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Calendar Archive, August 2008
Saturday, August 2, 2008
IEEE Expert Now Course: Skills for Success in the Real World
Sponsors: National Capital Area Consultants' Network, Graduates of the Last Decade, Women in Engineering, Life Members
Time: 1:30-3:30 pm
Place: ITT Technical Institute, 14420 Albemarle Point Place, Chantilly, VA
More Info: Stuff you Don't Learn in Engineering School: Skills for Success in the Real World is an IEEE Expert Now Course. This session is Module 1, Basic Skill. Depending on member interest, it will be followed by modules 2 and 3 in the fall. This is an excellent opportunity to take the interactive course without having to purchase it. Student members are especially encouraged to attend. Refreshments will be provided. See Diamond story below. For more information about Expert Now courses, see
http://www.ieee.org/web/education/Expert_Now_IEEE.
Cost: Free for IEEE members. A CEU certificate is available from IEEE for a nominal cost.
Contact: Pre-registration is required by Thursday, July 30. Please provide your IEEE member number to Wally Lee at w.h.lee@ieee.org or 301-468-2418.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Washington Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: 6:45 pm
Place: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1200 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC
Directions: Use the 12th Street entrance. The AAAS building is one block from Metro Center (Red, Orange and Blue lines).
Street parking is free after 6:30 pm (no parking 4:00-6:30 pm). There is a pay parking lot at the intersection of 9th St. and New York Ave., and an underground parking garage at 14th St. and New York Ave.
See map at www.aaas.org/dcwest.pdf.
More Info: All interested IEEE members are welcome.
Contact: Tim Weil at trweil@ieee.org or 301-452-3641.
Sponsors: Washington Section, National Capital Area Consultants' Network
Time: 3:00-6:00 pm
Place: Lake Fairfax Park, Reston, VA
Directions: From the Beltway, take exit 47A (Route 7, Leesburg Pike) to Baron Cameron Avenue. Turn left on Baron Cameron Avenue and take the second left onto Lake Fairfax Drive. Follow the signs to the picnic. See
www.co.fairfax.va.us/parks/maps/lakefairfaxmap.htm.
More Info: IEEE will furnish drinks, ice, hot dogs, chips, charcoal, plates, napkins, and other stuff that is important for picnics. You should bring secret barbeque recipes, side dishes, desserts, games, spouses, kids, and significant others. Please leave alcohol and pets at home. Volunteers are sought for the setup, entertainment, and strike committees.
Cost: Free for IEEE members, student members, and guests.
Contact: RSVP to Wally Lee at w.h.lee@ieee.org with the subject line "IEEE Picnic RSVP."
Sponsors: NIST, Robotics and Automation Society (Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter), Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
Place: Courtyard by Marriott Washingtonian Center, Gaithersburg, MD
More Info: PerMIS'08 is the eighth in a series that started in 2000, targeted at defining measures and methodologies of evaluating performance of intelligent systems. It will consist of five plenary addresses, four special sessions, and two panel discussions. For more information, see www.isd.mel.nist.gov/PerMIS_2008. Registration details will be available soon.
Contact: Dr. Raj Madhavan, Program Chair, at raj.madhavan@ieee.org or 301-975-2865.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Using the Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act
Sponsor: National Capital Area Consultants' Network
Cosponsor: Professional Communication Society (PCS)
Speaker: Dan Heily
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: The Front Page restaurant at Ballston Metro Station (Orange line), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
Directions: Meet in the 'atrium' or NSF lobby by entering through the restaurant or the NSF building.
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Cost: Approx. $35 cash for dinner. PCS members will get a $10 subsidy from the chapter. If you are not a PCS member, this is an excellent time to join at the half-year rate.
Contact: Please make reservations with Monica Mallini at
m.a.mallini@ieee.org or 202-375-1706.
Sponsors: IEEE Computer Society; American Society for Quality (ASQ) Section 509 Software SIG; and the Society for Software Quality (SSQ)
Time: 6:30 pm
Speaker: Kathy Land, President of the IEEE Computer Society
Place: Video teleconference with sites in McLean and Silver Spring. Addresses are provided at the registration link below.
More Info: All interested IEEE members and guests are invited to attend. Pizza and soda will be served.
Cost: Free
Contact: Advance registration is required to enter the facilities. Please register online at
www.asq509.org/ht/d/sp/i/2499/pid/2499.
If your plans change, please email ankums@mitre.org to cancel your reservation.
Diamond Stories
Saturday, August 2, 2008
IEEE Expert Now Course: Skills for Success in the Real World
Stuff you Don't Learn in Engineering School: Skills for Success in the Real World is an interactive online IEEE Expert Now Course. This is Module 1, Basic Skill.
The course is authored by business planning consultant Carl Selinger and is based on the dozen nontechnical soft skills covered in Selinger's book, Stuff you Don't Learn in Engineering School: Skills for Success in the Real World (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2004). Perhaps the best single overview of the content is a quote from Tom O'Neill, CEO of Parsons Brinckerhoff, on his giving the book to Dartmouth's 150 engineering graduates in 2005: "It is a good, useful publication about something that I believe very strongly. I was happy to see that someone has written a book about something that should be a fundamental precept for success in the world of engineering, and I was happy to share it with some young people who will shape the world for the next 40 years."
The course materials are designed to help younger engineers and emerging project managers--indeed, engineers in all disciplines and all professionals--learn the soft skills that are important to be more effective and happier in the real world. After completing this course, you should be able to develop an understanding of basic skills needed for success in the real world, including decision-making, setting priorities and managing time, and getting feedback.
The Washington and Northern Virginia sections are very pleased to participate in the IEEE Expert Now course program, which offers a selection of the best courses and tutorials from IEEE conferences and workshops around the world and makes them available to IEEE sections, chapters, and members.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Using the Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act
This presentation is a practical guide to the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act. Learn how the FOIA works and how agencies respond.
Dan Heily has extensive experience in use of the FOIA at both the state and federal level, including litigation. He spent 39 years in the intelligence community developing intelligence systems based on computer, communications and database technologies.
While employed at the CIA, Heily was assigned to the program office that developed the nation's first digital imagery satellite system. He assisted the Defense Mapping Agency in their conversion to the digital age. He has supported the development, testing and operations of several communications systems and command and control systems. He retired from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency after working in the areas of airborne imagery and data interoperability and standards.
He earned a mathematics degree from Oregon State in 1967 and has done graduate work in command control and computers at George Mason University.
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