From: rfreeman@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Robert E. Freeman)
Newsgroups: ba.seminars,ucb.seminars,ba.general,ucb.general,ba.broadcast
Subject: NEW! IEEE Satellite Videoconferences at UCB
Summary: We will be hosting interactive broadcasts of topics important to academica and industry: Virtual Reality, HDTV, interference
Keywords: IEEE, conference, UCSEE, ee, engineers, new
Date: 6 Sep 92 23:57:50 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: IEEE student chapter at University of California, Berkeley


     The University of California Society of Electrical Engineers,
the student chapter of the IEEE at UC Berkeley, acquired a satellite 
downlink last semester.  We are now an official site for this year's remaining
IEEE satellite videoconferneces.  These live conferences allow people at our 
site to call in with questions and have them answered via satellite. The 
remainder of this article describes the upcoming conferences.  Space is 
limited, so sign up early to assure a seat. You must be a current IEEE member
to be eligible to attend.  The three conferences are: 
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: Will your company be ready? (9/30 9AM-12:30)
HOW WILL WE BROADCAST HDTV? (10/29 9AM-12:30)
GETTING RID OF INTERFERENCE (12/3 9AM-12:30)

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: Will your company be ready? (9/30 9AM-12:30)
Speakers: Dr. Leo Young, staff specialist, the Pentagon
	  Professor Richard Newton, UC Berkeley
          Dr. Eugene Meieran, Intel Fellow
	  Professor Michael Moshell, University of Central Florida
 	Emerging technologies present new opportunities -- and risks. Knowing
how computer aids can and will be used is certain to change the way you 
plan your research and design your products if you want to remain competitive.
This new industrial revolution through information technology can save time 
and money, offer greater flexibility and variety in product design, and help
bring products more rapidly to market. 
	After an introduction and overview, the panel will describe and 
discuss three aspects of computer aids: small (microcircuts), large 
(factories), and man-in-the-system technologies.  The three points of 
discussion will cover computer aids in engineering and design, computer 
assisted agile manufacturing, and computer aids to visualing situations, 
including people interactions through "virtual reality," with applications for 
business, education, the battlefield, and others.  The panelists will 
illustrate with actual examples and discuss potential applications.
	Course Objectives:
1. How computers aids will revolutionize your work place when "virtual reality"
brings developing situations to life.
2. About the many applications of "virtual reality" in design, education, 
training, medicine, entertainment, economics and manufacturing.
3. From actual video demonstrations that will illustrate how these computer
aids can be used. 


HOW WILL WE BROADCAST HDTV? (10/29 9AM-12:30)
Speakers: Dr. Jules Bellisio, Video and Signal Process. Research, Bellcore
	  James McKinney, Advanced Television Systems Committee, Wash. DC
	  Wayne Luplow, VP of R&D, Zenith Electronics Corporation
	Recent advances in video compression have changed our ideas about the 
transport of television.  New digital technology will be used in North 
America's next generation system for broadcasting HDTV. This program will not 
only explain how this pace-setting television system will be standardized, but
also show how it will impact a broad range of applications from non-broadcast
entertainment to multimedia. Understanding the revolution in video is required
knowledge for all mangers and technicians responsible for systems where display
is a critical component.  
	Course Objectives:
1.) How North America will select a new standard for HDTV.
2.) The special techniques used for broadcast HDTV.
3.) How modern digital video compression systems from low bit rate 
videophone to HDTV actually work
4.) The impact of this new technology on consumer products, multimedia, and
methods of delivery other than broadcast. 

GETTING RID OF INTERFERENCE (12/3 9AM-12:30)
Speakers: Professor Hugh Denny, Director Electromagnetic Environmental 
		Effects Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology
	  Kenneth Keenan, VP, Engineering, TKC Company
	  David Millard, Principal Engineer, EEE lab (above), GIT
	Interference can be minimized by control at the source, the receptor
and through the coupling path. Getting rid of interference speeds and improves
your design, test and working process.  This videoconference will show you how
to minimize coupling between sources through the application of impedance 
control, balancing, shielding, grounding, signal blocking and electronic surge
suppression. The presenters will highlight the principals of component 
selection and waveform design. We will illustrate the principals of sensitivity
control, parity checking, and redundancy, filtering, shielding and grounding.
Techniques of layering, component placement, signal routing, and power and 
ground plane segmentation for minimization of conducted and radiated emissions
from the source will be presented along with fundamental rules of filtering,
bonding, grounding and shielding. 
	Course Objectives:
1.) How interference arises, how it couples from the source to the receptor, 
and how it causes conflict with desired signals in the receptor.
2.) How to apply component selection and equipment design principles for 
minimum interference.
3.) PC Board design for minimum interference
4.) Techniques for keeping interference-producing signals from crossing 
equipment boundaries. 
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Again, you must be an IEEE member.  IEEE membership forms are available
on request. We ask for a donation of $40.00 to cover lunch at noon,
photocoping fees for handouts which contain a set of notes, biographies
and bibliographies, and help cover the cost of the equipment.  The
conference will be in 200 Cory Hall (the UCSEE Moore Room), shown on a 31" 
color TV we bought last semester.  The conference starts at 9:00AM  promptly,
and ends at noon.  From noon until about 1pm or so, there will be an 
opportunity to discuss the topics covered with UCB faculty and students who 
attend.  A telephone will be provided to ask topical questions of the 
speakers during the broadcast. 

Contact Robert Freeman [freeman@ucsee.berkeley.edu] [(510) 849-2454]
for more information or to make a reservation.