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IEEE Smart Tech Metro Area Workshops offer parallell, all-day track sessions that allow attendees to immerse themselves in a given technology. Below you will find the agenda and course description for each track. Attendees may choose one full-day track on each day of IEEE Smart Tech. Some tracks are repeated to accommodate schedules and ensure you won't miss anything.
Two-day schedule
All times are local to the specific venue. | Friday | Saturday |
Three tracks run concurrently all day, choose one:
| Three tracks run concurrently all day, choose one:
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7:00-8:00am | Registration and Continental Breakfast | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
8:00am | Opening Session | n/a |
8:30-10:00am | Track Session | Track Session |
10:00-10:30am | Break | Break |
10:30am-12:00pm | Track Session | Track Session |
12:00-1:00pm | Lunch | Lunch |
1:00-3:00pm | Track Session | Track Session |
3:00-3:30pm | Break | Break |
3:30-5:45pm | Track Session | Track Session |
6:15pm | Plenary Speaker Address | Workshop Series Ends at 5pm |
7:00-8:30pm | Evening Reception |
* Eligible for CEU credits.
Introduction to Smart Grid
Course content provided by IEEE Power & Energy Society.
This course provides a basic introduction to smart grid. It covers the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Conceptual Model and its domains and interfaces. The various definitions and focus areas of smart grid are described, as well as the current state of smart grid applications and how these drive infrastructure requirements.
Also explored in the course: Monitoring equipment used by smart grid applications in the network to generate data for analysis and improving customer service; issues involved with the integration of smart grid elements into utility operations; how distribution automation can be an enabling technology for smart grid; terminology and techniques of smart grid cyber security and the technology and techniques used to provide security; smart grid standards framework and the challenges associated with it, and an overview of smart grid network communications and the data needed in/out of the network.
CEU credits are earned by completing this course.
About the instructor: Jerry Melcher, an Executive Advisor with Quanta Technology, has over thirty years professional experience in the electric power industry and high performance technology management, including key positions with Landis & Gyr Systems, EPRI, and American Electric Power (AEP). He has extensive expertise in all aspects of the Smart Grid, including assessment, design, specification, and implementation of operational systems, utility communications power system controllers and field automation. His areas of expertise include Smart Metering, AMI Systems, Meter Data Management, Distribution Management, Energy Management, and Demand Response. Mr. Melcher is an internationally recognized top expert on Smart Grids including enterprise scale real-time operational systems. His expertise covers all aspects of Smart Grid from vision creation, functionality and benefits assessment, system architecture, design, specification, selection, project management, implementation and commissioning, operation, maintenance and life cycle management. Mr. Melcher has been at the forefront of Smart Grid development implementing advancements in power system controllers and setting up key metrics for Smart Grid performance.
Software Engineering Essentials
Course content provided by IEEE Computer Society.
This course is designed for experienced software development professionals interested in confirming their knowledge of essential, industry standard, software practices. CEU credits are earned by completing this course.
The course overviews all 15 Knowledge Areas presented in the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) with a special focus on principles and practices of Software Requirements, Design, Construction and Testing.
Sample quizzes throughout the day test knowledge on specific topic areas chosen from each SWEBOK Knowledge Area, and provide immediate assessment on one's knowledge of that topic.
The course materials are derived from the IEEE Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP) Assessment Course curriculum. The CSDP is the premier credential for software engineers and software development professionals embracing the principles, standards and practices of software engineering to create more robust and valuable programs and applications. Increasingly more employers are recommending or requiring the CSDP in their job descriptions when advertising for software professionals.
Whether you manage a software development group or are an individual contributor, this is a great opportunity to increase your overall knowledge of the software development life cycle – making you more valuable to your company.
CEU credits are earned by completing this course.
Wireless Communications Engineering
Course content provided by IEEE Communications Society.
This course is recommended for professionals working in the wireless field, or practitioners and graduate level students interested in learning more about wireless communications.
Beginning with an introduction to wireless systems and key practical concepts, the course then helps gain a deeper understanding of an RF propagation environment and the corresponding considerations in radio engineering, antennas and link design; the key features of LTE-Advanced; packet switching vs. circuit switching; the evolution to all-IP networks, and wireless security threats.
