6th Lecture of IEEE CS San Diego's 2026 Invited Seminar Series (Virtual)

This talk provides an overview of some prominent laminate material characterization techniques that are crucial for evaluating laminate permittivity and losses. These techniques are compared and contrasted with newer in-situ methodologies that excel at extracting parameters that yield highly accurate measurement-simulation correlation, highlighting where they excel and where they fall short.

The talk also demonstrates some common phenomena that can lead to dispersion in the measured time delay and effective dielectric constant, namely anomalous dispersion from discontinuities and non-TEM dispersion in microstrip structures.

Roasted Ocean Prawns GF: Oven roasted with garlic butter, lemon and gremolata.

Lemon Chicken: Chargrilled chicken breast marinated in lemon zest and Herbes de Provence served over basmati rice pilaf.

Pasta Primavera: Fresh fettuccine tossed with seasonal vegetables and our herbed cream sauce. Finished with Parmesan cheese.

The advent of artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, data centers, health, automotive and communication is driving the quest for more creative integration methods. Future packaging technologies will exhibit high interconnect densities and large numbers of diverse components and devices. Such schemes are expected to offer relaxed transactions between components, increased bandwidth, and better energy efficiency. To achieve these potentials, the implementation of these systems will require assistance from design tools  that can handle unmatched levels of complexity and highly complex computational challenges. This talk will address recent developments in computer-aided design (CAD) tools for interconnects and packages. We will emphasize the signal integrity, power and bandwidth requirements. Multi-domain and multi-physics challenges will be explored as well as potential co-design solutions.

You're invited to join us for our IEEE bowling event, hosted at Kenmore Lanes, co-hosted by the IEEE Seattle Section SAC and the IEEE Seattle YP Affinity Group! Strengthen your professional and social network with other members in the community while enjoying a wonderful game of bowling. Our goal is simply to have fun together. There will be free food and drinks provided.

Before you enter, here are the registration fees:

• IEEE Members:
• Non-Members:
• Students: Free

Join IEEE Hawaiʻi Women in Engineering (WIE) for a relaxing and creative Girls' Night Out! Take a break from work and school to unwind with fellow IEEE members while enjoying a Studio Ghibli puzzle activity and DIY keychain making.

This event is a wonderful opportunity to build friendships, network with other women in STEM, and enjoy a fun, welcoming evening together.

✨ Come relax, create, and connect with the IEEE WIE community. We look forward to seeing you!

• 🧩 Complete a Studio Ghibli puzzle together
• 🔑 Design and create your own personalized keychain
• 💬 Enjoy conversations and connect with fellow women in engineering and STEM

IEEE members, students, and friends interested in supporting the IEEE WIE community are welcome.

Please attend the 2026 IEEE Oregon Section Summer Social at Next Level Pinball Shop & Museum

Sign up to volunteer today! Google Form Link (https://forms.gle/KSkkUYPK2QVNQrKS7)

Where: Glad Tidings Family Life Complex

When: 7/27, 2pm to 7:00pm.

Who: For volunteering, college students and professionals are welcome to join!

STEM education is more than just learning about technology or engineering—it’s about developing critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills that are essential in today’s world. By exposing your child to STEM:

• Help them discover new interests and talents.
• Prepare them for high-paying and rewarding careers.
• Show them that they can be creators, innovators, and leaders.

Schedule:

2:15 - 2:30 PM | Welcome & Kickoff

• Welcome
• Event Overview
• Review of safety rules
• Introduction of volunteers, experiment leads, and technology demonstrators

2:30 PM | Presentation #1

Three classes (Build New Car/ attach Robot Arm, Troubleshoot Car/ Review/ Coding, and Art class)

2:45 PM- 5 PM | Build Car and Logo Art Design

5:00 PM– 5:40 PM | Dinner  

6:00 PM– 6:45 PM | Finish Car Building, and Test obstacle course/ race track

6:45 – 7:00 PM | Closing, Photos & Thank You

Our Program’s Commitment

Through our partnership with the IEEE Oakland-East Bay Section, TryEngineering, and Glad Tidings, we are dedicated to fostering a supportive and inclusive environment. Here’s why this program is unique:

Mentors Who Care: STEM professionals from your community will guide your child every step of the way.

