IEEE Miami Section, Power and Energy Society in conjunction with Energy Systems Research Laboratory at Florida International University, Department of Electrical Engineering is pleased to invite you to attend this Smart Grid Tutorial

Smart Grid Tutorial

by John D, McDonald, P.E.
Director, Technical Strategy & Policy Development, GE Energy’s Digital Energy
IEEE Fellow, IEEE PES President (2006-2007), IEEE Division VII Director (2008-2009)

Date: Wednesday, June 6th, 2012
Time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Place: Room EC-2300 in the second floor of FIU College of Engineering and Computing
10555 W. Flagler Street, Miami, Florida, 33174.

Abstract: The purpose of this talk is to familiarize participants with Smart Grid concepts and solutions, including Distribution Optimization, Transmission Optimization, Asset Optimization, Demand Optimization, Smart Meters and Communications, and Workforce and Engineering Design Optimization. Smart Grid industry standards efforts will be discussed, including NIST, IEEE, CIGRE and IEC. An overview of recent Smart Grid deployments will be given, including the lessons learned from the deployments. Substation automation and enterprise data management to support Smart Grid will be discussed, including managing operational and nonoperational data.

ShortBio: John D. McDonald, P.E. is Director, Technical Strategy and Policy Development for GE Energy’s Digital Energy business. John has 38 years of experience in the electric utility transmission and distribution industry. John received his B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. (Power Engineering) degrees from Purdue University, and an M.B.A. (Finance) degree from the University of California-Berkeley. John is a Fellow of IEEE, and was awarded the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000, the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Excellence in Power Distribution Engineering Award in 2002, and the IEEE PES Substations Committee Distinguished Service Award in 2003. John is Past President of the IEEE PES, a charter member of the IEEE Brand Ambassadors Program, a member of the IEEE Medal of Honor Committee, a member of the IEEE PES Region 3 Scholarship Committee, the VP for Technical Activities for the US National Committee (USNC) of CIGRE, the Past Chair of the IEEE PES Substations Committee, and Chair of the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC) Board. John was the IEEE Division VII Director in 2008-2009. John was on the Board of Governors of the IEEE-SA (Standards Association) in 2010-2011, focusing on long term IEEE Smart Grid standards strategy. John was elected to Chair the NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) Governing Board for 2010-2012. John is a member of the Advisory Committee for the annual DistribuTECH Conference, and received the 2009 Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award from Purdue University. John teaches a SCADA/EMS/DMS course at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Smart Grid course for GE, and substation automation, distribution SCADA and communications courses for various IEEE PES local chapters as an IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer. John has published forty papers and articles in the areas of SCADA, SCADA/EMS, SCADA/DMS and communications, and has co-authored three books.

**Seats are Limited. To Reserve your seat, send your name, affiliation and e-mail address to Mr. Siva at  svall030@fiu.edu

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IEEE Miami Section in Conjunction with Energy Systems Research Laboratory at Florida International University is pleased to invite you to lecture on

Focused Ion Based Prototyping of NanoDevices

by Sakhrat Khizroev
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Co-Director, Center for Nanomedicine
Florida International University

Date: Friday, June 1st, 2012
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Place: Room EC-2300 in the second floor of FIU College of Engineering and Computing
10555 W. Flagler Street, Miami, Florida, 33174.

Abstract: It is projected that nanotechnology will generate a trillion-dollar market by year 2015. Nanotechnology is expected to revolutionize areas such as computing, renewable energy, and medical applications. However, there are still only a handful of commercially available products based on nanotechnology. It is becoming obvious that nanotechnology research needs a new spin directed towards real-life applications. This talk will discuss a research strategy that has been implemented at FIU to develop viable nanotechnology applications and has made a major impact on every-day applications especially in the field of magnetic information storage. The recipe is based on exploiting the capability of focused ion beam (FIB) as a rapid nanodevice prototyping approach to establish successful cross-disciplinary and multi-campus industry/university teams to understand and target the most vital problems in the industry. The speaker will give an overview of next-generation applications that have been pioneered in his laboratory using the FIB-based nanodevice prototyping approach in the general area of information processing and also discuss the potential to impact next-generation medical applications.

