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FEB 2025

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Must register by February 21, 2025 Read more and register here!.

Feb
12
Wed
Generative AI and Codeless Test Automation @ Zoom
Feb 12 @ 6:20 pm – 8:00 pm

IEEE Boston Consultants Network – 6:20PM, Wednesday, February 12

Location:  Zoom

The speaker, Paul Grossman, is an experienced software test automation engineer with vast experience in Test Automation and AI.

About the event:

Note: February 12, 2025 is the tentative date; this date may change so please check back 2 weeks before the event.

Open to the public.

Networking from 6:20PM – 6:40 PM

Presentation starts at 6:40 PM till 8:00 PM, includes Q/A

Optional discussion with the speaker: 8:00 PM till 8:15 PM

Your registration confirmation email contains the zoom link.

Please read the email confirmation completely.

Registration:  https://www.bostonconsultants.org/event-details/february-meeting-generative-ai-and-codeless-test-automation

Feb
13
Thu
Integrated Photonics in Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) @ MIT Lincoln Laboratory - Cafeteria
Feb 13 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Photonics Society

Upcoming technical seminar and announcements

We will be holding our monthly seminar series in-person, on Thursday February 13. Light meals will be served (free of charge, registration required).

Registration

Time (Eastern Standard Time):

6:00 PM:  Networking starts
6:15 PM:  Light meals served.
7:00 PM:  Seminar starts

Speaker:  Christian Reimer, PhD (HyperLight Corporation)

This presentation will provide an introduction into integrated photonics in thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonics and its applications, including technical status and ongoing development. Over the past years, TFLN has transitioned from a research-centered new material platform to becoming the leading platform to provide practical solutions for next generation applications. In particular datacom, telecom and high-performance applications such as radio-over-fiber and measurement and test can benefit from TFLN attributes such as ultra-high electro-optic bandwidths, low driving voltages, compact size and cost-effective volume production.

Biography:

Dr. Christian Reimer is a physicist and entrepreneur working in the fields of nonlinear optics, integrated photonics and quantum optics. He received graduate degrees from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, and the National Institute of Scientific Research in Canada. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, before becoming Co-Founder and Chief Architect of HyperLight Corporation. HyperLight, a Venture-Capital funded scale-up, is specialized on scalable integrated lithium niobate technologies for ultra-high performance photonic solutions.

Feb
20
Thu
Digital Signal Processing (DSP) for Software Radio @ Zoom
Feb 20 @ 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Digital Signal Processing (DSP) for Software Radio

Course Kick-off / Orientation 6:00PM – 6:30PM EDT; Thursday, February 20, 2025

First Video Release, Thursday, February 20, 2025.   Additional videos released weekly in advance of that week’s live session!

Live Workshops:  6:00PM – 7:30PM EDT; Thursdays, February 27, March 6, 13, 20, 27

Registration is open through the last live workshop date.  Live workshops are recorded for later use.

Course Information will be distributed on Thursday, February 20, 2025 in advance of and in preparation for the first live workshop session.  A live orientation session will be held on Thursday, February 20, 2025.

Attendees will have access to the recorded session and exercises for two months (until May 27, 2025) after the last live session ends!

IEEE Member Early Rate (by February 6):  $190.00

IEEE Member Rate (after February 6):  $285.00

IEEE Non-Member Early Rate (by February 6):  $210.00

IEEE Non-Member Rate (after February 6):  $315.00

Decision to run/cancel course:   Thursday, February 13, 2025

Speaker:  Dan Boschen

This is a hands-on course combining pre-recorded lectures with live Q&A and workshop sessions in the popular and powerful open-source Python programming language.

Pre-Recorded Videos:  The course format includes pre-recorded video lectures that students can watch on their own schedule, and an unlimited number of times, prior to live Q&A workshop sessions on Zoom with the instructor. The videos will also be available to the students for viewing for up to two months after the conclusion of the course.

Course Summary

This course builds on the IEEE course “DSP for Wireless Communications” also taught by Dan Boschen, further detailing digital signal processing most applicable to practical real-world problems and applications in radio communication systems. Students need not have taken the prior course if they are familiar with fundamental DSP concepts such as the Laplace and Z transform and basic digital filter design principles.

This course brings together core DSP concepts to address signal processing challenges encountered in radios and modems for modern wireless communications. Specific areas covered include carrier and timing recovery, equalization, automatic gain control, and considerations to mitigate the effects of RF and channel distortions such as multipath, phase noise and amplitude/phase offsets.

Dan builds an intuitive understanding of the underlying mathematics through the use of graphics, visual demonstrations, and real-world applications for mixed signal (analog/digital) modern transceivers. This course is applicable to DSP algorithm development with a focus on meeting practical hardware development challenges, rather than a tutorial on implementations with DSP processors.

Now with Jupyter Notebooks!

