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Tue. May 13, 6:30-8:00 PM ---- SECTION MTG Just Show Up! All Welcome at the Kettering Center  2nd Flr Conf. Rm (next to the Engineer's Club 140 E. Monument St  Downtown Dayton.  (Free Parking)
2nd Fri of each Month 11:30am Miami Valley Consultants Mtg Learn More
Call for presentations: IEEE APS, GSRS, MTT, SP societies The Wright Patterson MASINT/Advance Geospatial Intelligence Consortium Colloquium on RF Remote Sensing Activities (e.g. Radar) Th-F 22-23 May 2008 Learn More
Computer Society Meeting Every Thing You Should Know About Linux -- Speaker Prabhaker Mateti Tues, May 20, 2008 11:30 am-12:30 pm PLACE: Brandeberry Conference Room,  Room 292 Joshi Research Center (next to Russ Eng. Bldg & Stud. Union) Wright State University    3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy (actually off University Blvd) Fairborn, OH 45435 Map at http://www.wright.edu/aboutwsu/maps/pdf/2007map.pdf   Park in Visitor's Lot -Lot #2 (may be a nominal fee) RSVP Required: Contact Dave Perez, 937-257-4318 or david.perez.ctr@wpafb.af.mil FOOD: Pizza and soft drinks provided for $3 / person Meeting open to all Linux runs on everything from tiny mobile devices to clusters that are in the Top 500 super computers.  This talk is a sweeping overview of where Linux is today.  We go over the many distributions, and what makes them different, to how an old door-stop PC can be converted to be an effective firewall for, say, a 5-node LAN in your basement.  We also discuss why every engineer ought to be conversant with Linux and open source software.
16-18 July 2008	NAECON See www.naecon.org for the “call for papers”	Learn More
Expert Now! Free training We will schedule “kick-off” for the first of a series of the “Expert Now Modules” for the May Day Festival at Wright State University, upcoming dates will be determined by the interest from the Dayton Section and the University of Dayton student chapters for 2008. Learn More
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Call for presentations: IEEE APS, GSRS, MTT, SP societies The Wright Patterson MASINT/Advance Geospatial Intelligence Consortium Colloquium on RF Remote Sensing Activities (e.g. Radar)

The Technical Interchange Seminar/Workshop series of the WPAFB MASINT Development/Advanced Geospatial Intelligence Consortium, and the IEEE APS, GSRS, MTT, and SP societies are seeking guest speakers for the RF Remote Sensing Activities Colloquium below to be held on Th-F 22-23 May 2008, on Area B, WPAFB, Ohio [exact location TBA].

You are cordially invited to submit your name, topic, and a presentation as soon as possible, and/or to suggest others.
Contact: Prof. Andrew J. Terzuoli, Jr., IEEE APS/GRS/MTT Dayton Chair Office: 1-937-255-3636 x 4717 Global emails: a.j.terzuoli@ieee.org;

The National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), in conjunction with the Defense Intelligence Agency, will be hosting a RF Remote Sensing Activities (egg LOS Radar, SAR, OTHR, Passive, etc.) The colloquium will be held at increasing levels of security classification, so that various speakers & topics may be accommodated. It will not only focus on activities at WPAFB including those at AFRL, NASIC, the ASC, and AFIT, but also include all other outside organizations with RF Remote Sensing Activities. The goal of the meeting is to support interaction and awareness in the areas of interest, future growth, and requirements for RF Remote Sensing Activities & related Sensors, Processing, Analysis, modeling, and science & theory behind the end-to-end system. The meeting will also provide an opportunity to identify work that has been performed; new activities that are coming within the next 1-5 years, identify additional areas for development, and provide awareness for planning purposes.

Dayton Community Loses International Scholar
and Dedicated Teacher
Professor Krishna Pasala, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton passed away recently ... More
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TechFest 2008
Since 2003, TechFest has served over 10,000 of our Dayton youth, where over sixty exhibitors present innovative technology. The WSU IEEE student chapter developed an IEEE booth for TechFest 2008, which was held on February 16 and 17, in Buildings 12 and 13 of Sinclair Community College.

They developed a poster board or backdrop for the booth as well as to construct several 'follow the wire path' games. The follow the wire path game consists of a curved wire attached to battery and light/buzzer, the other lead of the battery goes to a wire loop. The goal of the game is to maneuver the loop around the wire curves without activating the light/buzzer. This activity provided interaction for the students at the event.

The project board and associated handouts were focusing on why STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) subjects are not only important, but are also fun.

Interested in Controls? Visit Controls Weekly Review at http://controlsweekly.com is to promote education in the controls, automation and associated engineering industry. On the site are thousands of good quality web articles, references, and calculators covering scores of controls and automation topics without having to sift through the irrelevant data that search engines return.

IEEE Computer Society Offers Free Software to Student Members

All IEEE Student Members who join the IEEE Computer Society will automatically be eligible to download development software from Microsoft, including Vista Business Edition, Visual Studio Team System, Expression Web Designer, Project 2007, Visio 2007, and Windows Server 2003. Students will be emailed an MSDN user account with login information after completing an IEEE Computer Society application.