The course also addresses access technology evolution from 3G to beyond 3G; macro, micro, pico-cells in relation to 3GPP and IEEE Wireless Standards and services technologies evolution and standardization. The course continues on to network management and self-organizing networks and concludes with a wrap up that addresses key concepts, trends and technologies to end-to-end practical engineering.
CEU credits are earned by completing this course.
About the instructor: K. Daniel Wong is President of Daniel Wireless LLC, a California-registered company that provides consulting and training in wireless, networking and software. Daniel has 18 years experience in wireless communications, both in industry and academia. His research work has covered a wide range of areas in wireless communications and has been widely published in top journals and conferences.
Daniel is also an experienced speaker and teacher, having taught many highly-rated university level courses, industry short courses and tutorials at conferences, to a wide range of students from industry, government and academia. He is a member of the Practice Analysis Task Force that helped create IEEE’s WCET certification program, and a co-author and co-editor of IEEE’s Wireless Engineering Book of Knowledge(WEBOK). Daniel is also the author of Wireless Internet Telecommunications (Artech House, 2004).
Originally from Malaysia, he received The Outstanding Young Malaysian award in 2007 (in the Science and Technology category). Daniel graduated with a BSE (with Highest Honors) from Princeton University, and an MSc. and Ph.D from Stanford University, all in electrical engineering.
Career Assistance
Course content provided by IEEE-USA.
Presented by volunteer members of the IEEE-USA Employment and Career Services Committee (ECSC), the goal of this workshop is to assist engineers and technology professionals in developing lifelong employability, in a continuously changing career and employment environment, by focusing on their own professional and career development. The workshop will provide information and tools that will help engineers and technology professionals with:
- Developing networking and job seeking skills
- Achieving career satisfaction
- Improving the ability to take responsibility for personal career and professional development
- Emphasizing that career and professional development involves both technical and non-technical areas
- Learning how to make organizations more productive
Specific topics that will be discussed in the workshop may include:
- Managing your Career as a Business
- Career Strategy
- Networking
- Job Searching
- Resumes
- Interviewing
- Consulting
- Globalization and your Career
Throughout the Career Assistance track, the presenters will highlight the unique resources that IEEE makes available to help engineers and technology professionals manage their careers, including the wealth of on-line tools and the power of the IEEE network.
Plenary speakers
Austin, 21 October 2011
Ahmed H Tewfik received his B.Sc. degree from Cairo University, Cairo Egypt, in 1982 and his M.Sc., E.E. and Sc.D. degrees from MIT, in 1984, 1985 and 1987 respectively. He is the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering and the Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Univeristy of Texas Austin. He was the E. F. Johnson professor of Electronic Communications with the department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota until September 2010. Dr. Tewfik worked at Alphatech, Inc. and served as a consultant to several companies. From August 1997 to August 2001, he was the President and CEO of Cognicity, Inc., an entertainment marketing software tools publisher that he co-founded, on partial leave of absence from the University of Minnesota. His current research interests are in minimally invasive surgery, genomics and proteomics,, brain computing interfaces and programmable wireless networks. Prof. Tewfik is a Fellow of the IEEE. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 1997 - 1999. He received the IEEE third Millennium award in 2000. He was elected to the position of VP Technical Directions of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2009 and served on the board of governors of that Society from 2006 to 2008. He has given several plenary and keynote lectures at IEEE conferences.
Huntsville, 4 November 2011
David A. King, former Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and Executive Vice President at Dynetics, Inc.
David A. King was the tenth Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center located in Huntsville, Alabama. He was appointed to the position on June 15, 2003. He announced his retirement from NASA on March 26, 2009. Soon thereafter, King started in the position of Executive Vice President at Dynetics, Inc., a Huntsville-based defense contractor.
King joined NASA in 1983 as a main propulsion system engineer. In 1983, he served as flow director, overseeing preflight preparation, test and checkout for the Space Shuttle Discovery. He was appointed acting deputy director of the Installation Operations Directorate in 1995; deputy director of Shuttle Processing in 1996; Shuttle launch director in 1997; and director of Shuttle Processing in 1999.
King served as deputy director of the Marshall Space Flight Center from November 2002 until his appointment as director, and served as the senior on-site NASA official during recovery operations for the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
King has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of South Carolina, and in 1991 a master’s degree in business administration from the Florida Institute of Technology.
