-robot Interaction
Dinner (optional): Available at 6:00 PM
for $12, payable at the door.
Presentation (free): 7:00 PM
Speaker: Bahareh Abbasi
Free admission to presentation. Register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2020-01-emb
Overview
There
is a growing need for service robots that can support independent living of
the elderly and people with disabilities, as well as robots that can assist
human workers in a warehouse or on a factory floor. However, robots that
collaborate with humans should act predictably and ensure that the
interaction is safe and effective. Therefore, when humans and robots
collaborate for example during Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), robots
should be able to recognize human actions and intentions and produce
appropriate responses. To do so, it is crucial to understand how two humans
interact during a collaborative task and how they perform them. Humans employ
multiple communication modalities when engaging in collaborative activities;
similarly, service robots require information from multiple sensors to plan
their actions based on the interaction and the task states.
Service
robots for the elderly require information from multiple modalities to
maintain active interaction with a human during performing interactive tasks.
We study in detail the scenario where a human and a service robot collaborate
to find an object (Find Task) in the kitchen so it can be used in a
subsequent task such as cooking. Based on the data collected during human
studies, we develop an Interaction Manager which allows the robot to actively
participate in the interaction and plan its next action given human spoken
utterances, observed manipulation actions, and gestures. We develop multiple
modules for a robot in the Robot Operating System (ROS), including H-O action
recognition using vision, gesture recognition using vision, speech
recognition using the Google speech recognition API, a dialogue tool which
includes a multimodal dialogue act (DA) classifier that determines the
intention of the speaker, and the Interaction Manager itself. The proposed
system is validated using two different robot platforms: a Baxter robot and a
Nao robot. The preliminary user study provides the evidence that by using the
developed multimodal Interaction Manager, the robot can successfully interact
with the human in the Find Task.
About the
Speaker
Dr. Bahareh Abbasi received her B.S.
degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Tehran, Iran, in 2013.
She received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University
of Illinois at Chicago, where she also completed her M.S. in ECE. She has
joined CCC Information Services, Inc. as a research and development engineer
intern since 2017. Her primary research interests include robotics, haptics,
multimodal human-robot interaction, and machine learning. Her works have been
published in prestigious conferences and journals such as TRO, ICRA, IROS,
ROMAN, and ISMR.
Location
La Reina High School, Library
106 West Janss Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
(map)
Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Chapter
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