April 5,
2016
Entrepreneurship Workshop
Shark Tank Deconstructed - The Case of Cycloramic or a Perspective on
Valuation
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Speaker: Nathalie Gosset
Meetings are free and open to the
public. Please register at
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Abstract
Shark Tank is a reality television show that brings
together want-to-be entrepreneurs and investors. If we set aside the staged
drama to appeal to TV viewers, the money offered and the financial
discussions are real. The 2013 episode featuring the engineer Bruno Francois
presenting his idea Cycloramic is a fascinating segment to deconstruct
because it depicts an experience that we, as engineers, could face. Mr.
Francois has developed a new consumer product idea but he is financially
vulnerable after months of bootstrapping the launch of his new product. The
offers from the investors are varied in amounts and risks for him.
In
this interactive workshop, we will have a conversation about whether the
entrepreneur made the right choice. We will decode the various deal terms,
what they actually meant regarding valuation, equity, and obligations on the
entrepreneur. We will discuss the traps that each opportunity presented. And
we will look at Bruno Francois’s life 3 years later to deepen our
understanding of what other choices he could have made if he had known his
future. We will take ourselves back to a world with no TV cameras and
highlight the differences in experience when we pitch an engineering concept
to investors
About the Speaker
Nathalie Gosset, BSEE, MS, MBA developed an expert
eye for the value of technical ideas. She has met more than 600 inventors,
evaluated how disruptive their technology would be on the industry, found the
ideal market segments for the concepts, evaluated the commercial potential,
and identified the players to bring to the table. She helped a physician take
his concept that he drew on a napkin to a product that sold at Target for
several years. Ms. Gosset has been on the cutting edge of technologies all
her career. The past 12 years she was the Sr. Director, Tech and Market
Evaluation Assessment at the Alfred E Mann Institute at USC, an organization
that cherry picked the best innovations and invested several million dollars
each year to bring the ideas to market. Prior to this, she worked for 18
years on projects pushing the envelope of high speed opto-electronics. (VP of
Engineering at Sabeus and Director of Engineering at Novera, Director of the
Program Management Office at Alcatel USA)
Ms.
Gosset is an advocate for the profession of engineering. She is currently the
Chairman of the IEEE Buenaventura Section, working side by side with 48
volunteers who bring top technical speaker to the engineers of Ventura
County. She is the 2015 recipient of the Regional Leadership Award from IEEE-
USA, the 2009 IEEE Engineer of the Year from the Buenaventura Section. She
received the 2007 Career Service Global Award from the Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society for creating 50 chapters worldwide to bring
together doctors and engineers to facilitate humanitarian solutions. She is a
sought out futurist speaker and published 2 books. Nathalie holds a BSEE from
ISEP (1985, Paris, France); MS in Telecommunications (1986, Boulder, CO); MBA
(1990, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN).
Location
CLU
Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 107B
Cal
Lutheran Westlake Center
31416 Agoura Road #110
Westlake Village, CA 91361
Presented by:
IEEE Buenaventura Section
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April 13,
2016
High School Teams from Ventura County to Show Off Their Robots
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Speakers: Students and
mentors from Newbury Park High School, Ventura High School, and ACE Charter
School
Meetings are free and open to the
public. Please register at
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Abstract
On
Wednesday, 13 April 2016, high school students from Ventura County teams will
demonstrate the robots they entered in the FIRST Robotics Ventura Regional
Competition.
FIRST
is the largest national robotics competition of its kind at the high school
level. Students have only six weeks to
design, build, program, and test a robot to perform against a field of
competitors. The game, the rules and
the robot specifications are different every year. This year, the game was FIRST STRONGHOLDSM. In FIRST STRONGHOLD, two Alliances of three
robots each are on a Quest to breach their opponents’ fortifications, weaken
their tower with boulders, and capture the opposing tower. Robots score
points by breaching opponents’ defenses and scoring boulders through goals in
the opposing tower. During the final 20 seconds of the Quest, robots may
surround and scale the opposing tower to capture it.
In
this competition, students get to:
• Work alongside mentors who
volunteer their time and talents to guide each team.
• Build and compete with a robot of
their own design.
• Learn and use sophisticated
software and hardware.
• Compete and cooperate in alliances
and tournaments.
• Earn a chance to compete in the
world championship.
• Qualify for over $22 million in
college scholarships.
We
will hear an introduction from the teams, followed (weather permitting) by an
extended demonstration and Q&A outside.
This is an excellent opportunity to get kids
interested in science and engineering.
