What we’re about
The IEEE Consultants Network of Long Island (historically called the LICN), is a non-profit professional organization affiliated with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The LICN consists of electrical, electronic, software and mechanical engineers -- each with their own independent consulting practice.
We meet on the first Thursday of the month to discuss either a technical or consulting related topic. Some technical topics qualify for continuing education credits for Professional Engineers.
We are a friendly bunch and are always willing to help members with questions about starting a consulting practice. Our meetings are open to the general public, but you must meet certain eligibility requirements to become a voting member. For more information, go to http://www.licn.org.
Upcoming events (2)
See all- Oil Level MonitoringLink visible for attendees
*** NEW DATE! We are moving this meeting to November 14th so our members can attend (and support) the IEEE Power Engineering Symposium being held on November 7th ***
This month, we look at a clever design of determining how much oil remains in an oil tank. Such a device can be used by oil delivery services to keep track of their customers.
Oil delivery services monitor their customers' tanks for a few reasons:
- for contract deliveries, to avoid “runouts”,
- for COD deliveries, to prompt customers for a fill,
- to ensure customer retention, and
- to eliminate the reliance on the K-factor, which is the basis for a guess as to what is the level of an unmonitored tank.
Arnold Stillman, founder of POEM Technology, the company that developed this system will present the design of a tank monitor that uses a pressure tube to measure liquid levels. Using a pressure tube allows monitoring buried tanks where competing sensing methods do not work.
Some of the topics that will be discussed include:
- The economics of heating oil delivery
- Types of tanks
- Types of tank monitors
- Pumpless manometry
- Cellular IoT Economics
- IoT Protocols
- IoT Hardware Design
- IoT backend
- User interface
Speaker Bio:
Arnold Stillman is the founder and CEO of POEM Technology, a manufacturer of cellular IoT devices.He has held senior engineering positions at Clever Devices, Tactronics and Brookhaven National Laboratory. Most of his professional experience was at BNL, where he designed instrumentation for particle accelerators and high energy physics experiments.
He is a past chair of the Long Island Section of the IEEE and is a member of the American Physical Society.
He is the author of several publications and has been a reviewer for The Review of Scientific Instruments. He is a graduate of the University of Rochester.
Agenda:
We will start our meeting at 7:00 pm. For the next 15 minutes or so, we will introduce ourselves and do a little networking. We will then start our presentation. After the presentation, feel free to stick around and chat with others to network or to further discuss our lecture topic.NOTES
There is no cost to attend this meeting, however, if you are a NYS Professional Engineer and would like to receive 2 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) of continuing education credit, then payment of a $15 fee is required. You will also have to properly fill out an Evaluation Form to prove that you attended this lecture. Click here to open the form. Simply fill it out and click on the “Submit” button.We accept electronic payment via Zelle. Zelle is a bank-to-bank transfer mechanism supported by most banks, without a fee, as part of their normal online banking capabilities. There is also a Zelle app available for your smartphone.
When you use Zelle with your bank, it will ask for the following information: 1) the amount to send (enter $15.00), 2) what account you want to pull the money from (select whatever account you want to use), and 3) the phone number or email of the recipient (enter [email protected]. Don’t worry if you see the name of our Treasurer, David Rost, pop up). If it asks for a memo field, we suggest entering "yymmdd LICN CEU” where yymmdd are the year, month and date of the lecture.
While we prefer that your payment and evaluation form are received by the day of the lecture, they must be received by the first Monday after the lecture.
If paying by Zelle is a problem for you, then please contact Ed Gellender at [email protected] for an alternate payment method.
- Low Earth Orbit Satellite CommunicationsLink visible for attendees
Satellite Communications can and in some instances does provide ubiquitous internet access to all regions of the world. Traditionally most satellite communication used Geostationary Earth Orbits (GEO) but recently the interest and investments have been in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) systems.
We will discuss the difference between operating in each orbital category with emphasis on the LEO Satellite Systems.
This lecture is concept based and therefore informative to attendees working in the engineering field as well as those just interested in learning more about Low Earth Orbit satellite technology.
Speaker Bio:
Howard Hausman received his MSEE degree from Polytechnic University/Tandon School of Engineering, NYU where he was an Adjunct Professor. He is currently President/CEO of RF Microwave Consulting Services and an Adjunct Professor at Hofstra University and an Adjunct Associated Professor at NYIT.Formerly Mr. Hausman was CTO and VP of Engineering, before being appointed President/CEO of MITEQ Inc., a world renown microwave engineering company with approximately 500 employees. He has designed hardware, wrote papers and lectured on microwave systems and components for Satellite Communications, Space Systems, Radar and Reconnaissance systems.
Howard Hausman is a recipient of an NYU Distinguished Alumni Award, the IEEE LI Alex Gruenwald Award “For outstanding contributions to enhance the knowledge of the IEEE LI Section members”, and a NASA Award for work on the Mars Landing System.
Mr. Hausman is currently the Chairman of the IEEE LI Communications Society and was awarded a patent “Measuring Satellite Linearity from Earth Using A Low Duty Cycle Pulsed Microwave Signal”. He also authored a textbook “Microwave Power Amplifier Design with MMIC Modules” published by Artech House.
Agenda:
We will start our meeting at 7:00 pm. For the next 20 minutes or so, we will introduce ourselves, handle any LICN business and do a little networking. We will then start our presentation. After the presentation, feel free to stick around and chat with others to network or to further discuss our lecture topic.NOTES
There is no cost to attend this meeting, however, if you are a NYS Professional Engineer and would like to receive 2 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) of continuing education credit, then payment of a $15 fee is required. You will also have to properly fill out an Evaluation Form to prove that you attended this lecture. Click here to open the form. Simply fill it out and click on the “Submit” button.We accept electronic payment via Zelle. Zelle is a bank-to-bank transfer mechanism supported by most banks, without a fee, as part of their normal online banking capabilities. There is also a Zelle app available for your smartphone.
When you use Zelle with your bank, it will ask for the following information: 1) the amount to send (enter $15.00), 2) what account you want to pull the money from (select whatever account you want to use), and 3) the phone number or email of the recipient (enter [email protected]. Don’t worry if you see the name of our Treasurer, David Rost, pop up). If it asks for a memo field, we suggest entering "yymmdd LICN CEU” where yymmdd are the year, month and date of the lecture.
While we prefer that your payment and evaluation form are received by the day of the lecture, they must be received by the first Monday after the lecture.
If paying by Zelle is a problem for you, then please contact Ed Gellender at [email protected] for an alternate payment method.
