Reminder: The "Intent to present and topic" for your paper to be presented at the 2004 IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON PRODUCT SAFETY ENGINEERING is to be e-mailed by April 1, 2004, so time is running out. You have only a few days left to come up with a topic and let us know your desire to present it. See http://www.ieee-pses.org/symposium/Call4Papers2004.pdf for more details. You do not have to have the paper written by April 1, only a topic.
Subject: IEEE Symposium on Product Safety Engineering -- Call for Papers 2004 IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON PRODUCT SAFETY ENGINEERING August 13-14-15, 2004 Santa Clara Convention Center (immediately following the 2004 IEEE Symposium on EMC at the same location) The IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society seeks original, unpublished papers and tutorials on all aspects of product safety engineering including, but not limited to: Test and Measurement Products Medical Products Consumer Products ITE Products Telecommunication Products Home Appliances Electrical Hazards Mechanical Hazards Fire Hazards Optical (Laser, etc.) Hazards Thermal Hazards Radiation Hazards Grounding Insulation Testing Body responses Power Engineering Standards Developments Safety Certifications System and Software Safety * Formal paper (presented in a formal session, as short as 15 minutes to as long as 45 minutes). * Informal (poster) paper (presented in an informal, small gathering in a hall with similar on-going presentations). * Technical demonstration paper (similar to informal paper except using equipment hopefully provided by one of our exhibitors). * Tutorial/Workshop (a single- or multiple-speaker program on related topics and filling a 3- or 4-hour program segment). * War Stories Workshop (informal, both prepared presentations, and off-the-cuff presentations from the audience, of product safety conundrums, perplexities, enigma, etc., and their resolution or lack of resolution). Here are some of the presentations already in preparation: * Intro to Hazard Based Safety Engineering * Thermal safety of laptop computers * Intro to electrically-caused fire and fire safeguards * Safeguarding from low-voltage non-isolated switched dc * Predicting cumulative leakage current in a plug strip * On-line tools for keeping in-house users up-to-date * Standards and certification, interpretation, status, future We are not necessarily looking for high-level esoteric papers, but also practical, everyday material that you can share. Every subscriber to this forum has material suitable for this symposium! If you are interested in presenting at the Symposium, please contact me for more details. Best regards, Richard Nute Technical Program Chairman, 2004 IEEE Symposium on Product Safety Engineering e-mail: ri...@ieee.org Tel: 858-655-3329
