Entrepreneurs’ Network – 6:30PM, Tuesday, 1 September Giants of the Startup Community, Founders Who Made It Big Tell What’s Important Meeting Location – Constant Contact, 1601 Trapelo Road, 1st Floor, InnoLoft, Waltham, MA PRE-MEETING DINNER at 5:15 PM (sharp) at Bertucci’s, Waltham Successful entrepreneurs have said that fearlessness, resilience, and …

Life Members – 4:00PM, Wednesday, 9 September STEM Scholars Presentation: Building the First ‘Steamship’ as Part of the High Technology Revolution STEM Scholars Presentation: Building the First ‘Steamship’ as Part of the High Technology Revolution, John Laurence Busch, Historian and Author John Laurence Busch will expand upon his previously given …

Reliability Chapter Meeting – 5:30PM – 8:15PM – Wednesday, September 9 “A New Systems Approach to Safety Analysis”, Dr. John Thomas Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) is a powerful new hazard analysis method designed to capture often overlooked causes of accidents like incomplete, incorrect, or missing requirements, dysfunctional component interactions, …

Photonics Society – 6:30PM, Thursday, 10 September Quantum cascade laser technology and applications Anish Goyal – Block Engineering, Marlborough, MA. Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are a class of semiconductor lasers that operate in the mid-infrared (MIR) portion of the optical spectrum. The MIR ( ~ 2.5 – 14 m) is …

Communications Society Smart Body Sensor Object Networking Dr. Bhumip Khasnabish Wearable and implantable sensors for health, welfare, and augmented reality are rapidly becoming utility devices. Making these devices smart and capable of networking and internetworking opens up a whole new world of privacy-invading Internet innovations in the increasingly mobile, connected …

Entrepreneurs’ Network – 6:30PM, Tuesday, 15 September Hiring Your First Employees, Pitfalls To Avoid Meeting location: CIC BOSTON, 50 Milk Street, Boston, MA. So you have started your own successful business and realize that you must grow to meet your customers’ needs. Or you are about obtain a large round …

EMC Society – Wednesday, 16 September Attention!!! The meeting is at a different Bose building! See Below! Speaker: Lee Hill, EMC consultant and Founding Partner of Silent Solutions. Topic: I’m Failing an EMC Emissions test. I’ve Also Got Receiver Desense. Now what? Biography: Lee Hill is Founding Partner of SILENT …

New Frontiers in Terahertz Technology Although unique potentials of terahertz waves for chemical identification, material characterization, biological sensing, and medical imaging have been recognized for quite a while, the relatively poor performance, higher costs, and bulky nature of current terahertz systems continue to impede their deployment in field settings. In …

Reliability – 5:30PM – 8:15PM – Wednesday, 23 September LENR Phenomena and Potential Applications, Professor Peter Hagelstein and Dr. Louis DeChiaro Back in 1989 Fleischmann and Pons astonished the world with a variety of claims involving low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) in electrochemical experiments with palladium and deuterium. The most significant …

Leadership for Consultants By Robin F. Goldsmith, JD Do you need to cause change? Of course you do, and you know change is hard. Change takes leadership, and effective leaders are rare. Leaders make others want to do what the leader wants done. Leaders cause ordinary people to achieve extraordinary …