[] Dr Kootsookos, IEEE Connecticut Section Chair. Dr Kootsookos will describe his career preparation. He will conduct a deep dive of his field as an expert in patent arbitration providing source code reviews. He is a teacher of telecommunications, signal & image processing, circuit analysis, digital hardware, and various software engineering courses at the University of New Haven, Fairfield University, Central Connecticut State University, and CT State Community College, Middlesex in the US and the Australian National University and University of Queensland in Australia. He is a Researcher: Signal processing research: more than 40 papers in conferences and international journals in signal, video, and image processing; Full life-cycle systems engineering: requirements, analysis, design, verification, validation, delivery; Quality processes worked with: IS09001-2000, CMMI, ACE (UTC’s Achieving Competitive Excellence). Note: PDH / CEU is not being offered for the Spring 2025 sessions. Speaker(s): Dr. Peter James Kootsookos, PhD Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/456326

Dr Kootsookos, IEEE Connecticut Section Chair. Dr Kootsookos will describe his career preparation. He will conduct a deep dive of his field as an expert in patent arbitration providing source code reviews. He is a teacher of telecommunications, signal & image processing, circuit analysis, digital hardware, and various software engineering courses at the University of New Haven, Fairfield University, Central Connecticut State University, and CT State Community College, Middlesex in the US and the Australian National University and University of Queensland in Australia. He is a Researcher: Signal processing research: more than 40 papers in conferences and international journals in signal, video, and image processing; Full life-cycle systems engineering: requirements, analysis, design, verification, validation, delivery; Quality processes worked with: IS09001-2000, CMMI, ACE (UTC’s Achieving Competitive Excellence). Speaker(s): Dr. Peter James Kootsookos, PhD Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/456326

Join SHU innovate as we finish building and designing mouse trap cars and test them in a range of events! Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Graduate students will show case there research work in a poster and compete for valuable prizes sponsored by UConn ECE department. Room: 3rd Floor, Bldg: ITE, Storrs, Connecticut, United States

Elizabeth Alves STEM Affiliate Leader at Learning Disabilities Association of America Elizabeth Alves will share her preparation for her mission and a deep dive of her endeavors, projects, programs, accomplishments and inspired goals as a passionate Humanitarian with over 20 years of experience in education, specializing in integrating STEM concepts for students of all abilities. Her expertise spans general and special education, with a focus on supporting neuro-diverse learners and the under resourced. Note: PDH / CEU is not being offered for the Spring 2025 sessions. Speaker(s): Elizabeth Alves Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/456329

Elizabeth Alves STEM Affiliate Leader at Learning Disabilities Association of America Elizabeth Alves will share her preparation for her mission and a deep dive of her endeavors, projects, programs, accomplishments and inspired goals as a passionate Humanitarian with over 20 years of experience in education, specializing in integrating STEM concepts for students of all abilities. Her expertise spans general and special education, with a focus on supporting neuro-diverse learners and the under resourced. Speaker(s): Elizabeth Alves Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/456329

Dear IEEE-CT Members, We are cordially inviting you to socialize with fellow engineers! Drinks/food is covered by IEEE-CT, just a minimal cost ($5) needed upon registration for members. Feel free to invite non-members/coworkers to learn about IEEE. (no need for them to sign up, just $15 cash at the door). Hope to see you there! Kind regards, Oscar Tonello IEEE R1/CT Membership Chair ot@ieee.org 95 Whiting St, Plainville, Connecticut, United States, 06062

Join SHU Innovate as we welcome John Dye form Dyeware to talk about his industry and share his knowledge on cybersecurity and computer science! Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Section Activities Agenda: Review Secretary and Treasury reports Discuss Affinity Group Activities - Consultant Networks, WIE, YP and PACE Review technical society activities - AP/MTT/UFFC, ComSoc/SP, Computyer/SMC, PES Review committee activities - Membership, Entrepreneur Society, IndustryLiason,, Student Activities Old Business New Business 1014 Monroe Turnpike, Monroe, Connecticut, United States, 06468, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/468740

