This talk will provide an overview of radiation effects in integrated circuits and discuss radiation
hardening techniques. The talk will focus on single-event effects (SEE) and will review the impact of
SEE in storage and combinational logic circuits. The semiconductor industry has been striving to keep up
with Moore’s law scaling predictions through innovative process solutions from planar to FinFET and to
current nanosheet processes. This has helped develop high-performance application specific integrated
circuits (ASIC) to suit a variety of space and terrestrial applications. On the other hand, with technology
scaling and the associated increase in packing densities and reduction in operating voltages, the critical
charge needed to cause single-event effects in digital circuits has decreased significantly resulting in
increased vulnerability to radiation. This talk will review hardening-by-design approaches used for
overcoming single-events in memories, latches and logic circuits. Error correction techniques for
memories along with spacial- and time- redundancy based approaches for latches and logic circuits will
be presented. Recent advancement in the radiation-tolerant design approaches that tradeoff performance
penalty with the extent of radiation tolerance to suit different applications will be discussed along with the
performance overhead vs. radiation tolerance comparisons. Finally, the talk will review scaling trends and
bias dependence of single-event upset rates from planar to FinFET processes with an emphasis on the
opportunities and challenges for radiation hardening in highly scaled technologies.

Please join the IEEE Seattle Section  January  20th EXCOM Meeting at Seattle University 

 Prior to EXCOM ,  6pm -  6:50pm  Distinquished  speaker

Speaker :Manav Kapoor, Senior Technical Product Manager, Amazon

Topic: AI-Driven Bad Actor Detection and Remediation: Bridging the Gap from Detection to Enforcement

1. How to evaluate AI fraud capabilities that matter: real-time decisioning under 200ms, 40-60% fewer false positives, and seamless customer experience without added friction.
2. Why scaling detection without enforcement infrastructure creates operational debt, and how to right-size AI investment for measurable business outcomes.
3. Co-branded card fraud patterns unique to loyalty programs (points laundering, synthetic redemption, promo abuse) and how to build detection rules that protect brand partners without blocking legitimate high-value customers.
4. How to structure the fraud prevention P&L: balancing direct loss prevention against false positive costs, customer churn from declined transactions, and operational expense of manual review queues.

SETI, or the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, attempts to answer one of humanity’s oldest questions: Are we alone in the universe?  While astronomers have devoted significant effort to finding exoplanets and trying to observe evidence of remote astro-biology, a parallel exploration involves observation of “technosignatures”, or radio signals that originate outside the solar system with characteristics suggesting an intelligent source.

In many ways radio SETI is a special class of communications problem in the realm of electrical engineering, with aspects of game theory in the mix.  Consider the challenges: the signal is unknown, and may be intentional (a beacon) or unintentional (involving navigation or communications).  The transmit frequency is unknown.  If a limited message is sent, the modulation will be unknown, and even if bits are produced, the message must be decoded.  Energy or geometry may limit persistence, so only a small fraction of observations in any pointing direction will have a chance at detection.  Without knowledge of the signal, matched filtering is not possible.  Link budgets may force limits on the signal bandwidth (narrowband tones) or time duration (pulse trains).

This talk will introduce the SETI problem and describe the scope of efforts underway in the radio SETI community.  Search strategies to maximize detection rate will be described, and narrowband SETI algorithms will be introduced.  In recent years, SETI search capabilities have vastly improved with the use of interferometric arrays covering GHz-class bandwidths, commensal observing, and the use of racks of GPU-enhanced servers, significantly raising the potential for new discoveries.

The officers of the Oregon/SW Washington Chapter of the Industry Applications Society invite you to join us Wednesday evening, January 21, 2026, for our dinner, meeting, and technical presentation.  We appreciate the support of all who attend our dinners and presentations.  We will be meeting at our “home base” MEGI Engineering in Lake Oswego. This location is easy to access by car from the Interstate 5 Kruse Way/Lake Oswego exits. Ample free parking and entrance at the East side of the building.

The cost for dinner is with food from QDOBA Mexican Eats. There is no charge to attend the presentation only.  Our IAS Chapter always offers free dinners for local PSU, OSU, George Fox, U of P, OIT and WSUV Electrical Engineering Students who attend our meetings. This is an excellent networking opportunity for students as our meetings are attended by many professionals in consulting, industrial engineering, and electrical equipment manufacturing.