Short Bio: Professor Sakhrat Khizroev is an engineer and an educator with a research focus on nanotechnology applications in electronics and medicine. In 2011, he re-joined FIU as a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and one of the two founding Co-Directors of the Center for NanoMedicine (CNM) based at the FIU College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) in partnership with the new College of Medicine (COM) and the School or Arts and Sciences (SAS). The main mission of the Center is to use nanotechnology to bridge advances in fundamental research with the current need in medicine. The focus on practical research that could impact everyday clinical applications is the signature strategy of the Center. From 2006 to 2010, Khizroev was a tenured Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Riverside (UCR), where his group conducted several groundbreaking demonstrations in the area of nanoelectronics and nanodiagnostics. During his prior appointment at FIU, between 2003 and 2006, Khizroev contributed to the development of the Focused Ion Beam (FIB) laboratory within the Motorola Nanotechnology Facility, making FIU the first university across the globe where the popular tool was used from an unconventional angle as a nanodevice prototyping machine. Three-dimensional (3-D) nano-magneto-electronics and near-field optical transducers for 5-nm diagnostics are some of the pioneering and patented technologies that came from his laboratory at FIU.Prior to his academic career, Khizroev spent almost four years as a Research Staff Member with Seagate Research (1999-2003) and one year as a pre-doctoral intern with IBM Almaden Research Center (1997-1998). He holds over 28 granted patents and 130 provisional patents with IBM, Seagate, CMU, FIU, and UCR. He has authored/co-authored over 120 refereed papers, 5 books and book chapters in the broad area of nanotechnology devices. He has presented over 100 talks including many invited seminars and colloquia at international conferences and meetings. He has acted as a guest science and technology commentator on television and radio programs across the globe. He has served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, a guest editor for Nanotechnology and IEEE Transactions on Magnetics and sits on editorial boards of several Science and Technology journals. Together with his former graduate students, he has co-founded several high-technology start-ups funded through SBIR grants by the National Science Foundation. Khizroev received a BS in Quantum Electronics and Applied Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, a MS in Physics from the University of Miami, and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992, 1994, and 1999, respectively.

**Refreshments will be served.

Dr. Joydeep Mitra from Michigan State university visited Electrical and Computer Engineering and presented on Design of Microgrids: Architecture, Control and Protection. Here are some pictures from the presentation

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Dr. Michael Shur from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute visited Electrical and Computer Engineering and presented on Novel Plasmonic Devices for THz Applications. Here are some pictures from the presentation

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Dr.Walid Saad from University of Miami visited Energy Systems Research Lab and presented on a new concept, “Game Theory for Smart Grid”.

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IEEE Electron Device Society Distinguished Lecture Series

Novel Plasmonic Devices for THz Applications

by Dr. Michael Shur
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Date: Monday, April 9, 2012
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM,
Place: Room EC-3753 in the second floor of FIU College of Engineering and Computing
10555 W. Flagler Street, Miami, Florida, 33174.

Abstract:
The field effect transistor feature sizes have shrunk to the point, where ballistic (collisionless) mode of electron transport is becoming dominant. In the ballistic regime, the device physics is completely different. For example, the effective electron mobility becomes proportional to the device feature size. At THz and sub-THz frequencies, the ballistic transport affects devices even with relatively large (submicron scale) feature sizes. THz radiation excites the waves of the electron density (i.e. plasma waves) in transistor channels. These waves have characteristic frequencies in the THz range even for devices with feature sizes exceeding a few hundred nanometers. Rectification od plasma waves can be used for detecting THz radiation and for imaging and in-situ testing of transistor structures. Since propagation of plasma waves is strongly affected by the field distribution in the device channel, plasmonic devices exposed to THz radiation could resolve nanometer feature sizes. In ballistic devices, plasma waves become unstable and cause THz emission. Plasma wave electronics detectors and sources are tunable by applied bias voltage and can be modulated at frequencies up to hundreds of gigahertz. Using synchronized THz transistor arrays instead of single devices is predicted to improve performance of plasmonic THz electronic detectors and sources by several orders of magnitude.

Biography:
Dr. Michael Shur is the Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts Professor of Solid State Electronics in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. He received his master’s in electrical engineering in 1965 (with honors), from St. Petersburg Electrotechnical Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, and a Ph. D. (candidate) degree and Doctor of Physics and Mathematics degree from A.F. Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology, St. Petersburg, in 1967 and 1992, respectively. He has served as distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Electron Devices and the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technique Societies, given tutorials at conferences worldwide, taught courses for practicing engineers and given IEEE-sponsored lectures for academic researchers worldwide. He has taught at the University of Virginia, University of Minnesota, Oakland University, Cornell University, and Wayne State University and conducted research at the A.F. Ioffe Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia and at IBM in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. He has published and edited many key graduate texts in solid state electronics that have been translated into many languages. Dr. Shur also serves as editor-in-chief of the International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems and editor-in-chief of a book series on “Special Topics in Electronics and Systems.” An IEEE Fellow, he is listed by the Institute of Scientific Information as a highly cited researcher.
Contact: brammer@fiu.edu; (305) 348-2807
Map: http://campusmaps.fiu.edu/ (Other campuses/ – Engineering Center)

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Florida International University
College of Engineering & Computing

In Conjunction with the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Industry Applications Society

LLG micromagnetic analysis of perpendicular recording heads
-Future recording write and read heads-

Professor Yasushi KANAI, Dr. Eng.
Department of Information and Electronics Engineering
Niigata Institute of Technology, Japan

Date: March 26, 2012
Time: 2:30 PM
Place: ECE Department, FIU
10555 W. Flagler Street, Miami, Florida
ECE Conference Room (EC 3753)

Abstract:

In the first half, planar type recording write heads were investigated using a micromagnetic analysis targeting a transfer-rate of 5 GHz. Six different planar head structures with various yoke widths, yoke heights, and coil locations were modeled. Six different conventional single-pole type (SPT) write heads were also used for comparison. It was found that the planar heads had a faster high-frequency response, a larger recording field, and a smaller ATE field. In the planar head, the most dominant factor for high transfer-rate recording was the coil location relative to the main pole tip and the return yoke height, while the yoke width was less important. Because the multi-turn coil can be realized with a wide yoke, it is advantageous in the planar head.