This long-running IEEE Course has been updated to

include Jupyter Notebooks which incorporates graphics together with Python simulation code to provide a “take-it-with-you” interactive user experience. No knowledge of Python is required but the notebooks will provide a basic framework for proceeding with further signal processing development using that tools for those that have interest in doing so.

This course will not be teaching Python, but using it for demonstration. A more detailed course on Python itself is covered in a separate IEEE Course routinely taught by Dan titled “Python Applications for Digital Design and Signal Processing”.

All set-up information for installation of all tools used will be provided prior to the start of class.

Target Audience:

All engineers involved in or interested in signal processing for wireless communications. Students should have either taken the earlier course “DSP for Wireless Communications” or have been sufficiently exposed to basic signal processing concepts such as Fourier, Laplace, and Z-transforms, Digital filter (FIR/IIR) structures, and representation of complex digital and analog signals in the time and frequency domains. Please contact Dan at boschen@loglin.com if you are uncertain about your background or if you would like more information on the course.

Benefits of Attending/ Goals of Course:

Attendees will gain a strong intuitive understanding of the practical and common signal processing implementations found in modern radio and modem architectures and be able to apply these concepts directly to communications system design.

Pre-recorded lectures (3 hours each) will be distributed Friday prior to each week’s workshop dates.  Workshop / Q&A sessions are 6:00PM – 7:30PM on the dates listed below.

Kick-off / Orientation:  Thursday, February 20, 2025

Topics / Schedule:

Class 1: Thursday, February 27:  DSP Review, Radio Architectures, Digital Mapping, Pulse Shaping, Eye Diagrams

Class 2:  Thursday, March 6:  ADC Receiver, CORDIC Rotator, Digital Down Converters, Numerically Controlled Oscillators

Class 3: Thursday, March 13:  Digital Control Loops; Output Power Control, Automatic Gain Control

Class 4: Thursday, March 20:  Digital Control Loops; Carrier and Timing Recovery, Sigma Delta Converters

Class 5: Thursday, March 27:  RF Signal Impairments, Equalization and Compensation, Linear Feedback Shift Registers

Speaker’s Bio:

Dan Boschen has a MS in Communications and Signal Processing from Northeastern University, with over 25 years of experience in system and hardware design for radio transceivers and modems. He has held various positions at Signal Technologies, MITRE, Airvana and Hittite Microwave designing and developing transceiver hardware from baseband to antenna for wireless communications systems and has taught courses on DSP to international audiences for over 15 years. Dan is a contributor to Signal Processing Stack Exchange https://dsp.stackexchange.com/, and is currently at Microchip (formerly Microsemi and Symmetricom) leading design efforts for advanced frequency and time solutions.

For more background information, please view Dan’s Linked-In page at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/danboschen

Feb
25
Tue
Panel Workshop: Preparing for an Engineering Career in Industry @ In-Person and Zoom
Feb 25 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Tufts University School of Engineering

Tufts E-week event!

6:00 pm (Eastern Time, Boston/New York) buffet dinner, followed by
6:30–8:30 pm panel discussion

Location: In-person and via Zoom details shared after you submit this registration form.

Panel Presentation: 

  • How to leverage your academic work into an industry career
  • Best practices for interviewing
  • Tips for best salary negotiation

Hosted by Dr. Karen A. Panetta, Dean of Graduate Education for the School of Engineering. The workshop will have a panel of Tufts alumni speakers from industry: Chiamaka Chima, E14, EG16, Denise Griffin, E91, and Tyler Morris, EG21, with Matt Casey, Associate Director of Career Services and Amory Wakefield, Assistant Director of Career Services. The discussion will be moderated by Kevin Oye, Director of Tufts Gordon Institute.

This is a Notation Track (NOD) workshop. Development Domain: Career Preparation, Communication.

Feb
26
Wed
Consultants Panel: Hiring a Consultant – Being a Consultant – Applications of Using a Consultant
Feb 26 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Consultants Network

IEEE Boston Consultants Network (CNET) is a network of consultants that offer a wide variety of consulting services: electrical, hardware, software, IT, regulatory, tech pubs, and many other engineering disciplines. The article below was written by a CNET Consultant.

Check us out at:  https://bostonconsultants.org/

Come to an event and see what Boston CNET can do to help you.

https://www.bostonconsultants.org/event-list

Free – Open to the Public

Event Registration Link: https://www.bostonconsultants.org/event-details/consultants-panel-meeting

This is a panel of consultants from Boston Consultants Network doing a multi-part presentation about consulting from 3 distinct points of view (the consultant, the client, and applications of where consultants add value)

  • Introduction to consulting and what consultants do
  • Getting started in consulting
    • How working as a consultant is a viable business opportunity
  • How a company benefits from hiring a consultant
    • Consulting value add
    • Benefit of a consultant to project resources
  • Types of consultants and business applications using consultants
    • Examples include medical device consulting

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