IN Person ExCom Order Dinner at 6PM, meeting starts at 7PM Agenda: NH Section ExCom Meeting Agenda 6PM THURSDAY Sept 8th at the Airport Diner in Manchester 6PM order dinner 7PM business meeting starts 1. Attendance Quorum check -- David Casper 2. approval of agenda including consent agenda Consent to approval of outstanding minutes (in the appropriate month's ExCom directory area) https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sjLlQgHW90kJVcMzGF3exp7g0upQ-DSv?usp=sharing Consent to approval of outstanding treasurer reports https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AwJV9IfbN1e_q6XJ91gQywHaP416bnXH/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114974291909984370342&rtpof=true&sd=true 3. Chairs Comments 4. Action Item Report 5. Chapter/Affiliate Group Activity & coordination (ideally about 60 days in advance) Sept 20th MTT Distributed Antenna presentation at SNHU (This tech is now a factor for WiFi, Cell phones, etc... 6. Standing Committee Activities: Education/pre-college; --- Brian Betts Wicked STEM event Sept 24th in Milford --- we need folks to signup to be there for a few hours coordinating with BAE/NH First to cover all three FIRST competition areas Student/College chapters 7 Old Business Action R1 offer to support fall YP/student engagement activity --Barbara 8 New Business 9 Next Meeting -- Oct 13 or 18th (2nd Thursday/3rd Tuesday) (virtual/In Person) Preferences?? 10. For the good of the order -- What key messages for our Members 11 Adjourn to forum 12 Forum topics (upcoming events, etc) Bldg: Airport Diner, 2280 Brown Ave, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States, 03103-6828

FREE Webinar Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) represent the most useful devices coming out of spintronics research. Besides serving as the key components for magnetic field sensors and digital magnetic random access memories, magnetic tunnel junctions have recently been studied as building blocks for non-conventional computing, via utilizing their functions of non-linearity, stochasticity, etc. In this presentation we begin with the fundamental aspects of these devices and then share some of our research, as well as reliability-related issues found. In one of the early works, we demonstrated that by designing multi-domain MTJs, one can realize synaptic devices and activation function devices for convolutional neural network, where the synaptic weight and threshold function are realized by controlling the position of magnetic domain walls. Recently, we explore the possibility of building Hopfield neural network with MTJs by using their oscillatory or probabilistic switching properties. These computing hardwares, known as Boltzmann machine or Ising machine can be used to solve NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems more efficiently than traditional von Neumann architectures. Particularly, we look into the dynamical behavior of an electrically coupled array of gigahertz spin Hall nano-oscillators, a device where the magnetic layers of the forming MTJs undergo persistent precession. By developing a general analytical framework that describes injection locking of spin Hall oscillators with large precession angles, we show the mapping between the coupled oscillators’ properties and the Ising model. We then integrate the analytical model into a versatile Verilog-A device that can emulate the coupled dynamics of spin Hall oscillators in circuit simulators. This abstract model allows for the analysis of the performance of the spin Hall oscillator network at the circuit level using conventional electronic components and considering phase noise and scalability. The results provide design insights and analysis tools toward the realization of a CMOS-integrated spin Hall oscillator Ising machine operating with a high degree of time, space, and energy efficiency. Speaker(s): Luqiao Liu, Agenda: 11:00 AM Technical Presentation 11:45 AM Questions and Answers 12:00 PM Adjournment Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/322887

