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Patel currently works for RS Information Systems as a chief engineer. At
RSIS, Patel supervises engineering team
members to design and integrate signal
processing and receiver upgrades for the
National Weather Service's NEXRAD
WSR-88D Doppler Radar Network.
Previously, Patel worked for Insight
Technology in Manchester, New Hampshire, as an electrical engineer. Nita
designed, wrote and integrated embedded C software for fused infrared systems, I2 goggles, laser aiming devices,
grenade launchers, and laser rangefinders. Patel started her career at TI
Defense Systems in McKinney, Texas,
designing C and LabWindows/CVI software for automated acceptance, environmental, and diagnostics test systems for
military infrared tracking and fire control systems.
Patel became an engineer because she
was always fascinated by how mechanical

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and electronic devices worked, she says.
She enjoys the challenge of encountering a problem and then finding a solution with whatever tools and knowledge
she can gather.
Patel advises young adults to "try
everything and anything that you find
interesting, fascinating, and/or exciting."
Engineering requires countless calculated risks, experiments and tests, some
of which might result in an unexpected
response or failure. Patel encourages
everyone to embrace each unsuccessful
attempt and learn from it. She advises,
"Don't think in terms of failure OR success; think failure AND success. They are
not exclusive of each other and a slight
change in perspective might change a
failure into an unexpected success."

Ng Immersed in Mentoring
Jennifer Ng, an IEEE Senior Member, is
the 2007 Chair of the WIE New Hamp-

Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
with the support of swissUp, establishes an

Professorship in Engineering
to promote

women's leadership
in engineering.
EPFL seeks to hire an outstanding woman as a tenure-track assistant professor in
any ﬁeld of engineering or computer sciences. With this professorship, we aim to
enhance the engineering contributions and increase the participation of women in
engineering. EPFL is one of the leading Institutes of Technology in Europe and offers internationally competitive salaries, research infrastructure, beneﬁts, and startup packages. The position is partially funded by swissUp, a foundation promoting
higher education in Switzerland (www.swissup.ch). Applications will be actively
considered from September 1st, 2007 with a ﬁnal deadline of December 31st, 2007.
For further information, please contact
Prof. Karen Scrivener (karen.scrivener@epﬂ.ch).
Call for applications will start soon at
http://swissup.epﬂ.ch
Additional information about EPFL and its programs is available at
http://www.epﬂ.ch, http://sti.epﬂ.ch and http://ic.epﬂ.

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shire (NH) Affinity Group. In 2006, she
was the recipient of the Young Engineer
Award for the NH Section and spearheaded the formation of the NH WIE
Affinity Group.
Ng obtained her bachelor of electrical engineering degree from McGill University, Montréal, Canada. She also
completed her management certificate
from the Boston University Corporate
Center in 2004.
She is currently employed at Visage
Imaging, Inc, a subsidiary of Mercury
Computer Systems, Inc. in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, where she is the
quality systems manager and interim
quality management representative.
Currently, her responsibilities include
ensuring compliance for ISO standards
(ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 13485:2003)
as well as CDMCAS (Canadian Medical
Devices Conformity Assessment System) and MDD (Medical Device Directive) for the CIV Quality Management
Systems and products.
She started her career as a software
engineer at Curtiss-Wright Embedded
Computing Controls (formerly Dy4 Systems Inc., Ottawa, Canada) where she
developed VxWorks/Tornado board support packages for single board computers) and wrote firmware diagnostics.
She is very involved in mentoring
students through the McGill Mentor Program as well as IEEE members with
MentorNet and is active in the start-up of
the section's TISP (Teacher-In-ServiceProgram). Ng current resides in Merrimack, New Hampshire, with her
husband, who is also an electrical engineer, and their two sons.

Chung Follows Her Instincts
Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung is the 2007
liaison from the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society to WIE. Chung
received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in
electrical engineering from National
Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, Republic of China, in 1981 and 1983, respectively. She received her Ph.D. degree in
electrical engineering from Texas Tech
University in 1991.
Chung was appointed full professor in
the Department of Electrical Engineer-

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