• Hands-On Learning: Engaging activities like designing bridges, building robots, and creating LED circuits make learning exciting.

Equity in Education: Our goal is to provide access and opportunity to all children, particularly those in underrepresented communities. 

We understand the vital role parents play in their child’s success. During the event, you’ll:

• See firsthand how STEM activities boost confidence and teamwork.
• Learn about free and affordable resources to continue your child’s STEM journey.
• Meet other parents who share the same goal of empowering their children.

This is a chance to show your child that their dreams matter and that they belong in STEM fields. Secure your spot today!

Register by March 23th
To ensure we have the proper supplies and resources, please RSVP by end of day March. 23, so we can better plan the workshop.

Together, let’s inspire a generation of problem solvers, innovators, and dreamers. We look forward to seeing you there!

Warm regards,
Aaron Lin, IEEE
Benita McLarin, Glad Tidings

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming how organizations generate revenue, streamline operations, and automate complex business processes. From intelligent sales prospecting and personalized customer engagement to autonomous AI agents capable of reasoning, planning, and executing multi-step workflows, AI is becoming an essential driver of business efficiency and competitive advantage.

Following our June session on AI-Powered Productivity, the IEEE Orange County Computer Society GET-AI Series continues with a practical, demo-driven July session focused on how organizations can leverage AI to improve efficiency, reduce operational costs, accelerate business processes, and build intelligent enterprise applications.

This double-feature session combines business and technical perspectives to demonstrate how AI can optimize both customer-facing and enterprise workflows through intelligent automation, advanced prompting techniques, and production-ready AI agent architectures.

As organizations increasingly adopt AI across their operations, the challenge is no longer simply using AI it is applying it strategically to create measurable business value.

This session explores how AI can help organizations:

• Improve operational efficiency through intelligent automation
• Reduce manual effort and operational costs
• Increase sales pipeline quality using AI-driven insights
• Automate repetitive business workflows
• Build enterprise-grade autonomous AI agents to Save Cost

Whether you're a business leader, consultant, architect, developer, product manager, or AI enthusiast, this session provides practical strategies and demonstrations that can be immediately applied within your organization.

Through live demonstrations, this session explores how LangGraph enables developers to build production-ready AI systems that are reliable, scalable, and designed to create efficient enterprise workflows. Attendees will learn how to move beyond simple LLM applications to intelligent agent architectures that streamline operations, optimize resource utilization, and reduce the cost of developing and operating AI-powered solutions.

• LangGraph fundamentals
• Designing efficient AI workflows
• Enterprise AI agent architecture
• Memory and state management
• Tool orchestration and workflow automation
• Human-in-the-loop approvals
• Multi-agent collaboration
• Enterprise automation and cost optimization patterns
• Best practices for building scalable, production-ready AI systems

👉 Takeaway: Learn how to build efficient, enterprise-grade AI systems that automate complex workflows, optimize business operations, reduce development and operational costs, and deliver measurable business value through intelligent automation.

This session demonstrates how AI can fundamentally transform go-to-market execution by identifying real-time business opportunities through trigger events, market signals, sentiment analysis, and intelligent prospecting.

Through live demonstrations, attendees will learn how AI can generate highly personalized outreach, automate prospect research, and enable sales teams to focus on meaningful customer engagement instead of manual list building.

• AI-driven sales intelligence
• Intelligent prospect discovery
• Event-driven customer engagement
• Effective prompting for business workflows
• Hyper-personalized outreach
• Reducing customer acquisition costs
• Improving pipeline quality through AI

👉 Takeaway: Learn how AI can improve sales efficiency, reduce manual effort, and create higher-quality business opportunities through intelligent automation.

Pradyumna Kodgi
Principal Product Manager | Oracle Health & AI
IEEE Senior Member | Vice Chair, IEEE EMBS – Orange County
Member, IEEE AI Agentic Systems & AI Policy Committees

📍 California, USA
📧 pkodgi@ieee.org
🔗 linkedin.com/in/pkodgi

We are organizing part5 of the IEEE San Diego Electronics Packaging Society (EPS) chapter meeting.