Deadlines Near for IEEE Award Nominations

The last day to nominate a colleague for a 2009 IEEE Technical Field Award is 31 January 2008. For descriptions of the awards and nomination forms, visit the IEEE Awards Web site at http://bmsmail3.ieee.org:80/u/8827/02162220

More Than One Way to the Top

It doesn't take the keen analytical skill of Sherlock Holmes to see that the corporate world is rapidly changing. Frequent job shifts, once a career killer, are now par for the course. Techies need so-called soft skills to stay in the game. And the path to the executive suite, which used to be clearly defined, is much less so. A Business Week article discussing different ways people ascend to the top of the organizational chart notes that jobs like financial controller or head of operations are still statistically more likely to lead to a corner office. But it points out that candidates without traditional entries on their CVs are getting serious consideration. "The most important [ingredients are] personality and people skills," asserts Russell Reynolds, Jr., chairman and CEO of RSR Partners, a Greenwich, Conn., firm that provides leadership consulting and recruiting services for corporate boards. Learn More

Finding Your Dream Job

For the past few years, IEEE Spectrum has run a special report featuring engineers who get paid to do things that many of us would do for free or might even pay to do. Some of them fell backwards into these dream jobs, but for most people, it takes lots of advance scouting. A Business Week article notes that the first step is understanding what you're looking for, then creating your dream job profile. "The narrower your scope," it says, "the easier it will be to identify potential employers and begin to research them." And the effort necessary to define what is an ideal job for you will make it easy to tell a prospective employer why their company is a good fit for you--something most job seekers can't do. Learn More

IEEE Joins Simple Tuition Online To Bring Students Loan Comparisons

Solution Computer Society Scholarship Now Accepting Applications

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“DEPLOYMENT IN SUPPORT OF OIF AND OEF:
ONE SOLDIER’S JOURNEY”
Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom
Keynote speaker: LTC Barbara S. Timpte, US Army

Congratulations New Senior Members!
IEEE Dayton is proud to announce the names of its newest Senior Members! Bang-Hung Tsao Andrew Terzuoli

IEEE Photo Archives We have several volunteers who led the IEEE and NAECON events in the past contact us, indicating that they can narrate the photos. But we still need student or university volunteers to help convert the photos to electronic format. Please volunteer! We need student or university volunteers to help convert the photos to electronic format.

IEEE Dayton Chair Banquet

IEEE Dayton Chair Banquet with a wonderful introduction to Scottish Country dancing by the Flying Ghillies Scottish Country Dancers of Dayton, Ohio.

Photos can be seen at: http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2094994919

Check out what’s new every day on IEEE Spectrum Online at: http://boldfish.ieee.org:80/u/1160/02162220

The Finer Points of Business Etiquette Most engineers know the basics of etiquette, such as which fork to use at dinner and saying please and thank you, but there are many finer points -- from handling business cards to making small talk -- that, if missed, could be noticed by a client and even lead to lost business. Get tips for handling some of the finer points of business etiquette at http://boldfish.ieee.org/u/362/02162220

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Miami Valley Consultants Network Meeting Monthly
at the Engineers Club of Dayton.

Please RSVP
The meetings of the Miami Valley Consultants Network are held at 11:30 am on the second Friday of each month, at the Engineer’s Club.

 

We will discuss topics that will help members market, sell and complete consulting assignments.

Please make reservations at
937-228-2148.
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See The Cedarville U. entry into the 2005 Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition

Enhanced IEEE-USA Employment Navigator Now Free The enhanced IEEE-USA Employment Navigator is now free for IEEE members. The portal helps you quickly connect to hiring employers by collecting millions of job leads from an array of job boards and employer Web sites into a single searchable database. While you can still build and send effective resumes and link to salary benchmarking and other career resources, you can now filter jobs easier, save your searches, and get a profile of each hiring company. See http://bmsmail3.ieee.org:80/u/4860/24589

Dayton Section Awards Banquet

For the IEEE Dayton Section Awards Banquet, we have retired Major General Louis C. Ferrano, Jr. as the keynote speaker, highlighting work from his recent book. Maj General (retired) Ferrano is the author of the book, "The Right Side of Leadership", which is rooted in personal right and good core values and character. It is a way of life. The Right Side of Leadership shows us how we can have solid core values as the foundation for all our choices and actions. Based on years of data gathering, study and experience, The Right Side of Leadership sheds light on how right and good decisions can be made consistently.

His keynote speech contains the information needed to challenge, fine-tune, and strengthen your leadership values and skills. Basic management fundamentals and educational information impacting today's leaders will be analyzed. An in depth analysis of historical changes in American culture that impacts individual core values, character, and decision making processes of leaders will be the focus of the talk. At Cornell University, during his undergraduate studies, he was one of the rare athletes who participated in both football and crew. His freshman crew was National Champions. He started Ferraro Consulting in 2003 and is active in community affairs in the Dayton Region in Ohio. He has long been interested in leadership. See where you and your IEEE leadership exist within the Ferraro's framework of The Right Side of Leadership

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