Section Activities

Our General Membership Meeting (our one yearly social) is scheduled for December 12th at the Fogcutter restaurant at 6:30 PM. Please mark your calendars and join us. At this meeting we will also hold the election for next year's Section Officers. For reservations, please contact Sonya Hutchinson at 544-3312 or by e-mail at sonya.hutchinson@ieee.org.

IEEE Members Select Michael S. Adler As 2002 IEEE President-Elect

Michael S. Adler, Vice President of Technology at Mechanical Technology, Inc., Albany, N.Y., and Research Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., has been selected 2002 IEEE president-elect. Pending acceptance of the Teller's Committee report by the IEEE Board of Directors, Adler will begin serving as IEEE president on 1 Jan. 2003. He will succeed 2002 IEEE President Raymond D. Findlay, Vice President of JDRF Electromag Engineering Research, Inc., Ontario, Canada.

Adler, an IEEE Fellow, has been an IEEE member since joining in 1965 as a student. He served on the IEEE Board of Directors from 1996-97 and again from 1999-00, holding positions as Division I director, vice president of Technical Activities and as vice president of Publications Activities, respectively. He was treasurer of the Publications, Products & Services Board in 2001 and has served on numerous committees and taken on many other leadership roles within the organization, including chair of the Transnational Committee in 1998. Adler was awarded the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000. Adler worked at General Electric from 1971 until his retirement in 2000. His technical expertise includes the fields of power electronics, control systems and high-density electronic assemblies among other areas.

IEEE Published New Wireless Personal Area Network Standard

P802.15.1 D0.9.2 Draft Standard for Part 15.1: Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) specifications for Wireless Personal Area Networks TM (WPANs TM) 2001 Project scope: To define PHY and MAC specifications for wireless connectivity with fixed, portable and moving devices within or entering a Personal Operating Space (POS). Project purpose: To provide a standard for low complexity, low power consumption wireless connectivity to support interoperability among devices within or entering the POS. This includes devices that are carried, worn, or located near the body. The proposed project will address Quality of Service to support a variety of traffic classes.

IEEE Published New LAN/MAN Standard

802.1X-2001 IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Standard for Port based Network Access Control 2001 Port-based network access control makes use of the physical access characteristics of IEEE 802 Local Area Networks (LAN) infrastructures in order to provide a means of authenticating and authorizing devices attached to a LAN port that has point-to-point connection characteristics, and of preventing access to that port in cases in which the authentication and authorization process fails.

IEEE-USA Sponsors Science and Engineering Scholarship Fund

IEEE-USA and 36 technical and scientific societies representing more than one million members have joined together in sponsoring the Science and Engineering Scholarship Fund. Financially needy dependents of both domestic and foreign victims of the terrorist attacks on 11 Sept. can rely on the fund to help them pursue science and engineering degrees at U.S. colleges and universities. The American Physical Society is coordinating the initiative as part of a larger effort, the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund, led by former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. For more information, visit IEEE-USA.