The agenda is as follows:

1. Next technical lectures
2. About EPS subsidy
3. Webpage development & Linkedin page
4. IMAPS collaboration 
5. Ask EPS for merchandise/swag 
6. Membership drive
7. Invite student chapters 
8. Booth at local events 

Meeting Announcement: San Diego IEEE Life Members Affinity Group – Tuesday, July 28, 6 pm

Join us for our upcoming gathering!

We are pleased to announce the next meeting of the San Diego IEEE Life Members Affinity Group. All members are warmly invited to join us for an evening of camaraderie, conversation, and connection.  This will be an in person meeting.

·       Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2026

·       Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

·       Location: Crust Pizzeria

·       124 Solana Hills Dr.

·       Solana Beach, CA 92075

·       Phone: 858.356.9925

Speaker: Dr. Stan Rifkin

Topic for Discussion: The Future of Electronics at the Subatomic Particle (Quantum) Level. (This was the topic that was supposed to be presented at our February meeting earlier this year.)

 "Our Life Member roles in helping young people understand the future of electricity and electronics - at the subatomic level."  We Life Members have exhibited considerable interest in helping students at all levels understand electricity, electronics, and our professions. I am wondering if we are preparing them for a different understanding of electricity than we learned, one that has gained currency (pun optional).

We encourage all San Diego IEEE Life Members to attend and to bring along any colleagues or friends who may be interested. This is a great opportunity to network, share ideas, and enjoy delicious food in a friendly setting.

If you have any questions or require further information, please contact the venue or reach out to Bill Torre, 619-417-9410. We look forward to seeing you there!

Virtual meeting access will also be provided, below is a Webex link:

Agenda

1. Introductions
2. Logistics  - Order Food
3. The Future of Electronics at the Subatomic Particle (Quantum) Level.
4. Summary of Meeting with San Diego STEAM Generation (San Diego HS STEM)
5. Next Meeting

Webex Meeting Information:

A Webex meeting link for this meeting will be sent out separately soon.  Thanks.

Humans have managed to pollute the land, the seas, and the atmosphere of our precious planet. We now realize the dangers of such pollution and are working hard to reverse, to the extent possible, the processes that create such pollution. Another kind of pollution is beginning to endanger our well-being as a species. The problem is often referred to as “space junk.” In the seven decades since the advent of space flight in 1957, we have launched a large number of satellites, some of which are still functional and provide valuable services in communications, monitoring, observation, navigation, and surveillance. The number of such satellites has been growing steadily and is slated for even greater growth with our insatiable need for additional communication bandwidth and proposals for exotic projects such as energy harvesting and space-based data centers. Alongside the functioning satellites, we also have dead satellites and a host of space trash: Discarded rocket parts, ballistic missile pieces, debris created by explosions or collision between space objects, dropped tools, coolant droplets, and thermal paint flakes. Until now, we have managed to deal with such space junk, given the fairly low density of objects and the vastness of space. We are now at a critical stage when detection followed by evasive maneuvers to dodge space junk is becoming less feasible. NASA estimates that by early 2025, there were more than 25,000 fairly large objects in Earth's orbit. The number of space junk items may increase exponentially due to collisions between existing items. It is high time that we give serious thought to dealing with trash in space, as we do on Earth.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society Industry Board and Santa Clara Valley Chapter are pleased to announce an upcoming event on Video Coding Standards in the Age of AI which will be held on July 30, 2026 in Palo Alto, CA.

As AI continues to evolve, it is playing an increasingly important role in next-generation signal processing and multimedia technologies. At the same time, major international and open-source standardization organizations are actively exploring how AI can be integrated into future standards. This event will bring together experts from industry and the standards community to discuss the latest advances in AI for video coding, current standardization efforts, and future research directions.

Speakers

This event features distinguished speakers from industry and standardization community:

• Arianne Hinds (INCITS L3 Chair)
• Debargha Mukherjee (Google, Principal Engineer / Director)
• Alican Nalci (Meta, Research Scientist)
• Leo Zhao (Tencent, Principal Research Scientist)

Whether you are a researcher, engineer, student, or practitioner interested in AI and video compression, we warmly welcome you to join us for an evening of technical discussions and networking with leaders from academia and industry.