Location - Rusty’s Pizza                                                   

5934 Calle Real, Goleta, CA 93117

6:00 PM – Complimentary Pizza, Salad, Beverage

6:30 PM – Central Coast Status

6:35 PM – Mike Ricci Presents

Please Register Below and join us on for the January Tech talk, where Mike will honor us with an interesting talk on LaunchPoint's patented lightweight permanent magnet starter generator and discuss our applications of it to hybrid-electric flight. Mike is my CTO, he is a brilliant engineer, IEEE Central Coast is lucky to have him come and talk with us! He is a great presenter and I am also excited to hear his talk and I’ve been working with him for the past 3 years!  Best regards, Jordan Ross IEEE Central Coast PACE Chair.

Link to Register yourself and Guests

NOTE: On-site registration is fully booked; we have reached the limits of our facility.  Please join us on-line.

Hybrid Bonding has emerged as the technology of choice in the semiconductor industry for ultra-fine-pitch interconnection. With significant benefits for interconnect density and device performance, it will become widely adopted for a broad range of high-performance semiconductor devices in the years to come. The success of Hybrid Bonding technology for high-volume manufacturing depends critically on the process technology as well as materials and equipment. Design, performance characterization, thermal management and reliability are also important considerations to enable applications in various areas.

Join us to learn about this expanding field, and discover how it will affect heterogeneous integration and system design.  We expect registrations for our on-site program to be filled by the middle of January; we apologize if you are not able to attend in person, but we encourage you to join us via WebEx. 

First Official Officer Meeting of the Spring 2026 Semester.

This will be a time where officers will meet together to talk about plans for the upcoming semester and what events will the IEEE club hold for this first phase of the semester.

Officer Notes*

Dr. Alvin Loke from Intel Corporation will be presenting a Distinguished Lecturer Seminar titled "The Road to Gate-All-Around CMOS" on Friday January 23rd at 11:00 AM. This will be the first talk of a two talk series.

Online attendees may register through the following link: https://hawaii.zoom.us/meeting/register/V_Dt2HHoSimgCRRZRGWg1w

Please note that online attendance is ineligible for seminar credit.

Registration link to second talk "Impact of Advanced CMOS Technology on Analog Design": https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/518258

Are you setting the vision for your section, chapter, or affinity group?  Do you wonder what success looks like for your section, chapter, affinity group, or members?  This can be very different based on situations.  We’ll take a high level look at what success looks like and then discuss different ways to engage your membership.  We will also cover how to recruit volunteers and help them succeed.  If this time does not work for you, there is another session on January 24th.

Additional sessions cover IEEE basics and events.

Are you setting the vision for your section, chapter, or affinity group?  Do you wonder what success looks like for your section, chapter, affinity group, or members?  This can be very different based on situations.  We’ll take a high level look at what success looks like and then discuss different ways to engage your membership.  We will also cover how to recruit volunteers and help them succeed.  If this time does not work for you, there is another session on January 23rd.

Additional sessions cover IEEE basics and events.

Professional Image Seminar - 30 min

Headshots and Networking - 60 min

Ed Galkin and Peter Teahen’s Flight to End Polio returned in 2025 with a second, record-setting mission. What took three years to prepare for their first circumnavigation is now an ongoing campaign to keep attention on polio eradication.  Ed and Peter set three international aviation records on their recent flight.

In our April 2023 Tech Talk, John Ockenfels, who served as Technical Advisor on this flight, and Peter spoke about planning the original flight. In this month’s Tech Talk they will present highlights from the 2025 “Circle the Atlantic” flight — a 37-day journey that departed August 30, 2025 and concluded in early October 2025 — covering roughly 8,800 nautical miles (≈10,127 statute miles) and making 15 landings in 11 countries including Canada, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, France, Poland, United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, and Newfoundland before returning to the U.S.

Along the route the team held multiple fund-raising and awareness events; the 2025 flight’s stated fundraising goal was jumi million and donations are 100% directed to The Rotary Foundation’s PolioPlus program and matched 2:1 by the Gates Foundation. Early reports indicate they will be successful at exceeding their goal.

