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IEEE CINCINNATI SECTION NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2000 IEEE CINCINNATI
SECTION
NEWSLETTER
NOVEMBER /
DECEMBER 2000


DECEMBER MEETING

VINOKLET WINERY

DATE
: Thursday, December 7, 2000

PLACE
: Vinoklet Winery, 11069 Colerain Avenue

TIME
: 5:30 p.m. - Arrival
6:00 p.m. - Dinner
7:00 p.m. - Program

ABOUT VINOKLET:
Perched on top of picturesque rolling hills, Vinoklet provides a panoramic view of the
acres of surrounding vineyards and lakes. IEEE will dine in the loft, and enjoy the view, which will be enhanced
be a full moon and outdoor lighting. Spouses and guests are welcome!

VINOKLET WINERY MENU:
Dinner consists of: - A choice of entrée (per person):
New York Strip Steak
Boneless Skinless Breast of Chicken
Icelandic Cod Fillet
(Above are Grill-Your-Own-to-Perfection at the Winery Grill!)
- Buffet:
Vegetables of the Day, Baked Potato, Tossed House Salad,
Bread and Dessert.
One Carafe of Vinoklet Wine (per person).

Cost is $23.50 per person + gratuity

The owner of Vinoklet, Kreso Mikulic, is an engineer and holder of several patents. He collects electrical
measurement devices, and has a portion of his collection on display in the Loft dining area. Mr. Mikulic will talk
about the meters, his patents, and interesting aspects of his professional career.

DIRECTIONS
: Vinoklet Winery is located at 11069 Colerain Avenue, two miles north of I-275. (Phone 513-
385-9309). From I-275 take the Colerain exit (#33), and go north about one-half mile. Turn left at the traffic light
having Struble Road on the right, and Colerain Ave. to the left. Vinoklet will be on the left side of Colerain about
one and one-half miles further.

RESERVATIONS
: Please phone your reservation to the IEEE voicemail, 513-629-9380, before noon, Tuesday
December 5, 2000. Record your Name, member number, daytime phone number, and number of persons in
your party, if more than one.

INSTITUTE OF
ELECTRICAL &
ELECTRONICS
ENGINEERS, INC.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING THIS NEWSLETTER

Due to increasing publication costs and decreasing revenue from various sources (including the ISA/IEEE
show), the IEEE Cincinnati Section needs to reduce our expenses in order to ensure the viability of the Section.
Beginning in January 2001, this newsletter will only be available via the Section's web page at
http://ieee.cincinnati.fuse.net/
or by e-mail unless you contact us. After January, depending on the response,
the content of the newsletter may be reduced to only a notice of upcoming Section meetings and a summary of
the remaining articles. The full articles would be available on the web page or via e-mail.

In order to continue receiving the hard copy of the newsletter, you must either call the Section's voice mail
at 513-629-9380, or contact Bob Morrison (Editor) at 513-287-3697 or by e-mail at j.r.morrison@ieee.org.
Provide your name and member number. In case there are questions, please include a daytime telephone
number as well.


To subscribe to the electronic version, contact Bob Morrison.

CHAIR'S MESSAGE
by Ron Harbaugh, Section Chair
October has been a busy month for the Cincinnati Section. Your PACE chair and Section Chair attended the
Region 2 meeting in Pittsburgh, the senior member drive, and the Section meeting at the Cincinnati Museum
Center. The Region 2 meeting gave us a chance to review Section issues and discuss some ideas for better
programs for the IEEE Sections. Our Senior member drive brought a small number of upgraded members in
the section. There will be additional information about these meetings in later newsletters.

The Section meeting was held in Cincinnati Museum Center on October 26. The subject was project
management as applied to the Fort Washington Way highway replacement. Don Gindling and his colleagues
provided a very interesting program. It looks like a few lessons can be learned from their experiences. You can
see some of the information on WWW.FWW2000.com. Cincinow.com also has some information.