IEEE Alaska Executive Committee Meeting

Tuesday, August 4, 2026 ⋅ 6:00 – 7:30pm (Alaska Time - Anchorage)

Jeremie Smith is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting using the IEEE Alaska Section Account

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/98832778456?pwd=WnhVWFpOOGQ0YkZEVnlqMlJjWG5lZz09

Meeting ID: 988 3277 8456
Passcode: 269832

Please register if you will be attending.

EXCOM Meeting for IEEE PES Seattle Officers 

We hope you are having a great summer break. We are excited to invite student interns, recent graduates, young professionals, and industry leaders to our outdoor casual networking event at Log Boom Park in Kenmore, WA. Enjoy this relaxed setting to connect and share your experiences. Food and drinks will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there.

IEEE Orange County PES/IAS Chapter's ExCom meeting

All IEEE OC PES/IAS Chapter members are requested to attend this meeting. 

To AVOID unauthorized attendance you MUST REGISTER for this event so that you can be sent the meeting link.

CHEERS OCEANEERS! August 12th, 2026

This month is about RoboSub!  Our main presentation is from Teagan Darling and other team members from Miramar College Engineering Club.

Miramar College Engineering Club: RoboSub 2026 Overview

The Miramar College Engineering Club just competed in its first year of the RoboSub competition. This competition tasks students from around the world with creating Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) with the goal of completing a series of increasingly difficult tasks and claiming the title of RoboSub 2026 Champion.

This talk will give an overview of the team’s trials, tribulations, innovative fixes, spectacular… let’s call them missteps, and great connections formed over the past year.

In addition, we will have Leverett Bezanson, Chair of the Marine Technology Society (MTS), present information about their last cycle of internships including some details about the projects that they worked on.
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Welcome to the monthly event for the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES), San Diego Chapter, which is hosting this meeting jointly along with TMA BlueTech (The Maritime Alliance), and MTS (Marine Technology Society).

Please join us for the main presentation and also plenty of time for networking and friendly conversation about everything oceanic, engineering, science, Blue Tech, and more.  No need to be an IEEE or OES member, or TMA, or MTS.  Everyone is invited.

This month, we will be at Quantum Brewing again, a cool science-themed brewery founded by a biochemist.

No ticket required, but please order something for yourself from the brewery.

Please grab a bite from a nearby restaurant, which is okay to bring into the brewery per the owner.

The food and drinks are not being funded by the hosts.  Please open your own tab.

IEEE Orange County Section Executive Committee Monthly meeting - occurs every 2nd Thursday of the month. 

All IEEE OC Committee/Chapter/Affinity/SIG Chair/Key Volunteers (or their proxy) are requested to attend. Other IEEE members are also welcome to attend. Please RSVP here to receive the meeting login information. Routine attendance is required to qualify for your chapter's annual IEEE rebate.

To AVOID unauthorized attendance, you MUST REGISTER for this event so that you can be sent the meeting link.

How are companies actually adopting AI today?

This informal IEEE networking session is designed for engineers, researchers, and industry practitioners to share real-world experiences around AI adoption — what’s working, what’s not, and where teams are facing challenges.

This is not a talk or presentation.
There are no slides — just a curated, peer-level discussion.

Topics may include:

• Where teams are in their AI adoption journey (experimentation → production)
• Use of LLMs and AI systems in real-world workflows
• Challenges in scaling AI beyond prototypes
• Measuring impact and ROI
• Build vs. buy decisions

The session is intentionally kept small to enable meaningful interaction.

• Short introductions (name, role, current AI focus)
• Open discussion guided by participant experiences
• Informal networking

• Engineers and ML practitioners working on AI systems
• Product and platform leaders involved in AI adoption
• Founders and technical decision-makers
• Researchers interested in applied AI systems

• No presentations or sales pitches
• Participation is encouraged — come ready to share and learn
• Limited capacity to maintain quality of discussion

Chhavi Jain
Vice Chair, IEEE Signal Processing Society – San Diego Chapter

This session is part of an ongoing IEEE initiative to connect practitioners working on real-world AI systems and deployment challenges.

This is the monthly PES chapter's Executive Committee meeting.  Typically, an hour to discuss old business and new business.

We focus on the upcoming events.  Senior member activity, Section Picnic, and Holiday Party, Future City Event. + technical events.