About the Speakers
• Pantherbotics (Team 3863) from Newbury
Park High School
• The Circuit of Life Robotics (Team
3925) from Ventura High School
• Flying Aces Robotics (Team 4711)
from ACE Charter School
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
April 20,
2016
Cognitive Radio and Software Defined Radio... A Gentle Introduction
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Speaker: Yahia Tachwali
Meetings are free and open to the
public. Please register at
www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2016-04-com
Abstract
Smart
phones... are they smart enough?!! Not really. There is actually an
increasing demand for improving the efficiency of wireless systems. Current
wireless systems suffer severe radio spectrum underutilization due to a
number of problematic issues, including wasteful static spectrum allocations;
fixed radio functionalities and architectures; and limited cooperation
between network nodes. Significant
research efforts aim to find alternative solutions to improve spectrum
utilization. Cognitive radio based on software defined radio technology is
considered one novel approach for solving those problems. Cognitive radio
(CR) refers to an adaptive radio capable of changing operation
parameters—frequency, modulation, power, and bandwidth, depending on the
radio environment, user communication experience, and geo-location. Software
Defined Radio (SDR) refers to the implementation platform for cognitive
radio. These platforms are based on highly configurable architectures to
support flexible radio functionality needed for cognitive radio. In essence,
SDR is considered the enabling technology for CR.
This
tutorial provides a gentle introduction to cognitive radio and software radio
world. It presents the fundamental building components of cognitive radios
and present current solutions for software radio platforms. It sheds the
lights also on how to seek more information about those subjects.
About the Speaker
Yahia Tachwali, Ph.D. is a Research and Development
Engineer at Keysight Technologies. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at
the Georgia Institute of Technology, in the Broadband Wireless Networking Lab
under the supervision of Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz. He received his Ph.D. in
Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 2010.
His doctoral research focused on building cognitive radios in small form
factor platforms and investigated the use of compressive sensing techniques
to perform efficient spectrum sensing operations. He has authored more than
20 journal articles and conference papers in the field of signal processing
for cognitive radio applications. His research interests are: cognitive radio
networks, the design and implementation of DSP algorithms on software radio
platforms, spectrum sensing, machine learning, reconfigurable wireless
systems, and compressive sensing techniques.
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
Communications Society Chapter
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April 21,
2016
Einstein for Everyone
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Speaker: Robert Piccioni
Meetings are free and open to the
public. Please register at
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Abstract
Hardly
anyone has failed more often or faced more rejection than Einstein. How did
he overcome these challenges to become the most famous scientist in history?
What were his discoveries and how do they impact our lives every day? If you
want to hear in plain English what his theories meant and witness the most
elegant and simple way to describe E=mc2, join us for this talk.
About the Speaker
Robert Piccioni, Ph.D. was one of the students of
Richard Feynman at Caltech, one of the most famous physicists of the 20th
century, and became over the years a good family friend. He has studied and
done research with numerous Nobel Laureates. His life mission is to present
real science to real people in a way that everyone can understand and enjoy.
Dr.
Piccioni's presentation topics span the range of modern physics &
cosmology. The material presented is not "dumbed down". Rather it
has been carefully translated into plain English from the original
physics/math jargon. Our speaker was guest lecturer on a National
Geographic/Lindblad cruise. He has given invited talks at Harvard, Caltech,
UCLA, and Stanford University, and is presently giving an eight-week course
on Einstein’s theories at the Osher Institute, an adult education program, at
California State University at Channel Islands and UCLA. Dr. Piccioni is
currently a script advisor in the development of a major feature film about
Albert Einstein. Dr. Piccioni is currently a script adviser in the
development of a major feature film about Albert Einstein. He is the author
of Everyone's Guide to Atoms, Einstein, and the Universe and A
World Without Einstein.
Dr.
Piccioni was born with physics in his blood. His father, Dr. Oreste Piccioni,
was a famous high energy physicist who studied under Enrico Fermi, and won
the prestigious Matteucci Medal, which for 140 years has been awarded to many
of the world's leading scientists for their fundamental contribution in the
progress of science. - i.e. Thomas Edison, Marie & Pierre Currie, Albert
Einstein, Niels Bohr and Enrico Fermi, among others.
Location
La
Reina High School, Cafeteria
106 West Janss Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Presented By: IEEE Buenaventura
Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Chapter
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April 27,
2016
Legal Standards for Patent Eligible Subject Matter and the State of Patents
for Therapeutic and Diagnostic Algorithms
Dinner (optional): Available at
6:00 PM for $10, payable at the door.
Presentation (free): 7:00 PM
Speaker: David Sarisky
Free admission to presentation. No
registration required.
About the Speaker
Under
U.S. patent law, laws of nature, natural phenomenon, and abstract ideas are
not eligible for patent protection. Abstract ideas have been identified by
courts to include fundamental economic practices, methods of organizing human
activities, an idea of itself, and mathematical relationships/formulas. A
recent landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court has caused lower courts and
the U.S. Patent Office to more strictly apply the legal standard for patent
eligible subject matter, leading to an increase in invalidations of issued
patents by the courts, and an increase in rejections of patent applications
by the U.S. Patent Office. Mr. Sarisky will provide an overview of the law,
and examples of inventions directed to therapeutic and diagnostic algorithms
that have been affected by stricter application of the standard.
About the Speaker
David Sarisky, JD, BSEE is counsel in the
Intellectual Property practice group in the Los Angeles office of Arent Fox.
He has extensive experience in the procurement and protection of intellectual
property assets across various industries, including medical device, consumer
electronics, semiconductor, telecommunications, and software. He received his JD from Southwestern
University School of Law in 1997, and BSEE degree from The Ohio State
University in 1988.
