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Entrepreneur Success Stories 7:00 pm
Entrepreneur Success Stories @ Constant Contact
Sep 2 @ 7:00 pm
Entrepreneur Success Stories @ Constant Contact | Waltham | Massachusetts | United States
Successful entrepreneurs have said that fearlessness, resilience, and being true to oneself are three of the most important qualities an entrepreneur must have when starting his/her own business. Tonight’s meeting on “Entrepreneur Success Stories” will offer examples of those success stories from serial entrepreneurs and business people, in consumer, high …
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Elder Law 3:30 pm
Elder Law @ Lincoln Lab Auditorium
Sep 3 @ 3:30 pm
Life Members; and Aerospace & Electronic Systems Chapter Meeting Elder Law Nancy Catalina Chew, Elder Lawyer Nancy Catalini Chew is a graduate of Boston College Law School and was admitted to practice in Massachusetts in 1996.  She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography, summa cum laude, from the …
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Maintaining Quality & Reliability of a Complex Product through a Global Manufacturing Transfer 5:30 pm
Maintaining Quality & Reliability of a Complex Product through a Global Manufacturing Transfer @ Lincoln Lab Cafeteria
Sep 10 @ 5:30 pm
Kevin Foy, Agilent Technologies (Please register to attend by Friday, September 5, so we can plan the refreshments.) Transferring a complex product from its design manufacturing site to a LCC (Low Cost Country) manufacturing site is a difficult task.  Performing the transfer without affecting Quality & Reliability, thus making it transparent …
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Strained-Germanium Nanomembranes for Group-IV Infrared Photonics 6:30 pm
Strained-Germanium Nanomembranes for Group-IV Infrared Photonics @ Lincoln Lab Auditorium
Sep 11 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Strained-Germanium Nanomembranes for Group-IV Infrared Photonics @ Lincoln Lab Auditorium | Lexington | Massachusetts | United States
  Speaker: Roberto Paiella, Boston University Meeting Overview: The development of practical light sources based on group-IV semiconductors is a major outstanding goal of optoelectronics research, as a way to enable the continued integration of electronic and photonic functionalities on a CMOS compatible platform However, this goal is severely complicated by the …
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Best Practices, Benefits and Economics of Load Testing 6:00 pm
Best Practices, Benefits and Economics of Load Testing @ Milas Hall, Olin College
Sep 16 @ 6:00 pm
Best Practices, Benefits and Economics of Load Testing @ Milas Hall, Olin College | Needham | Massachusetts | United States
Mark Siira, Director of Technology Strategy,  ComRent  International In his talk, Mark will discuss the changing requirements for high power interconnection testing and commissioning of critical facilities.   The standards for the interconnection testing and commissioning are changing dramatically and he will review these changes.   Best Practices in load testing will …
Building Killer Sales Strategies and Teams 6:00 pm
Building Killer Sales Strategies and Teams @ Microsoft Technology Center
Sep 16 @ 6:00 pm
Building Killer Sales Strategies and Teams @ Microsoft Technology Center | Cambridge | Massachusetts | United States
Come and listen to a group of eminent panelists who have been there and done it before – building credible sales funnels through various traditional methods and teams that deliver consistently. The discussion will include how sales strategies have evolved and what works in today’s world for entrepreneurs with limited …
EMC Troubleshooting, Measurements and Common Problems 6:00 pm
EMC Troubleshooting, Measurements and Common Problems @ Bose Corp
Sep 16 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
EMC Troubleshooting, Measurements and Common Problems @ Bose Corp | Framingham | Massachusetts | United States
  Electromagnetic Compatibility Society – 6:30 PM, Tuesday, 16 September EMC Troubleshooting, Measurements and Common Problems Ken Wyatt, Wyatt technical services We are pleased to announce that there will be a meeting of the IEEE EMC Chapter, scheduled for September 16, 2014 at the location of Bose Corp. in Framingham. …
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Build Your Marketing Toolkit 6:00 pm
Build Your Marketing Toolkit @ Constant Contact
Sep 22 @ 6:00 pm
  Alicia L. Williams, Founder and CEO of Aliste Marketing, Inc. Perfect for small consulting practices looking to build a marketing framework Many small consulting practices find themselves seeking the right strategies to make their marketing efforts as effective as possible. But with so many different marketing activities that they …
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Characterization of Space Shuttle Ascent Debris Based on Radar Scattering and Ballistic Properties – Evolution of the NASA Debris Radar (NDR) System 2:30 pm
Characterization of Space Shuttle Ascent Debris Based on Radar Scattering and Ballistic Properties – Evolution of the NASA Debris Radar (NDR) System @ Lincoln Lab Auditorium
Sep 23 @ 2:30 pm
Characterization of Space Shuttle Ascent Debris Based on Radar Scattering and Ballistic Properties – Evolution of the NASA Debris Radar (NDR) System @ Lincoln Lab Auditorium | Lexington | Massachusetts | United States
Brian M. Kent, Ph.D. Fellow, IEEE, AMTA, AFRL IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Adjunct Professor, Michigan State University This presentation (with optional break) introduces the NASA Debris Radar (NDR) system developed to characterize debris liberated by the space shuttle (and any follow-on rocket system) during its ascent into space. Radar technology is …
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An Introduction to Software Defined Radio for Microwave Engineers 5:30 pm
An Introduction to Software Defined Radio for Microwave Engineers @ Lincoln Lab Auditorium
Sep 29 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Meeting Summary: This lecture will begin with the definition, history and evolution of Software Defined Radio (SDR). RF/microwave engineers will find it clear and understandable because analogies will be made to conventional classic radio systems and components. The lecture will then introduce the concepts of oversampling and undersampling as it …
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