Single-platform phased arrays currently dominate wireless systems, whether they be the handheld 4G/5G cell phone you’re carrying right now, or large radar systems and satellites. Single-platform phased arrays traditionally use an analog feed network to distribute signals between the antenna elements and a single centralized transceiver; improving performance entails a redesign or retrofit. In contrast, a distributed phased array consists of a number of separate wireless nodes where each antenna element is connected to a separate transceiver; signals can be coherently transmitted to enable beamforming and/or coprocessed on receive to coherently form beams digitally. With beamforming, distributed phased arrays overcome the limitations of single-platform-centric phased array wireless systems by disaggregating the functionality of large wireless systems into an array of smaller, cheaper nodes that are wirelessly coordinated and provide these benefits: enhanced signal gain, increased reliability, scalability, adaptability, greater spatial diversity (better SNR, think less cell phone fading!). Come hear this broad overview presentation introducing distributed phased arrays that will affect all forms of wireless communication, including the potential microwave system solutions to the challenges of implementing a practical distributed phased array undergoing real-world dynamics. This free talk is intended for both a general IEEE audience and MTT/AP Society members; all are welcome. (IEEE events are open to all; you do not have to be an IEEE member.) Speaker(s): Jeffrey Nanzer, Ph.D., Agenda: 6:15 PM to 6:30 PM Meet and greet 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM Presentation 7:30 PM Optional dinner with speaker at a nearby restaurant Room: 128B, Bldg: College of Engineering, Technology, and Aeronautics (CETA), Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), 2500 North River Road , Manchester, New Hampshire, United States, 03106

The design of solid parts has progressed from the manual generation of “blueprints” to the computerized generation of 3D drawings which can display the part in a variety of views, including isometric. There are numerous commercially available CAD programs and a few open-source ones. (https://www.freecadweb.org/) is a full-featured open-source program which can be freely downloaded from the FreeCAD web site. In this presentation the features of FreeCAD that make it attractive will be described, and a step-by-step procedure for generating a drawing of a moderate complexity part will be presented. The file of the designed object generated by FreeCAD will be suitable for fabrication using CNC machining or 3D printing. Some of the nuances and pitfalls of CNC machining will also be discussed. George Vella-Coleirois a retired Physicist who spent most of his career (1967 – 2001) at Bell Laboratories working on a variety of projects, including Magnetic Bubble Memories, Superconducting Josephson devices, GaAs MESFETs and ICs, Integrated Optoelectronic Devices, and a fiber-optic Microcell for cellular communications. From 2001 to 2019 he was with Commscope developing Digital Predistortion for the linearization of RF power amplifiers, a GPS interferometer for determining the azimuth of Cellular Base Station antennas, and a 5G microcell using mm-Waves. Co-sponsored by: IEEE Consultants’ Network of Northern New Jersey Speaker(s): George Vella-Coleiro, Agenda: Introductions Speaker presentation Audience questions welcomed Networking Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/323653

National Grid’s vision is to fully eliminate fossil fuels from both our gas and electric systems, enabling all homes and businesses we serve to meet their heating needs without the use of fossil fuels by 2050, if not sooner. We are proposing specific actions to achieve fossil-free heat fairly, affordably, and reliably for all our customers and communities. Our fossil-free vision rests on four pillars of action: energy efficiency in buildings, a 100% fossil-free gas network, hybrid electric-gas heating systems, and targeted electrification and networked geothermal Co-sponsored by: National Grid Speaker(s): Steve Woerner, Agenda: 12:00 PM - 12:05 PM - IEEE PES Baltimore chapter introduction of the Speaker 12:05 PM - 12:40 PM - Presentation by Speaker 12:40 PM to 12:55 PM - Questions and Answers (Q&A) Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/321958

National Grid’s vision is to fully eliminate fossil fuels from both our gas and electric systems, enabling all homes and businesses we serve to meet their heating needs without the use of fossil fuels by 2050, if not sooner. We are proposing specific actions to achieve fossil-free heat fairly, affordably, and reliably for all our customers and communities. Our fossil-free vision rests on four pillars of action: energy efficiency in buildings, a 100% fossil-free gas network, hybrid electric-gas heating systems, and targeted electrification and networked geothermal Co-sponsored by: National Grid Speaker(s): Steve Woerner, Agenda: 12:00 PM - 12:05 PM - IEEE PES Baltimore chapter introduction of the Speaker 12:05 PM - 12:40 PM - Presentation by Speaker 12:40 PM to 12:55 PM - Questions and Answers (Q&A) Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/321958