Prior
to joining Arent Fox, he was senior in-house patent counsel for the cardiac
rhythm management division of a Fortune 500 medical device company, where he
counseled in the areas of patent portfolio development; due diligence and
competitive analyses; and technology rights management. He also counseled on
intellectual property matters in support of the business development,
research, and clinical study efforts of the company. Prior to working
in-house, David was senior counsel and partner at boutique intellectual
property firms in Los Angeles, where, in addition to counseling on
intellectual property procurement matters, he served as co-counsel in various
litigations including patent infringement, trademark infringement, trade
secret misappropriation, and unfair competition actions. Before entering the
legal profession, David worked for eight years as an engineer for a major
aerospace company.
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
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Chapter
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April 28,
2016
Thermal Imaging for Commercial Applications
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: Austin Richards
Meetings are free and open to the
public. Please register at
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Abstract
A
massive acceleration of thermal imaging technology development in the last 10
years has transformed the industry from a military one to a commercial one,
and now increasingly into the consumer space. This talk will describe the
range of commercial infrared cameras available and many of their
applications, from $299 thermal IR accessories for smartphones to $150,000 HD
thermal IR video cameras.
About the Speaker
Austin Richards, Ph.D. is a Senior Research
Scientist at FLIR, a manufacturer of infrared imaging systems and digital
imaging electronics based in Santa Barbara, CA. He specializes in test and
measurement of IR cameras and sensors and system integration. Austin received
his B.A. in physics from Amherst College in 1989 and his PhD. in astrophysics
from UC Berkeley in 1995, and has held postdoctoral fellowships from Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Stockholm in Sweden, where
he contributed to the AMANDA project, a kilometer-scale neutrino detector at
the South Pole Station in Antarctica. He also is the principal of Oculus
Photonics, a manufacturer of digital ultraviolet imaging systems.
Location
CSUCI Del Norte Hall, Room 1500
California State University, Channel Islands
Camarillo, CA 93012
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Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura
Photonics Society Chapter
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May 4,
2016
The Smart Grid Living Lab at UCLA, and its Automated Demand Response Program
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Presenter: Rajit Gadh
Meetings are free and open to the
public.. Please register at
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Abstract
The
UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center (or SMERC) performs research, creates
innovations, and, demonstrates using the campus as a living lab some advanced
wireless/communications, Internet and sense-and-control technologies to
enable the development of the next generation of the electric utility grid -
The Smart Grid. Our speaker will talk about one of the SMERC’s initiatives,
the Automated Demand-Response (ADR) technology research program that aims to
showcase different levels and modalities of automation in load curtailment,
control models and secure messaging schemes leveraging multiple communication
technologies and maintaining interoperability between the Smart Grid
automation architecture layers.
About the Speaker
Dr. Rajit Gadh is Professor of the Henry Samueli
School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA, Founder and Director the
Smart Grid Energy Research Center or SMERC and Founder and Director of the
UCLA WINMEC Consortium. Dr. Gadh has a Doctorate degree from Carnegie Mellon
University (CMU), a Masters from Cornell University and a Bachelor’s degree
from IIT Kanpur all in engineering. He has taught as a visiting researcher at
UC Berkeley, has been an Assistant, Associate and Full Professor at
University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was a visiting researcher at Stanford
University.
Dr.
Gadh's current research interests include modeling and control of Smart
Grids, wireless monitoring and control of distribution and consumer-premise
power grids, Electric Vehicle aggregation, modeling and control, optimized EV
charging under grid and local constraints, Grid-to-vehicle, Vehicle-to-grid
and Grid-to-home architectures, automation and home area network for Demand
Response, Micro-grid modeling and control, and wireless-sensor and RFID
middleware architectures. Dr. Gadh is author of over 150 articles in journals
and conference proceedings and holds 4 patents. His team has developed the
WINSmartEV™ and WINSmartGrid™ research platforms at UCLA.
Dr.
Gadh's research has recently been funded by the following sources: (i) LADWP
(in turn funded by DOE) in which UCLA is one of three academic cooperating
partners along with USC, and, JPL/Caltech in which DOE funding is roughly
$60M) (ii) Korean Institute for Energy Research (KIER), (iii) EPRI NESCOR
Grant (funded by DOE), (iv) California Energy Commission, and (v) the UCLA
Smart Grid Industry Partners Program or SMERC-IPP consisting of over a dozen
industry members.
He is
a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has received the
National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, NSF Research Initiation
Award, and, NSF Lucent Industry Ecology Fellow Award, Society of Automotive
Engineers Ralph R. Teetor Educational award, IEEE WTS second best student
paper award, ASME Kodak Best Technical Paper award, AT&T Industrial
ecology fellow award, Engineering Education Foundation Research Initiation
Award, the William Mong Fellowship from University of Hong Kong, and other
accolades in his career. He has lectured and given keynote/distinguished
addresses worldwide in countries such as Belgium, Brazil, China, France,
Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Holland, Hong Kong, Japan, S. Korea,
Singapore, Taiwan, and, Thailand. Dr. Gadh serves as advisor to a handful of
technology-based startups.
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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