The Connecticut Power Electronics Soceity (PELS) and joint chapter on Antennas and Propagation, Microwave Theory and Techniques, and Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control are pleased to bring you an exciting webinar presented by Charlotte Blair and Brian Walker on antenna simulation and measurement. Topics such as measurement fundamentals with a VNA are discussed as well as topics such as measuring gains and shielding effectiveness. Charlotte Blair of Ansys will begin the event by presenting on the key considerations when simulating antennas. Brian Walker of Copper Mountain Technologies will present on the theory and technical considerations when making measurements with a VNA. Speaker(s): Brian Walker, Charlotte Blair Agenda: John Noon, chair of the CT PELS chapter will begin the webinar with brief opening remarks. Charlotte Blair of Ansys and chair of the CT APP/MTT/UFFC chapter will then present on the challenges and key considerations when simulating antennas. Then, Brian Walker of Copper Mountain Technologies will present on the topic of antenna measurements. Brian's presentation outline is as follows: - Common Antenna Parameters - Radiation Pattern - Gain - Near and Far Fields - Impedance - Bandwidth - The VNA measurement device - What is it? - How does it work? - Why do we need it? - Measuring Antenna Gain - Ref Antenna - Three Antenna method - Near and Far Fields - Return Loss, VSWR and Bandwidth - “Hot” Antenna Measurement - What kind of VNA is needed? Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/473411

Join SHU Innovate as we selcome back our club alumni and learn about the cool opportunities they have found after completion of their undergrad degrees! Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Join SHU Innovate as we hold our annual executive board election night! Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Technical Talk in Advanced Controls Speaker: Joshua Adams (Senior Technical Fellow in Pratt & Whitney: Advanced Controls) Time: March 27th 2025, 3:30 PM-4:30 PM Where: ITE Building, Room 301, 371 Fairfield Way, Storrs, CT 06268 Organization: IEEE Control System Society (CSS) Student Branch Chapter Contact emails: efstathia.safikou@uconn.edu Speaker(s): Josh Room: 301, Bldg: ITE Building, 371 Fairfield Way, Storrss, Connecticut, United States, 06268

The industry will be experiencing significant operational challenges in the coming years. These challenges cover a wide gamut of topics. Flashover LLC was contracted by Electric Power Research Institute (ERPI) to conduct an informal industry survey to identify these operational challenges. The survey attempted to collect industry concerns in an operating environment timeframe to the engineering planning, outage coordination, and forecasting responsibilities to address identified issues and concerns. These responses will help guide EPRIs future efforts to develop a coherent strategic vision in its mission to support system operations. The presentation for this session will focus on the results of that survey. Room: 401, Bldg: ITE, 371 Fairfield Way, Storrs, Connecticut, United States

In this talk, I will share our recent progress on developing learning algorithms for real-world energy system control, with stability and computational tractability guarantees. The first part is on reinforcement learning for power grid control. I will introduce a novel neural network architecture – monotone neural network (MNN) that ensure the network output is a monotone function of the input. MNN is achieved by first designing neural networks that are convex (with universal approximation guarantee) and using gradients of convex functions to ensure monotonicity. We show that MNN is a powerful structure for voltage control – with stability and optimality guarantees compared to standard neural networks. The second part is about operator learning for building control. There is an emergent need to model indoor air quality to improve occupant health and building energy efficiency. A fundamental challenge is that building airflow dynamics are governed by nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) with unknown parameters, which are computationally prohibitive from a real‑time control perspective. I will introduce our work on PDE‑constrained optimization for building model identification and designing neural operator learning for efficient PDE system control. Speaker(s): , Yuanyuan Shi 371 Fairfield Way, Ite 336, Storrs, Connecticut, United States, 06269-0001, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/478817