Which reminds me, everyone stay tuned in the IEEE website for updates on the Section activities and other
goings-on nationally.

Since these little tidbits are written a long time before the events, it seems strange wishing everyone Happy
Holidays before I get through Halloween. Here it is anyway. Have a Good Thanksgiving, a Merry Christmas,
and a Happy New Year.

UPCOMING SECTION MEETINGS AND TOPICS
January 25, 2001
Section Meeting - Electric Industry Deregulation
February 2001
Section Meeting - ESC Banquet
March 27, 2001
Section Meeting - DSL
April 26, 2001
Section Meeting - PACE
May 2001
Section Meeting - Harris HDTV Tour
Sept. 2001
Section Meeting - Tour of Kings Island

Topics are tentative at this time. Detailed information about the Section Meetings will be included in that
month's newsletter. If you are interested in attending an Executive Committee Meeting, please contact either
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Ron Harbaugh (513-352-2941, Ron.Harbaugh@CinPD.RCC.ORG) or Jack Beckmeyer (513-353-3834,
j.beckmeyer@ieee.org).
IEEE 2001 CINCINNATI SECTION BALLOT
Election of Officers for Term
Beginning 1/1/01 and Ending 12/31/02

CHAIRMAN


Tom Grau Write - In__________

VICE - CHAIRMAN

Laurie Tappel Write - In__________

SECRETARY

Allison Santoro Write - In__________

TREASURER

Orest Melnyk Write - In__________

MEMBER - AT - LARGE


Steve Olenick Write - In__________


Please vote for only one candidate in each office. Resumes of each candidate can be found on the back of this
page of the newsletter. Please return the ballot by:

JANUARY 1, 2001


Return the complete ballot to Bob Morrison (Newsletter Editor) at j.r.morrison@ieee.org or via regular mail to:

J. R. Morrison
4472 Oakville Dr.
Cincinnati, Ohio 45211












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RESUMES OF CANDIDATES

THOMAS G. GRAU -
Ohio Wesleyan, 1960 (BA-Physics and Mathematics); Ohio State, 1962 (MS-Physics);
Joined Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1960 where he designed wire-spring relays, sealed-contact relays and
separable connectors until 1983. Responsible for various energy systems designs including emergency stand-by
power, dc rectifiers, off-line switching rectifiers and microprocessor controlled battery plants. Additional
assignments include design and development responsibility for the DSP 3, Parallel Processing System, Power
Feed Equipment for Submarine Cable Systems, and Military Power Applications. Technical Manager of the
Signal and Information Processing Department that develops processing requirements and solutions for a
number of military and commercial platforms until his retirement in 1995. Following his retirement and to the
present he has been working as a consultant in the engineering field of software quality control. He holds ten
patents and has published several papers.

Mr. Grau is a Senior Member of IEEE and has served on the AdCom of CPMT Society as Technical Vice
President and as an elected AdCom member of the Power Electronics Society (Charter Member). Conference
Chairman for the 1983 Electronic Components Conference (now called the Electronic Component Technical
Conference).

LAURIE TAPPEL -
BSEE University of Dayton, 1984; MBA-Finance University of Cincinnati, 1989:
Employed by Cincinnati Bell Telephone as an Advanced Service Developer, creating custom routing solutions
for clients using the AIN (Advanced Intelligent Network) platform. Started at CBT in 1986 and has worked in
various departments including Outside Plant and Network Planning. Began her engineering career at Harris
Government Systems in Melbourne, Florida where she developed Satellite Modems.


ALLISON SANTORO -
BSEET, University of Cincinnati, 2000. Currently employed with International
Business Machines Corporation (IBM) as an I/T Professional. She is part of the enterprise application
development team that assists clients in solution construction, implementation and systems integration in a
technology, industry, or business and delivery of high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business
requirements. Past student branch president and vice president.

OREST MELNYK -
BSEE, University of Cincinnati 1980 and MBA, University of Cincinnati 1985. Currently
the Director of Financial Analysis and Pl