I hope you can join us for an update on A Flight to Fight Polio >> https://www.rotary.org/en/flight-fight-polio

Both Peter and Ed are pilots, Rotarians, and members of the Fellowship of Flying Rotarians. Polio eradication has been a primary focus of Rotary since 1985 and continues to be a major initiative — no child is safe until every child has been vaccinated.

This is an in-person planning meeting for PES ExCom 

**Updated event flyer to be uploaded soon**

The IEEE Oregon Section Young Professionals (YP) and Women in Engineering (WIE) affinity groups are excited to host this in-person event at Portland State University for all EE/ECE students!

This is a great opportunity for students to informally interact with and learn from two IEEE young professionals who were in the same shoes not too long ago. All EE/ECE students are strongly encouraged to attend and bring in all their school- or career-related questions they are looking to get some insights for!

There will be FREE food and drinks :)

Mark your calendars!  The Regions 4 and 6 joint operating committee (Opcom) meeting is happening again!  We're busy working out the details. 

This year we're focussing on making it more interactive so that everyone can make the most of being in person.  To support this we moved some of the lecture-style presentations to online meetings leading up to the Opcom.  These sessions are not just for attendees, but also section, chapter, or affinity group volunteers or those interested in volunteering in IEEE.  We have two sessions for each topic to make the training more available to volunteers.

IEEE Basics is designed to get new volunteers up and running quickly, connecting you with tools and people to help you succeed.  Events is all about bringing people together successfully, be it for lecture, workshop, conferences, outreach, or family events.  The vitality sessions are there to help you look at your membership, how they can be served, and how to strengthen your organization's volunteers.

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.

The zoom link is given below: 

Topic: IEEE OC PES/IAS ExCom meeting
Time: Jan 7, 2026 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://tae.zoom.us/j/83804256588?pwd=5YniQinXLBPc7dqnRArrhPlbVA7FSN.1

Meeting ID: 838 0425 6588
Passcode: 554927

EXCOM Meeting for IEEE PES Seattle Officers 

Autonomous vehicle fleets generate massive volumes of sensor and operational data that must be reliably transferred to cloud infrastructure to support development, validation, and production operations. Designing scalable data exchange mechanisms is challenging due to the large number of vehicles involved, changing network conditions, and different requirements on data volume, latency, and reliability.

This talk presents a system-level view of data exchange between autonomous vehicle fleets and cloud infrastructure. It explains how different data transfer approaches such as physical media, high-speed wired connections, and cellular networks are used together to support large-scale fleet operations. The talk also describes how data handling can be adapted per vehicle based on its role and operating mode, enabling large-volume data uploads, timely reporting of safety-critical events, and continuous fleet health monitoring within a unified system. Key challenges related to reliability, security, and scaling are discussed, along with practical lessons learned from operating real-world autonomous driving systems.

Tom Walker of Virtual Sphere LLC

Topic:

How to Start your own Software Business

Based on his own software startup business as well as many years in the field of consulting, engineering and software development, Tom Walker discusses the methods, requirements, needs and cautions regarding starting and funding a software business

Biography:

Tom has extensive education and experience in the software business.  He is currently CEO of Virtual Sphere LLC, a technical software and photonics consulting group.  Prior to that he was Senior Director of Research and Development at Synopsys Corp, Pasadena. He has also held the position of VP and Software Chief Technical Officer at Optical Research Associates.  Tom has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cal State Long Beach and is an active member of several industry organizations:  IEEE, SPIE, OSA and ACM

This is a hybrid in-person and online event. Pre-registration is required for either.

What does it take to engineer a system that must run nonstop for years, without failure, inside the most hostile environment imaginable—the human body? In this talk, Ian Coll McEachern shares lessons from two decades designing Class III medical devices, surgical robotics, and most notably, contributing to the architecture and development of an artificial heart. Instead of focusing on any single invention, this talk reveals the methodology behind navigating extreme technical risk when dozens of tightly coupled subsystems must evolve simultaneously.

Ian will walk through a practical framework for managing complexity: identifying unknowns early, building parallel test beds, using simulation to reduce risk before fabrication, and validating assumptions through rapid physical prototyping. Attendees will see how constraints—size, power, fluids, mechanics, biocompatibility, and reliability—become a forcing function for innovation rather than a barrier, and how disciplined iteration beats brute force engineering every single time.