In the second half, micromagnetic analysis of tunneling magnetoresistive (TMR) heads were carried out to investigate the thermal noise and the spin-transfer-torque noise. The calculated results showed the phenomena peculiar to the spin-transfer-torque noise. The calculated critical current density was in agreement with the measured one. As a future read head, scissors type, dual free-layered read head, was also investigated targeting an areal density of 4 terabit/inch².

For Seat Reservation Contact: Mr. Siva (svall030@fiu.edu)
For Lecture Information Contact Dr. O. A. Mohammed (o.mohammed@ieee.org) Tel: 305-348-3040.
Refreshments will be served.

The 20th Annual Future City Competition was held from September, 2011 through February, 2012. The National Future City Competition is sponsored in part by National Engineers Week Foundation, a consortium of professional and technical societies and major U.S. corporations. Major funding comes from Bentley Systems, Incorporated and Shell.
St. Thomas the Apostle won the first prize in the Regional Competition which was held in Engineering Center, Florida International University on 1/21/2012.
The following is the list of Schools participated in the competition.

1. Archimedean Middle Conservatory
2. Herbert A. Ammons Middle School
3. Jose Marti Mast
4. Kenwood K-8 Center
5. Nautilus Middle School
6. Saint Agnes Academy
7. St.Thomas The Apostale
8. West Miami Middle School

Click the below link to look at the presentation about Cloud Computing by Dr.Mazin Yousif

Presentation on Cloud computing (PDF)

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Cloud Computing – a Paradigm IT Changer
by Mazin Yousif, PhD
Chief Enterprise Architect and Head of Architecture for Shell at T-Systems International

Date: Thursday, November 17, 2011
Time: 11:00 AM,
Place: Room EC-2300 in the second floor of FIU College of Engineering and Computing
10555 W. Flagler Street, Miami, Florida, 33174.

Abstract:
Cloud Computing is an emerging computing paradigm envisioned to change all IT landscape facets including technology, business and services. It is a consumer/delivery model that offers IT capabilities as services billed based on usage. Many such cloud services can be envisioned, but the main ones are IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service), and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service). The underlying cloud architecture includes a pool of virtualized compute, storage and networking resources that can be aggregated and launched as platforms to run workloads and satisfy their Service-Level Agreement (SLA). Cloud architectures also include provisions to best guarantee service delivery for clients and at the same time optimize efficiency of resources of providers. Examples of provisions include, but not limited to, elasticity through scaling resources up/down to track workload behavior, extensive monitoring, failure mitigation, and energy optimizations. The two main technologies enabling clouds are: (i) Virtualization, the foundation of clouds; and (ii) manageability (autonomics), the command & control of clouds.
This talk is intended to provide an overview of cloud computing, its enabling technologies and current challenges. It will also
look at clouds’ IT/business ramifications as well as required future research.

Short Bio:
Dr. Yousif is the Chief Enterprise Architect and Head of Architecture for Shell at T-Systems International. Before that, he was the Chief Technology Officer for Cloud Computing in the Global Technology Services at IBM Canada. He also held various technical executive positions at Numonyx, Intel and IBM. Dr. Yousif was also a chief architect at Numonyx with focus on the role of Phase Change Memory (PCM) in servers’
architectures and datacenters optimizations. He was a principal engineer at Intel leading many projects on energy optimizations, virtualization and autonomic computing. He was also one of the principle architects defining the InfiniBand architecture (IBA) and chaired the management working group in the industry-wide InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA). During his tenure in industry, he has established and led many multi-international multi-company projects.
Dr. Yousif chairs the Advisory Board of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM). He founded the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Center for Autonomic Computing with three universities and 20+ companies. He is (was) an adjunct professor at 4 universities (Duke, North Carolina State, Arizona and the Oregon Graduate Institute). He chaired standard bodies, has served as General Chair or Program Chair for many conferences and serves in the editorial board of many journals. He is a frequent speaker in academic and industry conferences on various topics related to cloud, autonomic and green computing. He has also published extensively (more than 70 publications). During his tenure at Intel, he awarded eleven professors world-wide several Million of $US to conduct research. He is also in the IEEE Distinguished Visitors Program.

Dr. Yousif finished his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the Pennsylvania State University in 1987 and 1992, respectively.

For Information and attendance confirmation Contact: Faisal Kaleem (kaleemf@fiu.edu) or Dr. O. A. Mohammed (o.mohammed@ieee.org) Tel: 305-348-3040 or ieee.fiusb@gmail.com, http://sites.ieee.org/miami/