While rooted in life-critical medical devices, these principles apply far beyond healthcare. Whether designing robotics, storage hardware, automation systems, or high-reliability consumer products, this presentation will present a field-tested roadmap for tackling daunting engineering challenges, orchestrating cross-domain complexity, and building systems that must not fail.

Vision for Heterogeneous Integration from Global Perspectives, 2 days, keynote talks, working groups ...

 [Agenda will be live here.   Past AGENDA are included below for reference only]

1: Registration is 5 (5 for IEEE members, and discounts for students). PayPal is the credit card payments processor; please do not use your Paypal account during the payment process here.

This fee is only to cover the food and beverage service costs at the event. 

2: Confirmation of your registration is immediately sent.  

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3: STUDENTS: Current or recent graduate students please contact academic liaison Luu Nguyen  luun296@gmail.com or Hualiang Shi hualiang.shi@ieee.org with research interest and using institution domain email for registration information.

4: Please park along the sides of the building

Two related electric safety topics will be covered in the presentation. (1) A ground grid is required for substations to carry and dissipate current into earth under normal and faulty conditions for safety purposes. In the Ground Grid Design presentation, the common concepts, basic requirements, calculation methods, and procedure of ground grid design will be discussed. (2) Electric Shock is the main safety issue for low voltage systems. In this presentation, the concepts of low-voltage system earthing (equipment grounding) and protective (equipment grounding) conductor sizing methods are discussed along with the loop current and touch voltage calculations.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Liu has more than 40 years’ experience in electric power engineering. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Before joining ETAP, Dr. Liu was with Cooper Power Systems as a senior power engineer. He is now a Senior Principal Electrical Engineer and has been with ETAP for 23 years. Dr. Liu’s research interest includes electric power system modeling, simulation, and software development. Electric safety has been one of his main research areas. Dr. Liu is a registered Professional Electrical Engineer in California. He is an IEEE PES and IAS senior member.

Student Professional Awareness Conference (SPAC) is an event with several workshops held for students to come develop their skills to become better engineers. 

Come join us for a banquet dinner to celebrate engineering in Eastern Idaho!

Hosted by Brigham Young University - Idaho, the Idaho American Nuclear Society, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Eastern Idaho Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers have come together in a joint effort to organize an Engineering week banquet. 

Many of you are aware that Eastern Idaho is growing and growing fast! It will be thanks to many of the engineering community's efforts that this growth is possible. Many other engineering disciplines are seeing incredible growth as well, especially our friends from INL as they help advance nuclear reactors, power generation, and grid management. We came together to organize this event as our way to say thank you for all your efforts in whatever field you serve. While our funds didn't allow us to make the event free, we tried to make it as cheap as possible for you.

We look forward to seeing professionals and future professionals alike join us for a wonderful evening of camaraderie and community!

For information on where to park on the BYU-I Campus, the parking lots outlined in green are available for parking after 5PM. The Manwaring Center is outlined in red.

The theme of the NWESS 2026 conference is Powering Progress “Navigating a Transforming Utility Landscape”. 

NWESS 2026 is a 2 day symposium that focuses on a wide range of topics and provides information on how to best address some of the most pressing energy issues facing our region.

The symposium is an industry driven conference; the topics are suggested and voted on by the Industry. The symposium is a combination of presentations and discussions.

Key Note Speakers to open the conference 

• Michel Vargo, Puget Sound Energy

Topics to be presented at NWESS 2026 include:

• Risk Based Management (wildfire mitigation)
• Seismic Transformer Study
• Transformer Loading
• AI for Power Utilities by NVIDIA & NEETRAC
• Preparing for Middle Housing and EPRI Tool for Secondary Design
• Load Seer - Top Down and Bottom Up and how you plan for electrification and climate change
• Data Center Load Growth -The Opportunity, The Risk and the Reality
• Integrated Load Planning Study
• EPRI E-Roadmap Tool / NEVI
• The Grid Center for Reliable Electricity Delivery (GridCRED)

NWESS  is sponsored by the electric energy industry in the Pacific Northwest, the IEEE and the Electrical Energy program at the University of Washington.

University of Washington, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Bonneville Power Administration

Electric Power Systems Inc

Snohomish County PUD

Puget Sound Energy

Seattle City Light

Peninsula Light

Tacoma Power